Updated: October 21, 2009
A couple of weeks ago I received a “request for a future post” from Emma (didn’t provide a website with her request for me to credit) asking for a new WordPress theme gallery. This time, her request was for a portfolio theme gallery.
Although I can’t always fulfill every request I get, this gallery is one that I think will benefit a large number of people, so I’ve decided to throw one together! The top half will be free portfolio themes and the second half will be premium portfolio themes which are available to purchase. I’ve also included a feature list whenever one was available.
Over time, I intend to update this post as both types of portfolio themes become available. If you know of one that you think should be included on this list, please let us know!
Free Portfolio WordPress Themes
Portfolio Press Theme
Modularity Theme
Snapshot Theme
Premium Portfolio Themes
Viz | Biz Portfolio Theme
Single-Use License ($79.95), Multiple-Use License ($150.00)
WP Showcase Theme
Single-Use License ($59.00), Multiple-Use License ($99.00), Developer’s Pack ($159.00)
Simple Site Theme
Single-Use License ($49.00), Multiple-Use License ($149.00)
VibrantCMS Theme
- Easy-to-use featured scroller to broadcast your business’ most important information;
- A separate company blog that is tucked away from the homepage; and
- 20 amazing color schemes that will definitely fit with your corporate branding.
- Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, color scheme etc. for the theme;
- Built-in video panel, which you can use to publish any web-based Flash videos;
- Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images;
- Custom Page Templates for Archives, Sitemap & Image Gallery;
- Built-in Gravatar Support for Authors & Comments;
- Integrated Banner Management script to display randomized banner ads of your choice site-wide;
- Pretty drop-down navigation everywhere; and
- Widgetized Sidebars.
Single-Use ($70.00), Developer’s ($150.00)
Cassiopeia Theme
Single-Use ($80.00), Developer’s Pack ($150.00)
Fresh Folio Theme
- Theme designed to be a portfolio.
- The template will automatically (visually) separate your blog & portfolio content, making this an amazing theme for aspiring designers, developers, artists, photographers etc.
- Unique page templates for the portfolio, blog, blog archives, tags & search results.
- 7 diverse theme styles to choose from.
- Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme;
- Optional Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images;
- Widgetized Sidebars.
Single-Use ($70.00), Developer’s ($150.00)
eGallery Theme
Comes with $20.00 subscription to Elegant Themes Club!
eVid Theme
Comes with $20.00 subscription to Elegant Themes Club!
Kyle Eslick
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Thanks for releasing this version. 
As your site has a lot of widgets, so I think it will significantly reduce the server usage. 
I'd love to do the 301 redirect, but it seems that with Wordpress's canonical URLs, redirects create infinite loops that ...
Great gallery. But I wasted 3 months to find a good free wordpress template and finally no one was customizable ...
Looks like somebody forget to renew dailywp.com
Also, the links to the Modularity theme are all broken on my end. I always thought that was a paid one however.
Any themes that cater to non-graphical portfolios, such as for musicians?
a lot of the links were broken for me. i wanted to try some of these out too…
Hmmm, I checked most of them in the past week and they worked fine, but I’ll check into it.
If you find specific ones that are broken, please leave them with your comment so I can get them updated/removed.
Excellent choices mate. Evid and Cassiopeia got my vote
Thanks for taking the time to fulfill my request, Kyle!
I am currently using the Snapshot theme for a gallery blog that I have but I was still looking for one to use with my portfolio blog.
@ Emma – No problem. I figured others were probably also looking for something like this, so it was worth the effort!
I use the portfoliopress theme on my personal portfolio, and I think it’s the best free portfolio theme out there.
Does anyone know where I can get the Portfolio Theme from Dailywp.com? The link is broken and I can’t find anything on google, only a turkish version, but also can’t speak turkish
I went through and pulled out the DailyWP theme because it appears the domain isn’t even registered anymore.
After removing all the broken links there seems to be a very limited version of free portfolio themes available
Dailywp.com seems to be back up & running, and there’s a link on their front page to a Portfolio theme, although it isn’t free.
WOw!! Great post..
Thank you..
Nice list of portfolio themes. I just released a wordpress theme for portfolio use, you can see a demo here. http://darkwood.travisberry.com/
evid theme is too complicated