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.
Paid Portfolio Themes
Free Portfolio Themes
Portfolio WordPress Theme | Demo
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really nice stuff for my portfolio website thanks.
Thank you for cool info, I haven’t heard of beautiful and clean Linquist theme…
– demo @ http://demo.wpesp.com/portfolio/ for those, who addores GPL. Thanks once again – I love your articles.
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
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Thanks for sharing these themes, although I’ve seen most of them before I quite like the ‘Linquist’ & ‘Photo Graphic’ themes. I haven’t developed an online portfolio as a front yet because I like to talk with clients first and not have them put off just because a certain website is not their preferred style. Perhaps I’m being a little naive in the area but it seems that every next developer on WordPress has a portfolio as their front page right now and you have to offer perhaps a more personalized service to stand out right now.
WordPress is great for portfolios. It took me about 3 months to warm up to the idea, but now that I did I love it. Very simple and helpful as well. I really love custom keys. They come in hand. Check out the wordpress template codex for help.
Cheers
Matt
nice themes, thanks for the post..
yeah wordpress is really nice when it comes to portfolio sites
i am using one too 
thanks for that edu