Your portfolio website should be the best possible representation of your work, how you present yourself and your work to potential clients, existing customers, and strangers alike. Choosing the right WordPress portfolio theme is incredibly important, but it can be difficult to find the right theme and know you’re making the right choice.
There are good and bad WordPress portfolio themes, so it’s important to pay attention to code quality, long-term support and updates, ease-of-use and customization, as well as the obvious requirements such as excellent design, responsiveness on tablet and mobile devices, and the quality of work on your portfolio website.
Fortunately, we’ve done the hard work for you, and rounded up 30+ of the best WordPress portfolio themes for 2023 and beyond.
We’ve been making WordPress themes for 10 years, and know precisely what to look for, so you can read on with the certainty that we’ve made the right shortlist choices, and you just need to choose the option which suits your portfolio site, brand, and style of work.
Enjoy this list, and we hope you’ll find the perfect WordPress portfolio theme for your portfolio site.
1. Inspiro PRO
Inspiro PRO is our newest WordPress portfolio theme that helps you build a custom WordPress site suited to your needs.
It comes with a built-in portfolio feature to help you showcase your work, as well as multiple demos and Elementor page templates that let you use a drag-and-drop page builder to customize your homepage design as you want, including options to display testimonials or team members.
For other design tweaks, you can use the included live visual customizer. And if you want to add eCommerce functionality, you can take advantage of the built-in WooCommerce support.
2. Inspiro Premium
Inspiro is our top WordPress portfolio theme pick, and for good reason: it features a beautiful, modern, and responsive design, with full emphasis on your work.
This focus on your work is what makes Inspiro so powerful: you can harness big, and bold imagery and videos – including YouTube embeds and self-hosted videos – to show off to potential clients, employers, and friends.
You can easily get the look you want with Inspiro with multiple pre-built homepage layouts to choose from, page builder integration for drag-and-drop layout building, and professional attention to design detail throughout. You can even sell your work directly from the site, with WooCommerce integration out of the box to help you create an eCommerce store.
Finally, everything is SEO optimized so that you can start ranking your portfolio items in Google from day one.
3. Inspiro Lite
Inspiro Lite is a free WordPress theme that makes your site look more professional and modern.
You can download and install the theme for free on your WordPress site. Inspiro Lite is designed with photographers and videographers in mind. It offers robust features that let you display video and image-based content better on your web pages. You can add a full-screen video background to your homepage and display your photography or video portfolio perfectly, without having to add a single line of code.
In addition to this, Inspiro lite integrates seamlessly with the Elementor page builder and you can use the WPZOOM Addons for Elementor plugin to further extend the functionality of your site.
The WPZOOM Addons for Elementor plugin is a free-to-use WordPress plugin that gives you access to a collection of custom-designed Elementor templates and widgets. This way, you can further customize the look and feel of your website without having to write a single line of code.
4. UniBlock PRO
UniBlock is a next-generation Full Site Editing WordPress theme. Packed with custom block patterns and templates that you can load with one click, the theme is the perfect fit for businesses and freelance professionals. Lightweight and easy to customize, UniBlock PRO will help you promote your services online and transform website visitors into customers.
Key Features:
- Video popup block with Vimeo & YouTube support
- Includes 19 custom block patterns
5. Reel
Reel was designed to create your own professional video website quickly and easily, without any coding knowledge. Video lightbox, video background, live customizer, and your choice of 800+ Google Fonts are just some of the theme’s unique features!
The theme is responsive and retina ready right out of the box, which means your videos will look great on any device.
It’s also built to integrate with some plugins to make your portfolio site even better. For example, you can use the Beaver Builder page builder to import pre-made Reel page templates to your site, and the WPForms integration helps you create a contact form.
Finally, you’ll get three different portfolio page templates to control how your videos look and a beautiful blogging layout.
6. Angle
Angle is a minimal WordPress portfolio theme for creatives, with a retina ready responsive design, clean typography, and the space to show off your work. Clients, prospective employees and future clients will love how easy it is to see your work, portfolio, and values.
It’s easy to set up Angle, and it’s also simple to keep your site updated with your very latest work. The widgetized homepage makes it easy to get the look you want, and a dedicated portfolio module lets you, or anyone on your team, keep your portfolio site up to date.
Beyond that, you can create a contact form via the built-in WP Forms plugin integration and the built-in social media integration makes it easy for visitors to connect with you.
All in all, this is an excellent, minimal WordPress portfolio theme.
7. Eclipse
Use Eclipse to enhance your work through a simple, yet very functional website design. It’s a perfect fit for photographers and bloggers who want to make a great impact with a minimalist look.
If you’re a photographer or designer, the included Gallery template and portfolio posts will come in handy, as they allow you to keep your work separate from blog posts. This way, you can run a separate blog on your site – and also have a beautiful gallery page to display your work. As Eclipse is WooCommerce ready, you can even sell your work quickly and easily via your own eCommerce store.
8. Hestia Pro
Hestia is a one-page theme perfect for any type of business. It features a modern material design and integration with many popular page builders.
9. Tempo
Tempo is a minimal WordPress portfolio theme that puts the focus on where it belongs – your photos and content.
You can display your work in either a grid or a masonry layout, as well as a light or dark color scheme.
It’s retina ready, which is important for those photos, and it also lets you implement eCommerce functionality via a dedicated WooCommerce integration.
10. Poe
Poe is a clean, flexible, and fast block theme built with portfolios and blogs in mind. Its default look is a stylish white-on-black color scheme with yellow accents and clean sans-serif typography, but Poe is built from the ground up for flexibility. It includes custom theme styles and different block patterns that you can use to quickly create unique page layouts.
Key Features:
- Packed with 8 prebuilt color schemes
- Includes over 30 block patterns
- Includes 10 different theme styles
11. Corporate
Corporate is a professional-looking, responsive, multi-purpose WordPress portfolio theme built for businesses, photographers, web apps, or general company sites to promote their services for a portfolio website.
12. Presence
Presence is an elegant yet powerful WordPress portfolio theme. It includes everything you need to easily create a portfolio website for your business, blog, or online shop.
Presence is a multi purpose theme however due to its flexibility and choice of layout options it’s a great choice for portfolio style. Use the drag and drop page builder to get the look you want and import designs from our pre-built landing pages and page templates. A WooCommerce integration is also included to get your site selling!
Plus, the theme options area and integrated Google Fonts support make it super easy to make your own.
13. Monet
Monet is a WordPress portfolio theme specifically designed for photographers, which strikes a balance between getting the look you want, and portfolio website customizability. If you’ve got a body of photographic work to show off, this could be the theme for you.
14. Oshine
This multifunctional theme is stylish and creative, with a great design, and powerful functionality. Its multiple layout options make it a great choice for photographers. You get a page-builder included, which may not lead to the best usability in the long run (this makes it difficult if you change themes!), but at least you’ll find setup now easy enough and you can include functionality like parallax scrolling.
It also includes 50 custom shortcodes to give you even more control.
15. Grand Portfolio
This image-focused portfolio website theme includes gallery and portfolio modules, which allow creatives such as fashion designers, photographers, architects, and musicians to display work beautifully.
16. Adios
This is a modern and fresh, design-driven portfolio theme. The minimal look, with strong typography, is perfect for those who like less fuss.
17. Werkstatt
Werkstatt has a new layout with a minimal, modern design. This WordPress portfolio theme is perfect for agencies, freelancers, illustrators, photographers, and other creative web design professionals. You can even choose from a range of pre-built portfolio website styles, which make your life that little bit easier when deciding your layouts.
18. PILE
For those who like to be unique and do things a little differently, PILE is perfect. From agencies to art directors, illustrators to photographers, this theme will let you stand out from the crowd.
19. VideoBox
As the name suggests, VideoBox makes a great portfolio theme for anyone working with videos. It lets you showcase videos from a range of popular video sites, including YouTube, Vimeo, and many more.
It’s responsive and retina ready right out of the box, and your videos and images will seamlessly scale to match each visitor’s device.
20. Pitch
Amongst a list of some very modern portfolio website themes, Pitch can feel a little ‘safe’. But it is powerful, reliable and a great overall theme, which was made with creative agencies in mind.
Pitch includes a range of helpful case study templates, a great way to introduce your clients to your business and let them know why you are best at what you do.
21. Venture
Venture is a flexible and clean business and WordPress portfolio theme. If you want to show off your professionalism to clients and employers, this is perfect for you.
The built-in portfolio website module is a great way to display your work. Each portfolio website item entry features a simple and elegant design in which you can insert anything you want: images, video, text, slideshows and much more.
22. Neve
Neve is a multipurpose free WordPress theme that’s great for portfolios. It comes with a clean, flexible design that can be used for businesses and creative purposes. With Neve, you can promote your brand, showcase your projects in a beautiful portfolio, and sell products on your site.
The theme has a friendly one-page layout and is fully compatible with the most popular page builder plugins: Elementor, Visual Composer, Brizy, Divi, and Beaver Builder. Moreover, Neve comes with many different demos and Gutenberg (aka WordPress block editor) compatibility.
If you’re looking for a fast, responsive WordPress theme, Neve is fully optimized for AMP aka your site will look amazing on any device and will load every page instantly on both mobile and desktop. You can also add eye-catching parallax effects to make your design more interesting.
23. Assemble
Assemble is clean and contemporary with a wide range of beautiful homepage designs. You can choose between fifteen portfolio layouts to get the perfect style for your work. You also get lots of slider options via the built-in Slider Revolution plugin (sometimes also referred to as Revolution Slider) and compatibility with WPML if you want a translation-ready portfolio theme.
24. Onigiri
Onigiri is a minimal personal portfolio theme for WordPress that makes liberal use of white space. It also flips the normal header dynamic on its head, putting the navigation menu as a sticky footer, rather than its normal spot at the top of the page.
25. Rovigo
Rovigo is an elegant portfolio theme with integrations for plugins like Jetpack. In fact, it makes use of Jetpack’s portfolio feature and infinite scroll effect to help power your portfolio website.
26. Marquee
Marquee is a great portfolio theme for musicians or other artists of an auditory persuasion. With a built-in site-wide audio player, it makes it super easy to share your audio content with visitors. Plus, if you’re actively touring, it includes a feature to help with showcasing all of your gigs.
27. Portfolio Theme
The creatively named Portfolio Theme offers exactly what it’s called – a minimal way for creatives to launch a portfolio. It offers a unique vertical navigation, along with big sliders and galleries to showcase your work.
28. Kalium
Kalium is a flexible creative theme for professionals that comes with a variety of pre-built demo sites for different niches. You’ll get tons of style and typography options, including built-in support for Font Awesome icons.
You’ll also get lots of value-added bundled plugins including WPBakery Page Builder, Slider Revolution, Layer Slider, and Advanced Custom Fields Pro.
Under the hood, Kalium uses semantic HTML5 and CSS3 to give you the cleanest code possible.
Choose the right WordPress portfolio theme for you
This roundup should have you excited for making the right choice for your portfolio. Remember to return to first principles when making your final decision: remember the purpose of your site, and choose the theme which best serves this purpose.
For your convenience, we’ll reiterate our top pick: Inspiro is, in our opinion, the best WordPress portfolio theme available for your portfolio website. The fullscreen video opens up a huge array of creative options, and the pre-built templates give you the flexibility to get precisely what you’re after. You can learn more about Inspiro here.
Which theme are you going with? Share your thoughts in the comments below. We’d love to hear them!
April 12, 2018 7:35 am
Thank you Alex for sharing these portfolio related themes.
I have also found one best WordPress theme called Probit. It is very excellent theme to design any portfolio related website. It has great functionality like contact form 7 support, social media support, advanced customizer panel, one click auto installation, etc. For free demo visit: https://goo.gl/vokDrQ
April 18, 2018 12:17 pm
Thanks you for very nice sharing. I read this article very useful and interesting. Thanks you
April 28, 2018 9:51 am
Hi Alex,
your article is quite enlightening for me who is confused to find the right theme for our company website. There’s something I want to ask you and it’s not ethical to say here. Can I contact you via email?
Thank you in advance.