Top WordPress Themes for Building Portfolios

Creating a stunning, award-winning portfolio can indeed be accomplished without much trouble. But only if you have the right tools for the job. If you try building one from scratch it can be a tough haul, even if you’re a whiz at coding.

Using a WordPress theme to help you is a far easier approach. But not all themes are equal in terms of features, speed, and performance.

You can also select a theme that serves admirably as an aid to building a website. Yet, it may have limitations or shortcomings when it’s time to put a portfolio together.

Finding a WP theme that will serve your portfolio-building efforts well is not all that hard. Finding the best themes for the job can be more difficult. But we’ve already done that task for you with these 8best of the bunch.

1. Porto – Ultimate WordPress + eCommerce Theme

Porto is a premium, Bootstrap 4-based, super-fast WordPress theme that offers a better solution to your portfolio building needs. Its authors work hard to keep up with the latest coding standards and design trends; and their hard work pays off.

This multipurpose theme is compatible with and optimizes all major plugins, including Revolution Slider and Visual Composer which come with the package. It’s 100% mobile ready and retina ready and no coding is required on your part.

One of the features Porto’s users really like is its host of demos and design options. These include powerful eCommerce demos and portfolio-building options that include a variety of layouts, view options, and slider and skin options.

Several breadcrumb options are also available to make it easier for users to navigate within large portfolios and galleries, and back and forth from portfolio pages to other pages.

There’s also a variety of header and footer options, WooCommerce options, post and page options and BuddyPress and Social Share options.

You naturally expect a high-quality theme like Porto to feature high-class support, and that’s precisely the level of support you’ll receive.

2. BeTheme

BeTheme is not just the biggest WordPress theme ever, it’s also the best all-purpose website building tool with respect to the number of different website types and niches it covers – and that includes creative websites and portfolios.

For starters, BeTheme features a selection of 350+ pre-built websites and counting. It also has a large and varied array of website-building core features; each one designed to enable you to do more with less effort.

It takes but a single click to install any of these professionally designed, customizable pre-built websites. Once that’s been done, Be’s popular Muffin Builder and Admin panel take over, accompanied by a range of options, shortcodes, design elements, and special effects.

It’s quite possible to build a reasonably complex website in as little as 4 hours, and you can design and build an awesome portfolio in less time than that.

3. Kalium

Your business depends not only on the quality of your portfolio’s content, but on the portfolios overall design and appearance as well. Kalium makes it an easy task for you to showcase your work in the best possible way.

Select any of Kalium’s demos with 1 click and you’ll be off to a good start. The best-in-its-class WPBakery drag and drop page builder will help you build pages in minutes as you choose among 15+ header styles, a variety of navigation options, and the 100+ shortcodes.

Kalium features more than 30 handcrafted portfolio layouts in several categories that you can select from, or you can easily create your own should you so choose. There’s a variety of blog and shop layouts to work with as well.

4. Uncode

Uncode is a multiuse theme tailored for creative users, and especially so for portfolios. It has every feature and functionality you can ever expect to need to showcase your work in a way that’s bound to generate interest, enthusiasm, and more business.

Uncode offers 16 different portfolio styles along with an advanced thumbnail and grid system, a nice selection of blog layouts, and the new Slides Scroll and Gallery Manager features. Uncode is fully integrated with WooCommerce.

5. Studio 8

Studio 8 is a flexible, awesomely designed WordPress theme that’s super-fast, responsive, features clean code, and its authors guarantee great support. Agencies, web designers, photographers and other creative professionals will like how with the help Studio 8’s advanced theme options, it’s so easy to create an online shop and showcase your projects to impress potential clients.

6. TheGem – Creative Multi-Purpose High-Performance WordPress Theme

TheGem gives you a complete WordPress toolbox with which to address your website-building needs. Including in this toolbox is everything you need to create a portfolio to showcase your work or products in the best possible way.

The Gem’s portfolio-building options are many and include different overall layouts and styles, masonry and metro style grids, sidebar options, and the ability to mix portfolios with other website content.

7. Pofo – Creative Portfolio and Blog WordPress Theme

This modern, premium WordPress theme is ideally suited for artists, photographers, and other creative individuals, teams, and agencies. Pofo is also an excellent choice for any size business wishing to showcase its wares.

The package comes with 150+ pre-built design elements, 200+ demo pages, and more than 25 home page layouts.

8. Cesis – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

With its powerful and intuitive frontend building and editing capability, Cesis can justifiably claim to be the smartest WordPress theme on the market. Its options panel allows you to modify any section or element in your website separately, there’s a host of demos and pre-made templates to work with, and no coding is required.

Cesis is a great choice whether you’re an advanced web designer or a beginner.

Conclusion

You would definitely need a website-building WordPress theme that has the necessary tools. But, unfortunately, it can’t do all the work itself. Some, if not most of those listed here can come pretty close to doing so. But they still need your ideas and guidance to get the job done.

Is your plan to create a single portfolio to showcase your own work? Maybe you are planning to create multiple portfolios for a range of clients? Either way, there’s something here for you.

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