Best Photography Themes of August
Photography is an exquisite art. A single photo can tell more words than a whole story. If you want to build yourself a portfolio that will hold your photographs, you need a website of matching beauty. In this collection we suggest some of the best WordPress themes for photography portfolios.
1. Cleanse
Cleanse is a minimalist theme, with creative people in mind. It’s a theme that has a fully responsive flat design which helps put the focus entirely on your photographs. With over 7 portfolio styles and the page builder, you can create your own uniquely designed portfolio.
2. Snapcase
Snapcase is a clean and minimalist theme which comes with several custom widgets, background pattern options, and two different layouts. Snapcase is very easy to set up and it has a great documentation.
3. Attractor
Attractor is a one page parallax theme built to attract and impress visitors. It comes with an amazing page builder, Revolution slider, and exceptional dedicated customer support. With Attractor you can create beautiful galleries, which can be filtered, and showcase your photographs in style.
4. Derailed
Even though with a strange name, Derailed is a beautiful minimalist-style photography theme. It’s fully responsive and it’s eCommerce ready. You can easily translate your website with the .po/.mo files available.
5. Flexit
Flexit is a theme built for image heavy websites, which has 8 different gallery types. This greatly adds to the flexibility of the theme. Another great feature of the theme is the color picker, which allows you to choose a custom color for almost any little element of the theme.
6. Hiker
Hiker is an unique type of photography theme with a stunning homepage slider and a masonry layout. With Hiker, you can easily promote your photographs with style. With the Visual Composer, you can create pages and layouts that fit your needs perfectly.
7. Gaida
Gaida is a theme created entirely for creative individuals. It provides you with an unique perspective on displaying image-rich layouts. It comes with several custom widgets which help you add the finishing touches to your portfolio.
8. Wonder
Wonder is a strictly minimalist theme with a responsive design that shows greatly on all types of mobile devices. Not only that, you get 6 free plugins when you get the Wonder theme.
9. Amelie
Amelie is a theme created entirely to fit photographers’ needs. It’s a theme that is fully Ajax supportive and it makes navigation through the website very sleek. Amelie comes with 11 different templates, ranging from a widget homepage, static homepage, slider homepage and others.
10. Kappe
Kappe is a beautiful grid-based theme which makes a great photographer portfolio. It has a sleek sidebar navigation, and the theme itself has very lightweight code which allows for short loading times. Kappe comes with 6 PSD files which you can edit to make changes to the design of your site.
Photography themes need to have a beautiful design as well as short loading times. Visitors only wait for one or two seconds before hitting the back button, so it’s important that your website loads fast. A good way to optimize loading times is to crop the images before you upload them.