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.

This just in from VaultPress:

Yesterday we learned of a vulnerability in a popular image resizing library called TimThumb, which is used in many WordPress themes and plugins, including a few of our older themes. The vulnerability was first reported by Mark Maunder in a post on his blog, and has been confirmed by the author of TimThumb. The vulnerability allows third parties to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code in the TimThumb cache directory. Once the PHP code has been uploaded and executed, your site can be compromised however the attacker likes.

WordPress has made a major dent in the creative landscape. As more and more photographers, artists and publishers discover WordPress and Graph Paper Press themes, we thought it would be interesting to delve into the various ways people create and publish their work. We spoke with a variety of creatives about their workflow and how WordPress fits into their day-to-day lives. Here’s what they said, along with examples of their fantastic work.

Immense is a fullscreen photo slideshow theme that resizes with the browser as it expands and contracts. This theme is ideal for photographers and visual creatives who are looking for a clean and simple way to showcase their images with minimal distractions.

If you’re a photographer migrating to a WordPress-powered website, it’s unintuitive that you need to create photo galleries as either Posts or Pages. You will probably be looking for a Gallery menu item on the left side of your WordPress Dashboard. I know I sure would be. Well, you can stop looking, because it doesn’t exist. Continue reading for helpful tips on how to solve this.

Focal Point is a one or two-column photo portfolio theme for WordPress built atop our Base theme framework.  It includes four optional styles to choose from (Centered, Centered Dark, Compact, Compact Dark) so you can easily change between light and dark, centered or top right menu navigation.