Photocrati – The Ultimate WordPress Theme for Pro Photographers

We have had someone configure our photocrati theme for us, we are wedding and portrait photographers, and I'm trying to load a wedding in using the photocrati gallery/album option, I'm loading 99 at a time, saving the gallery, then publishing after every 99, and as soon as I start to load the 3rd set of 99 in, it takes forevery to save the gallery and throws the pictures out of sinq, then it I try to order by file name, it takes ages to save, infact it just keeps rolling and rolling, appearing frozen.  Very frustrated at the moment as I have 3 weddings to add.  I thought at first it could have been the ecommerce causing the issues, but it isn't, out of desparation just tried the standard gallery setting, and nope, still doing it, thing is I need them to be able to view their image numbers, so they can tell me which ones they want for their gallery.  Any help would be so gratefully received, as I have literally been trying and trying again for about 3 weeks now, and don't know what to do.  Bluehost say its not a capacity issue, as we have unlimited size.  Thanks so much

Clair

thanks fro the info here! I do love photocrati and it works pretty well the the BH setup, but man, it seems such hard work installing an update! I have been round and round the houses and it still won't update even after doing everything they suggest!

Is Photocrati a child theme for the Genesis framework or not? If so, what's the price without Genesis?

Photocrati is a pretty nice looking design with a pretty good package of tools for those of us that have little interest in learning to write code. I'd much rather focus on my photography, upload my work and get it published to my site. Photocrati is fairly simple to use, has some customizations, and is reasonably priced. That said, it's inability to integrate with a decent e-commerce solution is frustrating. For the time-being, it works for me as long as I am willing to self-fulfill print orders.....feel free to visit my site to see how it looks...

Erika-I have this theme for my Boudoir photography site and YES you can change just about everything including the logo.

Easy to use is one thing, but the fact that so many say it's for beginners and those who will never code, scares me a bit. I want to be able to customize. I have never liked the inflexibility and incompatibilities of WP, not to mention the boring, overly CSS appearance and lack of creative options with WP. I was really hoping to finally find a theme that kicks WP in the ass! Oh well, I'll keep looking. If anyone knows MM over at WP, tell that pathetic weasel geek to kiss my a$$!

I'm debating on using the Photocrati themes for my site, my major hesitation is the large "Photocrati" logo on the top of the pages in the Demos. I've downloaded other themes that had their company name on them and figured I could change it to my own only to find out I couldn't after I had already got it. So I would just like to know if that is a changeable heading before I download it.

Since Photocrati took down their user forums, I've created a user's group at: http://bit.ly/photocrati

If you have questions or advice on installation or customization, join us!

I have just uploaded a new website with a Photocrati theme. I found it easy to use and I have had some fantastic comments already.

I bought the theme for my daughters website. She is a beginner photographer and it is perfect for her needs. I have now played with the theme and I'm missing something that Thesis have :)

Maybe I just got lazy and didn't want to do all from the beginning. I recommend this theme to all who don't want to code themselves.

I recently purchased photocratic. I quite like it as it's easy to install, help files and videos are really good. I would certainly recommend it. My one and only criticism is their email support is very slow which for me creates a huge problem, especially when I have a problem which I cannot find any help notes on...still awaiting responses to my email support queries :-)

really a good theme for photographer's blog. i think a photoblog and i wish use this them for my new site. thanks

Hey Kevin, Jean-Baptiste,

This is Erick from Photocrati. I was just searching to see what's out there about our themes and found this. Kevin, thanks for taking the time for the review. Jean-Baptiste, you're absolute right about the code. The themes were first released in August 2009, and in retrospect the coding was just awful. We hired the wrong coders.

For 2.0, we brought in new and outstanding in-house developers, and started from scratch. Some of the design elements are similar, but there was no code in 2.0 that was the same as 1.0.

Among other things, when you purchased 1.0, we had several themes. With 2.0, we've incorporated all our themes into one "supertheme." Our developers are now religious about clean, well-commented code.

Since then, we've release 2.1, 2.2, and we just released 3.0 this week. 3.0 completely reworks the back-end options panel, and adds a new gallery management system, Photocrati Gallery, with better display options. Here's some info on 3.0:
http://www.photocrati.com/announcing-the-release-of-photocrati-30-and-photocrati-gallery/

When we made the major upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0, we also offered all buyers free lifetime upgrades to future versions of "supertheme." If you want to try it again, you can log in any time and download 3.0. Once installed, all future upgrades can be done automatically with a one-click upgrade from the dashboard.

Best wishes to you,
Erick

I have tried Photocrati for a client one year ago and i must admit I wasn't that much impressed. Features are quite cool but I found the themes horribly badly coded.

That said, it was one year ago, and hopefully they updated it since.