When it comes for the photographers and WordPress combination, it is nothing but a made in heaven combo as WordPress brings a lot of choices for photographers when it comes to select the theme for their website to showcase their work. In this article, we have hand-picked WordPress photography themes for 2014.
Rockford
Key Features:
- Retina ready
- Video support, Vimeo, YouTube and Self-hosted
- Multiple logo & menu layout
- Black and White skins
- Full blown post formats support
- Super quick live appearance customization
- Portfolio post type
- AJAX dynamic Portfolio filter
- AJAX Photogallery functionality
ePix
Key Features:
- WPML Multilingual Plugin + qTranslate compatible and Translation Ready. (also includes the .po and .mo files)
- WordPress 3.6 + Compatible
- Responsive HTML5 / CSS3 Design
- Retina Ready
- SEO Optimised including Google Page Speed.
- Powerful Skin Options
- Font Icons – Font Awesome Intergrated
- One Click Install
- Paralax sections
- Filterable Portfolio
- Gallery Slide Manager
- Flckr Sets Support
- Image Effects
- Wistia Video Hosting Integration
- JW Player 6.x Integration with Audio / Video
- Select Menus per page
- Post Formats Support
- Plugin Integration
- Pricing Tables
- Styled Boxes
- Feature Boxes
- jQuery features
- Translation Ready ( WPML & qTranslate compatible )
- Documentation, Screencasts, Demo XML + Dedicated Support Forum
Astro
Key Features:
- Carousel Portfolio Page (unlimited portfolios can be created)
- Grid Portfolio Page
- Masonry Portfolio Page
- Fullscreen Slider Page
- Classic Blog Page (unlimited blogs can be created)
- Grid Blog Page
- Page with Sections
- Contact Page
- Widget ready: 2 default Sidebars+Woocommerce sidebar+Option to generate unlimited sidebars
- WordPress custom menu ready
- Unlimited background patterns
- Future implementations available
Camera 7
Key Features:
- Fully Responsive Design
- HTML5 + CSS3
- Custom widgets
- Clean coded and well documented
- Foundation CSS Framework
- Includes XML file for one click demo import (dummy data)
- Translation Ready, includes the .po and .mo files
- Theme Options Panel
- UNLIMITED colors
- SEO Optimized
- Cross Browser compatible
- WordPress 3.6+ Ready!
- Excellent Customer Support
Photopia
Key Features:
- Minimal Design
- Responsive Design
- Big Format
- AJAX Loading
- Friendly Support
- Free Updates
- Quality Code
- Theme Options
- Multi Language Support
- Browser Compatibility
FLEXIT
Key Features:
- Responsive and super flexible layout
- Retina ready elements
- Created for photography, personal and portfolio pages
- 8 different gallery styles
- Awesome vertical shadow that you can enable or disable in Theme Options
- Unlimited colors with over 40 colorpickers
- Option to enable/disable search in header
- Custom page backgrounds – create your own eye-catching page backgrounds with custom images, parallax effect and more
- Parallax page backgrounds
- Slide out widgetized top section with 6 widget areas and advanced builder
- Useful and powerful shortcodes to use with shortcode generator
- 10 custom templates
- Awesome and quick free support with external forum for all my Clients
- Advanced typography options
- All available Google Fonts
- Standard layout
- Gallery style layout
- 2 blog layouts
- Mega footer
Galanty
Key Features:
- Responsive & Retina Ready
- WPML Ready
- Rapid Install
- Easy Customization
- Shortcodes/Addons
- Free Updates & Support
- 600+ Google Fonts
- Multiple Portfolio
- Blazing Fast
Mercury
Key Features:
- Clean, Minimalist Design can be used for any portfolio, photography or business website
- Responsive Design which adapts to mobile devices (iPhone, iPad)
- Deactivate responsive features with one click in your backend
- Retina Ready, Ultra-sharp High Resolution Graphics
- Sticky Main Menu Navigation
- Off-Canvas Mobile Navigation
- Drag&Drop Content Builder
- 20 Gallery Templates
- 6 Portfolio Templates
- Filterable Portfolios Content
- Black & White Skins with skin manager so you can configure your own skin
- Full Screen slideshow for Photo Gallery
- Unlimited Portfolio and Gallery Pages
- Translation Ready with mp/po files
- WPML plugin support for Multi-language
- 2D/3D LayerSlider Plugin for responsive slideshow ($15 value)
- Instant AJAX Search
- You can configure own skins using Skin Manager
- Music support for gallery pages
- Password Protected Gallery Support
- Image Gallery Comments Support
- Fullscreen YouTube and Vimeo video support
Zoomy
Key Features:
- Retina – ready
- WPML Compatible
- Responsive Design
- Mainpage slideshow with CSS3 effects
- Unique effects and functionality
- Social media Profiles Support
- Filterable Portfolio
- Google Web Fonts
- Styled typography and flexible page columns
- Smooth transition effects
- Facebook, Twitter and Google+ integration
- Working PHP / Ajax Contact Form
- Valid HTML5&CSS3 standard
- Cross Browser Optimization
- Well-commented
Old Rockstone House
Key Features:
- Responds on smaller devices?–Yes
- Retina ready?–Yes
- Is drop-down menu supported?–Yes (one level)
- Is WP customiser supported?–Yes (insert your background via customiser, change title and more)
- Is custom gravatar supported?–Yes
- Are post formats supported?–Yes (not styled, Standard only)
- Is RTL supported?–Yes
- Are widgets supported?–Yes + custom widgets
- Translation ready?–Yes
- Is decompressed WP image quality redecompressed?–Yes (100% quality instead of 90% default)
- Has Theme Options?–WP Customiser only
- Has page builder?–No
- Has custom post types (CPT)?–No
- Has shortcodes?–No
Fuerza
Key Features:
- 100% Fully Responsive WordPress Theme
- Unlimited custom backgrounds
- Unlimited FONTS
- Translated in 7 languages
- Custom favicon upload
- Retina Ready – ultra sharp graphics on the newest screens
- Optimised for touch devices
- Cross browser support
- Detailed documentation
- Five Comments systems
- Amazing Customer Service
- Contact page feedback form Custom template
- Advanced Theme Options
- SEO Optimized
- Good HTML codeClean Valid SEO-optimized, HTML5 code
- Blog is Post Format Ready Styled
- Four Custom Post Types with individual Design
- PSD FILES INCLUDED
- Widget ready Sidebar
LENS
Key Features:
- Responsive Design
- Retina Ready (provided you upload pictures at least 700px wide)
- Ultra Smooth scrolling
- Unlimited colors control of the site-wide accent colour
- Over 600 Google Web Fonts to choose from
- Standard & Video Portfolio Projects
- Site-wide area to display the Latest Tweets
- Extensive theme options based on our awesome WpGrade Framework
- Free from PHP notices and warnings (debug mode on was used during development)
- Multilingual Translation ready and .po/.mo files for localisation included ( WPML )
- W3C HTML5/ CSS3 Valid
Testarossa
Key Features:
- Ajax Reload
- Blog Page
- Menu Manager
- Auto Image Resizing
- Translation Ready (Available .po file)
- Custom Widget
- Threaded Comment
- Multi Level Dropdown Menu
- Cross Browser Compatible
- XML sample data included
- Well Documented
Samurai
Key Features:
- Responsive and Retina layout
- SEO ready and optimized theme
- Great support
- Powerful admin user interface
- Translation and multi-language ready
- Tons of shortcodes and widgets
- Full Screen
- 600+ fonts available
- Many templates
- Unlimited backgrounds
Enser
Key Features:
- WordPress 3.6+ Ready
- Fully Responsive
- Retina Ready
- HTML5 and CSS3
- Tableless layout
- 3 PSD Files
- Tested and working in All major browsers
- Full Documentation (HTML Type)
- Unbranded Admin Theme Options
- 2 Custom Post Type (Gallery and Our Team)
- 6 Custom Page Templates (Homepage, About, Blog, Contact, Gallery and Gallery Classic)
- 3rd Level Threaded Comments
- Custom Social Icons
- Self Hosted Video for Blog
- Post Thumbnail Images
- Custom Fields
- Custom Functions
- Image slider using Image Attachments
- Style and Script Enqueue
- Standard WP Codes
- Language Localization Support (.po/.mo)
- Meta Keywords and Descriptions for SEO
- Child Theme Ready
- Password Protect for Blog and Gallery
- Supports FontAwesome icons
- Supports HTML5 video Player
- Supports Background Image Slider and Video
- Responsive Background Image per post/page
- Plugin Used: Typography Shortcodes
Aether
Key Features:
- Unique single page design
- Choose videos of images for the front page
- Dynamic search function for blog posts
- Fancy Preloader
- Font awesome Integration
- Google fonts integration for 500+ fonts
- Unlimited Colors
- Preset colors for the cool start button, with possibility to add more
Shape
Key Features:
- Responsive Design
- Mainpage slideshow with CSS3 effects
- SAS files incorporated
- Unique effects and functionality
- Social media Profiles Support
- Filterable Portfolio
- Google Web Fonts
- Styled typography and flexible page columns
- Smooth transition effects
- Facebook, Twitter and Google+ integration
- Working PHP / Ajax Contact Form
- Valid HTML5&CSS3 standard
- Cross Browser Optimization
- Well-commented
Focal
Key Features:
- Responsive Design
- WordPress Live Customizer Integrated
- Choose Your Own Theme Colour (via Colour Picker)
- Custom Widgets (Flickr + Posts)
- Retina Icon Fonts
- Social Footer links (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr & More)
- Fully translatable po/mo files include
- Child Theme included
- Great Support
- Well Documented
- HTML5 & CSS3
Black & White
Key Features:
- Perfect jQuery and CSS3 animation
- Unlimited colors theme
- Multilanguage ready
- Responsive design
- Unique design elements
- Touch Swipe Support
- Awesome fullscreen image slider, cool effects
- 2 Portfolio pages
- Social integration
- Valid HTML5 code
- Crossbrowser compatible (IE8+)
- Favicon support
- Lightbox Integration
- Widgets & Shortcodes
- Drop-down navigation
- Easy to customize
- Google Maps
- Free Google Fonts
- Working PHP contact form
- Demo content Included
- 7 Layered PSD Included
- Video Documentation included