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75 Clean and Simple WordPress Themes

Lars — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:00:05 +0000

Simple WordPress themes are very popular, good for usability and lucky for you there are many high quality themes available to pick from. This is why we keep updating this resources with news themes all the time. Website and blog designs certainly can be complex, colorful and overwhelming and many themes for WordPress belongs to that category. Some web-masters and bloggers on the other hand prefer simple and clean layouts for their sites leaving more space for the text itself to be in focus. Minimalistic designs generally help user find what they are looking for easier and typically they are more inviting and easy to navigate compared to heavy loaded web designs. If you are looking for simple wordpress themes that help your design comply with basic elements of minimalistic design I’m sure the list of simple WordPress themes below will be a real time saver and a source of good inspiration. You will find both premium and free minimal WordPress themes organized into two sections. One of the hot and current trends in web design right now is responsive design. The WordPress community have picked this up and there are already some interesting responsive WordPress themes available now and they are worth considering to make sure your site looks great on all platforms including mobile devices. This article have been updated and will show if themes are responsive.

Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.

Article Index

To let you quickly locate the type of theme you are looking for I have created a index allowing for fast navigation. While it is tempting to skip the premium themes to save a bit I recommend you go through the entire post scrolling slowly to have a look at the screenshots. Remember that if you are building a site with a long term business strategy the support and flexibility typically found in premium themes are sometimes worth it. Let’s get started!

Premium Simple WordPress Themes
Free Simple WordPress Themes

Premium Simple WordPress Themes

The simple wordpress themes below are good for many purposes as they are clean and have good space for content. Remember that most premium themes are supported, documented and typically well coded by the theme vendors and they are often updated quickly when WordPress is taking large steps in its development. There are many and finding the best WordPress premium themes can be a challenge.

EVOLUTION (Responsive theme)

Evolution is our first fully responsive design. 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!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

ELIST

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.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

I LOVE IT

I love it! is a content sharing WordPress theme suitable for different posts formats. E.g image posts, video posts with automated thumbnails creation, self-hosted videos, audio posts, posts with attachments, combination of all content types. The theme offers many unique features like for example letting your registered users upload posts directly from front-end. The front-end submission permits users to choose their post format: image, video, audio, text and attachment. Each and every single format can be enabled or disabled.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

SWAGGER (Responsive theme)

Swagger is built on top of the all-new version 2 of the Theme Blvd framework. Use the layout builder to accomplish just about anything you could ever think of. Use the slider manager to create as many sliders as you want. Use the widget area manager to create as many widget areas and sidebars as you want. With just the right amount of theme options and flexibility, the power is all in your hands. And with a sleek, responsive HTML5 design, you’ll be sure no one will miss out on your new website built with Swagger.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)

ARES – Blog Magazine Newspaper Template

Ares is The Clean Magazine, News and Blog Template built with latest WordPress features.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

AWARE (Responsive theme)

Aware is a clean and simple interactive, responsive portfolio theme perfect for freelancers, web designers, photographers and videographers alike. Its user interactive interface delightfully enhances your most loved portfolio pieces. Now, you can take your portfolio with you, in your pocket.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)

SIMPLEPRESS – Corporate Simple WordPress Theme

SimplePress is a simple and clean page-based corporate WordPress theme. It is great for anyone looking to give their website professional look and feel. The theme features a business style homepage with a beautiful well integrated JavaScript slider and clear hierarchy, as well as fully functional Blog and Gallery sections.

This theme is part of the very interesting Theme Club at ElegantThemes where everyone can get access to around 70 very professional themes at around half the price of most Premium themes. This is in particular interesting for web designers as they will be able to deliver great websites to their clients. It is even possible to get the PSD files also if some changes will be needed. Check out the video showing the ElegantThemes options framework enabling high flexibility with no-coding needed.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

DEEP FOCUS

With Deep Focus you can turn your WordPress blog into a fully functional online photo gallery while still maintaining all of the features of a normal blog. Along with the gallery layout, DeepFocus comes with a robust blog and CMS-style homepage as well, making it an amazing solution for artists/photographers looking to build an online presence. This is a great pick among the many Simple WordPress Themes available.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

CROSS APLE – Clean Business WordPress Theme

Cross Apple is a elegant and clean theme which suits both, users with no programming background as well as advanced developers. It will help you build your site in no time to your liking with minimal effort. It empowers you to set color to elements such as links, text, menu links, etc. The theme also features 4(Four) Default Home page and single page layout for you to choose from.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

MODEST – Simple WordPress Theme

A minimal WordPress theme with beautiful typography and subtle gradients from Elegant Themes and it certainly belongs in this list of Minimal WordPress CMS Themes.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

STRIKING CORPORATE & PORTFOLIO WP THEME

Striking is one of the most in-demand simple wordpress themes available right now. It has tons of extraordinary features which are not found in ordinary WordPress themes. It is the theme you buy when you want to create a website in every way you imagined possible. One of the features that this super theme has is its Cross Browser Compatible including IE 9 and and latest, Firefox 4. It also boasts of 4 Different Sliders! Nivo slider! Anything Slider! 3d flash Image Rotator! Accordion slider! Each has a complete control set. With Striking sliders you can display images, video, text, captions, iframes, and more. These are just few of the features that this theme has in its long list of features and capabilities.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

SEVEN WONDERS (Responsive theme)

SevenWonders is a clean and modern wordpress theme that Fully Responsive, which mean the layout will adapt depending on the device screen size.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)

VOLT – Magazine / Editorial WordPress Theme

Volt theme for WordPress is designed for magazine, news and editorial ventures. With content and readability being the primary goal, the theme is designed with flexible layout pattern and decent space for advertisements. The theme introduces a layout swapping option that will let you move the content in desirable location, and is helpful when you are experimenting with visual hierarchy and user eye pattern. Backed with custom widgets, visual short codes, exclusive widget areas and custom page templates, the theme is envisioned to provide you more flexibility and ease-of-customization for your next editorial project.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

PURITY

Purity is a Clean and Minimal New WordPress Theme with a ‘BOLD’ feel that can be easily used as a personal portfolio or a business website. With an extensive documentation and a demo content you won’t have any problems setting your page up.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

INSPIRATION

Create your own web site without any effort! On each page among 7 specially created main pages you may find the most suitable and eye-catching one. And it is not the end, but just the start to implement your own ideas regarding content, because these templates deliver such rate of flexibility that enables you to modify without any problem due to just one click the whole design of the potential web page. Do not waste your brilliant time to technical issues as you are absolutely not requested to deep into the tangled web development world, you only need to be interested in what you do and to wake up your fantasy. Change via simple operation the color spectrum of your future web page. Texts, pictures, scripts, keys, icons and other elements can vary upon your desire. Friendly documentation which is delivered along with the template will provide you with necessary information and simple steps that are to be taken to manage it.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

FOLIOWAY SIMPLE WORDPRESS THEME

Folioway is a perfect pixel minimal wordpress theme, not only its clean and elegant, it also comes with tons of features like amazing slider, unlimited colors, etc. It’s incredibly powerful and flexible and easy to use! It is just the best wordpress theme for your or your company’s work presentation!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

MINIMAL WORDPRESS THEME

Minimal is a great theme for those who want to give their blog a truly simple and elegant feel without sacrificing any of the advanced features you have come to expect from ElegantThemes. The colors are easy on the eye, and the overall minimalist approach to the design makes for a relaxing and user-friendly experience for your visitors. This is one of the best simple wordpress themes available – at least that is my opinion.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

NEW HORIZON – Blog & Portfolio WordPress Theme

New Horizon – is perfect for design/fashion orientated blogs or for creative people who’s tired of regular thumbnails grids layouts.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

PROPULSION (Responsive theme)

Propulsion is a responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for users who want to create a business, portfolio or eCommerce site. The Theme is built on top of the fabulous woocommerce shop plugin as well as the bbPress Forum plugin. It comes with a plethora of options so you can modify layout, styling, colors and fonts directly from within the backend. 3 Slideshows, 21 predefined skins (which are easy to modify from your backend), font and color options as well as dynamic template builder will help you create the Website you need in no time.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)

VULCAN – BUSINESS SIMPLE WORDPRESS THEME

Vulcan is a modern and minimalist template best suited for any business website. It is available in five color options, and has three variation slider. Vulcan is also coded to improve capability of the WordPresss 3.0 features.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

WP-CLEAR

Solostream recently released version 2.0 of their popular simple WordPress theme, WP-Clear. This updated version includes numerous new features and layout options with magazine, business and blog layout styles. Other features include 2 content sliders, multiple post and page layout options, integrated banner ad spots, options panel for easy customization and more. This simple WordPress theme is a “must see”.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Solostream (premium theme)

REFINED WP – Simple Portfolio / Business WordPress Theme

Refined WP is a WordPress 3.2+ Ready Premium WordPress Theme specifically designed for corporate / business websites, portfolios, designer or agency websites etc. With a clean minimal design and numerous portfolio layout options it offers a lot of ways to display your portfolio / services and enables you to send a clear message.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

CAP CLEAN WORDPRESS THEME

Every element of Cap is highly customizable through its Theme Options. You can build page-based website or usual blog.

DOWNLAOD by Natty WP (premium theme)

WP-CLEARPHOTO

WP-ClearPhoto is a Premium WordPress theme designed mainly for photography enthusiasts or anyone who has a portfolio of projects to show the world. With its clean, elegant design, it’s the perfect container to show off your great work. Its built-in versatility and added features also make it suitable for a business blog, website or online magazine.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Solostream (premium theme)

AIRLOCK – Portfolio WordPress Theme

Airlock is the project made for creative designers and interactive agencies. Simplicity, flexibility and attention to detail is the main asset of the design.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

YOURFOLIO SIMPLE PORTFOLIO THEME

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

AUTOMOBILE

Automobile – is one of the themes for WordPress CMS with a sleek and clean design. This is perfect for companies who want to showcase their vehicles and get inquiries about them. Among others, it features Fully customizable front page, Custom Taxonomy, Car Detail Page, Car Listing Page, and Custom Control Panel.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Templatic (Premium theme)

COLT

Colt is a feature-packed simple wordpress theme. Thanks to extremely customizable layout and number of additional widgets you can create modern website to represent any company. Packed with all the goodness of a proper WordPress business theme, Colt template will most definitely make the impact you need. Change any of background and text colors, insert images and build your alternative unique style.

DOWNLAOD by Natty WP (premium theme)

FLEXISTORE

Clean and minimal WordPress estore theme. This theme has some really nice jQuery effects and should fit for any eshop.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

PERSONAL PRESS

While niche theme that push the boundaries of WordPress are great and pop up all over the Internet, the initial and still core focus of WordPress still blogging. With PersonalPress ElegantThemes certainly returned to the roots, and created a traditional blog-style theme with a personal touch. PersonalPress WordPress blog theme is a great simple design for those looking to give their blog a fun and light hearted feel. PersonalPress is a great design for those looking to give their blog a fun and light hearted feel.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

STRUCTURE

The Structure Theme is a set of premium WordPress themes masterfully created with a modern and minimalist design aesthetic.

MORE INFO – by OrganicThemes (Premium theme)

STUDIO960

This 960 Grid based site is built from the ground up to be powerful, customizable and extremely flexible. Each of the custom page templates has options that can be controlled independently and reused to achieve the results you want. Use the same gallery template for a photo blog, grid of type-only posts and a gallery of vacation photos!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

GOOD MINIMAL (Responsive theme)

Good Minimal is a responsive HTML5 & CSS3 , clean and minimalist style theme that is good for portfolio, blogs and businesses. This theme is flexible and is used media queries to adapt screen sizes, whether it is iPhone, iPad and wide screens.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)

MINIMALISTICO – Clean WordPress Theme

Minimalisto is a clean and minimalist business Premium WordPress Theme suitable for business, corporate, company and any kind of websites. Minimalisto is fully customizable using the theme options page! This is a good pick among the many clean wordpress themes available.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

DEADLINE

Deadline is a Powerful, Professional, Premium WordPress News or Magazine theme. It comes packed with an impressive array of custom options and widgets allowing you to control the look and feel.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

NOVA

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.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

SILVERIO

Silverio was designed to be easy to set-up and quick to update. Its clean design, time-saving features, customized admin, and Jquery enhancements make it the perfect way to showcase your work.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

THE PAPER CORE – Clean WordPress Theme

“The PaperCore” is an unique, elegant and minimal WordPress theme and it is here to present your business and work in the best way. There are 4 different professionally designed and unique styles. There are 2 stylish Portfolio/ News/ Featured Item sliders that are great to emphasize and present your products. The PhotoShop files are easy customizable and well organized.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

8CELLS – Minimalist and Clean WordPress Theme

8Cells is the WordPress theme for Portfolio, Creative built with latest WordPress features. Custom Post Type, Shortcodes, Extensive admin panel etc.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

GALLERY – WordPress Portfolio Theme

Gallery is a premium WordPress theme which can be used for many purposes, including a Photoblog, Portfolio, Personal Blog, Product Reviews, and more!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by WPZoom (Premium theme)

RT-THEME 11 – Business Theme with Product Showcase

WordPress business themes have the tendency to adopt lightweight and minimal design. This is true for the RT series from ThemeForest. One of RT’s five star gems is this clean and elegant corporate template. It has awesome features and sports a very pleasing and professional look that exudes the message that you mean business for your clients.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

MINIBUZZ

This theme offers a valid html5 code and unlimited color that you can easily change color in theme options. It has 2 Home page slider variations and is compatible with WordPress 3.0. Its simple, clean and minimalist business wordpress theme is not only suitable for business but also portfolio, other blogs.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

Adventure – Clean & Simple WordPress Theme

Adventure is an awesome clean & simple WordPress Theme which could be suitable for almost all kinds of business .You can use it as Business template, Your personal portfolio or even a Blog. It’s comes with valid well written code, working contact form, google maps and much more.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

CLASSICA – Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme

Classica is a beautifully minimalistic portfolio theme, free from gimmick and trend, making your talent the focal point of your portfolio – the way it should be. Present your work in a professional manor with a timeless design.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

ECHO

Echo is a clean and simple WordPress Theme, but a very powerful and a highly customizable portfolio theme, aimed at anyone who needs a showcase. If you’re looking for a gorgeous portfolio theme, then you’ve just found it.Echo comes with an excellent customer support and a bulletproof documentation file that discusses every aspect of the theme in details, ensuring you don’t face any difficulties in setting up the theme and maintaining it. This is one of the Simple WordPress themes you should check out!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

PULSE

A magazine-styled new wordpress theme, with a unique and flexible layout. The homepage contains multiple widgetized areas, so you can organize the content as you like.

MORE INFO / DEMO by wpzoom (premium theme)

IMPULSE

Impulse is a Premium WordPress Theme suitable for portfolios, showcases, galleries, photoblogs, personal sites, and more. The possibilities are endless!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by WPZoom (Premium theme)

OLD SCHOOL

Old School is a grungy, flexible, beautiful, magazine-style WordPress theme with lots of options and ad zones, making it easy to build a blog from scratch!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by UpThemes (Premium theme)

BASE

Base is a minimally-styled, feature rich, theme framework built specifically to power child themes. It includes an application framework, a theme options framework and a robust set of options for customizing your site.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by GraphPaperPress (Premium theme)

DAILYNOTES

The purpose of DailyNotes is to make the simplest and most elegant medium possible through which you could share your daily life. The theme is very minimal in its design, and has been trimmed down to the bare essentials. For anyone looking to create a fun and inviting personal blog, I’m confident that DailyNotes will serve you well!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

Yin & Yang

Yin & Yang is a light, minimalistic, simple to use portfolio theme. Quick to setup and easy to customize, thanks to the powerful admin panel, and the detailed documentation, Yin & Yang is the perfect theme for showcasing your most important work directly in front of your potential clients. Yin & Yang has got you covered on all fronts, so if you ever get stuck on anything, rest assured that you’re going to get the help of a professional, if and when you need it, because Yin & Yang comes with excellent customer support.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

CUMULUS PRO

Cumulus is a cool simple and clean theme for a portfolio style blogs.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

Work A Holic Pro

Workaholic Pro is a modern and clean portfolio theme for WordPress created by Graph Paper Press designer Chandra Maharzan. Workaholic Pro allows you to separate your portfolio from your blog, without editing a single line of code. This colorful child theme for Modularity comes with preset three color palettes, variable sidebar content, jQuery-powered image-hover effects, plus much more.

MORE INFO by graphpaperpress (premium theme)

Elegant Estate

ElegantEstate – one of the great themes for WordPress CMS – is a full-feature WordPress CMS theme for real estate websites. The theme makes browsing your listings easy, and adds special integration features for property info, photos, Google Maps and more. Help increase sales by establishing an elegant and professional online presence today.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Elegant Themes (premium theme)

Reason

Reason is a powerful professional WordPress theme. It comes with an extremely customizable layout and jQuery homepage slider with 28 different staging effects. Theme packed with advanced contact form, 20 custom Shortcodes, custom post type, lots of jQuery and 9 page templates.

MORE INFO by NattyWP (premium theme)

GridFolio WP

GridFolio is a clean, minimal, single page grid-based WordPress theme. Perfect for a porfolio site but can be used for any number of purposes.

MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)

Vimes

Vimes is a simple & elegant theme for WordPress, designed especially for design agencies, photographers and artists, but which can be easily used as a traditional blog theme.

MORE INFO / DEMO by WPZoom (premium theme)

Simple Portfolio

The Simple Portfolio is the ultimate solution for a powerful, yet minimal portfolio based theme. The theme is designed with an unobtrusive, minimal approach that focuses the viewers attention to the artwork displayed on the site.

The Simple Portfolio displays imagery and text beautifully in a clean layout. Portfolio’s are manged as categories, and can be displayed in a 1, 2 or 3 column layout. The theme utilizes custom post types to manage featured slides and blog entries, while all portfolio content is added using traditional WordPress posts. Creating a beautifully simple and professional portfolio site has never been easier than with the Simple Portfolio.

MORE INFO by Organic Themes(premium theme)

Free Simple WordPress Themes

If you are looking for a clean and minimalistic design then the free simple wordpress themes below are worth looking through. Keep in mind however that typically free themes are not supported and they may not be updated when WordPress is taking large steps in its development.

Work-a-holic

Work-a-holic is a free minimalistic two and three column WordPress theme that focuses mainly on showcasing portfolios for artists, web designers, photographers and illustrators.

f8 Lite

F8 Lite can transform your site or blog into a fully functioning photography or multimedia portfolio site.

WP-DEV Dojo Minimalist WordPress Theme

Minimalist WordPress Theme

Minimo

Buddymatic Minimalist WordPress Theme

Thematic Minimalist WordPress Theme Framework

Manifest

Modern Clix

Hybrid Minimalist WordPress Theme Framework

Oulipo

The Journalist

Information Architects

Modicus

Simpla

Hemingway

Stilbruch

Lead

Author : Lars Vraa

Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009. He is really passionate about web design, web development and loves to look into new technologies, techniques, tools etc. and to write articles for his readers.

20 Useful WordPress PopUp Plugin Collection

Sonny M. Day — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:00:05 +0000

When can we say that a blog or a website is successful? Obviously, some would say, if the blog has lots of traffic. But actually, traffic alone is not everything. More importantly, a blog has to generate sales, increase subscription rates, and develop loyal readership. Internet marketers are more familiar to this principle than any other, and part of their success formula is the use of forceful and effective call to action which is oftentimes contained in a popup box. Creating your own popups for your website however is not an easy task. You need to have knowledge of programming to be able to generate the codes that would define your intended popup.

Fortunately, for WordPress websites, there are lots of easily configurable popup plugins that you can choose from to convey subscription invitation, download or sales links, announcements and etc. Popups actually are versatile, and can be used for other purposes.

Here in this article, we are listing a number of useful popup plugins that you can choose from to use in your website. As you will find out, most of these items are free while few are premium. Either, way these plugins have varied designs and applications fit for their intended purposes.

Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.

Premium WordPress PopUp Plugin Collection

1. LePopup WordPress

Successful LePopup script of LeSeries collection is now available also in WordPress version! Clear and simple management, easy and reliable handling, this all comfortly in WordPress administration. Set up sessions, automatic show and close and many more, also upcoming features that will renew and boost your site like no other popup before! Simple way to be popupped!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

2. Social Traffic Pop for WordPress

Social Traffic Pop is finally here. Requested by tons of other Traffic Pop buyers, Social Traffic Pop combines 3 of the most powerful social media tools to make one of the best social media marketing tools ever. Social Traffic Pop builds on everything that made the original Facebook Traffic Pop such a hit and takes it to the next level. Make Google, Facebook, and Twitter your slave and become a social media slayer over night!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

3. Facebook Traffic Pop for WordPress

Tap into Facebook’s 600 million plus users now with the hottest Facebook traffic plugin. Facebook traffic pop is a new breed of ‘popups’ that will allow you to have your users like your pages, instead of trying to get them to click ads. More likes = more exposure = more traffic = more money!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

4. Sugar Modal Windows for WordPress

Sugar Modal Windows provides an easy-to-use interface for creating Modal popup windows for your WordPress powered website. The Modal Windows are powered by slick jQuery transitions and are fully compatible with all modern browsers and IE 7 -9. Modal Windows created with this plugin can contain any kind of information, including text, audio, video, shortcodes, etc. Your options are limitless! With 13 configurable options for every modal, there are literally thousands of different modal windows you can create. Use them to show off privacy policies, banner ads, portfolio images/videos, miscellaneous information, additional details, and anything else!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

5. SocialPop: A Social Media Plugin for WordPress

The SocialPop WordPress plug-in gives you the ability to add social media sharing options to the Posts and Pages of your website. The display settings allow them to appear right after the content section of the page. You can also manually insert them wherever you like, including widget areas using the Manual Insert Settings option. You can also insert them into your templates and pages via PHP functions call or shortcode.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

Free WordPress PopUp Plugin Collection

6. Scrolling down popup plugin

Scrolling down popup plugin create the popup window with drop in scrolling effect. With this plugin we can confirm that particular content on your page gets attention to user. To display important announcement, an advertisement, or a promotional offer we can use this plugin.

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7. Cool fade popup

Sometimes its useful to add a pop up to your website to show your ads, special announcement and for offers. Using this plug-in you can creates unblockable, dynamic and fully configurable popups for your blog. This popup ads are very effective advertising tools for your website since they won’t get automatically blocked by popup blocking tool.

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8. Onclick Popup

One easy way to send your visitors a welcome message, notice, or advertisement is to add this popup plugin to your site. WordPress on-click Popup plugin will create a popup message to your website. The popup will appear on text click so it is named on-click popup.

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9. WP-Announcements

The WP-Announcements plugin is ideal for websites or blogs that would like to display a site wide announcement, featured post, important message, community notice, advertisement, survey form, email subscription form, emergency alert or anything you can publish in a post as a marquee or popup window using ShadowBox-JS or ThickBox.

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10. Milat jQuery Automatic Popup

Only want your popup in some areas on your site? With this WordPress popup plugin You can select whether you want them displayed on your posts, pages, or your home page.

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11. Pinoy Pop Up on Exit

This plugin is mainly for sales copy sites, opt-in(squeeze) pages, upsell offers page or any page that tries to bribe people to stay in the page to respond to an offer. If a visitor tries to exit your site(page/post) they will instead see a popup screen providing them with an incentive not to leave. This incentive could be a discount or a bonus if they choose not to leave and instead make a purchase. A working example of this script is at Publishing a Book and Paid Public Speaker.

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12. WordPress Popup Scheduler

The WordPress Popup Scheduler plugin allow you to fully customize the way popup is shown on your blog. You can either place your message before the first post, or as a popup right in the middle of the screen. In addition, there is also the option to either show the popup in home page only or in every single page.

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13. SuperSlider-Media-Pop

SuperSlider-Media-Pop adds numerous image enhancements to your admin panels. Displays all attached files to this post is post list view. It adds image sizes to the Upload/Insert image screen, adding image sizes to be inserted and adding to the image link field options. Insert any superslider image size and link to any image size. You can now insert a slide sized image and pop over a mid size image in your post. Adds thumbnails and attachments to your edit post / page list screens.

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14. WP Super Popup

WP Super Popup makes you able to easily create and manage modal and unblockable popups for your WordPress blog. It is proved that a modal and graphically attractive popup (like the one generated by this plugin) have an high conversion! For example you can use it for creating subscription forms or to promote your product in a viral way. The popup content can be retrieved from an external URL or directly edited inline thanks to a WYSIWYG editor.

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15. WordPress PopUp

One of the most effective ways to advertise your mailing list, special offer or simply to show ads is via javascript ‘pop over’ on your site.

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16. MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup

This amazing WordPress popup plugin allows you to get your message across in an unblockable popup easily. You can choose to present your popup in a simple straightforward way, in a fading system or in a lightbox mode.

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17. Tippy WordPress Plugin

This plugin allows users to create custom popups or tooltips in their posts. The style and behavior of the tooltip are highly configurable through CSS and through the WordPress dashboard.

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18. Simple PopUp

A simple, attractive, non-annoying, extremely fast and light-weight pop-up box for your WordPress Blog. Supports Cookies,Custom design options,scheduling and custom Visual Edior where you can put your html code which will be showed to your visitors.

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19. Popup

Sometimes its useful to add a pop up to your website to show your ads, special announcement and for offers. Using this plug-in you can creates unblockable, dynamic and fully configurable popups for your blog. One easy way to send your visitors a welcome message, notice, or advertisement is to add a this popup plugin to your site. This popup ads are very effective advertising tools for your website since they wont get automatically blocked by popup blocking tool.

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20. Easy Heads Up Bar

This plugin adds an easy to use notification bar to the top of your WordPress website with a linked call to action.

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Author : Sonny Day

Sonny M. Day is a passionate SEO and web design enthusiast who loves photography, mountain climbing, snorkeling and dirt bike riding.

40 Powerful WordPress Business Themes

Sonny M. Day — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:00:03 +0000

WordPress business themes are the viable platforms for a business owner who wants to keep in touch with his clients online. Whether your business is small, manned only by a handful of employees, or a giant corporation, the need to establish a presence in the Internet is always a good marketing strategy.

By showcasing an assortment of your products and services on their websites, your business is able to provide vital information about your products or advertise the quality of service that you’re offering to your customers. Through company websites, businesses are also able to provide better customer care by attending to their clients’ comments and inquiries at any given time. Having this capability requires a specialized theme, and WordPress business themes are the ultimate solutions for this need. Another option is to use a WordPress theme generator to create the theme you need your self.

Because its takes a lot of time to search out a decent theme to suit your business, we decided to showcase the Best Free and Premium WordPress Themes that you can adopt to your company website. The themes were chosen because they are the best in terms of their cutting-edge design, smooth user interface, attractive layout, and other key features.

Powerful WordPress Business Themes

We hope that this article can help you in your search for a reliable and appropriate WordPress business theme for your design needs. If I missed a theme worth showcasing in this category, please don’t hesitate to write them below. We will also appreciate any comment and suggestion that you can share with us in this article. Happy viewing!

Update February 2012

U-Design WordPress Theme

This theme is a real best seller at Themeforet. U-Design will easily help you to set any color to elements such as backgrounds, links, text, menu links, etc. The good thing is that it empowers you to completely change the look and feel quite easy and in no time. It’s a powerful theme which suits both, users with no programming background as well as advanced developers.

There is a lot of great features and you can choose from over 200 fonts, including Google Font Directory and Cufón fonts. An important factor is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and SEO actually has been made a priority when designing this theme.

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PureVISION WordPress Theme

PureVISION is build by the same developer as U-design, and all the great features also comes with this great WordPress Business Theme.

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Mu Types – Clean Business WordPress Theme

Mu Types is a powerful and flexible theme. It will suit you both if you have no programming background as well as if you are an advanced developer. It has a lot of features and it will help you build your site to perfection easily.

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Studium for Business Corporate Portfolio

Studium is based on the custom VamTam framework and fully compatible with WordPress 3.3. It is a powerful business corporate portfolio theme.

Studium is build with predefined styles, theme integrated shortcodes and widgets, multilingual support and flexible and awesome sliders. It is suitable to you both if you have zero programming skills as well as if you’re an advanced developer.

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Openhouse Real Estate & Automotiv car dealership

Openhouse is a high rated and best selling WordPress Real Estate theme. It’s a powerful and flexible Real Estate theme with a flexible Search function. You can search by location, number of baths, beds, max price, min price, and property type.

The theme also includes a fully featured Loan calculator which can be shown or hidden in Theme Options. It even has a link to generate a complete amortization table which you can print out. The color scheme choice is unlimited. A great WordPress business theme for real estate with tons of features.

This variation is build to fit the needs of Car Dealership business and it has the same great search function and all the powerful features.

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1. Striking Premium WP Theme – WordPress Business Themes

Striking is one of the most in-demand WordPress business theme existing now. It has tons of extraordinary features which are not found in ordinary WordPress themes. “It is the theme you buy when you want to create a website in every way you imagined possible.” One of the features is its Cross Browser Compatible including IE 9 and latest, Firefox. It also boasts of 4 Different Sliders! Nivo slider! Anything Slider! 3d flash Image Rotator! Accordion slider! Each has a complete control set. With Striking sliders you can display images, video, text, captions, iframes, and more. These are just few of the great features that this theme has.

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2. Karma – WordPress Business Themes

Also one of the most wanted themes right now on Themeforest is Karma. It is a Premium WordPress Theme built on what the author calls “a highly intelligent framework”. It’s the only theme on Themeforest to feature the new CU3ER v1 3D slider – it’s actually cool. It comes with lots of features and whether your a wordpress pro or just a beginner you should be able to manage this theme.

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3. Traject – WordPress Business Themes

It is always good for a business to showcase its products and services to its website visitors. To do that will require a business WordPress theme that can show a lot of pictures. Traject is here to help you do that. It has a very smooth and neat slide show that can carry your portfolio right below your banner for your clients to see. The layout is organized to ensure that your services, products and content become the focal point so users can quickly find what they need.

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4. ECOBIZ – WordPress Business Themes

ECOBIZ is clean,elegant and modern corporate and business WordPress theme that can be switched as eco/green business and portfolio theme. There’s many page templates available,6 pre-defined skins, unlimited colors, 3 slideshow types, Portfolio and Product post type with categories filter, User friendly shortcodes and more. Please explore demo site or follow below.

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5. RT-Theme 11 – WordPress Business Themes

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6. Avenue – Business WordPress Theme

Avenue is a feature-rich WordPress theme and is suitable for almost any niche. The theme comes with an inbuilt review system and 3 post formats (videos, audio & galleries). The homepage layout is very flexible, you can built your own layout using the 3 homepage widgets. You can also easily change the skin so it fits your needs!

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7. Aurora- WordPress Business Themes

Auzora is One Page business WordPress Theme. It comes in two colors (dark and light) with massive admin features for customization. It has been Tested with WP.3.0, and Works perfectly.

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8. Vulcan – WordPress Business Themes

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9. RT-Theme 9 – WordPress Business Themes

Another hard hitter in business WordPress division is this clean, professional and lightweight, business, corporate, service and portfolio theme. It has a product showroom where you can publish unlimited products in unlimited product category. Plus amazing Sidebar Tool, Widgetized Sliders and Custom Admin Panel to manage your site.

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10. CleanCut – WordPress Business Themes

CleanCut is a WordPress Theme best suited for Portfolio and Business Websites. It takes advantage of all the amazing new wordpress 3 features and it comes with 5 fantastic Image and News slide shows that also support video. It also has multiple Page templates, a very unique portfolio sorting option that gives you the possibility to choose from 5 Fantastic skins.

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11. Berita (Free) – WordPress Business Themes

If you want to display your corporate image clearly and professionally then this theme is for you. Web designers may use it for their online projects and offer their clients web sites with all premium features they will need. It has a slider on Front Page, custom translations of all blog areas, breadcrumbs Navigation (fully customizable) and many more.

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12. Fullscreen – Business Theme

A corporate design with focus on excellent product photography. This theme will work well for any business type, doesn’t matter if you are creating a website for local restaurant, sport shop, or travel agency. Design is also suitable for your own personal, portfolio or photography website. Theme is SEO ready and will rank well in search engines as well.

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13. Structure Theme – Free Version

This theme is designed to adopt the style of the content added, making it the ideal theme for a variety of markets including art and design, music, magazines and informational business blogs.

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14. WordPress Business Themes – Corporate Child Theme

The Corporate child theme for the Genesis Framework is a corporate-style theme that will provide a professional look for your business website. It is an ideal solution when you’ve got lots of content and you need a professional way to show it off. Use it to showcase your company, services and anything that you can offer.

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15. WordPress Business Themes – Unite

This WordPress business theme takes a clean, organized approach to presenting content so it’s easier to find what you want. It is the result of the merger of crisp design and powerful communication. It also designed with 5 pre-made skins including a dark theme and textured background theme. The theme is easy to modify and ready to be up and running out of the box.

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16. Duotive 2WO – All in One WordPress Theme

This theme comes in an artsy layout best suited for businesses with the taste for art. It has two color schemes and is tested to be compatible with IE9.

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17. Cleaner Business WordPress Theme

If you are running a dirty business, it is time for you to wipe the slate clean by adopting Cleaner Business for WordPress. This premium WordPress business theme has been designed for those looking to create a very clean and minimalistic website to show off their business or personal portfolio. Unlike other premium themes, Cleaner Business only provides the basic requirements to create an awesome corporate business site, without all the extra code and gimmicks that will slow you down and make things complicated.

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18. WordPress Business Themes – Architect

Architect is an awesome theme for businesses because of its professional appearance and neat codes for worry-free editing. Adopting this theme will surely enhance your corporate image.

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19. WordPress Business Themes – Businezz (Free)

Businezz sports a crisp design that will add value to any website. The theme comes with a ready-to-use homepage and a separate blog page for your posts. All the different segments of the home page have been designed keeping in mind how a company website should look. This is a business styled theme is definitely great for anyone wishing to launch a company,corporate or business website/portfolio.

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20. WordPress Business Themes – Boronic (Free)

Built by Padd Solutions, Boronic WP theme is great for any blogger who wants to impress his readers with its contents and a premium quality design blog at no cost! It has a built in “Subscribe To Get Updates” feature using the Feedburner email function so that your readers can easily subscribe to your site via email. This theme also has 125×125 banner ad ready for monetization. Boronic WP theme is WordPress 3.0 compliant with a robust framework for easier theme customization.

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21. WordPress Business Themes – Executive

Executive is another great corporate-style theme when it comes to showing a lot of contents in your site. It has 6 layout options, fixed width, theme options, featured images, threaded comments.

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22. WordPress Business Themes – Professional

Of all the professional WordPress business themes, Professional is one that truly lives up to its name. It is created with a sleek and simple design in mind without the unnecessary features on the homepage. It is very easy to navigate with its neatly organized layout. It has three short blurbs on the homepage which are easy to take in with the prominent slider provides a clear call to action.

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23. WordPress Business Themes – Breeze

Breeze is a WordPress theme designed with corporate businesses in mind. The theme is also well suited for online portfolios and blogs. It comes with an updated XML file that enables you to import dummy data and placeholder images with examples of slider images, portfolio items, blog posts and all the shortcodes examples. It also has PDF documentation with screenshots to help you through the installation and customization process.

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24. WordPress Business Themes – eBusiness

For those who are looking to use WordPress as CMS, this theme is for you. It is great for business or personal bloggers looking to use WordPress to take their website to the next level. It comes equipped with an in-depth options page that gives you increased control over your blog, as well as 3 unique skins and a total of 9 color variations to help insure that anyone can customize the theme to suit their needs.

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25. WordPress Business Themes – MiniBuzz

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26. WordPress Business Themes – iBusiness (Free)

iBusiness is a free business WordPress theme that can make your visitors experience the corporate feel of its design. It isespecially made for business and is suitable for any niche especially for company homepage or business type web sites.

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27. WordPress Business Themes – Notepad (Free)

Notepad Theme is a simple, clean and sharp template designed for small business websites for personal branding that is ideal for personal coaches, consultants and independent professionals. It comes in 13 flavors or pre-built color styles like: Black, Blue, Grey, Yellow and White. You can download its free version or you can purchase it at a very cheap price to remove the credits and use it on multiple sites.

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28. WordPress Business Themes – Freelance

Freelance is a gorgeous theme ideal for personal and small businesses. Its minimal design is neatly organized to allow you to showcase your products and professional services in a fashionable and unique way.

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29. WordPress Business Themes – Tesla

Tesla is a modern WordPress theme with a clean minimalist design. It’s best suited for Portfolio and Business Websites (also nice for personal websites). It has 11 pre-made background patterns, Flexible homepage , 2 slideshow layouts with 11 transition effects (that can be controlled using admin options), strong back-end, beautiful & easy to use shortcodes, unlimited blogs & portfolio, ajaxed contact form, and much more will help you and your clients build their professional websites easily.

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30. WordPress Business Themes – Sansation

This theme has powerful CMS functionality and a long list of premium features which is perfect for all businesses, corporations and creative portfolio sites. Whether you’re a pro or just a beginner, you’ll have absolutely no trouble customizing this theme. It has 12 color schemes, unlimited sidebars and WordPress 3 support.

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31. WordPress Business Themes – Showtime

One of the powerful WordPress theme made for Business, Portfolio or almost any other kind of website is this theme. It has a Front Page that can be customized via unlimited widget areas, both body and footer. Sliders and Colors can be easily switched via my custom built FreshPanel. And much much more. If you are looking for WordPress business theme which is reliable and has great features this one must be on top of your list.

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32. WordPress Business Themes – DeVision

DeVision gives you the ability to showcase your company’s products in an awesome business WordPress theme even without programming skills. It has different color schemes, widget areas and other theme options let you tailor the theme to your special needs.

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33. WordPress Business Themes – BOUSE

Bouse is a sleek premium template that comes with tons of features and the ability to have an unlimited color schemes via theme panel color pickers. It has the ability to change the colors for the body, header, footer, text and links. This is perfect for web design companies that want to easily create website for their clients without having to mess to much with the code aspect of the theme. You can also create subcategories for your portfolio if you want to show your customers the various type of work you do.

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34. WordPress Business Themes – Work Place

Although Work Place business WordPress theme was developed with business in mind, it could also be used for portfolios or magazine type sites. It features a highly customizable home page including a featured content carousel, three featured content columns as well as another featured content box just above the footer.

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35. WordPress Business Themes – Wise Business (FREE)

Wise Business theme displays all categories and their subcategories as drop down menus ( using JQuery Superfish ) on the main menu and all the pages on the top right menu. This theme uses 2 plugins,Twitter Tools and WP-PageNavigation which you can find in the downloaded .zip file, folder “plugins”.

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Do you have a comment about business WordPress themes?

Now please leave your comment below – what theme do you like the most?

Author : Sonny Day

Sonny M. Day is a passionate SEO and web design enthusiast who loves photography, mountain climbing, snorkeling and dirt bike riding.

30 Useful Church Website Templates for Religious Websites

Sonny M. Day — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:50:46 +0000

Churches are the institutions of our society whose need to disseminate their message and information is extremely high. As most other modern organization, churches need a medium to distribute their voice online and nothing does the job better than good looking Church Website Templates running on WordPress.

Since each church typically have their own needs for their website, a custom made theme is always preferable, but custom made church website templates do not always come cheap. Considering that most churches work on a limited budget, they often can’t spend a sizeable amount of money to pay a professional web designer.

For this reason, I am showcasing a collection of church website templates for WordPress which are affordable, efficient, appealing, and easy to update. If I missed a theme for church websites worth showcasing in this category, or if you have any comment or suggestion, as to how to improve this list, please feel free to write them below. We will have that covered in a future post or an update.

Church Website Templates For WordPress

We all want our message to get across. We all want it to be understood. Our church’s godly message also does. Perhaps more than anything else. Help your church to find a good theme in this collection of church website templates. Happy surfing!

1. Church website templates – Born

On-line presences is important today. Born is a Church WordPress Theme aimed at making your new church website the best one in your area.

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2. Church website templates – WordPress Aid

WordPress Aid is ideal for charity organizations. It’s focused on raising funds for your charity and alerting visitors to important issues happening in the world.

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3. Church website templates – Crossroads

Crossroads is a powerful and flexible Church website template for WordPress making your customization easy. It is simple to use and has a beautiful design. Built specifically for churches as a platform, Crossroads has a considerable array of features to display upcoming services, contact info, social networks, operation times, and more. All these tools will help you bring your service and information to anyone who visits or site!

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4. Church website templates – True North

True North is a premium WordPress theme with extensive power and flexibility. It is simple to use and has a elegant design

Just like Crossroads it is built specifically for churches as a platform that allows for complete management over the website. True North is the perfect solution for small and medium sized churches who need an easy-to-use website. True North has a considerable array of custom features to display upcoming services, contact info, social networks, operation times, and more.

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5. Church website templates – Refine

Refine Church WordPress Theme has a considerable array of custom features that are managed through a custom options panel, and custom widgets. These customizations allow your church to manipulate the themes features, whether it be the logo, service times, homepage images, hours of operations, webcasts, and more. Through these features, you can bring your information swiftly to anyone who visits your site.

With the Refine Church Theme, you can manage all your events, videos, podcasts, photos, church news, ministries, and more. You also have the ability to choose from five various color styles for the theme, which include variations of blue, red, grey, green, and brown.

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6. Church website templates – WordPress Church

WordPress Church theme has social bookmarks for sharing posts and articles, featured items on the home page, and crosses in the footer and doves in the header. It is also widget ready and offers a free version upgrade if you purchase this church website theme.

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Providence Church of God, NC USA

Cathedral Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem PA

7. Church website templates – Devine Light

DivineLight is a church website template that features a warm inviting color scheme and a clean style mixed with rich leather touches. It also comes with complete PSD set designed with Churches in mind. This entire design is grid based, utilizing the rule of thirds, based on a 16px baseline.

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8. Church website templates – Light of Peace

This church website template is based on the 960 grid. It has a valid XHTML 1 .0 Strict , font replacement ( cufon ), lightbox gallery, working contact form with validation, seven page template, six PSDs, a jQuery slider, pop out window to display Service Times / Direction information, drop down navigation bar, and jQuery tabs.

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9. Church website templates – Ray of Light

This wordpress theme is perfect for churches and religious movements. It features are rich and highly customizable. It also has its own gallery and five custom widgets, that allow you do whatever you want with your sidebar.

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10. Church website templates – WP Church

This church theme is created on a highly intelligent framework. It has automatic scripture finders, custom built image galleries, mp3 players and calendars. You can do away with plugins with this theme. It also have configurable slideshow, Google maps with street view and directions, newsletter subscription widget, custom gallery with countdown timer, upcoming events widget, and custom built sermon gallery.

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11. Church website templates – Trinity Community Church

This clean and impressive design for a WordPress church theme features an easily editable homepage graphic buttons, fully editable multi-level, CSS drop-down menu and easily editable, multi-image javascript homepage slideshow. It has three distinct layouts for its pages (two column interior layouts, single column interior, and a homepage with slideshow and graphic buttons).

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12. Church website templates – Moses

This WordPress photo theme for churches is specifically designed to meet the need of a ministry and other religious organizations. This awesome theme has the ability to post events and sermons on its pages. It also has a highly customizable featured image slider on its homepage and a custom widget containing the latest sermons allowing visitors to download a video or audio in MP3 format of the sermons.

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13. Church website templates – Sky Church

Sky Church is church website design which is simple, unique, and uncluttered Premium WordPress theme which is easy to use. You can completely dictate what goes on your homepage with its one control panel page.

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14. Church website templates – Hopefull

Hopefull is a feature-rich non-profit church theme with an elegant yet powerful design mechanisms. With this WordPress theme, you can choose Blue, Brown, Red, Green, Pink as color of your church blog. It features a Paypal donation widget for easy acceptance of funds from donors. Its simple, clean and user friendly theme options panel, makes your blog up and running to make every visit to your site an enjoyable experience filled with enlightening lessons from the gospels.

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15. Church website templates – Ecclesia

This wordpress church website template, is made with church blogs or websites in view. It is flexibility and friendly user interface, can help you a lot in bringing the website of your church to a higher level. It features, easy columns shortcodes, carefully crafted typography, widget layout and color options, flexible frontpage layout, jQuery slider, theme options panel, unlimited color variations, typography shortcodes, 17 custom widgets, and multilevel drop AJAX contact forms.

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16. Church website templates – New Church

This church WordPress theme is designed to make the website of your church look great. It is very easy to use with smoothly functional widgets. It features a calendar, comments, your latest posts, a map and other nearly limitless options that you can integrate with this theme.

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17. Church website templates – Charity Theme

With Charity theme, you can customize your background images, logos, text color and of your files of your theme. It goes with a pretty powerful custom page layout add-on called Carrington Build. This enables you to make pages on the fly without altering or a line of code or a template file . It also has a customized image for your images with options for alt text, link, height and width.

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18. Church website templates – Alpha Church

This church website template features a clean design with a custom control panel that enables you to customize the logo, service times and background images.

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19. Church website templates – True North WordPress Church Theme

This church web design theme comes with many outstanding features and customization options making it flexible and easy to use. It’s good for people without any background for web design or those who need an easy to customize theme for their clients. If what you want is a modern and elegant church website template to use for your small or medium-sized church, then True North may be the theme you are looking for. It comes custom control panel with many customization options, custom image uploading system, several custom page templates, and valid HTML5 code.

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20. Church website templates – Sea Side Church

This church website template for WordPress has a beautiful contact page that displays a map to your ministry along with the necessary contact information or direction. It has an integrated staff page where members are listed with images and their contact information in a gorgeous and easy to use fashion. You can also select your own plugin and its ability to podcast is right there out of the box. It also has widgets for featured post, recent tweets and featured videos.

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21. Church website templates – Outreach

Outreach is a beautiful church website template with fixed width, 6 layout options, featured images, threaded comments and theme options.

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One of the churches which is using this theme:

David Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Austin Texas, USA

22. Church website templates – Simple Press

SimplePress is a slick new page-based church website template popular among church websites because of its clean and professional look. It features a homepage with a beautiful javascript slider and clear hierarchy, fully functional Blog and Gallery sections and ePanel theme options among others.

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Among the churches that adopts this cool theme is:

Victoria Hall Christian Fellowship, Camberly

23. Church website templates – bSocial

bSocial is another church website template which is ideal for ministry oriented websites. It features multiple page templates — like Feedreader and Search, widget-ready sidebar, search engine optimized pages, automatic image resizing — for front feature boxes, easy feature image uploading — with automatic image rotating and comprehensive Theme Options page.

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Churches which are using this kind of theme are:

Essential Church VirginiaBeach, VA

Lutheran Church of the Resurrection-Marion, IA

24. Church website templates – Boldy WordPress Theme (Free)

Boldy is a free to download, great WordPress church website template which has earned its popularity among churches.

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Among its users are:

Life Pointe Church, Amory, Mississippi

Bethany Community Church, Philadelphia, PA

25. Church website templates – Grace

Grace has an intuitive control panel which is very easy to use allowing you to configure all aspects of your website without altering its code.

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26. Church website templates – Upsilon

This very popular free WordPress church website template has 2-columns and a sidebar widget support and a totally cool SmoothGallery header. This church web design theme also supports an album.

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Some of its users are:

Iglesia Bautista Misionera Shalom Una Iglesia, Mexico

Northwest Baptist Church, Wauwatosa WI

27. Church website templates – Church Child Theme

For church websites with a lot to say, this WordPress church website template is for you. You can choose from a very versatile widget that supports a wide array of media from videos to in-depth articles to breathtaking photography and four content-friendly soft color schemes. It has 4 color styles, 6 layout options, custom background/header, threaded comments and featured images.

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Among the churches which are using this awesome theme are:

Molesey Community Church, UK

Oaktree Anglican Fellowship, Acton London

28. Church website templates – Mu

Although Mu is designed for church websites, this church website template also appeals to other websites aside from churches and religious organizations. It goes with a myriad of features which can be easily configured to suit the particular mood of the site. It has sidebars which are fully widgetized and home page content areas. It also has an amazing carousel effect to display images or any other content. Because Mu is built primarily for church purposes, it is the most popular WordPress theme around.

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It has a lot of followers like:

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Hollywood CA

City North Church, Brisbane Australia

29. Church website templates – Trinity

Trinity is a squeaky clean design aimed at helping churches deliver their content in modern style. The interface features light tones and textures in a clean and readable layout. Clean lines and prominent typography make Trinity the perfect way to engage church members and future guests with your content.

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30. Church website templates - Antioch

Antioch is a design suited for any church seeking to appeal to a wide audience. The interface features light tones and textures in a clean and readable layout. Subtle shadows and rich typography make Antioch the perfect way to engage church members and future guests with your content.

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Church Website Templates – Please Share Your Comments

Author : Sonny Day

Sonny M. Day is a passionate SEO and web design enthusiast who loves photography, mountain climbing, snorkeling and dirt bike riding.

35+ Best Free and Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin Collection

Sonny M. Day — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:00:07 +0000

The capability to display images in an organized and attractive fashion is a very important feature that WordPress themes must have. This is because photos make websites interesting to the readers. Not all WordPress themes however, come with the power to showcase photos the way we want them to be, ie., in the right places, in the rights sizes and in the right arrangement, depending on our needs and personal taste.

Fortunately, there are lots of WordPress plugins that you can choose from, so that your WordPress theme can showcase photos in the way you like. Here in this article, we are showcasing some of the best WordPress gallery plugins that you can use in your own WordPress website. It contains some free WordPress gallery plugins and some premium ones, for all your image presentation needs on your website.

We will be happy to hear your thoughts and about additions to this WordPress gallery plugin collection. Happy reading!

1. FancyBox

Fancybox is a WordPress gallery plugin that can provide you with zooming functionality for your images and other contents. With FancyBox, you can easily customize almost anything: the border, margin, width and color, zoom speed, animation type, close button position, overlay color and opacity and more.

2. DM Albums

DM Albums is an inline photo album/gallery plugin that displays high quality images and thumbnails perfectly sized to your blog. DM Albums takes full resolution photos and automatically builds thumbnails and allows browsing of the photo album in-line with your post, meaning your visitors can view the entire photo album without leaving your post. DM Albums uses AJAX to provide smooth interaction while viewing the photo album. DM Album is different from other photo management applications in that it strives to provide the highest-resolution photos possible to the user. Simply upload full resolution images to your web site, point DM Albums at the directory they are located in, and DM Album does the rest, scaling the photos to the perfect size to fit the user’s screen.

3. NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with dozens of options and features. It features AJAX based thumbnail generator, JavaScript Effects on images, Fully integrated slideshow as jQuery or Flash solution, Tag support for images, support for XML Sitemaps and many other useful functions.

4. Slideshow Gallery

With Slideshow Gallery, you can easily display multiple galleries throughout your WordPress website displaying your custom added slides or showing slides from WordPress posts. The slideshow is flexible and all aspects can easily be configured. It is powered by JavaScript.

5. Fotobook

Fotobook is a WordPress plugin that will link to your Facebook account(s) and import all of your photo albums for use in your WordPress installation. It uses the Facebook API so importing your photos is a breeze.

6. Dynamic Content Gallery

This plugin creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest and/or featured content using either the JonDesign SmoothGallery script for mootools, or a custom jQuery script. The plugin dynamically creates the gallery from your latest and/or featured content by either automatically pulling in the first Image Attachment from relevant Posts/Pages, or by specifying image URLs in a DCG Metabox in the Write screen for the relevant Posts/Pages. Additionally, default images can be displayed in the event that Posts/Pages don’t have an Image Attachment or manually specified image. A Dashboard Settings page gives access to a comprehensive range of options for populating the gallery and configuring its look and behaviour. The DCG can be added to your theme as a Widget, or by using a template tag.

7. Yet Another Photoblog

Yet Another Photoblog, is a WordPress gallery plugin which has the power to convert your WordPress Blog into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time. With YAPB, you can have multiple thumbnail sizes where and when you need them, controlled right on the theme. It also has an out of the box configurable “latest images” sidebar widget, and other features all in a non invasive WordPress-plugin that converts WordPress into an easy to use photoblog system.

8. PhotoSmash Galleries

PhotoSmash Galleries makes it easy to create photo galleries in posts or pages that your users can upload images to. PhotoSmash has incredibly flexible and simple models for designing custom photo gallery and form layouts, utilizing your own custom database fields, html, and css, or just use the standard.

9. Smooth Slider

Smooth Slider is a WordPress Plugin for creating a dynamic slideshow/s for featured posts, pages and media images on a blog. The slideshow created by Smooth Slider are JavaScript and Text based, that is why site owners and bloggers will get full benefit of Search Engine Optimization as the texts are readable by Search Engines. You can choose some of your posts,pages and media images as featured posts and show them into a slideshow on your blog home page (i.e. Index) as well as in sidebar. Also, you can show category posts in reverse chronological order.

10. Lightbox Gallery

As the name suggests, Lightbox Gallery plugin changes the view of galleries to the lightbox. Among others it features: Lightbox display of Gallery, Tooltip view of caption of images, Displays the associated metadata with images, and extends the default gallery options.

11. Flickr + Highslide

This plugin displays flickr photos using highslide. It features 13 unique ways of displaying your photos, and has 8 different gallery styles. Also, it has the power to display photos from a photoset, or in latest or random order, and has the ability to change the size of images and thumbnails among others.

12. GRAND FlAGallery

GRAND FlAGallery is a Photo Gallery, Video Gallery, Music Album & Banner Rotator plugin with powerful admin to manage your media content. It is a flash and jQuery media content plugin that provides a comprehensive interface for handling image galleries, audio and video.

13. Media Library Gallery

Media Library Gallery automatically creates a gallery with every images posts have in attachment. Support thickbox. To include the gallery in a page, simply write in the post: [media-library-gallery]. You can also customize: see the documentation for more information!

14. Portfolio Slideshow

Portfolio Slideshow is an easy to add clean and simple JavaScript slideshow to your site. The slideshow integrates well into any design, supports fluid-width themes, and offers lots of options for power users, too.

15. Content Slide

Content Slide is used to create fully customizable jquery Fading image slideshow anywhere within your WordPress site. Custom options include slideshow size, color, style and more. Created using Jquery Coin Slider and the fade effect is created using jquery inner Fade effect.

16. CataBlog

CataBlog allows you to catalog pretty much anything you would want and share it through your blog in a simple but elegant gallery. Upload images, give them titles, links, descriptions and then save them into your catalog. Use categories to organize and filter your catalog items into multiple different catalogs. Show off your photos in high resolution with the LightBox effect, perfect for simple galleries. Easy, intuitive and smart design makes it trivial to keep track of all your different catalogs and create amazing e-stores, galleries, lists and more.

17. WP Photo Album Plus

This plugin is designed to easily manage and display your photo albums and slideshows within your WordPress site. With WP Photo Album plus, you can create various albums that contain photos as well as sub albums at the same time. Also, there is no limitation to the number of albums and photos; No limitation to the nesting depth of sub-albums and; You have full control over the display sizes of the photos. See it in action here.

18. nRelate – Related Content WordPress Gallery Plugin

nrelate is not just another related posts plugin. It uses a technology that continuously analyzes your website content and displays other related posts from your website. This ultimately leads to higher page-views for your site, and a better user experience for your visitors. Installing this plugin is as simple as activating it, and you can leave the rest to nrelate. Once activated, the nrelate servers will immediately begin analyzing your website content and associating similar articles. Of course, we provide an options page so you can fine tune the display.

19. WP Easy Gallery

WP Easy Gallery is an easy to use WordPress gallery plugin that allows you to create and manage multiple image galleries through a simple admin interface.

20. Lazyest Gallery

Create a photo gallery from your existing photo directories. This gallery basically needs just two settings: Your image directory and your gallery page. Lazyest Gallery automatically creates a photo gallery with folders, sub folders, thumbnail pages and slide shows. If you want more, the gallery offers a multitude of options by featuring a smart back end management site. You can sort photos through folders and add captions, comments and descriptions with minimal effort. If you are tired of uploading photos through the WordPress server, this plug-in will make it a breeze with their FTP auto-indexing integration. See it in action here.

21. Content Slider

The SlideDeck WordPress slider plugin allows you to easily create a content slider widget or slideshow on your WordPress blog without having to write any code. Just create a new slider with the SlideDeck control panel tool and insert the widget into your post via the WYSIWYG editor with the TinyMCE plugin SlideDeck picker. You can also create a dynamic slider by using the Smart Slider function. Just choose your blog post criteria (recent, popular, featured), select a theme, set your options and viola, you have a dynamically updated slider in seconds! Users can now visually experience your blog posts.

22. PICA Photo Gallery

PICA is a photo gallery extension which shows up your photos in an impressive and memorable way. This plugin shows the featured photos Randomly when the page is reload and albums are showed as slide shows and you can use the PICA Gallery Photos widget for show albums.

23. jGallery – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

This WordPress Gallery Plugin gives you a simple and extremely customizable way to create a gallery on any post or page. You have the option to use widgets or shortcodes to insert your custom gallery into your web site. As well, the look of your gallery is fully customizable through the WordPress admin interface. This plugin will help make your website standout. You can use it to create all kinds of different galleries. Version 1.0 is a fully stable release that can be used on any site that is using WP 2 .8 and above (including 3.0).

24. Thumbnail Gallery – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

This Plugin will help you to easily add a thumbnail gallery to your WordPress website or blog. The gallery is completely customizable, resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones). You will be able to insert it in any page or post you want with inbuilt short code generator.

25. Fancy Gallery – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

Fancy Gallery comes with an outstanding AJAX admin and a lot of new features. You can create unlimited of galleries and each gallery can hold unlimited of albums. You can add different types of media – Images, Video, Websites to the albums. One of the biggest feature is the Generator. It allows to use galleries, you created in wordpress, on external websites. The generator creates the code for the head and body tag and all you have to do is to copy and paste it in. VERY EASY !

26. TS Display – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

TS Display is a wordpress plugin for display portfolio and gallery. You can use this plugin to manage portfolio post and show photo gallery in your website.

27. Slider gallery shortcode – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

This plugin creates a new shortcode for WordPress. With this new shortcode, you can create a slider gallery in seconds just by typing [slider] while you’re writing your post or page. The slider will display the images that you have uploaded to the current post or page.

28. Minimy – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

Minimy is a premium jQuery plugin delivered both as a standalone plugin and as a WordPress shortcode. It has a minimalistic design but it’s loaded with tons of features that allow you to spice up your website in a matter of minutes. The admin panel from the WP version allows you to easily create and manage all of your galleries and also change the skins in a really easy way.

29. PhotoMosaic – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

PhotoMosaic creates a shortcode ([photomosaic]) that transforms a WordPress photo gallery into a visually-striking design piece by giving it a fresh mansonry layout worthy of your favorite design blog.

30. Video Gallery – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

The most advanced stock video gallery in the world! Now as a WordPress plugin! It features: Three skins for you to choose from. So now it can fit perfectly in your site design; A custom admin panel prepared for the gallery; Feeds from self hosted videos, videos hosted on s3 amazon, youtube, vimeo, images, vimeo or even audio ( so it’s a media gallery ); Has html5 functionality so that it can display on iPhone / iPad; and is cross-browser compatible. Works on every major browser.

31. Video Player – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

This wordpress plugin will help you administer the entire video player using a very friendly interface. You’ll be able to customize the player look & feel, playlist and CSS file. The plugin comes in two versions: Right Side playlist and Bottom Playlist.

32. Premium Gallery Manager – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

Premium Gallery Manager supports multiple uploads in backend and has a smart crop option to show crop image in gallery or full image. Also it is Lightbox enabled and has a full screen slideshow. You can also choose from a range of 5 effects transition available, create unlimited galleries with their own dimensions and settings and a lot more.

33. RoyalSlider – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

RoyalSlider for WordPress is a cross-device jQuery content slider with touch-based navigation and responsive layout. It has user-friendly admin area where you can manage slides, change slider settings, customize interface and add blocks-captions using custom WYSIWIG editor. RoyalSlider for WordPress is created based on HTML version, selling here on CodeCanyon with over 750 happy buyers and five star rating.

34. Wall/Grid Gallery – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

This Plugin will help you to easily add a grid gallery to your WordPress website or blog. The gallery is completely customizable, resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones). You will be able to insert it in any page or post you want with inbuilt short code generator.

35. PhotoShow – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

PhotoShow is a plugin for WordPress and jQuery that makes it easy to add elegant style to a WordPress photo gallery with a simple shortcode.

36. DZS jQuery Flipbook – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

WordPress DZS Flipbook jQuery powered is the ultimate interactive media gallery for your presentation. It features neat effects for your presentations; compatibility with all media, not only images- inline content, videos, audios, divs with text -all are supported; powerful ZoomVideoPlayer and lightbox support.

37. Jigowatt Gallery – Premium WordPress Gallery Plugin by Code Canyon

The Jigowatt Gallery for WordPress allows you to create customisable galleries and insert them into posts and pages. Its built upon WordPress 3.0’s Custom Post Types and Taxonomies making it easy to use and extend if you want to.

Author : Sonny Day

Sonny M. Day is a passionate SEO and web design enthusiast who loves photography, mountain climbing, snorkeling and dirt bike riding.

25 Excellent WordPress Video Theme Collection

Dustin Betonio — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:00:00 +0000

With a cool WordPress video theme your streams will stand out! Since the arrival of Youtube it has been extremely popular to share all kinds of videos online. As always when there is a big success there are opportunities for others. Many video sites have been introduced and some have attracted serious popularity for being focused in a specific nice e.g. College Humor and Break in the humor niche. WordPress can be a great platform for setting up similar sites for the niche of your choice or for customers looking in this direction. Especially some WordPress themes support multimedia well with video and audio post formats. I have collected some of the best WordPress Video Themes in this article and hope you will find what you are looking for. Please share in a comment any missing themes you think we should add.

Advertisement Besides being great for publishing video content simple WordPress themes also makes WordPress the favourite platform for many many webmasters and blogger for building WordPress websites. Further building an online shop using wordpress e-commerce themes is very popular.

Gridlocked – Portfolio WordPress Video theme

Gridlocked is a grid-based, post-format supporting, layout-shuffling, minimalistic theme for creatives. It is both a classic portfolio for showcasing your work and a modern tumblr-style blogging system. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

VideoPlus

Cool new video theme Theme Junkie with a clean and modern look and feel.

MORE INFO by theme junkie(premium theme)

Reach – Business Portfolio WordPress Theme

Reach is a business portfolio / showcase WordPress theme that offers clean styling with easy use and flexible layouts though shortcodes and template options.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Invictus – A Photographer Portfolio Theme

Invictus is a Fullsize Image and Video WordPress-theme for photographer or designers with a need for showcasing work online.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Premiere

Premiere is a powerful WordPress video theme that is custom post driven, separating your video posts from your blog content. With a custom single video page template with great social sharing links, the option for your site visitors to recommend videos and a featured home page slider this theme helps videographers, and movie fans alike – with great custom-ability.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (premium theme)

Garnish

Garnish is a clean-cut, straight to the point, simple to use portfolio theme. The uncluttered, one-page, ajax-powered portfolio is perfect for placing your most important work directly in front of your potential clients. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Videozoom

Videozoom is an elegant WordPress video theme with a neat featured slider, which is ready to play any videos you want to embed into your posts. Just like a WordPress photo theme this kind of theme is perfect for building an online portfolio.

MORE INFO / DEMO by WPZoom (premium theme)

Adventure – A Unique Photography and Video WordPress Theme

Adventure is a minimal photography and full screen video 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…

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Architectos

This is a very photographic theme with full width photo background. The video post format is pretty cool for a video focused site.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Groovy Video

Groovy WordPress video theme is a colourful, funky video blogging theme, which is sure to put you at the top of the pile. Video blogging (vlogging) is trendy right now (all the cool kids are doing it), so do get your groove on with this theme! Get it? Got it? Good!

MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (premium theme)

Scope

Scope is the perfect theme for the creative agency, freelancer or general business. Strong lines, strong colours and a bunch of super-awesome features to keep you busy. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Wave: A Video Centric Theme for WordPress

Wave is a beautiful and flexible theme catered to those that want to build a video focused site

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Live Theme

Live WordPress Video Theme was architected so that the style easily adapts to well-designed backgrounds. The tabbed areas use neutral tones and the translucent borders maintain visual continuity by inheriting colors from background graphics.

MORE INFO by 8bit themes (premium theme)

Black Label – Fullscreen Video & Image Background

This is a must see WordPress video theme playing videos in full screen.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

FIAT LUX – Fullscreen Image & Video Background

Cool full screen theme with 11 page templates video integration and shortcodes. Worth checking out

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

MyStream

MyStream is a flexible and extremely customizable personal blog theme with massive social media & lifestreaming influences. Change the background to your visual identity, move the many available widgets around and VOILA: you have YourStream.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (premium theme)

Object

Object is a supremely flexible theme designed to publish your photos and videos perfectly. The design sports 1 – 5 column layout options, 15 amazing colour schemes and one of the sexiest jQuery image galleries you’ve seen in a WP theme.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (premium theme)

Joorang

Joorang is WordPress theme that will match with your portfolio & blog site. Alot of unique features and also comes with massive admin features to manage your site. Are you really tired with portfolio theme that only can put one image or one video for each portfolio post? Want a feature that allow you to have unlimited items for each portfolio post? mix gallery (video and image) in single portfolio post?

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Multimedia

Colorful magazine style wordpress theme with integrated content types for video and music. There are 7 theme styles, 7 custom widgets.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

WP Color Video

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

WooTube

WooTube is a video player. Need we say more? Based on the same style that has made Busy Bee & Fresh News so popular, WooTube offers you some amazing multimedia goodness. Why not get cracking straight away… All you need is a camera, a nice smile and obviously this theme!

MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (premium theme)

Especial

Especial is a modern, powerful and professional WordPress theme made for your Portfolio, Business, Magazine or almost any other kind of website. Especial comes with awesome content sliders for your featured images, fully working contact forms, Vimeo and YouTube videos and video thimbnails support.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

MultiMedia Reloaded

This is a feature rich multimedia theme actually build as a parent theme. You can create your own child theme or modify one of the ones provided. The theme comes with 14 widget areas. You can also find a free version of this theme over at Smashing Magazine

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

eVid Theme

eVid is a theme designed for video bloggers. I have set it up to easily integrate videos from video hosts such as Youtube, Vimeo, Veoh, MetaCafe, and so on. This theme does not have a native video player, but it does include a custom video interface with added “blogger-related” functions. This theme is only for sites that plan to showcase videos within their post pages. I have test the theme with all the most popular video hosts, but I expect that it will work with any website that offers a flash embed code.

MORE INFO by elegantthemes (premium theme)

Flex

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 based site.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

wpShow

wpShow is a video theme for your blog enables you to feature videos as posts alongside with the regular blog posts.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Author : Dustin Betonio

Dustin Betonio is a Translation Management graduate at University of Mindanao. His earlier career was devoted on customer service outside the information highway. Currently studying Law in the same University.

110+ Outstanding WordPress Themes For Photographers – January 2012 Update

carsten — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:30:50 +0000

It’s been 2 months since the last update of outstanding wordpress themes for photographers and lots of new great themes have been released since november 2011. In this update I have collected some of the best new themes available so feel free to take a look – there might be something for your next project or site. I will keep updating this list as more new themes are being released so be sure to come back again for even more!

Introduction

Selecting amongst the best wordpress themes for photographers can be overwhelming at first glance. Your photography portfolio is vital to your overall success as a photographer and increasing the exposure of your work will certainly boost the number of visitors and sales on your website. WordPress offers a great potential to showcase your work to your customers and it’s very cheap and easy to setup and deploy even for a novice webmaster. Adding a WordPress theme is a way to skin your weblog and make it look appealing whilst organizing your photos, making it very easy for your customers to navigate and view your great photographs. All the themes in this article are specifically made to present a photographers work in an organized and aesthetical way.

This article now presents more than 100 wordpress themes for photographers that will present your work in the best possible way. Most of the professional and feature packed themes available isn’t free, but at a relatively low cost you will be able to showcase your work in a way not possible with free themes. Premium themes are often packed with even more cool features and an organized backend system that will allow you to do adjustments without any trouble or prior knowledge of WordPress. They are made to make you focus on your work rather than fumbling with a cumbersome theme.

I hope there’s something for you - enjoy reading!

Article Index

WordPress Themes For Photographers Released January 2012
WordPress Themes For Photographers Released November 2011

WordPress Themes For Photographers Released January 2012

1. Minimatica Free WordPress Theme

A stylish and modern minimalist theme with a beautiful image gallery slider and an optional blog view. With support for post formats, audio and video playback, ideal for showcasing photography portfolios or podcasting but also great for your everyday blogging.

The theme comes with two view modes: a gallery view for photo blogging and the classical blog view. Supports post thumbnails, the all-new WordPress 3.1 post formats and takes them a step further by offering audio & video playback. You can download the theme below, view a demo or read further about the theme’s features.

MORE INFO / DEMO by onedesigns (free)

2. Minimal

This minimal, clean WordPress theme is beautifully built with minimal and clean design. This theme is perfect for artists, graphic designers, illustrators and photographers who’d like to have a clean, minimal portfolio to showcase their work. It comes with a full video overview and support of how to use and manage it.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Marios Lublinski (free)

3. Portfolio Press

Portfolio theme uses custom post types for portfolio pages, takes advantage of a new menu navigation, and includes a ton of neat features.

MORE INFO / DEMO by wptheming (free)

4. F8 Lite

F8 Lite can transform your site or blog into a fully functioning photography or multimedia portfolio site.

MORE INFO / DEMO by graphpaperpress (free)

5. Contrast

Contrast, a wordpress theme which is suitable for photographers, graphic & web designers, corporates with kickass features like full screen backgrounds with video support. jQuery compatible Portfolio page, full screen google maps, blog/list sliders, unlimited colors and navigation with sub menus.

MORE INFO by WordPress Database (free)

6. Notebook WordPress Theme

Notebook is a fun multimedia theme that takes advantage of WordPress post formats and advanced CSS3 animations. The result is a unique and highly engaging design that is sure that impress your visitors. Notebook makes it easy to share a variety of content, including audio, video, photographs and standard blog posts.

MORE INFO / DEMO by ElegantThemes (premium theme)

7. Evolution WordPress Theme

MORE INFO / DEMO by ElegantThemes (premium theme)

8. Sky WordPress Theme

Sky floats above the pack in style and its sense of whimsy is sure to leave your visitors surprised and refreshed. Sky is unique in the way it’s homepage operates, loading all of your content seamlessly using ajax. This means that no matter how many pages you have in the “slider,” your initial page load speed will be lightning fast as each page is only loaded when it is displayed.

MORE INFO / DEMO by ElegantThemes (premium theme)

9. Breathe WordPress Theme

Breathe is a minimal, elegant and flexible theme which is perfect for both users with no programming background and experts. It will enable you to set up your site quickly and easily via the one click installer, and you can tweak it to your specific requirements via the powerful admin panel and extensive per page options.

The theme is built on my rock solid framework which provides some significant WP admin enhancements, excellent speed, loads of features and quality code. Create a beautiful and mode website quickly and easily with Breathe.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Mojo Themes (premium theme)

10. Myriad Powerful Professional WordPress Theme

With Mysitemyway you’re getting more than just a theme, you’re getting a new way of approaching them. With an innovative separation of design from content you get everything you could wish to customize into one easy to navigate option panel.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Mojo Themes (premium theme)

11. Caprice – WordPress Business & Portfolio Theme

Caprice is a modern, elegant and clean WordPress theme, suitable for businesses, portfolios and personal blogs. Added features include Social media pages/shortcodes, which allow you to create content pages directly from your twitter, flickr, dribbble, last.fm or tumblr feeds. Combined with the built-in social share button features and facebook API widgets, Caprice offers excellent opportunities to integrate with your social networks.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Mojo Themes (premium theme)

12. Breakout Responsive WordPress Theme

Breakout is built on top of the all-new version two of the Theme Blvd framework. Use the layout builder to accomplish just about anything you could ever think of. Use the slider manager to create as many sliders as you want. Use the widget area manager to create as many widget areas and sidebars as you want. With just the right amount of theme options and flexibility, the power is all in your hands. And with a sleek, responsive HTML5 design, you’ll be sure no one will miss out on your new website built with Breakout.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Mojo Themes (premium theme)

13. Emporia

Emporia is a responsive WordPress portfolio and blog theme with beautiful three-column page layouts, slideshow support, five alternative styles, widgets and drop down menus. Emporia is a child theme for the Base theme framework.

MORE INFO by GraphPaperPress (premium theme)

14. Mixfolio

Mixfolio is a responsive, HTML5 portfolio theme for WordPress. Best of all, it’s free! Use it to build your portfolio or your online brand. Create Image, Gallery, Video or Standard posts using Mixfolio’ Post Formats feature.

MORE INFO by GraphPaperPress (premium theme)

15. Cresendo – Elegant Photography WordPress Theme

Cresendo is a clean and elegant wordpress theme for portfolio, photography and business websites. This theme also suitable for blog, personal and any kind of websites.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Themeforest (premium theme)

16. LastCover Magazine Premium WordPress Theme

LastCover is a clean, modern photo magazine and portfolio WordPress theme with boat loads of powerful features utilizing the latest WordPress 3.2.1 features with 2 custom post types, unlimited colors, and lot of shortcodes and options. More than 50 options of customization are provided too…Try it !

MORE INFO / DEMO by Themeforest (premium theme)

17. Rhea For Photography Creative Portfolio

Rhea is the Premium Photography, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest WordPress features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors, 4 homepage styles, 10 page templates, 7 gallery page templates, 7 custom widgets and Image Uploader are only a few of the many great features this theme has to offer. Check out the demo for all features.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Themeforest (premium theme)

18. JR Photography WordPress Theme

JR Photography WordPress theme represents stylish and elegant fullscreen theme for WordPress with separate Galleries and Theme Options management. It gives amazing experience for showcasing photos and blogging at the same time. JR perfectly works for photographers, artists, designers, personal and other creative projects.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Themeforest (premium theme)

19. Photox – Creative Photography Theme

Photox is a modern, creative photography theme with a full screen background slideshow to show off your awesome work. It’s build on a rock solid HTML5 wordpress framework, is SEO optimized and an unbranded admin panel that is client and agency friendly.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Themeforest (premium theme)

20. PhotoPharm: Premium Photography and Blog Theme

PhotoPharm is ideal for photographers and/or design studios. It utilizes a full screen slideshow feature for maximum impact. You can also easily upload 100s of images to create a gallery page in seconds.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Themeforest (premium theme)

21. Photolux – Photography Portfolio WordPress Theme

Photolux is a powerful and elegant Portfolio and Photography WordPress Theme which is best suited for photographers and creatives who use portfolios to showcase their work. Photolux theme is powered by the advanced Pexeto Panel, which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme – it is well suited for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers. The theme comes with three base skin choices: Dark, Light and Transparent, as well as numerous of backend options for easy customization and building your skin.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Themeforest (premium theme)

22. SideWindr Full AJAX WordPress Theme

SideWindr is a beautiful, pixel perfect, stripped down WordPress Theme aimed at Restaurants, Photographers and Creatives looking for a beautiful showcase. It’s stripped down to be as fast and as simple as possible with no unnecessary extras. What’s more, it’s fully AJAX which makes it super fast!

SideWindr comes packed with an easy-to-use white label Options Panel and great documentation. SideWinder is also built upon a Workless HTML5 + CSS Base which means it’s future proof, and although it’s perfect out of the box, developers and users with a little more knowledge can extend it even further!

MORE INFO / DEMO by Themeforest (premium theme)

23. Apolo – Fullscreen Video & Image Background +Audio

Fullscreen Video & Image Background wordpress theme, also with a Image Slider Background. Perfect for photographers, designers, directors or companies wishing to display their work in an elegant and modern way without complications.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Themeforest (premium theme)

24. Footage – A Photo & Video Production Theme

With Footage as your website your viewer will never get bored and leave. This theme is a unique way to display your photography and supports all types of photo orientation so your photos will not get cutoff. If you are a photo/videographer and need a fresh new look for your website then this is the theme for you. And best of all Footage is AJAX enabled so your users will only have to reload when posting a comment.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Themeforest (premium theme)

25. This Way WP Full Video/Image Background with Audio

This Way Word Press Theme is designed with HTML5 & CSS3. It features full Screen Image & Full Screen Video Background with Audio support. It also has an awesome JQuery animated effect, Twitter feeds and social media links. It is easy customize blog and portfolio with filter.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Themeforest (premium theme)

26. Sidewinder

Sidewinder is a horizontal side-scrolling photo theme for WordPress perfect for creating beautiful photo portfolio websites. Sidewinder is a child theme for the Base theme framework.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Graphpaperpress

27. Immense

Immense is a minimalist professional photography theme for WordPress. It allows for fullscreen slideshows that automatically adjust to the size of the browser. It’s got custom fonts, auto theme updates and is compatible with iPhone and iPad.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Graphpaperpress

28. Widescreen

Widescreen is a photography theme for WordPress that features multiple homepage layouts, including a full screen slideshow, a homepage video and featured posts. Ditch your old Flash website for improved SEO results and mobile compatibility.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Graphpaperpress

29. Klix WordPress Theme

Klix is a fabulous nice and simple fullscreen wordpress theme with unlimited possibilities – great for portfolio or photography sites. It features 50+ theme settings via easy to use options panel, 120+ shortcodes, support for video backgrounds and self hosted videos. It’s available in two versions either black or white.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Mojo-themes

30. HD Photographer Premium WordPress Theme

HD Photographer is a Word Press theme that makes a visual impact, and will make your style and content stand out. Most features and options are built directly into the Edit page, for great ease of use. And offers lots of possibilities to present your business, brand or portfolio.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Mojo-themes

31. Fullscreen Photography WordPress Theme

This Fullscreen Photography WordPress Theme implies a high-quality template developed for the most eye-catching images presentation. Its exclusive design grants your website with a stunning look and will captivate the visitor’s attention from the first sight.

The theme is HTML and CSS coded and provides the background gallery scripts for all versions (Word Press, PHP and HTML). One of its most distinctive features implies the background manager due to which your photos will fit any screen kind without Flash involvement.

MORE INFO / DEMO by Mojo-themes

32. EcoPhoto2

ecoPhoto2 is the new ground breaking Word Press theme tailor built for photographers! ecoPhoto2 lets you turn your WordPress into a stunning photo portfolio. It uses your high resolution photos to create a one of a kind, browser-wide photo gallery. Now you can spend your time being photo creative while ecoPhoto2 does all the work for you!

MORE INFO – by Idesigneco

33. PhotoNote

PhotoNote is a very advanced Photo & Video theme, offering you many unique ways of displaying your photos, videos or blog posts. It has a clean, organized and responsive layout which automatically adapts to fit any screen resolution og desktop and mobile devices. It’s developed for wordpress 3.3+ and has an easy to use options panel for personalized customization of the theme.

MORE INFO / DEMO by wpzoom (premium theme)

WordPress Themes For Photographers Released November 2011

1. Slash WP

Slash WP is a new Premium WordPress Theme with a unique modern design – perfect for showcasing your work. Works great for portfolio, photo-gallery or blog. It’s very powerful with native support for WP 3.2 post formats and it’s also made to look good on iPhone and iPad or other mobile devices. It comes with 3 homepage templates allowing a full-width slideshow, static homepage or a full-width video homepage.

You can create your own personal appearance in a few very easy steps. It features powerful sortable portfolio pages allowing you to show both photos and videos. An awesome photo gallery with either a classical or 2-layer layout where you can upload hundreds of photos in a few steps. Featuring 3 post formats, 8 custom widgets and a jPlayer this surely is one of most versatile themes for photographers!

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2. Momento

Momento is a new fixed width photo theme that’s easy to customize so you can show off your work in the best possible way. It’s very beautiful and organized with a very clean look. It features unlimited color schemes, 2 unique slider options and an adjustable header background to any transparency. It supports video content in either 1, 2 or 3 column portfolios, custom navigation menus and widgets for social media. It’s a well documented theme and easy to setup even for novice users. If you want an aesthetically pleasing and organized theme to showcase your work this is definitely worth considering.

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3. Shotzz – Premium WP Theme

Shotzz is a recent premium WP theme which is the perfect solution for any photo shooting enthusiast or studio/event photographer. It’s a very clean design with an aesthetical look and is packed with some amazing features and tools. For the more experienced and demanding users theres is a built in custom event manager, custom post manager, canvas manager, sidebar manager, font manager and call to action manager. It has 10 pre-made styles to choose from and you can change the look and feel of the theme with the canvas manager very easily. The event manger is really unique and you can create events with ease and with more than one event pr. day. On top of this you have a slider manager with more than 40 effects and 6 slider types, 8 gallery types and 12 widgets. This is something you’ve got to try!

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4. Studio Zen Fullscreen Portfolio Theme

Studio Zen is yet another new, powerful and beautiful theme with a clean design for photo enthusiasts and creative artists to show their work. It features full screen slideshows utilizing the entire browser area and making your photos the center of attention. The main theme can be either light or dark. It features a full screen slideshow with captions and audio and many awesome transition effects. Full screen video playback from vimeo, flash, youtube or html 5 videos. You can have an unlimited amount of portfolios with loads of different ways to customize and setup your personal look and feel.

It has multiple sidebars and loads of custom widgets for addresses, social media icons, gallery, twitter, flickr, recent posts and popular posts. It’s fully internationalized and the theme options page has intuitive controls to change every aspect of the theme to your liking. It has tons of useful shortcodes with inbuilt shortcode generator.

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5. Relaxa – Unique and Modern WordPress Theme

Relaxa is a unique and modern WP theme suitable for many type of sites. It’s great for a photo blog due to the minimalistic homepage layout. Featuring blog post as slider and post, testimonial and slider portfolio type. Images are resized automatically and you have 2 sidebar positions and 3 page templates with cutom widgets. It’s packed with shortcodes, jQuery driven sliders and a multi level dropdown menu. If you’re looking for something simple and appealing this is worth a try.

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6. DK For Photography Creative Portfolio

DK is a Premium Photography Theme with a very unique and aesthetically looking full screen slideshow for Photo Gallery. It features 4 homepage styles, 10 page templates and 6 gallery page templates. You can easily administrate galleries, and uploading multiple images has never been more simple.

A very nice feature is that you can password protect single galleries if you want to showcase your work for customers or protect your privacy. Portfolio content supports videos, images and external links and is on par with other portfolio featured themes. You have 7 custom widget areas to play with making it a breeze to customize your site the way you like it. An excellent integration with social media sites makes it perfect for sharing your work. Indeed a unique and complete photo theme.

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7. Selecta a Semi-Liquid WordPress Theme

Selecta is a premium word press theme for your personal or professional photo blog. It offers you a very versatile and flexible theme to customize in any way you like. Shooting photos and showcasing them is easy with this theme as you can use a custom blog type with a nice widget which can be used in all pages. It’s packed with 7 page layouts, 6 custom widgets, 3 custom post types and has a friendly options panel. It features 20+ simple shorcodes, 20 social icons and all posts and images are semi-liquid.

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8. Flashlight – fullscreen background portfolio theme

Flashlight is a fancy minimal photography and Portfolio theme with a very clean and appealing design allowing you to showcase you work the way you prefer. It appeals to users with no coding knowledge as well as developers who want to customize the theme. The theme comes with loads of options to modify layout, colors, styling and fonts which is done through the excellent and easy to use backend.

Flashlight features 6 different galleries with support of exif data and password protection of single galleries. It has never been easier to upload huge amounts of images without the tedious task to manually upload single images – this theme does it on the fly. This theme is very flexible and the fullscreen slider will automatically adapt to the screen resolution of your visitors ,still maintaining fluid transitions even on large resolutions of up to +2500 pixels. It’s built and optimized with the best SEO practices in mind allowing for your content to be easily indexed.

It offers jQuery unobtrusive menus even if javascript is disabled, has numerous custom widgets, unique sidebars, translation ready and a visual shorcode editor with preview function. This theme includes everything you need to get you up and running fast!

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9. U-Design Theme

If you are looking for an extremely versatile WP theme that will accommodate every need you have to personalize the look and feel of your website – U-Design is definitely a fantastic theme. This theme is WP 3.2+ ready, SEO optimized and features a multicolumn layout with 6 awesome home page sliders. It has 11 widget areas, 12 sidebar areas, more than 200 fonts to choose from and unlimited color combinations. There are plenty of opportunities using this theme and making a truly unique website is very easy and straight forward even if you are a beginner – thanks to the feature rich options panel. If you need to develope a personalized and stylish website the U-Design Theme is truly outstanding!

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Below is an example of what you can accomplish if your aim is to make a photo portfolio website! See more examples by visiting the preview and select the showcase menu.

10. Fotos Photography & Masonry Blog Theme

Fotos theme is a new premium photo and blog theme with a very organized and classic design. It’s really awesome and if you fancy a more classic look this theme focuses entirely on showcasing your work in the best way possible. It’s specifically created for photography websites and therefore makes heavily use of the media upload manager in word press for easy administration of galleries. Both landscape and portrait images will be displayed correctly without cropping and the proportions of your original photos will be intact.

You can choose between a very nice masonry layout, an appealing full-screen carousel or slider to present your work. It features 5 built-in post formats, password protection of individual galleries, custom widgets and useful shortcodes.

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11. Panorama Fullscreen Theme

Panorama is yet another new full screen WordPress themes for photographers or graphics work. Panorama is trying to keep things simple letting the WP platform be the king and not overloading the theme with too many options. It features background pattern theme option, youtube full screen video playback , full screen photo slideshow auto-paginated background. You can have a unique jQuery calendar solution with custom events premium MP3 player integration and 7 rooms for your own social links. It’s one of the best fullscreen themes available with a very unique style and the layout is mind blowing!

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12. Meshable – Personal Fullscreen Theme

Meashable is a new creative theme with high-end features and a very appealing design. It’s specifically designed for photography and personal sites and features all the things you need for a complete solution. You can have image and video background with audio player and playlists. It offers 8 custom widgets, a 2-fold style design, Ajax enabled galleries and support for multiple thumbnails. Shortcode generator and full localization support.

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13. Statua

Statua is a new theme aimed at photo enthusiasts who want to show off their great photos in a stylish and organized way. It features JavaScript slider and many alternate layouts making it very easy to setup and customize you personal theme. It has it’s own custom widgets and comes with Woo Widgets for social meida. Everything is built on the WooFramework which gives you custom shorcodes, sidebar manager, built-in SEO options, backend themes options, auto-sizing of thumbnails and localization. Definitely worth checking out!

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14. Announcement

Announcement theme is a niche theme specifically designed to accommodate those special announcements in your life. The homepage is where all the magic unfolds. It consists of a component-based layout with presets for births, weddings, graduations etc. The theme emphasizes on a simple and aesthetically layout and aims to showcase your content on a single page using photograph sliders, content areas, blog posts, lists, comments and widgetized regions in the footer section. You can even get a baby statistics grid if you plan to use it for the birth of you child. Here you can specify weight, height, eye color etc.

Everything is built on the WooFramework which gives you custom shorcodes, sidebar manager, built-in SEO options, backend themes options, auto-sizing of thumbnails and localization. A really awesome theme you’ve got to try!

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15. Photocrati WordPress Photography Themes Pack

Photocrati is one of the most popular WordPress photography themes and it is used by more than 8000 photographers so far. It is different than most other themes in this category because it features 15 different styles and four home page styles allowing you a lot of flexibility without any need for coding. Really it is the same as having 60 themes available to choose from. It is also, according to the developer, the ONLY WP theme with built-in ecommerce image galleries. This is cool if you would like to sell your photos online!

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16. Photopassion

Photopassion is a premium WP gallery theme. It is designed for photo enthusiasts with a clean design style with 4 color schemes. It is powered by a great backend with many options, like image uploader, color picker, photo manager etc. It features a unique slider with full mouse navigation support and a slider manager change the effect to your liking. There are 3 homepage sliders, 4 custom widgets, support for shortcodes, fully internationalized and unlimited sidebars.

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17. DeepFocus

DeepFocus is a slick new portfolio theme that expands on some of our previous gallery themes such as ePhoto and eGallery. Try out the demo site here. Now you can turn your Word-Press blog into a fully functional online photo gallery while still having all of the features of a normal blog. Along with the gallery layout DeepFocus comes with a robust blog and CMS-style homepage as well, making it an amazing solution for artists/photographers looking to build an online presence. Photographers will also be pleased to hear that photos are no longer cropped on post pages, making the theme acceptable for both landscape and portrait images. Advanced features are easily changed in the ePanel options pages making it a breezee to setup your website.

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18. Photorific

This premium WP theme is one of many great photo website templates. It has good features for your photo 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 one of the best WordPress Themes For Photographers you need to see.

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19. Aperture Theme

Aperture is a multi-functional photo-blogging theme with a unique home page consisting of a latest posts slider, a visual category display, a blog module and many stylish widgetized spaces. With 12 alternate color styles and a very visual archive system you are able to house your photos/portfolio proudly in a theme that caters specifically for your needs.

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20. Core Minimalist

Core is the Minimalist Photo, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with the latest WP features. It has lot’s of features like 3 homepage styles, fullscreen slideshow, 4 portfolio styles, 8 custom widgets, unlimited sidebars, custom post type, image uploader and tons of shortcodes. A very impressive theme with a great design!

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21. Echoes Premium WordPress 11 in 1

Echoes Premium theme for Word Press is designed for rapid development of portfolio or business websites.

3 Featured Mainpage styles, 5 Portfolio Page Styles, 19 Shortcodes, working Contact Page Ajax Validated Template and more.

It features numbered , thumbnail slides , content objects/elements, carousels, full-width pages, on hover icons with light-box supported images and videos, drop-down menus, multi-column footers and others to make it easy for you to customize and get it online quickly.

11 Skins with variations of Bright, Dark, Red , Blue , Green, Yellow and Brown, and Shaded version with a textured background for easy background customization.

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22. PHOTOME

PHOTOME is indeed one of the really cool WP photo themes for photo enthusiasts or designers. It has built in 2 custom skins and the vertical image slider is different and interesting. It’s a completely AJAX based theme with a featured content slider and cool portfolio showcase and animations. It features a built in web gallery and unobtrusive jQuery powered effects.

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23. King Size – fullscreen background

King Size WP is a Word Press version of the top-selling HTML template. It is perfect for a variety of purposes, although focused towards photo enthusiasts and those using Portfolios to display their past and present work collections. Featuring a full-screen background slider, 5 gallery types to showcase your art, portfolio pages for images and videos. Very easy to use backend with custom admin panel, shorcodes, widgets etc. It’s another great example of a photography website template.

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24. PicTree

PicTree is a Photographer WordPress 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 photo 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.

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25. Invictus

Looking for a powerful Premium Word-Press Theme for your photo gallery or portfolio website? Invictus might be a good choice whether you are a Photographer, Digital Artist, Designer or even a private person, who want to present your images in a unique way.

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26. Specere

Specere is a feature packed Word-Press 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.

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27. Photo Pure Press

PurePhotoPress is proffesional WP theme for photo enthusiasts. Creating your photo gallery website has never been so easy!

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28. The PaperCore – Elegant Portfolio Theme

“The PaperCore” is an unique, elegant and minimal Word Press theme and it is here to present your business and work in the best way.

There are 4 different professionally designed and unique styles. There are 2 stylish Portfolio/ News/ Featured Item sliders that are great to emphasize and present your products. The PhotoShop files are easy customizable and well organized.

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29. Photoworks

Photoworks is a modern web 2.0 WP theme for photo and portfolio website. The color of this theme is black/dark.

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30. Anthology

Anthology is a Powerful Premium Word Press Theme. It includes all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Anthology 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, photo and personal sites.

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31. Duotive Three – Complete Portfolio Template

This is the ultimate portfolio theme with a very easy and powerful administration tool.

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32. Carousel

Carousel is a theme aimed directly at photographers. The idea behind this design was to give you an opportunity to showcase large versions of your photos without the fussy front end functionality. Just scroll and then keep scrolling, it has worked for before so why not make a theme which utilizes it correctly?

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33. Photo Nexus Gallery 2 in 1

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.

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34. KIN-Minimalist

KIN is a minimalist magazine style photography template (WP version). With 2 style variations and support both image gallery and videos.

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35. Sabuy

Sabuy is the Premium Portfolio, Photo Template built with latest WP features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors and Image Uploader etc.

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36. Envisioned

Envisioned is a beautiful and unique WordPress gallery theme that enables you to easily create professional, multi-media galleries. Envisioned has the most powerful gallery features of any of the themes created by ElegantThemes, allowing you to produce versatile layouts of various sizes and aspect ratios. The homepage is also unique, and includes a custom-coded photo wheel that is sure to entice your visitors. Overall the layout is simple and crisp, giving focus to your imagery. Definitely one the most elegant wordpress themes for photographers!

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37. ePhoto

ePhoto was created for those looking to turn their blog into a photo gallery. While the theme was created with photographers in mind, it can certainly be used to display any type of digital imagery. While the main content of the theme is image based, it also has the ability to create a separate blog page where normal blog posts can be integrated alongside your photos.

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38. Photoshot

Photoshot is an unique theme! Designed for photographers to showcase your photos with style and simplicity.

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39. Studio Box Premium 9 in 1

Studio Box Premium Word-Press Theme is about simplifying building of your online portfolio. It is packed with useful showcases to have your creative work displayed for customers and clients.

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40. Gallerific

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41. JingJang premium theme

JingJang is a Premium Photo, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest WP features. It has lot’s of features like Custom Post Type and Image Uploader, tons of shortcodes etc.

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42. Adventure Unique Photography Theme

Adventure is a minimal photo Word Press 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.

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43. ANAN

ANAN is a premium portfolio, personal, photography website Templates built with latest WordPress features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors and Image Uploader etc.

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44. Contrast

Contrast, a premium wordpress theme which is suitable for photo enthusiasts, graphic and web designers, corporates with a kickass features. If you are searching something different and out of the line check it out.

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45. Auzora – One Page Portfolio theme

Auzora is One Page Portfolio Word-Press Theme. Comes with massive admin features. Are you tired to see a lot of one page word press theme use scrollable effect when change the page?

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46. Flex – A Portfolio Theme

Flex is a premium WP portfolio theme that’s designed specifically for photo enthusiasts, 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 based site.

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47. Village

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 Word Press 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.

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48. GridFolio WP

GridFolio is a clean, minimal, single page grid-based Word-Press theme. Perfect for a porfolio site but can be used for any number of purposes.

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49. Folioway – Premium Portfolio Theme

Folioway is a perfect pixel WP theme, not only its clean and elegant, it also comes with tons of features like amazing slider, unlimited colors, etc. It’s incredibly powerful and flexible and easy to use! It is just the best word-press theme for your or your company’s work presentation! If you’re looking for wordpress themes for photographers this is one to try out.

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50. Karma

Number TWO on Themeforest is Karma. It is a Premium WP Theme built on what the author calls “a highly intelligent framework”. It’s the only theme on Themeforest to feature the new CU3ER v1 3D slider – it’s actually cool. It comes with lots of features and whether your a word press pro or just a beginner you should be able to manage this theme.

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51. Striking

Striking is number 3 on Themeforest at the moment. It is a powerful and flexible word press theme. The author calls it a “Super Premium” theme as it has extraordinary features and coding that are not found in the normal premium WP theme. Well you have to decide for your self on this one. Fonts, colors, backgrounds, widgets, images, videos, sliders, menus. blogs, portfolios, logos and anything else is completely adjustable with the admin. The author says: “There are so many short codes I have lost count, and they are widget friendly”. Furthermore, the Striking admin includes a custom CSS integrator so you don’t need to play around with CSS files.

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52. Atlas

Atlas is just like “Core Minimalist” a great Premium Photo, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest Word press features and it has lot’s of feature like Custom Post Type and Image Uploader, shortcodes etc.

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53. Viewfinder

Viewfinder is a photography theme 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.

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54. Light Box

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.

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55. Structure

Months in development WP Structure is a highly flexible and heavily optioned premium theme, to be used for almost anything – photos, business, portfolio, blog, magazine & more!

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56. Mobility

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.

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57. Sideways

Sideways is a portfolio theme that offers both horizontal and grid layouts. It incorporates eye catching full screen background images that scale to fit all resolutions and window sizes as well as strong and elegant typography and design.

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58. Dandelion – Powerful Elegant photo theme

Dandelion is a Powerful Premium Word-Press 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, photo 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.

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59. OverALL Premium WP Photo Theme

Great looking and very feature rich WordPress Photo Theme.

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60. Chameleon

Word Press 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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61. Locus One Page – photo theme

This is as the name indicates an one page theme and it really stands out visually.

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62. Expose

Expose is a CSS and Showcase Gallery WP Template best suited for Gallery Sites and personal Portfolios. It comes with 3 Skins, uses custom widgets and shortcodes as well as plugins.

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63. Delicious

This theme gives a nice flash-like experience while browsing the site. Theme will suit best for photo enthusiasts or other artists who want to showcase their work in a very modern and unique way.

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64. Work

Work has a clean and professional style that is perfect for displaying anything from illustrations to photo showcasing. 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.

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65. EcoPhoto

ecoPhoto is a ground breaking Word-Press theme tailor built for photographers! ecoPhoto lets you turn your WordPress into a stunning photo portfolio. It uses your high resolution photos to create a one of a kind, browser-wide photo slideshow automatically. Now you can spend your time being photo creative while ecoPhoto does all the work for you!

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66. l’Image Theme

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.

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67. Manhattan

Get a portfolio-style content and stylish frame with Manhattan. It includes Genesis framework, unlimited updates, support & sites and you can access detailed tutorials.

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68. Feather

This theme has a light and airy quality that gives your website a fun and care-free vibe. It is a clean word-press theme and it is simple, but at the same time it has subtle details and textures. If you are looking for a subdued design that is still stylistic and impressive, then Feather just might be the theme for you. It comes with several page templates, CMS style font page, sliders, portfolio capabilities, shortcodes and much more. Feather was created by ElegantThemes and Seriously I believe they have one of the best and most reasonable priced wordpress themes for photographers.

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69. Galeria

Galeria is a single page theme, suitable for anyone that wants to showcase his work. Photo enthusiasts, Graphic and Web Designers will find it very useful.

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70. Photocrati Vignette

This homepage from Photocrati displays a filmstrip gallery, but you can use any gallery type on any of its home page. You can also choose to skip a homepage and display your most recent posts on your home page like a regular blog.

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71. Photolist

This theme has been designed entirely around its content with an incredibly slick slider as well as some neat features for those who want to blog as well.

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72. Widescreen

Widescreen is a flexible theme for Word Press that features two optional homepage designs, a fullscreen slideshow, multiple interior page and post templates and a built-in video player. The new theme options panel makes customization dead simple, providing users with easy color selection and optional homepage design layouts.

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73. Photoland Theme

Photoland is a unique Premium WordPress Theme developed especially for photoblogs, showcases, portfolios, etc. The minimalist style will complement your photos and bring them under the best spotlight possible.

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74. Gallery

Gallery is a premium WP photo theme which can be used for many purposes, including a Photoblog, Portfolio, Personal Blog, Product Reviews, and more!

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75. Mansion

Theme offers a clean, professional way of displaying artwork, design, photos and more. The theme features a portfolio category template, a featured content slider, rotating background images and an options page for easily changing content on the home page. The Organic Portfolio Theme focuses on the work within the site, while the site itself remains a quiet, but cooperative participant. It takes the life of the imagery added to the site without overwhelming viewers with excessive information. The site is designed to be very easily customizable. Colors, fonts and more can be changed quickly.

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76. Photography

Photography has fully featured WordPress theme, easy to use theme options menu in your WP admin and Handcrafted social icons (RSS, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr).

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77. Photocrati Bokeh

Photocrati is one of the leading creator of WordPress photo website templates. It specializes on making themes only for photographers. The themes are highly customizable and have different looks.

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78. Fullscreen

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35 Rocking WordPress Music Theme Showcase

Dustin Betonio — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:00:50 +0000

With a WordPress music theme anyone working with music, fans, etc. can easily build a professional website to showcase songs, concerts calendars, photos, video and so on. Music is one of the greatest things on earth, feeds our souls and makes brighter the darker day but. Music is the most enchanting way of entertainment. With new technology coming daily, it also has changed a lot. A WordPress music theme will transform a WordPress blog into a great looking music or band oriented website with all the features required by musicians and bands. I believe that a WordPress music theme is great for musicians who wants their own personal music blog or website and since WordPress is so user friendly most will be able to do it. You can find a wide variety of music themes related to guitar, piano and many more, but have you ever seen those music-related websites showing off boring and repetitive templates over and over? Well, in this post I will do a WordPress music theme round-up of to ensure you site has the right look and feel! This post have been updated with more themes – leave a comment if some great themes are missing!

1. RockWell – Portfolio & Blog WordPress Theme

RockWell is a powerful theme with unique features. It’s easy to use, easy to customize and most importantly – it allows you to unleash your creativity. Fun, loud and versatile = that’s RockWell. Doesn’t matter if you are a photographer, business, blogger or a designer – this theme will suit all types.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

2. Multimedia – Music, Video, Picture, Blog WP

Multimedia is a cool music wordpress theme but it is also great for other media types.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

3. Music WordPress Template – For Musicians / Artists

Music WordPress Template is a template geared at musicians needing a blog and an easy to use CMS

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

4. Musaic

Musaic is a fun and clean WordPress mtheme geared towards music/band portals or sites. However, the layout can be easily utilized in all types of sites. Definitely a wow!

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

5. Powerplay

Two more custom post-types, possibility to insert a slideshow on the top of all pages and posts + much more. Two bonus themes included in the download. MEGA Dropdown-menu for improved usability, that supports featured images, and item description.More than 70 shortcodes inserted via buttons in editor

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

6. Continuum – Magazine WordPress Theme

Continuum is a magazine theme that will work really well for a music site. It has almost 200 theme options and can be adjusted without need for custom coding.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

7. PopLife84

PopLife84 is a classical music wordpress theme, it will provide you an ideal backdrop for your blog or website regardless if you are blogging about the 80?s or today. The theme was designed with a light-urban, grunge feel, to emphasize the scratch ‘n’ mix beats coming out at the time.

MORE INFO / DEMO by alohathemes.com (premium theme)

8. PENDULUM

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

9. Backstage

Backstage is premium wordpress music magazine theme for musicians and artists showcasing their media, future shows and music using {hugely|very} flexible custom widgets and audio players. This {beautifully|wonderfully} crafted layout {was created|was made} by Elliot Jay Stocks and boasts 7 alternate styles.

MORE INFO / DEMO by woothemes (premium theme)

10. Nocturnal: Premier Audio WP Theme

Nocturnal is an audio/music focused theme that is geared towards nightclubs and/or bands. The featured content is built to support posters and flyers.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

11. Tribal Music

Tribal is premium urban WordPress music theme,it is one of most popular themes from gorillathemes.Includes,multiple dropdown menu navigation, easy paste code for Audio Player, featured content sideshow plus much more.

MORE INFO / DEMO by gorillathemes (premium theme)

12. Disco WordPress Music Theme

Disco is designed with music in mind. If you own major/indie music recording companies or if you are a music producer, music director or music event organizer, the theme will serve you well as an online publication. If you are a musician, singer, DJ, or graphic designer fond of designing music artwork, you can stretch it to an online portfolio. If you are a music products affiliate or a retailer in music industry, Disco is perfect for your online business.

13. Dangdoot

This is suitable mostly for major/indie music recording companies, music band profiles, musicians, music products affiliates, music event organizers or online music stores. Its textured and vibrant background adds up the strength values. You can show off your prime collections at the slideshow column, your collections by genre underneath it, and your thoughts or most recent news at blog column.

14. Streamline

Streamline is a great premium wordpress theme from studiopress,ideal for wordpress music magazine theme and peoples who are looking for clear and professional design.This theme although more minimalistic, still cane stand thru the rest.

15. Garage Band

The Garageband Theme is easy to customize to your own style. With the UpThemes framework you can change the logo, the background image, the way your fan galleries work and much more. This theme is packed with features to allow you and your band mates to keep your fans in the loop.

16. Music Portal

17. Rugged

Is a simple premium wordpress music theme,Simple meets grungy with this particular theme. Customize it with your own photos and music and connect with fans directly using the site.

18. Multimedia WordPress Music Theme

Very neat and clean music theme for wordpress. Comes in 7 different themes and widget ready.Definitely amazing for music lovers out there.

19. Dance Floor WordPress Theme

Dance Floor is a WordPress Night Club theme with cutting edge design and visuals built for Night Clubs and Music sites in general. The theme supports the popular Audio and Video Player plugin MediaElement.js (upload your own songs) compatible with iPhone and iPad (iOS) devices and mobile smartphones.

20. Setlist Music WordPress Theme

Setlist is a WordPress theme designed for Music bands, and artists in general that want to have a cutting edge design and great features for their band website. Featured include a photo carousel slider for featured articles, event calendar for schedule shows or any kind of events with an extremely easy module to add-edit-schedule events and featured articles.

21. ClubNights

A stunning High-End visual design for a club/clubbing/music themed site. All elements have been carefully designed and cut-up into valid xhtml to provide the design a maximum appeal and a unique approach to the clubbing site genre. A unique multi-track Flash music player has been built from the ground up to provide the the site and its users with the latest audio beats!

22. Hi-Fi

This theme works easily with ReverbNation.com, Mixpod.com, SoundCloud.com, Playlist.com, YouTube and more. It is ideal for Musicians, Music Fans, bands, DJs, Lounges and clubs, Web Designers and others.

23. Star Light

The theme design is as if it just jetted in from the 50?s / 60?s. A classic look resembling vending machines, jukeboxs, and lounges from this treasured era. Tons of retro goodness.

24. The DJ

The DJ is a WordPress music theme that is sure to get your fans pumpin’. The dark backdrop with the blue night lights sets the stage to showcase your music,services and talents.

25. Videozoom

Videozoom is an elegant theme with a neat-featured slider. It is ready to play any music videos you want to embed into your posts. It offers multiple posts layout, drop-down menus, video integration, custom templates, Theme options and many more features.

26. Music Mix

Does a great job out of the box for musicians. It provides you with all the essentials, support for every WordPress function, and the ability to customize the header image and background from the WordPress backend, without ever touching any code.

27. MultiMedia

Theme is already open with lightbox. Music, Video, Picture, Blog WP.\

28. Magnifica

Magnifica is an elegant, powerful and flexible theme that focuses on providing functionality for blogs, magazine and news sites. The theme’s main characteristic is it’s ability to be layout and color customizable. Every color for every background, text, and area on the site can be modified from the included options panel with just a couple clicks.

29. Dark & Gritty Theme

Foxhound’s Dark n’ Gritty is built for bands looking for something to be as gritty as their tunes.

30. Groovy

Groovy Video is a colourful, funky video blogging theme, which is sure to put you at the top of the pile. Video blogging (vlogging) is trendy right now (all the cool kids are doing it), so do get your groove on with this theme! Get it? Got it? Good!

31. Amped Theme

You’re busy touring, writing, and signing autographs on everything put in front of you. You shouldn’t have to worry about the nuts and bolts of your website. Amped was built to spotlight your latest video, showcase your music and the show dates you need to promote… all at your fingertips and built on the rock-solid Genesis Framework for WordPress.

32. Stripes wordpress band theme

This is an edgy, colorful, and current WordPress Music Theme based around connecting with fans, providing music, videos, and photos. You are able to add your latest YouTube videos, TunCore player, Myspace music player, links to Merch and much more. It is fully customizable including to be able to quickly change your header image. Additionally you receive the full photoshop file for custom redesigning.

33. NightClubbing WordPress Music Theme

A WordPress music theme built specially for night clubs and other music related sites. This theme comes with video and audio player compatible will other players online such as mixpod.com and videos from YouTube. You can also easily add in events and featured articles on the site.

34. Reverb music theme

Reverb is a premium WordPress Music theme for Musicians and Music fans.Comes with Cool Home Page Slide Show,PSD files for the background, logo and a template for the slider,3-Day Money-Back Guarantee and much more.

35. Wooden

This is a beautifully simple, organized theme designed around content: photos, news, events, blogs, and music. You can include your latest YouTube videos, Myspace music player, links to Merch and more. It is fully customizable including the ability to quickly change your header image. You also get the full photoshop file for custom redesigning.

35. The Lounge

In case you are a band or in the night life business, you’ll need a website which you could keep fresh and updated together with your news, gigs, specials, etc. This theme is built with you in mind.

MORE INFO / DEMO by alohathemes.com (premium theme)

Author : Dustin Betonio

20 Highly Useful WordPress Form Plugin Collection

Dustin Betonio — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:46:18 +0000

If you’re running an online business, portfolio or similar blog you are very dependent on user feedback and it’s obviously an important part of every business model. Users or visitors will need to be able to contact you in an easy way in order to either get in touch with you, sign up for newsletters and updates or to reach your customer service if they have anything to complain about. You usually get this kind of feedback through contact forms in wordpress giving you a lawful way to collect customer information for later usage like promotion, newsletters etc.

In order to fully exploit the potential of getting this information you need to install a wordpress form plugin. Advanced or premium form plugins will allow you to do the task of configuring, collecting and maintaining the data from contact forms in a few easy steps – all done from inside the backend system of wordpress. Free wordpress form plugins will usually surfice for the intermediate business but if you have loads of inquiries you should consider premium plugins in order to unlock the full potential of wordpress forms releasing more time to other important business tasks.

In this article I present a mix of highly useful free and premium wordpress form plugins which surely will enhance both the user and administrator experience of using contact forms in wordpress. Enjoy!

1. Contact Form by ContactMe.com

The quickest and easiest way to get a fully customizable contact form on your WordPress blog. Join over 100,000 users who have chosen ContactMe as their contact form of choice!

MORE INFO/ DEMO by: WordPress.org (free)

2. Custom Contact Forms

Guaranteed to be 1000X more customizable and intuitive than Fast Secure Contact Forms or Contact Form 7. Customize every aspect of your forms without any knowledge of CSS: borders, padding, sizes, colors. Ton’s of great features. Required fields, captchas, tooltip popovers, unlimited fields/forms/form styles, use a custom thank you page or built-in popover with a custom success message set for each form.

MORE INFO/ DEMO by: WordPress.org (free)

3. Formidable Forms

Quickly and easily build forms with a simple drag-and-drop interface and in-place editing. There are dozens of form-building plugins out there to create forms, but most are confusing and overly complicated. With Formidable, it is easy to create forms within a simple drag-and-drop interface. You can construct custom forms or generate them from a template. Shortcodes can be used as well as spam catching services.

MORE INFO/ DEMO by: WordPress.org (free)

4. Fast Secure Contact Form

This plugin allows a webmaster to easily create and add contact forms to WordPress. The contact form will let the user send emails to a site’s admin, and also send a meeting request to talk over phone or video. An administration panel is present, where the webmaster can create and preview unlimited forms.

MORE INFO/ DEMO by: WordPress.org (free)

5. Gravity Forms

Build and publish your WordPress forms in just minutes. No drudgery, just quick and easy form-building. Select your fields, configure your options and easily embed forms on your WordPress powered site using the built-in tools. That’s way more satisfying (and less fattening) than a peanutty candy bar any day. One of the best wordpress form plugins on the market.

MORE INFO by: Gravityforms.com (premium)

6. Formidable Pro

Formidable Pro makes it dead simple to build any kind of form you want within seconds. With pure, drag and drop controls and in-place editing you don’t need to know the first thing about HTML or CSS to create extremely effective forms immediately. Restrict forms to logged-in users, allow them to edit previous responses, and display the user-generated or admin-generated posts and content.

Enter and manage data from the WordPress admin as an easy alternative to using WordPress posts and custom fields. Use Formidable Pro to replace a multitude of other plugins including testimonials, faqs, directories, real estate listings, polls and surveys, contact forms (of course), and virtually any other plugin that displays your inputted data. Make Formidable even more powerful by combining it with specialized plugins like NextGen Gallery, Flash Video Player, or any other plugins with shortcodes for use in pages or posts.

MORE INFO by: Formidablepro.com (premium)

7. iPhorm

iPhorm WordPress is a brand new plugin that allows you to build multiple forms in WordPress easily and quickly with total control. If it’s a complex quote or booking form or just a simple contact form, iPhorm plugin will allow you to do this without touching any code. In a few clicks you will have a fully functional form.

MORE INFO/ DEMO by: Codecanyon (premium)

8. Creative

You will not believe what this WordPress plugin can make for you. You can create forms with unlimited fields, content and looks! You will be able to do any kind of form, feedbacks, quizzes, inquieries and more just by: dragging and dropping + naming fields.

MORE INFO/ DEMO by: Codecanyon (premium)

9. Creative Feedback Form with Voting System

Creative Feedback form is a new way to interact with site visitors gaining valuable feedback which can be rated by others users of site. Included are 4 different color styles, although you can change them to suit your own website. Once you have uploaded a plugin to your WordPress plugin directory you can activate it from the Plugins Management page, and sit back and watch your plugin work. Even a user without knowledge of programming language will easily setup it on their own!

MORE INFO/ DEMO by: Codecanyon (premium)

10. Flexible Contact Form WordPress Plugin

Best and most Flexible Contact Form available on Codecanyon, now available in WordPress.

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11. Launchpress

Launchpress is a wordpress plugin that helps you with your upcoming product or website launch. Unlike 99% of the wordpress themes out there, which uses a Feedburner Subscription Form, Launchpress allows you to capture visitor’s email and store it in your own database.

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12. Mapped contact form pro WordPress

A ajax contact form inside a google maps marker info window. Works for one or multiple locations. A different email address for every location can be configured. If only on location is on the map, the info window with the contact form opens when the map is loaded.

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13. Modal Contact Form for WordPress

Our Modal Contact Form for WordPress lets you easily add a stylish contact form to your WordPress blog. It comes with the usual name, email, message fields, as well as reCaptcha support to prevent spam.

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14. WordPress Email Ticket Support

This Premium WordPress Plugin is for anyone who provides support to their customers via email. Simply install this plugin on your WordPress blog and you will be up and running with a great email ticketing system in no time.

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15. Modal Feedback Form for WordPress

Modal Feedback Form for WordPress lets you easily add a feedback form to your WordPress blog – letting users submit feedback, and letting you view feedback + user information in your WordPress admin backend.

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16. SubscribeTo Plugin

SubscribeTo is a poweful plugin to increase your lead generation. You can place your MailChimp or Constant Contact email subscribes form easily using SubscribeTo. What is more, it enables you to place the subscribe form before comment form of each post, on the bottom of each page as a sticky footer, or even as a modal box. And all these are done by a simple click. You do not need to know any coding. Use it to increase newsletter signup. A really great wordpress form plugin!

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17. AJAX Contact Forms

This is a jQuery based AJAX powered HTML / PHP contact form with Twitter Direct Messaging, easily integrated into WordPress via shortcodes and functions.

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18. Ajax Multi Upload for WordPress

Ajax Multi Upload is a WordPress plugin based on jQuery with features like upload single or multiple files via ajax, resize images, create image thumbnails, easy integration with forms, submitting form using ajax and many many more.

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19. WPContact

WPContact allows you to add an AJAX contact form to your WordPress blog. The plugin adds a new widget which you can use in the sidebar or footer, and set the options like widget title, form labels, captcha. You can also choose if the guests will be able to use it.

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20. Sliding Contact Form for WordPress

This is an elegant solution that puts a “sliding contact panel” on your WordPress site. It will put a small “Contact” tab in the top left corner that expands to show a contact form and social media links when clicked.

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Author : Dustin Betonio

25+ Best WordPress Facebook Plugin Collection

Dustin Betonio — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:00:27 +0000

With a WordPress Facebook plugin you can integrate Facebook to your blog or website or the other way around WordPress into your Facebook page. Trust me there are several advantages of doing this and everybody does! Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Facebook is close to have 1 billion active users. Users create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics. This makes Facebook great for marketing in specific niches. Most serious bloggers and internet marketer are taking Facebook very serious and threat it as a medium to promote and share stuffs with their friends, followers and customers. Due to the popularity of WordPress it is interesting to have good integration between Facebook and WordPress sites and this is where a WordPress Facebook plugin is useful. In this post, I have gathered a Facebook WordPress plugin roundup that among other things will help you

Synchronize and display comments between the two mediums
Use WordPress to generate content for facebook pages
Easily add facebook like buttons, widgets etc. to facebook
Unlock content and downloads by getting likes from visitors
and much more…!

Besides taking the Facebook integration serious it is important that your site has the right look and feel. For most purposes a minimal wordpress theme is rather great. There are so many possibilities and minimal wordpress themes to pick from.

Premium WordPress Facebook Plugins

Facebook Quiz Application – WordPress plugin

This facebook application uses as administration wordpress platform, so you can easily install it as plugin on your wordpress website.

MORE INFO / DEMO by codecanyon (premium plugin)

FB Page Integrator – WordPress Plugin

WordPress plugin that will allow you to create content for Facebook Fan Pages (iframe) using WordPress. You can show an image, SWF file, video from YouTube/Vimeo… FB Integrator using shortcodes for pre and post-LIKE page so you can easily hide content for non-fans and create “Call to Action” on the welcome page.

MORE INFO / DEMO by codecanyon (premium plugin)

Facebook Page Themes via WordPress Admin

s plugin comes with five fully coded Facebook Themes that can be seen on our Facebook Page. You can check the links in live preview. All aspects of each theme (images, slideshows, text, logo,etc.) can be added and edited via WordPress Admin which means you do not have to do edit html/php files. Everyone can now add and edit their own content without a hassle.

MORE INFO / DEMO by codecanyon (premium plugin)

Facebook Likebox Slider for WordPress

Nice looking slider plugin for facebook and other social sites.

MORE INFO / DEMO by codecanyon (premium plugin)

Social Traffic Pop for WordPress

Social Traffic Pop combines Facebook, Google +1, and some great Twitter features to create a very powerful social media marketing tool.

MORE INFO / DEMO by codecanyon (premium plugin)

Facebook Plugins, Comments & Dialogs for WordPress

This is a suite of 7 Facebook plugins that can be integrated with one line of code. It’s using WordPress shortcodes to make it very simple to add a Facebook plugin or dialog into any blog post or page. The plugins also comes with 4 widgets ready to be customized + a way to automatically add a Like button and/or the Facebook comment system into all your posts and pages.

MORE INFO / DEMO by codecanyon (premium plugin)

Facebook Walleria – WordPress Plugin

Facebook Walleria is a WordPress Plugin that embeds a number of Facebook Objects into your website. It uses the Facebook Graph to pull information about Albums, Photos, Feed, Comments, Events and presents the information on your website in a sleek style.

Instead of doing a double job of updating your site and Facebook profile, Facebook Walleria enables you to update your albums, events and feed on Facebook with the changes appearing in real-time on your website.

MORE INFO / DEMO by codecanyon (premium plugin)

WordPress Like Locker – Like to Read Plugin

This is a pretty cool plugin and maybe the first of its kind. It allows you to wrap your post content in a “Like Locker” that will require the user to like the post to view the content. If you have some premium content or a download (could be an ebook, source files to a tutorial) this is a great way to build virality to a valuable resource by asking visitors to spread the word before showing the link.

MORE INFO / DEMO by codecanyon (premium plugin)

Facebook Like to Download for WordPress

Facebook Like to Download for WordPress allows you to turn the Like Button into a social media like / traffic building download button

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SocialBox – Social WordPress Widget

With SocialBox you get an absolutely easy to use WordPress Plugin which enables you to add a sleek social widget to your WordPress site or blog. It supports several social networks and displays the current numbers of Facebook Page Likes, Twitter, Dribbble, Forrst and Digg Followers and YouTube and Vimeo Channel and Feedburner Feed Subscriptions. You can enter default values which will be shown as a fallback if the related API is not reachable.

MORE INFO / DEMO by codecanyon (premium plugin)

attentionGrabber: WordPress Notification Bar

This is not directly a Facebook plugin, but it allows you to grab the attention of your visitors by placing a simple, fully customizable banner on your site. attentionGrabber is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to add a notification bar in your website or blog. With this plugin you can easily display facebook Like button, custom texts, Twitter posts and even Feed RSS.

MORE INFO / DEMO by codecanyon (premium plugin)

Free WordPress Facebook Plugins

Add To Facebook

Add To Facebook is a simple plugin which will add a link at the bottom of the current article, so that your readers can easily share the article with their friends on Facebook.

Fotobook

Fotobook is a WordPress plugin that will link to your Facebook account(s) and import all of your photo albums for use in your WordPress installation.

WordBook

This Facebook plugin alllows you to automatically post your WordPress blog publications to your Facebook profile’s wall. It will also pull in images from that post to display to your friends from their FB news feed and allow them to comment on the article at Facebook.

WordPress Facebook plugin Dashboard Widget

If you’ve ever wanted to export your Facebook friends’ updates into your blog this WordPress Facebook plugin is perfect for your needs. In additional to importing your friends’ status updates RSS feed, it also grabs your own activity feed so that you can display it a dashboard widget in your WP admin panel without logging into Facebook.

Status Press Widget

This WordPress Facebook plugin lets you display your status update from Facebook in your WP blog’s sidebar via a widget. It also works with Twitter, Last.FM and other social networks that allow users to update their status.

JanRain RPX

JanRain RPX WordPress Facebook plugin allows your site to accept logins via various methods, including Facebook Connect, Google, Yahoo, Twitter, MySpaceID, AOL, Windows Live ID and OpenID. After installing this plugin, your users can sign-in and commenting to your blog through these providers and have the providers icons beside the commenters.

Share on Facebook

This WordPress Facebook plugin creates a simple link on the bottom of your WordPress post or page that visitors can use to share your site’s content on Facebook. The admin can set the link to display as simple text, a Facebook icon, or a “Share on Facebook” button either automatically or using the plugin’s template tag.

Simple Facebook Connect

A WordPress Facebook plugin that adds Facebook Connect login abilities to your WP blog permitting readers to comment using their Facebook profile. The plugin also allows you to manually publish your blog posts to your FB profile, an FB application, or a Facebook fan page. Other add-ons for this plugin can extend its functionality to import other great features geared toward integrating with Facebook and promoting your website’s content there.

Facebook Fan Box

If you have a Facebook fan page for your blog, you can display any recent updates and new fans using this fan box plugin. Customized settings for this WordPress plugin permits the admin to change the appearance, dimensions, stream stories, and limit the number of fans that are shown.

Facebook Share Statistics

This handy WordPress Facebook plugin provides the administrator with statistics and charts about how many of your site’s posts have been shared on Facebook, how many Likes they’ve accumulated, the number of Facebook comments that were created per post, and how many visits from Facebook each post generated for you.

Like

A WP plugin for Facebook that integrates the new Like button for sharing content with your Facebook friends. Features include the ability to access your Facebook fan pages, send updates to fans, change the width and height of the button, display the share count, change font and color of the button, show the Facebook profile pictures, display or hide the button anywhere on your site, and much more.

Gigya Socialize

Gigya allows you to authenticate users through Facebook Connect, MySpaceID, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and AOL. Beside this, you can update your social networking sites within your blog and invite your friends to visit your blog through this plugin. Upon activation, just go to Gigya website and get your API and Scret Keys to use this plugin.