10 Free WordPress Portfolio Themes for Designers in 2016

Whether you’re a beginner or professional designer, online portfolio is something that you’ll need to showcase your creative design work sooner or later. A well designed, thoughtful portfolio not only gives a lot of great exposure to your hard work but also plays a vital role in building your personal brand on a global stage.



Although there are plenty of portfolio-hosting platforms out there that let you showcase and even sell your work online but sometimes, especially when you need something more personal and custom, they don’t suffice. And that's where WordPress shows its true magic. To help you out, here I've put together a collection of finest free WordPress portfolio themes that you can use to build an awe-inspiring design portfolio.



Illdy, lovingly crafted by Colorlib, is a fully responsive and retina optimized WordPress theme for creative designers. Built with popular mobile first front-end framework Bootstrap, this amazing one-page theme comes with unlimited color options and has built-in support for Font Awesome icons. To help you easily grab a visitor’s attention to your most important content, Illdy allows you to add a Full screen hero image to your portfolio.

Olevia is an easy to install and simple to use portfolio and blogging theme for WordPress. This stunning theme comes with a beautiful home page that you can use to showcase your best or latest projects in a grid layout. Designed and coded by Made4WP, Olevia not only fully supports Customizer but also works seamlessly in the latest versions of all modern browsers. Other key features include translation support and search engine friendliness.

Oren, Developed by Themeora on top of Bootstrap, is a clean, flexible and lightweight WordPress portfolio theme designed to help designers make their work stand out from the crowd. Built with WordPress Coding Standards in mind, this responsive theme has a clean, simple design and is incredibly easy to set up and customize. Best of all, Oren has good support for both Jetpack and Customizer.

Coded by folks at GavickPro, Portfolio is another simple and lightweight responsive portfolio WordPress theme for creative designers. Featuring a simple homepage template, this image-focused theme helps you draw viewers’ attention to things that matter to you most. Key features include built-in Google fonts and Disqus support, clean typography and animation-powered layout.

Latte is a professional looking and highly customizable one-page parallax WordPress theme created by a teenage WordPress developer, Hardeep Asrani. It comes packed with many features, including pricing tables, maps integration, attractive social buttons and a dedicated skills section. With Latte, you’re not required to use any drag-n-drop editor or page builder to customize the theme because all the customizations can be made straight from the WordPress Customizer.

Hitchcock is a beautiful, minimal, retina-ready portfolio WordPress theme for designers and other creative professionals. With a three column responsive grid, it provides a clear overview of your work to your visitors. As this theme fully supports the gallery post format, you can also showcase your projects in a slideshow on top of the posts. Other main features of Hitchcock are translation ready code, infinite scrolling and social icon menu.

Portfolio, created by Modern Themes, is a unique, clean and beautiful WordPress portfolio theme that lets designers showcase their works in a contemporary manner. It has a powerful admin panel using which you can customize the theme to fit your portfolio requirements. Additionally, you can choose from a wide range of fonts from the Google library and change the look of your theme in just a few mouse-clicks using built-in color picker.

Built by Themezilla, Hype is a beautifully designed and professionally coded WordPress portfolio theme, using which you can showcase and sell your work. Packed with a number of customization options, it features an eye-catching hero area that you can customize to fit your taste. To make online selling easy for designers, Hype harnesses the power of Zillacommerce – an integrated solution that brings the power of Shopify to WordPress.

Pine is a neat, professional and minimal WordPress portfolio theme made for designers who want to showcase their work in a simple and creative manner. Created by Slicejack using Bootstrap framework, this stylish responsive theme comes with 6 color schemes and supports Jetpack’s portfolio post type. Unlike other themes in this list, Pine features off-canvas navigation that opens with slide in effect when activated.

Optics is a simple to install, easy to customize responsive WordPress theme for creating masonry layout-powered portfolios. Using the power of Sell Media plug-in, it also allows you to sell your design work online. A premium version with additional features, like enhanced e-Commerce support, custom fonts, credit removal, is also available to help you take your design portfolio to the next level.

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