Every photographer wishes to showcase their work, and digital platforms are the optimum solution for this need. Thanks to WordPress photography themes, photographers no longer have to depend upon developers and designers to promote and sell their work online. All you need is to select the right theme and start making your own photography website.
But with such a plethora of WordPress photography themes available online, it’s quite natural to worry about making a wrong choice. To help you avoid this, I have created a list of the top theme contenders so you can make the right choice according to your requirements.
Before we list the best photography themes, let’s quickly see how you can build a photography website instantly.
How to Create a Photography Website Instantly
If you don’t want to spend your time and efforts on picking up a WordPress theme, plugins, and creating a website, then there’s a quick solution. And that’s the Cloudways Photography Bundle.
The bundle allows you to create a photography website packed with all the right tools required for an ideal photography website, in less than 10 minutes, without dealing with a single line of code.
Don’t want the ready-to-go solution and instead go for the manual approach? No problem. Let’s learn about the top WordPress photography themes in the next section.
Best WordPress Themes for Photographers
After analyzing hundreds of WordPress photography themes, I have shortlisted the 11 best WordPress photography themes based on the user ratings, reviews, features, and pricing plans.
1. Pinhole
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Pinhole is a WordPress gallery theme that offers various gallery layouts templates to create a stunning photography website.
It allows you to decorate your website through an advanced theme options panel, custom widgets, shortcodes, and more. Trusted by over 30,000 customers, Pinhole is very user-friendly, with a very shallow learning curve.
With Pinhole, you can easily manage your galleries without any requirement of additional plugins. Also, its super-fast loading speeds and responsive design make it a popular WordPress portfolio theme option.
Features:
- RTL support
- Built-in translation
- One-click demo import
- Easy 1-click theme version update
- Compatible with all popular plugins
- Compatible with browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari & IE8+
- Ability to change fonts, and colors
Pricing:
Meks offers a free 7-day trial on Pinhole without requiring any credit card details. You can get the full version at $69 to avail the following benefits:
- Quality check by Envato
- Future updates
- Free 6 months support
User Ratings:
– Pinhole on ThemeForest
2. Novo
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Novo is a popular WordPress photography theme that offers complete customizability to its users. First, you are asked to choose from the dark or light site version. Then you can enhance the site’s look by adding galleries, a shop, contacts, booking functionality, and more pages.
SEO-optimized and responsive, this retina-ready theme delivers an optimum user experience. You can also add visual and audio tracks and slideshows to your homepage. The theme’s distinctive style allows for a unique photo presentation as well.
Features:
- Responsive
- Clean code
- SEO-optimized
- Advanced typography
- Unlimited custom portfolio pages
- High-speed performance
- Easy color management
Pricing:
You can get the Novo photography theme from ThemeForest at $59, including the following benefits:
- Future updates
- 6 months of free support
- Quality checked by Envato
User Ratings:
– Novo on ThemeForest
3. Core
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Core is a minimalist WordPress portfolio theme for photographers to showcase their photos online. Its versatile layout and numerous features allow for easy customization, while the clean code and contemporary design contribute to user-friendliness.
With this theme, you get three homepage styles, various custom widgets, and video portfolio support to manage your photography website with utmost flexibility. Also, you can choose from light and dark skins.
Features:
- Custom widgets
- Built-in shortcodes
- Multiple portfolio styles
- Social sharing support
- Custom post type support
- Three homepage styles
- Full-screen slideshow
Pricing:
ThemeGoods offer Core on ThemeForest at $39. Quality checked by Envato, it includes future updates & six months of support from ThemeGoods.
User Ratings:
– Core on ThemeForest
4. Photography WordPress by ThemeGoods
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Photography WordPress is an intuitive and responsive photography theme equipped with all the right elements to give your website a professional look. Currently, the #1 selling photography theme on ThemeForest, it has served over 120,000 customers globally.
Its integration with WordPress Customizer Modify Appearance lets the user see the live preview of their changes, which allows for easy editing. The built-in content builder further facilitates the user to present their photos the way they want.
Its direct purchase link feature and the WooCommerce plugin integrations come in handy for selling your photos online.
Features:
- Password protected galleries
- Direct purchase link option
- Predefined single portfolio layout
- Blog and menu layouts
- drag & drop content builder
- Styled typography
Pricing:
You can get this photography theme for $59 (regular license) or get the extended license for $1999 on ThemeForest. The package includes future updates and six months of support from ThemeGoods.
User Ratings:
– Photography WordPress on ThemeForest
5. Uncode
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Uncode is a photography theme made for WordPress and WooCommerce websites to produce creative portfolios. Any user can start building their own photography website via Uncode’s responsive templates without coding lines.
Its clean code, intuitiveness, and easy customization options make it one of the best-selling creative themes on ThemeForest, with over 96,000 sales. Moreover, you can import more than 70 demo layouts and over 400 section templates to build a creative portfolio website.
Features:
- Frontend & backend page builder
- Content blocks
- Advanced grid system
- Advanced animated headings
- Enhanced media library
- One-click import
Pricing:
Uncode doesn’t offer any monthly or yearly plans. Instead, it charges a one-time fee of $59 (regular license) and $2950 (extended license).
Both licenses include future updates and six months of support (bugs & issues assistance, 3rd party assets help, and the theme maker’s availability to answer questions).
User Ratings
– Uncode on ThemeForest
6. Fargo
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Fargo is a WordPress photography theme by Pixelgrade. Its distinct features like zoom-in, zoom-out, color & design control separate it from the other themes on our list.
Particularly suited for wedding photography, this WordPress theme includes multiple ready-to-go colors and font palettes but also allows the user to create their own. Its template supports text, videos, and photos in multiple formats and integrates with the WooCommerce plugin to offer ecommerce capabilities.
Users neither have to struggle with the coding lines nor buy any additional plugins and simply use the theme alone to do it all. Also, Fargo is compatible with the WordPress multilingual plugin for translational purposes to cater to wider audiences.
Features:
- Zoom-in and zoom-out feature
- Easy customization
- WooCommerce integration
- Extensive documentation
- Mobile-friendly
- WPML compatible
Pricing:
Fargo offers three different bundles as follows:
- Fargo on a roll – $75/year
- One year of support & updates
- Fargo for life – $112 (One-time fee)
- Lifetime support & updates
- Themes Bundle – $498 (One-time fee)
- All PixelGrade themes included
- Unlimited sites license
- Lifetime support & updates
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7. Border
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Blending classic photograph styles with contemporary design, Border presents photos with white borders (hence the name). Specially built to cater to the needs of professional photographers, its intuitive interface lets you display your photos in a visually appealing manner.
You can present your photos via several interesting ways like slideshows, or grid-based galleries, letting the photos shine through. Also, you can add text to your photos. Border doesn’t overflow with features, choosing instead to include what’s useful to make your photography website stand out.
Features:
- Video support
- Social integration
- Options panel
- Responsive and retina ready
- SEO-optimized
- 600+ Google Web Fonts
Pricing:
Border has three pricing plans offered by pixelgrade:
- Border on a roll – $75/year
- One year of support & updates
- Border for life – $95 (One-time fee)
- Lifetime support & updates
- Themes Bundle – $498 (One-time fee)
- All PixelGrade themes included
- Unlimited sites license
- Lifetime support & updates
User Ratings:
– Border on ThemeForest
8. Noah
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Noah, another theme by Pixelgrade, is a popular WordPress photography theme that lets you create impressive portfolio sites any way you want.
The theme also allows for an interactive user experience through the ability to animate and use transitions on your site. You can also choose from the existing color palettes to find what complements your brand.
Noah supports the WPML plugin to present your content in multiple languages. Moreover, you can optimize your images without losing any quality and reduce your website’s loading times in the process.
Features:
- Clean code
- SEO-optimized
- Unique portfolio grid
- Graceful design
- Easy customization
- Image optimization
Pricing:
Noah offers three different bundles as follows:
- Noah on a roll – $225/year
- One year of support & updates
- Noah for life – $245 (One-time fee)
- Lifetime support & updates
- Themes Bundle – $498 (One-time fee)
- All PixelGrade themes included
- Unlimited sites license
- Lifetime support & updates
User Ratings:
– Noah on ThemeForest
9. Skylab
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Skylab is a responsive WordPress photography theme that can hold multiple galleries and pictures of varying sizes.
Its block format makes it ideal for displaying an extensive collection of photos on sites. The sleek design provides a separate block to each photo on the homepage.
You can choose from any of its demos to start building your portfolio site. Skylab’s high customizability and intuitiveness allow all users to create and manage their sites easily.
Features:
- Pre-designed templates
- Fully customizable
- Responsive design
- Gallery grids
- Custom headers
- Fullscreen slider
- Custom fonts
Pricing:
ThemeForest offers Skylab at $49, quality checked by Envato, and includes future updates & 6 months of support from MegaTheme.
User Ratings:
– Skylab on ThemeForest
10. PhotoMe
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PhotoMe is another popular WordPress theme for photographers to display their work via portfolios. It lets you protect your gallery with a password and offers advanced portfolio options as well.
The visual design editor allows you to customize your site by changing colors, sizes, etc., and displays real-time results for easy editing.
Features:
- Responsive design
- Drag & drop content builder
- Fully integrated with WordPress customizer
- Instant AJAX search
- Split screen page layout
- Off-canvas side menu navigation
Pricing:
PhotoMe is available on ThemeForest for $59 (regular license) and $1999 (extended license) and includes the Envato quality check and future updates.
User Ratings:
– Photolux on ThemeForest
11. Fluxus
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Fluxus is a WordPress portfolio theme with a horizontal portfolio layout and is well-suited for big images.
This fast-loading theme is lightweight, responsive, and delivers a good user experience. Features like lazy loading, animation options, custom content production, and swipe & keyboard navigation further embellish your photography site.
Features:
- Full page slider
- Horizontal and grid portfolio
- Alternative skin
- Lazy loading
- Google maps integration
- WPML plugin support
- Social channels integration
Pricing:
You can get this photography theme for $49 (regular license) or get the extended license for $2400 on ThemeForest. The package includes future updates, an Envato quality check, and six months of support from intheme.
User Ratings:
– Fluxus on ThemeForest
Final Thoughts
You cannot risk making the wrong decision while opting for the best photography theme for your website, as it is the backbone of any portfolio site.
Our list contains all the leading players along with their features, pricing, and user ratings to help you make an informed decision. Which of the above themes fit right with your requirements? Let us know in the comments below.
Sarim Javaid
Sarim Javaid is a Sr. Content Marketing Manager at Cloudways, where his role involves shaping compelling narratives and strategic content. Skilled at crafting cohesive stories from a flurry of ideas, Sarim's writing is driven by curiosity and a deep fascination with Google's evolving algorithms. Beyond the professional sphere, he's a music and art admirer and an overly-excited person.
