Aperture Premium Wordpress Theme For Blogs With Photos
May 30, 2009
Aperture Premium Wordpress Theme has a visually exciting layout with a professional looking content organization.
I would describe this theme as a happy marriage between a web 2.0 style photoblog and a grid based magazine theme. Best of both worlds: brains and beauty!
I love the power and flexibility of Wordpress (this blog is a WP blog as well) and I truly believe that a simple, attractive user friendly theme / design is key to have a popular blog or a blog that people want to return to.
I sometimes see blogs with great content which took a shortcut on design which is unfortunate.
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This theme can provide the perfect blog style for photographers, for make-up artists, models, painters, graphic designers, fashion designers basically any visual artist that require an online portfolio.
Many photoblogs are 100% flash based which may look cool but completely useless when it comes to networking and attracting visitors via Google text and image searches.
Wordpress blogs with their search engine friendly plugins and especially by using Wordpress premium themes which are optimized for Google out of the box ensure a powerful web presence.
One of the coolest features of Aperture Wordpress theme is the alternating first image on the top which you can only see on the Aperture Demo Page but not on the screen shot below. That top slider actually rotates your Latest Posts titles with their teasers and accompanying images. When you see it in action it is really impressive but it is not flash (good thing).
Aperture has an instant WOW factor, it is a multi-functional Wordpress theme with a dynamic homepage. It has an eye catching visual category display (2nd screenshot), a blog module (3rd screenshot) and several stylized widget ready areas.
There are 12 alternate theme styles and a very visual archive system that can be very effective in grabbing the site visitor’s attention (even if it is a short attention spanned StumbleUpon visitor!).
Aperture Premium Wordpress Theme Front Page Layout
Aperture Premium Wordpress Theme features:
- built-in Theme Options to tweak the layout, color scheme without having to edit PHP, HTML or CSS
- automatic Image Resizer dynamically creates thumbnails for the blog posts on the home page
- a must have: threaded comments
- convenient space saving drop-down menus for main navigation
- custom page templates for archives and sitemap
- 6 widgetized areas (4 footer modules and 2 sidebar modules)
- 7 custom Woo widgets
- 12 great color schemes to further theme flexibility
- integrated Gravatar support for comments
- dynamic, eye catching Latest Posts slider on homepage
- visual category areas with JavaScript hover effects
- stylish category archive template with images that use JavaScript hover effects
- dedicated blog category template and home page module
Aperture Premium Wordpress Theme Category Page Layout
Often visitors will arrive to category pages from search results so this is their first impression at your blog. Fortunately Wordpress premium themes makes it s pleasant first impression.
Once again the design is simple but stylish not too busy with overflow of information, only the essentials.
Aperture Premium Wordpress Theme Single Post Layout
The sidebar can be further widgetized and you can choose to show avatars next to the comments.
The footer section is just awesome, notice the automatically generated thumbnails which provide instant preview for the “Latest Photo Posts” and “Popular Photo Posts” lists!
Remember there are 12 different color schemes to math your personality or the content of your blog.
