Semishot - Creative WordPress Theme for Portfolios, Photographers and Agencies

Semishot v1.0.4 (28.10.2016) is available. Scroll down for details.

Semishot is a perfect WordPress theme for Photographers, Portfolio Sites and Creative Agencies. Beautiful galleries and portfolios will help you to showcase your work with eye-caching and unique manner. Intelligent features like scroll-aware header area or sticky project content will create great user experience for your visitors. Built on fully responsive grid, theme looks and works great on all kind of devices from desktops and laptops to tablets and mobile phones. Semishot was created with speed and SEO best practices in mind. Thanks to theme options built on Redux Framework and custom shortcode button this theme is great for beginners and more advanced users.

Theme features

• Fully responsive and retina ready layout makes sure that theme works and looks great on all devices
• Modern and clean design that can be easily modified to match any kind of site
• 6 portfolio layouts: grid, masonry, full page slider, full page carousel, mosaic and sections
• Over 30 portfolio variations with tons of additional options
• 5 project layouts with sticky content and multiple gallery variations
• 9 gallery sizes with your own gap (margin between images) size
• Over 25 useful shortcodes that will help you to build pages easily and fast
• Image, parallax and video sections that can be used on all pages
• EXIF image data – use EXIF data to show image info such as camera model, aperture, focal length, exposure time and ISO
• Fully widgetized toggle sidebar
• Widgetized footer with 6 widget areas
• Beautiful and unique page transitions and elements animations
• Menu modal window that is great for personal or contact informations
• Lazy-loading feature for gallery and portfolio images – save bandwidth and speed-up your site for huge galleries
• Intelligent fixed header that hides when users scroll down and appears when user scroll to the top
• 2 custom post types: Portfolio and Gallery
• 4 blog layouts: standard, standard with sidebar, grid and grid with sidebar
• Support for popular plugins: Contact Form 7, MailChimp for WordPress, Yoast SEO, WPML, Visual Composer (not included!) and many, many more
• Very fast and lightweight without any kind of bloated additions
• Quick support in case of questions and problems
• Theme options based on powerful Redux Framework – easily edit theme settings without any coding knowledge
• Password protected projects – easily create protected projects that can be viewed only by selected users
• Custom share feature for posts and projects
• Translation ready – included .pot file will help you to translate this theme to your own language or use it with multilingual plugins like WPML or qTranslate
• Support for self-hosted audio and video files
• 2 custom widgets: latest projects and latest blog posts
• SEO optimized – theme was built with the best SEO practices in mind and is ready to be powered by most popular SEO plugins
• Support all main browsers
• One-click demo content importer (images from demo are replaced by ‘dummy’ images)

Photos and media files are not included

Credits

• Unsplash
• Pexels Videos
• PixelBuddha

Theme changelog

Version 1.0.4 - 28.10.2016
NEW: extra css class option for lead shortcode
FIX: lightbox overlay opacity issue
FIX: single portfolio featured image positioning issue when there are no gallery images attached

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Version 1.0.3 - 21.09.2016
NEW: "full" image size to use with the gallery shortcode for thumbnail and image opened in lightbox
NEW: option to place portfolio meta on the top or bottom of the content
NEW: option to disable comments on portfolio single from theme options
NEW: option to disable share button on portfolio single from theme options
NEW: option to disable "back to portfolio" button on portfolio single from theme options
NEW: option for changing gallery item overlay background and + icon color
NEW: option for changing gallery ligthbox overlay background and text color
NEW: option to disable only footer widgets, but leave footer copyright
FIX: button shortcode now uses proper href option (instead of link) when used through "Insert shortcode" 
FIX: posts from Gallery CPT are now excluded from search
FIX: added missing pagination to search result page
UPDATE: semishot.pot language file

To update MT Semishot Core plugin go to Appearance -> Install Plugins and update it from there.

Changed files:
~ footer.php
~ framework/plugins/mt-semishot-core.zip
~ framework/plugins/tgm-settings.php
~ framework/theme-options/mt-styles.php
~ framework/theme-options/options.php
~ languages/semishot.pot
~ search.php
~ single-portfolio.php
~ style.css
~ template-parts/portfolio-footer.php

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Version 1.0.2 - 14.09.2016
NEW: option to add custom portfolio link
NEW: social icons shortcode with almost 30 social icons to choose from
UPDATE: semishot.pot language file
UPDATE: documentation

To update MT Semishot Core plugin go to Appearance -> Install Plugins and update it from there.

Changed files:
~ framework/plugins/mt-semishot-core.zip
~ framework/plugins/tgm-settings.php
~ framework/theme-options/options.php
~ languages/semishot.pot
~ style.css
~ template-parts/portfolio-footer.php

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Version 1.0.1 - 8.09.2016
NEW: option to disable page preloader through theme options
NEW: added 15 elements to Visual Composer (only for VC users): alert, button, gallery, heading, huge heading, lead, milestone, portfolio grid, portfolio mosaic, portfolio search, portfolio sections, pricing, service, testimonials and typed
FIX: couple typos in translation strings from MT Semishot Core

To update MT Semishot Core plugin go to Appearance -> Install Plugins and update it from there.

Changed files:
~ framework/plugins/mt-semishot-core.zip
~ framework/plugins/tgm-settings.php
~ framework/theme-options/options.php
~ header.php
~ languages/semishot.pot
~ style.css

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Initial release - 6.09.2016