WordPress is a great content managing system for all kinds of purposes such as portfolio, news, video blogging and many more. It’s ease of use and versatility make it popular among amateurs and professionals alike.
Depending on your purpose, there is a wide variety of themes available to cater to your needs for space, widgets, drop-down menus, lightboxes and many more. When choosing a theme-provider, keep in mind that some of them offer packages to multiple premium themes. You could be getting a lot of themes for a very reasonable price, or just one.
We bring you list of amazing themes that could be used for any niche but are most suitable for video blogging and images. Be sure to check other article with list of Top 15 WordPress theme for Photographers.
Notice that most of the standard blog themes can get new life with plugins such as prettyphoto and similar lightboox plugins that add new dimension in images and video previewing.
Note: Responsive themes are good for mobile phones and other handheld devices, but there are enough plugins that can turn any, or at least help with alternative themes for your WordPress site, for mobile and other device users.
Impressive theme with amazing features. Among many features we would like to highlight few like BBPress plugin integration, WP e-Commerce plugin integration, BuddyPress Theme, Non-Post Galler Slide Manager manage your Images/Videos in one area.
Dynamix didn’t fail to impress more and more and as such it’s absolutely recommended, no matter what is your niche, you will not fail to impress your visitors with this theme. Great for showcase of your products (photos, videos, or any other product).
I like: Customization options.Custom Skin Editor and unlimited outer skin colors plus images. Ability to put more galleries on one page. Ability to social bookmark any page or post, while icons react to custom link colour. I could keep writing about features I like, even after some time I feel I didn’t find or use all of features this theme offers, amazing !
I dislike: Not really dislike but so many features could make your head spin ;)
Best for: Vloging (video blogging) , portfolio pages no matter what is your product, images, while you can use it as standard blog, it offers 10 times more. Fill it with good images/video content and let this theme do the rest.
List of Features - DynamiX
Dual Skin Mode
– Inner (Main body content) & Outer (Header / Footer area) Skin can be selected
– Select Skins for entire website and per page
– Select from 20 Outer Skins and 2 Inner Skins
Non-Post Gallery Slide Manager (Manage all your Gallery Images/Videos in one area)
BBPress plugin integration
WP e-Commerce plugin integration – see Nurburgring Drivers for an example.
BuddyPress Theme (BBPress Support) – see it in action on the demo or support sites
Add Custom Page Titles (Which doesn’t affect Menu Title)
Add Custom Page / Post Sub Titles
Disable Page Content(For displaying Galleries ONLY )
Disable Main Content Border – Add custom bordered content using Styled Boxes Shortcode
Galleries
– 5 Types of Galleries
– Image/Text Widget Gallery with 20+ effects.
– 3 Image Effects (Reflection, Shadow, Shadow Reflection)
– Place galleries on ANY PAGE
– MULTIPLE galleries per page
– Custom gallery heights
– Custom image width/heights
– Display Text/Image, Title/Image, Image Only, Text Only on Slider and Grid Galleries
– Admin gallery graphics to help beginners add galleries easily
Piecemaker 2
JW Player embed option – Embed into All Galleries
Grid Gallery 3, 4, 5, 6 Column Options
Grid Gallery Animated Category Filtering
Post Gallery Options
– Lightbox or Link Images
– Add Video URI
– Add custom URI ’s to link to
– Disable Links (Act a just an image gallery)
– Zoom or Crop Images
– Change Post Order
– Portfolio Option ( Display Image in Archives and Single Post)
Colour Reacting Graphics
– Certain graphics react to default theme link colours or custom link colour (Set in Admin)
JQUERY Text Resizing
– Add a text resizing function to any page or post
Custom Link Colours
– Define your link colours within the admin
Gradient Headings (Font Replacement Script Cufon)
– Define heading (H1 – H6 tags) gradient colours within the admin
– Split into two groups to define H1 – H6 tags in body and footer/header
Custom Sidebars
– Create as many sidebars as you wish
– Sidebars can selected for each page
JQUERY Drop Panel
– Four custom columns set in admin
– Can be disabled
Custom Drop Panel / Footer Columns
– Select from a range of custom widgets, including custom HTML (Shortcode Support)
– Supports WP3 .0 Custom Menus
Ajax Contact Form
– Contact form can be placed in any of the footer / drop panel columns
Social Bookmarking
– JQUERY Slide animation
– Add social bookmarking icons to any page or post
– Icons react to custom link colour
Twitter Feed
– JQUERY animation to cycle through your latest tweets
– Feed settings can be set in admin (Select how many tweets you want to display)
– Position the feed above or below your content
Page Layout Options
– Full Width
– 2x Columns (Left Align, Right Align)
– 3x Columns (Left Align, Right Align, Left & Right)
– Select layouts easily with diagrams to help explain
Shortcode Generator
– Add custom shortcodes easily to your post or page with a very easy “fill out form” function
– Amazing shortcodes to style your page, Columns, Post Galleries, Image Effects, Buttons, Accordion, Tabs and much more.
Breadcrumbs Navigation
– Can be disabled on specific pages if required
One of the themes that is great for photographers and videographers in same time. Features of this theme are so many. I suggest you check Live Preview and Screenshots. One of the themes where you can’t miss if your content contains 90% of videos or photographs.
I like: Full screen and unique way of displaying images and videos. Flickr stream running in background. Option to pick from 250 Google API Fonts. Lots of features and addons.
I dislike: Not much to dislike, you should optimize videos and photos, as it could take a while to load. Images behind blog posts and other content could distract visitors from main content you want to display. Again not really dislike, but it is fully optimized for video and photos, not much use as regular blog or magazine or any other purpose.
Best for: The possibilities are endless! Its optimal for photographers, digital artists, designer or even private persons, who want to present their images and videos in a unique way.
List of Features - Invictus
2 Themes – Black and white
Great fullsize Image and Video gallery with thumbnail scroller!
Setup Number of images for the Gallery
YouTube, Vimeo or selfhosted video support
Choose the Featured Galleries
Choose sorting of images (random, date etc)
Choose Overlay Pattern
Adjust Thumbnail height
Adjust Thumbnail Quality
Setup Slide Interval
Setup Animation Speed
and choose Transition type
Embed YouTube, Vimeo or Selfhosted videos in your photo posts.
Choose your Font from Google API Fonts (about 250 Fonts)
Create post image sliders for your photo posts! (Nivo, Slides, Accordion)
Fullsize Video pages
Fullsize Background Flickr Stream
Password protected pages, posts and galleries
Define a Fullsize Background Image for each page seperately
Choose from Lightbox, Project Page or external Link for your Photo Posts
Supports WP3 Menus, featured images etc.
XML Dummy Data for fast installation included
Translation ready – WPML (The WordPress Multilingual Plugin) compatible
Extensive Admin Menu with many Options.
Control the Fullsize Homepage Gallery (Number of Images, Featured Galleries, Order, Fullsize Overlay, Overlay Pattern, Thumbnail Height, Animation Speed etc.)
Change Font Settings (Color, Font Size, Font Family)
Fullsize Flickr Stream Settings.
Change Color Settings (Font Color, Main Color Scheme, Main Colors)
Image Settings (Crop Images, Show Post Author, Show Image Caption, Grid Image Height etc)
Change PrettyPhoto Settings
Change Contact Page
Social Icon Management
Custom Logo Support
…
Adminpanel improved with some cool jQuery Effects (Sliders, Colorpicker, iPhone styled Checkboxes)
Shortcode Collection:
Videos
Columns
Typography
Postings
…
Manage your Social Icons in your theme options
Customiseable Sidebars for all Templates
Google Analytics
PSDs Included
5 Custom Widgets
Flickr Stream
Video
Twitter
Custom Recent Posts
Custom Related Galleries
Standard WordPress Gallery with thumbnail support
Choose cropping direction for each Photo post.
Great jQuery effects, powerfull and optimised custom JavaScripts
Supports for all major Browser (Firefox, IE, Chrome, Opera etc)
Contact us page with validation and PHP mailer
Detailed Documentation
All scripts included, no plugins needed.
Design optimized for medium and large resolutions.
Some could say this theme doesn’t fit this list, but I like this as magazine or portfolio theme which has video embed option. Complexity is a simple business and portfolio theme that is easy to customize and will get you or your client’s website up and running in no time. No matter what is your niche you could use this theme. It could be for magazine style, blog posting, images displaying, video displaying, portfolio, and much more. Be sure to check list of features that Complexity offers.
I like: Clean and simple modern design. Capable of displaying images, videos and much more. Video Tutorials from ThemeBlvd that will help you get up and running in no time.
I dislike: It’s not really just photograph nor video theme, but it can sure become one if you wish.
Best for: Business and portfolio. You can check out video here.
List of Features - Complexity 2
Theme Option Customization Highlights
2 Styles – Light or dark?
30 Skins
60 Backgrounds (in addition to WP3 custom background support)
Show/hide search on main menu.
Flexible homepage layout choices.
Choose number of footer widget columns.
Display or hide titles of all subpages.
Show subpage sidebar on left or right side.
… And many more useful options.
8 Page Templates
Archives Page
Blog Roll
Contact Page
Full Width Page
Sidebar Left
Sidebar Right
Redirect
Sitemap
11 Custom Widgets
ThemeBlvd Ads (125×125) Widget
ThemeBlvd Author Box Widget
ThemeBlvd Feedback Widget
ThemeBlvd MP3 Audio Widget
ThemeBlvd Info Box Widgetv
ThemeBlvd Recent News Widget
ThemeBlvd Recent Posts Widget
ThemeBlvd Simple Contact Widget
ThemeBlvd Tabs Widget
ThemeBlvd Twitter Widget
ThemeBlvd Video Widget (supports Vimeo, YouTube, and self-hosted mp4, flv, and f4v videos)
Flash Enhancement
MP3 Audio Player for self-hosted audio files.
Video Player for self-hosted video files.
jQuery Enhancement
Homepage slideshow with Cycle plugin
Dropdown Menu, improved with jQuery
Portfolio Page with animated thumbnails and lightbox
Working AJAX /PHP contact form with validation
WordPress 3+ Theme Support
Custom Menu support
Custom Background support
Post Thumbnail support
More ThemeBlvd Framework Goodies
Self-hosted audio/video, YouTube, and Vimeo support in portfolios, widgets, and shortcodes.
Many dynamic widget and widget areas.
Built-in ThemeBlvd SEO plugin.
Contact Form Builder.
Full Lightbox integration.
Font Control
Tons of shortcodes with tinyMCE visual integration.
Unlimited Portfolios
Unlimited Slideshows
Tons of Bonus content included.
Localization-Ready (for translating to other languages)
Full layered PSD site layout.
Detailed documentation included in addition to video tutorials.
WP Clear Video is a theme brought to you by Solostream, aimed towards small businesses and video bloggers who wish to market themselves be it for exposure or revenue. This premium theme features a professional, sleek design with a responsive layout. Other features include a business homepage layout option, Youtube videos page, multiple page layouts, theme setting and many more.
I like: I really liked WP Clear Photo, but WP Clear Video goes one step further. With responsive design. Clean and modern look, easy to setup.
I dislike: Theme it self has lack of features, if we compare to DynamiX or Invictus, but it is widget and plugin ready, so you could get where you want with just couple of plugins.
Best for: As mentioned above, this theme is best for small business and video bloggers.
List of Features - WP Clear Video
Responsive Design Framework – Adjusts to Browser Size
Theme Settings Page for Easy Customization
Quick and Easy Logo Integration
Featured Pages Slider
Featured Posts Slider
Alternate Home Page Template for Business Sites
YouTube Videos Page Template
Portfolio Page Template
Built-In Author Page
Multiple Post and Page Layout Options
Featured Page Widget
YouTube Videos Widget
Category Posts Widget
Subscription Form Widget With Social Networking Integration
Interactive theme that really amazes visitor. Background videos while browsing site. Audio player with audio playlist. Really shows future with HTML5 and CSS3. There is no need to write much about this theme, check Live Preview and list of Features.
I like: Never seen anything like this before must check it out. Mobile phone compatible.
I dislike: Somewhat similar full background as Invictus, could be distracting.
Best for: Unique showcase of your images & videos. Interaction with visitors over music and visual effects.
List of Features - Right Now
Enhanced with HTML5 and CSS3
Maximum audio control with Advanced Playlist
Ajax Load function with Next and Previous feature
Fresh looking Scroll Bar
With “No more Modal Window”, you can surf amongst the visual contents
“Draw the screen” makes navigating easier with sensible mouse movements
Optimized features for IPhone, Ipad and Android devices
Portfolio filter
Deeplink Support
4 columns design options
Valid HTML
489+ Google fonts
Contact form validation
Google map
Button and special elements support
Share Icons
Psd files
Video help documents
Draw the Screen
Don’t search for the buttons, just “Draw the Screen” and navigate your visual contents easily and with pleasure Just draw left to right, or top to bottom, thats enough. Do you want fullscreen mode? So draw a line to the top…
No more Modal Window
Did you get bored with “Modal Windows”? Enlarge your visual contents with a single click and you will be able to swim in your content.
Advanced Playlist
Winamp style playlist allows you to make your playlist.. Stop, start, loop and seek.. Adjust the volume.. You have full control over it. And it is not Flash !
Mobile Browsers
With its new update, Right Now is much more compatible, faster and seamless on mobile devices such as Ipad, Iphone or Android.
Disabled video backgrounds for mobile browsers?: Because mobile browsers don’t support playing video files on background. Video contents in mobile browsers block our controller objects and they become inactive (except Android 3.1).
Gigawatt is a vintage or grunge type of theme for video bloggers with a more retro feel to showcasing videos. It can display videos from a third party hosting site, not to mention photos as well. Choose from 3 color schemes and add widgets to your homepage for a more customized look to fully utilize the generous 940px view port. Whether you use Vimeo, YouTube, Viddler or Blip, we cater for them all as Gigawatt can display videos from any 3rd party video hosting site!
I like: Retro design. 940px view port. Simplicity. Responsive. Documentation served with theme.
I dislike: Font used for menus. Font colors.
Best for: Portfolio page, video/picture showcase.
List of Features - Gigawatt
Widgestised Home Page – Allows for unlimited videos to be displayed in a categorized format.
Short URL Support – New addition to an Obox Theme, we are using Googles shorten url plugin.
oEmbed Support – Simply copy & paste the url of your video and we will get the embed code for you!
Self Hosted Video Support – Azione allows you to upload and host your videos on your own site. Simply use the JPlayer plugin to add the videos and we will do the rest by packaging it in the awesome theme design.
HD and SD video selectors – Give your HD videos the space and attention they deserve with a massive 940px wide view port.
Works as a Standard Blog too – If you want to use this as a normal blog with images instead of videos, it is 100% possible. We have made sure to include our standard image uploader with auto-resizing and filters.
Portfolio Section – Show off your latest work with our special portfolio template page. The template offers three different column layouts to choose from.
Dark, Light and Minimal Color Schemes – Gigawatt is packed with three great color schemes including two light versions and a dark one, all with an awesome subtle grunge texture designed by Paravel.
OCMX Live Features– OCMX Live is an advanced Framework which comes packaged with every Obox Theme, turning your WordPress site into an even more powerful content management system.
Custom Logo Input-No need to delve into the code of your theme, simply upload your awesome logo with the click of a button.
Page Templates – Our themes come packaged with multiple pages templates including Archives, Full Width and a Portfolio page.
Menu Management-Organize your Menu Structure for super smooth visitor navigation. Choose what goes and what stays in your nav.
Advert Management– Setup your BuySellAds adverts or run your own custom campaign, OCMX allows for complete control over your revenue system.
Automatic Image Resizing – Using TimThumb to manage our theme image resizing you never have to worry about resizing your pictures when switching to our Themes.
Ajax Comments – When a visitor submits a comment to your blog there are no page reloads. That means they can watch a video and comment at the same time.
This full-featured theme from Press 75 lets you embed almost any video format. Also included are theme options panel for further page customization and content management options, thumbnail options and a drop-drown navigation menu, among others.
I like: Simplicity of this theme. Content layout.
I dislike: Menus and buttons that have soft 3D effect.
Best for: The On Demand WordPress theme is perfect for virtually any video-centric website. You can use any embeddable video format from any video service (such as Vimeo, YouTube, etc.). Or, if you want to host your own video files such as FLV, Quicktime, etc. you can do that as well
List of Features - On Demand
Theme Options Page – The theme options page is available within your WordPress admin and allows you to configure miscellaneous theme related options. Primarily these options include basic theme customization settings (e.g. the theme logo), featured content settings and more
Custom Menus Support – The custom menus control panel allows you to configure/customize the theme menus however you like. Add custom menu items, choose specific pages & categories and arrange your menus in any order.
Widgetized Content Areas – WordPress Widgets are plugins that add visitor visual and interactivity options and features, such as sidebar widgets for post categories, tag clouds, navigation, search, etc.
Network Installation Support – A multisite network is a collection of sites that all share the same WordPress installation. They can also share plugins and themes. The individual sites in the network are virtual sites in the sense that they do not have their own directories on your server, although they do have separate directories for media uploads within the shared installation, and they do have separate tables in the database.
Custom Color Options – Color customization options allow you to modify miscellaneous theme colors such as the background, content and font colors. In most cases, color customization options (if included) are very basic and do not provide the ability to change every aspect of the theme.
Featured Content Options
Optimized for Video
Social Media Integration – Social media integration refers to any options (menus, widgets, theme options) allowing you to configure social media links or content with the theme. Primarily this will consist of social media links within menus or the ability to display your twitter feed (for example) within the sidebar.
Advertisement Integration – Advertisement integration option allow you to configure and display advertisements within specified theme locations. Most Press75 themes do not include advertisement integration options in order to maintain simple and elegant design.
Localized for Translations – The majority of Press75.com themes do not currently include localization/translation options. This is something we are working on for all future themes and theme updates.
Includes Sample Content – Most Press75.com themes include a sample data file that you can use to import sample data (as shown on the theme demo) within your own WordPress installation.
Cross Browser & SEO Friendly – All Press75.com themes have been tested to ensure they are compatible with modern and popular browsers including Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer (8.0 and up).
100% Valid HTML and/or HTML5 – All Press75.com theme contain 100% valid XHTML and CSS code. Please keep in mind that some themes do include HTML5 and CSS3 elements.
100% Valid CSS and/or CSS3 – All Press75.com theme contain 100% valid XHTML and CSS code. Please keep in mind that some themes do include HTML5 and CSS3 elements.
Detailed Theme Documentation – You will get access to detailed theme documentation (updated regularly).
Access to Video Tutorials – You will get access to our comprehensive WordPress video tutorial library which will help you along your way within WordPress.
Fullscreen Video & Images background support. Audio background while viewing images. One of the complete themes with great addons that will make your life easier. Image Slider Background. It is incredibly easy to use. The theme is not optimized for iPhone or iPad but has a fallback so that they can watch videos on these devices.
I like: Background image slider. Shortcode implementation. Portfolio & Slider custom post types. Video Documentation. Google map integration. Fullscreen gallery. Dark and Light skin.
I dislike: To be honest, nothing disliked.
Best for: Personal portfolio, Video or Image showcase, blogging with nice background image slider.
This video-centric premium theme has been rebuilt and redesigned to allow users more flexibility in running and maintaining a video blog or website using WordPress. Its simple and sophisticated design, coupled with features such as drop-down navigation, automatic thumbnail creation and easy logo updater make it a good option for video bloggers.
I like: Similar but better looking than On Demand Theme. Simplicity. Video embed option.
I dislike: Social media implementation, it is possible over widgets but I feel this theme should include it by default. Competition did great job so it feels like lack of features out of the box.
Best for: With video embed option it makes this theme great for video showcase, but you can use it as portfolio and small business site as well.
List of Features - Video Elements
Theme Options Page – The theme options page is available within your WordPress admin and allows you to configure miscellaneous theme related options. Primarily these options include basic theme customization settings (e.g. the theme logo), featured content settings and more
Custom Menus Support – The custom menus control panel allows you to configure/customize the theme menus however you like. Add custom menu items, choose specific pages & categories and arrange your menus in any order.
Widgetized Content Areas – WordPress Widgets are plugins that add visitor visual and interactivity options and features, such as sidebar widgets for post categories, tag clouds, navigation, search, etc.
Network Installation Support – A multisite network is a collection of sites that all share the same WordPress installation. They can also share plugins and themes. The individual sites in the network are virtual sites in the sense that they do not have their own directories on your server, although they do have separate directories for media uploads within the shared installation, and they do have separate tables in the database.
Custom Color Options – Color customization options allow you to modify miscellaneous theme colors such as the background, content and font colors. In most cases, color customization options (if included) are very basic and do not provide the ability to change every aspect of the theme.
Featured Content Options
Optimized for Video
Advertisement Integration – Advertisement integration option allow you to configure and display advertisements within specified theme locations. Most Press75 themes do not include advertisement integration options in order to maintain simple and elegant design.
Includes Sample Content – Most Press75.com themes include a sample data file that you can use to import sample data (as shown on the theme demo) within your own WordPress installation.
Cross Browser & SEO Friendly – All Press75.com themes have been tested to ensure they are compatible with modern and popular browsers including Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer (8.0 and up).
100% Valid HTML and/or HTML5 – All Press75.com theme contain 100% valid XHTML and CSS code. Please keep in mind that some themes do include HTML5 and CSS3 elements.
100% Valid CSS and/or CSS3 – All Press75.com theme contain 100% valid XHTML and CSS code. Please keep in mind that some themes do include HTML5 and CSS3 elements.
Detailed Theme Documentation – You will get access to detailed theme documentation (updated regularly).
Access to Video Tutorials – You will get access to our comprehensive WordPress video tutorial library which will help you along your way within WordPress.
This multimedia theme from Press 75 showcases audio, video and photos in a clean and simple design. Included are a custom audio player with playlist capabilities for all devices, custom gallery templates and the standard theme options panel that is native to Press 75. Other features included featured content options, custom color and layout options, plus more.
I like: With Hoon is all about simplicity, and it does it well. Audio player with playlist. Responsive design.
I dislike: Menu lines. Out of box design, I feel it could use little customization of css.
Best for: Small portfolio pages, personal showcase page, where less is better.
List of Features - Hoon
Theme Options Page – The theme options page is available within your WordPress admin and allows you to configure miscellaneous theme related options. Primarily these options include basic theme customization settings (e.g. the theme logo), featured content settings and more
Custom Menus Support – The custom menus control panel allows you to configure/customize the theme menus however you like. Add custom menu items, choose specific pages & categories and arrange your menus in any order.
Widgetized Content Areas – WordPress Widgets are plugins that add visitor visual and interactivity options and features, such as sidebar widgets for post categories, tag clouds, navigation, search, etc.
Network Installation Support – A multisite network is a collection of sites that all share the same WordPress installation. They can also share plugins and themes. The individual sites in the network are virtual sites in the sense that they do not have their own directories on your server, although they do have separate directories for media uploads within the shared installation, and they do have separate tables in the database.
Custom Layout Options – Layout options allow you to modify the actual layout of the theme content areas which may include the layout of posts and pages.
Custom Color Options – Color customization options allow you to modify miscellaneous theme colors such as the background, content and font colors. In most cases, color customization options (if included) are very basic and do not provide the ability to change every aspect of the theme.
Featured Content Options
Optimized for Video
Optimized for Photo
Social Media integration – Social media integration refers to any options (menus, widgets, theme options) allowing you to configure social media links or content with the theme. Primarily this will consist of social media links within menus or the ability to display your twitter feed (for example) within the sidebar.
Responsive Design – Responsive design refers to a theme designed in a way that allows the layout to dynamically change depending on what screen resolution the viewer has. This also includes optimizations for mobile devices as well such as iPhones and iPads.
Localized for Translations – The majority of Press75.com themes do not currently include localization/translation options. This is something we are working on for all future themes and theme updates.
Includes Sample Content – Most Press75.com themes include a sample data file that you can use to import sample data (as shown on the theme demo) within your own WordPress installation.
Cross Browser & SEO Friendly – All Press75.com themes have been tested to ensure they are compatible with modern and popular browsers including Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer (8.0 and up).
100% Valid HTML and/or HTML5 – All Press75.com theme contain 100% valid XHTML and CSS code. Please keep in mind that some themes do include HTML5 and CSS3 elements.
100% Valid CSS and/or CSS3 – All Press75.com theme contain 100% valid XHTML and CSS code. Please keep in mind that some themes do include HTML5 and CSS3 elements.
Detailed Theme Documentation – You will get access to detailed theme documentation (updated regularly).
Access to Video Tutorials – You will get access to our comprehensive WordPress video tutorial library which will help you along your way within WordPress.
Vidley is another great video theme from Press 75 for video bloggers. It can also be used for news, portfolios, photography, promotion sites and the like. Features include logo customization, drop-down navigation menu, google analytics customization, and it is widget ready.
I like: Modern design. Clean and simple. Overall I do like this theme.
I dislike: Widgets are displayed on bottom. I got impression “something is missing” using this theme it could be only me.
Best for: Personal page with some but not much text. Simple posts with images or videos. Portfolio page.
List of Features - Vidley
Theme Options Page – The theme options page is available within your WordPress admin and allows you to configure miscellaneous theme related options. Primarily these options include basic theme customization settings (e.g. the theme logo), featured content settings and more
Custom Menus Support – The custom menus control panel allows you to configure/customize the theme menus however you like. Add custom menu items, choose specific pages & categories and arrange your menus in any order.
Widgetized Content Areas – WordPress Widgets are plugins that add visitor visual and interactivity options and features, such as sidebar widgets for post categories, tag clouds, navigation, search, etc.
Network Installation Support – A multisite network is a collection of sites that all share the same WordPress installation. They can also share plugins and themes. The individual sites in the network are virtual sites in the sense that they do not have their own directories on your server, although they do have separate directories for media uploads within the shared installation, and they do have separate tables in the database.
Custom Color Options – Color customization options allow you to modify miscellaneous theme colors such as the background, content and font colors. In most cases, color customization options (if included) are very basic and do not provide the ability to change every aspect of the theme.
Featured Content Options
Optimized for Video
Advertisement Integration – Advertisement integration option allow you to configure and display advertisements within specified theme locations. Most Press75 themes do not include advertisement integration options in order to maintain simple and elegant design.
Includes Sample Content – Most Press75.com themes include a sample data file that you can use to import sample data (as shown on the theme demo) within your own WordPress installation.
Cross Browser & SEO Friendly – All Press75.com themes have been tested to ensure they are compatible with modern and popular browsers including Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer (8.0 and up).
100% Valid HTML and/or HTML5 – All Press75.com theme contain 100% valid XHTML and CSS code. Please keep in mind that some themes do include HTML5 and CSS3 elements.
100% Valid CSS and/or CSS3 – All Press75.com theme contain 100% valid XHTML and CSS code. Please keep in mind that some themes do include HTML5 and CSS3 elements.
Detailed Theme Documentation – You will get access to detailed theme documentation (updated regularly).
Access to Video Tutorials – You will get access to our comprehensive WordPress video tutorial library which will help you along your way within WordPress.
This innovative and unique multimedia theme from Elegant Themes utilizes WordPress post formats along with CSS3 animations so that you can publish a variety of content quickly and easily. Audio, photographs, video and standard blog posting are made easier. A good number of font options are available for you to choose from.
I like: Feel and look of this theme. Simple but powerful design. Video preview on mouse over.
I dislike: Nothing really stands out. This theme is great for what it should be.
Best for: Personal or small business that wants to share multimedia content. Notebook makes it easy to share audio, video, photographs and standard blog posts in clean and simple way.
List of Features - Notebook
Opera compatible
Netscape compatible
Safari compatible
WordPress 3.3 compatible
Unlimited Color Schemes – Notebook comes with various background textures and the ability to adjust the background color and font colors giving you an unlimited number of possibilities.
Dozens of Fonts – Notebook comes with various font options, allowing you to adjust the header and body text independently.
Automated Thumbnail Resizing – This theme utilizes timthumb to automatically resize your thumbnail images. Because of this, only one thumbnail images is required per post, despite the various thumbnail sizes used in the theme.
Gallery Section
Threaded Comments
Optional Blog-style Structure – Even though Notebook was created to be a CMS with a Page-Based structure, you can also run the theme like a normal blog instead.
Unique Css3 Effects – Notebook will surely impress your visitors with its use of advanced CSS3 effects that will work smoothly on all modern browsers and mobile devices.
Gravatar ready
Firefox compatible
IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
Advertisement Ready – With Notebook you can place 125×125 banner images in your sidebar and 468×60 ads to your post pages with ease. Advertisements are handled from within wp-admin, and can be turned on and off at any time.
Widget ready sidebars
Theme Options Page
Custom thumbnail images
PSD files
Valid XHTML + CSS
Smooth tabless design
Advanced Features
ePanel Theme Options – Tweaking your blog has never been easier. With our advanced theme options page, you are given complete control over your theme and its various settings. Improving usability is important to us, and we have made an effort to greatly enhance your user experience.
Shortcodes Collection – Designing and organizing your posts has never been easier. With our large collection of shortcodes you can create beautiful and complex layouts with ease, greatly improving the functionality and variety of your content.
Page Templates – Page templates make your life easier by giving you access to pre-made layouts and utilities. Each template can be applied to an individual page, transforming the way it looks and functions to create new and unique forms of content.
Complete Localization – This theme has been localized for easy translation. Using the theme’s MO and PO files, you can quickly translate the design without having to hunt through the theme’s PHP files to change each word.
Support and Updates – Having a well designed theme doesn’t mean anything if you don’t have a way insure its longevity. As long as you are a member of ElegantThemes, you can be sure that your theme will always be compatible with the latest version of WordPress and that our tech support staff will be there to assist you.
As it name says Gridlocked is grid-based, layout shuffling, minimalistic theme for creatives. At first it is similar as theme we discuses before – Notebook, and from outside it does look a like but features and posting, visual features are completely different. It is great for showcase of your photos and/or video. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.
I like: Neat and clean design. With grid layout you see more work at once which is great for first impression.
I dislike: No dislikes. If you find some, let me know.
Best for: Blogging, video, photos, creative work. Would look great for tutorial sites with lots of images and video materials. Really neat theme..
List of Features - Gridlock
Gimmick-free, Grid-Based Design & Valid HTML
Dark & Light Colour Schemes
Filterable Portfolio (can be used as homepage or site section)
Tumblr-style Blog (can be used as homepage or site section)
Post Format Support (Asides, Images, Galleries, Quotes, Links, Standard, Audio, Video)
Built-in “like” system – no plugin necessary
Full Localisation Support (contains .po/.mo files)
2 Custom Widgets (Twitter, Flickr)
Simple Theme Options (Unbranded!)
WordPress 3.0 Ready (Menus & Featured Images)
jQuery Magic (Re-shuffling grids – try resizing your browser!)
Page Templates (Archives, Full Width, jQuery Contact Form)
Custom Login Logo & Custom Default Gravatar Support
One of the full sized themes that I like. Your work is displayed on full screen until you go mouse over, then menu appears. Impact to visitor is pure art and work you present without extra not needed features. Theme provider took care of everything and made videos how to set up theme by your needs. This theme is all about presentation of your creativity.
I like: Amazing display of images on full screen, option to show videos as well.
I dislike: Wall option where work is displayed as gallery, each mouse movement move screen, and you need to stick to video you are playing, otherwise screen will move and it can be very distracting. I don’t like font used in sub-menu, but it’s changable.
Best for: Presentation of your products, work, creativity photos or video vise. Easy to navigate, great looking. No matter if your main work is video or photos this theme will please all your and customer needs.
List of Features - Village
Slideshows
Slideshow With Right Navigation (Landscape Thumbs) – This is the slider you will see on the demo homepage. You can choose any page to be your homepage with Village. This slideshow comes with thumbs that have landscape orientation and navigation controls.
Slideshow With Right Navigation (Portrait Thumbs) – This slideshow comes with thumbs that have portrait orientation and navigation controls.
Slideshow With Floating Navigation (Landscape Thumbs) – This is a unique slider that has a centralised floating navigation section. It comes complete with navigation controls.
Slideshow With Floating Navigation (Portrait Thumbs) – This is a unique slider that has a centralised floating navigation section. It comes complete with navigation controls. This slider has portrait thumbs.
Slideshow With No Cropping – This slider will not crop any part of your photo. Awesome for portrait orientated images!
Slideshow With No Thumbs – This is a slideshow with no navigation controls or thumbnails.
Galleries
PrettyPhoto Galleries – Showcase your work with the awesome prettyPhoto script. You can choose between 1-4 columns and you can also define whether your thumbnails appear in landscape or portrait orientation. You can link to external sites from gallery thumbnails and also open videos in prettyPhoto.
Fancybox Galleries – Showcase your work with the Fancybox script. You can link to external sites from gallery thumbnails. You can choose between 1-4 columns and you can also define whether your thumbnails appear in landscape or portrait orientation.
Colorbox Galleries – Showcase your work with the Colorbox script. You can choose between 1-4 columns and you can also define whether your thumbnails appear in landscape or portrait orientation. You can link to external sites from gallery thumbnails.
Galleria Galleries – Showcase your work with the Galleria Gallery script.
Documentation + Video Demonstrations & Support Forum
Interactive jQuery Walls
Wall – This is the standard wall template with menu toggle button.
Wall – With Menu – This template shows the menu permanently.
There are 5 types of wall item available to use…
Normal – This is the standard wall item that shows an image.
Lightbox – This type of wall item allows you to use the prettyPhoto lightbox plugin to display a larger image or video.
Link – This type of wall item allows you to link to an external site by clicking on it.
Vimeo – This type of wall item allows you to show a vimeo video. Scrolling over this type of wall item will not work.
Youtube – This type of wall item allows you to show a youtube video.
Portfolios
Standard Portfolio – Display your work and choose from 1-3 columns.
Portfolio Paged – Display your work as a blog type layout showing additional info about a certain project.
There are 6 available portfolio item types.
Image – Display an image as a portfolio item. Lightbox enabled!
External Link – The portfolio item links to an external url.
Self Hosted Video – The portfolio item type shows a self hosted video.
Youtube – The portfolio item type shows a Youtube video.
Vimeo – The portfolio item type shows a Vimeo video.
Audio – The portfolio item type plays an audio file.
Sidebars & Widgets
Unlimited Sidebars – This theme allows you to add a custom sidebar to each page and post. The theme comes with a sidebar manager to easily add and remove custom sidebars in seconds.
8 Custom Widgets
Twitter Widget
Popular Posts w/ Thumbnails
Recent Posts w/ Thumbnails
Popular Portfolio Items w/ Thumbnails
Recent Portfolio Items w/ Thumbnails
Youtube Widget
Vimeo Widget
Flickr Widget
Backgrounds
Background Post Type – Once you have created a background you will never need to create it again as backgrounds are defined by a custom post type allowing you simply apply an existing background you created to a page/post/portfolio instantaneously.
Select Backgrounds For Archive, Search & 404 pages. – You can choose what backgrounds to display on archive, search and 404 pages.
Internationalized + WPML Support – This theme is internationalized so the theme can translations in more than one language simultaneously. It also supports the WPML plugin.
Skins
Dark Noise
Dark Crosshair
Dark Fabric
Stone
Light Fabric
Fonts – You can choose fonts from the entire Google Fonts Library. You can change the fonts for the menu, submenu, headings and main body font.
SEO – Village theme comes with built in SEO optimization but you can disable it and use third party plugin instead.
Other Features
Shortcode generator that is built into the Visual Editor!
100% Timthumb FREE ! This is no timthumb resizing so security risks are decreased.
Great range of shortcodes and typography included.
Aware is interactive, responsive portfolio theme, great for freelanceers, web designers, photogrpahers and videgraphers alike. It comes with responsive design. It comes bundled with great list of features like custom Portfolio Posts, with Image, Youtube and Vimeo Support. Option to select non-google system fonts as well.
I like: Simple, modern but clean design. Interactive displaying of pictures on front. Responsive design. And lots of features that this theme includes.
I dislike: –
Best for: Freelances, small business, photographers, videographers and other graphic artists. Clean and simple way of showing your creative work to others.
List of Features - Aware
Option to Show Title on Thumbnail Hover
Option to Add Spacing for Thumbnails on Homepage.
New Page template for to showcase all portfolio items.
Option to Select Non-Google System Fonts
Responsive Design – Tablet and Mobile Optimized
Ajax-Powered Portfolio Homepage
70+ Google Fonts
XML and SQL files included to load default content.
6 Featured Section Textures
Light and Dark Versions
5 custom WordPress widgets
Powerful Unbranded Theme Options Panel
WordPress 3.3 Ready (Menus & Featured Images)
Custom Portfolio Posts, with Image, Youtube and Vimeo Support.
Interesting theme, that is very popular among users. Lots of options and features that can turn this theme to any niche category as you need. Fully recommended. Among great features it is responsive, and you have control and options how theme should behave on mobile phones and other devices. Localization ready, meaning you can transform this theme easily into your language. From all features couple of cool ones are: Responsive Google Map shortcode, Replace featured images with embedded videos, Adjust your theme’s image crop size …
Very cool theme, with cool social and other icons. Filterable portfolio. Responsive design. Lots of addons, features makes this one of the best responsive themes out there. Individual sliders for each page, auto play or auto pause at start, touch gestures on mobile devices, option caption on banners, content may be tweaked for mobile devices, optional text for each slide (HTML supported), use it for image, audio, video, quote, linking and status + regular posts.
Another Full Screen Portfolio theme great for putting your work in front of everything, no matter if your work is photography, graphic design, illustration or even video.
You can also customize the background on each and every page on the site, so you can add a custom graphic for each portfolio piece or page to really make your work shine.
This theme is designed for videographers, photographers, motion artists, graphic designers and all kinds of artists out there. It’s slick, grid-based interface makes it easy to showcase a good number of artwork on a single page. The VGrid plugin makes the layout responsive to the device it is viewed on for optimal viewing pleasure. The 12 professionally-designed styles make for a cool selection, with the ability to create your own within a few minutes. This is one of the most noted WordPress themes for portfolio showcasing.
This retro and colorful video blog is popular among video bloggers or “vlogging”. Creating and posting videos is incredibly quick and easy; simply copying and pasting a video’s embed code qualifies as a post. This theme’s features include automatic video resizing, widgetized sidebar along with other custom widgets and 17 cool color schemes.
Woo tube sounds a lot like Youtube and for good reason. This video or multimedia theme is great for daily video blogging or “vlogging”. Posting is easy because of its simple and clear-cut functionality, automatic video resizing, widgetized sidebar and 7 color schemes. It can be used for standard blogging, gallery, portfolio and any other kind of website you’d like. The best part is the rating system.
Hosting for WordPress sites
While visual effects, simplicity, functionality are very important for every website, most important is platform that serves clients. Shared hosting companies offer a lot for “nothing”, but when your site want more resources you might consider best WordPress hosting there is: WPEngine hosting.
Providers of above listed themes
There are plenty of other themes that could help you build amazing site. You might check providers of themes and find what you like the most:
Elegantthemes is one of the popular WordPress theme provider because themes are made very user-friendly, even without knowledge and skills in designing and programming. The ‘ePanel’ or options page lets you customize your site in many unique combinations. Each theme comes equipped with a widget-ready sidebar, custom thumbnail images, search bar and gravatar ready feature among others. Unlimited access to all of their themes for only $39, great value. They offer Handheld Theme, HandHeld works in tandem with your normal theme, and is only used when the plugin detects that your visitor is using a mobile phone.
Woothemes is a provider of themes developed using CSS, PHP and WordPress. These themes cater to a variety of functions such as magazine, portfolio, business and personal types. The backend part of the theme allows you to customize your page the way you like it without having to code it. You can also combine features from more than one theme. Resizing thumbnails and size of text is made easy with the auto-sizing feature. The unique Woo framework allows for custom page templates and even translation features. However, Woothemes is not as compatible cross-browser unlike Elegantthemes and Obox-design.
You have two options, buy themes separately and get 2-3 bonus themes, cheapest solution but you don’t get PSD files. Or the club participation which is perfect for multi-site owners, freelancers, and web agencies needing access to ALL their themes.
Themeforest is one of the most popular marketplace for template developers such as WordPress, Joomla, Magento and many more. Themes have excellent functionality with an extensive network of tools that provide you a great number of options so that you can fine-tune every detail of you site. There are three main categories for Themeforest WordPress themes: blog, e-commerce and CMS or Content Management System. With over 750 premium WP themes to choose from and counting, customers will have a lot to consider.
Themeforest is part of big company name envato, and under same page you can easily browse and buy from other envato markets such as audiojungle, themeforest, videohive, codecanyon, photodune and others. Great thing about this market is that you can get all on one place.
Press75 is among the known theme providers of clean, unique and efficient WordPress themes. Users are faced with an interface with excellent content management options and features. One of the downsides to this provider is their rather limited selection of themes. At 17, they are behind other providers such as Woothemes, Elegantthemes, etc; however, they do release a new theme every month. Press75 Themes are also not SEO-friendly, but that problem is easily solved with free WordPress SEO plug-ins, like All in One Seo, or Platinum SEO.
Press75 has very interesting package Download all of our 21 themes for only $75! That’s just $3.57 per theme!
Obox-design themes were developed with both websites and blogs in mind, particular for business, news, portfolio and entertainment. Like Press75, their selection is considerably smaller than other providers; however, the diversity of themes is sufficient. Obox themes are good across browsers and are search engine optimized.
Themeforest include Obox themes in their marketplace.
Solostream is not so known WordPress theme provider, but they offer themes that are easy to customize and search engine optimized. Multiply page templates allow for variety within your site. Expect great support via forums, tutorials and videos. It’s relatively cheap, at $79 for 21 professionally designed themes.
May be cheapest from above:
Basic – get all themes with free update 1 month, free support 1 month
Silver – get whole package with everything, PSD included, 3 months updates and 3 months support, 1 theme each month, revenue is Quarterly
Gold – get everything as above with 12 months support, 12 months updates, revenue is annually
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