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Instant Setup is Here: Build and Launch Your WordPress Website Today!
What if you could launch your own independent WordPress website in just a few clicks? Now you can! We’re super-excited to announce Instant Setup, our new fully-managed WordPress hosting platform that comes with WordPress, our top themes, and a curated list of plugins – all pre-installed. Fully-Managed WordPress Hosting: Simple, Seamless, Awesome Building your own website has never been…
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Introducing Optics: A Free WordPress Theme with Clarity
Web design is an ever-evolving art. But while features and trends change, we believe that even a website built in the year 2070 should hold one core purpose: to showcase your work, not distract from it. Our mission is to preserve the minimalist school of thought while reverently pushing it forward with the evolution of digital design.
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Featured User: Award-Winning Photojournalist William Thomas Cain
Being a photojournalist means much more than taking pictures for newspapers. It’s about capturing the world’s people, cultures, conflicts, and occurrences. With a single snap, a moment in the present becomes a documentation of the past that will tell a real-life story not just in current events, but for future generations down the line. Graph…
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Six Common Photography Site Failures and How to Avoid Them
It’s fairly easy to create a website these days – a beginner’s skill set and a little bit of patience is really all it takes. The problem is that it’s equally easy to create a bad website, the definition of bad ranging from merely ineffective to downright detrimental. There are roughly 1 billion websites on…
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QUA WordPress Theme Now Available on WordPress.com
We’re excited to share that the QUA WordPress theme is now available on WordPress.com. Our friends at Automattic added the theme to their library for WordPress users to build their portfolio, blog or digital magazine with. Hosted vs. Self-Hosted Versions of QUA There are two versions of QUA: The version that you get access to when you…
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Meet Shibui: A Free Minimalist Portfolio Theme with Masonry Layouts and More
Did you know that you can create a portfolio website for your photography with no budget and no coding skills? Put what you thought was your web dev budget toward business cards or some new gear and build yourself the beautiful website you’ve always wanted with Shibui, a new free WordPress theme for creatives. Big…
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Sell Media + Stock Photography: Featured User Adrian Naik Shows Us How It’s Done
Have you ever thought of starting your own stock photography website? It may sound like a wild idea, but it’s actually just the next step up from selling your photos online. Sure, it takes some work. But with the right tools, you can experience the excitement of launching and building a business. Meet our friend Adrian…
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Introducing the QUA WordPress Theme: Empowerment to Creatives
Finding the right website template for your specific area of creative expertise can be difficult. Which layouts are best for photographers and artists? Which are made more for designers? What about writers? Our new QUA WordPress theme eliminates all uncertainty. If you’re creative and want a website that reflects your passion, QUA is for you. Use it to…
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Sell Media: See How Featured User Nate Hart Sells His Photography Online
If there’s a better feeling for a photographer than capturing the perfect image, it could very well be selling a print of that image online. It’s fulfilling when someone who has never met you visits your website, connects with your work and makes a purchase. Plus, it enables you to make a career out of your…
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How Photographers Can Protect Themselves with a Digital Model Release
In 2014, a New York state judge allowed model Avril Nolan to pursue her $450,000 lawsuit against Getty Images. Nolan, a healthy young woman, experienced extreme distress after being depicted as HIV-positive in an ad run by the New York State Division of Human Rights. While Getty motioned to have the case dismissed under the First Amendment,…
