With the myriad of WordPress theme sites out there, I thought I’d just focus on the portfolio themes for a bit, and write up a little list here.
Please feel free to submit any others you think are cool in the comments below.
The List of Portfolio Themes for WordPress
My Resume (less like a portfolio, but still kinda cool)
Deep Focus – Elegant Themes WordPress Portfolio
Phazed
Creatic
FolioWay
MediaReel
Architectos
Perfekto
Minim
Yin & Yang
Awesome Portfolio Theme
Conclusion… too many to list… go here
After looking around at so many cool portfolio WordPress themes, I have to suggest you check out this site for a whole huge list of truly inexpensive possibilities for a new portfolio site.
Update: Here’s my Pinterest Board where I’m going to collect a bunch more portfolio themes.
This made me smile. Not only did I see you pinning these the other night (thanks by the way for accidentally flooding my facebook newsfeed ;-)), but it confirms something for me – we have similar tastes for design. I have at least half of these bookmarked and I actually bought Creatic yesterday for fun to play with (it’s on my blog in an only-slightly customized form as of last night). It’s a really nice take on the teehan+lax site (which is the obvious primary influence).
I dug the Folioway portfolio when it was released a few months ago, but it’s not nearly as slick and useable as the Yin&Yang ajax portfolio that has great navigation between portfolio items and the built in slider for each item + video support. I almost bought Yin&Yang instead of Creatic last night. It sets a high bar similar to Orman Clark’s theme Garnish, and one of the newer themes Prolio, which I also love. Creatic just has some good potential for some full-screen background action, so I went with that. I’m into full-screen sliders right now. There arent many themes out there that use them creatively but done well, i think they really add a lot of pop.
I really dig super minimal, usable structure (RGA.com is a gold standard, teehanlax.com etc). That mixed with a creative use of responsive deisng and a full-screen slider and I’m pretty much in design nirvana.
I’d add Orman Clark’s Themeforest Themes Garnish, Classica and Scope to this list, and maybe Peerapong’s Rhea (not a traditional portfolio, but that full-screen flip gallery would make a sweet portfolio for a great photoshoper). Oh yeah, and Prolio.
http://themeforest.net/user/OrmanClark/portfolio
http://themeforest.net/user/peerapong/portfolio
http://themeforest.net/item/prolio-a-powerful-portfolio-wordpress-theme/858396