Snaps is our newest free WordPress theme that showcases header images, grid layouts and post formats in a beautifully simple design. The theme includes social media icons, support for custom backgrounds, footer widgets and integrates with the theme customizer. The default home and archive pages support thumbnails in vertical orientation [...]

We’re completely honored to announce that Full Frame is now available on WordPress.com. Full Frame has quickly become one of our most popular themes to date and we’re excited to offer it up to the millions of users on WordPress.com. You can also download the self-hosted WordPress.org flavor of Full [...]

A few years ago I was working as a staff photographer at a daily newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas. I was helping my friend and mentor, Bill Snead, out with a portrait and his subject was quite self conscious in front of the camera. Noticing the situation, Snead took action. “When [...]

We have a lot to be thankful for this year; for starters, the beginning of December marks our five-year anniversary! (Happy Birthday to us, Happy Birthday to us… ) Since our launch, more than 190,000 photographers, artists, bloggers and other creatives have downloaded and use our minimalist WordPress themes. As [...]

It’s been a few months since our last showcase feature on the blog, but that’s not for the lack of submissions. Each week we update our Showcase with tons of new sites from our Graph Paper Press users, and can we get a virtual high five? Because y’all rock. So [...]

Designed by the meticulous and creative minds of our theme developers – the same minds behind Albedo, a fast favorite for photographers – means that new theme Reportage has the compelling design and streamlined layout your photographs will love. Reportage helps you create a beautiful and professional website, with a [...]

Our new Sell Media plugin is now ready for beta testing. The Sell Media plugin will allow you to turn any image, pdf, video, audio or document into a product that your visitors can purchase and download. If you can upload it into WordPress, you can sell it. The plugin allows [...]

Video is growing rapidly on the web (who are we kidding… it’s hot!), so we are thrilled to help support creatives doing video with our new launch of Auditorium, a responsive video theme for WordPress. Auditorium allows you to display video and image slideshows on your site. As with all of our recent [...]

We’re pleased to announce our latest WordPress theme, Sideswipe. Beautiful and hip side-scrolling gallery slideshows are the hallmark of this theme. This fun and minimalist theme pays homage to one of our most popular photo themes, Sidewinder. In our new theme Sideswipe however, you’ll get the chance to update and [...]

Today we’re happy totally freaking psyched to announce that our very own Gridspace theme is now available as a premium theme on WordPress.com. As mentioned on the WordPress.com Gridspace theme page, Gridspace is a clean and modern portfolio theme that is perfect for showcasing vertical, horizontal or square images. Built by [...]

We’re stoked to announce that for the past few weeks, we’ve been working hard to extend our partnership with PhotoShelter, and six of our newer Graph Paper Press WordPress themes now integrate with PhotoShelter. For the uninitiated, PhotoShelter provides photo sales, portfolio and licensing tools for serious photographers. When you [...]

Our newest theme Albedo is a sleek and professional magazine-style WordPress theme that is absolutely gorgeous and ideal for photographers. We’re thrilled to announce that Albedo also includes the amazing Live Theme Customizer which allows you change background colors, upload a custom header image, or choose between over 350 Google fonts and watch the [...]

Each month we like to feature users who are inspiring us with their brilliance and finesse.  So far this year, graphic designers, editorial photographers, and illustrators are among the artists we’ve highlighted. And this month we’re shining the spotlight on three impressive portrait photographers. First, photographer Kevin Umlauf is utilizing our Fullscreen [...]

We’re stoked to announce that our Mixfolio theme has been chosen as one of the latest additions to the collection of themes available at WordPress.com. If you’re a WordPress.com user, you can read more about its features on the WordPress.com Theme Showcase or dive right into previewing the theme on your blog from Appearance → [...]