WordPress is the most popular CMS not just because is easy to use, free, highly customizable, and very stable (OK, you must upgrade to v 2.8.4 or else). There’s one more thing – is so flexible you could do almost anything out of it. Today we’re featuring our favorite 10 photography portfolio and gallery themes for WordPress. Please leave other tips in the comments area.
Polarized | $59 | Details | Demo
A minimal beauty with bold images and simple, clean menu. It incorporates a flash-style homepage, richly-featured gallery management, and blogging tools
Viso | $25 | Details | Demo
Clean Photoblog theme with some very useful features: all in one photoblog, gallery and blog, 3 display modes: single image, multiple images & blog, make images private (private images are displayed logged in users only), already integrated lightbox (slimbox & imagezoom), plus many more
Apereture | $70 | Details | Demo
Aperture is a multi-functional photo-blogging theme with a unique home page, consisting of a latest posts slider, a visual category display, a blog module and lots of stylish widgetized spaces
Photo + Blog | $30 | Details | Demo
Photo + Blog Premium is a 2 column WordPress theme ideal for the Photographer who wants an online gallery along with a blog
Lightbox | $59 | Details | Demo
A photography theme designed for photo enthusiasts and pro photographers
Gallerific | $35 | Details | Demo
A Pro photography WordPress theme and is loaded with tons of great functionality
Image River | $35 | Details | Demo
Image River is a gallery style WordPress theme that is packaged with 3 different color schemes. Image River transforms your WordPress blog in an image gallery
Foreword Thinking | $70 | Details | Demo
Foreword Thinking is a neat 3 column design with a “table of content” magazine-styled home page. This theme comes bundled with a moveable sidebar, a customizable featured posts section, 10 theme styles and the ability to set alternating colors for specific areas of the design
Emulsion | $59 | Details | Demo
A photography theme designed for photo enthusiasts and pro photographers
Flashlike | $25 | Details | Demo
Flashlike Photographer is CMS Theme for photographers. It allows you to publish your photos and present them in the best way possible
Each of the 69 premium WordPress themes from Elegant Themes comes expertly coded in valid XHTML and CSS, and all are made compatible with the latest version of WordPres. Eeach template performs flawlessly in each of the most widely used browsers to ensure maximum functionality. Furthermore, all sidebars are made widget ready for your convenience.
- Cross-browser compatibility guaranteed
- Intuitive theme options page gives you control
- A focus on support and community
- Frequent theme additions and upgrades
Irene September 7, 2009
Great collection – and they are not expensive at all. Gallerific is just $35 – well worth the money!
merculopolus September 7, 2009
yes!
i wass thinking of findin someoane to program a photo blog for me but it seems easyer to buy one of these. they look verry nice and simple.
Ivan Mišić September 7, 2009
Great collections, thx for shareing
xea September 7, 2009
Great collection!
Kai4e September 14, 2009
Useful link, makes life a lot simpler if you don’t want the pride of having done it yourself!
photographer September 20, 2009
Flashlike photographer is awesome!
Richard February 3, 2010
You can do this with Adobe LightRoom
Net Success February 22, 2010
Awesome list, I will be using foreword thinking, It works pretty good so far. Its worth the money!
Mary Lou February 24, 2010
Wow, great collection! Thank you! Apereture is really beautiful.
Fotografia Ślubna Gdańsk April 28, 2010
Really nice list!
chris May 14, 2010
Thanks for all of the information.
I started a free photography wordpress theme here: http://www.slrlounge.com/free-photography-wordpress-themes
Feel free to leave feedback for future free themes!
damacana su firmalari July 12, 2010
great works
Georg August 2, 2010
The Emulsion theme says it’s $59. When I go to Photocrati it’s $79. How much is it?
Nauman Akhtar August 6, 2010
Great work, great collection. Thanks for sharing :)
Allan August 10, 2010
how do you get that thing to work? Gallerific? I just got the theme and I don’t know how to make the same layout as the one above?
Designer website February 10, 2011
Nice beauty is presented.Here is another one:http://www.my-portfolio.net/mydesign.php
Models online portfolio February 14, 2011
Wonderful collection.Luv it!
Free Vectors March 31, 2011
good list, nice photo gallery templates
Aliza Shehpati April 15, 2011
Wow, great collection! I will be using foreword thinking, It works pretty good so far. Its worth the money! i wass thinking of findin someoane to program a blog for me but it seems easyer to use one of these. they look verry nice and simple.
Will these themes work on my blog perfectly?
Alex the Wordpress lover October 12, 2011
Cool collection, thanks for posting. I’ve just finished writing a similar post all about photography WordPress Themes. It took me ages. Hope you get time for a read. It’s at: http://www.101bestwordpressthemes.com/blog/photography-wordpress-themes-photographers.html