Whereas a typical blog uses text as its primary form of communication, in a photoblog the emphasis is, well, photographs. It therefore makes sense to have a theme which is better suited to using images, both for posts and the archives.
There are various photoblogging programs out there, but none of them really offered what I wanted. So I made my own, based on the wonderful K2 theme for Wordpress.
I’ve since had oodles of people asking how I made it. So, finally, here it is: tutorials for how to build a K2 Photoblog, and for the lazy or css-challenged among you, the Nautilus theme.
Disclaimer: I am in no way a wordpress, K2 or code of any sort expert! I wrote this tutorial and made my theme available for download because a few people asked me to. There are probably more efficient and/or elegant ways to achieve the same results. If you work them out, please let me know! If you have any problems I’ll be happy to try and help you fix them if I have the time, but please don’t rely on it, or come complaining if it doesn’t do what you hope!
Ok, now that’s out of the way, let’s get started!
You will need:
Hej there! On behalf of the rest of the world: thanks for your theme. Just one question: do you know if your theme and the required K2 work under WP2.2 or do I really need WP2.1?
Thanks in advance,
Hi Micha,
I haven’t switched over to WP2.2 yet myself so I haven’t tested the theme. I think the only problem would be with the sidebar modules… by the sounds of it you need to use a plugin to disable the wordpress widgets in order for them to work. Theres lots of people talking about it over at the K2 forums. Otherwise, everything should work fine.