Imagenation is a theme for Zenphoto – the simpler web gallery.
The theme along with the system are suitable for your photoblog or gallery. If you haven’t yet started with Zenphoto, the time is now! Go to http://zenphoto.org/ and explore, then download and install it.
The theme is simple, stylish, and dark. Lightweight. Easy to use and modify. SEO friendly, optimized for the search engines.
Made totally image-oriented: it’s all about the photos here! The idea is to deliver the most comfortable view without distracting with а futuristic design.
Demo
I’ve created a DEMO page to provide you a sample, and also to demonstrate theme’s full capability. It’s based on a clean installation of Zenphoto along with Imagenation’s latest version. The photos there are not important at all, however they are all mine and used only for example.
You can take another look of the theme on my personal gallery: http://nikolaytonev.com
Download
Download the latest version from here (.ZIP file, 139kb).
Mirror: http://photo-imagenation.com/downloads/imagenation-theme-zp.zip
Installation
Easy, in five steps. Don’t miss steps 4 and 5 if you want the theme working properly!
- Extract the downloaded archive.
- Upload the “
imagenation” folder to your “/themes/” directory. - Activate the theme through the “themes” menu in Zenphoto’s admin panel.
- Activate these plugins through the “plugins” menu in Zenphoto’s admin panel:
– deprecated-functions;
– html_meta_tags;
– image_album_statistics; - Set the following values in the theme’s options (go to “options”, and then to “theme”):
– Thumb size: 150;
– Crop thumbnails: 150 x 100;
– Image size: 900, or smaller;
Tunning it
Optional settings for better performance. I really recommend these, however they are not mandatory. If you’re a zenphoto master then you know better for yourself.
- Set the following values in the image’s options (go to “options”, and then to “image”):
– Image quality: 95, 90, 95;
– Sharpen: 55, 0.5, 1; also check both “Images” and “Thumbs”; - Set the following values in the comment’s options (go to “options”, and then to “comment”):
– Check “CAPTCHA”; - Change the introducing text placed in bottom of the pages:
“Behind the Lens: YourName.
Welcome, and hope you enjoy my gallery! You can find more info about me, or just get in touch at the about page.” - License your content! But don’t restrict too much. Change the license info placed in bottom of the pages:
“License: Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Please read it before using any of my photos.”
- Edit
about.phpand fill it with some content (maybe an information about you?). - You can change the default icon (
icon.png) with yours by overwriting the file. Transparent .png is recommended, 16x16px size.
License
Imagenation theme is licensed under the GPL v2.0 License.
Please read it carefully: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Changelog
- v1.1.0 (current version) – 18.12.2010
- v1.0.3 – 03.12.2010
- v1.0.2 – 02.12.2010
- v1.0.1 – 30.11.2010
- v1.0.0 – 27.11.2010
Partners
Thank you for using Imagenation! I hope you enjoy it.
All comments are welcome! Please share your ideas and opinion, let me know what do you think. Help me to improve the theme.

1. Comment by Victor
29/Nov/2010 at 09:27
You know you already have my positive feedback ;) Great theme, love it!
2. Comment by Michal
3/Dec/2010 at 20:58
Hi, I like your theme very much! But there are two bugs for me – previous and next buttons are switched. I think, if I want next photo in row, I must click next not previous :) And second – I can´t enable slideshow function (it´s enabled in zenphoto, but in theme there is no link. Thanks for help!
3. Comment by admin
4/Dec/2010 at 08:39
The first one is now fixed, and the slideshow function is already available. Thanks for the feedback!
4. Comment by Bryan
6/Dec/2010 at 01:18
Great theme! I was having problems with the Album titles in Firefox. For some reason, FF was breaking the Albums into multiple anchor links because of the h3 titles. I changed the titles to a span tag and everything was fine. Not sure what the problem was with FF, all the other browsers were ok with the h3 tags.
5. Comment by Edwin
18/Dec/2010 at 17:27
Looks great. Just can’t find where to change text as advised in point 3 and 4.
6. Comment by Aurélien
19/Dec/2010 at 00:06
Bravo ! What a good work !
7. Comment by Spandan
28/Dec/2010 at 11:43
I’ve been trying to put a Zen Photo Gallery using this Imagenation theme (which is awesome, btw).
But it messes up the whole layout of the gallery, like the stylesheet file doesn’t load or something.
Here are the screenshots of how the gallery looks like (it is working fine for every other theme, though). And I did the no. 4 and 5 as well.
http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/3987/imagenation1.jpg
http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/8081/imagenation2.jpg
8. Comment by Andrew Dokin
19/Feb/2011 at 23:40
I’m very love your theme! Waiting for new version. Good Luck!
9. Comment by kj
23/Mar/2011 at 22:06
thanks so much for this theme. it’s fantastic. i’m using it for a simple image gallery right now, but i could see this easily being used for a small site all on its own. great script!
10. Comment by Ivan
7/May/2011 at 06:28
Apparently js/colorbox was excluded from the latest zenphoto builds.
With the ZP 1.4.0 imagenation theme fails to open colorbox_ie.css.php.
PHP Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘…/zp-core/js/colorbox/colorbox_ie.css.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/pear5′) in …/themes/imagenation/image.php on line 58
11. Comment by ประตูสà¹à¸•นเลส
22/Aug/2011 at 04:25
i like this theme
and i use this theme
12. Comment by nick
10/Sep/2011 at 02:41
this theme is not working properly for me at all :( I get the following errors on images
and thumbnails don’t show up on the album view or the random image widget
13. Comment by nick
10/Sep/2011 at 02:42
Warning: require_once(/home/ngbutler/public_html/zen/zp-core/js/colorbox/colorbox_ie.css.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ngbutler/public_html/zen/themes/imagenation/image.php on line 58
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/ngbutler/public_html/zen/zp-core/js/colorbox/colorbox_ie.css.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/ngbutler/public_html/zen/themes/imagenation/image.php on line 58
14. Comment by death search
20/Sep/2011 at 16:01
awesome plugin.
15. Comment by baddco
1/Dec/2011 at 02:14
Be careful with Zen Photo, I’m still rebuilding after being hacked. Redirects – Malware. Then the fun starts, Google blocks you, others follow suit. Had to nuke my site & load it again.
16. Comment by Vatsal
12/Jan/2012 at 02:16
Notice: zenJavascript (called from index.php line 8) is deprecated Use zp_apply_filter(“theme_head”). in /home/feathers/public_html/zen/zp-core/zp-extensions/deprecated-functions.php on line 70
Notice: normalizeColumns (called from album.php line 1) is deprecated Use instead the theme options for images and albums per row. in /home/feathers/public_html/zen/zp-core/zp-extensions/deprecated-functions.php on line 70
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/feathers/public_html/zen/zp-core/zp-extensions/deprecated-functions.php:70) in /home/feathers/public_html/zen/themes/imagenation/album.php on line 3
Notice: zenJavascript (called from album.php line 8) is deprecated Use zp_apply_filter(“theme_head”). in /home/feathers/public_html/zen/zp-core/zp-extensions/deprecated-functions.php on line 70
Getting these errors please help me out…
17. Comment by tom
15/Apr/2012 at 11:55
is not working with current zenphoto version! :(