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A website or blog is important for a photographer to promote himself and his photography. WordPress is a great place to start, but for the best functionality and design, plugins are essential. This article will list 10 plugins and themes that are a must for any photography website.
- Great Plugins for Photographers -
1. Online Booking Calendar
This is a WordPress Calendar that lets clients check your availability, and make appointments. They will also be able to register to any upcoming events you're offering.
Features:
- Book reservations via the calendar
- E-mail notifications
- Admin panel to manage booking
- Easy integration
- Booking calendar widget
- Validation
- Multi-language support
2. Membership
The WordPress Membership Plugin is capable of transforming your site into a completely functional membership site. This allows you to provide members with access to downloads, videos, forums, and more.
Control access to:
- Downloads
- Pages
- Categories
- Comments
- Posts
- Tags
- Galleries
Create levels of subscriptions:
- Free memberships
- Renewing memberships
- Indefinite of finite subscriptions
3. All In One SEO Pack
This plugin will optimize your website for search engine traffic. This will drive extra traffic to your blog, and allow you to better monetize your website.
Features:
- Google Analytics support
- Custom post support
- Advanced canonical URL's
- Fine tune navigation links
- Built-in API
- Provides SEO integration for e-commerce sites (only plugin to do this)
- Nonce security
- Supports CMS installations
- Automatically optimizes titles
- Automatically generates META tags
- Avoids duplicate content
- Friendly to both beginning and advance users
- Backwards compatible with other plugins
4. ShareThis
ShareThis is probably one of the most effective social media plugins available today. It has a sleek, flash-based user-interface. It also allows you to choose the amount of social media sites that you'd like to include. It's one of the easiest ways to get content submitted to social media sites.
Features:
- Share content at any social media site
- Real-time sharing
- Google Analytics integration
- Influence insights
- Easily customized
- Browser sharing
5. Flickr Feed Gallery
The Flickr Feed Gallery plugin allows users to easily integrate Flickr photo's into a WordPress website.
Features:
- Public photo stream
- Friend's feed
- Group photo stream
- Favorite's photo stream
- Customization options
6. Post Layout
The WordPress Post Layout plugin will allow you to easily format and monetize your website, without any coding. Essentially, this plugin gives the user the freedom to add just about anything they want without coding. It's particularly good for monetizing your website with Google Adsense, Chitika ads, Amazon ads, and more.
Features:
- Google Adsense code
- JavaScript/HTML
- Regular coding
- PHP code
- Mobile Google Adsense
- Ad code
- Page layout
7. Subscribe to Comments
Subscribe to Comments will allow people to sign up for an e-mail notification of new comments or entries. It includes a completely functional subscription manager that will allow the users to customize their subscription options.
Features:
- View subscriptions
- Subscribe and unsubscribe feature
- Change e-mail address
- Manage subscriptions
- Great Themes for Photographers -
1. Specere
Specere caters to people who want to showcase their images at full-screen capacity, with zero hassle. The theme includes a completely animated gallery.
Features:
- Full-screen gallery
- Image panning
- Scrolling thumbnail navigation
- Unlimited galleries
- Multi-image uploader
- Unlimited color options
- Custom typography
- Social integration
- Twitter widget
- Flickr widget
- Related posts
- SEO
- Google Analytics
2. Kin
Kin is designed for magazine style photography, and has both an image and video gallery.
Features:
- 2 skins
- Admin control panel
- Category and photo customization
- Featured albums
- Magazine style gallery
- Styled typography
- Image zoom
- Video content viewer
- Blog
3. Photocrati
Photocrati is like several themes in one. There are 15 different theme styles to choose from, that can be paired with 4 different gallery styles.
Features:
- 15 theme styles
- 4 gallery styles
- iPad/iPhone compatible
- Gallery management
- eCommerce galleries
- SEO
- Copyright protection
- Lifetime rights
Check out our previous articles!
- 13 Complete WordPress Theme Management Plugins
- 25+ Lively WordPress Plugins for an Interactive Blog
- Your Definitive Guide To Free WordPress Themes For Photography
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