Our latest theme Macchiato is our most versatile theme yet. It has a sophisticated, fine art feel, with all the bells and whistles of our other WordPress BlogSites.

Style Options

Macchiato has three areas to add font choices with 9 font choices for each. That is 720 options for just your font choices. You can create a look that is anywhere from a soft whisper to a loud scream, just by switching up your type choices.

There are 5 color choice areas, besides the option to change the color of the header and background. We’ve preloaded a bunch of fun backgrounds. As with all our themes feel free to add your own and create a unique brand image. It is so easy.

FULL SCREEN GALLERIES

A new feature we wanted to add to this theme is that of fullscreen image galleries. To see beautiful images fill an entire screen makes them that much more impressive. Until now the common belief was that only Flash is capable of this. Not true. Not anymore. In fact, we loved this feature so much we added it as an option on each of our other themes also. You can choose our regular galleries or full screen galleries.

We couldn’t be prouder of Macchiato. As with all our themes you can switch back and forth with a click of a button under appearance. Check it out, play, have fun with it. Let us know what you think.

One of the most popular requests we have had since before we even launched is the addition of fullscreen image galleries. To see beautiful images fill an entire screen makes them that much more impressive. Until now the common belief was that only Flash is capable of this. Not true. Not anymore.

As part of the development for our newest theme (soon to be released) we thought it would make sense to develop the full screen galleries as well. It is hard to do them justice in a small blog post so we have added the full screen galleries to all of our theme demos…

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How To Add FullScreen Galleries to your site

There are two new shortcodes to use with the galleries. Previously to display a single gallery, you would use the shortcode “seo_gallery”. Now just use “seo_fullscreen” like this:

seo_fullscreen category="categoryname" gallery="galleryname"

Or to automatically display all galleries on a portfolio page, you can keep using “seo_album” but tell it to use the full screen display, like this…

seo_album display="fullscreen"

Remember to place those codes between brackets [shortcode goes here]. Unfortunatley, I can’t type out the exact example or it will try to place a gallery here.

We love hearing from you! We received an overwhelming amount of requests to bring back our Lifetime Membership offer. So that is exactly what we are going to do. It will be for a limited time only, but not to worry, we’ll give you plenty of warning before the offer ends.

We’ve also extended our 7-day free trial period to 14 days. Again, we’ve heard you and want to make sure our clients have enough time to really try out our sites before purchasing. Keep the feedback coming.

Today we are appearing on the BSchool’s Study Hall. The Study Hall is an hour long webinar/live video show run by renowned portrait and wedding photographer, Becker. For some time now, he has run the site ‘The BSchool’, an educational and networking resource for photographers.

Every week, he does a live chat/video session and has guest speakers or interviews that can offer something to the photography community. So we are honored to be a part of this week’s show.

We will be talking about how we started PhotographyBlogSites and why, maybe some plans about what we have in store for the future, and whatever else the caffeine might inspire. For those that haven’t watched, the Study Hall sessions are generally fueled by lots of coffee, informative interviewees and the funny banter of Becker. We hope to keep up

Most importantly, we will also be giving away a free lifetime membership, but you have to tune in live to find out how.

So come tune in to the Study Hall (http://www.thebschoolstudyhall.com/) today at 4pm PST and follow us on Twitter to say hi.