This is easily the most fun I’ve ever had working on a WordPress theme to date! ShapeShifter is a single-page WordPress template that has been designed to be just about the simplest theme you could possibly use. This theme is lean, mean, and ready for you to install in minutes.

This theme is perfect for anyone looking to launch a site right away. It’s perfect for businesses, creatives, and individuals who want to quickly publish their portfolio or image galleries, individuals who want a streamlined site without too many bells or whistles, and anyone else who’s serious about having a simple, well designed website with a full powered content manager.

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• Custom Admin Panel
• Unlimited Color Options (with 5 ready-made skins, see below)
• Installation instructions (with images!)
• Full PSD & pre-sized PSD ’s for skinning
• “Build Your Own” Contact Form
• Image Gallery Template
• jQuery Lightbox
• jQuery Footer Bar
• Cu3er Integration (optional)
• Cufon Font Replacement
• Both WordPress and HTML versions included!!
• Color Schemes: Light, Dark, Red, Green, Blue

The Shapeshifter theme boasts a wide slider on the front page/homepage

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Foliotastic boasts  a wide slider on the homepage plus a caption on the left side of the layout

The Blog layout for this theme

Kinesis is a liquid WordPress theme for photographers, wedsigners and other creative companies in mind.

This site will always putt your content at the center of each visitors mind It has a very clean layout and is created to be easily adjusted to your needs.

This WordPress theme featured a full options panel, watch the screenshots for an overall overview off the theme options panel.

Key Features

• Homepage with a special moving boxes plugin to show latest work or blog items
• About us page for profiling your company
• Portfolio page with a coda slider plugin
• A stylish blogging page
• Contact page
• Coda slider V2.0
• Sliderswitch for the background images
• Easing – Moving boxes plugin

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The Kinesis theme features a unique slider and sleek design

The Kinesis theme also features  a customized Portfolio layout

The FotoFolio Landscape is compatible with the recent WordPress upgrade.

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Key Features

• Widget-ready
• SEO Ready
• jQuery Slider
• Sleek color schemes

Your most recent photos are located in the jQuery slider at the homepage of the theme

This is the About Us layout for the Fotofolio Landscape theme

Although the CSS Gallery theme was built for use as a tutorials gallery template, you can customize the theme to be used for photography blogs.

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The homepage of this theme features a 2-column gallery and a widget-ready sidebar

The theme is ideal for a wide range of web projects, from managing a CSS gallery to building a photography or web design portfolio, from running a small eCommerce shop to publishing an online magazine.

There are plenty of creative ways to use Domino and I’m sure you will take full advantage of the theme’s layout. Your imagination is the limit!

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Key Features

• Easy to install and ready to use in minutes
• Well documented – VIDEO tutorials included using Screenr (my Screenr page)
• Widget ready sidebar and footer
• Built-in jQuery image zoom script – FancyBox
• Built-in localization – easy to translate in your language
• Built-in social bookmarking links
• Built-in breadcrumb navigation
• Built-in FeedBurner RSS and email subscription
• Sweet page navigation and dropdown category menu
• Tabbed sidebar navigation to add static or dynamic content

On the homepage of the Domino theme, you will find a gallery plus an excerpt about the photo

The Domino theme features a widget-ready footer

Image River is a gallery style WordPress theme that is packaged with 3 different colour shemes. Image River transform your WordPress blog in a image gallery. You can easily showcase websites, graphics, prints, logo, cards… The design has been greatly enhanced using javascript Mootools framework, and is easy to implement.

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Key Features

• Unique and automated colors palette script
• 3 colour schemes which can be tweaked from the backend (Default, Black and White)
• Featured Post integration
• Mootools Ajax Slider for featured Post
• 5 Kadom widgets (Feedburner, Featured Post, Links & Advertising)
• Clean and elegant design
• 2 columns layout
• Widgets ready on sidebar
• Thumbnail on post with automated resizing
• Built-in gravatars in comment section
• Threaded comments
• Google Adsense or BuySellAds ready
• Google analytics or other statistics script ready
• Google Feedburner ready
• Clean & valid codes – XHTML 1.0 Strict + CSS 2.1
• Cross browser compatible : Firefox 2+, IE 6+, Opera, Safari, Chrome

The Image River theme is an ideal blog theme which can also be used for portfolios

The Image River theme comes with an organized gallery

The Rich ShowCase theme is a well-designed solution for your portfolio and photo gallery demands. The theme lets you publish photos in hierarchical galleries, and albums. Besides that, the Rich ShowCase theme takes care of all your blogging needs as well.

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As soon as site visitors reach your page, they will see your most recent work through this jQuery based slider

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Key Features:

• Two themes in one, Dark and Light (more to come!)
• Fully layered and detailed PSDs
• Logo Template PSDs to easily create your logo graphic
• Very well documented PDF instructions, so it’s easy to setup and customize.
• Clean & Valid Code
• SEO friendly – Search engines see the content before the navigation (in the code)
• Dashboard panel to notify you of any future updates
• Tested in all major browsers
• “Widget-Ready” with built-in custom styling (Calendar, Archives, etc.)
• All major page templates included, including the 404 page

The Gallerific theme features a wide slider which is perfect for showcasing your photos

To see the details of a certain photo, simply click on it.

ProPhoto is a clean,  simple and feature rich theme designed for WordPress. ProPhoto is geared towards photographers but could also be used for any gallery type site. It’s very simple to get up and running, and includes many features allowing for complete customization.

Features:

• Two Column Tabless Layout – based on a grid utlizing the rule of thirds
• Custom Theme Administration Panel – Allows you to edit template and home page content including the logo, google analytics code, etc. No need to go searching through code to make template changes.
• Custom Write Post Panel – Adds all the necessary image fields without the use of a plugin. This is built in and ready to go once you activate the theme.
• jQuery Lightbox – for all images
• Dynamic Image Resizing – Never worry about having to re size your images, upload large images via the WordPress admin and the theme takes care of the rest generating thumbnails, medium and large size images on the fly with caching.
• Slick jQuery Tooltips – tooltips are generated for each image
• Subtle jQuery Thumbnail Fades – customizable fade for image thumbs on hover
• Very Easy to Change Color Scheme – by modifying the pre-sliced PSD
• Very scalable page structure – allows for accommodation of large amounts of content without breaking the layout
• Compatible with all major browsers
• Seven nice large stock photos are included as well. – that’s a seven dollar value in itself!

Files Included:

• (4) PSD ’s – Main layout, Single Layout, Next & Previous buttons
• WP Theme Files
• (7) Stock Photos
• Help File

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