Portfolio themes have increased in popularity for one main reason – it is imperative to have an online portfolio, no matter what field you may be in. Even though you may have a background in design, these themes include great back-end panels, making them easy to customize and use. While portfolio themes aim to help showcase large projects, there is no denying that they can also be used to showcase photography. Please feel free to browse through the collection below.
Who Are These Themes For?
- Anyone who wants to get their work showcased online.
- Ideal for people who have smaller budgets, don’t have time to create their own portfolio, or want a great starting place to begin getting showcased online.
- Designers, developers, writers, and more, who have a presence online, but don’t yet have a place to showcase their work.
Photoland | $49.00 | Demo | Purchase
Photoland is a specialty theme designed for a variety of uses, including photoblogs, showcases, portfolios, and more. The theme supports a wide array of features to make editing the theme easy.
Primary Features:
- Easy-to-use theme options page.
- Built-in Cufon support for beautiful headings and buttons.
- Eighteen built-in Cufon fonts, not just one.
- Unique layout that lets you have 30-40 posts on the homepage without having to scroll tons of pages.
- Beautiful jQuery slider on the homepage as well as on the category/archive pages.
- The jQuery slider does not pre-load the large images, thus visitors don’t have to download tens of megabytes of data without clicking on slides.
- Support for threaded comments.
- Support for WordPress 2.8+.
- Widget-ready footer.
- Dynamic image resizing built into the theme.
- A specially developed widget to show a list of all contributing authors on your site.
- Support for an author page.
- Easily integrate all your tracking scripts into the theme.
- Valid XHTML and CSS coding.
- Social link sharing.
Insight | $25.00 | Demo | Purchase
Insight is a professional portfolio theme that includes ten color schemes and plenty of different page templates to help you maximize the time spent on creating new posts.
Primary Features:
- Home page with featured jCarousellite Slider.
- Cufon font replacement.
- PSD files for the homepage and sub-pages are included and well-grouped and named.
- Eight different page templates included.
- Forty-five different admin options.
- Full-width portfolio page with PrettyPhoto.
- Full-width portfolio page which utilizes PrettyPhoto.
- Drop-down menus using SuperFish.
- The contact page has a fully-working AJAX contact form with validation.
- Compatible with all modern browsers.
- Choose your icons special feature.
- Multiple portfolio pages – special feature.
- Random testimonials widget.
- Blog page with default post thumbnails.
- Automatically resizing post thumbnails.
- Clear and well-commented coding.
- Custom write panels included.
- Extensive documentation files included.
Flex | $30.00 | Demo | Purchase
Flex is a premium portfolio and blog template, built with seven color schemes to choose from, plus an advanced (custom) admin panel that will help you customize nearly every element of the theme.
Primary Features:
- Easy setup – add your own logo and content in minutes.
- Unlimited color options with twelve pre-made skins.
- Huge custom admin panel.
- Images, blog articles, videos, and more can be included.
- Installation instructions with images included.
- jQuery VGrid plugin.
- jQuery media Lightbox.
- Social media hotlinks included.
- Build your own contact form included.
- Cufon font replacement.
- Optional shuffle link included.
- Full PSD and pre-sized PSD files included for skinning.
DesignFolio+ | $59.00 | Demo | Purchase
DesignFolio Plus is a beautiful and highly customizable theme great for displaying logos, websites, print work, and much more.
Primary Features:
- Unique jQuery slider included.
- Simple portfolio management.
- Custom headings with CSS @font-face.
- Flickr integration.
- Custom colors and backgrounds.
- Twitter integration.
- WordPress 2.7+ compatible.
Clean Studio | $30.00 | Demo | Purchase
This theme is full-featuerd, ideal for design studios, photographers, fashion companies, or even for a corporate website. Check out the other features below.
Primary Features:
- Custom page templates included.
- jQuery plugins integrated in the theme files.
- Custom Twitter plugin.
- All theme files included.
PerfectPixel | $30.00 | Demo | Purchase
This theme is ideal for business, company, blog, portfolio, or freelancer portfolio websites. The theme gives you a lot of flexibility over how your site looks, so it is ideal for anyone who wants control over the look and feel of their website.
Primary Features:
- The homepage includes a custom jQuery slider with ease of switching option through the control panel.
- Homepage sidebar includes custom widget panel which you can use only for the homepage.
- Highly customized pages, blog page, portfolio page, and services page, which can be customized to suit your needs.
- Portfolio page with PrettyPhoto Lightbox integrated for video options.
- Multi-level drop-down menus using Superfish.
- Ten-in-one color switcher option in the admin panel.
- PSD file that’s completely layered and named.
- Compatible with all modern browsers.
- Custom page selection for welcome content.
Gallery Pro | $59.00 | Demo | Purchase
Gallery Pro is the ideal theme for showcasing your work, with two color schemes and endless options built into the theme.
Primary Features:
- Two beautiful color schemes included.
- Resizable thumbnails.
- Automatic image resizing.
- LazyLoad enabled.
- Simple video embedder.
- Alternate blog post template.
- Dark or light versions available.
- iPhone gallery template.
- Image gallery Lightbox support.
Portfolius v.12 | $30.00 | Demo | Purchase
This theme is designed to help you showcase your work, but can also function as a business theme (it’s designed for CMS systems) with featured pages, a homepage sidebar, promotional places, and other features.
Primary Features:
- Unlimited number of featured pages.
- Customizable styles.
- Portfolio section.
- Promotional section.
- Text-based logo (optional).
- Ready-CSS styles for contact form.
- Social bookmarking features.
- Custom sidebars and widgets.
- Huge tabbed admin panel.
- Extensive documentation and support included.
Organic Portfolio | $69.00 | Demo | Purchase
Organic Portfolio is a clean, professional portfolio theme, ideal for showcasing artwork, designs, photography, and more in a clean and optimized template.
Primary Features:
- Theme options panel.
- Custom page templates.
- Random rotating backgrounds.
- Widget-ready sidebars.
- JavaScript featured content slider.
- Photoshop files included.
- Two color schemes included.
London Creative | $30.00 | Demo | Purchase
London Creative makes it extremely easy to create a portfolio and blog website, with a working contact form, awesome slider for your featured images, two message buttons, and user-friendly drop-down navigation with an infinite number of levels. Read on to learn more about this awesome theme.
Primary Features:
- Extensive theme options panel.
- Three color options.
- Sleek slider powered by jQuery.
- Infinite number of drop-down menus using jQuery.
- Fully working contact form with field validation.
- Pre-installed TimThumb PHP script for dynamic image resizing.
- Pre-installed jQuery plugin for viewing full-size images.
Photoblog | $69.00 | Demo | Purchase
Photoblog is a premium theme that has been designed to help you setup a professional-looking theme without any hassles. While it is a showcase/portfolio theme, it can also be used for a personal site.
Primary Features:
- Fourteen awesome color styles.
- Support for threaded comments.
- Support for WordPress 2.8 and 2.9+.
- Dynamic image resizing for thumbnails.
- Widget-ready sidebar and footer.
- Three custom page templates.
- Four specially developed widgets.
- Compatible with all modern browsers.
- Theme options admin panel.
- Beautiful jQuery slider on the homepage.
- Support for author pages.
- Drop-down menu for pages and categories.
- Easily integrate your tracking codes into the theme.
- Valid XHTML and CSS coding.
Photoblog | $49.00 | Demo | Purchase
Photoblog is a professional portfolio theme for photographers who want to showcase all their work in one place.
Primary Features:
- Threaded comments support.
- AJAX Lightbox integrated for viewing images.
- Featured content on the homepage and in the sidebar.
- Support for WordPress 2.8 and higher.
- Widget-ready sidebar.
- Unique widgets developed by the WP Zoom team.
- Dynamic image cropping for thumbnails.
- Integrated social bookmarking plugins.
- Compatible with all modern browsers.
- Theme options admin panel.
- Featured posts on the homepage.
- Custom image sizes for uploaded images.
- Support for Google Analytics and FeedBurner.
- Valid XHTML and CSS coding.
Twicet | $35.00 | Demo | Purchase
Twicet is a premium theme built to make showcasing your work easy. The theme includes five sleek styles within one feature-packed theme.
Primary Features:
- Valid XHTML and CSS coding.
- jQuery support with fading portfolio/item sliders, drop-down menus, and gallery pages with Lightbox.
- All PSD files used to create the theme are included.
- Highly flexible theme.
- Extensive documentation files included.
- Five option pages have been included.
- Five sleek styles have been included.
Gallery | $49.00 | Demo | Purchase
Gallery is a multi-purpose theme, ideal for photo blogs, portfolios, personal blogs, product review sites, and more.
Primary Features:
- Comes in two styles, with three color styles each.
- Threaded comments support.
- Support for WordPress 2.8 and higher.
- Widget-ready sidebar and footer.
- Custom Fields for images are optional.
- Dynamic image cropping for thumbnails.
- Three specially-developed widgets.
- Compatible with all modern browsers.
- Theme options admin panel.
- Featured posts on the homepage.
- Drop-down menu for pages and categories.
- Banner ads management system.
- Support for Google Analytics and FeedBurner.
- Valid XHTML and CSS coding.
Bluelight | $25.00 | Demo | Purchase
Bluelight is a professional portfolio and blog template designed to make publishing your theme extremely easy, without much hassle installing and configuring the theme.
Primary Features:
- Installation screencast included.
- Theme options page makes setup easy.
- Quickly change color schemes from the theme options panel.
- jQuery graphic slider included.
- Blog/portfolio mashup on the homepage.
- Featured project area.
- Twitter implementation through an included widget.
- Easy portfolio management.
- Blog section.
- Current page/category highlighting.
- Valid XHTML and CSS coding.
- Compatible with all modern browsers.
- Well-documented theme files.
WP-FolioTheme | $79.00 | Demo | Purchase
This is a professional WordPress theme designed to help you get your site up and running quickly, ideal for showcasing your work elegantly.
Primary Features:
- Two-column layout with widget-ready sidebar.
- Four different portfolio page options.
- Optional footer widgets.
- Theme settings page integrated.
- Featured content glider.
- Nine color options.
- Threaded comments.
- Gravatar integration.
- Banner ad integration.
- Built-in post thumbnails.
- Logo integration via theme settings page.
- Drop-down navigation menus.
- SEO optimized coding.
- Built-in author page and author profiles.
- Social networking integration.
- Multiple page templates.
- Compatible with WordPress 2.8 and higher.
Levitation | $35.00 | Demo | Purchase
Levitation is a premium WordPress theme that makes the ideal solution for creating a portfolio or business site. The theme includes five sleek color options/skins.
Primary Features:
- Multiple page templates included and styled.
- Valid XHTML and CSS coding.
- jQuery support for two different portfolio/item sliders, drop-down menus, gallery page with a Ligthbox, and more.
- Huge admin area that makes managing and editing your theme extremely easy, giving you the theme you always dreamed about.
- Font replacement for headlines using Cufon.
- Extensive documentation included.
- Compatible with WordPress 2.8 and higher.
- Two main columns.
- Compatible with all modern browsers.
- All PSD files included.
Professional | $49.00 | Demo | Purchase
The Professional Theme is a multi-purpose theme that has been designed to make it easy to create a very light and flexible website with a focus on portfolio and CMS website.
Primary Features:
- Threaded comments support.
- Support for WordPress 2.8 and higher.
- Widget-ready sidebar.
- Theme options admin panel.
- Featured works on homepage.
- Drop-down menu for pages and categories.
- Integrated social bookmarking icons.
- Support for Google Analytics and FeedBurner.
- Valid XHTML and CSS coding.
Display | $40.00 | Demo | Purchase
Display is a professional theme, ideal for both business and portfolio themes. A fantastic 3D image slideshow that can be customized has been built into the theme, along with a huge custom back-end panel.
Primary Features:
- Valid XHTML and CSS coding.
- jQuery support for two different portfolio/item sliders, supporting unlimited items, drop-down menus, a gallery page with a Lightbox, plus a working contact form.
- Huge admin area to customize the theme to your liking.
- All PSD files have been included, making it easy to customize the theme.
- Extensive documentation provided.
- Compatible with WordPress 2.7 and higher.
- Two main columns.
- Multiple page templates included.
Impulse | $49.00 | Demo | Purchase
Impulse is a professional WordPress theme designed to make the process of uploading and managing your content easy. The theme has been designed for showcase, gallery, photo blog, personal sites, and more.
Primary Features:
- Three color styles included.
- Threaded comments support.
- Support for WordPress 2.8+.
- Widget-ready sidebar and footer.
- Custom Fields for images are optional.
- Dynamic image cropping for thumbnails.
- Four different page templates.
- Three specially developed widgets.
- Compatible with all modern browsers.
- Custom templates for author pages.
- Featured posts on the homepage.
- Drop-down menus for pages and categories.
- Banner ads management system.
- Support for Google Analytics and FeedBurner.
- Valid XHMTL and CSS.
Atlantica | $30.00 | Demo | Purchase
Atlantica is a premium theme designed primary to serve as an online portfolio for your work and projects. The theme is compatible with the latest version of WordPress and contains a large number of features.
Primary Features:
- Custom admin panel for easy editing of the theme.
- Six uniquely styled theme included.
- All core page templates have been included.
- jQuery Lightbox, Thumbnail Gallery Slider, Homepage Slider, and Subpage Mini-Slider have been included/integrated.
- Gracefully degrading code for older browsers.
- All layout PSD files included.
- Favicon included.
- Very extensive documentation included.
YourFolio | $25.00 | Demo | Purchase
YourFolio is a premium theme that helps you create a personal online portfolio as well as a personal blog. There are five stylesheets included, making the theme the ideal solution for your site.
Primary Features:
- Rotating JavaScript featured area on the homepage.
- Two-column, table-less CSS layout.
- Sidebars are widget-ready.
- Valid CSS and XHTML.
- Compatible with all modern browsers.
- Separate portfolio section.
- Separate blogging area.
- Integrated Flickr showcase.
- Sidebar “about me” widget.
- Five built-in color schemes.
- Plus many other features.
eGallery | $39.00 | Demo | Purchase
eGallery is a professional theme designed solely to make publishing new content to your site extremely easy. The theme showcases your work, whether photos or your projects you have worked on.
Primary Features:
- Compatible with all modern browsers.
- Custom thumbnail images.
- WordPress 2.9+ compatible.
- PSD files included.
- Featured articles support.
- Valid XHTML and CSS coding.
- Gravatar support.
- Widget-ready sidebars.
- Smooth, table-less design.
- Theme options page.
Ambigious | $30.00 | Demo | Purchase
Ambiguous is a theme designed to showcase your work online in an efficient manner. Six color schemes have been built into the theme package, making it easy to give your site a unique look.
Primary Features:
- Rotating JavaScript featured area on the homepage.
- Two-column table-less CSS layout.
- Sidebars are widget-ready.
- Gravatar support.
- Valid XHTML and CSS.
- Compatible with all modern browsers.
- Separate portfolio section.
- Separate blogging section.
- Sidebar “about me” widget.
- Custom Twitter area in the sidebar.
- Six built-in color schemes.
- Plus many other features.
SophisticatedFolio | $70.00 | Demo | Purchase
SophisticatedFolio makes it easy for graphic and web designers to showcase their portfolio and blog online, and can be used for other purposes when you put your imagination to work.
Primary Features:
- Tell the world about yourself or company in the intro text and upload an image to show off your work in a stylish manner.
- A separate custom category for showing off your portfolio.
- Custom WooThemes widgets included within the theme package.
- Ten stylish alternate color schemes included.
- Back-end theme options panel for easy editing and management of your website.
- Cross-browser compatible coding.
- Automatically resized thumbnails of images you upload.
- Localized for translations.
- Built upon a powerful theme framework.
- Custom page templates included.
Lumin | $39.00 | Demo | Purchase
Lumin is a sleek theme that is customizable, ideal for portfolio themes, as it contains a page-based layout while still maintaining separate post-driven blog and gallery sections.
Primary Features:
- Compatible with all modern browsers.
- Optional blog-style structure.
- Threaded comments support.
- Smooth, table-less design.
- Gravatar support.
- Valid XHTML and CSS.
- Advertisement suport.
- Theme options page.
- WordPress 2.9+ compatible.
- Custom thumbnail images.
- Three color schemes included.
- PSD files included.
Pandora | $30.00 | Demo | Purchase
Pandora is a premium theme that includes ten professional color schemes included within the single package. The theme is ideal for portfolio sites, as it includes all the features you need.
Primary Features:
- Valid XHTML and CSS coding.
- jQuery support on the main page, using Lightbox features, and more.
- Code optimized for search engines.
- Six option pages included.
- Fully customizable features and elements.
- Theme works properly after activation.
- All PSD files included.
- Slide and portfolio PSD files included.
- Documentation included.
Geometric | $70.00 | Demo | Purchase
Geometric is a structured theme that showcases your work and is ideal for design portfolios. The theme is extremely easy to use and makes a great theme for a variety of purposes.
Primary Features:
- Geometric is a hybrid of a blog and portfolio and enables you to run both of these as a single website.
- A custom home page, which is completely widget-ready and allows you to move different widgets around.
- A completely widget-ready sidebar, along with twelve custom theme-specific widgets.
- Ability to interchange between a left and right sidebar.
- Styling for both portfolio and blog items that are carried forth throughout the site – category, date-based, and tag archives, along with search results.
- The ability to publish all of your social profiles throughout the site, allowing you to connect with more of your users.
- Back-end theme options panel integrated within the theme.
- Cross-browser compatibile coding.
- Automatically resized thumbnails of your uploaded images.
- WooThemes framework integrated into the theme.
- Custom page templates included, which makes using the theme easy.
- Localized for translation into your own language.
Portfolious | $35.00 | Demo | Purchase
Portfolious is a professional CMS template for WordPress, with a large number of features that you’ll find a new setting each time you login to your dashboard.
Primary Features:
- Custom layouts for categories and pages.
- Widget-ready sidebar with Twitter and Flickr widgets.
- Tabbed theme options page.
- Animated and tabbed theme options with color pickers, sliding content, conditional options, and a dynamic background switcher.
- Works in all major browsers.
- Dynamic sidebar navigation.
- Option to choose drop-down menus.
- Option to enable/disable portfolio area.
- Sliding homepage blog posts and Twitter widget.
- Option to choose whether or not to use the slider for homepage blog posts.
- Option to choose the animated easings.
- WordPress 2.8+ compatible.
- Seven PSD files included for all blog page layouts.
- Ultra smart image resizing.
- Fully functioning contact form, which can be set from the theme options page.
- Super-light, smart JavaScript structure.
- Google Analytics script option integrated.
Fresh Folio | $70.00 | Demo | Purchase
Fresh Folio makes creating a professional portfolio extremely easy, with a large number of features which make publishing all your work to your site extremely easy.
Primary Features:
- Portfolio oriented.
- The template automatically separates your blog and portfolio content, making this a great theme for developers, designers, artists, and photographers.
- Unique page templates for your portfolio, blog, blog archives, tags, and search results.
- Seven unique color schemes to choose from.
- Built-in Flickr and Twitter widgets to show your latest thoughts and images.
- Localized for translations.
- Back-end theme options panel.
- Cross-browser compatible.
- Automatically resized thumbnails.
- WooThemes framework built into the theme.
- Custom page templates included.
Note: All pricing and information is valid as of March 25, 2010.
Disclaimer: Pricing reflects the single-user licenses for many themes. Please consider purchasing the developer packages if you are looking to use the themes to build multiple sites or use the theme for your projects. Additional discounts may be applied; for example, WooThemes offers a permanent 3-for-1 bonus with each theme purchased. All sales are final after you purchase the theme, and we only provide this resource – we don’t provide any support unless it’s an error on our end.
