WordPress Photolog Theme: Photo-Biyori
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 3.0+
STEP 1 – Installation
Download Photo-Biyori theme.
(Version 3.0.3 | Last Updated: 10.06.2010)
Upload Photo-Biyori folder under /wp-content/themes/.
STEP 2 – Settings
Login to your admin panel.
- Choose Photo-Biyori as your theme from Appearance > Themes.
- Settings > Media > Image sizes
Thumbnail size – width 60 / height 60
Check “Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)”.
Medium size: Max width 500 / Max height 500 - Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most 36(*1)
- 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 - Album page (Thumbnail view for all pictures)
Attributes > Tempate > Album - 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.
CHANGE LOG
ver. 3.0.2 (10.6.2010)
- CSS fix.
ver. 3.0.2 (6.19.2010)
- Custom menu support added. (WordPress 3.0 new feature)
- Custom background support added. (WordPress 3.0 new feature)
ver. 3.0.1 (6.10.2010)
- Minor bug fix.
ver. 3.0.0 (6.9.2010)
- Version 3.0 released.





