The people have spoken, and we have delivered. The Photographer Theme features several options for displaying your photography in a fully responsive layout. View the demo to see the theme in action. The theme includes several portfolio page templates, and the options to display categories in a 1, 2 or 3 column portfolio layout. Customization is a breeze with the Photographer Theme — all colors are easily changed within the theme options. In addition, a full width blog template and slideshow template are included with the theme.

But wait! There’s more! We also created the theme to be compatible with the WooCommerce plugin, and added a full width shop template. Selling your work has never been easier than with the Photographer Theme! We hope our customers enjoy what they helped create.

WooCommerce Shop

The Photographer Theme is compatible with WooCommerce, giving you the option to sell your work.

Responsive Layout

The Photographer Theme scales to fit mobile phones and devices, providing an easily navigated experience for mobile viewers.

Options Framework

The theme integrates with the Options Framework plugin, which offers a sleek options interface.

Responsive Featured Slideshow

The featured slideshow displays images that scale with browser size and resolution.

Numbered Pagination

The theme features numbered pagination on the blog page template.

Google Fonts

Google Fonts have been added to several headings throughout the theme.

Color Change Options

The site background, links, rollover and highlight colors can all be changed in the theme options.

Featured Image Banners

Featured images can be added to pages and page templates as a banner image for that particular page.

Now it’s your turn to choose the next Organic Theme! We want our customers to tell us what they want. Vote on the theme concepts below, or if you have something else in mind, leave a comment with your thoughts. We’re listening, and thanks for supporting Organic Themes!

The News Theme is the latest Organic Theme from our original lineup to receive a heavy new dose of AWESOME! Check out the theme demo to see it in action. Basically, we rebuilt the theme from the ground up, cleaning up the code, design and adding a ton of new features. Some of these features include Ajax loaded content on the home page — snazzy! Color change options galore, making changing the red color scheme a breeze! More featured videos and the addition of social media buttons. The addition of a top horizontal navigation menu instead of the previous sidebar navigation. New page templates, featured image banners for pages, a ton of options and much more. If you’ve got loads of content, the News Theme will display it beautifully. And if you only have a little content, that’s okay too — you can easily hide content areas within the theme options. New theme features include:

Options Framework

The theme now integrates with the Options Framework plugin, which offers a sleek options interface.

Ajax Loaded Content

Additional posts can be loaded on to the home page with the click of a button without having to navigate to the next page.

Social Media Buttons

Facebook Like, Tweet and Google Plus buttons have been added to the home page as well as individual posts and pages.

Featured Content Tabber

The updated featured content tabber can display posts with a featured image or a featured video.

Featured Videos

The theme is now capable of displaying featured videos within the tabber, homepage posts, blog and individual posts.

Featured Image Banners

Featured images can now be added to pages and page templates to be displayed as a banner image for that particular page.

Numbered Pagination

The blog and category pagination is now much more accommodating — allowing you to skip ahead to specific page numbers.

Color Options

We have included options for changing the link and highlight colors within the Options Framework — providing a greater array of customization options.

In case you haven’t heard the news, we released our first eCommerce WordPress theme, the Shop Theme! Check out the demo to see the theme in action. The Shop Theme is compatible with either the Jigoshop or WooCommerce plugins — both of which are free and simple to use. The design is clean and modern, and can easily be adapted to match any brand or product. The theme also features a responsive layout for mobile phones, so your shop will be more accessible for mobile customers. In addition, there is a full width shop page template, color change options, Gravity Forms styling and much more! The Shop Theme is an excellent, cost effective solution for selling products online. Start selling today!

Two eCommerce Plugin Options

Rather than limiting the theme to only a single eCommerce plugin option, the Shop Theme is compatible with 2 trusted and supported plugins, Jigoshop or WooCommerce.

Responsive Layout

The Shop Theme scales to fit mobile phones and devices, providing an easily navigated experience for mobile viewers.

Options Framework

The theme integrates with the Options Framework plugin, which offers a sleek options interface.

Featured Product Slider

The featured product slider can display products from a category defined in the theme options.

Numbered Pagination

The theme features numbered pagination on the blog page template.

Google Fonts

Google Fonts have been added to several headings throughout the theme.

Color Change Options

The site background, links, rollover and highlight colors can all be changed in the theme options.

Featured Image Banners

Featured images can be added to pages and page templates as a banner image for that particular page.

During the busy holiday season we forgot to inform our awesome customers about the latest version of the Block Theme. You can view the updated demo here. We have made several improvements to the theme including the ability to change link and highlight colors within the Options Framework. The new slider is capable of displaying video and features a thumbnail image navigation. In addition, the Block Theme has the option to display a horizontal or vertical navigation menu. The layout was tightened up even more — retaining its unique pixel perfect appearance. If you’re looking for a theme that stands apart from traditional theme layouts, look no further than the Block Theme. Additional features include:

Options Framework

The theme now integrates with the Options Framework plugin, which offers a sleek options interface.

Featured Content Slider

The new featured content slider can display posts with a featured image or a featured video.

Featured Videos

The theme is now capable of displaying featured videos within the slider and on the homepage.

Featured Image Banners

Featured images can now be added to pages and page templates to be displayed as a banner image for that particular page.

Numbered Pagination

The blog and category pagination is now much more accommodating — allowing you to skip ahead to specific page numbers.

Color Options

We have included options for changing the link and highlight colors within the Options Framework — providing a greater array of customization options.

A collection of essential WordPress plugins.

As a WordPress theme designer and developer, I am constantly creating, testing and using themes. Along the way, I’ve gathered a collection of essential plugins that I consistently use myself or recommend.

Before sharing, I urge users not to install more plugins than they need, and delete the plugins they are not using. This will generally increase your site’s performance and save space on your server. I’ve logged in to several customer and client sites to find up to 100 plugins installed. This is a recipe for disaster, particularly if some of the plugins haven’t been updated for years — 20 SEO plugins don’t make your site any more search engine optimized than having 3 SEO plugins. There’s no need to go plugin crazy. Use only what you need.

1. Page Links To

This is such a simple, yet necessary little plugin. The Page Links To plugin by Mark Jaquith allows you to direct any post or page to the link of your choice. So, you can direct a post or page to another post or page, external link, website or even downloadable file. This is my most recommended plugin.

2. Regenerate Thumbnails

All Organic Themes use Featured Images. If you switch between 2 themes using Featured Images, the image sizes will most likely be incorrect. Rather than manually uploading the images again for each post, you can use the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to update all your thumbnails at once. This is a huge time saver, and the plugin I personally use most often when switching between themes.

3. Portfolio Slideshow

The Portfolio Slideshow plugin by Dalton Rooney is my slideshow plugin of choice. If you’re not a fan of Lightbox galleries, Flash solutions or cumbersome slideshow plugins with an overwhelming amount of options —  the Portfolio Slideshow is perfect for you. It’s lightweight, uses jQuery, pulls images from your WordPress post or page gallery and has smooth, simple transitions. This plugin is a necessity for designers, photographers and artists.

4. Gravity Forms

I can’t say enough great things about the Gravity Forms plugin and the guys behind it. It’s not a free plugin, but it’s well worth the investment. If you are using a plugin other than Gravity Forms for creating and managing forms, than it’s probably a mistake. After using Gravity Forms, you’ll never use another contact form plugin again.

5. BackupBuddy

BackupBuddy is an essential tool for backing up or migrating a WordPress site. The plugin allows you to schedule automatic backups. And if you have ever experienced the difficult process of migrating a site between hosts or servers, then BackupBuddy will save you a ton of time. It’s a paid and supported plugin. Like Gravity Forms, it’s well worth the investment if the content on your site is important to you.

6. Advanced Excerpt

The excerpt is often used within our themes to display the first 55 words of a post or page. Sometimes however, 55 words just isn’t enough. Using the Advanced Excerpt plugin, you can choose the amount and types of content the excerpt is capable of displaying — quite handy.

7. Google XML Sitemaps

One of the few essential plugins I install for SEO purposes. The Google XML Sitemaps plugin combined with maybe a couple other SEO plugins is really all you need.

8. Maintenance Mode

If you’re in the process of building your site, making site changes or updates, then you need the Maintenance Mode plugin. It displays a simple, customizable splash page, informing visitors that the site is unavailable.

9. W3 Total Cache

W3 Total Cache increases your site performance and speed, caching your sites content. This plugin is a necessity for any site with a lot of content that receives a decent amount of traffic.

10. Jigoshop

E-commerce websites are always in demand. However, they are generally very difficult and expensive to create. With the Jigoshop plugin, you can add a shop to any WordPress powered site quickly and easily. While it’s not as extensive as some e-commerce plugins such as Shopp, Jigoshop offers the essentials at a price you can afford — free.

The latest theme added to our repertoire is the Business Theme. Check out the demo here. The theme features a clean, corporate and responsive design perfect for companies that are seeking a beautiful option for both the web and mobile devices. In addition to many of our standard page templates, the Business Theme also includes a page template for posting jobs, and an RSS news page template. The theme contains several color options — the header, background, link and highlight colors can easily be changed to match your brand. The Business Theme is a solid foundation to build your company website upon.

We’re so excited about this theme, we even decided to use it for our company, Invulu, Inc.

All of our themes have been localized!

Organic Themes is excited to announce the localization of all our themes. Meaning, the themes have been updated to include files for translation to languages other than English. While our themes previously contained the groundwork for localization, they were only partially prepared for translation. Now, translating our themes is a relatively simple process.

Translating the theme to a different language can be accomplished by editing the .po and .mo files included within the theme folder. You can begin the process by following these steps:

How to translate the theme

1. Download the program Poedit.
2. Using Poedit, open the en_US.po file included within each of our theme folders.
3. Translate all text within the file from English to your desired language one line at a time.
4. Save the translated file to the languages folder within the theme as 2 file types — .po and .mo.
5. Important: Name the files using the proper language and country codes for your translation. For example, es_MX.mo would be the Spanish translation for Mexico.
6. Finally, you may need to change the WordPress installation to your matching language. This is accomplished by defining the language in the wp-config.php file using the following code: define ('WPLANG', 'es_MX');

That’s it! You can begin using the theme in another language!

It’s time to announce another major theme update. The Restaurant Theme is the latest in our collection to be spiced up. Check out the updated demo here. Like the Natural Theme, we have condensed the 3 previous color variations in to one super theme with several color choices available in the new Options Framework. We have updated the food menu page template and custom post type, and given the design a major update. The new Restaurant Theme is more delicious than ever. Check out some of the additional features:

Options Framework

The theme update also integrates with the Options Framework plugin, which offers a much more sleek options interface.

Featured Content Slider

The new featured content slider can display posts with a featured image or a featured video.

Featured Videos

The theme is now capable of displaying featured videos within the slider and on the homepage.

Featured Image Banners

Featured images can now be added to pages and page templates to be displayed as a banner image for that particular page.

Numbered Pagination

The blog and category pagination is now much more accommodating — allowing you to skip ahead to specific page numbers.

Color Options

We have included options for changing the link and highlight colors within the Options Framework — providing a greater array of customization options.