Cool, beautiful Wordpress themes
Ocular Professor is a stunning photo gallery-style WordPress theme that offers a gorgeous showcase for any photoblogger.
Photos are front and centre in this theme, with captions offset to the right. The built-in WordPress gallery function is beautifully supported.
The theme also offers a widget-enabled footer and a featured post option. The theme’s creator has taken a great deal of care to get the small details right, including lovely typography in the image captions.
If you’re a photographer wanting to showcase your works in a stylish and professional manner with plenty of options and a minimum of fuss, the five photo gallery themes from ShutterThemes could be just what you’re after.
With black backgrounds and grey borders, your photos will really pop off the screen.
The themes also feature effective navigation and widget-ready areas so you can include information about yourself and your photos.
The themes could also easily be adapted as portfolio themes for designers.
Each of the 5 Photo Gallery themes from ShutterThemes costs $US29.95.
Demo Photo Gallery 1
Demo Photo Gallery 2
Demo Photo Gallery 3
Demo Photo Gallery 4
Demo Photo Gallery 5
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TV.Elements is an excellent, dark, video-centric theme specifically designed to cater for higher-resolution video of any size up to 640 pixels wide.
Video is front and centre in this theme, which highlights the latest clip in the middle of the page and uses a carousel navigation to the right of the main clip to showcase more videos.
The user can select a category from the dropdown menu to browse all video in that category, and simply select any video in the list to watch the video, read its associated content, or comment.
Posting videos is as simple as copying the embed code from the source site and pasting it into a field. The theme works elegantly with Blip.TV, Flickr, MetaCafe, MySpace, Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo and YouTube — and should work with pretty much any embeddable video, including your own hosted Flash files.
The TV.Elements theme has 5 sidebars, all of which can be configured separately through the standard WordPress widget interface.
When a user clicks through to view a video, it opens in a custom player that fades the rest of the screen to black.
The TV Elements theme costs $US50 for a single licence or $US125 for a multiple site licence.
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Video Elements is a premium Wordpress theme that should catch the eyes of video bloggers everywhere.
It features a banner display of recent videos that’s similar in style to Apple’s “Cover Flow” method of navigating iTunes. For the remainder of the page layout, site owners can choose between a traditional linear ‘blog-style’ posting of the latest videos, or a gallery-style presentation. Either way, you’re talking about a very impressive video site.
When a user clicks through to view a video, it opens in a custom player that fades the rest of the screen to black.
The Video Elements template also features a widget-ready and customizable sidebar.
The theme supports several video formats, including YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, Flash video, Quicktime and Windows Media Video.
The Video Elements theme costs a very reasonable $US25 for a single licence or $US75 for a multiple site licence and includes both the gallery and blog styles of the theme.
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There are a number of high-quality free photo gallery themes available for Wordpress but this premium theme is particularly impressive.
It highlights 9 photos on the homepage in a striking 3×3 arrangement, and the user can choose between white and black backgrounds. The individual photo pages are also striking.
Overall, the feel is very sleek and minimalist – there’s nothing here to get in the way of the viewer looking at your photos.
The Photo Gallery theme by ithemes costs $US29.95 and includes both the black-background and white-background versions of the template.
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