WordPress Themes With Great Use of Photography

WordPress is a world of creativity, and the best of it comes forward with photography and related themes. Whether you’re a photography beginner just starting out, a professional with a huge stack of pictures already to your name, an enthusiast, or just an avid photo-blogger; you’ll find the best ways to showcase your work online with stunning themes.

To help you narrow it down a bit, here’s a list of 15 of our favorite photography themes.

Because the best things in life are free, let’s start with 5 of the most awesome freebies. Take a look:

Gallery

Gallery is nice and clean and has everything you need, namely:

Responsive design
SEO optimized
Cross-browser compatible
Auto updates and support
Fast loading
Easy navigation

You get a simple, distraction-free theme with sweet typography and icons. It’s perfect for every photographer.

Divina

Divina is dark and beautiful. It’s also packing features like:

Fully responsive
Easy navigation
Nice icons (for ‘loading’, post types)
Custom 404 page
Active support from author

Divina is great for haute couture glamour photography and portfolios if you want visitors to focus on your work and nothing else.

Radar

This theme will cozy up to the rebel in you in no time. It has:

Responsive design
Easy, multiple level navigation that looks great
Custom sidebars and footers (you can add your own widgets)
Great icons
Flat style elements and design (to keep focus on your pictures)
Additional customization (full support and documentation from authors)
Translation ready
Cross-browser compatible

The amazing full-width slider at the landing is obviously awesome. It’s a great theme for photo-bloggers and magazines alike.

Lens

Lens is the perfect example of how beauty lies in simplicity. That’s not to say it’s lacking in any sense. It has:

Responsive, Retina-ready design
Multiple layouts (Homepage, blog pages)
Optional sidebars
Integrated Google Fonts
Easy navigation
Customizable (with great support from author)
Passionate photo-bloggers, this theme is for you.

Adirondack

Adirondack is elegant and has everything a photo-blogger could need:

Responsive design
Grid layout for featured content
Jetpack enabled (for infinite scroll and Photon)
Easy navigation
4-columned collapsible ‘footer’ (at the top of the page)
Neat typography and fonts
Customizable (support from authors)

This theme is perfect for photographers and bloggers alike.

RokoPhoto

A theme for photographers designed by photographers, RokoPhoto is stunning, stylish, and shrewd. You get:

Responsive
Custom widgets included
Easy to use and customize
Translation-ready
Cross browser compatible
Great typography and icons
Selectively placed CTA buttons
Added blog for long-form writing
Smooth and easy navigation

It doesn’t binge on design elements and lets your work speak for itself. For professionals, it’s a must. Savvy?

Lumen

This lovely theme tells your story like no other. Lumen has:

Responsive, Retina-ready design
Amazing customizations (12 backgrounds, options panel, great support and documentation)
Unique and easy navigation
Ajax support
Cross-browser compatible
Translation ready
Beautiful icons and typography
Added Blog
Fast load time

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. It’s perfect for photographers who want a unique showcase for their work.

Photex

For professional photographers looking for more than a portfolio showcase, Photex is the end of the search. Check out the features:

Responsive design
Great typography
Awesome icons (Font Awesome integrated)
Shortcodes and PSD files available
WooCommerce integrated
Added custom widgets
Customizable (sidebars, gallery presentation, support from authors)
Easy, elegant navigation
Infinite scroll
Added blog

It’s everything you need is packed in one stunning theme.

Coastline

A chic theme for photographers and photo-bloggers alike, Coastline combines class with performance.

Responsive, Retina-ready design
Customizations (Theme options, layout options)
Nice shortcode library
Added custom widgets
SEO and page-speed optimized
WP-update friendly (works with latest and preceding release)
Translation ready
Great support and theme updates (for 1 year)
HTML version and PSD files included (For complete customization)
Infinite scrolling (Homepage portfolio content)
Simple navigation

There’s nothing not to love in this theme.

Chocolate

If you are into glamor/ high-fashion photography, this theme is the best fit for your work.

Responsive design
Spectacularly unique 3D slideshow
Password-protected portfolios/albums (for members, premium users, ‘classified till completion’ etc.)
Added custom widgets
Homepage video
Added blog
Shortcodes
Customization options
Tumblr style post types
Masonry (auto-fit) posts layout
Available support
Easy navigation

It’s efficient, elegant, and unique.

ePix

ePix is in vogue and au courant with everything you need to show-off (and sell) your snapshots in style.

Responsive, Retina-ready design
Superb, Live customizations (skins, advanced theme options with built-in Customizer)
5 gallery display options (portfolio, grid, 3D carousel, Stage, Group Slider)
Added custom widgets
Visual page builder (for easy upload and page creation)
WooCommerce integrated
Ajax Lazy load support
Translation ready
Added blog
Outstanding navigation (drop down, collapsible menu)
SEO optimized
Great support

It’s a classic, with all you need and more.

Kameron

This theme looks and feels exquisite yet effortless. Kameron packs:

Responsive design
3 (Dark, white, and Green) demos’ content
SEO and Page-speed optimized
Easy setup and customization
Panoramic image-support
Great customization (navigation, background and colors, shortcodes)
Good support from authors and updates
Youtube and Vimeo support

It’s the kind of theme that sets trends.

Ideas

This is one of those themes that will put life in your pictures, figuratively speaking. Here’s why:

Responsive, Retina-ready design
Touch-swipe and 6 kinds of homepage slideshows (still and animated)
2 demos (dark and light)
Added Custom Widgets
SEO optimized
WooCommerce integrated
Great customizations (shortcodes, theme options, color controls)
Translation ready
Added blog
Easy navigation
Great support and documentation

Take the hint and get Ideas.

Sirius

Modern and minimalistic, Sirius is a no-nonsense, back-to-basics-but-with-bangs sort of theme.

Responsive, Retina-ready design
Great CSS3 animations
Great gallery types (Ajax Grid, Masonry, Fullscreen, Kenburns, and more)
Great customizations (layout, colors, typography)
Easy migration (Built-in export-import theme settings)
Easy, off-canvas navigation
WooCommerce integrated
Music support
Filterable content
Added blog

For no (obvious) bells or whistles, go with Sirius.

Big Gallery

A photographer will let their pictures do the talking. This theme lets you do just that.

Responsive design
Brilliant slideshows (fill, uncut, full width, and more)
Auto-hide navigation on slideshows (hover/tap for show)
Smooth, multi level navigation
Great customizations (portfolio types, light/dark skins, typography, advanced theme options and more)
Added custom widgets
Added blog with 3 layouts
Cross browser compatible
Translation ready
Full screen video (self hosted, Youtube, etc.)
Great documentation and support.

Need I say more?

Author Bio: Tracey is well known as a professionally qualified Web developer with hobbies of innovative and technical writing. Currently, she is employed at HireWPGeeks Ltd, where she provides WordPress theme customization service with her team of expert developers. Being a passionate writer, she uses to write unique and useful tutorials related to design and development.

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