Designed with photographers in mind. A dark, simplistic design with professional typography that allows your images to pop of the page. Portphotio features a custom slider powered by jQuery on the homepage and a beautifully designed gallery thanks to the NextGen gallery plugin. Take your portfolio to the next level with Portphotio.Demo Theme

• Custom Home page with a featured scroller.

  Easily display 5 large images with descriptions on the homepage using Chris Coyier’s awesome AnythingSlider jQuery plugin.

• Custom widget areas on the Home page.

  Adds a widget area below the slider for the perfect place to show off your services.

• Custom NextGen Gallery style sheet.

  Built for photographers, includes CSS style sheet for NextGen Gallery.

• Clean and professional design and typesetting.

  Simplistic design ensures your images pop off the page.

• A Thematic Child Theme.

  Why Thematic? Thematic is FREE, Search-Engine Optimized, has 13 widget areas(14 with Portphotio), compatible with All-In-One SEO and Platinum SEO plugins and much more. Learn More

• GPL Licensed.

  Portphotio is Copyright © 2010 by Eric J Hansel. It is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0 just like WordPress. Feel free to use it in any way you’d like.

Portphotio Set up.

Theme Set up.

1. Download and extract Portphotio.
2. Download and extract the latest version of the Thematic Theme.
3. Upload the thematic folder and Portphotio folder to your WordPress wp-content/themes directory.
4. Login to your WordPress installation.
5. Navigate to Appearance > Themes in the back-end and activate Portphotio.

Homepage Image Slider Setup.

1. Images should be 960px X 645px. Larger images will be automatically cropped.
2. Create a new page called Home and select Home Page under the Template dropdown.
3. Navigate to a post that you would like to highlight or create a new post.
4. Locate the Category section, check the Highlights category.
5. Locate the Featured Image section and click on Set Featured Image.
6. Using the WordPress media uploader, select your image and upload it.
7. After your image has uploaded fill in the necessary information and click Use as featured image.

NextGen Gallery Style Setup

1. Locate nextGen.css in the Portphotio folder and open it with your favorite text editor.
2. Copy the entire file to your clipboard.
3. Login to your WordPress installation.
4. Install the NextGEN Gallery plugin.
5. Navigate to Gallery > Style in the backend. Delete everything in the text area and Paste the contents you copied from nextGen.css
6. Click the Update file button.