Category: Photography

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 10 Surprising Things Creative Websites Often Forget

    10 Surprising Things Creative Websites Often Forget

    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…

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

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

    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…

  • Pimp your portfolio with Emporia

    Pimp your portfolio with Emporia

    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.

  • Rethinking Media E-Commerce & WordPress

    Rethinking Media E-Commerce & WordPress

    The latest version of SELL MEDIA plugin is now available. Download here. 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…

  • Case Study: How Creatives Use WordPress

    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…

  • How to add image galleries in WordPress (video tutorial)

    If you are new to using WordPress, the process of adding image galleries might seem a little confusing.  In this video tutorial, I show you how to add image galleries and explain how themes and plugins can potentially display galleries differently using shortcodes and template files. http://vimeo.com/24780573 Remember, different themes often contain different approaches to…