Since I moved my photolog, PHOTOMO, from Movable Type to WordPress in 2006, I’ve been asked if there is a photolog theme available like mine.Finally, here it is. :)

Features
- Generate thumbnail automatically.
- Insert thumbnail automatically.
- Built-in thumbnail navigation.
- Buit-in random link navigation.
- Widget ready.
- Comment threading ready.
- Default picture size: 500 px
- Default thumbnail size：60 px x 60 px

Requirements
- WordPress 2.7+

STEP 1 – Installation

Download Photo-Biyori theme.
(Version 2.0.1 | Last Updated: 2.17.2009)

  
Upload Photo-Biyori folder under /wp-content/themes/.

STEP 2 – Settings

Login to your admin panel.

1. Choose Photo-Biyori as your theme from Appearance > Themes.
2. Settings > Media > Image sizes
   Thumnail size – width 60 / height 60
   Check “Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)”.
   Medium size: Max width 500 / Max height 500
3. Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most 36^(*1)
4. If you use comment threading
   Settings> Discussion > Other comment settings
   Check “Enable threaded (nested) comments x levels deep”.

STEP 3 – How to Post

Use WordPress default media uploader. In upload window, choose “Alignment – None, Size – Medium” and insert into post. At this point, the excerpt field is still blank. Once you click “Save Draft”, the thumbnail code appears in the excerpt field.^(*2)

STEP 4 – How to Create Pages

• Archives page
  Page slug: archives-index^(*3)
  Attributes > Tempate > Archives
• Tags page
  Attributes > Tempate > Tags
• Links page
  Attributes > Tempate > Links

To use widgets in Photo-Biyori, please read this post.

If you have any questions or feedbacks, please leave your comment here.

Big thanks to: Balazs @ Lost in Pixels for the inspiration to show/hide comments!

1. This defines number of thumbnails shown in archive pages.[↩]
2. if image source code is still blank like <img src=' ' />, click “Save Draft” again.[↩]
3. Click “Screen Options” if you don’t see page slug field.[↩]