Category: Blog

  • Instant Setup is Here: Build and Launch Your WordPress Website Today!

    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…

  • What is Influencer Outreach and Why Does it Matter?

    What is Influencer Outreach and Why Does it Matter?

    With more than 41 million photographers in the U.S. alone and a market value pushing $82 billion, the photography industry is ever-expanding. Competition is fierce, to say the least. How will you grow your business and thrive in such a saturated market? Your website is a key means to reaching new customers, and one of your primary web-related focuses should…

  • Introducing Filters – A New Way To Find Photos In Sell Media

    Introducing Filters – A New Way To Find Photos In Sell Media

    How can we make it easier for your customers to find the photos they’re looking for? That simple question led us to create something that we think you’re going to love: a new feature called “Filters.” Filters is included in version 2.1 of our free Sell Media plugin for WordPress. Filters can be added to any Page using this shortcode: [sell_media_filters]…

  • 5 Slideshow Plugins for Showcasing Images on Your WordPress Website

    5 Slideshow Plugins for Showcasing Images on Your WordPress Website

    With a massive increase in social media usage over the past ten years, the demand for media is constantly on the rise in what is now a largely image-centric web. More than ever before, this leaves designers and photographers tasked with finding a way to make their work stand out from the noise. A slideshow is a great way to engage…

  • Introducing Optics: A Free WordPress Theme with Clarity

    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.

  • Sell Media Version 2.1: Your Online Store Just Got Better

    Sell Media Version 2.1: Your Online Store Just Got Better

    Sell Media version 2.1 is now available for download. This update is the culmination of 154 commits from four developers over the course of three months, along with feedback from our passionate community of photographers, artists and entrepreneurs. Sell Media is our free e-commerce plugin that enables you to sell photos, prints and downloads directly from your personal…

  • BPG vs JPEG: Everything You Need to Know

    BPG vs JPEG: Everything You Need to Know

    As the most widely used image format in the world and the standard format for image compression, we’re all familiar with the JPEG. However, it’s far from perfect. After over 20 years of JPEG loyalty, is it time for something new? There are, of course, the well-known GIF and PNG file formats, each popular in its own…

  • Featured User: Award-Winning Photojournalist William Thomas Cain

    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…

  • Photolog: A Free WordPress Theme with Photographic Focus

    Photolog: A Free WordPress Theme with Photographic Focus

    How long do you look at a photograph on a website before scrolling past it? We all want to keep our website visitors interested, engaged and invested. But it’s tough – very tough. Now, what if your website was optimized to draw viewers into your imagery? What if it helped focus readers’ attention and led them where you wanted…

  • Save 68% from Black Friday through Cyber Monday

    Save 68% from Black Friday through Cyber Monday

    Starting this Friday at midnight, you can save 68% off any Graph Paper Press plan. That means you’ll get all 55 of our WordPress themes for as little as $31.68! Best of all, you’ll lock in this rate for as long as your plan is active – it’s a discount that just keeps on giving! Take the chance…