Blacksilver 8.7.6 - Photography Theme for WordPress

Key design and feature highlights

Blacksilver emphasizes large imagery, fast galleries, and flexible layouts, with built-in sliders and gallery designs, Gutenberg optimization, and live preview customization via Elementor.

• Minimalist, attractive design with photos at the center
• Fullscreen slideshows, portfolios, proofing, events, blog and landing pages
• Lazy load images and dynamic loading as the user scrolls
• Built-in sliders and gallery designs for multiple presentation styles
• Powered by Elementor Pagebuilder for live, block-based customization
• Gutenberg optimized and compatible with live pagebuilder
• Large image support for high-impact photography presentation

Portfolio and gallery capabilities

Blacksilver provides a versatile, grid-based portfolio system and fast, filterable image galleries designed for photography workflows.

Portfolios

Blacksilver’s variety of grid based portfolio management will make it easy to display your work. Portfolio posts are specifically designed to display details of your work. As an example it can be used to display photography sets. A gallery of thumbnails each representing a specific photography occasion on click will take the visitors to the details of the occasion with photographs that can be enlarged in lightboxes or slideshows. Portfolio posts can be posted within categories just like blog posts and those categories can be used as filters to help visitors view specifics within the gallery. There are many combinations that can be used to display the portfolio galleries. You can even link the gallery thumbnails to custom links which can take the visitors off-site or anywhere within the site easily.

• Each portfolio can be password protected
• Album support
• The portfolio galleries can be linked through albums
• 1,2,3,4 and 5 column support
• Left sidebar, right sidebar, fullwidth page and Edge to edge page support
• Filterable using portfolio categories
• Linking Method
  • Custom Linked
  • Direct Linked
  • Lightbox Linked
• Utilizes lazy loading so that even large galleries are displayed very fast
• SEO with Alt text
• Portrait grids, Landscape grids, Square grids
• Masonry grids, Boxed grids, Spaced grids
• Classic grids with title, description and category
• Option to omit title, description, or category name display
• Change colors of overlays and hover icons
• Change typography, font and colors of titles, description and categories with live previews
• Tweak layouts for responsive behavior

Image Gallery features

Image Gallery features

• Drag and drop images to build a gallery quickly
• Tag Supported. Tag each image to generate filters from
• Title and description support
• 1,2,3,4 and 5 column support
• Left sidebar, right sidebar, fullwidth page and Edge to edge page support
• Filterable using tag categories
• Linking Method
  • Custom Linked
  • Purchase Linked
  • Download Galleries
  • Lightbox Linked
• Utilizes lazy loading so that even large galleries are displayed very fast
• SEO with Alt text
• Portrait grids, Landscape grids, Square grids
• Masonry grids, Boxed grids, Spaced grids
• Classic grids with title, description and category
• Option to omit title and description
• Change colors of overlays and hover icons
• Change typography, font and colors of titles, description and categories with live previews
• Tweak layouts for responsive behavior

Proofing Galleries with Client Management

Drag and drop images to build a gallery fast. Easy to use with rapid building in mind.

• Client management
• Client Gallery
• Assign multiple proofing galleries to a client
• Set one password to a client and password protect all the proofing galleries under the client
• Password protect individually or bulk protect by assigning a password assigned client
• View selected proofing images based on image, filename or unique ID
• Easy to copy paste selected proofing images for bulk searches (Lightroom or other facilities)
• Display client info and style them anywhere in the proofing page using live builder
• Title and description support
• 1,2,3 and 4 column support
• Left sidebar, right sidebar, fullwidth page and Edge to edge page support
• Utilizes lazy loading so that even large galleries are displayed very fast
• SEO with Alt text
• Portrait grids, Landscape grids, Square grids
• Masonry grids, Boxed grids, Spaced grids
• Classic grids with title, description and category
• Option to omit title and description
• Change colors of overlays and hover icons
• Change typography, font and colors of titles, description and categories with live previews
• Tweak layouts for responsive behavior

Events Galleries

Create events posts with event status, store event information on events post, display event info and style them anywhere in the events post using live builder. Password protect. View selected proofing images based on image, filename or unique ID. Easy to copy paste selected proofing images for bulk search with Lightroom or other facilities. Title and description support, 1,2,3 and 4 column support. Left sidebar, right sidebar, fullwidth page and Edge to edge page support. Utilizes lazy loading so that even large galleries are displayed very fast. SEO with Alt text. Portrait grids, Landscape grids, Square grids, Masonry grids, Boxed grids, Spaced grids, Classic grids with title, description and category. Change title/description visibility and adjust color overlays and typography via live previews. Tweak layouts for responsive behavior.

Blog, e-commerce, and editorial workflows

Blacksilver covers blog presentation, e-commerce integration, and content editing workflows with a focus on performance and flexibility.

Blog Lists and Grids

Create blog posts with postformat types such as gallery, standard, aside, audio, quote, image and video. Password protection and Gutenberg optimization are supported. The theme works with live pagebuilder without SEO compromises. Layout supports left/right sidebars, fullwidth and edge-to-edge pages. Lazy loading is included and typography/colors are adjustable in real time.

WooCommerce

Blacksilver is WooCommerce compatible. Sell digital or non digital products using the most powerful e-commerce system. Images in the theme carry a purchase field which can be linked to the e-commerce product easily. View any of these images anywhere in the website through the lightbox will display the purchase link.

Lightbox, animations, and page editing

Lightbox and Animations

• Lightbox is responsive with a CSS-only approach for resizing images and videos
• Touch and Drag navigation on touch devices and mouse drag on desktops
• 20+ Animations powered by hardware-accelerated CSS3 transitions
• Zoom & Fullscreen controls for image viewing
• Smart preloading to load slides as you navigate
• Lightbox-enabled slideshows and carousel options

Elementor Drag & Drop Live Editor

• Elementor has the fastest, most intuitive editor in WordPress. Simply drag, drop and customize
• No Coding required for high-end designs
• Navigator: overview map of the entire page and drag-and-drop reordering
• Finder: a search bar for navigation between pages and dashboard settings
• Redo / Undo: quick correction of mistakes
• Auto Save: continuous saving and backup of work
• Revision History: revert to previous page states
• Draft Mode: save work as draft while continuing to edit
• Copy Paste: duplicate elements within or across pages
• Copy Style: duplicate styling between widgets, columns or sections
• In-line Editing: edit content directly on screen
• Background Gradients, Background Videos, Background Overlay
• Enhanced Background Images with device-based responsive settings
• Shape Divider for interesting section separation
• Box Shadow customization via visual controls
• One-Page Websites with click-to-scroll navigation
• Landing Pages creation and management
• Typography with Pagebuilder, Google Fonts
• Text Editor Columns and responsive column layouts
• Section Width, Section Height, Full Width layouts
• Column Width and Column Gap controls
• Margin & Padding controls for sections, columns and widgets
• Nested Columns for advanced layouts
• Mobile Editing: 100% responsive and device-specific font/spacing controls
• Mobile Font Size and Responsive Column Width
• Reverse Columns for mobile reordering

Notes and versioning

All images in demo from unsplash.com

Versioning notes reflect ongoing development and updates to the Blacksilver theme across major releases.

Version history highlights