10 Cool Photo Portfolio and Gallery WordPress Themes

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

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Comments

Irene September 7th

Great collection – and they are not expensive at all. Gallerific is just $35 – well worth the money!
merculopolus September 7th

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 7th

Great collections, thx for shareing
xea September 7th

Great collection!
Kai4e September 14th

Useful link, makes life a lot simpler if you don’t want the pride of having done it yourself!
photographer September 20th

Flashlike photographer is awesome!
Richard February 3rd

You can do this with Adobe LightRoom
Net Success February 22nd

Awesome list, I will be using foreword thinking, It works pretty good so far. Its worth the money!
Mary Lou February 24th

Wow, great collection! Thank you! Apereture is really beautiful.
Fotografia Ślubna Gdańsk April 28th

Really nice list!
chris May 14th

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 12th

great works
Georg August 2nd

The Emulsion theme says it’s $59. When I go to Photocrati it’s $79. How much is it?
Nauman Akhtar August 6th

Great work, great collection. Thanks for sharing
Allan August 10th

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?