Oversized WordPress Photography Theme
Published in WordPress ThemesOversized is a free WordPress theme for photographers that uses a full-size background image for a dramatic effect. The full-screen image slideshow is perfect for showing off your best work.
Theme features include:
- Customizable jQuery full-screen slideshow
- Portfolio page template
- Upload photos and create your own custom galleries
- Upload your own logo, or just display the site title in text
Oversized is perfect for allowing your photos to speak for your quality of work. With the high-resolution background slideshow your visitors won’t be able to miss your best photos. You can choose the transition effect for the slideshow. You can also create as many custom photo galleries as you like, and all of the photos in those galleries will be shown on your portfolio page.
Documentation for the theme is available here.
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42 Responses
Nice photography theme…
I liked that transparency used……
Thanks Koby!
Wondering why there is no Tweet button on the page? It’s a great theme I’d like to share.
Adem,
The Twitter and Facebook buttons were removed recently because they load kind of slow. It may not be a permanent change, just kind of checking to see if people even use the buttons. You can still share it on Twitter without the button, although it does take a little more work. Thanks for the feedback on both the theme and the Twitter button.
awesome theme with the high usability!
Thanks Julia!
Cheers for this really useful blog post with a great oversized wordpress theme. The supersized themes are extremely popular at the moment and as long as you have the quality imagery for the background your website is guaranteed to look great. The theme showcased is extremely simplistic and could work well for a number of different types of companies.
Excellent theme. Thanks.
Is there any way to make the portfolio galleries full page sliders like the homepage? If so it would be awesome.
Cody,
Not without editing the theme files.
Very nice photography theme…
I have one question
Where are the font on navigation panel how can i change it? With childe theme?What exatctly file i have to change?
Ivan,
Fonts would have be to changed in the style.css file, or with a child theme.
Very nice theme! Is it possible to time the homepage slideshow or make it stop when browsing the other sections of the site?
Marita,
You can edit the “slideshow pause time” in the “slideshow options” section of the theme options. Setting a higher number there will increase the pause between slides, meaning it will move slower.
Great thanks! It really is a spectacular looking theme!
Hi Steven,thanks a lot for this wonderful theme,I have come across many but fell in love with your’s the moment i saw it,however i could’t get my widget to function,they just didjnt appear,how do i go about this please?
Dipo
Hi Dipo,
This theme doesn’t have any areas that are coded to use widgets. You would have to make some changes to the theme files.
Hello Steven,
I really like your theme and trying to help my doughter in law to set up a site. We have not much experiance of WordPress and have problem to get the tagline visible on the page.
Nils
Hi Nils,
The tagline is not coded to appear anywhere on this theme. In order to include the tagline on the site you would need to edit the theme files according to wherever you want it to appear.
wow that’s beautiful teme, thanks
He Steven,
I think this is an awesome theme!
I love the transparency you used and was wondering; is there a way to also use that transperancy for the background of the articles and pages (that are now white), with a different opacity maybe ?
Thanks
And another question; your “home” in the demo-site is empty; so no empty (ugly) white background when you enter the website.
I don’t seem te be able to get that in my site; how did you do that ?
Matthijs,
You need to set the home page to use the “home” template. Please refer to the theme documentation as it explains the process. For the transparency issue, that would require customizing the theme.
I like the theme, I will try it now to check
Love the theme, very basic but nice
anyway to add social media icons like facebook, vimeo etc?
klaas,
The theme doesn’t have any social media integration, but you could add the button code manually or use one of the many WordPress plugins for social media.
Hello,
Very nice theme, but I can’t seem to adjust one thing.
Is it possible to stop the slideshow when in the galleries section? So when you’re viewing thumbnails and lightbox images, there aren’t bigger ones still loading and sliding around in the background?
Very wonderful theme, I love it. Thank you.
Hi Brian,
You would have to customize the theme for that change.
Hey,
Obviously great photography. Very fantastic theme.
Thanks.
Lovely theme, thank you! I need to add captions to the photographs (so they show up on the gallery page thumbnails); any possibility of getting a line of code to plunk into the stylesheet for this?
Hi Peggy,
You’d have to customize the theme to do that. Our support is limited to helping people get the theme set up and working as it is intended to be used, and unfortunately we’re not able to help with customizations like this.
wonderfull theme, thank you. i wonder if we can add logo instead of site title?
Melike,
Yes, you can.
Hi, just wondering what the recommended size is for the full screen photos on the home page and is this theme responsive? Thanks
Hi Bec,
No, it is not responsive. I would recommend a size of about 1000 – 1500 pixels in width for the photos.
Hi, very nice theme, have a couple of friends who want to use it. When i use the nextgen plugin for picture galleries, the slideshow of nextgen refused to work. Any idea?
bossie
Hi Bossie,
The theme includes its onn slideshow and gallery functionality, so it is not intended to be used with any plugins for galleries or slideshows.
Hi,
Can you help me please to activate widgets in this theme because I’m not a tech specialist.
I read a lot of general information about that but don’t understand anything
It’s very important for me.
Thank you in advance.
Pavel,
This theme doesn’t use widgets. Because it uses a fixed sidebar, using widgets would not work if the widget content in the sidebar stretched below the bottom of the user’s screen.
Hello Steven,
very nice theme.
I was just wondering if it’s possible to add more pages/section to the ones in your demo and if it’s possible to set a different background for each page.
Thanks
Hi Eugene,
With WordPress you can create as many pages as you want. The theme does not allow you to set different backgrounds for specific pages. If you wanted to do that you would need to customize the theme.