Posted on February 6, 2013 by Thad Allender

Go Big With Our Full Frame WordPress Theme

Tired of tiny photos and videos? Yeah, we are too. That’s why we built Full Frame, a clean and modern, responsive, post-format-loving WordPress theme that is ohhh…sooo pretty.

Custom Headers & Background Images

The featured image of each post becomes the background image of the post on home and archive pages. You can optionally add a custom header image and logo, which will sit atop all pages. Here is an example of a post assigned to the “gallery post format” with an inserted gallery and featured image:

Smart Ways to Use Post Formats

Post Formats are an incredibly useful, yet under-utilized tool. If you only wanted to showcase big photos, for example, use the image post format to create a photo-centric site, like this. You could also mix in some gallery post formats, which look like this.

Full Frame supports the following post formats: Standard, Image, Gallery, Video, and Quote.

Keyboard Navigation

You can use your up/down arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate quickly between post on the home and archive pages. You can also optionally use the up/down buttons located in the top right of the navigation bar to navigate as well.

Responsive Design

Full Frame is a single column theme that resizes with your browser. This theme was designed with mobile devices in mind. We’re especially proud of the responsive menu on iPads and iPhones. Give it a ‘lil test!

Sticky, Fixed Navigation Bar

The optional custom header image (not shown on the demo site) appears above the navigation bar. When visitors scroll down below the header image, the navigation bar changes from a relatively positioned element below the header image into a fixed position, appearing always at the top of the page. Pretty useful, eh?

Fonts, Theme Options, Customizer Support

As with all of our newer themes, Full Frame includes custom font options, additional theme options for easily customizing your site, and integrates with the theme customizer tool in WordPress.

Winner?

We’d love hear what you think about Full Frame. It’s been a doozy to make and we hope you enjoy it!

How do you plan on using it?

http://george.germanos.me/ George Germanos

Another FANTASTIC theme – great work! And AWESOME retina social media icons Wish the other themes had them as well!
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Thanks George. There are lots of little goodies packed into Full Frame that we haven’t mentioned
re

this is great! I am still waiting though for a theme that really shows off portrait format images in a Gallery format, something new that doesnt show just one image at a time. sidewinder is the closest, and I got really excited to see sideswipe and gridspace… both they both are awesome themes that go pretty boring once you get to the gallery/portfolios. You guys create such awesome themes for text content, you need to create an awesome new way to view portfolios for image content that isnt blogged!
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  We hear you! It’s on the drawing board
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teresa

I don’t understand if you can have a static homepage instead of the one containing all the images as you scroll down. Would love to land on a single image page and then navigate to the galleries.. (don’t know if I explained it clearly)
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  I understand, I think. You can set the homepage to a static page. Make sure to a Featured Image for that page, too.
SPINX INC.

Great theme with effective design ideas to easily grab the user’s attention.
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Gad you like it
Monro3

How do I add the social media icons in the upper right? For the life of me I can figure it out and I am sure it is supper simple.
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Please check the Social Media icons section on the theme instructions page: https://graphpaperpress.com/support/theme-instructions/?theme=full-frame
  - Bernardo
    
    Why Flickr is not considered? “Full Frame” is a theme for photographers, and photographers use Flickr a lot! Furthermore, can you give instructions about opening social media sites into a new page?
    - http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
      
      We’re gonna add Flickr icon support very soon.
lrj

Nice theme, shame about the instructions … if I go to look for the instructions at https://graphpaperpress.com/support/theme-instructions/?theme=full-frame
I get the instructions for “On Assignment”, not full frame
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Strange. We just pushed out some updates to our site. We’ll fix this. Here are the unformatted instructions: http://demo.graphpaperpress.com/wp-content/themes/full-frame/readme.txt
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Just fixed this: https://graphpaperpress.com/support/theme-instructions/?theme=full-frame
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Just fixed this: https://graphpaperpress.com/support/theme-instructions/?theme=full-frame
Gary Eckstein

Absolutely love Full Frame. Another beautiful Theme from Graph Paper Press
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Thanks so much Gary!
http://twitter.com/12ossome Ross Harried

Was wondering what the default featured image looks like -my main concern with updating to this theme would be having to update all my featured images to 950 width, however I could use default featured image (depending on what it looks like) while I work on updating all my old featured images (I currently use Mixfolio)
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Ha, so good. Yep, you can use the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin if you need to resize your images to new dimensions for a specific theme.
redbeanabout

This is beautiful. I would really love to see what it looks like with the header image that disappears(?) as the user scrolls down, as described above as the “Sticky, Fixed Navagation Bar” feature. Is there a blog you could direct me too that’s using the Full Frame theme?

Thanks!
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Here is how it looks with a header image. Once you scroll down past the header, the nav becomes fixed to the top of the page.
337design

Great, simple and soft design! This looks very cool with full page image background.
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Glad you like it bud!
http://www.spinxwebdesign.com/ Spinx Inc

Such a great theme. It also supports for the responsive website design that means after uploading your website with these themes, it will get resized for different browsers and devices.
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Yep, it sure does.
Maurice

Is there an option to add a share button for each post? Also, why is instagram not one of the social media icons on the top right?
- http://www.RicciArmani.com Bernardo Ricci Armani
  
  Also Flickr is missing, in my opinion. Is it possible to include it? Furthermore, is it possible to open them in a new page?
  - http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
    
    People still use Flickr? The WordPress menu options have the ability to set to open in a new page.
    - Bernardo
      
      Yes, people still use Flickr. At least, I do – is there something wrong in using it?
    - http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
      
      Version 1.0.2 of Full Frame now supports Flickr and Instagram social icons You can use the GPP Theme Updates plugin to update automatically.
    - Bernardo
      
      Thanks a lot for your replies. But I installed the plug-in and it does not find any update. I also installed the theme via filezilla and it says version 1.0.1
    - http://twitter.com/greg_a Greg Annandale
      
      Ditto Bernardo’s comment, I can’t get v1.0.2 either by direct download here or via the Updates plugin. Am keen to get these two new icons! Thanks.
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  We think functionality is best relegated to a plugin. There are hundreds of social sharing plugins available. Instagram would be a good addition for us to add. I’ll add it to the next release.
- BigAl
  
  Hi Maurice. You’d better read the fine print before uploading any images to Instagram. For any image you upload, you instantly give Instagram unlimited rights to use the image, wherever they choose, and for whatever purpose they choose. I, for one, am not going to hand over my intellectual property rights without some reward for doing so.
http://twitter.com/oscargalvan Oscar Galvan

Great theme!

Is it possible to hide the labels on the posts?
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Sure, just use CSS (display: none)
Mark

wow, looks really impressive!
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Thanks!
http://twitter.com/nonuniform Andrew McDonald

Like the overall concept, but I’m having problems with the featured images. Looks like it’s pulling a medium rather than full-size image and then html scaling. yuck! Not sure how to fix. http://www.andrewmcdonaldphoto.com. Thanks!
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Double check your Settings -> Media are set to the right sizes specified on the theme instructions (readme.txt). You might need to run the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to make old images uploaded at smaller dimensions resize to the new size for Full Frame.
http://www.RicciArmani.com Bernardo Ricci Armani

How can people share blog posts via facebook or twitter? Is it possible to do this? I guess / hope so…
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  There are hundreds of plugins that do that. Try one of these: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=social+share
Bryan

loving this theme. Tell me please: how do I get the same menu structure that you have in your demo site; where the word MENU appears in the an bar, with my chosen menu appearing below? So far, I can only get the first item of my chosen menu to appear. Your time is appreciated.
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  When there isn’t enough space for all the menu items, the menu becomes responsive and the word MENU appears in the bar and the items show up in a list below it.
oksana skolnaja

I just got recently my full frame theme, still working on it, but here is the beginning version of it: http://www.oksanaphotoblog.com

I saw some guys were asking about share buttons underneath each posts, I just installed shareaholic plugin and costumized it. Also I am trying to figure an issue, I tried to create a gallery and feature it’s photo, but for some reason on home page it wouldn’t show up like in Demo version, basically the gallery post feature doesn’t work..not sure what i’m doing wrong:/

Also I looked at http://www.boudist.com/ and I really would like to find out how to put the title and text on the feature image that would show like in black transperent box, on home page?

overall I love the theme, and there are things that I can’t figure out yet how to customize it…
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  Looking good! Contact our support team if you have any other questions. http://graphpaperpress.com/contact/
- Nick
  
  I’m having the same problem. Did you ever figure it out?
  - oksana skolnaja
    
    The gallery feature doesnt work for me for some reason, Nick;/
Ken

affiliate program has stopped?
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  It’s only available for our customers now. It’s a referral program. The affiliate program was being abused.
Greg

This looks like a beautiful theme. The only problem I can see is that when the homepage text is over a light part of the image, the text is hard to see. http://www.boudist.com/ seems to have solved this. Is that a built in option in your theme or did boudist.com make some css mods? Thanks!
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  It looks like Boudist added some CSS to the container to make it darker. You can do the same by using CSS’s background-color property.
  - Carmen Sisson
    
    Can you explain where to add this CSS? Would you consider making this an option in future updates? Also, I’ve read that you can control where the text excerpt is located through text options on your post page near the featured image, but I upgraded to the latest version, and I still don’t have this option. Help would be appreciated.
- Carmen Sisson
  
  If you figured out how/where to add this CSS, I’d love to know. I’m having the same problem.
Bernardo

Will you add the flickr icon? It’s a popular photo-network and I guess FF theme users are also on flickr. It should not be too complicated, i assume.
- http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
  
  This is the second request, so yes! Look for it in the next release.
  - Bernardo
    
    Ok thanks. Sorry for insisting…
    - http://graphpaperpress.com Graph Paper Press
      
      Upgrade to version 1.0.2 of Full Frame, which now supports Flickr and Instagram social icons.

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