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Posted by Ibdreamy - November 13, 2008 Comments 0

8 Beautiful Wordpress Themes for Your Photo-Blog + 3 Nifty Plugins

The fact is there’s just not a whole lot of photoblog WP themes out there..believe me, I’ve been on the prowl searching online so I can share them with you and so far here is the list of themes that passed my stringent geek test & All are 100% geek approved.

I also added 3 Wordpress plugins at the bottom of the post that were developed specifically for photo-bloggers.

Enjoy the themes and remember to leave a comment or better yet digg this post! :X

Sharpfolio is a free WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio. Sharpfolio aims to focus primarily on your work, because after all, this is what’s most important.

“Porftolio Wordpress Theme” is a wordpress theme designed for web portfolios and (for now) just for web portfolios. It is coming with an Administrative Panel from where you can edit the head quote text, you can edit all theme colors, font families, font sizes and you can fill a curriculum vitae and display it into a special page. Pretty Cool, eh?

DarkOFluid is a 2 column fluid width round corner wordpress theme. It includes a widgetize and jquery slide sidebar. - Darofluid demo

VizBiz Portfolio Theme – This is a premium theme by iTheme so it’s not free but it’s really beautiful and nifty so if your a photographer I believe it’d be worth the cash. Cost: $79.95

Portfolio Press. from Blog Oh! Blog – This is a dark-colored theme suitable for anyone who wants to create a quick portfolio or wants to showcase his work through WordPress. The theme is fully CSS/XHTML validated, WordPress 2.6+ ready and comes with easy to modify code. The comments are nicely designed with Gravatar functionality.

Photo-Blog wordpress theme

- this free wp theme is specially made for photo blogs, single column design, Unique design, xhtml valid, Widget ready plus it’s Orange!

Nishita – A simple, elegant styled PhotoBlog theme for Wordpress.

f8 – is a premium theme by Thad Allender it’s not free but whoa is it awesome – it’s a unique theme for Wordpress that can transform your Web site or blog into a fully functioning photography or multimedia portfolio Web site. SEO optimized, iPhone compatible, 100% customizable options page, grid-based css, built-in Galleria support, slideshow-enabled, built-in multimedia support, auto or manual thumbnail control, Gravatars, plus much, much more. All colors, fonts, front page categories, contact info, slideshow height and other options can be managed on the f8 theme options page. There is no need to edit theme code, unless you want to customize f8. THUMBNAIL DOESN’T DO IT JUSTICE.

Plugins for Photobloggers:

Yet Another Photoblog – WP Plugin

Convert your WordPress 2.5+ installation into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time. Use the full range of WordPress functions and plugins: Benefit from the big community WordPress has to offer.

YAPB is a photoblog plugin

One post, one image, one description. Your image should be worth that. If you need to display multiple images in one post – Just download and use one of the several available gallery plugins for WordPress.