55 Best WordPress Photography Themes for 2014 -

Photography templates have come a long way from simple blogging themes with support for galleries. Today, photography themes feature slideshows, multiple portfolio templates, and support for video galleries and backgrounds.

In this article, I would like to show you a collection of the best WordPress Photography Themes for 2014. The list includes minimal designs and flashy designs that use many cool jQuery effects.

1. Photolux

Photolux is a powerful and elegant Portfolio and Photography WordPress Theme which is best suited for photographers and creatives who use portfolios to showcase their work. Photolux theme is powered by the advanced Pexeto Panel, which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme.

2. Frame

Frame Photography is is a minimalistic design theme highly customizable, you can choose unlimited color schemes. It is built using HTML5 and CSS3 and is fully responsive leaving no place for doubt that this it one of the best themes for photography.

3. Artemis

Artemis WordPress Theme is a minimalist responsive photography WordPress theme. Artemis comes with an awesome fullscreen slider and very easy to use Custom Skin Manager.

4. Photographer

Photographer features an optional full width blog page template — perfect for displaying gorgeous photos in their full glory. In addition, several portfolio page templates and options are included with Photographer.

5. Focal

Focal is a responsive portfolio theme built for photographers. Showcase your photography in style with this fantastically designed, easy to use WordPress theme.

6. Rib

Rib is fully responsive and built upon the 1170px Twitter Bootstrap framework. Featuring a clean, modern, and minimal design, packed with many possibilities from custom Theme Options Framework.

7. Zoomy

Zoomy is a Professional Photography WordPress Theme with minimalist, fresh, responsive design and some great features to help you showcase your photos or creative works in a stylish way.

8. Vignette

Vignette is a stunning theme built for photographers, models, or anyone in the photography industry that need to showcase their work in a professional manner.

9. King Size

The ideal solution for Artists, Bloggers, Businesses, Designers, Photographers and more. Making the best of fullscreen backgrounds, Portfolios and 5 very unique Portfolios to choose from. Create every page and post with unique backgrounds, sliders, videos and more that help it stand apart from other pages / posts.

10. Moda

The premium photography WordPress theme. With a focused design and extensive feature set, this theme showcases your photography with style and ease in a powerful and flexible package.

11. Photocrati

Photocrati is a uniquely powerful WordPress theme used by 18,000+ photographers and visual artists.

12. Camilla

Camilla is a modern, minimal, horizontal canvas to display your Photography work in! We wanted to create something astounding and simple at the same time and this is what we came up with a minimalistic design that shifts the focus to your work, at the same time glaring with modern features – including one-page layout principles, horizontal scroll, distraction free fullscreen galleries.

13. Camera 7

Camera 7 is the minimalist WordPress Premium Photography Theme, crafted with care and attention to detail. It includes a minimalist design, coupled with beautiful visual effects.

14. Gleam

Gleam was built to dazzle. With its flashy effects and smooth ajax loading techniques, this theme creates a truly unique 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 stunning appearance for each section of your website. The theme also comes with a full-screen portfolio section, giving you a new way to display your work.

15. Galerie

Galerie is a photography portfolio WordPress theme for photo enthusiasts and professional photographers. It allows you to publish your photos and present them in the best way possible. Galerie was designed with photography in mind, but just about any image-based portfolio (illustration, graphic design, painting, or even web design) can make a beautiful website on this WordPress theme.

16. Folo

Complete with a snazzy infinite loading portfolio, masonry layout, neat lightbox portfolio post, clean / minimalistic design & a powerful Theme Options Panel – Folo is nearly the perfect setup for your online portfolio.

17. Expression

Expression is a powerful responsive WordPress Theme, best suited for photographers and creatives who use portfolios to effectively present their work. Expression theme is powered by the advanced Pexeto Panel, which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme.

18. Mercury

Mercury is a responsive portfolio photography WordPress Theme with different features specially for photographers and artists.

19. Tripod

Tripod is a responsive drag-and-drop layout builder WordPress theme intended to power professional photographers blogs or sites coming with complex image gallery options.

20. Photogenic

Upload your finest work, your albums, your showcases, your award winning shots or even a photo of your kitten. If you’re an instagrammer then we’ve got you covered. Create amazing blog posts or galleries with your instaphotos. Photogenic works beautifully as a blog too, tell us your stories about how you took your photos and why. Share locations and experiences.

21. Mercurial

Mercurial is the simplest way to build your new website fast and easy! With its pre-made custom shortcodes, you will be able to create beautiful typographic effects, insert portfolios, skill bars, clients logos, social sharing icons, awesome sliders, pricing tables, build up incredible team pages, or even add your twitter feed in just seconds.

22. Core

Core is the Minimalist Photography, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest Wordpress features. Custom Post Type and Image Uploader etc.

23. Fullscreen

Minimal design + responsive layout + fullscreen gallery = Fullscreen theme. It is a gorgeous photo gallery theme where 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.

24. Invictus

Invictus is a Fullscreen Image and Video WordPress Theme for photographer or creatives. Invictus is so easy to use, super versatile and has a fully responsive design! With it’s flexible theme, page and post options Invictus is very intuitive to use and completely ready to operate out of the box.The possibilities are endless!

25. ePix

ePix, a fullscreen responsive Photography WordPress theme, perfect for photographers looking to showcase work on a professional platform. Packed with a ton of features unique to ePix, including the Fullscreen slider, stunning galleries, client login, advanced live Skin Editor, Visual Page Builder, Parallax, boxed or full-width site layout and so much more!

26. HQ Photography

Looking for something unique and awesome, this template is what you need. We’re proud to present a super interactive and engaging template well-suited for photographers and videographers, which won’t leave any visitor indifferent to and forgetful about experience they had with your website.

27. DeepFocus

Now you can turn your WordPress blog into a fully functional online photo gallery while still maintaining all of the features of a normal blog. Along with the gallery layout, DeepFocus comes with a robust blog and CMS-style homepage as well, making it an amazing solution for artists/photographers looking to build an online presence.

28. Slide

Slide is a responsive WordPress theme that allows you to present slideshows in complete fullscreen mode. The posts are opened elegantly in an animated lightbox window, allowing the next or previous post to be viewed in the lightbox without exiting the window.

29. Dano

Dano is the Multi-purpose and Responsive theme for Business and Agency website. It’s easy to customize the homepage layout, You can create the homepage section via the Home Page Section Builder and reorder the sections via Drag and drop layout manager.

30. Artisto

Artisto is a Fullscreen Portfolio Theme, the features of this portfolio theme include a custom-colour picker for your fonts and navigation and numerous slideshow options for your homepage and gallery.

31. Cesar

Cesar is a responsive WordPress theme for photographers. The theme is designed to look great on every major desktop browser great on both tablet and mobile too.

32. Shape

Shape is a Photography WordPress Theme with a clean, minimalist design, smooth transition effects, a beautiful showcase and a rich set of advanced features powered by our latest version of Tesla Framework.

33. BIG Gallery WP

BIG Gallery – WordPress Fullscreen Photography Portfolio is an unique way to present your photos. It allows you to show your work as big as possible . With creative use of CSS3 and Javascript this theme will delight your visitors!

34. Picks

A beautiful photography theme built for pros, instagrammers and photographers. Easily showcase albums of your kitten, photo shoot or panoramics.

35. Titan

Skylab is a Premium Portfolio / Photography WordPress Theme with an innovative, touch navigation super smooth hardware accelerated slider designed for photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, art and creative directors, movie directors, architects, luxury businesses or bloggers.

36. Skylab

37. Photoreel

Photoreel is clean, minimalistic and elegant WordPress theme with fully responsive layout. Theme is suited for all photographers, creative, business and portfolio websites. Theme includes lots of features like full-screen slider, modular homepage, layout shortcodes and more. All functions and are based on solid back-end framework.

38. Glare

Are you a Photographer or a Model who needs to showcase his/her work? Search no more, Glare is the perfect theme for you.

39. Black&White

Black&White is a premium responsive wordpress theme and it is great for portfolio and personal websites. It has a clean design and a new vision styled elements with calm and relaxing colors. The full layered PSD file included have been customized easily. Black&White WP theme perfect to promote your work or your business.

40. Almera

Our amazing Almera Responsive Portfolio WordPress Theme definitely impresses you with its nice looking design and amazingly powerful functionality. Almera best suits all types of gallery and portfolio. It’s a great deal for professional photographers and artists to open their art, to share their art with the world. With awesome sliders you can show your projects.

41. Suheto

Suheto is Fullscreen Image Background Slider WordPress theme suitable for photographers and designers, powerful yet simple to set up and administer.

42. Trend

Trend is excellent for portfolio, article, photography, creative, gallery sites. Powerful theme options, thousands of color combinations, easy use, fast build, amazing look! Trend comes with a category slider, and quick view more that allows you to navigate realy fast and have a look at your last photos.

43. DK

DK is the Premium Photography, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest Wordpress features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors and Image Uploader etc.

44. Border

BORDER is a unique and easy-to-use Photography WordPress theme built with the professional photographer and their needs as the main ‘focal point’. It comes with an intuitive designed interface, carefully crafted to ease the way to showcase your unforgettable photos.

45. Lens

LENS is a surprising premium WordPress theme aimed at photographers in need for a solution that focuses on what matters most to them: their work. Every feature was carefully chosen and designed to ease the way to that perfect photography portfolio website.

46. Sirius

Sirius is a responsive theme with a Minimalist Design can be used for any portfolio, photography or business website.

47. PhotoPro

PhotoPro is exactly what it sounds like…a professionally developed WordPress theme for photographers. The theme’s main focus is providing you with a great canvas for showcasing your work. The minimal design, combined with some great jQuery effects and unique layouts are sure to make your site stand out from the crowd and captivate your visitors attention.

48. JPhotolio

JPhotolio is premium responsive wordpress themes for Wedding Photographer. This themes provide everything that you need to “WOW” your visitor with your photo, video, or even music. JPhotolio let you have unlimited size of portfolio with unlimited probability of style & color schema Not only that, it’s also provide very easy way your visitor get in touch with you.

49. Fidelity

Fidelity is the most fastest and future-oriented WordPress theme. It’s primarily for photographers, but it can be used by design agencies, architecture bureaus, etc. It takes a full advantage of the latest CSS3 hardware-accelerated transitions and transforms (of course with fallback to jQuery animations) and provides incredible perfomance on desktops, tablet PCs and smartphones.

50. Photoform

Photoform is the minimalist WordPress Premium Photography Theme, crafted with care and attention to detail. It includes a minimalist design, coupled with beautiful visual effects.

51. Raw

Raw WordPress Theme is a fully responsive HTML5 theme that is ideal for photographers, agencies and creative freelancers.

52. MY FOLIO

My Folio is a responsive and retina ready WP Photography Theme. It works as a filterable portfolio and homepage. The theme includes the PSD files and HTML

53. Incidental

Incidental is a premium Wordpress theme for photographer. The theme provides a very flexible, drag drop tool to manage your gallery. You can create both full screen gallery or if you like the traditional way, you can build it as column style as well. Also ‘Incidental’ provides various of options for background slider such as, enabling thumbnail, enabling caption and arrow, or also to enable or disable page content.

54. Other

Other is perfect for the creatives out there, the forward thinkers and those who just want a kick-ass site for their business or service. Other comes with loads of unique layouts, including our draggable vertical galleries, and homepage portfolio with great animations and category filters.

55. Chroma

Chroma is a responsive, retina-ready, photography and multi-purpose WordPress theme. Chroma boasts an impressive set of unique features and powerful customization options focused on showcasing your work in unique and endless ways.

Do you know of any good WordPress photography themes that did not make the list? If so, please share them in the comment area below.

Kevin