One of the hazards of over designing themes is ending up with designs that distract from the content. The eGallery WordPress theme is intended to prevent this from happening. This theme will be of particular interest to those who work in the visual arts and who need a place to present their work. This theme is very suitable for portfolios, as it offers very little to take attention away from the gallery items. The theme makes it easy for visitors to enlarge photos and to get additional information about them.

The eGallery theme essentially converts a WordPress blog into a fully-functioning gallery. For visual artists, this eliminates the need to shoehorn a lot of images into a space designed to display text. In most cases, making thumbnails and inserting them in the various pages is one of the most time-consuming aspects of running an online gallery. With eGallery, the process is automated. No matter how many different sizes an image needs to be presented in, you only have to provide the large size.

The gallery display on eGallery is designed to allow the visitor to learn more about the image they’re looking at. Clicking an arrow button at the top of the image makes it roll down, revealing text. The image can also be selected for lightbox viewing, which presents the full-sized image to the viewer. The sidebars even have spaces set aside for smaller thumbnails and can be used for featured images or any other content.

The three color schemes that eGallery comes with are all designed to present a non-distracting environment where you can showcase your work. You can change the color scheme from the options panel. You can also allow your guests to rate images, if they wish, with the wp post ratings plugin. This theme has advanced features that let you alter it at more fundamental levels, including ePanel and the shortcodes collection.

This theme is tested and works in all the major browsers. Your visitors should have no trouble using any of the advanced gallery features. If you run into problems, you can make use of the support, provided by Elegant Themes, included in the purchase. Updates are also included for this theme.

This theme is a natural choice for those who need a web presence designed to showcase their visual arts work. It’s ease of use and powerful features make it stand out.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit elegantthemes.com.