The best WordPress portfolio themes to show off your work.
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WordPress portfolio themes are a brilliant way to create an engaging portfolio page. With a range of designs, easy navigation and completely editable templates, you'll have a professional portfolio up and running in no time at all.
You don't have to be a web design pro to create an appealing portfolio site, there are plenty of WordPress tutorials and WordPress Portfolio themes to help you create a stunning webpage.
In this roundup, we have found the best quality WordPress Portfolio themes around to help you with your portfolio journey. We have chosen a number of professional quality themes, so they will cost money with most of the themes coming in at around $50. But don't worry if you're on a budget, we have a post of the best free WordPress themes.
Bursting with character and colour, the Eldon theme will ensure that your portfolio looks youthful, playful and well-designed. We love the cartoon characters and this theme even as a light or dark mode - how nifty is that? Eldon is a theme designed specifically for modern illustrators, character animation and animation portfolios - so it's perfect for you creative lot out there!
Lekker is a chic portfolio theme perfect for taking your site to the next level. This stunning, modern portfolio theme features gorgeous illustrations and designs to really enhance your portfolio page.
03. Amedeo
Every creative's dream come true (Image credit: Amedeo)
Amedeo is described as 'every creative's dream come true' and we have to say, it is quite special. With beautiful layouts and understated text, it is a great option for anyone with visual content to display. The images move around the screen in stylish formations when clicked to view, and there are nice little touches such as the way the pictures bounce when you hover over them. Reviews praise the high-quality design and excellent customer support, so you know you're covered if you need some help.
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04. Bridge
Whatever work you want to highlight, Bridge has a template for you
It's hard to go wrong with Bridge simply because it gives you so much choice; too much, perhaps. It's a responsive multipurpose theme featuring over 370 ready-made layouts for just about any kind of business you'd care to mention, loads of powerful features and a stack of excellent portfolio layouts to help you show off your work to best effect.
05. Aoko
Aoko's masked video effects are a great way to grab attention
For a portfolio site with instant visual impact, Aoko is well worth a look. It'll grab attention thanks to its four-way full-screen menu complete with video navigation, and it'll keep visitors engaged with its mix of clean design and CSS3 content animations. It's fully responsive and easy to customise, and comes with free updates and support.
06. Paragon
If you're in a hurry, Paragon enables you to build your portfolio fast
This theme is for creatives and designers who are looking to get a portfolio together fast. Neat and straight to the point, Paragon is a colourful responsive portfolio theme for freelancers and agencies that uses WordPress Live Customizer so you can build and edit your site and see the changes instantly.
07. Air
Air's page builder makes it a cinch to try new layouts
Lightweight and flexible, Air is a responsive, retina-ready portfolio theme with unlimited listing layouts and plenty of project layouts for you to choose from. Building your portfolio couldn't be simpler, thanks to Air's built-in page builder which includes over 20 useful modules for putting everything together, and every detail is designed to be smooth and polished for a great user experience.
Keep your options open with Assemble, a theme that gives you a choice of 18 homepage layouts for your portfolio. Once you've picked the general style of layout for your images, it can be customised down to the finest detail including hover types, spacing and slider style.
09. BePortfolio
Get your Behance portfolio on your own site in a matter of minutes
If you've already published your work on Behance and want your own portfolio site as well, this theme enables you to import everything to your WordPress site using the BeDojo plugin. It also works as a normal theme – you don't have to have a Behance portfolio.
10. Stag
Stag lets you build minimal sites with sophisticated features
If you can't decide whether you want something minimal or versatile for your portfolio site, Stag gives you the best of both worlds. It's powered by Visual Composer, making it simple to build great-looking pages, but if you want features such as parallax backgrounds and animated content, they're easy to implement.
11. BigBang
BigBang makes it easy to control the appearance of your responsive site
The BigBang WordPress theme offers an original editing system, working with various shaped preview thumbnails and a clean and clear layout, enabling you to control the appearance, columns, font and size easily. It's a great way to create a responsive WordPress portfolio site to showcase your work.
As the name suggests, Hipster offers a modern and relaxed alternative to an overly formal portfolio site, with multi-functional pages that will allow viewers to engage and interact with the content – perfect for studios and collectives. Its many editing features enable you to personalise the content to best suit the nature of your work, and again it's viewable on a range of digital platforms.
13. MiniPress
Let your work do the talking with this simple black and white theme
MiniPress offers a simple but classy black and white layout to give your work a glossy finish. This theme is functional on many platforms and easily accessible. There's also 24-hour support available, and like many portfolio themes, MiniPress comes with a ready made contact form.
14. Retro
Retro lets you build web pages like you used to get in the 1950s
This WordPress theme offers an alternative design for your portfolio site, with a retro-inspired layout, easy editing options and multiple page facilities, with built-in options including contact forms and Nivo sliders.
