Every time we do one of these posts highlighting our WordPress community, we become more impressed at the stories that are told through the themes we build. We started with wedding photographers, then illustrators,  and last month we featured editorial photographers. This week, we’d like you to take a trip with us as we turn [...]

Websites aren’t static. Much like shag carpeting, they’re prone to go out of style. Websites are also your own personal space on the web to do whatever you want with. And much like real life, first impressions matter. So how do you make it great? First up, your website should have a goal. If you [...]

We’re thrilled to launch our newest theme Immersion this week, which is suited for all your blog multimedia needs. We first built and designed Immersion for the blog of national Emmy-award winning video and multimedia producer Richard Koci Hernandez. His blog Multimedia Shooter now uses Immersion to power and display his tips, news and commentary that [...]

Before we get started on this week’s feature, we wanted to let you know that we recently updated our Showcase with more than fifty new submissions. So go take a peek and check out the awesome sites of your fellow peers! Every month we’re highlighting the amazing community here at Graph Paper Press not only [...]

So, how do you recognize a Flash website? Flash sites are the ones that make you watch a ‘Loading…’ animation, reshape your browser, start playing pulsing techno music and emanate all kinds of blips and ticks every time you roll over link. Another site describes Flash as the “blinking, animated frosting on Web sites.” Even Steve Jobs wrote a long [...]

Every month we’re highlighting the amazing community here at Graph Paper Press. Last month, we featured wedding photographers using WordPress, and this month, we’re turning the spotlight onto illustrators of all kinds including architectural illustrator Paul Hill, tattoo artist Rhett Johnson, and illustrator and animator Jean-Francois Vergne.

Last Monday, we talked about how 2012 is the year of the artist-entrepreneur, and today we are thrilled to launch our newest theme, Seneca, which will specifically help support artist-entrepreneurs build their business. Seneca is our first e-commerce enabled theme that will allow you to sell tangible and digital goods from inside WordPress. Seneca integrates [...]

Turns out, you can make a living as an artist. And there’s no better time to do so. Numbering almost two million, artists – those in photography, architecture, music, production, art, dance, design and writing – are one of the largest classes of workers in the nation, only slightly smaller than the U.S. military’s active-duty and reserve personnel (2.2 million).

Today, we’re stoked to launch Retouch Pro, the premimum version of Retouch, a Polaroid-style responsive theme. The theme is characterized by an understated style that showcases your work first, and powerful tools and features under the hood. Retouch Pro makes it easy to take your creative business to the next level. While the free version of this theme doesn’t [...]

Earlier this month we released Retouch into the wild, a Polaroid-style responsive theme that works and looks good on your laptop, large monitor, mobile and tablet devices without any extra work. Visitors to your site can swipe or click through your galleries depending on their device. Today, we’re giving a sneak peek of the Pro [...]

At Graph Paper Press, we build minimalist WordPress themes so that your work can be on display, not our themes. But hey, you can take it too far. In looking at hundreds of websites, would you believe that many leave out some of the most basic and important pieces of information? Here’s how to avoid [...]

Every month or so, we’d like to highlight our vast, diverse and extraordinary community here on Graph Paper Press… because it’s your work that inspires our themes. And since it’s February, with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, it only makes sense to start with wedding photographers. First up, Liz Saldana, a wedding, engagement and [...]

Today we’re happy to release Retouch into the wild. Retouch is a free, responsive, one-column WordPress photo theme. It includes a colorful polaroid-inspired design, sleek gallery interface, widgets, paper tab drop down menus and custom background/header options. Main Features Responsive Design – Retouch adapts to different screen sizes so that your website will work (and be [...]

Emporia is a hybrid portfolio/blog WordPress theme and allows you to create three column page layouts so that your site can read like a magazine, and not a blog. It also comes packaged with five alternative styles including Light, Dark, Clean, Grunge, and Earth.

I have a real problem with the options available to creative professionals who are looking to sell their work online.  The options are expensive, confusing and typically don’t integrate well into WordPress. There are impressive hosted e-commerce solutions, but many tend to be overly complex and time consuming to setup. We’re going to change all [...]

By popular demand, we’re extending this deal until the 100 coupons are used. Deal #1 We’re offering $100 off our newly unveiled Forever Theme Subscription to the first 100 people who sign up. This Cyber Monday Deal gives you access to all of our existing themes, all new themes, all theme updates, access to our well-groomed [...]

Do you care how your website performs on mobile devices? Did you know that mobile browsing now accounts for an estimated 10% of all web traffic in the U.S. and is predicted to quickly approach 15%? Mobile browsing is gobbling up market share faster than knife fight in a phone booth. How people engage with [...]

Today we’re pleased to announce the release of Mixfolio, a responsive, HTML5, post format-loving, portfolio theme for WordPress.  Best of all, it’s free! Mixfolio is a minimal portfolio theme that allows you to easily separate content by post formats and category.  You can also shuffle through the posts on the homepage by category, using a cool [...]

“Change is inevitable. Adapt.” I honestly can’t remember where I originally heard this, but it’s stuck with me for years. This phrase is one of our guiding principles here at Graph Paper Press and it helps to explain the reasoning behind our most recent site redesign. Becoming Responsive More and more people access our site [...]

Two weeks ago an amazing thing happened. Three members of Graph Paper Press — all who live in different countries and who had never met each other in person — flew to California to attend WordCamp San Francisco 2011.