[Updated: 23 April, 2013]
Why Choose WordPress for Your Gallery or Album?
As a photographer, you have many choices. Many photography website templates are based on flash. Though flash looks awesome, they also cause problems, such as the load slowly, can’t parallel for many viewers, difficult to customize, and bad for SEO.
WordPress is now the fastest growing platform for websites and blogs in the world. As of June 2010, there were 25 million WordPress-based websites in existence, and that number is growing exponentially. Generally, there is a trade of between ease of use, on the one hand, and power and flexibility on the other. WordPress sits right at the sweet spot, offering a power and flexible web platform that’s also easy to learn and use.
Finally, WordPress is an open source platform. Because the community of WordPress developers and users is so large and friendly, you can trust that it will keep getting better and that you can always find answers and solutions.
This collection of Gallery & PhotoWordPress themes represents the best Gallery & Photo themes for WordPress. These Gallery & Photo WordPress themes are designed for photographers or blogger to showcase their travel photography, personal album, photographic work and more.
Origin is a responsive portfolio WordPress theme from Elegant Themes with a strong photographic presence. This theme great for artists and designers, or bloggers who are looking to showcase your latest work. Origin is a stunning grid-based theme that tells a story through imagery.
Price: Club Membership for only $39 (Best Value)
Developer’s License: $89
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Elegant Themes Club Membership provides unlimited access to 70+ themes with 2-3 new themes each month (the price per theme is less than $0.56!). They create high quality, professional User-Interface, fashion & beautiful premium WordPress themes for various niches including: Business / CMS, ecommerce, magazine / news, portal, portfolio, personal, micro and professional blogging.
Glare is a responsive photography & portfolio WordPress theme from Cssigniter suitable for those who needs to showcase their works.
Price:
CSSigniter Membership: $39 (unlimited access to all themes)
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Pintores is a responsive Pinterest-style WordPress theme from Cssigniter impress your potential customers.
Price:
CSSigniter Membership: $39 (unlimited access to all themes)
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Photographer is a professional WordPress theme from Organic Themes for showcasing and selling your photography with the fully responsive design. The theme featuring several portfolio page templates(1, 2 or 3 column), several color change options, a slideshow template, a shop page template (powered by WooCommerce) and more.
Portfolio Page Layouts
Ecommerce Shop Template
Price Single Theme: $69
All Organic Themes: $249 (Recommended)
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Organic Themes have a stylish & modern selection of premium WordPress theme for different niches including: business, CMS, portfolio, magazine, personal and professional blogs.
Novelty is clean and modern WordPress portfolio & blog theme from ThemeForest with a responsive design that can be used for photographers, portfolio, companies, private blogs and more. It also includes the awesome Revolution slider (15$ Value), unlimited colors, Page builder, plenty of Customization Options and more. You can use 600 + custom fonts from Google Web Fonts also live color and font style & size changer, and much more…
Price: $45
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Gleam is a beautiful and creative WordPress theme from Elegant Themes that perfect suitable for creative portfolio, photography, personal blog site. Gleam was built to dazzle. With its flashy effects and smooth ajax loading techniques, this theme creates a truly unique and engaging experience that is sure to grab your visitor’s attention. Allowing for custom full BG photos for each page, Gleam makes it easy to create a custom and stunning appearance for each section of your website. It comes with all the standard features you look for in a website: pages, blog, portfolio, gallery, and shortcodes, but packages them in a way unlike any of our other designs.
Price: Club Membership for only $39 (Best Value)
Developer’s License: $89
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Elegant Themes Club Membership provides unlimited access to 70+ themes with 2-3 new themes each month (the price per theme is less than $0.56!). They create high quality, professional User-Interface, fashion & beautiful premium WordPress themes for various niches including: Business / CMS, ecommerce, magazine / news, portal, portfolio, personal, micro and professional blogging.
PixelWhiz is a responsive WordPress theme from ThemeFuse for the creative ones that are looking to showcase their graphic design work in a crisp, out of the box, original way.
Price:
Standard License: $49
Developer License: $79
ThemeFuse Membership : $17/ Year (Recommended)
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Golden Eagle is a powerful and multipurpose business WordPress theme from InkThemes with Responsive Design. It comes with a uniquely designed slider and Themes Options Panel which you can use to control all the aspects of your website. The design is elegant and looks superb for different types of business websites, such as Non-Profits Organizations, Fashion & Lifestyle, Tattoos & Art, Churches & Religion, Sports, Hotels & Restaurant and much more.
Price:Single Theme: $45 InkThemes Membership (All Themes): $125
It provides a free trial version of this theme, so you can fully experience the quality of the theme before making a purchasing decision.
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Lensa is a responsive full-screen WordPress gallery theme from Colorlabs Project designed for those of you who are addicted to high-resolution photography. With Lensa, your visitors will be immersed in your world, seeing what you see through your camera lenses. With its dramatic full-screen background slideshow effects, Lensa functions as an exclusive online photo gallery that looks equally awesome on desktops, tablets and smartphones.
Price: Single Theme for lifetime: $49 MEGA BUNDLE 27+ standalone variety themes, one-year membership: $45
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PhotoArtist is a premium photography & portfolio WordPress theme from ThemeFuse designed for photographer looking to showcase their works. It combines the “full-screen” only look with features that give the viewer more control over the presentation of the photos.
Blog Layout
Price: Standard License: $49 Developer License: $79 All Themes Package: $349
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Photostore is an incredibly elegant WordPress theme from Mint Themes designed for Photographers with responsive design. Every intricate detail has been carefully designed and developed to make sure that your photography/creative-based website is a breeze to set up. The theme is configured to show off photography and media (photos and/or videos) in an organized and simple way and cover everything from the home-page’s full-width slider, to social media links, and more.
Features
- Documentation with video tutorials and how-tos.
- 2 Page Templates
- Custom Widgets
- Custom Logo
- Drop Down Menus
- Homepage Slider Managed By Theme Options Panel
- Fully iPhone and iPad compatible
- WordPress 3.4-Ready
Price: $79
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WP-ClearPhoto is a premium WordPress theme from Solostream designed for photography enthusiasts or anyone who has a portfolio of projects to show the world. Its built-in versatility and added features also make it suitable for a business blog, website or online magazine. With it’s clean, elegant design, it’s the perfect container to show off your great work.
Homepage Layout
Gallery Layout
Price: WP-ClearPhoto Theme: $39 Solostream Membership: from $59 (access to all themes) Recommended
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Solostream specialize in magazine and small business style WordPress themes and it also offers CMS, business, personal and professional blog themes.
The Pro Photo is a premium photography WordPress theme from 8BIT (It also has another two themes on the WordPress Theme Market – Blog Theme: Standard Theme; Video Theme: Live Theme.) designed specifically for photographers, photo bloggers and image enthusiasts. It comes with 4 color schemes and has flexible layout options allowing images to be displayed in 4 different styles( grids, lists, albums, or animated galleries). You can also drop photo collections into blog posts, pages, or direct menu link and present them full-width or customize a sidebar for each collection.
Alternative Homepage Layout
Gallery Page Layout
Price: Standard License: $49 Support License: $99
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Real Photography is a super quality, clean, professional style WordPress theme from Ink Themes for Photographers wanting to present their shots or for designers/artists wanting to showcase their portfolio work a very modern and unique way. This theme gives a nice flash-like experience even when viewed on iPad or other Tablet Devices.
Real Photography for Interior Design (White Color Skin), Fashion Niche (Black Color Skin), Wedding Niche (White Color Skin), Multiple Examples:
Price: Single Theme: $45 InkThemes Membership (All Themes): $125
It provides a free trial version of this theme, so you can fully experience the quality of the theme before making a purchasing decision.
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Fullscreen is a gorgeous photo gallery WordPress theme from Themify with minimal, responsive design and the photos are put in center focus. Users can toggle to fullscreen mode by clicking on the fullscreen button and pressing escape key to exit the fullscreen mode. The fullscreen gallery can be individually assigned to Posts and Pages. For the regular WordPress gallery, there are two display options: photoswipe or lightbox. You may use Fullscreen to showcase lightbox media such as popup image, video, and iframe window.
Fullscreen Video Content
Price: Fullscreen Theme: $39 All Theme Package: $69
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Get this theme at a discounted price: use the coupon code “fullscreen” to save 30% off this theme until Jul 31, 2012.
PhotoPro is a premium photography WordPress theme from Clover Themes perfect suitable for photographers which need a simple yet elegant showcase for their artwork. Great for photography and portfolio websites but can also be used for other projects. you can create your own online gallery to show off your works easily. The theme features classic yet minimalistic style so that your work will be guaranteed to be on focus.
Price: $69.95
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Notebook is a fun multimedia theme that takes advantage of WordPress post formats and advanced CSS3 animations. The result is a unique and highly engaging design that is sure that impress your visitors. Notebook makes it easy to share a variety of content, including audio, video, photographs and standard blog posts.
Price: Club Membership for only $39 (Best Value)
Developer’s License: $89
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Kepler is a photography WordPress child theme for the Builder Framework from iThemes. It comes with multiple image display options giving photographers, designers and other creative professionals a unique way to showcase your work.
Price: iThemes Builder: $127 (40+ child themes) All Themes Package: $297 (100+ themes) Recommended
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iThemes specialize in business & CMS WordPress themes, and have a large selection for designers, photographers, business and other niches. iThemes Builder Framework allows you to build professional sites with WordPress quickly & easily by creating your own layouts.
ePhoto is a fantastic premium WordPress theme from Elegant Themes design for photographers or photo gallery.The theme allows you to create a separate blog page where normal blog posts can be integrated alongside your photos,and it also features some nifty jQuery effects, automatic thumbnail resizing, 2 colour schemes, and in-depth theme options page with a long list of settings.
Price: Club Membership for only $39 (Best Value)
Developer’s License: $89
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Elegant Themes Club Membership provides unlimited access to 60+ themes with 2-3 new themes each month (the price per theme is less than $0.65!). They create high quality, professional User-Interface, fashion & beautiful premium WordPress themes for various niches including: Business / CMS, ecommerce, magazine / news, portal, portfolio, personal, micro and professional blogging.
Graphix is an awesome premium WordPress theme from WPZoom that perfect suited for personal blog, portfolio, photo gallery website. This theme comes with WPZoom options panel, 5 alternative color schemes, multiple custom widgets & shortcodes & page templates and much more features.
Price: Standard: $69 Developer: $149
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WPZoom offer a range of premium WordPress themes in different styles including: magazine / news, business, CMS, video, photo gallery, portfolio, and professional blogs.
Manhattan 1.0 is a beautiful premium WordPress child theme from StudioPress based on Genesis Theme Framework. This child theme is perfect suited for business, corporate, portal, portfolio, photography site. If you have already purchased the Genesis Theme Framework and any other child theme previously, you can simply purchase the child package by itself.
Price Genesis Theme Framework: $59.95 Manhattan 1.0 & Genesis Theme Framework: $79.95
Pro Plus All-Theme Package: $249.95
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eGallery is a brevity premium WordPress theme from Elegant Themes that made to transform your blog into a fully functional online gallery. This theme designed to emphasize the artwork you choose to showcase. The design has been greatly enhanced using javascript, and is easy to implement.
Price: Developer License: $89
Full access to all themes and support services-only $39 per year.
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Digital Gallery is a Web 2.0 photo gallery WordPress theme from iThemes designed for photographers and designers wanting to showcase their creative work online. This theme comes with 2 alternative color schemes, 4 widgets areas, automativ image resizing and more.
Price Single Theme Package: $79.95 Multiple Theme Package: $149.95 All Themes Package: $297 (100+ themes)
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Landscape is a premium WordPress theme for the Genesis Theme Framework from StudioPress which could be used for photography, portfolio or gallery websites. The theme includes a featured slider on the homepage, multiple posts / page layout options, navigation menu controls, backend options panel and more.
Prices: Landscape + Genesis Theme Package: $79.95 Landscape Child Theme: $24.95 Pro Plus All-Theme Package: $249.95
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Gallery is a photo gallery premium WordPress theme from Organized Themes designed for photographer showcase their works. This theme features three areas for widgets that you can use to insert whatever information you find helpful and comes with custom control panel, fully functional blog, five design styles and more.
Price: Single Theme: $30 All Themes Package: $75 (Best Value)
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Carousel is a photography / gallery premium WordPress theme from Obox Design that designed for photographers showcasing top quality images with incredibly easy and familiar navigation. This theme comes with keyboard gallery navigation, 8 alternative color styles, image filter, multiple pages templates and more.
Price: Standard: $50 Developer: $100 Membership: $15/Month
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Photocraft is a clean and elegant photo gallery premium WordPress theme from Templatic that perfect for photographers to showcase their skills, photographs and their services. This theme comes with a gallery listing page, unlimited color schemes, custom control panel, blog detail page, with latest upgrades in famous timthumb script and much more features.
Homepage
Photocraft Gallery Page
Price Single: $65 Multi Use: $99 Premium Themes Club: $299 (all themes)
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PhotoSquares is a very flexible gallery premium WordPress theme from Function Themes that will give you perfect solution for displaying your portfolio online. This theme allows you costom thumbnails size, change colors of background and text, flexible layout width and more.
Price: $79
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Photobox is a premium photo gallery WordPress theme from Themify designed for photographers and artists to showcase their works. This theme comes with 7 color schemes and features a slider and customizable column widgets and the gallery is powered by WordPress gallery where you can drag & drop to manage the images.
Gallery Page Layout
Price: Single Theme: $65 All Theme Package: $150
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King Size is a premium fullscreen background WordPress template from ThemeForest perfect for photographers and those using portfolios to showcase their past and present work collections. This theme offers five very different gallery styles (including 4 additional layout styles for ColorBox, FancyBox and prettyPhoto), with ability to blog about your photos (attach featured images) and etc.
Gallery Page Layout
Price: $35
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Work is an elegant and dark portfolio / photo gallery premium WordPress theme from Theme Trust with a clean and professional design that perfect for showcasing your work. This theme easily build your portfolio with the numerous built-in page templates that give you the ability to create 1,2,3,4 column gallery layouts and it also comes with 2 color schemes, jQuery featured content slider and more.
Price: $49(Promotion:Buy one get one free)Check for more details
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Capture is a supercool and funky photography / gallery premium WordPress theme from Kreative Themes. This theme comes with 4 color Schemes, KreativeAdmin v2, integrated mobile-friendly version, ads management and more.
Price Standard Package: $49.90 Developer Package: $99.90
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inFocus is a clear and powerful premium WordPress theme designed by Webtreats that could be used for business, portfolio & gallery, showcase webesite and etc.This theme comes with impressive fully customizable jQuery homepage slider with 3 different staging effects, 10 different color schemes, massive backend options and more.This theme sales more than 3000 on ThemeForest.
Gallery Style Page
Price: $37
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Photo Nexus is a modern and minimalistic premium WordPress theme designed by imaginem with 2 column that perfect suited for who want to publish and showcase a self managed gallery of photos, artworks or designs. This theme comes with 2 color variation ( Bright and Dark), advanced admin theme options, slideshow on/off options on mouse hover over image and more features.
Price: $27
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RichGRID is a gallery premium WordPress child theme based on RichWP Theme FrameWork from RichWP that designed for photographers or blogger to showcase their travel adventures, personal album and etc.This theme comes with 3 different post types (gallery post, status update, normal post), authoritative SEO, and more.
Three Different Styles(Design Refresh Preset,Minimal Design Preset,Classic Design Preset)
Price: RichBIZ Theme(Already own the FrameWork): $27 RIchBIZ Theme + RichWP Theme FrameWork: $127
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Expose 1.0 is a simple and attractive premium WordPress child theme works on the Genesis Theme Framework from StudioPress that can be used as portfolio & gallery.This child theme added two great features: support custom header and custom background.If you have already purchased the Genesis Theme Framework and any other child theme previously, you can simply purchase the child package by itself, otherwise you need the Expose + Genesis Theme package.
Price Genesis Theme Framework: $59.95 Delicious Child & Genesis Theme Framework: $79.95
Pro Plus All-Theme Package: $249.95
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Ionic is a clean premium WordPress child theme based on Builder Theme Framework from iThemes. This theme comes with multi column grid layout, 2 navigation styles and 3 html modules styles, resizable featured images, custom typography, style manager and much more features.
Price: iThemes Builder: $127 (16+ Bonus Child Themes) All Themes Package: $297 (100+ themes)
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iThemes Builder Blowout Sale: price reduced to $79 (until 31 Dec, 2010)
ReCapture is an awesome photo gallery WordPress theme from Press75 that can be suited for portfolios, picture galleries, photography sites, etc. This theme comes with FancyBox integration for linked images, custom menu options, logo customization options and more.
Price: The ReCapture Theme Package: $75 Unlimited Theme Package: $275 (all current and future Press75 themes)
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Invictus is a premium photographer & portfolio WordPress theme from ThemeForest that present your images in a unique and custom fullsize image on your homepage. It features two diffrent color schemes (Black & White), nice shortcodes, easy to use theme options, a custom post type for your photos, unlimited color options and a huge font option panel powered by Googel Font API and more.
Price: $35
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Photolist is a minimalist gallery Premium WordPress theme from Obox Design that idea for photographers and bloggers. The theme includes image filter settings, unique gallery slider, multiple page template, automatic image resizing and more features.
Price: Standard: $30 Developer: $80 Membership: $15/Month
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Gallery is a professional and flexible premium WordPress theme from WPZoom which could be used for photoblog, portfolio, personal blog, product showcase, etc.It comes with 3 color schemes with light and dark each, dynamic image cropping for thumbnails, 3 specially developed widgets and more.
Light Style Option
Dark Style Option
Price: Standard: $69 Developer: $149
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Mobility is a customizable premium WordPress theme from ThemeForest designed by goThemeTeam that serves up a touch and slide friendly user interface for iPad viewers. This theme comes with 7 unique color schemes, iPad landscape and portrait mode and more.It also can be used as portfolio, gallery photo, product showcase websites.
Price: $32
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Agency is a professional non-profits organization premium WordPress from Organized Themes that also can be used for any general business, church or other organization site as well. This theme comes with a donation bar that can easily raise money, and a prominent header slideshow to present your image or post.
Price: $30
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Photo is a Child theme based on RichWP Theme FrameWork from RichWP that designed for photographers to show photo or artwork to the world.This theme is easy to use and easy to maintain, it takes care of all your blogging needs as well.
Homepage
Gallery Page
Three Different Styles(Muted Design Preset,Design Refresh Preset,Showcase Design Preset)
Price: Photo Theme(Already own the FrameWork): $27 Photo Theme + RichWP Theme FrameWork: $127
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Photography is a beautiful premium WordPress theme from TheThemeFoundry that ideal for photographers. This theme comes with easy to use theme options menu, integrated Flickr support, two gorgeous color schemes(dark,light) and more features.
Home Page Screenshot:
Gallery Page Screenshot:
Price: Free with Limited Features PRO with Lots of Features: $ 68
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Evo is a ultimate flexible gallery style premium WordPress theme from UpThemes with three beautiful color schemes, jQuery masonry for fluid thumbnail layouts, and a user submission page,AJAX pagination,simple video embedding and more features.
Price: Standard License: $50 Developer License: $75 Standard Club Membership: $79 Developer Club Membership: $159
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Gallery Pro is a ultimate gallery style premium WordPress theme from UpThemes that can be used for personal blog, gallery, or portfolio.This theme comes with two color schemes(dark&light),alternate blog post template and more other features.
Price: Standard License: $50 Developer License: $75 Standard Club Membership: $79 Developer Club Membership: $159
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FolioJam is a sleek and impressive dark portfolio premium WordPress theme from ThemeJam designed for designers, photographers, agencies, and anyone looking to showcase their work. This theme includes 8 styles to choose and with a very unique blog layout as well.
Price: $59
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Snippet is a multipurpose magazine premium WordPress theme from Templatic with four detailed color schemes.This theme designed for photographers, gallery publishers, product reviewers and affiliate marketers to showcase the work and products with links and content to highlight valuable products.
Price: Single: $65 Multi Use: $99 Premium Themes Club: $299 (all themes)
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DeGusto is a dark and elegant portfolio style premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift which attractively combines your portfolio (web, photo, logo and other work) with your blog articles. The theme features a customisable content slider on the homepage, automatic image resizing, and a theme options page that lets you take full control over the theme.
Price: 39 Euro
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Press is a multipurpose minimalist blog premium WordPress theme from Obox Design with the customization options and this theme could be used as a gallery, portfolio, product listing page or stylish personal blog.
Price: Single: $50 Super Standard: $70 Developer: $100
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L’Image is a professional photography WordPress premium theme from VivaThemes. The theme Category based galleries make it extremely easy to create a gallery and post photos. It includes 4 level dropdown navigation, advanced theme options panel, and additional full width and blog page templates.
Price: Single Theme: $47 All Themes Package: $160
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WPShowcase is a premium WordPress theme from Gabfire Themes that is the perfect choice for an entire range of gallery style designs.The theme is designed for who struggle to find a useful, adaptable and automatic styling WordPress theme and it is customized for bloggers that would like to use their site as a gallery, photo archive or portfolio site.
Price: Standard Pack: $59 Developer’s Pack: $179
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SuperTheme is an awesome photography premium WordPress theme from Photocrati that designed for photographers. The theme like 15 themes in one.You can choose your desired preset “look” as a starting point, and then adjust anything you want with a few mouse clicks – layout, sidebar width, backgrounds, logos, colors, sizes/styles/colors of fonts and headings, social media, and just about anything else.
Price: $79.95
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WP Gallery is a colorful premium WordPress theme from Storelicious that design for magazine /personal blogs.
Price: Single for $ 70 StoreLicious Subscriptions Plans (access to all theme) Basic $ 140 Standard $240
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ecoCollage is a fashion Premium WordPress theme from iDesigneEco that canMix and mash your photos for the world with the slick.The highly customizable ecoCollage integrates seamlessly into WordPress 2.9’s post thumbnails feature to make your blog a photoblog without the hassles of meddling around with image urls!
Price: $49
