For a creative gallery theme, you are in the perfect location. WordPress is the ideal solution for creating an online picture gallery with amazing style, beauty and performance in mind. We have found some of the greatest WordPress gallery themes and brought them to you in this particular collection.
Photography
Your photographs are bright, dynamic and beautiful - you need a WordPress site that can deliver that same style. Photography is a web template that has a lot of flexibility and options to make a great first impression on your readers. This theme has 24 separate demo sites, each give a slightly different set of features that you might like on your own site. Pick a light or dark version with a classic left aligned menu, centered, top bar, left and right menus, full screen video…you get the picture, a lot more. There are 70 different gallery and portfolio templates. Some folks might want a three column portfolio, some might prefer four. You’ll have the option to do whatever you want with this theme. Also photographers, this theme has photo proofing feature built in, which is a must have for a photography business.
Benson
With support for amazing WordPress gallery plugins like NextGen Gallery, Envira Gallery and Sunshine, Benson is a fantastic theme for building a beautiful, easy to manage image gallery. Benson is made for all kinds of photographers, you can see from the demo that it’s styled for wedding photographers, but it could be just as strong for any sort of photographer, from portraits to photo journalism. Benson has tons of post and page layout options, you can customize layouts, appearance and even showcase your photos with a beautiful video background. Slideshows are fully supported in this responsive photo gallery theme, with multiple different image layouts possible. Custom widgets make for easy social media integration and you’ll find it very simple to create a high-impact portfolio in no time. Support from CSS Igniter is always amazing, so I think you’ll really like the Benson WordPress theme.
Gallery Pro
Showcase your posts, pages and image galleries with style, simplicity and stunning clarity. Gallery Pro is a multipurpose theme with WooCommerce integration, a perfect looking blog section and a wide variety of options for customizing your site to look like you want it to look. But all that pales in comparison to the image gallery options available with Gallery pro. This theme is all about visual content, your photographs will look fantastic on any screen size, browser or mobile device, thanks to the perfect responsiveness. Easily edit and change any setting, from colors to background image, content and more, and you can even see those changes in real time before you commit them to your site. Widget areas help boost your flexibility and creativity. As always, Genesis Framework themes load fast, look great and work very well, since the code is constantly updated.
Eero
If you’re in the market for a dynamic, attractive WordPress gallery theme, have a look at Eero, a minimalist masterpiece that makes for a wonderful platform for your images and blog content too. Made by Minimal is known for their elite level minimalist designs, clean layouts and modern styles, attractive typography and intuitive navigation is all part of that. With a theme as simple, clean and modern as Eero, your images will look fantastic. Four different gallery layouts, a variety of header options, projects pages as well as project descriptions and to top it off, Eero offers eCommerce compatibility too, which is really nice for selling products.
Immense
This is Immense, a photography centered WordPress theme that allows for unlimited photo galleries, showcasing your images in a stylish, simple and minimalistic way. Perfect for a photographer who wants to highlight incredible work without the theme itself getting all the attention. The impact of a fullscreen image gallery can be pretty big, so it’s definitely something to think about as you go to select your next template. And if you’re concerned with how your site will look on mobile devices, this Immense is perfectly responsive in every way. Add slideshow images and drag and drops the pictures into the order you want, use the video, image and gallery post types to make a really high-impact first impression. And Immense can be customized with ease, you’ll be able to quickly and easily change nearly every setting in this theme, even if you’re not a WordPress developer.
Eris
Eris is a minimal portfolio and gallery theme from Themes Kingdom, one of my favorite theme makers. I really like their simple, clean designs. Tons of white space with these themes. Eris has a very stylish design and a sort of post-modern navigation setup, with the menu on the left side of the layout, spun 90 degrees to read vertically. That might not suit everyone’s taste but for those who want a very modern look for displaying their photographs, it could be a nice choice. Crisp and elegant, you’re going to enjoy the way Eris can make multiple kinds and styles of content mesh together perfectly. It’s really pretty cool to see on screen and making a great first impression has never been easier.
Exposure
For people who want to showcase their shots on the web, Exposure would make a great theme for your WordPress site. It has a fully responsive design, perfect for photographers and hobbyists, since this ensures that your photos and other site content are of their best quality in different screen sizes. It is also retina ready, giving your sites a crisper image in different devices.
Exposure provides a lot of customizable features. It lets you choose from different slider options, color schemes, fonts, unlimited sidebars, layouts, and so much more. It also provides a built-in calendar which lets you add your events and keep your viewers updated about your upcoming activities. The theme comes with MegaMenu, which is a highly responsive and customizable drop down menu. The drag and drop visual page builder provided makes all your editing even simpler.
Exposure is ecommerce ready through the WooCommerce plugin, and it is translation ready by providing you with the WPML plugin. It also has a powerful contact form module which lets you create any type of contact form more conveniently. To ensure that your site will get a great number of visitors, Exposure is SEO optimized to help put your site in the top rankings in search results.
Borderland
Although the Borderland WordPress theme comes with an affordable price tag, it is commonly regarded as one of the best options for modern website creation no matter what the site owner requires portfolio-based pages for. With the high-quality code, full responsiveness, retina-ready graphics and full compatibility with all Internet browsers and screen sizes, Borderland allows webmasters to present their company, team or self with an incredible style in a highly user-friendly fashion.
Developers with CSS knowledge will appreciate the ability to use child themes for design tweaks. Website owners with no experience coding at all can use the extremely intuitive Visual Composer premium plug-in to handle all other features on their site. These are amazingly extensive. Besides multiple portfolio and gallery settings, you can also edit background images, use parallax scrolling, fully customize the header and footer areas, select the perfect number of page columns for your purposes, create slideshows with Layer Slider, choose from over 600 different Google Fonts, add retina-ready icons to highlight particular blocks of content, input a secure and reliable Contact Form 7 and so much more. The Borderland WordPress theme includes absolutely everything a professional website needs without any difficulty implementing it.
RokoPhoto Pro
This is ThemeIsle’s best selling photography portfolio and gallery theme. I’m not sure they have another one, so I don’t know what that’s trying to say, actually. But, RokoPhoto is a good one, in my opinion. The style is simple, it allows the images to do most of the talking. Big, wide, high resolution images will look fantastic on any website built using this RokoPhoto template. Wedding photographers, photo journalists, fashion photographers and more, lots of folks have really loved what they’ve gotten from RokoPhoto. RokoPhoto is WooCommerce ready, super easy to set up and use on a day to day basis, there’s a page builder included and it’s SEO friendly too.
Pure Photo
Pure Photo is a new, full width responsive photography portfolio theme for WordPress, with fantastic options for both a light and dark basic design, a real-time WordPress customizer feature, which takes into account instantaneous style changes with live updates, so you can change out your fonts, typography styles, text and element colors, formats and various other options before you reveal them on your website. You have the power to choose precisely what you need as you go, with no need to reload the website to see any changes you’ve made. There are a bunch (20) of exceptionally built short -codes included with the theme, so your pages and posts will look beautiful, with a lot of custom features that make the site look like a truly professional website.
Pure-Photo is an extraordinary looking and premium WordPress theme that permits you to showcase and sell your photos, video, prints or any digitally downloadable product. When you’re searching for a WordPress site that can hold it’s own with any style of photography, from food products, to wedding pictures, vacation and travel, restaurants, interior design and more, this could be the theme for you. Attract attention with the Revolution Slider and Layer Slider, two of the best and most popular premium Slider themes included. They offer nine full screen slider animation effects, that give your site impact from the very front page.
Lookbook
This WordPress image gallery theme is called Lookbook. Lookbook is a simple looking theme, but there’s more than meets the eye. Lookbook is well organized and it’s a wonderful way to present your images, image galleries and portfolios with a simple, masonry grid style or other great grid styles. With Lookbook, it’s all but guaranteed you’ll produce an incredible image gallery that can really impress your visitors. The first thing you notice about Lookbook is the attractive, well ordered and clean tiled layout, which gives a visual way to allow your visitors to navigate through your content. Don’t worry, if you don’t love the mosaic layout, there are plenty of other image gallery layouts. No matter which you choose, Lookbook delivers big impact and a wonderful first impression for everyone, making your galleries look incredible. This theme is by GraphPaper Press, so you have tons of customization options at your disposal. Change widgets, headers, footers, favicons, text blocks and menus with ease. Since Lookbook is a responsive theme, it’s going to look great on all screen sizes you can throw at it.
Lookbook is also a full-featured eCommerce site, so if you want to sell products with WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads or others, you can. With a multitude of post formats, custom widget and more, Lookbook has a really powerful set of options for crafting a full featured, well liked blog too. With what you get for the money, Lookbook is quite a bargain too, since you actually get 46 themes for the price of one along with top notch, premium support. Anyway, check it out below and let us know what you think.
Divi
Divi is a theme that is so professional, so multi-faceted, it could end up in pretty much any collection on this website. It almost feels like cheating, but I’m adding Divi to this collection of image gallery themes. Divi offers real time design, you can actually drag and drop elements, customize content on the screen and organize your posts and pages incredibly fast. Just click and type or drag your way to a design that perfectly fits your needs. Not feeling up to that? Well, there are tons of great pre-made demo styles to choose from and plenty of them help highlight original creative work like photo galleries.
Shutter
ThemeFuse has produced a very attractive theme for showcasing photo galleries and images, it is named Shutter and it is a fantastic way to perfectly frame all of your images. What should you look for in a picture gallery site? Clean presentation is key but highly elastic layouts may be equally as important. ThemeFuse has made sure that Shutter provides all of that and more. Shutter includes 5 trendy, slightly different demo websites, showing what your website could look like in many different situations with completely different designs. You will find demonstration websites for Phillipe Hansman, Richard Avedon, Edward Weston and Diane Arbus, every one of those responsive in every way themes was built to professionally emphasize your work with a different look, feel, design and style.