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Werkstatt WordPress Theme for Photography Blogs

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Last updated in August 2026. Checked on WordPress 7 and PHP 8, theme version 1.0.9.

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Werkstatt is a photography blog theme whose front page scrolls sideways instead of down. It is a classic theme, set up on its own options page.

This is the release post from 17 December 2015, kept as it was written. Prices, coupons and links are of their time; the theme itself is free and open source today.

The Werkstatt Theme Overview

December always seems to be the months we really get into theme production mode, so we are super happy to show you our latest Photography blog theme Werkstatt (see the Werkstatt live demo) today. Werkstatt is a horizontal-scrolling theme with a very clean, minimal design. It’s a great theme to feature individual images on a website, the design feels very clear and calm.

Werkstatt works best with a lot of pictures and it is also a great theme to show images only on a website (e.g. for a photography showcase).

Werkstatt Theme Highlights

Werkstatt has a unique, responsive horizontally-scrolling theme layout, so you can show your images, in a clean and minimal way without much distraction. On single posts you can show images in a big image size (up to 1600px in width) or include image galleries.

werkstatt-scroll-to-the-right

A further Werkstatt theme highlight is the open, grid layout on archive pages (e.g. category overviews). The grid layout makes archive pages more attractive for your viewers and it changes up the view for posts filtered by categories, tags or search terms.

The Werkstatt archive pages.
The Werkstatt archive pages.

Widgets can be included in a four-column overlay widget area that can be opened via the fix-positioned “Info” button.

The cool 4-column widget area offers lots of space for your widgets.
The cool 4-column widget area offers lots of space for your widgets.

Your Feedback

We hope you really like our newest theme and have fun using it on your blog or even start a new blog with it. If you have any questions or suggestions on how to improve the theme further or if you find any bugs, please just let us know by writing a comment below. We would love to hear your feedback!

Theme Image Sizes:

Werkstatt: Featured images should be at least 1600px wide

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Ellen Bauer

Ellen is the co-founder of Elmastudio and a Product Manager at Automattic. She speaks regularly at WordCamps about block themes, WooCommerce and building websites with AI. As a content creator she writes and talks about WordPress, open source, AI and personal development, sharing her own experiences and opinions along the way.

9 comments

  1. Brett Torrey Haynes

    Beautiful themes, per usual!

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    1. Ellen
      Author

      Replying to Brett Torrey Haynes

      Thanks so much, Brett, so great to hear from you :)

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  2. Jana

    Oh gosh I love the new themes! They are so great to look at…thank you Elma studio!

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    1. Ellen
      Author

      Replying to Jana

      Hi Jana,

      thanks you sooo much for this wonderful feedback, so happy to hear that you like them :)

      Best, Ellen

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  3. K

    They are both so beautiful! In Neubau, it seemed that my browser needed to be quite wide to accommodate the layout, otherwise there is a large blank space at the top. I’d really like to use this theme, is there a way around this?

    Other than that, I really love the new layouts (along with the others!)

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    1. Ellen
      Author

      Replying to K

      Hi there,

      thanks so much for your feedback, so happy you like the themes! I’m already working on a small first update for Neubau, I will fix the issue in the update (I think it has to do with the fade-in effect of the posts).

      Best, Ellen

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  4. Hya

    Beautiful.
    Thank you Elma!

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  5. natalia

    HI” Love your themes, im currently using onigiri but have no idea on how to make it like your demo..so that one can have all the images/daily posts that are posted on one page and hoover over so a title appears and then click on the picture to read the content….Right now i just have a simple scroll blog that you haveto click on the title ontop of the image to get to the single page where you can leave comments. Thats why im considering buying Neubau instead … but im wondering will it be hard for me to trasfer the blog to a new theme? Im super new with all this!! or can i make the onigiri work the way i want it to?

    Super greatfull for some help and advice…
    Thanks!

    Cheers!!
    the newbie

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  6. Anca

    Hello Ellen,

    Please help me figure out how can I make a single-column for the first two posts (Neubau theme) as in the first photo where you present the theme.
    So, the first two post to appear as single-column and wider and then as going down three-column.
    Thanks!

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