25 Awesome WordPress Portfolio Templates

by Lars on July 5, 2012

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WordPress portfolio templates are great for building a cool and nice looking online Portfolio Website. Being a long time WordPress user it is hard to believe that it a free open source publishing platform anyone can just download and use, even commercially. WordPress offers great usability and is extensible to a degree that today makes it a key player in blogging, online magazines, business websites, e-commerce sites etc. With a cheap hosting account, a few good plugins and a free or premium WordPress portfolio template nearly anyone can set up a professional portfolio to showcase designs, photos etc.

If you are ready to show off your skills to potential customers in a flashy way you should read on. This is a roundup of some of the best WordPress portfolio templates currently available. Some really interesting themes have been added even though their main purpose is to be used for online portfolios. They are here because they have strong portfolio capabilities and simply look good and have the flexibility required to work well in a pure portfolio application. Enjoy reading!


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Daisho – Flexible WordPress Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO

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Daisho is a portfolio solution for creative professionals and companies looking for a minimal and professional look. Flexible and responsive presentation, smooth navigational flow and clutter-free approach. Put your works in focus. Powerful Typography Plugin included. The definitive portfolio solution for creative professionals available now.

Elastico: Responsive Fullscreen Portfolio WP Theme – MORE INFO

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Elastico is a unique fullscreen & fully responsive photography theme, perfect for creative people and agencies. By emphasizing your photos, videos and content, it showcases your work in an amazing way. Easy to manage, it comes also with a fullscreen blog supporting post formats and several custom page templates to spice up your website.

Trim Business and Portfolio Template – MORE INFO

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Trim is simple, professional, versatile and fast. Trim might be simple, but with that simplicity comes a sense of balance and crispness that is quite refreshing. Coupled with a bunch of great features, Trim is a great theme that will prove useful for a variety of different websites. Trim is a fully responsive design that adapts to your user’s variable screen size. Elegant themes has a affordable theme pack offering 77 premium WordPress themes for only $39.

WordPress Photography Themes Pack – MORE INFO

photocrati

Photocrati is one of the leading creator of WordPress photography website templates. It specializes on making themes only for photographers. The themes are highly customizable and have different looks. Their Themes are used by more than 12.000 photographers so far. They have more than 60 themes and they are different than most other themes in this category, because it features 15 different styles and four home page styles allowing you a lot of flexibility without any need for coding.

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WowWay – Interactive & Responsive Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO

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WowWay is an unique and highly interactive WordPress theme for creative portfolios. Based on a responsive grid, packed up with lots of cool features and built on a powerful admin panel.

Feather – Responsive Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO

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Show your work in a great way on all devices with Feather – a responsive portfolio theme for the creative agency, freelancer or business. It comes in dark, light and grey base colors with plenty of options to customize and a ton of features like Fullscreen Image Frontpage, Fullscreen Gallery Template, Flexible portfolio, 10 blog post formats and 10 page layouts plus Great short codes.

Nemesis Clean Design – MORE INFO

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Nemesis is the Reponsive WordPress theme built for creative freelance designer website. It comes with many cool features ex. Skin manager, Flexible portfolio contents (including stylish AJAX portfolio), customizable element’s colour, font and background image and patterns. There are also 100+ advanced shortcodes with Shortcode Generator support. You can also use 300+ custom fonts from Google Web Fonts.

Responsy WP – Responsive HTML5 WordPress Portfolio Template – MORE INFO

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Responsy is a responsive html5 wordpress theme suitable for personal portfolios or creative agencies. Responsy has been coded in HTML5 & CSS3 and jQuery. It has a solid flexible responsive layout that scales from 320px to 1170px. This is one of the better WordPress Portfolio Themes available at the moment.

Purity Portfolio Template – MORE INFO

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Purity is a Clean and Minimal New WordPress Theme with a ‘BOLD’ feel that can be easily used as a personal portfolio or a business website. With an extensive documentation and a demo content you won’t have any problems setting your page up.

NX01 . Responsive drag & drop WordPress Portfolio Template – MORE INFO

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This theme features a brand new front end admin system that lets you configure your website without going back and forth between the admin and web-page front end.

Aware – Responsive WordPress Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO

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.

Good Space – Responsive Minimal WP Theme – MORE INFO

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Good Space Good Space is a WordPress theme especially for creative agency. It’s very clean, minimal with modern design. This theme is also has a responsive ability. Moreover, it comes with tons of features. Including our page items that can be managed very easily via our awesome tool, ‘Page Builder’. Admin panel in this theme is a real feature rich. You can also create unlimited sidebar, choosing over 450 fonts or if you want to use your own, we provide a cufon uploader. You can also translate each elements to your language via this admin panel.

Photolux – Photography Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO

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.

Next – Responsive Business WordPress Theme – MORE INFO

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Next is a professional theme that makes creating a clean, responsive business or portfolio site very easy. Next follows all the latest HTML5 , CSS3, and JS techniques and conventions. The Responsive Design of the theme lets you serve desktop, tablet, and mobile devices all as first-class citizens.

Gridlocked Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO

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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.

Nova Portfolio Template – MORE INFO

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Nova is a sharp, simplistic design that makes for an intuitive user experience. Nova’s biggest strength is its homepage, which allows you to organize your content into two areas. The Featured Slider is perhaps the most versatile slider we have built, and comes with multiple slider variations that breath new life into the design.

Invo – WP Business Portfolio Template – MORE INF‘

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Invo WordPress theme is perfect theme for running freelance business. Simple communication with client from client area, client invoicing and 2 payment gateways (PayPal and 2Checkout) are functions that makes Invo theme special.

Dandelion – Powerful Elegant WordPress Theme – MORE INFO

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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.

Fotofolio – MORE INFO

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

Adventure – Clean & Simple WordPress Theme – MORE INFO

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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.

Envisioned WordPress Theme – MORE INFO

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.

ProudFolio – MORE INFO

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Proudfolio is an amazing theme for graphic designers and other professionals who want to showcase their work in a clean minimalist look.

Artiste: Professional Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO

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.

Flexum – A Flexible and Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO

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Flexum is a clean looking, flexible and responsive WordPress Theme for any business looking to boost their online presence! Customize Flexum with the page-mashup functionality and the many build-in shortcodes, combined with unlimited sidebars and color settings.

Chameleon WordPress Portfolio Theme MORE INFO

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.

Portfolio Press – MORE INFO

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Portfolio Press is an excellent theme for showcasing your photography, art, web sites, or other projects. It also works nicely as a regular blog site. An options panel is available for uploading logos and changing the layout.

Author : Lars Vraa

Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009. He is really passionate about web design, web development, SEO, social media and loves to look into new technologies, techniques, tools etc. and to write articles for tripwire magazine readers.

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Michael Risch May 9, 2012 at 10:30 am

very inspiring and useful, thank you.

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