Acora WordPress Photography Theme Overview
Acora WordPress Photography Theme is a gorgeous and creative theme for professional studios and photography and videography, it is built with the latest WordPress technology and fully supports the Gutenberg editor and includes galleries, slideshows, custom-made slider portfolio gallery, fullscreen sliders, and video, premium video players with advanced features like monetization, custom pages, blogs for photographers and videographers to create a unique website.
The theme can be used for photography, videography, or both, creative designers, design agencies, interior designers, web designers, and more. It allows creating as many page layouts as you wish. Acora comes with 9 + homepages, a unique portfolio with four possible layouts along with fullscreen that can showcase all possible image formats like portrait, landscape, or in between, two about us pages and one about me page, three contacts us pages, infinite grid clients page, sliders and video players that can be used both in fullscreen or in content like a post or a page and with our one-click demo importer you will be up and running in no time – with no coding required!
Acora is fully responsive with a modern design and it was designed with photography and videography in mind, the design is focused on beautiful portfolios and everything else is perfectly tuned to make sure this is the best photography and video theme available on the market and of course, it will look amazing on the screens of tablets and mobile phones.
Gutenberg WordPress 6+ Optimized
Posts, custom posts includes a portfolio as well and pages allow you to add as much text as needed and of course format the content with the new Gutenberg WordPress Editor. All Gutenberg blocks are supported and they were carefully optimized so that the admin backend will appear visually almost the same as the front page or post with minor differences, this way it is very easy to write a post or a page. We also added very useful shortcodes some built in and some via custom plugins that will add missing pieces to the Gutenberg editor.
Great value with Four premium plugins included
- Simple Image Slider Carousel.
- Infinite Grid Pro.
- Easy Video Player.
- Ultimate Video Player.
Ultimate Video Player
Ultimate Video Player is a powerful responsive video/audio player that can play local video (mp4) / audio (mp3), streaming videos or audios from a server, Youtube videos, or Vimeo / Vimeo Pro videos. It only requires the mp4 / mp3 format (the best and most used formats on the web) and it will work on mobile devices and desktop machines no matter which browser is used, this is made possible by incorporating multiple video engines in a really smart way inside the video player logic. Ultimate Video Player supports unlimited playlists and each playlist can have unlimited videos. The playlists can be loaded from a simple HTML markup, XML file, mixed playlist (Vimeo | Vimeo pro | youtube | HTML5 video/audio), video folder (mp4 files), audio folder (mp3 files), youtube playlist, or youtube channel, Vimeo playlist or Vimeo album, some examples below:
- Full width and height UVP.
- In page content UVP.
Infinite Grid Pro
Your secret weapon to creating a stunning image, video, and audio responsive infinite grids even with zero experience and dazzle your clients with jaw-dropping visuals that look amazing on any device, some examples below:
- Full width and height IGP.
- In page content IGP.
Simple Image Slider Carousel
Your secret weapon to creating stunning image, video, and audio responsive sliders even with zero experience and dazzle your clients with jaw-dropping visuals that look amazing on any device, some examples below:
- Full width and height example 1 SISC.
- Full width and height example 2 SISC.
- Full width and height example 3 SISC.
- In page content SISC.
Unique and gorgeous portfolio archive
Two available portfolio filtrable archive grid types the classic grid and the infinite grid. This grid is unique and very original, you will not find anything similar in another theme, they have some nice features like filterable portfolio categories using a custom select UI, an optional thumbnails slideshow that allows seeing a preview of all current project images, client name, categories, and likes, live search, infinite drag, and swipe (the infinite grid can be dragged infinitely in any direction and new portfolio images will be displayed).
Beautiful single portfolio
The single portfolio project page it is a work of art, we have designed it to allow us to set the image slider layout style in five different layout styles, this way it will support all image formats (portrait, landscape, and pretty much any format). The layout styles can be set easily in the admin based on your project type. It is using an optimized version of one of our plugins specially made for Acora Simple Image Slider Carousel with full video and audio support like mp4, mp3, Youtube, Vimeo, HLS, VAS/VMAP, Google IMA SDK, subtitles support and much more.
Horizontal Fluid Width Fit Images: This layout type displays the image slider in fluid width setting the image slider width to the browser viewport width and shows as many images as possible example here.
Horizontal Fluid Width Full Images: This layout type displays the image slider in fluid width setting the image slider width to the browser viewport width and shows one image at a time example here.
Horizontal Fullscreen Fit Images: This layout type displays the image slider in fullscreen setting the image slider width and height to the browser viewport width and height showing as many images as possible example here.
Horizontal Fullscreen Full Images: This layout type displays the image slider in fullscreen setting the image slider width and height to the browser viewport width and height showing one image at a time example here.
The portfolio slider can play multiple video formats with advanced features like monetization using built-in VAST orGoogle IMA Adsense SDK.
Video .mp4: The portfolio and the FWDSISC slider and Infinite Grid which can be added in any page, post, or custom post can play .mp4 video example here.
Audio .mp3: The portfolio and the FWDSISC slider and Infinite Grid which can be added in any page, post, or custom post can play .mp3 audio example here.
Video thumbnail preview: Optional auto-generated thumbanil preview for video example here.
Youtube support: The portfolio and the FWDSISC slider and Infinite Grid which can be added in any page, post or custom post can play Youtube videos example here.
Viemo: The portfolio and the FWDSISC slider and Infinite Grid which can be added in any page, post, or custom post can play Vimeo videos example here.
Google Drive and other cloud platforms: The portfolio and the FWDSISC slider and Infinite Grid which can be added to any page, post, or custom post can play google drive and other cloud platforms example here.
Optional protected video and audio: Optional private video and audio example here.
Optional subtitle: Optional subtitle support (.srt, .vtt, .txt) example here.
Chromecast support: Optional Chromecast support example here.
Video HLS / HTTP Live straming: The portfolio and the FWDSISC slider and Infinite Grid which can be added to any page, post, or custom post can play google drive and other cloud platforms example here.
Google IMA SDK Adsense: The portfolio and the FWDSISC slider and Infinite Grid which can be added to any page, post, or custom post can play Adsense advertisements example here.
VAST/VMAP: The portfolio and the FWDSISC slider and Infinite Grid which can be added in any page, post or custom post can play VAST and VMAP advertisements example here.
Client name.
Client website – if you like you can set a website URL for the client and when the client button is clicked that website will open in a new page.
Project categories.
Likes counter and button.
Project categories.
Share and copy current link buttons
Related projects grid.
Slideshow and the possibility of setting the slideshow delay in milliseconds.
Maximize/minimize/zoom image on double click or double tap.
Optional fullscreen button, this will display the image slider in fullscreen.
Optional next, previous and maximize / minimizebuttons.
Auto hide buttons – the buttons can be set to hide after a number of seconds of inactivity.
Drag & swipe.
Randomize images – display images in random order every time the page is viewed.
Sortable images – the images can be arranged in any order with drag and drop in the admin.
Optional captions – support for image captions.
Featured image – set featured image that will be displayed in the portfolio archive.
9+ HOMEPAGES
The home pages are just crazy beautiful, all of them can be seen in the demo here demo here, created with a custom page builder that we made, pages with fullscreen background video, an extended home page, in content or fullscreen image slider or even a fullscreen video page that is using the Ultimate Video Player and much more.
About us, About me and Contact us pages
These pages allow you to add info about you or the entire team and also offer the client to contact you via email or via a contact form.
Amazing Blog
We have put a lot of time into the blog section, we wanted to make something unique like all the other sections of the theme. The blog comes with 6 post formats types each format was carefully thought and designed, standard, audio, video, gallery, quote and link, preview here.
Custom Theme Admin Panel
Acora has its own admin panel used to provide you with more functionality that includes a wide variety of options and settings and provides maximum customization flexibility helping you to create a beautiful website
Monetize video
Acora has included both Easy Video Player and Ultimate Video Player, this player have some very nice features, one of them is the possibility to monetize your videos with google Adsense video or banner, or if you prefer VAST or VPAID.
Customizable Accent Color
Unlimited color possibilities for the theme elements lets you adapt your website appearance to your company style.
Shortcodes
Acora includes built-in shortcodes like accordion and tabs and various plugin shortcodes.
Translation Ready
Acora is translatable using .po and .mo files, which is the official way of translating WordPress themes and plugins.
All the way lazy loading
All media content is lazy loaded this means that the media content like image, video or audio is only loaded and displayed when visible in the browser viewport, this offers increased loading time and increased overall performance.
Responsive Design and Retina Ready
Beautiful imagery and carefully written content need to shine on any device, Acora is a fully responsive, Retina-ready WordPress theme, with adaptive images that will look great down on the phone in your pocket.
Password Protected Content
Pages, posts, and portfolio projects can be set to be password protected.
Detailed Theme Documentation
Acora includes detailed written documentation.
Quick Demo Install
The demo content from this page is included so it can be imported in just a few steps and added to your theme.
Support
We fully support operational components such as features usage, issue, bug, or the fix that are mainly related to the theme and to make the theme work properly. Please contact me via the contact form in my profile page here.
Version 2.0 Release Date 31.12.2022
- Complete remake of the portfolio adding full video and audio support, mp4, Youtube, Vimeo, HLS/m3u8, Google Drive, and other cloud platforms, subtitles support, .srt, .vtt or .txt, VAST/VMAP and GOOGLE ADSENSE IMA SDK and much more! example here.
- Complete remake of the Infinite Grid Pro with video and audio support with advanced features like video and audio playable directly in the grid example here with the integration of Revolution Lightbox with full video and audio support, mp4, Youtube, Vimeo, HLS/m3u8, Google Drive, and other cloud platforms, subtitles support, .srt, .vtt or .txt, VAST/VMAP and GOOGLE ADSENSE IMA SDK and much more!
- Complete remake of the Simple Slider Image Carousel with video and audio support with advanced features like video and audio playable directly in the grid example here with full video and audio support, mp4, Youtube, Vimeo, HLS/m3u8, Google Drive, and other cloud platforms, subtitles support, .srt, .vtt or .txt, VAST/VMAP and GOOGLE ADSENSE IMA SDK and much more!
- Multiple improvements and bug fixes…
