Top 7 WordPress Themes for Photographers

April 22, 2016Sabih Javed

As a photographer, if you post photos on stock photo websites, you are doing a good job. I mean websites like Flickr will give you decent exposure. But you should have your own website too where you can publish pictures the way you like.

Having a website for showcasing your photographs will give a whole new life to your work. There are some overwhelming WordPress themes for photographers that are extremely user-friendly. Managing a WordPress photography theme and website is easy as well as fun.

1. Gleam

Gleam has a full-screen portfolio which makes it a perfect WordPress theme for photographers. You can upload as many photos as you want. It is a tidy theme that uses flash and Ajax smartly.

It allows you to set custom photos as background for each page. You can add text where needed but if you only upload images, it will do extremely well.

It is a responsive theme and works perfectly on all the devices. The images are resized based on the screen size of the device.

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2. ePhoto

ePhoto by Elegant Themes is perhaps one of the best photography WordPress themes. If you are interested in starting a photography blog, this is the best theme. You don’t have to add a lot of text rather adding images will do the work.

If, however, you want to create a proper blog with text posts, you can do so. It is a 2-in-1 WordPress theme where you can publish image only posts as well as text and image posts.

ePhoto comes in two color styles. The background color of the theme is dark which gives a glamorous feel.

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3. eGallery

This is another masterpiece from Elegant Themes. eGallery uses JavaScript to make your website look professional and appealing. It comes in three color schemes.

The visitors can read the excerpt of the image (or the post) by clicking on a small arrow on the picture. This allows them to preview the post without opening it. It is really a reader-friendly theme with lots of features.

It is a great theme for photographers who wish to publish posts and want to write text for instance, travel bloggers who tend to post stories and description of places they have visited.

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4. Envisioned

If you only want to publish images on your photography website, Envisioned is the right theme to go for. It is a responsive WordPress themes that comes in five different color schemes. You can create a whole lot of layouts.

The images at the homepage are displayed in a gallery. The gallery style can be changed. The images are not posted as blog posts. If you wish to add blog posts with images, you should use theme’s blog for that.

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5. DeepFocus

It is professional theme that has a blog as well as photo gallery. If you are a professional photographer with a massive image collection and want to start a large blog, DeepFocus WordPress theme is for you.

It comes in five color schemes. It has a clean, professional and traditional design. It is a photography WordPress theme more suited to high-level photographers and agencies.

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6. Feather

An elegant and light colored theme. Though it has six color styles to choose from but all of them are light colors which adhere to the theme’s focus.

It has an image gallery that will let you showcase your photographs. It also lets you create a blog where you can publish images.

Feather is a theme that’s more suited to photographers who want to focus on images as well as blogging.

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7. Sky

Sky uses Ajax to load content at the homepage. Ajax does a good job of maintaining rather increasing the loading speed of your website.

It is simple yet refreshing WordPress theme that doesn’t allow visitors to scroll too much as the content and images are well-managed. Sky by Elegant Themes is perfect for amateur photographers who do not have a massive collection of photographs. The theme will cover the lack of photographs being uploaded.

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Conclusion

These were the top 7 WordPress themes for photographers that will help you show your art work to the world. Depending on your taste, purpose and type of photographs you have, choose the theme that you think will best represent you and your work.

Top 7 WordPress Themes for Business Sites

April 15, 2016Sabih Javed

Starting an online business was never so easy. All you have to do is come up with an idea, buy a domain name, sign up for hosting, choose a WordPress theme for business site and you are on the track.

Here is a list of top 7 WordPress themes for business sites. These themes are handpicked and are sure to help you in your online venture.

1. Foxy

It is a responsive WordPress theme for businesses. It can be used as an ecommerce store, a business blog or a services websites. The theme itself is quite flexible and can be used in many different ways.

Foxy has five basic color schemes, responsive design, well-structured layout and sleek design. You can custom-design pages with its template pages. This feature lets you create almost any type of pages for your business ranging from contact to about us to portfolio and more.

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2. Divi

Divi is the most professional and versatile theme for businesses. It is developed by Elegant Themes with a purpose to provide businesses with all the features and flexibility that they need.

The best thing about Divi is its page builder which is a drag-and-drop builder for creating pages with extreme ease. You can build a page from scratch or choose a pre-made layout and personalize it.

There are a lot of features that this theme has such as responsive design, security, slider, 32 languages with RTL support, up to 46 modules for the builder, smart split testing feature and much more.

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3. Nova

For small businesses, there is nothing better than Nova WordPress theme. It is a simple theme which focuses on the homepage. If you have recently started your business and don’t have much to share with the world, Nova will help you cover these shortcomings by putting everything right at the homepage.

It has a featured slider that helps you showcase your business to the target audience. It is responsive theme which comes in six different color styles.

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4. LeanBiz

Need a clean, professional and simplistic theme for your business website? LeanBiz happens to be a decent choice.

It is a perfect theme for small internet businesses that want to keep things simple yet professional. The slider at the homepage is really a powerful one that comes with multiple variations. The theme has four unique color variations.

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5. MyProduct

If you have products and services that you want to either promote or sell through your business website, MyProduct by Elegant Themes is the most appropriate theme to go for.

It is a professional theme which emphasizes on selling products online. You can put the product price, its features, testimonials and other details right on the homepage. Yes, you can use homepage as a sales page to sell one or more products.

The theme is extremely rich in terms of features, design and page templates. Personalizing it is exceptionally easy. Besides, it has a business blog too that will give a corporate-level look to your website.

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6. eBusiness

eBusiness is a WordPress theme for business blogs. Those who are running a business blog and need a decent and flexible theme, they should choose eBusiness by Elegant Themes.

It comes in six color schemes. All the color schemes are on the bright side making it a lively theme. You can customize the theme and choose the blog style that you want ranging from a business blog to normal blog style.

With its three different skins, responsive design, and professional page templates, eBusiness has a lot to offer every business blog.

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7. 13Floor

This is one of my favorite themes of all times. If you want to grab the attention of the visitors by offering them everything right on the homepage, 13Floor happens to be the best WordPress theme. Visitors don’t have to scroll down to see what your business is about.

At the homepage, it displays a collection of pages in a slider. The slider runs automatically showing details of every page one by one. If you want to create full-width pages, you can do so easily.

13Floor can be personalized in any way as per need.

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Conclusion

Which of these 7 WordPress themes for business sites will you choose for your business? If you ask me, I’d go for 13Floor. I just love it.

Over to you now….

Top 7 WordPress Themes for Restaurants

April 9, 2016Sabih Javed

Having a well-designed and responsive website for your restaurant business might not help you much with food quality and taste but it surely does help a lot with marketing, increase in reservations and building a massive audience.

A nice-looking, easy-to-navigate and professional WordPress theme for your restaurant business can add a lot of spice.

Here is a list of 7 handpicked WordPress themes for restaurants to help you make a difference.

1. MyCruise

It is one of the best and my personal favorite themes for restaurants that is designed by Elegant Themes. It is a responsive theme that comes in four different colors. It has that special feeling and vintage design that lets you connect with the visitors. It is a colorful but professional theme that is great for restaurant and food industry.

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2. Origin

Origin by Elegant Themes is a great WordPress theme for your restaurant especially if you have a lot of tasty photos to share with the people. It uses photos to cover the entire screen which just gives a great look to the visitors.

Origin is a responsive theme that works equally great on phone, tablets and computers. It has 5 different color schemes to choose from which gives you a lot of options.

It works great for restaurants that have a massive gallery of pictures of their restaurant and recipes which can be posted on the website.

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3. BusinessCard

If you have recently started your restaurant and don’t have much information to share with the world, BusinessCard WordPress theme happens to be the best option.

It is a general purpose theme for businesses that uses jQuery. You can use it tell people about your restaurant, its location, your team, address and contact information. It is a clean, simple, fast, and responsive theme with 5 different color schemes to choose from.

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4. OnTheGo

How about a hand-drawn theme for your restaurant business?

Well, OnTheGo is one of the best options for restaurants that want to create a playful website. If the culture at your restaurant is more fun and lively, this is the right theme to go for.

Despite the fact that it is hand-drawn and has that lively design, it is still professional. The about page, welcome screen and team are the three pages that appear on the homepage which lets all the visitors to see who you are and what you are best at. Yes, you can choose which pages to show at the homepage.

It has four color schemes, it is responsive, and it works great for restaurant blogs. If you are planning to create a blog for your business, this theme will do that as well.

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5. Notebook

Notebook by Elegant Themes is a complete multimedia WordPress theme that lets you share images, videos, audios and other types of content with the audience in an easy-to-read style.

It is a nice theme for large restaurants that have a lot to share with the audience such as videos, interviews, images and even podcasts. It has simple yet professional design with 6 different color schemes, font sizes and backgrounds.

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6. eBusiness

Here comes a colorful WordPress theme that is made for businesses. It is a blog style theme that is best for small local restaurants. You can add pages that tell people about your restaurant and at the same time, you can publish blog posts.

eBusiness has responsive design. The theme comes with 9 color variations and three different skins to personalize the theme as per your needs and business requirements.

Probably the best thing about eBusiness WordPress theme is that it gives you a lot of control over pages. You can design and build pages exactly you want.

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7. Fable

Have a lot of stories to share with your target audience? Fable happens to be a great theme to go for. It lets you publish text, videos and images so that you can share stories about your restaurant. It is a full-width WordPress theme that makes reading super-easy and crisp.

Not only that you can use it for blogging but you can use its page builder to create pages about your restaurant, dishes and services that you offer. It is a complete theme that has a lot to offer you as well as your audience.

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Conclusion

These 7 WordPress themes for restaurants are the best ones out there. It doesn’t really matter whether you have a small local restaurant or a large restaurant with multiple outlets, you will find a theme for your business in the list above.

Top 7 WordPress Themes for a Tech Blog

April 2, 2016Sabih Javed

A tech blog must not look similar to a food blog. If you are planning to start a new tech blog on WordPress or if you already own one, you should understand that running a technology blog is not the same as running a blog in any other industry – it is challenging.

The target audience of a technology blog is most likely well-aware of the current trends in the technology sector. You have to impress readers who are interested in something related to ‘technology’, and this cannot be done by using a WordPress theme for a tech blog that was created in 2004 or maybe a website that’s poorly designed in HTML.

To impress such a reader-base who already has some basic knowledge about latest technology, you must use a theme that’s well-designed and is best in technology.

Don’t worry, we have you covered.

Below is a list of 7 best WordPress themes for a tech blog.

1. Lucid

It is a nice and clean modern-styled theme that’s perfect for any tech blog. If you write a lot of blog posts and publish at least one post a day, this happens to be the best theme for your blog because it keeps the blog posts managed and doesn’t give a messy look.

It has clean design with grids and organized layout. Reading blog posts on Lucid WordPress theme is easy. It will make the life of your readers easy.

It is a responsive theme having a lot of page templates to choose from and a control panel that provides you with complete flexibility.

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2. Simplism

How about a simple and decent theme for your tech blog?

Simplism is an advanced theme but by it looks, it is simple and has that ‘classy’ look. It comes in five different color schemes and yes, it is responsive.

The blog posts on the theme are easy-to-read. Readers don’t have to struggle to find and read the text. All the blog posts have a default thumbnail image option.

One of the interesting features is its two tier dropdown menu that lets you categorize pages and child pages. Now this makes it a great theme for blogs that have a lot of pages, categories and sub-categories. You can easily manage all of them.

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3. Quadro

Quadro by Elegant Themes is a stylish WordPress theme that’s perfect for technology blogs. It comes loaded with a lot of advanced features that will help you transform your blog into a technology hub. For instance, with its gravatar ready feature and unique professional design, you will be able to differentiate your blog easily.

If you are planning to stand out from the crowd and convert your blog into a brand, this is one of the most appropriate themes.

It has five different color schemes, control panel for personalizing the theme, it is responsive, and comes widget ready.

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4. BlueMist

This is another simple, elegant and more personalized tech blog WordPress theme. It is responsive and is Google AdSense and advertisement ready. So if you want to monetize your tech blog with Google AdSense or third-party ads, BlueMist is what you shouldn’t miss.

As it is elegant and personalized therefore it is best suited for tech blogs where you want to showcase your personal expertise, experience or point of view.

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5. Nexus

Nexus is my personal favorite. I have always loved this theme.

It is extremely tech-oriented and is best for publishing heaps of blog posts without confusing the readers. It keeps the front-end clean and user-friendly by making things simple for readers.

It is responsive and comes in five different colors with a lot of flexibility. You have full control on every page and post.

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6. Origin

It is the theme that uses grids to showcase images. Origin is a great option for tech blogs that post a lot of images as it will let you present images in a well-designed way.

It is responsive theme that works absolutely great on all devices. You can choose from five different light color schemes for your blog.

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7. Glow

Want to make your tech blog glow? Use Glow by Elegant Themes.

It is a bright and flashy theme. There are four different color variations to choose from. It is a responsive theme that provides you with full control on everything. You can design posts and pages with extreme ease.

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Conclusion

Choose a WordPress theme for your tech blog today and see how it helps you with conversions and user engagement. The idea is to help readers by providing them with features, design and layout that is technology-driven.

This is what a tech blog is all about.