WordPress gallery themes allow photographers, designers and other creative people to show off their creations online in an easy and yet very professional fashion. WordPress is used for more or less any kind of online content publishing and we see really cool and useful themes for regular websites, web shops, online magazines and video websites to name a few. In addition, today gallery website templates are one of the preferred ways to set up online portfolios. There are so many great gallery WordPress themes available and this makes it possible to pick a look and feel that fits your requirements.
In this article, I have collected a large amount of cool and some of the best WordPress themes for setting up a gallery style website. This should give you a head start! I regularly update this article with new themes and all links are checked.
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King Size – Fullscreen Gallery Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
King Size WP is a WordPress version of the top-selling HTML template on Themeforest and it is a really different and interesting pick among the many WordPress Gallery Themes. It is perfect for a variety of purposes, although focused towards Photographers and those using Portfolios to display their past and present work collections. It’s another great example of photography website templates.
Photo Pure Press WordPress Gallery Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
PurePhotoPress is proffesional WordPress gallery website template for photographers. Creating your photo gallery website has never been so easy!
Flexible Responsive WordPress Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Flexible is a sleek and minimal portfolio theme packed full of some awesome features. The theme puts your work first, keeping the design elements to a minimum while still maintaining a definitive modern style. With its filterable, ajax-powered multi-media gallery, Flexible is perhaps our most feature-rich gallery theme yet.
PHOTOCRATI – WordPress Gallery Themes Pack – MORE INFO / DEMO
Photocrati is one of the most popular WordPress photo gallery themes created with a large user base. Besides having a lot of build in templates allowing for many different layouts without coding Photocrati is also one of the only WordPress themes with built-in e-commerce image galleries.
ShowyCase – Portfolio / Photography WP Theme MORE INFO / DEMO
ShowyCase is a professional, super flexible and customizable portfolio / design agency / photography theme for WordPress. With 2 starter color skin colors, unlimited background image / colors, unlimited secondary color, 4 home templates and 4 portfolio templates all wrapped in modern clean design, Full multiple portfolios support with filtering ability, you almost have all what you need to build your perfect portfolio website.
Nimble Responsive – MORE INFO / DEMO
Nimble is a big, bold, and beautiful theme that doesn’t let its own style get in the way. With each design I struggle to strike a balance between style and function. Nimble’s colors are toned down but still delicious and its style is bold but still leaves room to breath. Browsing Nimble on a 27″ Cinema Display is quite a treat, but so is browsing the theme on a small screen as well due to Nimble’s fully responsive design
Trim Business and Portfolio Template – MORE INFO / DEMO
Trim is simple, professional, versatile and fast. Trim might be simple, but with that simplicity comes a sense of balance and crispness that is quite refreshing. Coupled with a bunch of great features, Trim is a great theme that will prove useful for a variety of different websites. Trim is a fully responsive design that adapts to your user’s variable screen size.
WowWay – Interactive & Responsive Gallery Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
WowWay is a quite unique and highly interactive WordPress gallery website template for setting up a creative online portfolio. Based on a responsive grid, packed up with lots of cool features and built on a powerful admin panel, this responsive portfolio theme can be your top choice!
Square: Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Square is a clean, minimal yet powerful WordPress gallery theme. Square has a compatible layout with mobile devices. We have tested it in iPhone, iPad and many other mobile devices. It contains two homepage types one for portfolio, and another for business purposes.
Daisho – Flexible WordPress Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Daisho is a portfolio solution for creative professionals and companies looking for a minimal and professional look. Flexible and responsive presentation, smooth navigational flow and clutter-free approach. Put your works in focus.
Gleam WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Gleam was built to dazzle. With its flashy effects and smooth ajax loading techniques, this theme creates a truly unique experience that is sure to grab your visitor’s attention. Allowing for custom full BG photos for each page, Gleam makes it easy to create a custom stunning appearance for each section of your website. The theme also comes with a full-screen portfolio section, giving you a new way to display your work.
Expression Photography Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Expression is a cool responsive WordPress photo theme, best suited for photographers and creatives who use portfolios to effectively present their work. Expression theme is powered by the advanced Pexeto Panel, which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme. With all the styling options provided you can easily customize the appearance of the theme and build you own custom skin.
Chocolate WP – MORE INFO / DEMO
It is refined and elegant template with complex and precise combination of light gradients, shadows and rich functionality. It was created to serve you as unique showcase of your works with strong blogging component powered by Woo Tumblog (for Tumblr-like posts) and Express App (for simple posting from your iOS-device). The latest version 3.0 (Dark Chocolate) is now 100% responsive and features a new unique 3D slider.
Core Minimalist Photography Portfolio – MORE INFO / DEMO
Core is the Minimalist Gallery Photography, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest WordPress features. A top pick among the many WordPress Gallery Themes. It has lot’s of features like Custom Post Type and Image Uploader, tons of shortcodes etc.
AREA53 – A Responsive HTML5 WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
AREA53 is a Responsive (full) HTML5 with a cool responsive slider. It’s full featured with the Content Composer to create professional pages in minutes, filterable portfolio and much more.
Artiste: Professional Gallery WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Artiste is an “all-about-the-work” WordPress portfolio theme for the professional creative. It’s clean yet functional, and concentrates on showcasing your work to potential clients and employers with little distraction. Go get hired more.
Photoshot – MORE INFO / DEMO
Photoshot is an unique theme! Designed for photographers to showcase your photos with style and simplicity.
Galeria – MORE INFO / DEMO
Galeria is a single page theme, suitable for anyone that wants to showcase his work. Photographers, Graphic and Web Designers will find it very useful. Again a cool pick among the many WordPress Gallery Themes.
Evolution Gallery Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Evolution is our first fully responsive design and certainly one the more elegant and ’Simple. What makes the theme so special is its ability to adapt to various screen sizes. Evolution come with 4 distinct layouts, each meant to improve your user’s experience when browsing on mobile phones and tablets. No longer will they need to zoom and scroll to view your site, as the theme’s layout will adapt to the small screen and serve your content in an intuitive way automatically. Just try reducing your browser’s window size when preview the theme to see the magic in action!
Angular – Responsive Portfolio – MORE INFO / DEMO
Angular is a responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site. The Theme is built on top of the fabulous Avia Framework and comes with support for the bbPress Forum plugin, just in case you need it!
Envisioned WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Envisioned is a beautiful and powerful portfolio theme that enables you to easily create professional, multi-media galleries. Envisioned has the most powerful gallery features of any of our themes, allowing you to produce versatile layouts of various sizes and aspect ratios.
Bigbang – Responsive WordPress Gallery Template – MORE INFO / DEMO
Bigbang is a feature-rich portfolio template with a fully table less design. It’s 100% responsive adapting to whatever device you can throw at it and it’s aesthetically and simple design is very unique showing that a minimalistic design can be powerful. It features several page templates including 2 different layout templates, 6 portfolio post formats, single page portfolio, 6 blog page and 6 single page layouts. Add to that a jQuery flexslider, socialize icons widget, photostream widget supporting the most popular social media pages.
Helm Responsive Portfolio for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
Helm is a responsive portfolio theme for creative professionals. Theme is capable of displaying blog list and posts in fullwidth and 2 column layouts.
Responsive Fullscreen Studio for WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
RSW ( Responsive Fullscreen Studio for WordPress ) is a powerful theme for photographers and creative artists and comes with Light and Dark with theme options supporting multicolor customization of theme elements using color pickers. Creative artists can easily display their products using unlimited portfolio and post formats supporting Aside, Quote, Audio, Video, Link, Image and Gallery. The fonts can be changed using 400+ Google Web fonts choices in theme options.
BigFormat – Responsive Fullscreen WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
BigFormat is a fullscreen responsive portfolio theme for freelancers, web designers, photographers and videographers alike, built to showcase your work at a large scale.
Collection – MORE INFO / DEMO
Cool gallery and portfolio style theme from Theme Junkie.
Viewfinder WordPress gallery theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Viewfinder is a photography and gallery theme for WordPress which provides the perfect showcase for your art. There are no gimmicks, nothing that will fall out out fashion, just a timeless design that focuses user’s attention on you and your talent – this is how it should be. Coming in two different flavours, light or dark, and with the ability to add an unlimited number of galleries, there’s plenty of scope to set this up just the way you want it.
Chameleon WordPress Gallery Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Chameleons are known for their ability to change the color of their skin. The patterns and color combinations you find in chameleons are almost endless, and our new theme is no different! Chameleon was created to be a simple and professional theme with loads of customization options that do not require web development experience to utilize.
ELIST – MORE INFO / DEMO
eList is a verstile clean and simple Directory WordPress Theme. Using eList, you can create an online directory of any type, and allow your visitors to submit new listings from the front end. The theme also comes with eCommerce integration, allowing you to charge your visitors for new or featured listings.
Locus One Page – WordPress Gallery theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
This is as the name indicates an one page theme and it really stands out visually. It is a single page theme that scrolls when a menu item is clicked. A really unique and interesting WordPress Gallery Theme.
NOVA – MORE INFO / DEMO
Nova is a sharp, simplistic design that makes for an intuitive user experience. Nova’s biggest strength is its homepage, which allows you to organize your content into two areas. The Featured Slider is perhaps the most versatile slider we have built, and comes with multiple slider variations that breath new life into the design.
PicTree WordPress Gallery Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
PicTree is a WordPress photo theme with a clean and simple look and feel with focus on your work and talent. It allows you to present your images in a unique and custom Photo Scroller as in the other photography website templates show here. Pictree brings you two different Color Schemes (Black & White), nice shortcodes, easy to use theme options, a custom post type for your Photos and more.
ANAN – For Photography Creative Portfolio – MORE INFO / DEMO
ANAN is a premium portfolio, personal, photography website Templates built with latest WordPress features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors and Image Uploader etc.
Expose – MORE INFO / DEMO
Expose is a CSS and Showcase Gallery WordPress Template best suited for Gallery Sites and personal Portfolios. It comes with 3 Skins, uses custom widgets and shortcodes as well as plugins.
Flex – WordPress photo Gallery Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Flex is a premium WordPress portfolio theme that’s designed specifically for photographers, designers, motion artists, and all creatives to display their work in a slick, grid-based interface. The VGrid plugin used flexes as the browser-size changes, and all projects can be launched via a lightbox (images, galleries, videos, etc.) or a full post-template! With 12 professionally designed styles, and the ability to create your own in mere minutes, the Flex theme is perfect for anyone seeking an image gallery website implemented as a WordPress Gallery Theme.
Village – MORE INFO / DEMO
If you love photography or general creativeness and want new interesting ways to display your work then this could be the theme for you. They have WordPress video tutorials that can guide you through how to create everything you need. The theme also has helpful hints throughout to let you know what everything does. If you want to create a unique look you will like that they have included many different modules that are unique to Themeforest, like the interactive query wall, and the floating slideshow navigation with automatic scroll.
Responsy WP – Responsive WordPress Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Responsy is a responsive html5 wordpress theme suitable for personal portfolios or creative agencies. Responsy has been coded in HTML5 & CSS3 and jQuery. It has a solid flexible responsive layout that scales from 320px to 1170px. Responsy have a nice portfolio template a with responsive grid layout.
Duotive Three – WordPress Gallery Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
This is the ultimate portfolio theme with a very easy and powerful administration tool and one of the more modern look and feels among the WordPress Gallery Themes.
Photorific WordPress Gallery Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
This premium WordPress photo theme is one of many great photography website templates. It has good features for your photography and portfolio website, and it can also be used for other projects. It has 30+ shortcodes and you visitors will like that images automatically will be stretched to fit the browser. Another nice feature is that there is no limitation on how many background images as you can use in a page, post, & portfolio item. This is of the WordPress Photography Themes you need to see.
Boxed – Responsive Full Background Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Boxed is an elegant responsive portfolio/photo WordPress theme that was created so you can show off your work beautifully on the web. The theme has a unique left-sided navigation while keeping the site centered in the browser, an optional (you can have a normal static image instead) full-screen background image slider which can be set to show different images on the homepage, portfolio pages, blog pages, regular pages and even on a per post/page basis and overall a very clean and modern design that looks great no matter your browser size.
Light Box WordPress Gallery Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
LightBox Photos, Movie and Image Showcase by foliothemes.com is a Portfolio Blog with an elastic grid for ALL portfolio categories. Stretch your window and the image items fall into place. Easy to maintain and has numerouse php and jquery enhancements. Theme Switcher, Option Page, 5 Widget Areas, Jquery Enhanced. Image and Video Handling.
Auzora – MORE INFO / DEMO
Auzora is One Page Portfolio WordPress Theme. Comes with massive admin features. Are you tired to see a lot of one page wordpress theme use scrollable effect when change the page? Then check the auzora live preview.. Auzora has extremely different effect when change the page.
Work – MORE INFO
Work has a clean and professional style that is perfect for displaying anything from illustrations to photography. With it you can easily build your portfolio with the numerous built-in page templates that give you the ability to create one, two, three, and four column gallery layouts.
Structure WordPress Gallery Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Months in development WP Structure is a highly flexible and heavily optioned premium theme, to be used for almost anything business, portfolio, blog, magazine & more!
Mobility – MORE INFO / DEMO
iPad ready Mobility is a customizable WordPress theme that serves up a touch and slide friendly user interface for iPad viewers. Get a head start publishing to iPad users.
Photo Nexus WordPress Gallery 2 in 1 – MORE INFO / DEMO
This theme is great for those who need a convenient way to publish and showcase a self managed Gallery of Photos, Artworks or Designs. The theme features modern yet minimalistic style so that your work will be guaranteed to be on focus.
Manhattan – MORE INFO
Get a portfolio-style content and stylish frame with Manhattan. It includes Genesis framework, unlimited updates, support & sites and you can access detailed tutorials.
Complete Package – MORE INFO / DEMO
Complete Package includes extensive documentation to help you with theme setup, and with some of the more advanced theme features. Documentation is included with theme.
Photoworks – MORE INFO / DEMO
Photoworks is a modern web 2.0 WordPress Gallery theme for photography and portfolio website. The color of this theme is black/dark.
Photopassion – MORE INFO / DEMO
Photopassion is a premium WordPress photo theme. It is designed for photographers with a clean design style with 4 colour schemes. It is powered by a great back-end, with many options, like image uploader, color picker, photo manager etc.
Dandelion – WordPress Photo Gallery Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Dandelion is a Powerful Premium WordPress photo theme. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Dandelion theme is highly flexible, so changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites. This theme allows you to build your own custom skin just by selecting your favorite colors from the admin panel with a color picker. Additionally, there are 32 custom patterns that you can choose between for the body.
Atlas for photography creative portfolio – MORE INFO / DEMO
Atlas is just like “Core Minimalist” a great Premium Photography, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest WordPress features and it has lot’s of feature like Custom Post Type and Image Uploader, shortcodes etc.
Gallerific WordPress gallery theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Gallerific Two can be configured to focus on your work, your blogging, or both. Support for post formats means you can shake up your blog with your own video, images, quotes and standard posts.
Adventure Unique Photography WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Adventure is a minimal photography WordPress theme with a unique look and functionality that completely ditches the standard layout. It concentrates on content and your imagery with a great range of shortcodes, theme options framework and more.
l’Image Theme – MORE INFO
L’Image theme will make it easy for you to setup your professional photography website. Category based galleries also make it easy to create a gallery and post photos. Posting an image is just creating a new post and add a featured image to it.
Specere – MORE INFO / DEMO
Specere is a feature packed WordPress Photo Theme aimed at creatives, photographers and people looking to showcase their images fullscreen with maximum impact. Specere comes packed with an easy-to-use white label Options Panel, documentation and a full screencast video tutorial link which can be found at the top of the documentation file.
Chameleon – MORE INFO / DEMO
WordPress Chameleon is ideal for corporate sites or creative portfolios. The slider is great for drawing attention to your products or showcasing your design work. Lots of jQuery goodness.
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amazing … amazing list of wordpress gallery themes
Thanx a lot 
Loved almost all of them
grat themes, thanks for sharing
Thanks, I was really searching a new theme with a cool gallery.
thanks a lot mate.i need image gallery for my website and i get a idea which can i use.thanks a lot man.cheers
Hi, very nice and awesome template collection. Been searching for cool templates over google search and found your coolest template collection website. Thanks for share these templates mate!
Thats really Good collection of design , thats help me most in my work
thank you
Thought this was a great article and one that will be a great inspirational resource for me in the future. There are some great theme designs in this collection and I really like the Village theme. I love the way the menu fades out and the site becomes a full page gallery. I also loved the button design on the menu and the whole theme has a really fresh feel. Great article and I look forward to more articles like from yourself.
great designs thank you very much
Been developing sites from scratch for artists and now moving into Wordpress use so folks can upload their own images without my help and blog on occasion. I really appreciate all your work in gathering together the best. So many choices. I do have a question, if you would be so kind to answer, or someone else would.
I am looking for a theme that will enable me to add a caption for the name of the piece of work right under a thumnail, such as “Worlds Collide” Size 14 x 14, and this would also appear as a caption when I click for an enlargement. The theme also needs to have eCommerce ability so the artist can sell their word through paypal. I prefer a minimalistic look. Thanks in advance if anyone can recommend something!
thank you very.
Been working for Mangyan Premium Theme for themetribe.com. It has responsive design features. Although, I have many other free themes that works great. This premium theme will be my first entry to premium. Lol. I hope some of my themes will be added here, and many will find it useful and works good on their website/blogs. I would love to help other people how they can make their site works great.
There are some great theme designs in this collection and I really like the Village theme. I love the way the menu fades out and the site becomes a full page gallery. I also loved the button design on the menu and the whole theme has a really fresh feel. Great article and I look forward to more articles like from yourself.
Thanks Yates. The site really is slick and has lots of flexibility. If you happen to see any that would work well for eCommerce using paypal, and also has the ability for one to add the title of the work and a short description such as size, let me know. I appreciate your descriptive about why you like the Village theme. I will likely add it to my bailiwick of themes.
Great collection! Thanks.
Im working in a free wordpress theme. You can see in action galvisrojas.eu and you can download it in github https://github.com/helmercol/GRtheme.
Theme is widget ready, personalized menus, responsive web design, etc. Language is Spanish, but if someone wants to translate it into English no matter.
Amazing collection.. You may also like to visit our inspiration collections website designartprint.com!
Cheers!
Cool collection of wordpress themes for gallery blogs. Well, is there any worpdress theme that perfectly fit to display collection of iPhone wallpapers?
I don’t even understand how I finished up right here, but I thought this submit was great. I do not recognize who you’re but definitely you are going to a famous blogger should you are not already. Cheers!
Best colection, Thanks for share these templates mate..
Great list for wordpress themes, but how can I find similar free themes?
really cool collection – like poster above, ive no idea how i stumbled across this site, but glad i did.
woo very good theams thanks admin
Thanks, I was really searching a new theme with a cool gallery.
I was looking for some inspiration and I definitely found it! Thank you!
Great collect of themes here. Well done. Keep it up. Cheers
thanx you
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Nice collections of themes.
Thank you!
Well optimized? Looking for the best collection of Wordpress themes and I admit that I came to the right place. Actually I was looking for a WP themes for my tech related blog. Now, I can choose one from the top Wordpress themes list here.
That was a very huge list. I’m sure people will feel more confused to choose after seeing so many good themes at once. Thanks for the list.
Really huge list of awesome wordpress themes. So many are looking good, its difficult to choose just one , thanks
Very nice collection of themes suitable for Image showcase sites.
Thanks
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