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PHP 8.1 or newer. WordPress 6.4 or newer. Galleries need memory and upload room. Then a theme. Mankai is the studio.

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Web hosting

I recommend EasyWP. Namecheap support is extremely fast.

SiteGround

$2.99/mo

First year, billed upfront. Renews at $17.99.

The practical one.

  • 1 website, 10 GB
  • Free SSL, CDN, and daily backups
  • Staging before you update
  • Support that actually answers
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Recommended

EasyWP

$9.88/mo

First month free. Then $9.88 a month.

Namecheap support is extremely fast.

  • HackGuardian, scans, and a firewall
  • Free SSL, CDN, and backups
  • 10 GB storage, 50k visits a month
  • Caching is included. Skip another plugin.
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Kinsta

$30/mo

Billed yearly. $35 month to month.

When the gallery gets heavy.

  • 1 site, 35k visits, 10 GB
  • Isolated resources and a CDN
  • Daily backups, kept 14 days
  • Staging for a big file library
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Starting prices from their sites. Intro rates change.

Themes

I push Elementor. Gutenberg works. Do not use a theme’s client galleries. Proofing stays in Mankai.

Elementor

Rouben

Clean portfolio. Light and dark. Design the pages in Elementor.

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Elementor

FullScene

A boxed site with a real frame. That older web look, done on purpose.

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Elementor

Gleam

Photography theme. Skip its albums. Proofing stays in Mankai.

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Elementor

Merope

Quiet layout, loud pictures. The blog already looks finished.

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Elementor

Hello Elementor

Blank canvas. The look comes from Elementor, not from a theme gallery.

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Royal Elementor Addons is a plugin, not a theme. Extra widgets only. Do not rebuild booking with a generic form.

Need a hand picking one?

Tell me the builder and what the studio site has to do.

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