[Last Update: 10 March, 2010]
photo and portfolio wordpress themes

This gallery of portfolio & photo gallery premium WordPress themes is part of the Best Premium WordPress Themes Collection. While not listed in any particular order, the themes below are the best gallery / portfolio / photo gallery style premium WordPress themes currently available for purchase. This is a dynamic gallery which will be continually updated, and new themes added when other quality themes are released.

Organic Portfolio
A portfolio / photo gallery premium WordPress theme from Organic Themes. The theme features 2 colour options, a portfolio gallery template, rotating background images, and theme options page to easily customise the theme, and more.

organic portfolio wordpress theme

Features

  • Theme Options Page
  • Clean and Professional Design
  • Custom Page Templates
  • Random Rotating Backgrounds
  • Javascript Featured Content Slider
  • Widget Ready
  • Photoshop Files Included
  • Two Colour Options
  • Easily Customizable
  • Auto Resizing Thumbnails
  • Theme Support

Price: Portfolio Theme: $69
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Photoland
A premium WordPress theme from WPZoom designed for portfolio, photography, photo blog or showcase websites. The theme features a clean minimalist design and includes a big jQuery slider on the homepage, built in Cufon font replacement with 18 built in fonts, theme options panel and more.

photo land wordpress theme

Features

  • Theme Options Page – to quickly setup the theme
  • Built-in Cufón for beautiful headings and buttons with 18 built-in Cufón fonts
  • Unique layout that allows you to have 30-40 posts on the homepage without having to scroll tens of pages
  • Beautiful jQuery slider on Homepage as well as on category (archive) pages
  • Support for Threaded Comments
  • Widgetized Footer
  • Social sharing links
  • Dynamic image resizing for thumbnails (TimThumb script)
  • Compatible with all modern browsers
  • A specially developed widget to show a list of all contributing authors on your site
  • Support for Author Pages
  • Easily integrate your tracking scripts: Google Analytics, etc.
  • Valid XHTML and CSS Code

Price: Single: $49, Developer: $99
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Object
A stylish and flexible photography and video blogging premium WordPress theme from WooThemes. This multimedia theme has an elegant interface to publish both photos and video, and features a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 column design layout, neat javascript photo gallery slider, 15 colour scheme options and more.

object premium wordpress theme

Features

  • A neat javascript photo gallery slider, which automatically loads the images you upload via WordPress in your post
  • Select from one to five column layout on your front page and category pages
  • Adding videos is just as easy as adding your photos, by simply pasting the embed code in the post embed field
  • 5 Custom Widgets (About, Popular, Recent, Flickr and Search). Widgetized areas in footer, photo post left sidebar and blog post right sidebar
  • Integrated blog
  • 15 smart colour schemes
  • Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc.
  • Threaded Comments for WordPress 2.7+
  • Custom Page Templates for Full Width pages, Archives, & Sitemap
  • Localized and includes a .po file for easy translations to be made of the theme

Price: Standard: $70, Developer: $150
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Pixel Happy
A photography premium WordPress child theme for the Genesis Theme Framework from StudioPress. The theme is able to display a slideshow below the header, has numerous layouts, and other options which can be managed from the backend options panel.

pixel happy wordpress theme

Genesis Main Features

  • 6 Layout Options – selectable site wide or for individual post/page
  • 30 + hooks
  • Backend Theme Options Panel
  • Dynamic Text / Image Logo option
  • Navigation menu controls
  • Drop down navigation menu
  • Custom Widgets
  • SEO Options (site wide and individual page/post controls)

Prices: Pixel Happy + Genesis Theme Package: $79.95
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Inspired Bits
A stylish and very unique magazine + gallery hybrid premium WordPress theme from PremiumThemes.net. The theme could be used for a photography website, gallery website, magazine news website, multimedia site or unique personal blog. The theme includes a custom gallery page, advanced backend control panel, 7 colour schemes options and more.

Inspired Bits Premium WordPress Theme

Colour Schemes
inspired bits wordpress theme colours

Features

  • 7 colour scheme options
  • Fully customisable front page
  • Home page slider for featured products or services
  • Advanced control panel – lets you configure theme settings so you don’t have to touch the code
  • Drop Down Navigation Menu
  • Breadcrumb Navigation
  • Gallery page template
  • Widget Ready with custom widgets
  • Integrated social networking links (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin)
  • Integrated twitter updates section
  • Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
  • Search Engine Optimized
  • Automatic thumbnail generation
  • Valid, Cross browser Compatible
  • Localization SupportTheme Guide, Tutorials and Support
  • PSD File Included

Price: Single: $59, Multi Use: $159
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Photo Graphic
An elegant premium WordPress theme from Press75 designed for photographers to showcase their photos, but can also be used as a news / magazine site, personal blog, gallery, portfolio and more.

photo graphic wordpress theme

Features

  • Custom Sidebar widgets
  • Simple Sidebar Ads Widget – options for adding and managing 125×125 advertisements within your sidebar
  • Featured Content Widget – allows you to display featured content (posts) within the sidebar with numerous different configuration options.
  • Automatic post thumbnail generation
  • Theme Options Page
  • Drop down navigation menu
  • Easily upload your own logo
  • Logo or text title option

Price: $75
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Exposure
A unique multimedia or photo blogging premium WordPress theme from WooThemes. The theme is extremely flexible thanks to a completely widgetized homepage (each blog post is a widget) allowing you to arrange it however you please. The homepage widget has a large amount of options including options for image size, titles, optional jQuery sliders / scrollers etc. Other features include a dedicated blog section, backend theme options panel and 22 colour scheme options. This unique and flexible theme is one of those themes which you just have to see to fully appreciate. Watch the videos and try the theme demo here.

Exposure Premium WordPress Theme

Features

  • A hugely unique completely widgetized home page, where you can set exactly what posts you want to display, as each post is a widget.
  • Incredible post image gallery management, with options to display your images in a post in a variety of ways, including small/medium/big thumbnails using javascript scrollers
  • Layout control of your imagery in the archive, attachment and single pages, with a custom settings panel in each post to overwrite these controls with post-specific layouts
  • A dedicated blog section to your site, accessible via the navigation with it’s own template to display blog posts differently to photo posts
  • Banner ad management via the theme option’s panel
  • 22 delicious alternate colour schemes to choose from
  • Backend theme options panel
  • Cross browser compatable
  • Auto-sizing thumbnails
  • Localized for translations
  • Custom page templates

Price: Standard: $70, Developer: $150
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Sophisticated Folio
A premium WordPress theme from WooThemes which can be used as a design portfolio, business site or many other purposes. The theme includes numerous custom widgets and page templates, a backend theme options panel to make changes without editing the code and comes with 10 alternative colour schemes.

Sophisticated Folio WordPress Theme

Features

  • Tell the world about yourself or company in the intro text and upload an image to show off your work in a stylish fashion on the home page
  • A separate custom category for showing off your portfolio
  • Custom Woo Widgets for use in sidebar and footer: Work With Me, Testimonial, Twitter, Subscribe, Contact, Flickr, Twitter, Search, 300×250 ad, 125×125 ad
  • 10 stylish alternate colour schemes
  • Drop down navigation menus
  • Backend theme options panel
  • Cross browser compatible
  • Auto-sizing thumbnails
  • Localized for translations
  • Custom page templates

Price: Standard: $70, Developer: $150
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Through The Lens
A beautiful multi-purpose premium WordPress theme from Obox Design. The theme could be used as a photography site, a work portfolio, a CSS / Flash gallery, a normal blog or be customised to create any style of site you desire. Features include a widgetized home page which has huge depth in layout customization, the OCMX-Live backend theme options panel, multiple custom page templates, 7 colour scheme options and more.

Through The Lens Premium WordPress Theme

Features

  • Widgetized home page with huge depth in layout customization – standard widgetized homepage or normal blog layout.
  • 7 Colour Scheme Options
  • OCMX-Live Backend Theme Options Panel
  • jQuery sliders for each category displayed on the home page
  • Custom page templates: blog template, full width page
  • Featured Post Slider
  • Automatic image resizing
  • Ajax Threaded Comments and comment subscription
  • Post voting system
  • Drop down navigation menu
  • Menu Control – organize your menu structure
  • Custom logo input
  • Advertisement management
  • Easily create galleries

Price: Single: $50, Developer: $100
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Impulse
A premium WordPress theme from WPZoom that could be used for galleries, photo blogs, portfolios, showcase sites or a unique personal blog. The theme includes an options page for easy setup, custom fonts, numerous custom page templates and widgets, 3 colour scheme options and more.

Impluse Premium WordPress Theme

Features

  • Theme Options Page for easy setup
  • 3 Cool Colour Styles: Blue, Dark, Silver
  • Dynamic image cropping for thumbnails (TimThumb script)
  • jQuery featured content slider
  • Custom fields for images (optional)
  • Widgetized Sidebar and Footer
  • 4 custom page templates
  • 3 specially developed widgets
  • Custom fonts
  • Multi-level drop down navigation menu
  • Integrated Social Bookmarking Icons (no plug-ins required)
  • Support for Gravatars and nested (threaded) comments
  • Banner Management (AdSense ready)
  • Compatible with all major browsers
  • Valid XHTML & CSS Code
  • Easy installation

Price: Single: $49, Developer: $99
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Lumin
Professional portfolio / gallery premium WordPress theme from Elegant Themes. The theme includes an optional blog style layout option, gallery page template, theme options panel and 3 unique colour schemes.

lumin wordpress theme

Features

  • 3 unique colour schemes
  • Optional blog style structure
  • Gallery layout display
  • Automatic thumbnail resizing
  • In depth theme options panel
  • Advertising management
  • Threaded Comments & Gravatar ready
  • Widget ready sidebars
  • Custom thumbnail images
  • Valid XHTML + CSS
  • PSD files

Price: $19.95 club membership (unlimited access to 28+ themes)
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Fotofoo
A unique premium WordPress theme from StyleWP which can be used as a photo gallery or image oriented blog. The theme includes 4 selectable homepage layouts, multiple widget areas, built-in theme options panel and more.

fotofoo wordpress theme

Features

  • 4 Selectable Frontpage Layouts
  • Suitable for Galleries or Blogs
  • Optional Image Mouseovers
  • Multiple Widgetised Areas
  • Built-In Admin Theme Option Pages
  • PDF Users Guide
  • Use on Multiple Domains
  • Major Browser Compatible
  • Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS Level 2.1 or 3
  • Free Support & Updates

Price: Branded: $31, Unbranded: $99
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Album Theme
Album is an eye catching photo gallery / portfolio style WordPress theme from Revolution Two. The theme comes with 7 different colour schemes to choose from.

revolution album wordpress theme

Features

  • 2 columns
  • Drop down menu navigation
  • 7 colour scheme options (brown, gray, blue, purple, red, rust and sepia)
  • Widget ready

Price: Album Theme Package: $59.95
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Gallery
A premium WordPress theme from WPZoom which could be used as a photography blog, portfolio or personal blog. The theme features a simple options panel for easy setup, automatic resizing & cropping for thumbnails, and 5 colour styles.

Gallery Premium WordPress Theme

Features

  • Theme Options Page
  • 5 Colour Styles (Light Blue, Light Green, Light Red, Dark Blue, Dark Green, Dark Red)
  • Drop Down Multi-Level Menu
  • Full Width Comments
  • Stylish Comment Form
  • Split Posts into Pages – You can split long posts into multiple pages.
  • Threaded Comments
  • Photoshop Files (.psd) included
  • Custom Fields NOT required
  • Auto-resizing and cropping for thumbnails (TimThumb script)
  • Widgetized Sidebar and Footer
  • 3 Specially Developed Widgets
  • Integrated Social Bookmarking Icons (no plug-ins required)
  • Gravatars Support
  • Nested Comments Support
  • Banner Management (adsense ready)
  • Compatible with all major browsers
  • Valid XHTML & CSS Code
  • Very easy installation

Price: Single: $49, Developer: $99
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Mortar
An extremely flexible, multipurpose premium WordPress Theme from WooThemes. The homepage arranges posts vertically then horizontally, and you can select either a 1, 2, 3 or 4 column layout giving you complete flexibility. The Mortar theme also features an integrated options panel to tweak and manage settings, 8 different colour scheme options and more.

Mortar WordPress Theme

Features

  • The home page and archive page have the option to arrange the posts in 1, 2, 3, or 4 columns giving you complete flexibility with your layout
  • 8 amazing colour schemes to choose from
  • Built on the popular JQuery layout plugin Masonry, the home page arranges blog posts vertically then horizontally to make sure there is a neat grid of posts with no spacious gaps between them
  • A completely widgetized sidebar with 2 custom widgets included in the theme packaging.
  • No third party widgets required
  • Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
  • Threaded Comments for WordPress 2.7+
  • Drop down navigation menu
  • Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
  • Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments
  • Integrated top banner ad space, which can accommodate both image banner ads or AdSense embeds
  • Optional Twitter, Ad Banner and About modules

Price: Single Use: $70, Developer: $150
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Geometric
“Geometric” is a hybrid blog + portfolio premium WordPress theme from Woo Themes. The theme is completely widgetised with 12 custom widget areas giving you complete flexibility with the themes layout. Geometric also features an integrated theme options panel, automatic image resizer, and comes with 10 different colour scheme options.

geometric wordpress theme

Features

  • Geometric is a hybrid of a blog + portfolio and thus enables you to run both these as an integrated offering on one WP installation
  • A custom home page, which is completely widgetized and thus allows you to move different widgets (for blogging, portfolio & social profiles) around as you wish
  • A completely widgetized sidebar, along with 12 custom (Geometric-specifc) widgets that you can use
  • Styling for both blog and portfolio items that are carried forth throughout the site (category, date-based and tag archives, along with search results)
  • The ability to publish all of your social profiles throughout the site; allowing you to connect with more of your users
  • Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
  • Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails for the blog posts on the home page
  • Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
  • Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments
  • Integrated Banner Management script to display randomized banner ads of your choice site-wide

Price: Standard: $70, Developer: $150
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ePhoto
A slick premium WordPress theme from ElegantThemes design for photographers wanting to use WordPress as a photo gallery. While the theme is designed to be image based it also includes an integrated blog section and optional blog style structure. The theme also features some nifty jQuery effects, automatic thumbnail resizing, 2 colour schemes, and in-depth theme options page with a long list of settings.

ephoto wordpress theme

Features

  • Two Colour Schemes (Black and Blue)
  • Widget ready sidebars
  • Theme Option Pages
  • Integrated Blog Section
  • Optional Blog-style Structure
  • Custom thumbnail images (automatic thumbnail resizing)
  • Smooth tabless design
  • Threaded Comments
  • Gravatar ready
  • Advertisement Ready
  • IE8 + IE7 +IE6, Opera, Netscape, Safari, Firefox compatible
  • Wordpress 2.8 compatible
  • PSD files
  • Valid XHTML + CSS

Price: $19.95
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PhotoBlog
A portfolio / photo gallery WordPress theme from WPZoom designed for photographers, designers, architects etc.

photoblog wordpress theme

Features

  • Theme Options Page allows to set up the theme in less than 10 minutes!
  • Featured Content Sideshow on homepage. Number of posts is controlled on the Widgets Page in the Admin Panel.
  • Auto-resizing and cropping for thumbnails
  • Custom image sizes for uploaded images
  • Widgetized Sidebar
  • Multi level drop down navigation menu
  • Integrated Social Bookmarking Plug-ins (Add to Any)
  • Gravatars Support
  • Threaded comments
  • AJAX Lightbox for viewing images in different sizes
  • Header 468×60 banner.
  • Mostly uses relative CSS font-sizes: [em] instead of [px].
  • Compatible with all major browsers
  • Valid XHTML & CSS Code
  • Very easy installation

Price: Single Use: $49, Developer: $99
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Fresh Folio
Fresh Folio from WooThemes is a combo portfolio + blog premium WordPress theme. The theme is a mashup of the Fresh News Theme and Proud Folio Theme which combines all the best elements of the respective blog and portfolio style themes. The dual nature homepage is designed to showcase featured portfolio work along with posts from the blog. Beyond the homepage the theme allows separate portfolio and blog sections. The theme comes with 7 diverse styles to choose from.

Fresh Folio Blog Theme

Features:

  • Portfolio oriented
  • 7 diverse theme styles to choose from (default, blue, red, grunge light, grunge floral, antique, blue creamer, nightlife)
  • The template will automatically (visually) separate your blog & portfolio content, making this an amazing theme for aspiring designers, developers, artists, photographers etc.
  • Unique page templates for the portfolio, blog, blog archives, tags & search results.
  • Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
  • Optional Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images
  • Widgetized Sidebars

Price: Standard: $70, Developer: $150
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Portfolius v.7
A unique portfolio premium WordPress theme from Panda Themes. The light and compact theme includes a powerful and easy theme options panel, a sexy showcase script to display works on the homepage, auto thumbnails and more.

Portfolius Premium WordPress Theme

Features

  • Powerful and Easy Theme Options Panel – set up texture and image for background; change color of background, buttons of menu and submenu, titles, links, footer and more.
  • Customizable Style – easily create your own styles
  • Sexy Showcase script to display works on the homepage
  • Custom Logo – custom logo or text
  • 2 in 1 Gallery + News
  • Manual or Automatic thumbnails
  • Built in Thickbox – a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay content on the current page
  • Custom Page templates
  • PSD files included
  • Free Updates & Support

Price: Standard: $69, Developer: $149
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Proud Folio
ProudFolio is a portfolio / personal blog premium WordPress theme from Woo Themes. The theme is for designers, developers, artists and photographers who would like a framework theme which incorporates both a portfolio and a blog. ProudFolio puts a strong emphasis on the portfolio pieces, allowing for decent-sized thumbnails, huge fullscreen views via Lightbox, and full details on the ’single’ page. The theme file also contains a choice of three different background images and colour schemes.

Proud Folio Theme

Features:

  • The template will automatically (visually) separate your blog & portfolio content, making this an amazing theme for aspiring designers, developers, artists, photographers etc.
  • An unique homepage layout, which publishes only the most important information
  • Unique page templates for the portfolio, blog, blog archives, tags & search results.
  • Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
  • Built-in video panel, which you can use to publish any web-based Flash videos;
  • Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images
  • Custom Page Templates for Archives, Sitemap & Image Gallery
  • Built-in Gravatar Support for Authors & Comments
  • Integrated Banner Management script to display randomized banner ads of your choice site-wide
  • Pretty dropdown navigation everywhere
  • Widgetized Sidebars.

Price: Standard: $70, Developer’s: $150
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Black Canvas Theme
A 2 column widget ready photo gallery / portfolio style WordPress theme from Revolution Two.

revolution black canvas

Features

  • 2 columns
  • Drop down menu navigation
  • Widget ready

Price: Album Theme Package: $59.95
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eGallery
eGallery is a theme made to transform your blog into a fully functional online gallery. This theme has been created with simplicity in mind, and is designed to emphasize the artwork you choose to showcase. The design has been greatly enhanced using javascript, and is easy to implement.

egallery wordpress theme

Features

  • Three unique colour schemes
  • Post rating integration
  • Automated thumbnail resizing
  • Unique gallery display format
  • Featured articles display
  • Built in lightbox

Price: $19.95
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WP-Showcase
WPShowcase is a premium WordPress theme from Gabfire that allows you to turn your site into a gallery, photo archive or portfolio site. The theme features jQuery components allowing larger image display of thumbnails upon rollover, and auto image resizing for home page and post pages.

wp-showcase-theme

Price: Single Use: $59, Multi Use: $159, Developers: $259
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Viz Biz Portfolio
Viz | Biz is a premium WordPress photo gallery and portfolio theme designed specifically for photographers, graphic designers and web designers who want to display their creative work online, market their services, as well as have a typical text blog, using the power and flexibility of WordPress.

Viz Biz WordPress Theme

Features:

  • Premium quality portfolio template
  • Custom logo uploader to replace the standard graphic with your own unique look from the WP Dashboard
  • Integrated blog component (front images are custom fields and thumbnails, but you can also have a typical blog)
  • Four tabbed feature areas (About Me, Services, Recent Posts, and Tags)
  • Two home page feature photos (You choose which photos to feature using a WP category)
  • Manage your online portfolio through the WordPress CMS – Crop two sizes of your work: One for the front page thumbnails and another full size version and upload to WP
  • Search engine optimized

Price: Single Use: $79.95, Multi Use: $199.95
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Digital Gallery
Digital Gallery 1 is a photo gallery WordPress theme from the Shutter Themes branch of iThemes which allows you to create and manage your own photography website and display your creative work online. It is available in back and white.

Digital Gallery White WordPress Theme

Features:

  • Automatic Image Resizing for Thumbnails
  • Upload your own logo online via WP Dashboard
  • Search engine optimized
  • Integrated blog component
  • Drop down navigation menus
  • 3 Feature Areas
  • 2 colors: black and white

Price: $79.95 (multi-use pack)
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Photo Gallery (5 Style Options)
The Photo Gallery Theme from iThemes showcases the power and flexibility of WordPress by allowing photographers and web designers to easily manage their portfolios on their own domain. The theme can be used as a photo gallery as well as a CSS showcase type gallery. The themes have 3 widget-ready feature areas and easy header image uploader so you can upload your own logo.

Photo gallery theme 1

Features:

  • Ideal for a Creative Portfolio, or Portrait Photography
  • Easy to customize
  • Upload your own logo online via WP Dashboard
  • Search engine optimized
  • 3 ‘Widget Ready’ Feature Areas

Price: $75 (5 styles, multi use pack)
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Woo Tube
A video / multimedia premium Wordpress theme from Woo Themes. The WooTube theme is great for daily video blog posts with super easy posting functionality, automatic video resizing, a completely widgetised sidebar and 7 different colour schemes. The theme can be used a normal blog / gallery / portfolio or any other way you like.

wootube wordpress theme

Features

  • NEW! Optional homepage layout gives endless possibilities for usage of this theme e.g. gallery, portfolio or blog.
  • Super-easy functionality to create video posts.
  • Videos are resized automatically and WooTube publishes the embed code for your readers.
  • Integration of the WP-PostRatings plugin for added fun & interaction.
  • Completely widgetized sidebar with custom widgets included in the theme packaging.
  • No third party widgets required.
  • 7 colour schemes to choose from.
  • Integrated Theme Options to tweak the theme layout, colour scheme etc.
  • Threaded Comments for WordPress 2.7.
  • Custom page templates for archives & sitemap.
  • Built-in Gravatar support for comment.
  • 3 Integrated ad spaces, which can accomodate both image banner ads or AdSense embeds.

Price: Standard: $70, Developer: $150
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RichPhoto
A photo gallery / portfolio premium WordPress theme from RichWP which allows you to show your photos or artwork using WordPress. The theme features easy installation and setup, automatic image size generation and two colour scheme options – light or dark.

rich photo wordpress theme

Price: RichPhoto Package: $59.90
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Aperture
A multi-functional premium WordPress theme from WooThemes. Aperture is a theme originally designed for photographers, but it’s really a multi-function WordPress theme that is flexible enough to be used for just about any type of website including a news/magazine site, portfolio for products, business, or a visually rich personal/professional blog. The theme features a slick home page slider box, 12 different colour schemes, lots of widgetized areas and a integrated theme options panel to tweak the layout, design etc to easily customise the theme to suit your needs.

aperture wordpress theme

Features

  • Home page slider displaying latest posts
  • Home page visual category boxes with javascript hover effects
  • Attractive category archive template with images with javacript hover effects
  • Dedicated blog category template and home page module
  • 6 widgetized areas (4 footer modules and 2 sidebar modules)
  • 7 custom widgets
  • 12 great colour schemes to suit your site identity
  • Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
  • Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails for the blog posts on the home page
  • Threaded Comments for WP 2.7
  • Drop-down menu’s for main navigation
  • Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
  • Full width page layout option
  • Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments

Price: Standard: $70, Developer: $150
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Groovy Photo
A vibrant photography premium WordPress theme. Groovy Photo is part of the Groovy Series of themes from WooThemes which includes the Groovy Video and Groovy Blog themes. The theme features integrated twitter and advertising modules, options panel to manage and tweak the theme, and 17 colour scheme options.

groovy photo wordpress theme woothemes

Features

  • Unique home page display showcasing the latest photo posts
  • 17 amazing colour schemes to choose from!
  • Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
  • Home page “About” and “Twitter” modules
  • Completely widgetized sidebar with custom widgets included in the theme packaging. No third party widgets required
  • Threaded Comments for WordPress 2.7+
  • Custom Page Templates for Archives & Sitemap
  • Built-in Gravatar Support for Comments
  • Integrated ad spaces, which can accommodate both image banner ads or AdSense embeds

Price: Standard: $70, Developer: $150
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MagFolio
A hybrid magazine and portfolio premium WordPress theme from PremiumThemes.net. The theme allows you to create a unique gallery magazine, showcasing your work and also publish news or articles. The theme features an advanced control panel, automatic thumbnail creation, and 2 colour scheme options: rich dark or minimalist light.

MagFolio: Magazine Portfolio WordPress Theme

Features

  • Fully customisable front page
  • Advanced control panel – lets you configure theme settings so you don’t have to touch the code
  • Drop Down & Breadcrumb Navigation
  • Widget Ready with custom widgets
  • Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
  • Ad Monetization – blog page and sidebar have strategic place holders that you can use to sell ad space
  • Twitter and Flickr integration
  • Search Engine Optimized
  • Valid, Cross browser Compatible
  • Localization Support
  • Theme Guide, Tutorials and Support
  • PSD File Included

Price: Single: $59, Multi Use: $159
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Snippet
A unique, flexible width premium WordPress theme from PremiumThemes.net which automatically adjusts the number and width of the columns to fill the browser window. The muti-purpose WordPress theme could be used for a photography site, gallery, product review site, online magazine or unique personal blog.

Snippet Premium WordPress Theme

Features

  • Fully customisable front page
  • Advanced control panel – lets you configure theme settings so you don’t have to touch the code
  • Drop Down & Breadcrumb Navigation
  • Widget Ready with custom widgets
  • Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
  • Ad Monetization – blog page and sidebar have strategic place holders that you can use to sell ad space
  • Twitter and Flickr integration
  • Search Engine Optimized
  • Valid, Cross browser Compatible
  • Localization Support
  • Theme Guide, Tutorials and Support
  • PSD File Included

Price: Single: $59, Multi Use: $159
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Showcase
A stylish minimalist photo gallery / portfolio premium WordPress theme from RichWP. The theme allows you to publish photos in hierarchical galleries, and albums and includes an integrated blog. The theme features 3 homepage options: slideshow, gallery or blog, automatic image size generation, 2 colour scheme options and more.

Slideshow Homepage Option
richwp showcase theme

Gallery Homepage Option
richwp showcase theme

Photo Post
richwp showcase theme

Features

  • Two colour schemes – light and dark
  • Front Page Templates: Slideshow, Blog, Gallery
  • Widget Ready
  • Automatic image size generation. All photo sizes needed across the theme will be assigned and generated automatically.
  • Sexy minimalist drop down navigation menu
  • Threaded comments support
  • Gravatar support for comments
  • Sitemap page template
  • Easy standard size banner integration for 234×60px, 250×250px, 125×125px banner
  • Compatible up to latest version of WP
  • Works in all the latest major browsers Firefox V2.5 and up, IE6, IE7 and up, Chrome V1 and up, Safari 4
  • Easy installation and setup with included documentation.

Price: Rich Showcase Package: $69.90
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WP-Folio
A premium WordPress theme from Solostream which could be used as a portfolio website, but also as a business website or a range or other uses. The theme’s key features include: 4 different portfolio page layout options, theme control panel, built in post thumbnails and 9 colour scheme options.

WP-Folio: Portfolio Premium WordPress Theme

Features

  • Theme settings control panel
  • 9 colour scheme options
  • 2-column layout with optional footer widgets (4)
  • 4 different portfolio page layout options
  • Full width page option
  • Threaded and Styled Comments
  • Featured content glider option for home page, with on/off setting on control panel
  • Gravatar integration
  • Banner ad integration option
  • Built-in post thumbnails option
  • Logo/header image integration option via control panel
  • Built-in site search
  • Built-in drop-down navigation for sub-categories and sub-pages
  • Custom author page and author profile with Gravatar support
  • Widgetized sidebars
  • Basic SEO techniques integrated
  • And more …

Price: Single: $79, Multiple: $179, Developer: $279
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Photocrati Photography WordPress Themes
Photocrati series of photography WordPress themes have been designed by photographers for photographers. The themes feature a flash style homepage, rich featured gallery management (batch uploading, resizing, thumbnails, watermarking, etc), integrated blog and more.

Photocrati Emulsion
Photocrati Emulsion wordpress theme
Price: $59 Demo & Details | Purchase

Photocrati Focus
Photocrati Focus wordpress theme
Price: $59 Demo & Details | Purchase

Photocrati Lightbox
Photocrati Lightbox wordpress theme
Price: $59 Demo & Details | Purchase

Photocrati Polarized
Photocrati Polarized wordpress theme
Price: $59 Demo & Details | Purchase

Photocrati Viewfinder
Photocrati Viewfinder wordpress theme
Price: $59 Demo & Details | Purchase

Features

  • Beautiful Design – clean, simple, and elegant to maximize visual impact
  • Flash-like beauty without the drawbacks
  • Flexibility and customisation
  • Powerful Gallery Management – batch uploading, batch watermarking, rearranging images, resizing thumbnails, creating and organizing galleries however you want.
  • Unlimited Photos and Pages
  • Integrated Blog – combined gallery management and blogging in one powerful package
  • Awesome Search Engine Optimization
  • Lifetime updates and access to support forum

Price: Single Theme: $59, All Themes Package: $99 (all 5 Photocrati themes)
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Press
A stylish multipurpose premium WordPress theme from Obox Design which could be used as a gallery, portfolio, product listing page or stylish personal blog. The theme features a customisable homepage with each row being its own widget, 7 colour scheme options, and the OCMX-Live content management system that gives you incredible control of your theme and website.

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Features

  • 7 Colour Scheme Options
  • OCMX-Live Content Management System Control Panel
  • Comment Control
  • Custom Logo Input
  • Total Menu Control
  • Gallery Management
  • Advert Management
  • Analytics Control
  • Ajax Commenting
  • Integrated Social Links
  • Threaded Comments
  • Video Input
  • jQuery Effects
  • Full Support

Price: Single: $50, Developer: $100
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3 Responses to “Best Portfolio / Photo Gallery WordPress Themes”

  1. February 23rd, 2009 at 6:49 pm #saiyakev9_d3s1gns

    Fantastic design an excellent list. Some design I have not seen before and now a must have.. After reading some great themes.

  2. June 21st, 2009 at 11:27 am #Jeevan

    Great list of premium themes. Thanks for sharing.

  3. July 21st, 2009 at 9:13 pm #Terry Lee

    I hve to agree, I’m looking for THE perfect theme to use as a portfolio for http://www.terrylee.net. I think I am almost there….

    Thanks for the list!

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