After I posted about simple ways to prevent WordPress websites & blogs being hacked and simple process to get them back up online quickly even though you may not be too comfortable with technologies & programming, I have received emails from some friends asking for WordPress Themes for photographers.
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Over the years I have used a variety of creative Workpress themes, but many of them were just for photography portfolios. As the opportunities for selling online increased, and WordPress evolved rapidly as the technology of choice for small businesses and photographers, so did the designs – they became very complex and a handful of them became very effective for online sales using the reliable WooCommerce products.
How to choose an effective WordPress Theme for photography business:
- Ease of creating & add new products
- Easy to update product information like prices & designs using WooCommerce products
- Easy to keep the website secured & in case there is a problem, it should be easy to bring it back up online quickly
- A design that is both unique and simple & compatible with the latest WordPress codes & plugins
- Great in-built SEO and optimized for Video & Image SEO as well
- A design thats eye-catching as well as great readability for the readers
- A design that provides a very clean and simple product search to product checkout process
- A great community of technology developers to help customize the design
Miyazaki WordPress Theme
Miyazaki is built by Anders Norén and is one of the best you would come across. Anders is a fantastic developer whos focus has been on simplicity of design and comfort of the reader, hence the beautiful typography of the design. I have recommended this Creative WordPress Theme for some of my photographer friends who run their personal online business & they have been very happy with it.
Anders Noren may also be available for consulting & any assistance required to customize the design for your specific use.
Download the Miyazaki WordPress Theme here.
Madd Magazine WordPress Theme
A great design & UX combined with a fantastic in-built SEO for a variety of media including text, videos & images. The design is very stable and the theme files are easy to customize. Other features include responsive slider, with image or video options – something that I, as a professional photographer, need very much for product demonstrations and online workshop videos.
Download Madd Magazine Theme from WordPress.
Screen WordPress Theme
Screen has one of the cleanest and fastest masonry layout in a WordPress Theme, making it very effective as a portfolio & sales theme for photographers. The full screen design of the home page provides you the opportunity to use that as an effective landing page for your latest photo or your latest deal.
There is a separate portfolio option which has the minimalistic design and works very effectively on mobile devices. The blog template is simple but creative too. he typography may look like a little offbeat compared to the other designs you may have come across, but it works very well for this design.
Download Screen WordPress Theme.
Gridsby WordPress Theme
Gridsby has been around for a while and has a very effective & simple design. With slight customizations you can creatively position advertisements from Google, Amazon & other networks on almost all the various templates. The theme makes very creative use of a single-layout homepage and custom templates for the rest.
The images are also displayed in a unique way that allows your viewer to concentrate & focus on your image. At the same time, this photography based theme templates are also very compatible with WooCommerce shopping plugins.
Download Gridsby WordPress Theme here.
Receptar WordPress Theme
Receptar is one of my most favorite WordPress theme that can be used very creatively for photography businesses. There are 2 design aspects that you will fall in love with:
- a fantastic grid layout on the home page
- the post template gives the layout of a book – with the featured image completely occupying one half of the screen
The single template can be used very effectively as a combination of a portfolio & a shopping cart. I have helped several photographers customize this theme using WooCommerce plugins to create a very simple & straightforward view-to-checkout process for customers.
Download Receptar WordPress Theme here.
If you have used any of these, or need help understanding to to customize your WordPress Theme to simplify your user journeys and make advertising more effective, leave a comment below or send me a not. I will be happy to assist.