Pinhole – Photography Portfolio & Gallery Theme for WordPress 1.8.2

Pinhole is a professional WordPress gallery theme carefully designed to help you create a beautiful photography website very easily, featuring a large number of different gallery layouts and options that every professional photographer needs.

Whether you want a website to showcase your art gallery & photography portfolio or to offer photography services, we’ve got you covered. Alongside clean and beautifully designed gallery templates, there is also a set of handy features for every professional photographer, like restricted client area, right click protection, image download and photo proofing.

What kind of photography website you can create and who Pinhole theme is for?

• Photography business website – if you are a proffesional photographer, photography studio or agency that offers photography services (with client area, photo proofing, image download, right click protection, etc…)
• Art gallery website (to showcase and sell your paintings)
• Regular photography portfolio website (whether you are into fashion photography, wedding photography, travel or art photography)

Pinhole photography & gallery WordPress theme – why choose it?

• Pinhole puts your photos first – Pinhole’s clean and light minimalist design always makes your photography look amazing.
• Over 30 photo gallery layouts – Let your photos shine with a variety of different styles and layouts for displaying galleries. From masonry gallery and classic grid instagram gallery to justified gallery styling.
• The easiest way to manage your galleries – Create your gallery structure and hierarchy using only native WordPress functionality – no additional plugins required!
• Hundreds of photos loaded instantly – Pinhole can display only a limited number of photos on the gallery page initially, so even a gallery with a 100+ images will load super fast
• Private galleries with client area and photo proofing – Protect a gallery from unauthorized access and send it to a specific client. Private galleries offer a special feature to let your customers easily download each photo
• Display your EXIF metadata – Your visitors can optionally see shutter speed, focal length, camera and aperture info for each photo, while browsing through your galleries
• Responsive design – Your content will scale seamlessly on all of today’s modern devices including desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones.
• Advanced theme options panel – Setup your website in 5 minutes with our easy-to-use theme options panel
• Pagination Types – You can have a classic Older Posts/Newer Posts navigation, Numeric Pagination, Load More buttons or Infinite Scroll
• Custom Widgets – Alongside the standard WordPress widgets, Pinhole features several custom widgets that further extend its functionality.
• Shortcodes – Add complex elements to your content easily with 12 flexible shortcodes. Shortcodes are small pieces of code that you can insert into any Page or Post to create beautiful columns, separators, highlights, dropcaps, buttons, pull quotes, progress bars, social icons, tabs, toggles and accordions with minimal fuss.
• RTL support – Pinhole fully supports Right-To-Left oriented reading which is an essential requirement when you are running a website with global reach! Simply turn this option on in the Theme Options Panel.
• Built-in translation – Easily modify or translate any text on your website through the theme options panel.
• One-click demo content import – Demo content is included, so you get a website similar to our demo, ready to start tweaking!
• One-click updates – You can connect your website with the Envato official API to be notified about upcoming updates through your Admin Dashboard. Every time a Pinhole update is released, you can update with a single click, just like you would for any other theme hosted on the official WordPress repository.
• Setup guide – Learn step-by-step, how to setup Pinhole and all of its options, quickly and easily with our comprehensive documentation.
• Get help from WordPress experts – Do you have questions, issues or feature ideas? Do not hesitate to contact us! We usually respond within 24 hours.

Change log

1.8.2

• Improved: Tested compatibility with WordPress 6.0 (yes,you can update your theme)
• Fixed: Several Gutenberg styling issues

1.8.1

• Fixed: Gallery detection on regular pages in WP 5.9

1.8

• Fixed: Firefox and Redux (Theme Options) save problem
• Fixed: Several minor styling issues

1.7

• Improved: WordPress 5.8 compatibility tweaks (yes,you can update your theme)
• Improved: Several onpage SEO tweaks (added noopener tag to several target=”_blank” attributes)
• Fixed: Several minor styling issues

1.6.1

• Fixed: Several minor styling issues
• Fixed: WP 5.7 Gutenberg editor font size problem

1.6

• Improved: WP 5.5 Compatibility tweaks
• Fixed: Several minor styling issues

1.5.5

• Fixed: Another case for galleries inside post/page content which were not working properly if created with block editor in WP 5.3

1.5.4

• Fixed: Galleries inside post/page content not working properly if added with block editor in WP 5.3

1.5.3

• Added: Options to choose multiple stylings for social sharing in the plugin settings in dashboard (Settings -> Meks Easy Social Share)
• Added: Official support for WP Forms WordPress plugin
• Fixed: Several minor styling issues

1.5.2
Great news! Pinhole theme has been awarded the “WP requirements compliance badge” by Envato/ThemeForest, which is a certificate proving that it now meets the highest quality standards in the WordPress ecosystem.

• Improved: A slight code refactoring to meet the highest standards per Envato requirements
• Fixed: Several minor styling issues

1.5.1

• Fixed: Several minor styling issues

1.5 Mandatory changes to accommodate the latest Envato/ThemeForest requirements:

• Theme Options panel is removed from the theme. To make it appear again, you need to install and activate Redux Framework Plugin via Appearance -> Pinhole plugins
• Social sharing functionality cannot be a part of the theme anymore. To enable social sharing, please install and activate Meks Easy Social Share plugin in Appearance -> Pinhole plugins
• Additional JS field is not allowed in Theme options anymore thus it is removed from the theme. As an alternative, you can use Insert Headers and Footers WordPress Plugin
• Additional CSS field is not allowed in Theme options anymore and is now patched into the WordPress native field in Appearance -> Customize -> Additional CSS

Other:

• Added: Styling support for the latest WordPress blocks (introduced in WordPress 5.2)
• Added: Admin panel styling for WP 5.0+ editor and all blocks
• Fixed: Several minor styling issues

1.4

• Added: Option to initially display bottom drawer with caption and exif metadata when an image is open in popup (Theme Options -> Gallery -> Single Galleries)
• Added: Option to autoplay gallery images in popup mode (Theme Options -> Gallery -> Single Galleries)
• Added: Option to display search button in header (Theme Options -> Header)
• Improved: If image filenames are enabled to be displayed for protected galleries, now they are displayed in popup too
• Fixed: Gallery page template in admin edit screen not displaying options metabox when WP 5.x used Classic Editor plugin
• Fixed: When nested two-level galleries (with filtering) are used, ordering was not working properly in specific cases
• Fixed: Several minor styling issues

1.3.2

• Added: Styling for Blocks (coming with the new WordPress editor in version 5.0)
• Improved: Fully tested and ready for WordPress 5.0
• Improved: Envato Market plugin is now recommended for theme updates
• Improved: If social menu is used inside the header, it will also displayed automatically on mobiles when hamburger menu is opened
• Fixed: Several minor styling issues

• Added: Initial support for the upcoming new WordPress content editor (Gutenberg)
• Added: Option to specify “number of words per minute” in order to fine-tune calculation of posts “reading time” (Theme Options -> Misc.)
• Added: WhatsApp share button (Theme Options -> Misc.)
• Improved: Styling for GDPR cookie consent checkbox field in comment form
• Fixed: Mobile navigation “hamburger” button not being displayed on mobile if it was disabled on desktop
• Fixed: Minor styling issues in various browsers

1.3

• Added: Option to limit number of initially loaded images for each gallery separately (override the global setting)
• Added: Option to display the filename over images in private galleries for an easier photo-proofing (Theme Options -> Gallery -> Single Galleries)
• Added: New blog layout. Now you can have a classic 1-column listing to display blog posts. (Theme Options -> Blog -> Archive Templates)
• Added: Option to open regular content images in the gallery pop-up styling (Theme Options -> Misc.)
• Fixed: Problem with image ordering in Grid layout in some special cases
• Fixed: Minor styling issues in various browsers

1.2.1

• Added: Instagram Widget (by using Meks Easy Instagram widget WordPress plugin)
• Added: Option to specify “number of words per minute” in order to fine-tune calculation of posts “reading time” (Theme Options -> Misc.)
• Fixed: Mobile navigation was hidden if user didn’t enable header hamburger icon in Theme Options explicitly
• Fixed: Minor styling issues in various browsers

1.2

• Added: Option to have stylish gradient color background ( Theme Options -> Styling & Colors )
• Added: More color control with options for overlay background and text colors ( Theme Options -> Styling & Colors )
• Added: Option to disable right mouse click ( Theme Options -> Misc. )
• Added: More display options for EXIF image metadata like ISO, Credit & Copyright ( Theme Options -> Gallery -> Single Galleries )
• Added: Option to define max image size for images in popup in order to speed up the gallery popup loading ( Theme Options -> Gallery -> Single Galleries )
• Added: Option to display image ordinal number over private gallery images for easier photo proofing ( Theme Options -> Gallery -> Single Galleries )
• Added: Option to disable theme colors and fonts styling to appear in post/page content editor in admin panel ( Theme Options -> Misc. )
• Improved: If private (password protected) gallery page is listed among other regular galleries, it will have a “lock” icon indicator
• Fixed: “Smart sticky” header option not working properly in some cases ( Theme Optons -> Header )
• Fixed: Several minor styling issues

1.1

• Added: Swipe support for photogallery popup
• Improved: Picture gallery popup performance
• Fixed: Lots of minor styling issues in various browsers, responsive and RTL mode