Photography is fun. Interesting. Sometimes even rewarding. More and more people begin to realize that, and the opportunity’s Internet offers to showcase their photo creations. And WordPress is an excellent platform to showcase photos – because of the flexibility and well documented stability, and the huge amount of specialized plugins and themes.
To set up a photo gallery on WordPress you could use some of those nice gallery plugins – or, by using a specialized gallery or photo blogging theme, sometimes simply referred to as Multi Media Themes. Whatever solution you prefer, you sure will have a huge and very exciting selection to choose from – it shouldn’t be a problem to find a photoblog solution that suits you exactly as you wish.
Cashrevelations presents six WordPress photoblog solutions that are free and relatively easy to set up even if you know more about photo than WordPress or blogging.
3 WordPress Photo Plugins
Plugins is a good solution if you don’t feel for changing the appearance of your WordPress blog. There is a lot to choose from, but we would like to mention these three. We could also have mention Cincopa For WordPress, an excellent media plugin – but there could be some fees involved. The Best WordPress Gallery Plugins is a nice post that offers you some reviews and guidance of a few more good WordPress photo gallery plugins.
Yet Another Photoblog
This is a non invasive and handy plugin that will convert your WordPress blog into a full featured photoblog. Easy image upload and on the fly thumbnail generation, self-learning EXIF filter (your cameras tags can be viewed) are some of the features of this plugin.
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oQey Gallery
oQey Gallery is a Plugin for WordPress that lets users create and manage flash slideshows with a non-flash version of gallery built-in for all non-flash browsers and mobile devices like iPhone / iPad / iPod etc. It has a built-in skinnable slideshow and supports music.
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NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a slideshow option. You can add custom templates for your theme and watermark images – the plugin offers you lots of options that will make it easier for you to get a gallery after your taste.
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3 WordPress Photoblog Themes
To say there is a lot of WordPress themes is an understatement. There is a little bit less good photo-blogging themes, but still a huge amount – and since the WordPress platform is so flexible, you can with some basic coding skills easily adapt almost any WP theme for photo blogging. We feature these three, because these three represent an adequate and good alternative and also because we think they are not so well known.
Autofocus+
This is a simple and cleanly designed WP theme especially developed for photographers. Theme options that enable you to customize elements of the theme without touching code. This photo blogging theme comes in a free or paid version.
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Grace
Grace is a contemporary and minimalistic photoblog theme for WordPress – the calm color scheme and big frame put your photos right at the center of the blog and the viewers attention. To use the theme you have to change a few settings on your WP blog.
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Foto Folio
This is an easy to use and stylish WordPress portfolio theme for photographers, or others interested to showcase their visual works – this light WP theme has Jquery and automatic resize integrated for Featured Photos and Image Previews.
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All three themes are free for download without any previous registration and released under GPL license. For more information about GPL license: A Quick Guide to GPLv3.
Head Image: Joanna Margueritte
I am developing a website from scratch. I want to use a specific non-flash slideshow. It should be either like this: http://news.in.msn.com/gallery/photoviewer.aspx?cp-documentid=5787700#image=1 or second option is this: : http://www.livestrong.com/slideshow/545202-20-anti-aging-foods/
Is there a plugin for this in Drupal or Joomla? I know for sure that WordPress does not have this.
Alternatively, can you suggest me the best way to achieve this?
Help appreciated. Thanks.
Autofocus theme looks great! I remember using this for my friend’s blog. Other themes looks good too, I’ll save them for future blogs.