Portfolio Themes in WordPress, Examples and Tutorials
By: Alexandru Vornicescu | August 7, 2009 | Portfolio Themes | 8 Comments
A portfolio is a great tool for sharing some work project, web designs, themes and other cool stuff on the web.
A portfolio theme for WordPress is very easy to work with, being the most popular way for Professional Freelancers and Web Developers.
Here I created the most sophisticated collection on the web about Portfolio Themes for WordPress only, so you now not need to worry about getting a Portfolio theme.
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1. Examples of Creative WordPress Portfolio Blogs:
Daniel Gutiérrez
Clear and creative example of a Portfolio Theme, very simple with a big slider section in the header with a kitty as the background.
Snopp Media
Another creative design example with a cardboard background, I like this original idea in a portfolio theme.
Joe Longstreet
A nice logo design, simple and elegant portfolio site.
Dead Trendy
Outstanding funny design, very colored and original.
Andrew Reff
Black portfolio theme of a talented web developer.
Darren Hoyt
Great design with blue colors, functional and sophisticated.
Ritchie Linao
Web designer portfolio theme with a integrated gallery. Contact info am graffiti background.
2. Free WordPress Portfolio Themes:
Folio Elements

This is a very basic WordPress theme with a clean and efficient design intended to put your best content forward in a way that is enticing and fun for the user.
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Creative by Nature

A unique and flexible high-quality portfolio WordPress theme for artists, photographers and designers. The theme was designed by .css{mayo} and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
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Linquist

Simple, portfolio oriented theme, without the usual blogging garbage. Inspired by and partially based on the fantastic Sharpfolio theme.
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The Unstandard

A split two / three column WordPress 2.6+ compatible theme. The home and archive index pages utilize photos rather than text. The latest update is completely optimized and stripped of any unnecessary code allowing for complete customization.
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WPESP

A “minimalist” Theme based on the idea of portfolio created by DAILYWP. The Theme is a starting point in the creation of portfolios, using Wordpress as CMS.
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ImPress

It looks really awesome and is useful for design or magazine styled websites.
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Portfolio Press

This is a dark-colored theme suitable for anyone who wants to create a quick portfolio or wants to showcase his work through WordPress.
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3. Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes:
Mortar

A hugely flexible theme built on a neat JQuery layout plugin that arranges your posts vertically than horizontally with complete control over the number of columns on the home and archive page.
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Big Easy

A very neatly coded, pixel sharp portfolio-based theme designed by the UK based web legend Dan Rubin. This theme boasts an impressive widgetized home page, custom typography, and impressive portfolio handling functionality.
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Groovy Photo

A vibrant, fun colour palette set in a neat layout with tons of neat features – what more could you ask for?
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Basic

Basic features a very clean, easy-to-read and traditional layout that focuses on displaying your content in an orderly fashion.
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Sleekslide Portfolio

The Mainpage also contains your latest blog entries as well as some personal information, a typical mash for portfolio themes.
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YourFolio

A WordPress portfolio theme designed to be used as a personal online portfolio as well as personal blog. This theme has 5 different stylesheets to choose from, allowing the user different color and font options.
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Bluelight

One of the best selling HTML templates on ThemeForest now has a Wordpress counterpart. Manage your portfolio and blog posts easily with this mash-up Wordpress theme.
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Wordfolio

Wordpress + Portfolio = Wordfolio, a wordpress theme which is suitable for graphic & web designers.
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4. Portfolio Tutorials:
1. Create a Portfolio Layout with Wooden Background in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial I am going to show you how to create a portfolio layout with a wooden background.
2. How to Design a Portfolio Site
If you’re a freelance designer, you know how important your portfolio site is to your business. Therefore, we decided to commission Elliot Jay Stocks, a well-known web designer, to film two 30-minute screen-casts on “How to Design a Portfolio Site.”
3. Create an awesome portfolio layout
I will show you how to create another website portfolio.
4. Create a dark portfolio pixel layout
In this tutorial I will show you the power of patterns applied in web layouts. Photoshop patterns are very important.










wordfolio is awesome,my favorite!
the free part,definitely Folio Elements
My portfolio at http://tracybarker.net is also built on Wordpress, and is still a work in progress. I decided to try the single page portfolio that’s gaining popularity, and I think it’s working well.
I like very much the Daniel Gutiérrez’s portfolio theme, it’s so simple and clean!
I like the Ritchie Linao most, but it can not be download!
@Premium Theme Info – this is an example not a theme
Free & Premium Themes are below…
wordfolio is pretty nice indeed..
ImPress has some kind of bug. I clicked on it and it started to open up new windows, about 10 in one second.
Check out my free wp theme collection!
http://wpthemix.co.cc/2009/09/10-high-quality-psdtuts-wordpress-theme-in-september/