I think most people will agree that WordPress is an obvious choice for blogging. When it comes to showcasing designers, photographers etc. work it turns out to be a superior publishing platform as well. Today a lot of creative professionals have realised this an use WordPress as the engine for building an online reputation. The ease of use of WordPress, the amount of themes and plugins available for that will support building a portfolio is amazing. This article provides a list of more than 25 excellent portfolio themes for WordPress. Not all the themes for WordPress is free but you can find great themes that wont cost anything. Still the premium themes sometimes comes with features that makes your live a bit easier. If you’re a professional designer or photographer etc. a theme with a cost of less than $100 may not scare you away. For that reason his article features premium themes as well.
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Free Portfolio WordPress Themes
Portfolio
Irresistible
Sharpfolio
Linquist
Modularity Lite Theme
f8 Lite
Snapshot Theme
Portfolio Press Theme
Premium Portfolio Themes
photopro
Viz | Biz Portfolio Theme
Single-Use License ($79.95), Multiple-Use License ($150.00)
Modularity Theme
Theme club. 3 month membership $49 – all themes
f8
Theme club. 3 month membership $49 – all themes
Work A Holic
Theme club. 3 month membership $49 – all themes
WP Showcase Theme
Single-Use License ($59.00), Multiple-Use License ($99.00), Developer’s Pack ($159.00)
Simple Site 2 Theme
Single-Use License ($49.00), Multiple-Use License ($149.00)
Aperture Theme
Single-Use ($70.00), Developer’s ($150.00)
Foreword Thinking
Single-Use ($70.00), Developer’s ($150.00)
Geometric
Single-Use ($70.00), Developer’s ($150.00)
Cassiopeia Theme
Single-Use ($80.00), Developer’s Pack ($150.00)
Fresh Folio
Single-Use ($70.00), Developer’s ($150.00)
eGallery Theme
Comes with $20.00 subscription to Elegant Themes Club!
eVid Theme
Comes with $20.00 subscription to Elegant Themes Club!
Foliotastic
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Hey Lars, this is a great roundup…I don’t know if I’d actually use a pre-made wordpress theme for a portfolio (especially a web design portfolio), but hopefully some of my readers will find it useful.
Featured here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/best-of-the-web-28/
i, Thanks for your efforts on this plugin. I wanted to let you know about my experience with it. This is with WP 2.8 importing a blogger blog with many images.
Excellent works really awesome themes i liked it very much.
Thanks for the great themes. I’ll definitely consider using one of them for my online portfolio. Keep up the good work.
Nice list of portfolio themes. I just released a portfolio theme too. you can see a demo here, http://darkwood.travisberry.com/
Wow great themes,
I really like PhotoPro
Thanks
Thanks for your sharing… im using Snapshot Theme for my wordpress blog….
awesome themes…i’m just speechless
Such an incredible article! I love reading, a very good overview, the article is very ell said. A thumbs up!
Amazing stuffs………Never seen before. Thanks for sharing.
I know i am so late to read this post.
but thank you for this excellent information.
I hope to get a lot of good information like this here
Thanks for sharing……….. I like these portfolios.
Excellent Portfolio WordPress Themes to showcase your Creative Work
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