15 Portfolio Themes for WordPress

By Steven Snell | Published October 29th, 2008 in Business/Freelance

WordPress’s CMS capabilities make it an ideal platform for designers who want to display their portfolio and/or maintain a blog. There are an increasing number of themes that have been developed specifically for this purpose, some free and some premium. Here is a look at 15 of the current choices.

UPDATE: We recently launched a gallery dedicated to showcasing the best portfolio sites – Folio Focus.

Free Portfolio Themes:

Sharpfolio

Portfolio Press

Portfolio WordPress Theme

Snapshot

Premium Portfolio Themes:

YourFolio ($25)

ProudFolio ($70)

Cassiopeia ($60)

f8 ($75)

PortfolioPress ($49)

WpShowcase ($59)

SimpleSite ($49)

Fresh Folio ($70)

PicPress ($20)

Portfolio Pro ($35)

Viz | Biz ($79.95)


32 Comments
  1. Love CJ on October 29th, 2008

    Nice Themes!tks collection.and free themes are so beautiful too.

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    WOW these are really nice!

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  12. Curtis on May 1st, 2009

    This is a great collection of Wordpress Portfolio Themes. I use one that’s not on this list. It’s Nishita from Brajeshwar. I modified the design a bit. Check it out at http://www.curtisarmstrong.net.

  13. Sarang Dravid on May 31st, 2009

    PicPress is the best of em all .. I loved it.. and am going to buy it for sure :)

  14. Piyush Shekhar on June 24th, 2009

    VizBiz is cool :D

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    Nice list of portfolio themes. I just released a wordpress theme for portfolio use, you can see a demo here. http://darkwood.travisberry.com/

  25. Gojeg on January 12th, 2010

    Hmm. nice collection friend..
    Thanks..

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    Really nice themes. This is what I was looking for thxs

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    Wow thanks :D
    I really like PicPress :)

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    Nice themes. Thank you.

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    Nice list! May I suggest adding my own theme?

    http://silverio.sachagreif.com/

    I felt like a lot of the existing portfolio theme were very well designed, but too complex. So I tried to create something clean and simple that doesn’t overpower the work you’re trying to showcase.

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