Category: Blog

  • Share your dream WordPress theme with us

    We’re totally stoked to be working on several themes right now that respond to specific requests from our creative community. And we always want to be designing for you and the unique needs of photographers, designers, artists, bloggers and other creatives. To that end, we want to hear from you. Answer this quick survey below…

  • Meet Gridspace, A Responsive Theme for Portrait Images

    Meet Gridspace, A Responsive Theme for Portrait Images

    Earlier this week, we let you know that loads of people wish we had a theme that was specifically designed to support Portrait images. Well, your wish is our command. The Graph Paper Press team has put the finishing touches on Gridspace, and we’re thrilled to launch it into the wild today. Gridspace is a responsive…

  • Spotlight on Travel Photographers: Take a Trip with Us!

    Spotlight on Travel Photographers: Take a Trip with Us!

    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…

  • The “10-Step” Shortcut to a Better Website

    The “10-Step” Shortcut to a Better Website

    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…

  • Publish Anything with New Theme Immersion

    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…

  • 3 Inspired Editorial Photographers & Themes (Powered by Us!)

    3 Inspired Editorial Photographers & Themes (Powered by Us!)

    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…

  • 12 Reasons to Make the Switch from Flash

    12 Reasons to Make the Switch from Flash

    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…

  • 3 Inspired Illustrators & Themes (Powered by Us!)

    3 Inspired Illustrators & Themes (Powered by Us!)

    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.

  • Meet Seneca: Our First E-Commerce Enabled Theme

    Meet Seneca: Our First E-Commerce Enabled Theme

    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…

  • 2012: the Year of the Artist-Entrepreneur

    2012: the Year of the Artist-Entrepreneur

    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…