29 Aug Designing a Photography Website? 5 Best WordPress Themes of 2016 to Consider

WordPress is an indisputably powerful platform that is being used by more than 25% of the websites today. The credit for the huge success and popularity of this software can be attributed to its range of themes and plugins that are available. WordPress offers themes for almost every niche, be it corporate, travel, food, health & medical, architecture and more. Irrespective of the type of WordPress website you are planning to build, you are sure to find the most relevant theme. And, photography is no exception.

However, since WordPress has a huge community of supporters, volunteers and developers, new themes and plugins are developed and launched every now and then. This means that there hundreds of thousands of themes available in the WordPress theme directory. Thus, choosing a suitable theme from such a huge directory can be a bit hectic and time-consuming.

In today’s post, we have compiled a list of top WordPress photography themes that can yield amazing results for your business and can contribute to the success of your online venture.

1. Oshine

Oshine is a beautiful and highly innovative WordPress theme that is suitable for freelancers, personal portfolios, art photography and other creative photography related sites. The theme features plenty of drag and drop page builder modules, color options, and layouts. In fact, the theme comprises of 16 unique and different demos to allow you to set up your website within minutes.

Additional features of Oshine:

• Equipped with a powerful custom drag and drop page builder
• Offers 10 different header layout combinations, 5 menu layouts, 3 body layouts as well as 3 footer layouts
• Also integrated with 8 hover options, and 7 Title styles
• Also comes equipped with variable gutters, multiple columns, gradient overlays and many more customization options to help you change the look and feel of your website.
• Packed with over 50 shortcode modules to help style your content in a plethora of ways.
• Consists of big, bold & beautiful showcase fullscreen sliders or images or background videos.

2. Kalium

Kalium is a professionally designed, multipurpose and powerful WordPress theme that consists of an ample set of tools to make developing a website a lot easier and convenient for you. Kalium offers visual freedom to website owners, allowing them to showcase their talent and skills.

Additional features of Kalium:

• Composes jam packed with extra value with included best-selling Plugins
• Easiest and fastest way to build your website, import whole demo content
• Used as Content Builder, Revolution Slider, and Layer Slider
• Contains Rich Theme Options
• Equipped with plenty of Theme Borders and custom typography
• Import pages, posts, sliders, widgets, theme options and more.

3. Uncode

Uncode is an innovative, user-friendly and versatile WordPress theme well-known for its responsive layout, flexibility, and versatility. The theme is ideal for showcasing skills of travel journalists, freelance photographers, amateur photographers, high-resolution photography and more. It also comes integrated with amazing media handling features and beautiful layouts.

Additional features of Uncode:

• Pixel perfect Creative Multiuse WordPress Theme
• Build beautiful, intelligent websites.
• Packaged with 6+ different menu types with advanced options
• Tailored visual composer with extra advanced functionalities and organised clean skin
• Consists of equal heights, full-width row, horizontal and vertical gap settings

4. Timber

Timber is an exclusively designed, graphically refined and aesthetically appealing WordPress theme that is a result of intelligent planning, conceptual approach, and teamwork. The theme is designed to impress visitors with its page templates and avante-garde layouts. It has out of the box WooCommerce integration and AJAXified filtering. Timber is a theme that matches your artistic aspirations and passion.

Additional features of Timber:

• Maximizes the screen space available for your work
• Allows you to own your frontpage
• Lets you easily change the fonts, colors or layout sizes.
• Provide a solid foundation for all your specific SEO needs
• Comes with our powerful visual shortcodes
• Has a PixCodes plugin integrated right into your WordPress editor.

5. ePix

ePix is a perfect example of streamlined implementation and quality design. The theme boasts of fully responsive and retina ready design layout so you don’t have to worry about losing a client due to its ever-growing switch from one device to another. It is well-suited for graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and other creative professionals. The theme allows you to showcase your content in a Group Slider, 3D Carousel, Portfolio, and FullScreen Grid.

Additional features of Epix:

• Comes SEO Optimised including Google Page Speed.
• Consists of Text Widget Shortcode
• Contains a Gallery Slide Manager to help you manage your galleries conveniently
• Includes bespoke add-ons, and is compatible with 3rd party add-ons too.
• Integrated with an AJAX Lazy Load functionality and Visual drag and drop page builder
• Has a live customizer
• Offers one-click demo install
• Is translation ready

Learning about the above list of photography themes, you should not find it difficult to choose the best theme for your online venture. Also, if you have any other relevant theme in mind, share it with us in the comments below.

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