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<p>Building a photography portfolio for WordPress should be easy. Here’s a plugin to help you with that!</p>
<h3>Quick Overview</h3>
<p>Easy Photography Portfolio is based on the idea of albums with images that can optionally be grouped in categories!<br />
By default, albums and images are displayed in a masonry gallery. You open up an album to see all the images. then click on an image to look at it closer.<br />
I think it might be easier to explain with a demo.</p>
<h3>Plugin Demo</h3>
<p>Easy Photography Portfolio is extremely flexible, from the most basic to completely custom designs.</p>
<p><strong>📌 Demo: Minimalist Portfolio</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/minimalist-portfolio/" rel="ugc">Minimalist Portfolio</a> is a <strong>free</strong> WordPress theme – customized to look great with Easy Photography Portfolio plugin!</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><a href="http://befree.pyronaur.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Minimalist Portfolio Demo</a></strong></li>
<li><a href="https://colormelon.com/free-portfolio-website-tutorial/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tutorial</a> – full theme and plugin setup</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/pyronaur/minimalist-portfolio" rel="nofollow ugc">Source Code</a> on GitHub</li>
</ul>
<h3>📚 Setup Tutorials</h3>
<p>The plugin name gave it away – it’s really easy to set up a portfolio with it. And yet, here are some extra resources for you:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://colormelon.com/easy-photography-portfolio-full-setup-guide/" rel="nofollow ugc">Full setup guide</a> – as close to documentation as you can get</li>
<li><a href="https://colormelon.com/free-portfolio-website-tutorial/" rel="nofollow ugc">A-Z Photography Portfolio tutorial</a> with Hamilton child theme (Minimalist Portfolio)</li>
</ul>
<h3>🎥 Video Tutorial</h3>
<p>If detailed documentation and guides aren’t enough for you, watch the video tutorial:<br />
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b5mevuD-hPI?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<h3>Designed for Photographers</h3>
<p>We love the WordPress community and wholeheartedly agree with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/" rel="ugc">WordPress Philosophy</a>.</p>
<p>Great software should work out of the box, without the user having to adjust oceans of buttons and knobs.<br />
That’s why Photography Portfolio is designed to be as easy to use as possible.</p>
<p>Photography Portfolio plugin is founded upon years of experience in building Premium WordPress Themes for Photographers. We’ve seen it all, great and not-so-great websites, big names, and absolute beginners. We have crystallized the formula of a high-quality portfolio into a simple WordPress plugin that you can use with any WordPress theme or your custom WordPress site!</p>
<p>It all comes down to the simple structure of a real Portfolio book.</p>
<p>You own a Portfolio album for, let’s say your Wedding Photography. If you happen to do street Photography too, you also probably have another album that has only your best street photography prints.</p>
<p>That’s exactly what Photography Portfolio does for you online. You create albums, add images, and in case you have a huge portfolio, you can categorize albums too.</p>
<p>Then your visitors are able to open any album, quickly scan all of the images, or view them one by one. Simplicity is key!</p>
<h3>Developed for Extensibility</h3>
<p>Out of the box, Photography Portfolio is built using Masonry Layout (think Pinterest). Quite simply – it’s the layout most easily portable to any website layout while keeping the feel of the brand.</p>
<p><strong>Warning</strong>: Developer language ahead.<br />
For some, a masonry layout might not be enough, it sure isn’t enough for our Photography WordPress themes, because of that, this plugin is packed with Actions and Filters. Not only in PHP but also the JavaScript side.<br />
You can easily extend the plugin with your own custom archive and single-view layouts. Customization is easy as Photography Portfolio plugin templates are based on <code>get_template_part()</code> function, similar to the way WooCommerce plugin has a custom template function. That brings a lot of customization power to the table. Pick any part of the view, and append your own template bits or completely rewrite the templates.</p>
<p>The JavaScript side is also very opinionated and easily extensible. You can use filters and actions to either modify the existing functionality, for example modifying the core masonry layout just a bit or completely initialize a brand new layout (like Packery or Horizontal Scroll). If you decide to build a custom view, you can utilize the existing JavaScript hook structure to let the plugin handle all the little things for you.</p>


Easy Photography Portfolio

I tested a lot of portfolio plugins and they look all quite ugly - or you need to pay for boring effects. Photography Portfolio looks great. And it’s very simple to use. 

If you know how to manage templates, customisation is possible and that’s the kind of feature that makes a great difference. Too bad the documentation is not very noob friendly as the time I’m writing this review. I hope it will be completed.

Efficient, simple and good looking

Easy Photography Portfolio is an elegant portfolio gallery plugin designed for Photographers. Install the plugin, add portfolio entries and galleries  …

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<h4>Note</h4>
<p>Cactus Masonry Classic has been superseded by <a href="http://cactus.cloud/masonryplus" rel="nofollow ugc">Cactus Masonry Plus</a>.  Cactus Masonry Plus is also free and available in the WordPress plugin repository.</p>
<h4>What is Cactus Masonry Classic?</h4>
<p>Cactus Masonry Classic (which we will call CMC from now on), is a WordPress plugin designed to display a gallery of post and/or page featured images that can be filtered, sorted, and treated as hyperlinks.</p>
<p>In other words, a CMC gallery will display a list of all matching posts which link back to their permalinks when clicked! This functionality would be perfect for an art or photo gallery where further information needs to be displayed on each item. Of course, you can choose where each picture links, whether back to the original image (at a size of your choosing), the original post, a Lightbox styled gallery, or nowhere at all.</p>
<p>As CMC essentially searches your WordPress site for posts, you can specify which category (or categories) of post to display, and sort those posts by date, comment count, author, randomly, and more!</p>
<p>You can also specify the layout options for the pictures. By default, the pictures are positioned in a masonry styled layout, where the images are slotted into each other like irregular bricks in an old stone wall. However, you can force the plugin to restrict or constrain the heights or widths of the images to create a tidy and whitespace free gallery of images. Check out the <a href="http://cactuscomputers.com.au/masonry" rel="nofollow ugc">Cactus Masonry Classic Home Page</a> for an example where the width has been constrained to 33.3%.</p>
<p>You may also specify how the images glow when the user’s mouse hovers overhead, whether the images have borders, and how much (if any) spacing should exist between each image.</p>
<p>The Cactus Masonry Classic plugin provides a versatile WordPress plugin that allows you to display your posts by their thumbnail in a clean and visually pleasing format.</p>
<h4>Can I See it In Action?</h4>
<p>Yes, go to the main page of <a href="http://cactuscomputers.com.au/masonry" rel="nofollow ugc">Cactus Masonry Classic Website</a> to check it out!</p>
<h4>Does it Cost Money?</h4>
<p>No, it’s all free to use. This is not one of those “free” plugins that require a payment before you can use any of its useful features. This is completely free – no watermarks, no ads, no nagging. Just one free plugin.</p>
<p>However, it did take a fair amount of time to make… so if you are feeling generous… feel free to <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=cactus%40cactuscomputers%2ecom%2eau&lc=AU&currency_code=AUD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donate_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted" rel="nofollow ugc">donate something</a>. But no pressure or anything :).</p>
<h4>Can I Make a Feature Request?</h4>
<p>CMC has reached the end of its supported life.  Bug fixes will still be issued, but new features are unlikely to be released.</p>
<p>CMC has now been replaced by Cactus Masonry Plus.  This plugin is a total rebuild of CMC, including improved performance, fewer and smaller files, and a whole bunch of new features.</p>
<p>Cactus Masonry Plus is also free, but it is also open to new feature requests.  To find out more, visit the <a href="http://cactus.cloud/masonryplus" rel="nofollow ugc">Cactus Masonry Plus Website</a>.</p>


Cactus Masonry Classic

Displays a customizable gallery of your post featured images in either a grid or a masonry layout.

Easy Photography Portfolio vs Cactus Masonry Classic