Case Study: CornforthImages achieves a modern photography portfolio and increased print sales with WooCommerce

Developing the Cornforth Wilderness Photography Website

Seattle web studio Kool Kat Web Designs rebuilt photographer Jon Cornforth’s dated CornforthImages.com to better showcase his wilderness photography and sell prints online. Jon wanted a WordPress-based site (he already used a WordPress blog) with WooCommerce-powered sales, but the project had unique challenges: varied image orientations and sizes, gallery-style category layouts, in-context previewing of prints, and handling size/framing variations in the cart rather than on the product page.

The team solved this by extending WooCommerce with custom templates, hooks and filters, using add_image_size to produce tall thumbnails, and laying out galleries with the jQuery Isotope plugin to fit images like puzzle pieces. They added a custom product-image.php for environment previews, hid variation controls on product pages and implemented a custom variable.php plus JavaScript and cart-update logic to surface size/frame choices in the cart. The result is a visually compelling site that showcases Cornforth’s work and provides a smooth, orientation-aware purchasing experience for prints.

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