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GetPhoto Quick Overview Video

Theme Screenshots

I’ve taken screenshots of some of the pages below to give you a quick idea of what some of the pages look like.  Here they are along with a features list below.

GetPhoto Gallery List

GetPhoto Gallery List

GetPhoto Metro Gallery

GetPhoto Metro Gallery

GetPhoto Calendar

GetPhoto Calendar

GetPhoto Pricing Table

GetPhoto Pricing Table

GetPhoto Theme Features

1. Fully Responsive ( looks great across all devices )
2. Masonry/Metro/Grid layout
3. WooCommerce Ready
4. Extended photography support – cover/proportional view, thumbnails, masonry, Kenburns slider and many more
5. Availability Calendar
6. 3 Premium responsive sliders!
7. Video intro page
8. Highly optimized for speed. Theme smartly chooses appropriate image size for the page, which greatly reduces the bandwidth.
9. Metro portfolio layout with filter, 6/4 columns
10. Justified Grid portfolio layout 6/4 columns
11. AJAX-powered blog/portfolio with Load More/infinite scroll options
12. WordPress 4.1 and earlier Ready
13. HTML5 & CSS3
14. Valid Code W3C checked
15. Bootstrap Framework
16. SEO optimized
17. Powerfull admin panel
18. +1200 icomoon icons
19. 640+ Google Fonts
20. Shortcodes
21. Social Sharing buttons
22. All Post Formats
23. Google map
24. Contact Form ready (CF7)

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Border Quick View Video

Border – Gallery Section

Border Gallery Section

Border – Blog Section

Border Gallery Section

Border – Slideshow

Border Slideshow

Border – Shop Section

You can sell prints easily with the installation of WooCommerce.  WooCommerce is the most popular plugin for WordPress that allows anyone running WordPress to start selling online.

Border Shop

Border Features

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• Kenburns Gallery
• Ribbon Gallery
• Fullscreen Slider
• Simple Slider
• Fullscreen Ribbon
• Flow Option

Although most themes that accommodate fullwidth (widescreen) horizontal photos don’t consider portrait photos, SOHO does.  If most of your imagery is vertical or in portrait format you can choose the ribbon gallery feature to display your portrait photos alongside each other and users can scroll from left to right.  All galleries also have a slideshow feature users can start with full controls in the bottom right corner of each gallery.  To get a better idea you can view the video below or click the demo button below.

SOHO Quick Video Overview

SOHO Gallery Section

SOHO gallery

SOHO About Section

SOHO about page

SOHO Blog Section

SOHO blog section

 SOHO Theme Features

• WordPress 4.1 +
• Advanced Theme Settings Panel
• Fullscreen Layout
• Clean & Modern Design
• Custom Page Templates
• Drag & Drop GT3 Page Builder Plugin (built-in)
  • Built into the Theme
  • Installed Automatically
  • Simple and Intuitive
  • Easy to Use & Modify
  • Tons of Modules/Shortcodes
  • Build Custom Page Layouts
  • Drag & Drop Page Modules System
  • Custom Settings in Modules
  • Time Saving System
  • And Much More …
• Responsive & Retina Ready
• Color Management
• Google Font Support 600+
• Custom Landing Page
• Fullscreen Slider with Image/Video Support
• Fullscreen Image/Video Background
• Striped Page Layouts (vertical and horizontal) with Custom Settings
• Fullscreen Kenburns Slider
• Fullscreen Grid Portfolio
• Fullscreen Masonry Portfolio
• Masonry Portfolio
• Unlimited Number of Custom Portfolio Item Pages
  • Fullscreen Slider
  • Fullwidth Slider
  • Simple Slider
  • Fullscreen Ribbon
  • Flow Option
  • Simple Image
  • Fullscreen Video
  • Simple Video
• Auto Load on Scroll
• Isotope Support in Portfolio
• Portfolio 1-4 Column
• Gallery Albums
• Gallery Portrait Support
• Gallery Categories Support
• Galleries with Margins
• Kenburns Gallery
• Ribbon Gallery
• Fullscreen Gallery Slider
• Photo Listing Gallery
• Password Protected Gallery
• Fullscreen Grid/Masonry Photo Gallery
• Fullscreen Grid/Masonry Video Gallery
• Fullscreen Blog
• Fullwidth Blog
• Standard Blog (left/right sidebars)
• Vertically Aligned Pages
• Fullscreen Contact Page
• Custom 404 Page
• Coming Soon Page
• Before/After Module
• View/Likes Option
• Contact Form 7 Support
• Mailchimp Support
• PSD Files Included
• Extended Documentation
• Free After Sale Support (forum and ticket system)
• HTML5 & CSS Code
• High Speed & Extra Optimized
• Coded with SEO in Mind
• One Click Demo Import
• Translation Ready (.po .mo files)
• And much more…

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Bow comes in three variations:

• Image Background
• Video Background
• Content Slider

Quick Theme Video Overview

Theme Screenshots

Bow – Homepage

Bow Homepage

Bow – Gallery Section

Bow Gallery Section

Bow – Gallery Section Detail

Bow Gallery Detail

Bow – Blog Section

Bow Blog Section

Bow – Blog Detail

Bow Blog Post Page

Bow – About Page

Bow About Page

Bow Theme Features

• Responsive Design meaning it looks stunning on all types of screens and devices (desktop, notebook, tablet and mobile).
• Unlimited Color – It’s easy to change up the look of Bow’s with a few clicks inside the live customizer within WordPress.
• SEO Optimized
• Sample Content Included (get started quickly if you have a new site but importing content that you can edit with your own)
• Logo upload option
• Typhography option
• Page template About, Contact, Home Image, Slider, Video, Work

Get a feel for Bow by viewing the demo.  View it in your desktop browser as well as on your phone.

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Superba Video Overview

TEMPLATES Albums can be laid out in four different unique forms: carousel, slideshow, mosaic and grid. Carousels and slideshows display images horizontally and slideshows can also go full screen, while mosaics and grids are a more traditional way of displaying media in an aligned form.

ÜBER ALBUMS Album pages can have their own set of images or automatically pull content from other albums and projects. This way, you’ll be able to create, for example, a macro-album fetching all the pictures that are tagged as “Portrait”, no matter what album/project they’re in.

TAXONOMY Visual content needs to be catalogued, grouped and displayed in a meaningful way: Media Library items that are added to albums and projects have their own specific taxonomy so that they can be tagged and filtered in album pages.

PAGE BUILDER The new page builder allow you to create unlimited layout combinations. Albums can also be added to the page layout using their specific builder block component, which also has its own display settings, including the über cool iPhoto-mode.

WOOCOMMERCE INTEGRATION Sell anything you want thanks to the full support for the WooCommerce plugin (2.2.x and up).

 Superba Homepage

Superba Homepage

Superba About Page

Superba About Page

Superba Blog Section

Superba Blog Section

Superba Pricing Tables

Superba Pricing

Superba Woocommerce Section

Superba Shop

Theme highlights:

• Powerful Page builder
• Responsive layout & Retina ready
• 3 different Portfolio layouts with multiple options
• Portfolio post type
• AJAX dynamic Portfolio filter
• AJAX Photogallery functionality
• Photogallery with mosaic functionality
• Tons of layout options
• Video support, Vimeo, YouTube and Self-hosted
• Multiple logo & menu layout
• Full blown post formats support
• Super quick live appearance customization
• 2 blog layouts
• Create photo albums in seconds
• WooCommerce support (2.2.x and up)
• Unlimited sidebars
• Child-theme provided to maintain compatibility with the main theme
• Demo dummy content provided – simply import the content to get started quickly
• Translation ready, with WPML & Polylang support
• … and a lot more!

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Andy Parker is highly customizable.  You will not need to crop, resize or edit your images because it brings a very sophisticated system which allows you to display your photography at any aspect ratio, automatically cropping and resizing your images according to your needs in order to achieve the best results.

Showcase Your Portfolio

Andy Parker is a very flexible theme which eases the way to showcase your photography projects.  You can choose between four different portfolio styles to showcase your photos how you like best.

Advanced Image Handling

You can display your photography projects using common popular aspect ratios including [3:1], [1:1], [16:9] etc, or use your own custom aspect ratio.

Choose Your Header Style

Andy Parker has several different menu layout options.  You can display the header in many different ways.  And it even includes a sticky header that always stays visible even when your page content is long.

Andy Parker Homepage

There are two different version of the homepage.

Andy Parker Homepage

Andy Parker Blog Page

Andy Parker Blog Page

About Me Page

Andy Parker Homepage

Portfolio Page (1)

Andy Parker Portfolio 1

Portfolio (2)

These are just two samples of the portfolio options.  There are actually 4 in the theme demo that you should check out.

Andy Parker Portfolio 2

Portfolio Detail Page

A really stylish way to showcase your portfolio with a lovely image header as well as a place for a prominent description with sub portfolio items featured below.

Andy Parker Portfolio Detail

Andy Parker Theme Features:

• Unique minimal design
• Fully Responsive ( looks lovely across all devices including iPhones, iPads, Android etc. )
  
• Retina Ready
• Masonry  Style Portfolio
• Automatic Background Image Detection
• Advanced Customizable Image Aspect Ratio for all Devices
  – Original image aspect ratio (Masonry)
  – 1:1 – Square Image
  – 4:3 – Digital Camera
  – 3:2 – 35mm film
  – 16:9 – High Definition
  – 3:1 – Panoramic,
  – Customizable Proportions for Mobile, Tablet & Desktop
• Customizable Text or Image Logo Version
• Several Social Media Icons
• Futura font Add-on
• Google Fonts Support (+500)
• Typekit Ready ( include fonts from the really popular typekit website )
• Ability to upload your Own Font Files
• Create Any Amount of Different Portfolio Pages
• 3 Portfolio and Project Layout Preferences (Full-width, 1294px boxed, 940px boxed)
• Built with HTML5 and CSS3
• Easy Installation & Easy to Use
• Lots of Different Advanced Custom Page Options
• Google Analytics Ready
• SEO Ready
• Transparent Header or Solid Header ( view the different headers in the demo )
• Full Screen/Transparent Home Page
• Dynamic Contact Form
• One-Click Install with provided sample data
• Lightbox Photo Gallery
• W3C Validated HTML5 code
• and much more…

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• Minimal, Distraction Free Design Focuses on your content
• Optimal Image Viewing Experience On Any Device with zoomable images
• Live Photowall Homepage (unique to this theme) – in every visit you see a random unique homepage generated from your portfolio images randomly.
• Responsive Design & Retina ready meaning your site looks great across all devices
• Easy to use; You can create galleries with wordpress built in galleries
• Written in HTML5, CSS3, and is jQuery powered
• Responsive video embed in various aspect ratios (youtube/vimeo …)
• 30+ social media icons
• Unlimited Sidebars
• 2 blog layouts (with or without sidebar versions)
• Complete blog system (all post formats supported)
• Unlimited Portfolios (Muliple portfolio page support)
• Custom Widgets (Flickr, Instagram, Pinterest, Dribbble, Picasa, YouTube)
• Custom Settings Panel
• Theme Customizer Support
• 600+ Google Fonts
• Ajax contact form with validation
• SEO & Google Analytics ready
• Custom Shortcodes
• Translation Ready (.po files included)
• Extensive Documentation & Support Forum

Photographer Theme Homepage

Photographer includes two different styles of homepages… one with a photo-collage and one with a larger Ken Burns style animated slideshow… with animated text transitions.

Photographer Theme – Homepage

Photographer Works Page – ie Portfolio

Photographer includes a clear portfolio page where you can showcase your different categories of photography.

Photographer Theme – Works

Photographer Works Sub Section (Gallery)

All images in your works sub section open a lightbox to show better detail of your photo.

Photographer Theme – Works Detail Page

Photographer Pricing Page

Photographer includes a convenient pricing page so you can tell the world how much your time is worth.

Photographer Theme – Pricing Page

Photographer Blog Section

Photographer includes a nicely laid out and clean blog which also focuses on your photos.  Blog titles and sidebar titles are nicely centered giving a unique style.

Photographer Theme – Blog

Photographer About Me Page

Photographer has a nice About Me page where you can tell the world more about yourself.  It includes social sharing icons and cool icons you can include to give more info about you.

Photographer Theme – About Page

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Here is the link to the bookmarklet tool or extension you can use to find the fonts a site is using.

Here is the link to typophile’s FontID board.

If you have any questions about this please don’t hesitate to contact me and I’ll get back to you asap.  I’ll show you in a future video how to use custom web fonts on your website.

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It’s important to keep your theme up to date as the developers often fix problems within the theme’s code to make them more secure and continue working properly.  Outdated themes and plugins running on WordPress are often where hackers find vulnerabilities and exploit them… so keeping your site up to date keeps your site more secure.

Hope this video was useful.  If you have any requests for video tutorials please contact me and let me know.  I’ll try and see if I can help.

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