Imagely
Imagely: Photographic WordPress Theme that gives modern day look to your website with phallocentric effect.
Imagely is a package of 19 theme design, If you buy Imagely package you can use any of these themes. Imagely offers you the full-width home page, without any distraction like adding menu, content, etc.
Imagely theme shows only the logo, optional subheading, and hamburger icon so that is how simple the theme could be.
Fully Responsive Layouts
Obtain 19+ built-in styles, and the limitless opportunities of the WordPress block editor, you have a stunning beginning design to select from, as well as no limitations for how high you can go. These themes comes as Genesis child themes so need to purchase the Genesis theme framework.
Imagely provides multiple blog layouts like Masonry, Grid, and Overlay these are responsive too.
Imagely Provides you the flexible menu option, drop menu option to link internal pages o external pages.
You can use the WordPress block editor or any other page builders to create pages, Imagely supports all other popular page builders like Elementor, Beaver, as well as Brizy.
Powerful Gallery Management
The theme has the most powerful and versatile gallery monitoring offered, through NextGEN Gallery to display your photos. Resize photo, customize thumbnails, modify titles as well as tags, watermark, and also more.
NextGEN Gallery is a Pro plugin developed by Imagely it also has a free version.
Digital download is a notable feature, once you have added the images, you can set a desired price for the images; then you allow user to download the images .
Features of NextGEN Gallery
- Optimized For Speed
- Pro Lightbox
- Coupon
- Filmstrip Gallery
- PayPal and stripe Integration
- Image Protection
NextGEN Gallery
WordPress Hosting
Imagely additionally offers managed WordPress hosting for a photography website. The hosting service gives high performance, most effective servers as well as consists of all Imagely themes and plugins in the package. It has whatever a digital photographer requires in a website.
They provide three variants in hosting.
Shared – The most common hosting style and commonly quite affordable.
Advanced – Managed WordPress hosting with additional perks, but comes with a higher price.
Hosting Price starts with $14/month. For detailed pricing click here.
Imagely Theme Features
Imagely has some free and other additional pro features, Lightbox Pro feature gives the option to a social share, Commenting and linking, using this you can create a conversation around your photo.
Free and pro features are listed below
Free Features
- Header Layout
- Flexibility In Layouts
- Responsive And Dynamic Blog Layout
- Fast Uploader
- Mobile First
- Best for SEO
Pro Features
- NextGEN Plus
- Pro Thumbnail Gallery
- Pro-Grid Album
- Hover Captions
- Image Protection
- Image Social Sharing
- Full-Screen Lightbox
- Image Commenting
- Image Deeplinking
- Secure Original Backups
- Frontend Image Search
- Retina Images
- Open Graph
- Twitter Cards
Pro’s and Con’s
- Fully Powerful responsive layouts with multiple blog layout and menu options
- Powerful gallery management using NextGEN plugin
- Povides hosting as well, so no need to find 3rd Party service provider
- For Full flexibility and features, users need to buy the NextGEN plugin
Pricing
Imagely gives Lifetime access for there 19 + themes for unlimited websites at $345 you can have a look into pricing options here.
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Final Verdict
If you want to make a simple, modern, attractive photographic website then you can go with Imagely themes. If you purchase a hosting package with them, that will give the most smoother experience to the users.
Imagely has a demo for all of its 19 themes, based on your requirement you can import that demo. You can check out all the demos on their official demo page
Image Search feature does not work as advertised…Been reaching out to customer/tech service for over a year and they don’t seem too concerned about fixing the issue/bug. I would have never bought the plug in if I knew it did not work as advertised.