Daybreak

A photography portfolio that opens on a full-bleed photograph, presents each series as a wide photo strip and ends in image-sequence project pages.

$47 USD

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Best for
Landscape, travel and editorial photographers
Platform
WordPress
Status
On sale
Price
$47 USD
Version
1.3.8
License
WordPress edition: GPL-compatible theme code
Demo photography is licensed separately from theme code

Page inventory

Home: photograph opening and series strips
Home
Work: contact sheet
Work
Project: image sequence
Project
About: half-page photograph
About
Contact: enquiry details
Contact
Category and date archive
Archive
Search results
Utility
404
Utility

Design controls

Site Editor
Edit the header, footer, navigation and templates with core blocks in Appearance → Editor. No page builder.
Opening photograph
Replace the homepage Cover image and drag its focal point; a type-only opening pattern is included for sites without a hero photo.
Contact sheet photo shape
Choose 3:2, 4:5, square or 16:9 thumbnails for Work, archive and search pages.
Layout density
Compact, comfortable or spacious spacing between strips, thumbnails and sections.
Project details in lists
Show or hide the date and category under each project in strips and the contact sheet.
Reading width and article options
Text width 520–1040px, article spacing, image corners and an optional reading progress line.
Colours and style variations
Recolour from the palette, or switch to Clear, Literary or Ink & Paper in Styles → Browse styles.
Mounted print image style
An Image block style that adds a white mat and thin rule around a photograph.
Fonts
Manrope is served from your own site; choose other fonts in Styles → Typography or the Font Library.

Features

  • Full-bleed opening photograph with the site name set over it
  • Recent series shown as wide, alternating photo strips
  • Contact-sheet Work page with adjustable columns on the Query Loop
  • Project pages built as a sequence of wide and full-width images
  • Two-photograph pair and commission patterns for page building
  • Fonts load from your own site with no external font requests
  • Contact links open the visitor's email app; no form service is bundled
  • Native block theme edited in the WordPress Site Editor

What the download includes

  • WordPress block theme: templates, template parts, patterns, theme.json and three style variations
  • Manrope font file with the SIL Open Font License 1.1 text
  • GETTING-STARTED.md with a page-by-page map of where each layout is edited
  • readme.txt, CHANGELOG.md and LICENSE.txt
  • ASSETS.json recording font and photograph sources, licences and checksums

Setup

  1. Upload the theme ZIP at Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme and activate it.
  2. Optional: import sample content with the demo importer (1.1.1 or newer).
  3. Under Settings → Reading choose Your latest posts.
  4. Create a Work page and assign the Work: contact sheet template.
  5. Replace the opening photograph in Appearance → Editor → Templates → Front Page.
  6. Add each series as a post with a featured image, excerpt and one category.

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