Ocular Professor (OP) is a WordPress theme designed expressly for photobloggers. OP is the evolution of Professor, a theme designed to showcase written content that wound up being used predominantly for photoblogs. Because of its focus on text, Professor had a number of shortcomings when it came to displaying photos. With the release of embedded galleries in WordPress 2.5, Ocular Professor was born (or branched, as the case may be).
Hanami is a two-column widget-ready theme, inspired by the WP Admin palette and the Seed Conference font-stack. Simple and clean, the intention was (as always) to display content in clear and concise manner. Hanami also displays sub-pages as secondary navigation of the parent links. I probably didn’t say that well, so just try out the demo and click around the nav bar.
Blue Professor is pretty much the same as Professor, except for people who aren’t too keen on brown. Eventually I’ll get around to adding an “options” page for the Professor themes, so colors can be changed by the user. But for now, you’ll have to grab ‘em separate.
Professor was designed to focus on, and feature, written content. Originally aimed at essayists, professors, and windbags, the theme seeks to put text (and images) first and foremost, and create a pleasurable reading experience. To that end, the sidebar has been removed to lessen distractions, and all browsable taxonomies are in the footer, such as categories, tags, and archives.