Portfolio templates can be used to showcase your portfolio; whether it be photographs, illustrations, website designs, or whatever. You will be glad to know that there is an abundance of great free portfolio WordPress themes online.
In this article, I would like to show you 50 of the best. I hope you enjoy the list.
1. Spacious
Spacious is an incredibly spacious multipurpose responsive theme coded & designed with a lot of care and love. You can use it for your business, portfolio, blogging or any type of site. It has 4 page layouts, 6 page templates, 13 widgets areas, 5 custom widgets focusing on business template, awesome slider, primary color option to match your logo & website, boxed & wide layout, light & dark color skin, translation ready and many more.
2. Portfolium
Flexible grid-based theme Portfolium is a perfect to be used on portfolio websites with built-in blog. Theme’s neat design helps you to showcase your works in a pleasant way.
3. Family
Family theme is a minimalist responsive HTML5 Omega child theme for WordPress, created with heart and soul. Built for people, blogger and photographers in mind, Family WordPress theme put the focus on the content itself, presenting it in a cleanest way.
4. Portfolio Press
Portfolio Press is a responsive theme for showcasing your photography, art, web sites, or other projects. It also works nicely as a regular blog site. An options panel is included for uploading logos and and changing the layout.
5. Imbalance
Imbalance is an excellent solution for online-mag, blog or portfolio. User-friendly layout can attract new visitors and vibrant minimalistic design can easily fresh-up your project.
6. Focus
Focus is a great theme for showing off your videos. It supports videos hosted on other sites like YouTube and Vimeo through oEmbed. You can even self host your videos – Focus has a gorgeous custom video player for MP4s. Focus can be used as a standard video blog or even an educational video site.
7. Virtue
The Virtue theme is extremely versatile with tons of options, easy to customize and loaded with great features. The clean modern design is built with html5 and css3 and uses the powerful responsive framework from Bootstrap to be a fully responsive and mobile friendly.
8. Workaholic
Work-a-holic is a free minimalistic two and three column WordPress theme that showcases portfolios for artists, web designers, photographers and illustrators.
9. Klasik
Klasik Framework is a base/starter theme for quicker WordPress theme development. Perfect to use as business, portfolio, gallery, blog, personal and any kind of websites. Theme features 9 widget area, 4 custom widget and simple Theme Option for full CMS control with easy Logo Upload, etc.
10. Photo Theme
Photo Theme Responsive is a WordPress Theme with mobile and tablet responsive design. Free Photo Theme is perfect solution for any professional photographer.
11. BizStudio Lite
BizStudio Lite is a Simple, Clean and Responsive Retina Ready Business and Portfolio WordPress Theme. It can be used for corporate as well as personal websites. It is simple and beautiful with numerous theme options like two different layout option(full width and with sidebar), 5 widget areas, custom follow us and contact widget, Logo, logo alt text, custom favicon, social links, rss feed button, custom copyright text and many more.
12. SLIDER
Slider FREE Responsive WordPress Theme comes with custom background and modern design great theme to showcase your portfolio. With elegant style & mobile friendly design.
13. Panoramica
Panoramica is a free portfolio WordPress theme, created with the intent to be visually striking and at the same time modern & professional. It does so by featuring a full-width slider that you can use to display your best content. The slider easily adapts to the width of the browser window, ensuring that your site will look great in any screen.
14. Vantage
Vantage is a flexible multipurpose theme. It’s strength lies in its tight integration with some powerful plugins like Page Builder for responsive page layouts, MetaSlider for big beautiful sliders and WooCommerce to help you sell online. Vantage is fully responsive and retina ready.
15. Make
Create your website without touching a line of code. Make’s flexible customization features and a powerful drag and drop page builder make designing your site fun and easy. Build almost anything: a simple portfolio or photography site, an ecommerce business site, a minimalist blog, or even a professional magazine.
16. Visual
Visual WordPress Theme is a grid like theme with slider option. Great for displaying your portfolio on main page. This is perfect theme for any designer to showcase their portfolio and blog about their work.
17. PR News
PR NEWS is a powerful responsive and multi-purpose WordPress theme, perfect for news or magazine, blog website and many more. Theme designed with the popular Bootstrap CSS Framework, and using Font Awesome for the lightweight usage of icons.
18. Designfolio
A fully responsive portfolio theme for designers and creatives. Looks great on all devices (desktop, tablet, mobile phone)!
19. PR Pin
Theme designed with the popular Bootstrap 3 CSS Framework, and using Font Awesome for the lightweight usage of icons. PR Pin is a powerful responsive and multi-purpose WordPress theme, perfect for news or magazine, blog website and many more. PR Pin has a solid flexible responsive layout that scales from 320px to 1260px with all Bootstrap features.
20. Workality
A fully responsive portfolio theme for creative people and agencies. It’s great way to display your portfolio through 4 different thumbnail size types and responsive layout. And it’s completely free!
21. Gridster
Gridster has been designed with simplicity in mind, it has a left-aligned sidebar which also serves to display the menu and site logo. The homepage is made up of a grid of your images which is responsive meaning it will change dimensions depending on what size screen you view it on. Simply create your categories and start adding images to create your site – no other configuration is needed.
22. FontFolio
FontFolio Free WordPress Theme with a grid based layout. Design to showcase your typography portfolio. This theme was inspired by the works of Svetoslav Simov from FontFabric.
23. Exhibition Theme
Exhibition Theme is clean and modern WordPress theme with a blog like design. This is perfect theme for any artist to showcase their portfolio and blog about their work.
24. Capture
A simple lightweight and responsive WordPress theme designed with photographers and videographers in mind. Capture offers a fullscreen featured image slideshow built using cutting-edge technology, lightweight SVG assets, and offers featured video support.
25. Neptune
Neptune is a free WordPress theme by WPExplorer.com that’s perfect for portfolio, gallery and photography websites to showcase photos. The theme has been setup using a custom post type for the portfolio so you can add your portfolio items, organize them into categories and show them off on the homepage.
26. Shaken Grid
This was our first theme which we released to the WordPress community and one of our favorites. Shaken Grid uses jQuery Masonry which “arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid.” The result is a gap-less layout even if you have varying post heights.
27. Grid Portfolio
Portfolio Theme WordPress is clean theme with grid like layout, this WordPress theme is perfect to showcase any portfolio. Grid Portfolio has nice and unique structure to show any artwork.
28. Snaps
Snaps is a free portfolio theme for WordPress perfect for showcasing portrait images and galleries.
29. Ultra Grid
Ultra Grid Theme is beautiful and modern WordPress theme with a grid like design. This is perfect theme for any artist to showcase their portfolio in a grid layout style.
30. Artworks
Art Works FREE Responsive WordPress Theme with infinite scroll great theme to showcase your portfolio, with super clean and appealing layout. Art Works theme has elegant style & mobile unique design.
31. Custom Community
Standout with a professional custom made WordPress theme designed by you. Responsive with just 1 click. Ready for your next blog, portfolio site, magazine, social network or shop. Use it out-of-the-box or customize it up to the smallest details.
32. Snaps
A portfolio theme perfect for showcasing portrait images and galleries.
33. Preference Lite
Preference Lite is a responsive theme, built with the latest HTML5 and CSS3 styling methods to give you more flexibility. You get an amazing level of styling and layout features from Unlimited Colours, a customized WordPress Gallery, several Post Formats, styled widgets, gorgeous typography, 8 sidebar widget positions, plus you get a special Showcase Header for sliders and image banners.
34. x2
Create a professional WordPress, BuddyPress or WooCommerce site within minutes. Perfect for your next blog, shop, magazine, social network or portfolio site. 3 customizable sliders. Flux Slider with 3D effects. 3-columns widget homepage. Advanced theme options help you to customize every detail quickly.
35. Boldy
Portfolio and blog theme for creative professionals.
36. SkyFall
Beautiful in minimalistic design. Perfect for personal blog or even photographers to showcase their portfolio.
37. Unstandard
The Unstandard is a two-column WordPress theme featuring three widget enabled zones. The current 2.0 release is a complete re-write requiring WordPress 3.0 or better. Prior versions of the theme utilized a timthumb + custom fields setup to populate thumbnails for core pages.
38. Chun
A responsive CSS3 and HTML5 blogging and portfolio theme. It supports all post formats and has layout, font, and color options built into the theme customizer. The theme also supports the Custom Content Portfolio plugin, giving artists and other creative people the ability to share their work.
39. Estate
Estate is a clean, flexible business theme. It’s well suited to business, portfolio and personal websites. One of Estate’s best features is its Page Builder integration. Install Page Builder in a few clicks and you’ll be able to create unique page layouts using a drag and drop interface.
40. SKT Full Width
SKT Full Width as the name suggests is a full width wordpress theme. Often it is said images speak more than words and this is exactly how full width theme works. Get a nice website on top of nicely shot background images. Home page has customizable slider backgrounds with text optional.
41. Gridly
A free minimal & responsive portfolio theme ideal for graphic designers or photographers.
42. Corpo
Corpo is a responsive business & portfolio theme which can be used for personal or corporate website. It features slider on the home page, 5 custom widgets, 2 menu locations and theme options to easily manage your website. Corpo also offers additional Portfolio custom post type to showcase your work.
43. Simple Grid
Simple Grid Theme Responsive is a WordPress Theme with mobile and tablet responsive design. Grid like design Theme is perfect for any creative agency to showcase their portfolio. Inspired by the works of El-Studio creative graphic design studio.
44. Irex Lite
Irex Lite is a responsive business & portfolio theme which offers a powerful Options Set to customize it to your own needs. Irex Lite can be used for personal as well as corporate websites. It is simple and beautiful with numerous theme options like two different layout option(full width and with sidebar), 3 widget areas, custom follow us and contact widget, Logo, logo alt text and many more.
45. Smashing Multimedia
Smashing Multimedia was designed especially for podcasters, photographers and users who can now easily embed videos and images, rate them and showcase them in their own WordPress-based blog. It has a parent theme and an easily customizable child theme.
46. Fifteen
Fifteen is the Photography or Portfolio based WordPress theme, best suitable for Professional Artists. This theme is built on the HTML5 and CSS3 Framework, Bootstrap 3.0 From Twitter. With a Very Modern Design, this theme is 100% Responsive.
47. Sight
SIGHT is a powerful WordPress theme, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. The theme was designed in modern minimalistic style with Golden Grid usage. It has two views to get information in the way you want – standard blog view & grid view. A big image slider on the top gives you extra ability to show the most important content.
48. Hathor
Hathor Theme makes it easy to fully customize the Layout, Colors and Style within minutes.The theme allows you to upload your logo.The Theme also has a 2 header style , 2 Service Block Style , 2 Latest Post layout , Full width and Box option ,translation ready.
49. Imbalance 2
Imbalance 2 will excellently fit for your blog, portfolio or e-zine. Any website can be refreshed by the use of new flexible functions offered in the theme and website presence can be customized due to unique back-end features.
50. Xenon
Xenon is a portfolio theme ideal for photography or design related websites. The theme is designed to function as a showcase for creative works or photographs with minimal distraction from other elements. The theme ha s features like, featured menu, featured thumbnail, custom background, theme options, widgetized sidebar etc.
What is your favourite free portfolio template for WordPress?
Kevin
