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20+ Best WordPress Portfolio Themes

Being professional doesn't start from wearing a suit and ends at having business cards. You have to prove it to your client that you have it in you. The Zeal and wits to take necessary actions. You will also need to prove that you're accustomed and spawned with the latest technologies. In order to that, you might need to get show your digital resume for that.

A portfolio is your digital resume. It includes your professional skills and prowess, your contact details, your bio and your area of expertise (also includes your product or services if you offer any). This is where a WordPress theme development company can help you to have a professional portfolio website. It is advised that you should start a blog on your portfolio website which can include any content related to your work.

So, for a better portfolio website, you should start looking for a nice theme. And I guess you're in pursuit and that is why you're here. So, allow me to present a list of 20 Best WordPress Portfolio Themes that will definitely help you to build your portfolio website better.

So, why wait, let's get started!

GridStack

gridstack wordpress portfolio themes

GridStack is an ideal WordPress portfolio theme for freelancers and agencies who prefer to use an enhanced power of SEO in their portfolio website. It has very well SEO features which will optimize your content and the website without affecting user experience. GridStack is compatible with every device. It is highly responsive and supports touch and swipe function which provides your slides a stunning effect.

This theme is basically designed for well-defined SEO, so it is recommended for the blog and blog post in your portfolio. It offers multiple layouts both for your portfolio and your blog post. It also supports multiple languages.

TheFour

TheFour Business WordPress Theme

TheFour is a business WordPress theme that supports for portfolio projects. It's a perfect choice for a digital agency, online marketing firm or freelancer. The theme supports modules for a business website such as portfolio projects, testimonials, customer logos. You can also use TheFour for your online blogs as well because it has a great layout for blogs.

TheFour is flexible for most business types. If you're looking for a WordPress theme that you can showcase your services and projects, TheFour is a great choice for you. You can read this review to know more about it.

Dignity

dignity wordpress portfolio theme

Dignity theme has 12 homepage parallax layers and stunning AJAX media portfolio. It is perfect for a portfolio website, yet it still can be used by any agency or start-up. This theme offers you easy yet advanced customization of your website. The plus point here is the theme has a full-screen video player, supporting both Youtube and Vimeo. Also, they have a fullscreen Flickr slideshow.

It supports 50+ animation effects and a shortcode generator. The exciting part is it gives a choice to either to select one page or multiple page style. The developers of Dignity also offers videos related to the customization process of the theme which can be very helpful.

Bayn

Bayn has a very impressive full-screen slider that helps you to attract visitors attention when they first come to your website. The theme has a cool animation that makes your users feel so different: header slider, service slider, and smooth scrolling. Focusing on showing photos for your projects, Bayn makes your portfolio stand out. With clean and beautiful typography, Bayn can help you to tell your story best.

Despite many features, Bayn is lightweight and easy to set up. If you're still hesitating to choose it, we hope that this in-depth review will help you.

Parker

parker

Parker is one of the classiest WordPress portfolio themes you can choose for your website. I recommend this to every professional whose profession requires to be neat and suit up. If you have a desire to keep your portfolio website as same and sharp, you must try for this theme. It is an AJAX WordPress theme, and if you want you can go for enabling or disabling the full JavaScript feature.

Parker theme comes with 13 ready to use templates. So, overall you have a lot to choose from and make a good decision.

Visia

visia

Visia is ideal for creative and business organization's portfolio website. It is an elegant, clean and modern one-page WordPress portfolio theme. The theme is highly optimized for users by minimizing the usage of heavy JavaScript and clean coding. It includes a very simple gallery builder with easy to use drag and drop feature with automated image resizing.

Visia supports SEO optimization and is multilingual. And to be frank this is one of my favorite WordPress portfolio themes.

Wonder

wonder

Wonder is a great, beautiful and powerful portfolio theme for creative creepers and agencies alike. It comes with features like sticky navigation, exclusive CSS3 filter (High Saturation, Sepia, and Grayscale), a huge range of custom logos. One of its best features is if you want to display multiple portfolios, then you can do that via categories.

You can also enter custom CSS entry via the Theme Customizer. Also, it includes a prepared version of one child theme. Wonder also supports SEO very well.

Alona

alona

Alona is a WordPress portfolio theme ideal for creative artists, designers, and photographers. It is a perfect choice if you want to attract your visitor's attention through your artwork or any visual art.

Alona is WordPress 4.0 ready with Bootstrap 3 technology which makes super easy to develop a website and customize it. It is also retina ready and provides an interactive user experience. Alona also featured with an advanced custom field with over 600 Google fonts. This makes incredibly easy to add content to the website.

Some additional features of Alona are super sleek parallax sections, gallery post format slider, and many more features.

One Click

one click

One Click is ideal for personal portfolios, illustrator portfolios, creative agency, photographer portfolios, designer portfolios and much more. The reason for such versatility is because it is very modern and smart premium WordPress theme.

The theme offers significant designs, with astounding super fine details and animation effects. The best part of the theme is a unique and easy visual builder, which empowers you to generate numerous different layout designs for your website.

Some of its features include endless font and color options, premium preloader, smooth scrolling, parallax effect, solid video support, contact form 7, CSS3 animation effects and way too much more!

Phoenix

phoenix

As its name, this WordPress theme is awesome from top to bottom. It is retina-ready and has some incredible parallax effects. Phoenix is perfect for a freelancer portfolio, creative agency pages, and personal portfolio.

If you're new to WordPress, this theme can be great to start with. There are videos tutorials available which explain everything. It comes in many variations such as Full-Screen Parallax Slider, Fullscreen Background, and Full-Screen Video. You can also add countdown if you want till your project is loading. Phoenix is a simple, vibrant and content oriented website which is perfect for personal and professional portfolios.

Ananke

ananke

It is a WordPress one-page parallax theme ideal for creative agency, personal portfolio and the like. This theme possesses a very flexible design which makes it perfect for almost every type of projects. Ananke is a highly responsive WordPress Premium theme, which makes it smooth in every type of devices.

It is very clean and valid HTML5 and CSS3 coding which helps you to keep yourself parallel to the latest trends in WordPress. One of the major features for Ananke is it provides you with 3 types of homepages; one is with parallax scrolling background, the second one is with the slider and the third one is with video in the background.

Some of its many features are Google fonts, never-ending color styles, homepage variations up to 8, parallax effect, CSS3 animation and much more.

Helium

helium

Helium is one of the best WordPress portfolio themes available now. It is very smooth, clean and awe-inspiring website template, which is custom-built for bloggers and creative agencies.

The layout of Helium is very fluid which makes it very easy to adjust the display of the website in various devices. Also, this theme is also retina ready which ensures the UX to be awesome. The theme has three different layouts backed by a strong AJAX navigation system. It is a minimalistic approach to design which has the ability to catch the attention of your clients or prospects.

Helium comes with RoyalSlider (a premium plugin), GSAP and Isotope to display your content in a very intuitive and minimal way.

Throne

throne

The Throne is very artistic, appealing, minimal, secure, clean, professional, capable, tasteful, high functional responsive WordPress portfolio theme. It is very well developed, with very effective attention to detail in every aspect which provides incredible flexibility and comprehension. Due to such proficiency Throne is incredibly effective as portfolio websites. It can help you to show your work off in elegant, ultimate style and impeccable perfection.

The Throne's minimalist philosophy allows your portfolio to shine as brightest. There are layout builders with multiple sections are convenient and diverse. The throne is a highly responsive theme which makes you sit like in Throne.

Dalton

dalton

Dalton is astoundingly creative, functionally expansive and engaging and appealing and creative. It is highly customizable and technically very sophisticated as well. You can use it as the commercially multipurpose theme. Dalton is crafted with the excellence of HTML5 and CSS3 which gives it great style. It is forged on Redux Framework.

Dalton has a professional, serious commercial concern. The theme gives you features like parallax assisted visual charm, Incredible templates and home pages with several demos. All the demos are creative, unique and stylish portfolio layouts.

Corpus

corpus

Corpus Theme is a dynamic, polished, professional and technologically enhanced WordPress multipurpose theme. This theme combines with the power of three, i.e., Flexibility, power, and lightweight. The Corpus essence is unobtrusive. It is beautiful, functional and pliable and potent.

Corpus is ideal for corporate users but works nicely for creative professionals as well. It is very congenital and simple. It users Visual Composer page builder and Redux Framework with dozens of easy shortcodes. The theme is mobile and touch-friendly. It is remarkably fast loading and easy on server loads.

Miko

miko

Miko is a very inventive and visually forceful, forcefully quick-witted, flexible and very easy to use and customize. It is very developer friendly and technologically elegant and potent. Miko is very famous among entrepreneurs, artists, freelancers, and creatives of all types. It also featured with a Revolution Slider for which you won't have to pay extra. Apart from this, Miko consists of Visual Composer page builder plugin which let you make your own jaw-dropping, unique creative website. And everything with simple clicks.

Apex

apex

Apex is an innovative and interactive WordPress theme. You must use it if you want to create a splendid first impression. The design is simple and sleek alongside with 6 color schemes on a one-page layout. The framework for building Apex was Bootstrap3 with the fusion of a blog archive page and a custom package of icons. The console is so easy that you can modify the visual design very easily.

It is considered to be perfect for portfolio, team member services, client logos and much more. You can add a certain number of shortcodes to add personalized icons. The support system is praised by every user. So, consider it as a plus.

Rosie

rosie

Rosie is a fully responsive WordPress Theme designed for writers, bloggers, photographers, and the likes. Very astounding design features like a full-page scroll, transparent menu options, motion backgrounds, and parallax effects. The Corporates find this theme as treasured.

Rosie is built with a user-friendly AJAX Based operating system.

Newera

newera

Newera is aimed at the strong business community and at the portfolio. However, it can be used in any conceivable niche. Its visual direction is simple and minimal, while still retaining a profusion of capacious features and customization options.

The theme is designed and coded for multiple platforms and it is featured with all the useful bootstrap features. Many reviews claimed that the only limitation with Newera WordPress theme is your imagination.

Nantes

nantes

Nantes WordPress theme is probably the most expensive WordPress portfolio themes. The first question arises in this scenario is: "Is it worth it"? And the answer is yes. The theme is designed for immensely creative corporate and eCommerce. If you have any second thoughts, I would like to suggest you check its Live Preview.

Nantes have four kinds of demos for four different niches. First is Blog; Second is Corporate; Third is Portfolio and Fourth and the last is Shop Configurations.

You can create a versatile and stable online store as it supports the WooCommerce plugins. This WordPress theme is an ideal corporate portfolio.

Bubbles

bubbles

I hope you remember Powerpuff girls when we talk about this theme. As the name is cute, the Bubbles theme is as same as its name. It is an AJAX powered WordPress portfolio theme. It is fully responsive, Multi Color, parallax, with font awesome icons and Cross Browser Compatibility. The bubble is ideal for online portfolios.

Gedebvge

gedebvge

Gedebvge is a simple AJAX powered WordPress theme with a simple, spacy and elegant design. It is a one-page theme with excellent SEO features. The developers of this theme created three different layouts. The design is basically simple, flat and with excellent cross-browser flexibility.

It is built with the twitter bootstrap framework which gives Gedebvge incredible customization edge.

So, these are the 20 Best WordPress Portfolio Themes of the year. What you feel about the list I shared? Please leave a comment and let me know if you have some other incredible portfolio themes I missed. Till then take care.

Author bio - Jason Daszkewicz is a WordPress developer at Wordsuccor Ltd., a leading WordPress website development company which builds user-friendly WordPress websites and custom WordPress themes. Jason has been associated with Wordsuccor for last 5 years and providing optimum solutions for WordPress websites. You can follow Jason on Twitter.

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