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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Posted July 17, 2009
tutorialslounge said:
really nice stuff for my portfolio website thanks.
on July 17, 2009 at 8:01 am
Mijk said:
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
on July 17, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Daniel | ReTweet Graphics said:
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.
on August 17, 2009 at 11:52 am
Matt said:
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
on August 31, 2009 at 3:22 am
joyoge bookmark said:
nice themes, thanks for the post..
on September 11, 2009 at 4:32 pm
naveed ahmad said:
yeah wordpress is really nice when it comes to portfolio sites
i am using one too 
on October 16, 2009 at 6:25 pm
weddings fashion said:
thanks for that edu
on February 17, 2010 at 4:28 am