Kozuka is a free, two column, fixed width (960 px) WordPress theme with 3 preset styles to choose from, made especially for photographers and dedicated photo enthusiasts by Fahrul Azmi – a web-designer and web-based system developer from Malaysia.
There is plenty of portfolio and photo gallery WordPress themes in various shapes, and many of them have a very expressive and nice design. But the problem is that sometimes the theme design invades the content, steals the focus or competes about the attention.
An intrusive design, even if it is ever so nice and cool and advanced, might drag the interest away from the content. For a photographer that is a serious problem.
Thatsway Kozuka WordPress theme is a pleasant surprise. The theme has a calm and sober appearance, without those unnecessary design elements that steal attention from the photographies. The theme was originally designed for photographers and the Kozuka theme is well suited for it’s purpose: to present images in a visually appealing way.
The Kozuka theme options page has some features that are handy or practical – social icons settings, style selector, custom CSS and place for additional footer code are among them. You can preview the Kozuka options page below:
The theme has no lightbox. But that problem you can solve relatively easy by navigating to WordPress.org Plugin Directory and download the Lightbox Plus plugin and install it in the usual way. The Lightbox Plus plugin is also WordPress 2.9 compatible.
The overall impression of this theme is good and if I would be a photographer, I could consider to use the Kozuka WordPress theme. We have no notes about any obvious bugs – but to find them (if there is anyone) we would need a far longer test period.
Kozuka WordPress Theme Features
- WP 2.9 compatibility
- Fixed layout
- Big post preview picture automatically fetched from the post
- Custom post meta data (date of picture, place and camera model)
- 3 widget bars
- Custom font for headings
- Social network icons
- Theme options page
- 3 Preset styles (Purple, Black and Green)
- Custom CSS
- Spotlight and typeface jQuery effects
Kozuka Theme Download And Preview
The Kozuka theme is released under GPLv3 license. It can be used for all your projects for free and without any restrictions and you may modify the theme as you wish – you can read more about the license at A Quick Guide to GPLv3.
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