14 WordPress Themes for Photo Blogs

The best thing you can do to preserve your memories is to capture them. Photographs can help you relive all those sweet moments you had with your special someone or the ones closest to you. With the sudden explosion in the number of blogs on blogosphere it was quite obvious that many bloggers would like to share their most cherished memories on their blog. We saw blogs full of images along with the intricate details and now we are presenting you some WordPress themes to help you showcase your photography or make a photo blog so that you can share those small delights you captured with your special ones, no matter where they are. These WordPress photo blog themes are not just limited for personal use as some of them have been designed especially for professional use.

Photocrati

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Linquist

Linquist not Linguist is a pretty basic theme with great style. The posts and comments are displayed along with the images and I love it for its sheer serenity. Its a free theme inspired from Sharpfolio and the best of all, it’s free.

Free Photo Gallery

Free Photo Gallery is a perfect theme for those photo bloggers who want to display bigger sized images. The simple web page has links to other pages like About and other images and comment section below the image. The free version comes without any warranty or support and you’ll have to upgrade to premium theme if you want support. The premium version costs $29.95.

Clip the Photos

Clip the Photos is more proper Photo Blog theme based on WordPress as it gives you more options like categorizing images as well as writing captions. You can embed images from flicker to showcase it on this theme while it supports other similar services like Photobucket and Shutterfly as well. The theme can also be modified to put up videos instead of images. And yes, its completely free.

StudioPress Black

StudioPress is not completely a Photo Blog theme but it does hold enough to showcase your images. You can have posts and all other things you expect from your blog in this one. It has a sidebar where you may add widgets to make it look more in order. You can have the same theme in white background as well.

f8

F8 is a premium WordPress theme which gives you a professional look to your images. F8 features the images on its homepage which changes between a range of posts images. There are better versions of f8 but we chose this for its simplicity. The theme costs $75 and is good investment to showcase your portfolio.

Photopress Theme for WordPress

Photopress has been created keeping the photo bloggers in mind who prefer large area to show their images, You can have images of up to 640px on Photopress. There is not much clutter on the page which many of you would prefer. There are no sidebars in this one.

eGallery

eGallery is one of the best theme to showcase your images. It has some features which you don’t see in any other themes of this kind. It’s particularly nice if you want to encourage social interaction as readers can rate and comment on your images. It is compatible with all major web browsers.

ProPhoto

Pro Photo is a Photo Blog theme in true sense which allows you to display bigger images of up to 900×600 pixels. The sidebar has been omitted to make up space for images while there’s a Flashfader slideshow in header. It is bit expensive at $99 for a DIY package.

WP Foto

It is pretty simple photo blog theme for WordPress and if ‘basicness’ is the only thing you are looking for then go for it. Well, what more can you ask for in a free theme.

CloudScape

This theme is hot, not because of the images but the components which have been shrinked in order to give more space to display images. The theme can also be used if you want to set up a website to give away wallpapers. Check the demo to see it in its complete grandeur.

WP PIX

WP PIX is just another WordPress theme for Photoblogs and it also happens to lack any sidebar. The theme has an Accordion style sliders to show hidden content while it has been designed keeping Firefox in mind. It is completely free and you can download it to use it on your blog.

Going Pro WordPress gallery

Gallery Pro Gallery theme is pretty soothing on your eyes and the theme uses custom field for better management of your posts.

Monochrome

Monochrome is a free widgetized theme with an AJAX slideshow, categorized posts and other customizations.

Modularity

Modularity is theme built to showcase multimedia like images and videos. It has a highly customizable multimedia theme framework which lets administrators to control every aspect of design.

14 Responses to 14 WordPress Themes for Photo Blogs

  1. Eric Hamby says:

    Thanks for featuring my theme (cloudscape). Within the next 2 days i will be releasing another photo style theme that i think will blow my CloudScape away, cant wait to show it to you.

  2. Sushaantu says:

    Nice Collection there Aditi!!

  3. Buddha says:

    Thx for the link (Going Pro Gallery). A new version of this theme it’s on the way…

  4. Barend says:

    Great to see this all on one page, i’ve been looking for a good photoblog wordpresstheme since a while. :)

  5. udung says:

    this is great, i really mean this… i pick monochrome look so profesional… thx again

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  7. cool themes, thanks for sharing! i might try one of those and see which one would look great on my blog.. :)

  8. Awesome! Great templates. I love almost all of them. Thanks for the share.

  9. Some o0f these photos are fantastic! I so much prefer a photoblog to a regular blog but I’ve always been a pictures kind of person I guess. Keep on posting :)

  10. Sinema says:

    i liked egallery elegant theme, its cool

  11. Bedep.Net says:

    cool themes. Thanks

  12. Ric says:

    I usually buy premium templates, including of my photo blog. But I know there are still many great free templates out there for free. Thank you for sharing the list. These templates give me an idea to improve more my blog.

  13. wow..what a nice themes i really appreciate it. Amazing and fantastic photos. thanks for sharing.

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