24 Free And Premium Portfolio And Photo Gallery WordPress Themes
Dainis GraverisI got one fresh, small project, where I needed small portfolio site for a friend. It got me thinking and lead to research what WordPress can offer to me, with its great CMS platform. I was a little bit surprised, because I got even better results than I expected- theres was a plenty of interesting portfolio, photo gallery themes, where homepage was static, but still you can tie together static with dynamic content and add blog as well. Maybe it’s nothing new or signifunt for most of you, but I wasn’t aware there is possible to get such theme so easily, where of course my friend could manually change it’s content without touching or learning any code knowledge.
It was commercial theme I tested, but since most of people look just for free stuff, I gave it a try and searched for free Portfolio, photo gallery type themes. Enjoy, by the way I also put like 3-4 best portfolio premium themes I found, I hope you wont mind, they are just beautiful alternatives and for very cheap prize!
1. Photocrati WordPress “Supertheme”
Photocrati is a powerful WordPress theme for photographers that comes with 60 built-in styles plus an options panel that allows customization of most elements on the site. It comes with a fully featured gallery management system – and it’s the only photography theme with built-in ecommerce for selling images and prints. One of the premium themes I tested – with huge built-in power.
1.1. PhotoSquares2 Photography WordPress Theme
PhotoSquares is very flexible premium gallery WordPress theme that is perfect way for designers and photographers to display their portfolio.
This theme allows you to set your own thumbnail sizes so everyone will be able to create most suitable layout.
Download PhotoSquares portfolio theme here.
2. WordPress The Unstandard
3. Gallery 1.2
Gallery is a beautiful, free, gallery-style Thematic child theme for WordPress, designed by Christopher Wallace especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. It is extremely flexible and can be used as a starting point for design galleries and portfolios.
4. wpFolio – Free CMS / Portfolio WordPress Theme
5. Blue Bubble
6. Creative by Nature
6.1. Gridlocked: Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme ($40)
I really enjoyed this theme because of it’s clean looks and in the same time powerful features built in. Beautiful theme you can easily customize.
Gridlocked is a grid-based, post-format supporting, layout-shuffling, minimalistic theme for creatives. It is both a classic portfolio for showcasing your work and a modern tumblr-style blogging system.
A truly versatile theme, Gridlocked can be configured to focus on your work, your blogging, or both. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.
7. Linquist
8. Work-a-holic
Work-a-holic is a free minimalistic two and three column WordPress theme that focuses mainly on showcasing portfolios for artists, web designers, photographers and illustrators. Work-a-holic separates your portfolio from your blog, enabling easy navigation for clients in a clean, intuitive fashion. It also has a separate sidebar for portfolio (shows recent projects) and a separate widgetized sidebar for the blog and pages.
9. Fotofolio WordPress Theme
10. Portfolio WordPress Theme
“Portfolio WordPress Theme” is a wordpress theme designed for web portfolios and (for now) just for web portfolios. It is coming with an Administrative Panel from where you can edit the head quote text, you can edit all theme colors, font families, font sizes and you can fill a curriculum vitae and display it into a special page.
11. Irresistable
Use as a standard blog or use the customized homepage layout, as shown in our demo, that you can activate via our options panel
12. Sharpfolio: WordPress Portfolio Theme
Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio. Sharpfolio aims to focus primarily on your work, because after all, this is what’s most important.
13. Portfolio Press
This is a dark-colored theme suitable for anyone who wants to create a quick portfolio or wants to showcase his work through WordPress. The theme is fully CSS/XHTML validated, WordPress 2.6+ ready and comes with easy to modify code.
13.1. Garnish: Clean-Cut WordPress Portfolio Theme ($35)
Garnish is a clean-cut, straight to the point, simple to use portfolio theme. The uncluttered, one-page, ajax-powered portfolio is perfect for placing your most important work directly in front of your potential clients.
If you have ever used a “coming soon” page in place of your portfolio on account of being too busy, Garnish is for you. It’s simple, convenient and to the point. If you’re the modifying type, it’s a pretty decent blank canvas too!
Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.
14. Desk Space
15. Snapshot
16. WP Coda
17. Infinity
18. AutoFocus
AutoFocus is a WordPress theme specifically for photographers looking for a simple and elegant way to display their work online.
19. FotoLog
20. Free Photo Gallery
21. Grace Photoblog
22. Vivee WordPress Theme
23. Nishita – Free Photo Blog WordPress Theme
23.1. Autochrome
New, just released theme from the same creators of Nishita. New theme really looks much crisper and cleaner – beautiful theme for photographers! Enjoy!
24. Fhi-Zin
25. ViewPort
Viewport, a free WordPress theme created by Paul Bennett is focused around a clean and simple, content based layout. The aim is to grab the user’s attention and draw them straight into the content.
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Jignesh Prajapati
Posted 139 days ago 80What a great collection here. thanks for sharing. i relay like 4th one. And now i’ll update for my blog.
The Bangla Newspaper
Posted 143 days ago 79Great collection. I chose the Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme. And I will make a Portfolio blog for me. Thanks for share this :)
guest
Posted 168 days ago 78ci pigli per deficienti? Themes are not free! Furbetto!
Cusco
Posted 169 days ago 77The only problem is most of them are premium just a few of them are free.
RyLoree
Posted 176 days ago 75Not one of these themes are free. Thanks for wasting my time!
Rean John Uehara
Posted 176 days ago 76I’m sorry, this article was published 682 days ago and many have changed their plans (and some even stopped their support). We have tons of new collections, if you’d want to see.
HautStyle
Posted 178 days ago 74Wow! Cool selection… The theme by Premium Pixels is really cool although you have to pay for it! Thanks
tommy
Posted 182 days ago 73Pricks – all the good ones cost cash – never returning!
mimilarue
Posted 190 days ago 72ok love all the themes! awesome work guys! One thing though the title of the article that lead me here is called “free wp themes”???????????? None are free! whats up with that????
Free Advertisement
Posted 202 days ago 71Number six is beautiful and useful. Very Good
Thanks
Faiz Muhammad
Posted 213 days ago 70wow this was really cool
Toplist
Posted 233 days ago 69thank you (o:!
Preeyanka
Posted 239 days ago 68Thanks for the template!
Attila
Posted 240 days ago 67Awesome collection.Bookmarked it :)
Jonathan
Posted 246 days ago 66Nice. Thanks for the un-free themes. I’m blocking the entire domain in my google search results. jerks
SMS
Posted 248 days ago 65Thank you 4 this List !!!!!!!!!!
richard koek
Posted 252 days ago 64free ? so you get the google search suckers like me i reckon….
index
Posted 256 days ago 63As a webmaster you should know when you start to cheat people saying that something is free, but in fact it is not, people leave the site and never return. One unhappy visitor will tell 10 others. That’s how it works. I’m a webmaster myself, and what I’d do in situation like this – just drop those paid ones, leave only free ones, and you’ll make everyone happy.
Ivan
Posted 263 days ago 61Were is the free?
Bastard!!! all one needs to pay…
Dainis Graveris
Posted 260 days ago 62just few of the themes are premium, almost all of them are free.
Driver
Posted 275 days ago 60Great Themes !
Erick
Posted 283 days ago 59Dainis, this is a nice collection of themes, and on top of that you have a very nicely designed site. I’m glad to see you added Photocrati to the list. If you ever get around to editing or expanding, you ought to consider adding some of the new themes from ThemeForest as well. There are some beautifully designed themes there. I wanted to pass a long a link to some of the more modern and edgier ones here:
http://www.wordpress-photography-themes.com
I think there’s a new style emerging now with full width or full screen images and sidebar – style menus.
In any case, thanks!
ronnie morales
Posted 295 days ago 58Great themes! If you don’t want to setup wordpress yourself, you can try Lens.ph. They have pretty cool wordpress photography themes there as well.
Helena
Posted 297 days ago 57Thank you for the great tips. There are more than one wordpress blog I really like. That is one very wonderfull, exact what I have been looking for a long time.
Matteo
Posted 305 days ago 56Great collection of Themes – It’s cool to see how in the latest years the availability of both free and premium themes has grown – WP was in the beginning only a blog engine, now it seems like an excellent platform for building almost everything. A classifieds site, a portfolio site, you name it: WP most likely can handle it.
There’s just a problem – especially for who wants to add a personal touch: installing a WordPress theme, the biggest issue most users are facing is customization: every theme has his set of options, more and more panels in the wp-admin….and sometimes for a coder it’s simpler to work out the css or the template files rather than guessing what option to edit.
For a newbie, all those options seem to be confusing, because sometimes is not clear what part of the template or what functionality they allow….Starting from this consideration, I wanted to develop a different concept of customization interface, allowing live theme editing, without leaving your site. Real WYSIWYG editable WordPress themes…that is my goal.
I know this may sound like an advertising, but I’d really like to see what you think of the technology we are developing here at superthemes.org:
http://superthemes.org/cluster-one
There is a short mute video which should give you a good idea of the concept…I believe it’s really revolutionary, as I’ve been able myself to build beautiful websites in minutes, not in hours, like it used to be :-)
Bill
Posted 307 days ago 54Free themes? Where?
Rean John Uehara
Posted 307 days ago 55Here you go! http://www.google.com/search?q=1stwebdesigner.com+free+themes First 10 results are from this site!
zbyni3k
Posted 308 days ago 53Thanks for this list ! Gallery 1.2 look nice