Retro web designs are always loved by all the web designers. Many wordpress website users like to use the wordpress retro themes. Behind technology is “old is gold”. Many people like to look the there wordpress sites in older way. Many wordpress designers are still using the retro icons and elements in there designs to look wordpress design classic. With retro look design old news and history related news looks really powerful. Here we collected some very nice vintage look wordpress themes. Which designs and wordpress themes with cool look and minimal code.
Unique Retro WordPress Themes are vintage portfolio style, classic and premium retro wordpress theme collection.
Note: I collected the free and premium both retro wordpress themes. Some wordpress themes are paid and some of them are free.
Retro Portfolio
This Retro WordPress theme makes use of HTML 5 template that allows users to customize animation and graphic elements. The lay out consists of a header, portfolio, content and contact section.
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a minimal portfolio WordPress Theme – personal or corporate, based on full-screen slider and sliding pages. The Theme is maintained in a minimalist, contrasting style. Background images kept in retro tones contrast with modern minimalist content. It is possible to add unlimited number of pages in the form of scrolling menu.
The Theme contains typical descriptive pages like about and services, portfolio page with categories based on accordion, build-in lightbox and possibility to play youtube and vimeo videos, main blog page and single post page with categories, comments and lightbox build-in, contact page with map of location and with working contact form.
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HANNA – Responsive Retro HTML5/CSS3 Template
HANNA is a stunning, retro template. Perfect for the ‘Instagram’ generation. The template is fully responsive, built on HTML5 , with the latest CSS3 features. Beautiful typography, gorgeous image effects, and a ‘Retro Minimal’ look, combine to bring you a luxurious template that will truly make you stand out from the crowd.
Vintage WordPress theme – Unique in design, rich in features and easy to use as you see it. Multi Purpose and responsive as we said, it is designed to display creative portfolio, photo gallery, modern business blog etc.
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Primento
Primento is a One Page WordPress Portfolio which includes a HTML Resume. The theme has a unique retro and creative look and feel to it which is easy to edit and maintain. Sections can easily be added and taken away to personalize your portfolio. The Portfolio supports images, multimedia such as youtube, vimeo, flash and a lot more. The Theme included all PSD to edit any design and details and the theme as you wish.
The Fox WordPress Theme is a Retro style perfect for creatives looking to showcase their work. This theme focus on featuring your portfolio and connects to Dribbble to display your latest shots.
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IndieFest WordPress Retro Theme
This big epic visual band theme was designed for indie rockers, folk artists, grassroots pop stars, and outdoor music festivals. It’s cheerful, ominous, moody, epic, laid back, summery — whatever you need it to be.
Alveera is a single page wordpress template with a little retro look. With the combnination of nice color variation and pleasing design it can be user for both personal and professional sites.
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RetyX – Vintage / Retro Blog WordPress Theme
RetyX is a Blog and Portfolio WordPress Theme in retro and vintage design. It is suited for users who want to run a professional or personal blog and wants to showcase your products, services or news in a creative and unique manner.
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Delimondo Responsive WordPress Theme | 5 Styles
Delimondo is a powerful WordPress Template built for restaurants and food lovers. The template automatically adapts to window resolution and looks fantastic on all devices! We also took into account that not all users are experienced web developers, so we have included a description.
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Lucky Times. Responsive.
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Benissimo — Vintage Style WooCommerce Theme
Benissimo is the WordPress template, which is made in a vintage style. Keeping pace with the times we offer a truly high-quality solution. Combined with a thoughtful and carefully elaborated design, «Benissimo» will leave no one to be indifferent. Using this theme you can not only increase conversions quality and number of positive reviews but also make a pretty good surprise to your customers.
Photo Gallery is best way to showcase your images. many plugins gives features of animated gallery. collection of free wordPress image gallery plugins.
Photo Gallery, picture gallery, or slideshow are the best way to showcase your images/photos to your readers. There are a lot of different methods to create them, and the alternative you’re most likely to be using Flash or JavaScript. Now Jquery slider plugins are very popular these days. There are many wordperss image gallery plugins which gives you really great features of animated gallery. Here is nice collection of wordpress gallery plugins.
Free WordPress Image Gallery Plugins
Below is the most downloaded image gallery plugins that we have chosen directly from the wordpress plugin directory. To make it even easier for you to choose, I also added live demo link under every image plugin! All of the resources in this post are categorized and hopefully you will find a number of new plugin that will be practical for your own work.
NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.
NextGEN Gallery is the most popular WordPress gallery plugin, and one of the most popular WordPress plugins of all time, with over 7.5 million downloads.
It provides a powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload, import meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more. It also provides two front-end display styles (slideshows and thumbnail galleries), both of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more.
Shadowbox is an online media viewing application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can display a wide assortment of media in all major browsers without navigating users away from the linking page.
Javascript libraries supported are: None, YUI, Prototype, jQuery and MooTools. Prototype and jQuery are used from the Javascript libraries included with WordPress, YUI is loaded from Yahoo APIs and Mootools is loaded from Google APIs.
This plugin can also be used as a drop in lightbox replacement, without requiring you to edit posts already using lightbox.
By default this plugin will use Shadowbox for all image links, movie links, audio links and YouTube/Google Video links including those generated by the
Free WordPress Image Gallery Plugins
shortcode.
Shadowbox is licensed under the terms of the Shadowbox.js License. This license grants personal, non-commercial users the right to use Shadowbox without paying a fee. It also provides an option for users who wish to use Shadowbox for commercial purposes. You are encouraged to review the terms of the license before using Shadowbox. If you would like to use Shadowbox for commercial purposes, you can purchase a license from http://www.shadowbox-js.com/.
Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images, simple slide shows, videos and content all in an overlay.
Lightbox Plus ColorBox implements ColorBox as a lightbox image overlay tool for WordPress. ColorBox was created by Jack Moore and is licensed under the MIT License. Lightbox Plus ColorBox for WordPress implements ColorBox as a lightbox image overlay tool for WordPress. ColorBox was created by Jack Moore and is licensed under the MIT License. Lightbox Plus ColorBox permits users to view larger versions of images without having to leave the current page. Lightbox is able to add a lightbox to WordPress gallery images, display simple slide shows, video, forms and external content in overlays. The use of the dark or light background, which dims the page over which the image has been overlaid, also serves to highlight the image or video being viewed. Lightbox Plus ColorBox captures the image title for display in the overlay.
Lightbox Plus ColorBox uses WordPress’ built in jQuery library. Lightbox Plus ColorBox also uses the PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser helper class to navigate page content for inserting the Lightbox attibutes into elements.
As the name shows, this is just WordPress’s version of the jQuery Lightbox Plugin written by balupton, working perfectly with WordPress 2.2 or up, and fully compatible with K2
Darkens the current page and displays an image (like Lightbox, Thickbox, etc.), but is a lot smaller
(10KB) and faster.
Shutter Reloaded is an image viewer for your website that works similarly to Lightbox, Thickbox, etc. but is under 10KB in size and does not require any external libraries. It has many features: resizing large images if the window is too small to display them with option to show the full size image, combining images in sets, redrawing the window after resizing, pre-loading of neighbour images for faster display and very good browser compatibility.
This plugin offers customization of the colour and opacity settings for the background and colour for the caption text, buttons text and the menu background.
There are options to enable it for all links pointing to an image on your site (with option to exclude some pages), or just on selected pages. It can be enabled only for image links with CSS with option to create a single set or multiple sets for each page.
The plugin can also “auto-make” image sets for each Post, so when several posts are displayed on the “Home” page, links to images on each post will be in a separate set. See the built-in help for more information.
Seamlessly integrates FancyBox into your blog: Upload, activate, and you’re done. Additional configuration optional.
You can easely customize almost anything you can think about fancybox: the border, margin width and color, zoom speed, animation type, close button position, overlay color and opacity and even more advanced option like several options to group images into galleries, and more…
By default, the plugin will use jQuery to apply FancyBox to ANY thumbnails that link directly to an image. This includes posts, the sidebar, etc, so you can activate it and it will be applied automatically.
FlippingBook WordPress Gallery plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your blog.
Do you need to show your photos or publication to the best advantage and post them in a photo gallery speedy manner, don’t you? You need to make a bright and memorable presentation, portfolio or image gallery?
Convert your WordPress Blog into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time. Use the full range of WordPress functions and plugins: Benefit from the big community WordPress has to offer.
What is YAPB / What can you expect?
A non invasive WordPress-plugin that converts wp into a easy useable photoblog system
Easy image upload – All wordpress post-features can be used
On the fly thumbnail generation – Use multiple thumbnail sizes where and when you need them: Thumbnail generation gets controlled by the theme.
EXIF data processing and output
Self-learning EXIF filter – Your own cameras tags can be selected to be viewed.
Full i18n-Support through gnutext mo/po files
YAPB Plugin Infrastructure for extended functionality
Ping additional update-service-sites when posting a photoblog entry.
Nearly every WP-theme can become a photoblog in virtually no time.
Out of the box configurable “latest images” sidebar widget
You’ll get a photoblog system based on wordpress – Decide if you want to post a normal WordPress article or a photoblog entry. Be free to use all available extensions / plugins of the WordPress platform 😉
Be the owner of your own photos on your own webhost
The WP-SimpleViewer plugin allows you to easily create SimpleViewer galleries with WordPress. SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image gallery. Images and captions can be loaded from the WordPress Media Library or from Flickr.
Add SimpleViewer Flash image galleries to your posts and pages. Easy to use and several options to make it fit your needs.
Lazyest Gallery is an integrated image gallery with automatic thumb and slide creation, comments on images, and a slide show.
Create a photo gallery from your existing photo directories.
If you are new to Lazyest Gallery, please consider Eazyest Gallery. Eazyest Gallery is the successor to Lazyest Gallery and is far better integrated with WordPress, and compatible with popular plugins.
This gallery basically needs just two settings: Your image directory and your gallery page. Lazyest Gallery automatically creates a photo gallery with folders, sub folders, thumbnail pages and slide shows.
If you want more, the gallery offers a multitude of options by featuring a smart back end management site. You can sort photos through folders and add captions, comments and descriptions with minimal effort. If you are tired of uploading photos through the WordPress server, this plug-in will make it a breeze with their FTP auto-indexing integration.
This plugin allows you to easily display Flickr photos on your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams. The plugin is relatively easy to setup and configure via an options panel. It also has support for an image cache located on your server.
Allows you to integrate Flickr photos into your site. It supports user, set, favorite, group and community photostreams.
This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site. There is a pretty simple template provided which you can customize to 100% match the look and feel of your own site.
The plugin is customizable in a number of different ways. There are options to allow you to hook it up with a number of different Lightbox-style popup overlay display libraries. Third party commenting services such as Disqus are also supported, allowing your visitors to comment on your photos without hopping over to Flickr.com. A simple Flickr widget is also included to let you easily include your photos into your blog’s sidebar.
On the backend, this plugin will add a new Flickr icon to your WordPress edit screen which will allow you to easily insert your Flickr photos and albums into your blog posts with just a couple clicks. You can either have your inserted photos link back to your WordPress Flickr photo album or directly to your Flickr.com photo page.
Quickly and easily add Flickr galleries, photos, and even custom search results into your WordPress pages and posts.
Using the “shortcodes” system in WordPress 2.5 and up, this plugin will allow you to quickly and easily incorporate your Flickr photos into your WordPress pages and posts.
Features include:
A quick gallery of your recent photos, photosets and most popular photos.
Easy database caching (just click a checkbox)
Displays the photos from one photoset
Displays all of a user’s photos with given tags
Displays the results of a custom search
Inserts a single photo into your content
Embeds Flickr’s flash movie player for videos
Authenticate to display your private photos
Lightbox script makes it easy to browse photos without leaving the page
Plugin API to let sites configure the tabs in their gallery
View photosets in the gallery mode without leaving the page
Lightboxes are now generated for every gallery mode
WordPress MU Support
Pagination in galleries
All images smaller than “medium” will load in the lightbox effect (if enabled) when the user clicks on them.
Add a “Collections” tab to the default gallery
Select which tabs the gallery displays
Set the lightbox to display larger than “medium” photos if the user’s browser window is large enough.
Easier “Web” based authentication to the Flickr API.
New: Show the photo’s description inside the lightbox alongside the larger photos.
This plugin adds cropping, resizing, and rotating functionality to WordPress’ image upload and management dialogs. Scissors also allows automatic resizing of images when they are uploaded and supports automatic and manual watermarking of images. Additionally, images that are resized in the post editor are automatically resampled to the requested size using bilinear filtering when a post is saved, which improves the perceived image quality while reducing the amount of data transferred at the same time.
Please note that WordPress versions 2.9 and newer are not supported!
When the first version of Scissors was published in October 2008 it was available only in English and German. Since then translations into new languages have been contributed by the following kind individuals. Thank you for your time and initiative!
Scissors enhances WordPress’ handling of images by introducing cropping, resizing, rotating, and watermarking functionality.
For WordPress 2.9 – 3.0 please download here :http://dev.huiz.net/2010/01/03/wordpress-plugin-scissors-for-v2-9/
Grand Flagallery – powerfull media gallery content plugin. Easy interface for handling photos, image galleries, audio and video galleries.
With this gallery plugin you can easy upload images, create music and video playlists, create photo gallery, group pictures in photo slideshow and add descriptions for each image, mp3 or video – Grand Flagallery is the smart choice when showing the best of your product or describing in brief any event. Grand Flagallery can easily beautify your site with photo gallery, mp3 player, video player, banner rotator, nivo slider or nice slideshow widgets. SEO optimized, compatibility with Google Reader, FeedBerner, etc.
Used to create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site.
Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.
Creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest or featured content selected from one category, a mix of categories, or pages.
This plugin creates a dynamic gallery of images for latest and/or featured content using either the JonDesign SmoothGallery script for mootools, or a custom jQuery script. The plugin dynamically creates the gallery from your latest and/or featured content by either automatically pulling in the first Image Attachment from relevant Posts/Pages, or by specifying image URLs in a DCG Metabox in the Write screen for the relevant Posts/Pages. Additionally, default images can be displayed in the event that Posts/Pages don’t have an Image Attachment or manually specified image. A Dashboard Settings page gives access to a comprehensive range of options for populating the gallery and configuring its look and behaviour. The DCG can be added to your theme as a Widget, or by using a template tag.
For best results, make sure that your theme supports Post Thumbnails, introduced in WP 2.9.
Compatible with network-enabled (multisite) WordPress 3.0+, though available plugin options are slightly reduced.