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WordPress Portfolio Themes

I have categorized this article into three section as some may be looking for free themes while others go for premium only. If you think that a great portfolio or wordpress gallery theme is missing let me know by leaving a comment.

Index

• Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes
• Free Portfolio WordPress Themes
• Resources – How to Build an online portfolio

Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes

MIZZO – Business and Portfolio Premium Theme

MIZZO ’s unique home page slider(s) will simply amaze your site’s visitors. Think about it: your own media, from video to images and links, looking better than you could ever have imagined, with unlimited color schemes, 20+ background patterns and simply stunning transition cuts. Show off your portfolio and feel proud of the way it looks. Mizzo is prepared for eShop, contains a built-in Facebook fan page, matching e-mail template and Seo module. Wondering how your site would look on iPads and iPhones? MIZZO looks spectacular whatever you use to view it with.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Envisioned WordPress Theme

Envisioned is a beautiful and powerful portfolio theme that enables you to easily create professional, multi-media galleries. Envisioned has the most powerful gallery features of any of our themes, allowing you to produce versatile layouts of various sizes and aspect ratios.

MORE INFO / DEMO by ElegantThemes (premium theme)

DK For Photography Creative Portfolio

DK is the Premium Photography, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest WordPress features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors and Image Uploader etc.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Aware – Responsive WordPress Portfolio Theme

Aware is an interactive, responsive portfolio theme perfect for freelancers, web designers, photographers and videographers alike. Its user interactive interface delightfully enhances your most loved portfolio pieces. Now, you can take your portfolio with you, in your pocket.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Footage – A Photo & Video Production Theme

With Footage as your website your viewer will never get bored and leave. This theme is a unique way to display your photography and supports all types of photo orientation so your photos will not get cutoff. If you are a photo/videographer and need a fresh new look for your website then this is the theme for you. And best of all Footage is AJAX enabled so your users will only have to reload when posting a comment.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Spark Portfolio WordPress Theme

Spark is an amazing portfolio wordpress theme. Simple to use, it’s designed to display any kind of content and it’s perfect for every business. The theme is built on a solid framework and it’s HTML5 and CSS3 based.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Inspiration Premium WordPress Theme

Create your own web site without any effort! On each page among 7 specially created main pages you may find the most suitable and eye-catching one. And it is not the end, but just the start to implement your own ideas regarding content, because these templates deliver such rate of flexibility that enables you to modify without any problem due to just one click the whole design of the potential web page. Do not waste your brilliant time to technical issues as you are absolutely not requested to deep into the tangled web development world, you only need to be interested in what you do and to wake up your fantasy. Change via simple operation the color spectrum of your future web page. Texts, pictures, scripts, keys, icons and other elements can vary upon your desire. Friendly documentation which is delivered along with the template will provide you with necessary information and simple steps that are to be taken to manage it.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

New Horizon – Blog & Portfolio WordPress Theme

New Horizon – is perfect for design/fashion orientated blogs or for creative people who’s tired of regular thumbnails grids layouts.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Adventure – Clean & Simple WordPress Theme

Adventure is an awesome clean & simple WordPress Theme which could be suitable for almost all kinds of business .You can use it as Business template, Your personal portfolio or even a Blog. It’s comes with valid well written code, working contact form, google maps and much more.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

ShowyCase – Portfolio / Photography WP Theme

ShowyCase is a professional, super flexible and customizable portfolio / design agency / photography theme for WordPress. With 2 starter color skin colors, unlimited background image / colors, unlimited secondary color, 4 home templates and 4 portfolio templates all wrapped in modern clean design, Full multiple portfolios support with filtering ability, you almost have all what you need to build your perfect portfolio website.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Label – Portfolio WordPress Theme

Label is a simple, super sweet, portfolio theme for creative professionals on WordPress. Seamless backend extensions for featuring your projects & uploading multiple images. Smooth portfolio filtering is another nice touch for your users. You’ll have 6 custom widgets at your disposal for your tweets, photos, videos, ads and post loops for awesome and fresh sidebar content. With simple column shortcodes you’ll have no problem building your own page layouts.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Refined WP – Portfolio / Business WordPress Theme

Refined WP is a WordPress 3.2+ Ready Premium WordPress Theme specifically designed for corporate / business websites, portfolios, designer or agency websites etc. With a clean minimal design and numerous portfolio layout options it offers a lot of ways to display your portfolio / services and enables you to send a clear message.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Dagda – Premium WordPress Theme

Dagda is a clean business/portfolio theme for all of those who want something awesome in both usability, functionality and beauty. It’s packed with some awesome features such as events manager, font manager, sidebar manager, slider manager and much much more. Check the full feature list for this.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Yin & Yang

Yin & Yang is a light, minimalistic, simple to use portfolio theme. Quick to setup and easy to customize, thanks to the powerful admin panel, and the detailed documentation, Yin & Yang is the perfect theme for showcasing your most important work directly in front of your potential clients. Yin & Yang has got you covered on all fronts, so if you ever get stuck on anything, rest assured that you’re going to get the help of a professional, if and when you need it, because Yin & Yang comes with excellent customer support.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Artiste: Professional Portfolio WordPress Theme

Artiste is an “all-about-the-work” WordPress portfolio theme for the professional creative. It’s clean yet functional, and concentrates on showcasing your work to potential clients and employers with little distraction. Go get hired more.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Airlock: Portfolio WordPress Theme

Airlock is the project made for creative designers and interactive agencies. Simplicity, flexibility and attention to detail is the main asset of the design.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Photolux – Photography Portfolio WordPress Theme

Photolux is a powerful and elegant Portfolio and Photography WordPress Theme which is best suited for photographers and creatives who use portfolios to showcase their work. Photolux theme is powered by the advanced Pexeto Panel, which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme – it is well suited for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers. The theme comes with three base skin choices: Dark, Light and Transparent, as well as numerous of backend options for eazy customization and bulding your skin.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Chameleon WordPress Portfolio Theme

Chameleons are known for their ability to change the color of their skin. The patterns and color combinations you find in chameleons are almost endless, and our new theme is no different! Chameleon was created to be a simple and professional theme with loads of customization options that do not require web development experience to utilize.

MORE INFO / DEMO by ElegantThemes (premium theme)

CONTRAST

Contrast, a premium wordpress photo theme which is suitable for photographers, graphic and web designers, corporates with a kickass features. If you are searching something different and out of the line.

MORE INFO  / DEMO  by theme forest (premium theme)

Classica: Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme

Classica is a beautifully minimalistic portfolio theme, free from gimmick and trend, making your talent the focal point of your portfolio – the way it should be. Present your work in a professional manor with a timeless design.

studio960

This 960 Grid based site is built from the ground up to be powerful, customizable and extremely flexible.

Each of the custom page templates has options that can be controlled independently and reused to achieve the results you want. Use the same gallery template for a photo blog, grid of type-only posts and a gallery of vacation photos!

Old School

Old School is a grungy, flexible, beautiful, magazine-style WordPress theme with lots of options and ad zones, making it easy to build a blog from scratch!

Base

Base is a minimally-styled, feature rich, theme framework built specifically to power child themes. It includes an application framework, a theme options framework and a robust set of options for customizing your site.

Folioway – Premium Portfolio WordPress Theme  [demo ]

Folioway is a perfect pixel WordPress theme, not only its clean and elegant, it also comes with tons of features like amazing slider, unlimited colors, etc. It’s incredibly powerful and flexible and easy to use! It is just the best wordpress theme for your or your company’s work presentation! This is simple and clean and for sure one of my WordPress Portfolio Themes favourites.

YourFolio WordPress Portfolio Theme  [demo ]

A WordPress portfolio theme designed to be used as a personal online portfolio as well as personal blog. This theme has 5 different stylesheets to choose from, allowing the user different color and font options. The homepage is a dynamic mashup of your recent blog posts as well as your recent portfolio work.

ProudFolio

Modslider

Modslider features a minimalist monochromatic color palette, along with a theme options page that is packed with customizable features.

Dandelion – Powerful Elegant WordPress Theme  [demo ]

Dandelion is a Powerful Premium WordPress Portfolio Theme. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Dandelion theme is highly flexible, so changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites.

This theme allows you to build your own custom skin just by selecting your favorite colors from the admin panel with a color picker. Additionally, there are 32 custom patterns that you can choose between for the body. You can check out a demo and some of the settings available in the admin panelhere

Professional Portfolio

Professional is a theme which can be used as a CMS/Portfolio or as a blog. The very light and flexible layout is based on the “Golden Ratio” principle, having 2 columns. The design mainly emphasizes the content.

Duotive Three – Complete WordPress Portfolio theme  [demo ]

This is the ultimate portfolio theme with a very easy and powerful administration tool.

Auzora – One Page WordPress Portfolio theme  [demo ]

Auzora is One Page Portfolio WordPress Theme. Comes with massive admin features. Are you tired to see a lot of one page wordpress theme use scrollable effect when change the page? Then check the auzora live preview

Flex for WordPress – A Portfolio Theme  [demo ]

Flex is a premium WordPress portfolio theme that’s designed specifically for photographers, designers, motion artists, and all creatives to display their work in a slick, grid-based interface. The VGrid plugin used flexes as the browser-size changes, and all projects can be launched via a lightbox (images, galleries, videos, etc.) or a full post-template! With 12 professionally designed styles, and the ability to create your own in mere minutes, the Flex theme is perfect for anyone seeking an image gallery based site.

Gallery WordPress Portfolio Theme

Gallery is a premium WordPress theme which can be used for many purposes, including a Photoblog, Portfolio, Personal Blog, Product Reviews, and more!

Impulse Theme

Impulse is a Premium WordPress Theme suitable for portfolios, showcases, galleries, photoblogs, personal sites, and more. The possibilities are endless!

QuickStart

QuickStart is a clean, well defined WordPress magazine theme for the quick launch of a blog or news site. The inspiration behind the theme was to provide a quick and easy site built upon the Gabfire framework. With separated widgetized sections for front and inner pages, we know that you’ll love the simplicity behind of this theme.

Prestige – Ultimate WordPress Theme  [demo ]

Prestige is an unique and advanced WordPress theme. It comes with a big pack of various skins, shortcodes, widgets and fonts. Thanks to massive CMS options panel you can fully customize this theme to your needs. Prestige is the ultimate package with functional and powerful features.

Now Prestige comes in two versions: Dark (with 300 various skins) and Light (with 50 new unique skins).

Duotive 2WO – All in One WordPress Portfolio Theme  [demo ]

Very flexible theme with many different color schemes and unique features. Different but still a top WordPress Portfolio Themes pick!

Briefcase

Locus One Page – WordPress Portfolio Theme  [demo ]

This is as the name indicates an one page theme and it really stands out visually.

Studio Box Premium WordPress 9 in 1  [demo ]

Studio Box Premium WordPress Theme is about simplifying building of your online portfolio. It is packed with useful showcases to have your creative work displayed for customers and clients.

Echoes Premium WordPress 11 in 1  [demo ]

Echoes Premium theme for WordPress is designed for rapid development of portfolio or business websites. It is one of my favourites among the many WordPress Portfolio Themes.

3 Featured Mainpage styles, 5 Portfolio Page Styles, 19 Shortcodes, working Contact Page Ajax Validated Template and more.

It features numbered , thumbnail slides , content objects/elements, carousels, full-width pages, on hover icons with light-box supported images and videos, drop-down menus, multi-column footers and others to make it easy for you to customize and get it online quickly.

11 Skins with variations of Bright, Dark, Red , Blue , Green, Yellow and Brown, and Shaded version with a textured background for easy background customization.

Gridlocked Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme  [demo ]

Gridlocked is a grid-based, post-format supporting, layout-shuffling, minimalistic theme for creatives. It is both a classic portfolio for showcasing your work and a modern tumblr-style blogging system.

A truly versatile theme, Gridlocked can be configured to focus on your work, your blogging, or both. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.

Photocrati Focus

This theme shows us how cool WordPress Portfolio Themes can be. 15 theme styles + four homepage styles for each = 60 looks out of the box. iPad & iPhone compatibility and tons more!

Great Portfolio! WordPress Theme

Great Portfolio is a one page portfolio and a very clean template. It has 2 color options to choose from namely, dark bule and dark brown. It also has a smooth scroller to each menu of the page. Contact Form is functional and ready to use.

Modularity Theme

Modularity is an oldies among the WordPress portfolio themes but still relevant I think. It is a highly customizable multimedia theme framework for WordPress. The theme design was developed for users who appreciate visual browsing and prefer a minimal layout, with their photos and multimedia featured front and center. Virtually every aspect of the theme design can be controlled from the Theme Options page.

f8

F8 is a unique theme for WordPress that can transform your blog into a fully functioning photography or multimedia portfolio website. Packed with close to 100 theme options, you can feature a slideshow of images, a video, or a featured post on the homepage with only a couple of mouse clicks.

Work A Holic

Workaholic Pro is a modern and clean portfolio theme for WordPress created by Graph Paper Press designer Chandra Maharzan. Workaholic Pro allows you to separate your portfolio from your blog, without editing a single line of code. This colorful child theme for Modularity comes with preset three color palettes, variable sidebar content, jQuery-powered image-hover effects, plus much more.

Showfolio Theme

Showfolio is a perfect choice for entire range of gallery, portfolio & video niche websites. Showfolio theme comes with our custom media module implemented, allowing you to display whether your own hosted MP4/FLV or Youtube/DailyMotion/Vimeo streamed videos instead of post thumbnail.

Simple Site 2 Theme

An advanced wordpress theme that helps everyone build a portfolio/showcase or create product site in minutes, saves weeks of time, maintaining top notch standards-compliant quality.

Aperture Theme

Foreword Thinking

Foreword Thinking is a neat 3 column design with a “table of content” magazine-styled home page. This theme comes bundled with a moveable sidebar, a customizable featured posts section, 10 theme styles and the ability to set alternating colours for specific areas of the design.

Geometric

Geometric takes a structured approach to showcasing two rather non-structured things: blogs & design portfolios. The modifications made possible by the widgetized spaces however, takes all of the rigidness out of this template and enables you to be you

Cassiopeia Theme

Cassiopeia mixes friendliness with elegant professionalism. Your customers will be calmed by the minty greenish blues, and reassured by the attention to detail, such as matching iconography and readable typography. Of course, your work is what’s most important, and that is evident the moment the homepage loads.

Fresh Folio

One of Woothemes first themes but still great if you are looking for WordPress portfolio themes.

eGallery Theme

eGallery is a theme made to transform your blog into a fully functional online gallery. This theme has been created with simplicity in mind, and is designed to emphasize the artwork you choose to showcase. The design has been greatly enhanced using javascript, and is easy to implement.

eVid Theme

eVid is a theme designed for video bloggers. I have set it up to easily integrate videos from video hosts such as Youtube, Vimeo, Veoh, MetaCafe, and so on. This theme does not have a native video player, but it does include a custom video interface with added “blogger-related” functions. This theme is only for sites that plan to showcase videos within their post pages. I have test the theme with all the most popular video hosts, but I expect that it will work with any website that offers a flash embed code.

Free WordPress Portfolio Themes

Work-a-holic

Work-a-holic is a free minimalistic two and three column WordPress theme that focuses mainly on showcasing portfolios for artists, web designers, photographers and illustrators.

Cumulus

Cumulus is the perfect theme for portfolio blogs. Cumulus is no longer in development or being supported and it is not downloadable on EmpireThemes.com.

Portfolio Theme

BlueBubble

Creative by Nature

Creative by Nature is a unique and flexible high-quality portfolio WordPress theme for artists, photographers and designers. The theme was designed by .css{mayo}  and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Fotofolio

Fotofolio Landscape is a WordPress theme specially designed for Visual Artist, Photographer, or any media designer, to show off their works.

Viewport

Viewport, a free WordPress theme created by Paul Bennett  is focused around a clean and simple, content based layout. The aim is to grab the user’s attention and draw them straight into the content. On the single post page the content is laid out clearly in full, with post controls and a widget-enabled sidebar. The theme also allows the blog owner to change the background image and color, and the image of the ‘Where Next?’ page.

Graphic portfolio based on WordPress using Custom Fields (translated from polish)

The Unstandard

The Unstandard is a two-column WordPress theme featuring three widget enabled zones. The current 2.0 release is a complete re-write requiring WordPress 3.0 or better. Prior versions of the theme utilized a timthumb + custom fields setup to populate thumbnails for core pages. Thanks to the latest features offered by WordPress, assigning a thumbnail to a post is a simple two-step process.

Gallery

The original Gallery theme, released by Smashing Magazine, is a child theme of Thematic and is a great solution for anyone wanting a unique showcase or gallery website.

Fullscreen

Fullscreen is a free one-column photography and multimedia theme for WordPress that can be used for portfolios, photoblogs, videoblogs, and virtually anything else where you want your content to be front and center. It provides visual artists a unique way of presenting their latest work online using a minimalist side-scrolling homepage.

Portfolio

Designed for web portfolios and (for now) just for web portfolios. It is coming with an Administrative Panel from where you can edit the head quote text, you can edit all theme colors, font families, font sizes and you can fill a curriculum vitae and display it into a special page

Irresistible

Irresistible is a visually-rich personal blog, with a little bit of a multimedia focus. Incorporating some nifty video-options and widgets, Irresistible should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Just add your content to the mix.

Sharpfolio

Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio. Sharpfolio aims to focus primarily on your work, because after all, this is what’s most important.

Modularity Lite Theme

f8 Lite

F8 Lite can transform your site or blog into a fully functioning photography or multimedia portfolio site.

Snapshot Theme

A flexible theme that can be used for either a photo showcase, portfolio or design gallery.

Portfolio Press Theme