Freelancing with WordPress: Setting Up Your Portfolio Using WordPress

When I started freelancing almost two years ago I knew absolutely nothing about WordPress. When the time came to put my design work online, I had no clue where it should go. For a while I organized files in an Elance portfolio, but that was a complicated and ugly mess, especially back then. After that I moved on to CarbonMade.com. It has a great design and slick interface, but it’s limited and it’s not free (as in beer or speech). CarbonMade always felt “good enough” but was never what I really wanted.

Thank God I learned a little more about WordPress!

While WordPress’ project management capabilities are still developing and its contact management is adequate, creating and managing a portfolio is where WordPress really shines! There are almost too many portfolio themes to count and new ones are being developed all the time. Here are a few of the best portfolio themes for WordPress.

Freelancing, Building your portfolio

Paid Portfolio Themes

proudfolio

Proudfolio | Demo

Photo Graphic | Demo

Black Canvas | Demo

Maven Portfolio | Demo

Free Portfolio Themes

Snapshot | Demo

Sharpfolio | Demo

portfoliowordpresstheme Portfolio WordPress Theme | Demo

Linquist | Demo

JD Bentley July 17th, 2009 Articles

4 Responses to “Freelancing with WordPress: Setting Up Your Portfolio Using WordPress”

tutorialslounge
Posted on July 17th, 2009 at 8:01 AM

really nice stuff for my portfolio website thanks.

Mijk
Posted on July 17th, 2009 at 1:29 PM

Thank you for cool info, I haven’t heard of beautiful and clean Linquist theme…
But I still think, that one of the best free portfolio theme of all times is missing in your list. I am talking about Thad Allender and his awesome portfolio theme - Work-a-holic @ http://graphpaperpress.com/2009/06/18/work-a-holic/ …and I can’t also forget gorgeous free Portfolio theme by http://www.wpesp.com - demo @ http://demo.wpesp.com/portfolio/ for those, who addores GPL. Thanks once again - I love your articles.