Part of what I love doing is trying new things. With the recent purchase of a new DSLR camera I’ve been thinking about how best to present some of my photos online.
Why not create a new WordPress Theme?
So, I starting putting one together. I showed it around to a few trusted friends who are real photographers and they liked the concept. So, I’ve decided to release it as a paid theme.
See some more screenshots, find out how to purchase, and join the free giveaway after the jump…
The idea here was to keep it super simple in terms of design aesthetic so people could design around it and give it their own personal touch.
With a big frontpage carousel and a wide-body area for your blog posts, you’ve got a 2-in-1 system for awesomeness. It only requires 1 plugin for navigation (provided) and that’s about it.
Demo and Purchase:
You can see a live demo as well as purchase the WP Photographer Theme here:
I’ve got a special promo going there for 50% off as well as an opportunity to become an affiliate so you can make a few bucks.
Comment Contest and Giveaway!
Since I just launched it I thought it would be cool to give a few copies of the theme away. So, all you have to do is drop a comment below with how’d you use it and where. I’ll choose 10 lucky winners at random!
Ready? Go!
Dude I would totally use this, I am just in the middle of building a site for my lady, and cannot figure out the wp-theme to use. She is a budding photographer and I was looking for a clean site to demo her work. http://www.flickr.com/photos/carly_robinson/
If you want to check it out!
I have the domain, I have some hosting, I just need the theme!
if I won the new theme, I would give my photography site a make over, because it really needs it!!
wow!!!! Nice…u keep on amazing me
I need a good wp theme. This theme is excelent for my photobog. I like that. Thank you for this giveaway. I hope win.
My Rt: http://twitter.com/warstwydotcom/status/444667388…
Great clean theme. It puts the focus on the photos and not the eye candy or "cool" effects / interface.
Keep it up.
that's what the plan was…!
Amazing… I found this from stephen's tweet… I am so inept when it comes to WP, that I just use one of their already pre installed themes… I would work my arse off to figure out how to use this.. or pay you to get it up for me… hahah
Looks awesome man…
word.
You're giving away 10 copies? So there's only a chance I might get one? Sorry, but I don't enter such giveaways on spec.
:p
Sorry. Couldn't resist…..
ooooooooooo. ouch.
Hehe..
BTW, nice theme!
Hey John, cool theme! I’m doing a 365 challenge, taking at least one picture a day for a year, and posting them. Would be a great theme to show my pictures in an easy to access theme.
sweet!
Awesome!
I’ve been debating on combining my website and blog into one location and may be getting back in touch about this! One question:
The links at the bottom…can they be moved to the top..in the header?
Thanks!
you could do this if you'd like. it wouldn't be too hard.
I don't know how i would use it yet, but my best guess is that I would pass it along to someone else who is a photographer looking for a good theme.
Consider me entered.
Also, cannot wait to see your affiliate program….
the program is live… you can sign up already!
I would definitely use this, but maybe not just for a photographer, but for just a photo-driven site!
Just started a new site…have domain…have hosting…learning WP. (yeah!)
I would totally take this theme….and snuggle up to it.
If I won this theme, I would totally get serious about putting my photos online for view/purchase. Always wanted to do that, but never had the ability. Your theme is SO professional, I’d look uber-cool!
I’m in. Love the simplicity.
this is amazing John. I'm all this theme and definitely need to get my hands on it.
Not sure if you mind changing the theme up a bit, but if you had a link to meta data page for each photo or some way to use that info on the site.
hmm.
I've been looking for weeks for a good theme that lets me showcase mutliple photos in a single post rather than one 'favorite' image. Some developers of other photo themes even claim "if you need one more than one photo to showcase your work from a particular shoot, you're shots aren't worth showing." Paraphrase, of course, but sounds like a copout for spending the time making the theme actually have practical application.
I'd be replacing my Ipseity (how's that for customer loyalty!?) theme at http://stephenparris.com. Right now I'm having to straddle that address and http://stephenparris.com/gallery just to show clients what they'd be getting into when hiring this poor-broke church planting tent-builder.
And besides…I have three kids and just moved them to Charleston, SC. I need a better way to show the grand 'rents back in Georgia what their grandchildren look like.
haha! thanks stephen!
I've been waiting for this to be released ever since I asked if you were making one! Since I recently purchased a DSLR camera too I've been looking around for some photoblog WP themes. I plan on doing something like photogbrenna.com or something like that for this theme. I've been trying to get more creative with my picture taking ever since I bought the Nikon D40x.
word!
Lovely! I'm a fan of human3rror themes!! Using I Like Content for my personal space. Great work!!
thanks!
Wow this is great. A design that finally highlights the photography verses the blog.
Great theme. I would love to use this to my photos.
Beautiful theme. I just picked up a canon 40d with a 70-200 lens for the sole purpose of chasing my kids around a soccer field. I put all my stuff on SmugMug, but this is would let me SHOW THEM OFF much better than burying them in a folder would!
i love photography and the hardest part of showcasing your photos is finding the right theme that focuses more on photos rather than on texts. this seems a perfect fit!
wow, it looks great John! you do it all!
Wow – great theme, very eye-catching! I would use this to give my photo site a much needed facelift and to feature some photography for use under a Creative Commons license for non-profits and churches that I have been working on.
Thanks for the generosity in giving a handful of these away!
I’ve been looking for a clean design without a bunch of side menus and nice large pictures. It’d be nice to get this.
love it, that theme is hot and simple. just dabbling into photography myself… this would be slick.
Very nice! Do you have a main page where you display your other wordpress creativity? I’d love to see more!
i've got a page at the top that says "wordpress themes"
John,
Love it! I’ve been looking for something like this for my blog. Right now I put my images up on a MobileMe Gallery and just link to it. Problem is I loose my analytics. So I would use your WP plug-in to replace my MobileMe galleries.
BTW – I too am a Canon user. I have the 5D – which I LOVE!
Woow !
this looks cool. Very very you….. might just be the first wordpress theme i buy !
Unless of course
Oh this is GREAT! I've been wanting to start a blog to have a place to showcase my work in Africa the last two years. My website http://www.kristinjphotography.com, is mostly for my portrait clients, although I have a small gallery of Africa on there (which is actually where I've gotten some of my work in Africa recently), but I would LOVE to have a place to specifically show work I've done for non-profits and families adopting that center around orphan care, adoption, and orphan schools in Africa (and hopefully grow that to other parts of the world!). I also have a few slideshows from these trips, that I'd like to showcase somewhere instead of the back side of my website http://www.kristinjphotography.com/Slideshows/Day… , to encourage and educate others on the needs that 147 million orphans have out there and to encourage international adoption.
Thanks for your generosity in wanting to give 10 of these away!!
Love the new theme. I would give it a try and replace my existing WP theme on http://photos.millardfam.com
Hey there, This seems to be a well timed blog post! I'm a youth pastor in Delaware, My wife and I are in the process of launching a photography business. We love photography and are hoping to use this business to generate some additional income! woot woot! I love this WP theme, all about the images, simple design, great work! If you want to check out some images were getting our start via facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-Giraffe/12881… I would like to start a blog for our business as well, would appreciate the help : ) Thanks, Kyle
very cool man. just don't pick me
I don't think I have as many cool photos to justify it
ok. you lose.
j/k!
Hey! I just got the T1i as well and I would love to add this theme on to http://ChrisSzulwach.com to show off my photos!
Hey! I just got the T1i as well and I would love to add this theme on to http://ChrisSzulwach.com to show off my photos!
Beautiful theme! I just got into the DSLR world as well with first baby. I'd use this to showcase her growth.
As a recent college graduate, I've spent the past several months shooting weddings and portraits, any opportunity to add to my portfolio. I've been looking for a good way to showcase some recent work; pointing potential clients to my Flickr account seems a bit lackluster. I started looking at wordpress blogs to display some recent shoots, and in the course of looking, stumbled on your amazing themes, and this photo theme giveaway.
Thank you, John, for the opportunity and your generosity
I recently was given hundreds of family photos taken mostly with a brownie camera. My goal is to scan all these photos and place them online with a family history photo blog. This will be a huge undertaking I know but what a great winter project! I’m also going to ask my mom to look thru all the photos and give a little history of as many of them as she can.
I would use it to display my personal portfolio, apart from my wife's site. I have been looking for a theme that would allow me to do this well, and i think this one is perfect. Great work John
sure thing!
I've got a friend who is seriously considering starting a photography business. He came to me for some help in building a website and this theme would fit him great!
This is what he has right now. Just a temp site he set up for testing it out.
http://www.wix.com/aaronfrey/photosaf
Love this theme. I currently have a smugmug site where I host all my photos at http://www.dustinbess.com I am looking for a WP theme that is nice and clean like this for a specific line of my photography that I will have a WP blog for. I am TOTALLY new to this whole WP thing. Just figured out how to install tonight. Wanna hook a photog up?
perhaps…! stay tuned for the winners.
Great job on the WP theme. It looks great! Have you given away all the free copies?
nope.
I would love a copy of it. I've been so busy with other projects that my wedding/portrait site had fallen into disrepair. I threw your ipseity theme on there a couple weeks ago http://freshedgephoto.com but it's not the best for displaying pictures. I've been considering modifying it, but this new one would save me a ton of time.
There is something I'm not clear on though. Say I shoot a wedding and do a post about it. I want several pictures in the post, but only one of them on the carousel. Is that possible? I like the idea of images easily being pulled from posts to the carousel (you're only as good as your last shoot), but I don't necessarily want them all on the carousel.
yes. that's possible. it'll be two different posts tho in the current sys.
I love this theme – great work! I would use it instead of my pixelpost photoblog. I hope my photos are good enough for this theme
cool!
I would love to have this for for my photoblog. theme currently i'm using full with bugs and hard to customize.
Noooo!!! How did I miss this?!? v sad…
Pick me! Pick me!
I can so see this as the perfect theme to make a portfolio online. I have a wp blog but I've been ripping the web apart looking for the perfect theme to do a makeover. Heres what I'm looking for:
1) Minimalist
2) Wide
3) Big photos
4) slide show style (fade in fade out) picture transition
5) FREE!
If I do get this, hmm, lets see…
Check, Check, Check, Check, Check!
even your background colours (B&W) match my default framing perfectly…although a lot of people use the same sort of framing
It will replace the current theme on http://www.blog.jiarenlau.com. By the way, tomorrow's my brithday so… *ahem* *ahem*…
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiaren
WOW, WHAT AN UGLY TEMPLATE! i'm just joking–that's the REALLY the most BEAUTIFUL photo blog template i've ever seen! i just wanted to get your attention in hopes of winning the chance to use this template!! i'd be so honored to win. my business partner and i have recently been trying to get our photo business on the web, and we aren't really into the themes already out there. we're having such a difficult time making an interesting webpage and blog (the one up now is a really simple temporary site), so we'd appreciate the consideration so much.
I've just discovered your site and I have to say that your designs are simply great!
Nice that your theme is simple and clean, this is what a photography site should be.
I'm planning to set up a new site. Since one year I have a dslr and my photographic skills have reached a level where I can show my photos to the world, and I'm sure the people will like them
I've got a family friend at Lee University. She is an incredible amateur photographer and I've been looking for something to showcase her work This would be a great way to allow her to share her passion while in college and possibly make some money to help her get through college. I hope this give away is not over yet.
Ben,
Sorry, it's over…!
;(
Jon,
Can we still buy it. I'm having a problem with the link.
Yes, of course!
http://www.wpphotographer.com/about/
I was so shocked the theme!
Beautiful!
Question: not sure if it will get answered…but…
on the front page – is it possible to have the images LINK to the blog posting? As it is right now when you click on the picture…nadda. it doesn't go anywhere.
possible? how?
thanks,
T
I just purchased this theme and I getting an error that I can't fix. Can someone help please? I am an elementary technology teacher trying to get this site up for my students to use. Thanks
http://etechplace.org/simplemachines
How can I purchase this template?
I just purchased this template and am having issues with installing it: gives me a parse error. What should I do?
(please respond to tj@redemptionshillchurch.com, other email isn’t working).
did you ever get this fixed?
Wow, this is amazing. When I get DSLR, I will definitely put up a site like this.
I paid for this theme, downloaded it. copied the folders to the correct places via ftp. now I get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/content/j/i/m/jimfelder/html/jimfelder/blog/wp-content/themes/wpPhotographer/index.php on line 4
I’ve searched online for this error and can’t figure it out. I’ve done nothing to the theme but install it. What is up?
Did you get this fixed? I just downloaded and it won’t install saying that it’s missing the stylesheet.. Did I just get taken for $19?
No, I didn’t. Using a diff template.
I’ve just purchased WP photographer and I also have the standard theme…I just want to say that you are an amazing designer and I THANK YOU, for stepping out of the box and presenting us non technical geniuses with beautiful and functional blogs to make us look good!
thanks!