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.
Linquist is an elegant and minimalist WordPress theme purely oriented towards the creation of portfolio websites showcasing photos, artworks or visual designs.
Users can choose between light and dark colour styles, both of which are effective and beautiful, putting the portfolio images front and centre, and allowing for small captions containing information about each work.
Each item has its own page and comments, and there’s an Options panel to help make the site run the way you want it to.
Viz | Biz Portfolio is a beautiful WordPress theme designed to showcase the work of photographers or visual designers; also useful for photo bloggers.
While featuring the latest photos front and centre on the homepage, this theme also offers the ability to run a blog in the background, and has 4 feature boxes for your contact details and services information.
You can easily upload your own header image using the WordPress administration.
The Viz | Biz Portfolio theme costs $US79.95 for a single licence.
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Monotone is a unique photo blogging theme where the background colours of the theme automatically change to complement those in your photos.
As the demo site explains: “Monotone takes the first image attached to a post and samples colors from it for use in the surrounding layout. Each post needs to contain one image, and optionally, any text you want. The theme does the rest, pulling colors out of and resizing the images for use in the design.”
It’s a very cool and eye-catching effect which means your site will never clash with the photos you’re showcasing.
Demo
Download (A proper release of the theme is forthcoming but for now you can download it from the Automattic SVN server.)
Professor isn’t designed specifically as a photo blog but this brown-tinged, two-column Wordpress theme displays images with such effect that that’s probably what it’s best used for.
The theme author says Professor was designed to focus on the written word, but large images inserted into posts in this theme would get more attention than the headlines, which are offset in the right-hand column, making it perhaps better suited to photo blogging than anything else.
Either way, it’s a stylish and modern theme with a number of nice touches, including featured posts, a widget-enabled footer and valid code.
Nishita is a simple yet beautiful photo blogging theme for Wordpress, with a white and grey colour scheme.
There are no distractions here. All the focus is on your photos or images.
It’s easy to upload images and the navigation is nicely handled.
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