Photoblogging with WordPress

An overview of recommended features, practices, themes and plugins for creating a photoblog with WordPress.

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1. Theme night: Photoblogs A picture says more than a thousand words.
2. Eww! Seriously? Don’t do that? “sometimes called phlogs”
3. Recommended Features Photos! One per post Galleries Plain background Simple typography EXIF About page Contact Page Gear page (if you want)
4. Nice photoblogging themes wordpress.org/themes/tags/photoblogging/ Genesis (studiopress.com) Anything simple!
5. Text Boardwalk https://wordpress.org/themes/boardwalk/
6. Text Cubic https://wordpress.org/themes/cubic/
7. Text Gridsby https://wordpress.org/themes/gridsby/
8. Text Twenty Twelve https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwelve/
9. Text Twenty Fifteen https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyfifteen/
10. Photoblog Examples
11. • One post/image per page • EXIF • Thumbnail archive www.durhamtownship.com
12. • One post/image per page • EXIF • Buy print/card wvs.topleftpixel.com
13. • One post per page • Usually 1 image per post • EXIF • Thumbnail archive photoblog.kristarella.com
14. • Standard blog format • Simple theme matthewkeighery.com
15. • Uses a category on main blog • Tiled galleries ma.tt
16. Tips Make things easy for yourself! Use a separate blog, or just a category on your current site Use native WP features (e.g., media library) Post regularly Use post scheduling Photoblogging requires perseverance, don’t give up!
17. Recommended tools A camera you probably have one in your pocket/bag right now! Automatic backup iCloud, Dropbox, Flickr, Google Image manager/editor iPhoto, Bridge, Lightroom, Aftershot Pro WordPress mobile app Image compressor ImageOptim, JPEGmini, Kraken, Compressor.io
18. Recommended plugins Not YAPB (sorry) Jetpack Tiled Galleries Photon Publicize & Sharing a lightbox Jetpack’s carousel, or another Exifography