In this chapter, we'll build a WordPress theme for a photo gallery. We'll use just the core WordPress post system, and we'll not need any kind of third-party photo gallery. The following image is what it's going to look like; it's called PhotoGenik. This is the theme we are going to work on:
As shown in the preceding screenshot, you can see on the home page we have some images. If we hover over them we get a nice effect, and if we click on one it brings us to the single image page where it has a little animation that comes in. It also gives us the title, description, and then we have some meta info as shown in the following screenshot:
On the left-hand side at the top in the preceding screenshot, we have the core categories module. When we click on that, and you can see it only shows the pictures from that...