25 Free Premium WordPress Themes For Portfolio Websites

WordPress is one of the most popular CMS platform around the world, being used by millions of users. WordPress’s CMS capabilities make it an ideal platform for designers who want to display their portfolio, photo gallery themes with dynamic content and add blog as well. There are an increasing number of themes that have been developed specifically for this purpose, some free and some premium.

Today I’d like to share with you hand-picked 25 Free premium high quality portfolio wordpress themes released in 2011 all are wordpress 3.0 Compatible.

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Free WordPress Themes For Portfolio Websites

Boldy / Free

Boldy is awesome premium like free portfolio WordPress Theme with cool sliding features and multi colors variations you can check the full list of features below.

Features

• Nivo Slider
• WordPress 3.0 Menu Management Support
• Easy to setup, Theme Options Page
• Latest Tweets Built-in Widget
• Built-in Pagination
• JQuery PrettyPhoto Lightbox
• Ajax based contact form
• Dropdown Menu

demo / download

Wise Business / Free



Corporate Style Wise Business premium like free business and portfolio WordPress Theme with cool sliding features and multi colors variations you can check the full list of features below.

Features

• WordPress 3.0 Menu Management Support
• Easy to setup, Theme Options Page
• 3 color schemes
• Cufon Font Replacement Support
• Widget ready
• Latest Tweets support
• Custom Home, Portfolio,Testimonials page templates
• JQuery Lightbox, Superfish Dropdown Menus
• Ajax based contact form with email validation

demo / download

Webfolio / Free



Webfolio WordPress Theme free portfolio wordpress theme with cool sliding features and multi colors variations you can check the full list of features below.

Features

• 3 color schemes
• Cufon Font Replacement Support
• Widget ready, Theme Options Page
• Ads support with enable/disable option
• Flickr Photostream with enable/disable option
• JQuery Lightbox, Superfish Dropdown Menus, Slider
• Ajax based contact form
• Live form email validation

demo / download

Work-a-Holic / Free



An awesome free minimalistic portfolio theme with two and three column layout, that focuses mainly on showcasing portfolios for designers, photographers and illustrators.

demo / download

Portfolio Press / Free



HTML5 based awesome free portfolio wordpress theme Portfolio Press. It uses custom post types for portfolio pages, takes advantage of the new menu navigation, and includes a ton of neat features.

demo / download

Brave Zeenat / Free



A clean Portfolio Theme, ideal for photographers, artists and designers to showcase their portfolios. Some features include:

Features

• Widget Ready
• Twitter Ready
• Jquery Slider
• Homepage configurable to show 5 categories with three latest posts from each category
• 3 Category Templates: Full Posts, Excerpts, Thumbnails Only

demo / download

F8 Lite / Free



f8 lite is a free theme for WordPress that can transform your Web site or blog into a fully functioning photography or multimedia portfolio Web site. SEO optimized, iPhone compatible, grid-based css, built-in Galleria support, slideshow-enabled, built-in multimedia support, auto or manual thumbnail control, Gravatars, plus much, much more.

demo / download

Structure / Free



The Structure Theme is a set of premium WordPress themes with a modern minimalist design offered by Organic Themes. You can buy the premium version or download the free unsupported one.

demo / download

Satoshi / Free



Satoshi is a clean and minimal portfolio WordPress theme that’s ideal for showcasing project work.

It comes with a range of professional page templates including a custom front page, a stylish blog design, a portfolio page, and a fully functional contact form.

It’s also packed with other great features such as drop-down menus, Google Analytics integration, and the ability to easily upload your own logo. And best of all – it’s FREE.

demo / download

Vostok / Free



Vostok is for those who don’t want attention to be distracted from content. Colors and typography have been carefully chosen to achieve maximum legibility with minimum eye fatigue. Also, code has been written with extreme care for web standards and accessibility.

demo / download

Simplefolio / Free



SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items from the blog page. It also includes a front page slider.

demo / download

Fotofolio / Free



Fotofolio is a free wordpress template designed for easy creation online portfolio for Visual Workers; Photography, Graphic Design, Manga, Architect, etc. Fotofolio is very simple and easy to use.

demo / download

Premium WordPress Themes For Portfolio Websites

Photoland / $69



Photoland is a unique Premium WordPress Theme developed especially for photoblogs, showcases, portfolios, etc. The minimalist style will complement your photos and bring them under the best spotlight possible.

Features

• Theme Options Panel
• Threaded Comments Support
• Custom Widgets & Features
• SEO Options Section
• Custom Page Templates
• Developed for WP 3.0, 3.1+
• Custom Logo Input
• Automatic Image Resizing
• Internationalized & Localized
• Custom Background Support
• Custom Font Replacement
• Gallery Slider
• Blog Template
• Threaded Comments
• Custom Widgets

demo / buy this theme

Graphix / $69



Graphix is a beautiful portfolio/personal WordPress theme with lots of eye-candy and 5 modern and fresh color styles to choose from.

Features

• WPZOOM Options Panel
• Custom Menus Management
• Threaded Comments Support
• Custom Widgets & Features
• SEO Options Section
• Custom Page Templates
• Developed for WP 3.0, 3.1+
• Custom Logo Input
• Automatic Image Resizing
• Internationalized & Localized
• Banner Management Section
• Custom Background Support
• Custom Post Options
• Multiple Color Schemes
• Featured Content Block
• Social Profile Links
• Custom Widgets

demo / buy this theme

Freshfolio / $49



An original, awesome and efficient way for showcasing photography, design, illustration portfolios’ or even paintings and art.

Features

• Feedburner Ready
• Auto Image Resizing
• Cross Browser Compatible
• Jquery Image / Video Lightbox
• Font-face custom font
• Image Thumbnail Custom Field
• Powerful Admin Options

demo / buy this theme

Envision / $49



An awesome premium portfolio wordpress theme. It has shortcodes, 5 different sliders and a bunch of awesome features.

Features

• Feedburner Ready
• Auto Image Resizing
• Cross Browser Compatible
• Jquery Image / Video Lightbox
• Font-face custom font
• Image Thumbnail Custom Field
• Powerful Admin Options

demo / buy this theme

Photocraft / $65



Create your online portfolio by showcasing your images and services in WordPress. This theme is perfect for Photographers to showcase their skills and their photographs.

Standard Features

• Dynamic Site color, font, font-family, font-size & background
• One Click – Auto Install
• Excellent Support
• Customizable Header region
• Theme Guide & Tutorials
• PSD File Included
• Drop Down & Breadcrumb Navigation
• Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
• Built-in Ad Monetization
• Search Engine Optimized
• Widget Ready with custom widgets
• Valid, Cross browser Compatible

demo / buy this theme

Chameleon $39 membership



Chameleons are known for their ability to change the color of their skin. The patterns and color combinations you find in chameleons are almost endless, and our new theme is no different! Chameleon was created to be a simple and professional theme with loads of customization options that do not require web development experience to utilize.

Features:

• Opera compatible
• Netscape compatible
• Safari compatible
• WordPress 3.0 compatible
• Unlimited Color Schemes
• Gallery Section
• Threaded Comments
• Optional Blog-style Structure
• Gravatar ready
• Firefox compatible
• IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
• Advertisement Ready
• Widget ready sidebars
• Theme Options Page
• Custom thumbnail images
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS
• Smooth tabless design

demo / buy this theme

Webly $39 membership



Webly is a professional theme with just enough charm and whimsy to give your website that fun and unique edge. With powerful tools, such as the multimedia slider and content bar on the homepage, Webly provides you with creative ways to engage your visitors. If you are looking for creative theme that will make your business stand out from the crowd, then look no further!

Features

• Opera compatible
• Netscape compatible
• Safari compatible
• WordPress 3.0 compatible
• Unlimited Color Schemes
• Gallery Section
• Threaded Comments
• Optional Blog-style Structure
• Gravatar ready
• Firefox compatible
• IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
• Advertisement Ready
• Widget ready sidebars
• Theme Options Page
• Custom thumbnail images
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS
• Smooth tabless design

demo / buy this theme

Memoir / $39 membership



It has been almost a year since we last released a standard blog theme, and considering that personal blogging still represents the core WordPress user base, I thought it was time that we returned to our roots and produced a simple blog design. Memoir is beautifully simple, but still comes packed with character and style.

Features

• Opera compatible
• Netscape compatible
• Safari compatible
• WordPress 3.0 compatible
• Unlimited Color Schemes
• Gallery Section
• Threaded Comments
• Optional Blog-style Structure
• Gravatar ready
• Firefox compatible
• IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
• Advertisement Ready
• Widget ready sidebars
• Theme Options Page
• Custom thumbnail images
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS
• Smooth tabless design

demo / buy this theme

Glider / $39 membership



If you are looking to re-invent your personal website, then Glider just might be the theme for you. Featuring a contemporary style and a unique javascript layout, this theme is sure to leave your visitors impressed. Along with looking cool, Glider is also versatile, and includes a fully featured blog and portfolio section in addition to the basic page-based homepage.

Features

• Opera compatible
• Netscape compatible
• Safari compatible
• WordPress 3.0 compatible
• Unlimited Color Schemes
• Gallery Section
• Threaded Comments
• Optional Blog-style Structure
• Gravatar ready
• Firefox compatible
• IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
• Advertisement Ready
• Widget ready sidebars
• Theme Options Page
• Custom thumbnail images
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS
• Smooth tabless design

demo / buy this theme

The Cotton / $35



The Cotton is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme designed in a minimalistic style. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Cotton theme is highly flexible, so customizing the theme or simply changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites.

Features

• Unlimited skins
• 40 pattern backgrounds included
• Powerful Admin
• 3 Featured Unlimited jQuery image sliders
• Portfolio Showcase Template
• Portfolio Gallery template
• Separate portfolio custom types
• WordPress 3.0 Custom Menu Support
• jQuery Tabs
• AJAX contact form
• Widgetized Footer – can be easily disabled
• Comments with reply functionality (multiple levels depth)
• Multi level drop-down menu
• Lost of styled elements included
• Pricing table design
• Page Layouts
• 2 bonus widgets included – Portfolio Posts Loader and Latest Posts Loader
• Detailed documentation included
• PSD Files included
• Works and looks similar in all major browsers: Internet Exlorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome

demo / buy this theme

Echo / $35



Echo is a clean and simple, but a very powerful and a highly customizable portfolio theme, aimed at anyone who needs a showcase. If you’re looking for a gorgeous portfolio theme, then you’ve just found it.

Echo comes with an excellent customer support and a bulletproof documentation file that discusses every aspect of the theme in details, ensuring you don’t face any difficulties in setting up the theme and maintaining it.

Features

• Carefully handcrafted
• Semantic, clean and valid HTML5
• Coded with progessive enhancement and SEO in mind
• Strong focus on user-experience, usability, and beautiful typography
• WordPress 3.0 ready (featured images, custom post types, custom menus)
• Extensive, unbranded theme options
• Excellent customer support
• Extensive documentation
• Localisation support
• 4 custom widgets
• 7 Widget areas
• 8 Custom template pages
• Column shortcodes
• 1, 2, 3, 4 column portfolios (supports video)
• jQuery ajax contact form
• Unlimited color schemes
• jQuery prettyPhoto lightbox
• Awesome jQuery slider
• Custom fonts
• Readable and well-documented code
• Threaded comments
• Drop-down menus
• Custom default gravatar support
• layered PSDs for customisation
• Custom 404 page
• 960gs framework
• Print-ready stylesheet
• TimThumb php script for image resizing

demo / buy this theme

Bonsai / $35



Bonsai is a clean minimalistic WordPress theme that doesn’t suffer from the feature bloat of other themes. The design is simple yet attractive and flexible. Perfect for a businesses, individuals, portfolios or blogs.

Features

• WP 3.1 compatible
• Clean minimalalist design
• Custom login screen
• Contact form messages displayed in admin area
• Valid & cross browser compatible HTML5
• PrettyPhoto Lightbox
• Working PHP contact form with spam protection.
• Styling Shortcodes including columns, buttons and YouTube and Vimeo video thumbnail links
• Visual Editor shortcode buttons
• Self hosted video support (Video JS)
• WP3 .0 custom nav menus
• Custom widgets
• Custom Post Types
• Detailed Documentation
• Translation ready (using .po and .mo files)
• Unlimited sidebars
• Built in theme and template options
• Extensive colour options

demo / buy this theme

Fringe Tech / $35



Fringe Tech is an awsome clean WordPress theme perfect for a businesses, individuals, portfolios or blogs.

Features

• WordPress 3.0 Menu Manager
• Custom Post and Page Options
• Custom Widgets & Sidebars
• Blog and Post and Item Detail Template
• Full Width Page Template
• Nested comments
• Great Backend and 11 Admin Option Pages
• Multi-level drop-down menu support
• Important ! Image Uploader for Thumbnails and Full Size Pictures.
• Ajax Working Contact Form + Validation
• jQuery Portfolio with Video content
• Valid XHTM Strict1.0 and CSS 2 .1, tableless design
• Cross Browser Compatible
• SEO Optimized
• jQuery Image Slider (Can be controled via admin panel)
• Gravatar Support
• Using Custom Files for Thumbnails with WordPress Uploader!
• Twitter Ready
• So Many Widgets Area for all of pages
• Cufon Text Replacement (also can be upload new style via admin panel)
• jQuery News & Blog Ticker
• Very many theme settings
• Well commented code for all pages
• Help documentation file included for easy modification

demo / buy this theme

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