Theme Launch: Evo ∞
We’re extremely excited to announce our favorite UpTheme to date, Evo, the successor to Gallery Pro, a revolutionary new WordPress theme that makes building a user-generated gallery, photography showcase or personal portfolio easier than ever. With awesome AJAX-powered pagination, David DeSandro’s Masonry plugin for jQuery, and a custom post submission page, Evo is the best gallery theme we’ve seen this side of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Buy Evo Now for $50 or $75 (with original PSD artwork)
Features
Three Beautiful Color Schemes
In addition to the default light theme, there are two additional color schemes as well, which can be enabled on the Evo Colors & Images Options page.
User Submission Page
By popular demand, Evo includes a submission page that can be customized to fit your needs inside the UpThemes Framework on the Submission Form options page.
Flexible Thumbnail Sizes
Using the built-in image sizes, you can set the thumbnails to any size, allowing Evo to look good with a few images or a few hundred!
AJAX Pagination
Evo uses a custom twitter-style pagination to allow you to continue loading new posts into the page without being taken to a new page.
WordPress 3.0 Menu Support
Custom menus allow you to configure your navigation the way you want it! Evo features two menu zones in the header and footer, as well as unlimited widget menus.
Simple Video Embedding
Easy video embedding using the Simple Video Embedder plugin from Press75.com makes video embedding easier than ever. Requires installation of Simple Video Embedder plugin, download separately.
Resizable Thumbnails using WordPress 3′s Featured Image
Thumbnail sizes are completely under your control! Simply set your desired image sizes in ‘Settings > Media’ and a featured image for each post and off you go!
Ad Zones Built-in
There are now two ad zones that accept plain HTML and Javascript below the header and above the footer.
There any demo available
Yep, here’s the link to the demo.
This is one of the best gallery themes I’ve seen in a long time. The backend is packed with custom options and it is pretty easy for even a novice user. I definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a gallery website.
Would subscribers and/or contributors be able to submit image and video posts for approval?
There is a completely custom admin section for deciding who can submit content, whether it gets published automatically, whether an admin gets email notifications on new posts, along with the ability to customize the submission messages.
Here’s a screenshot of the options page for the submission form.
This gallery theme is will be great for my portfolio! Nice work team UpThemes!
I just bought this theme and I love it. Nice interface and easy set up.
It’s a really awesome theme, I especially like the use of font-face in this one!
Surely it’s the successor to Gallery Pro, and not the predecessor?
Good point, I’ve updated the post. I need a copywriter. Need to sell a few more themes to be able to hire one of those.
Thanks for the comment Elliot!
Hey Chris,
About time you created a wordpress version of our website
All the best success! You have saved us money getting a designer making this for you!
(we’ll let you know once we have converted it over to WP)
Cheers James
I tried to purchase the theme just now but, it looks like your sign-up form is not submitting.
Here’s the sign-up link I was sent to: http://upthemes.com/amember/signup.php?product_id=19&paysys_id=twocheckout_r
I’m using firefox 3.6.7 and I also tried Google Chrome, no joy.
John, I’ve had that report a few times now but I’m not able to reproduce it so I don’t know what the problem is at this point. Go ahead and try again and let me know if you have any further trouble.
John, this should be fixed now. Please try again.
It works! Thanks, Chris.
I really appreciate the work you’ve done on this but it reminds me a lot of http://alpha.patterntap.com/
Inspiration?
The navigation was definitely inspired by Pattern Tap, though it is a bit different, for sure.
Hello ! I saw the demo, its great and look like notcot… I was looking a theme like this for months… Is there any way to add link backs to the site of users who have submitted image and if possible a voting button is great idea…. if users can submit their links with the image. i am ready to buy this theme… great work with little work has to be done on this theme. appreciated
With the unrivaled power of video, the use of the Simple Video Embedder plugin from Press75.com makes this theme appealing. I’m fond of what I’ve seen at Press75.