My pick of the best ten free WordPress Photo themes are all built to work with WP 3+. As well as being able to change the menu and backgrounds, all have extra features built in. There is a wide range of design and layout options here such as feature post sliders and gallery views.
Even if you do not intend to blog, WordPress can be used as a very easy way to build a website without any coding knowledge. With a little bit of learning you can easily change the colors to suit yourself and create something unique so that your photos or artwork stand out.
Boldy
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- Nivo Slider
- WordPress 3.0 Menu Management Support
- Easy to set up – Theme Options Page
- Latest Tweets Built-in Widget
- Built-in Pagination
- JQuery PrettyPhoto Lightbox
- Ajax based contact form
- Dropdown Menu
Journal Crunch
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- WordPress 3.0 Menu Management Support
- Easy to set up – Theme Options Page
- 9 Shortcodes
- Built-in Latest Tweets Widget
- Built-in Pagination
- JQuery PrettyPhoto Lightbox
- Ajax based contact form
- Dropdown Menu
Minimatica
- Clever image gallery slider supporting default photo sizes.
- Gallery & Blog View
- Post Thumbnails
- Post Formats
- Audio & Video playback
- Clean, organized & documented code
- Child themes can be easily built upon it
- Support via Forum
My Corporation
- Minimalistic business and/or portfolio website
- Custom post types and admin options for complete control over the homepage layout
Photoria
- SEO Options
- Localization ready
- jQuery Slider
- Custom Widgets
- WPZOOM Theme Options Panel
- Custom Templates
Quik Gallery
- Gallery style homepage/category/search page layout using featured images
- Built-in NivoSlider
- Blue, green, pink or red color options.
- Header ad spot
- Slimmed down CSS
- Optional Widgetized footer
- Custom logo option
Rocket Wood
- Flickr and Fancybox Integrated
- 30+ Shortcodes
- 14 Page Templates
- 9 Custom Widgets
- Custom Logo and Favicon
- Upload a Custom Favicon
- jQuery Drop-Down Menu
- Working Contact Form
- Twitter Integration
Shaken Grid (Free)
Elements are arranged vertically then horizontally according to a grid resulting in a gap-less layout even with posts of varying heights.
- Two Color Schemes – light and dark.
- Theme Options panel to change the color scheme, your favicon and add a stat
- Uses CSS3 (font-face, transitions, drop shadows, rounded corners) and jQuery but displays fine in older web browsers and Internet Explorer 7+
- Widgetized Sidebar
Simply Delicious
- Free blogging theme based on mmminimal.
- Minimalistic theme features big images, clean styles and easy browsing
- This theme heavily relies on big 640px wide images.
Tech9
- Options panel
- Custom cufon fonts
- Sliders
- White/green color scheme.
- 2column fixed layout
WP Folio
- designed by artists to meet artists needs
- minimal design that emphasizes your images (at 900px wide!)
- Features separate design for your portfolio and a news/blog section
- widget-ready sidebar
- automatic rss feeds so users can subscribe to updates to your site
- Theme Options for cusom colors and fonts
- uses the latest web standards
- Allows you to choose thumbnails to represent your project
- Sample Child Theme included to keep your tweaks independent of the parent WPFolio theme.
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Hi,
Your post really helped me to understand the word press photo themes. It has great details and yet it is easy to understand.
That’s what i was looking for. I will definitely share it with others.
Thanks for sharing
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This themes are exactly what I am looking for. Thanks a lot. If you know how to custom them, you can do a lot more then a photo blog.
“Rocket Wood” is so nice theme, All theme are nice to look ,Rocket wood is so good to other. I was use it.
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