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Absolutely Fabulous
9th of February 2010 (Tue), 00:17
I've seen different themes for wordpress, any suggestions as to which looks the best?

TIA:D

mikekelley
9th of February 2010 (Tue), 01:30
Your own.

Absolutely Fabulous
9th of February 2010 (Tue), 01:40
Your own.


how funny. Lots of photogs download various ones to use.

jonwhite
9th of February 2010 (Tue), 02:49
We use Pro Photo 3 (http://www.prophotoblogs.com/) which is designed specifically for professional photographers and has some fantastic options not in the vanilla wordpress install

We are running the latest version on our blog here > Wedding Photographer Blog (http://boundlessphotos.com/blog/)

Its not the cheapest out there but its one of the best imo, only downside I can think of is that its very popular now so you will see lots of other people using it, although its very customizable so you can create a different look very easily.

Only other one I would consider is the Tofurious blog theme (http://www.tofurious.com/professional-photography-blog-theme/) which is another one designed specifically for Photographers but with a strong focus on SEO.

Absolutely Fabulous
9th of February 2010 (Tue), 02:53
I didn't list the 2 I was looking at choosing between but funny enough you posted them!

Now why did you choose one over the other???

jonwhite
9th of February 2010 (Tue), 03:09
Pro Photo has more of the options that I wanted in a theme than the other one had, its more expensive of course but the back end feature list is really comprehensive and you can do stuff in a GUI that would normally involve some coding work in other themes..... every feature on my blog was created via the GUI, no custom coding.

Absolutely Fabulous
9th of February 2010 (Tue), 03:19
Pro Photo has more of the options that I wanted in a theme than the other one had, its more expensive of course but the back end feature list is really comprehensive and you can do stuff in a GUI that would normally involve some coding work in other themes..... every feature on my blog was created via the GUI, no custom coding.

Coding is easy, design is harder. I make my husband code stuff for me LOL

Thanks for the input! I'm going to have another look at them tomorrow:cool:

jonwhite
9th of February 2010 (Tue), 03:37
The amount of coding it would take to make a vanilla wordpress install look like and have the same features as a Pro Photo theme would be monumental.

tim
9th of February 2010 (Tue), 03:46
I like the theme from star wars. Do do do, do doo do, do doo do. Dum dum dum, dum de dum, dum de dum.

Also look at the tofurious blog theme. He's an seo expert.

Kevin Curtis
9th of February 2010 (Tue), 10:21
check out themeforest.com (http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress/creative/photography). i've used a few from there and they all seem to be coded well with good documentation