The days of printing your business portfolio and placing it in a cardboard folder are long since past.
By placing your portfolio online you can advertise your brand by search engines, which will hugely raise your profile. It’s also much easier to update your portfolio as you introduce new products or services.
One of the easiest ways to get started with your online portfolio is to use a bespoke theme for WordPress. In this guide, you’ll explore five such themes which have been created with portfolios in mind.
- We’ve also highlighted the best paid and free WordPress themes
Grand Portfolio
1. Grand Portfolio
Grand Portfolio lives up to its name with SEO optimization and content builder
Visual design orientated
Infinite scroll
Few demo layouts
Grand Portfolio is designed to cater for those users involved in most areas of visual design. It works best for photographers, fashion designers and architects.
The theme has a variety of gallery and portfolio modules. There are also choices for those interested in blogs and creating magazines. It’s useful for musicians as it has support for biographies along with event reservation support.
Grand Portfolio themes can be viewed in split screen along with a full screen option for users who want to show off all their designs in their full glory. Users can utilize the infinite scroll option so that designs keep loading as you come to the end of each page.
Users can customize elements color, background and typography with the built-in live customizer. Revolution Slider and iLightbox are included with the theme. These two premium themes usually cost around $34 (£25.87) each.
Users gain access to the built-in ‘Content Builder’. This comes with a handy drag and drop feature.
Grand Portfolio is fully responsive. It has also passed Google’s mobile compatibility check meaning that it is SEO optimized.
Users can purchase the regular license for $59 (£44.89) which includes future updates and 6-months support. An additional 12-months of support can be added for $17.63 (£13.41).
Some online commentators have noted there is not a huge variety in demo layouts.
Kalium
2. Kalium
Kalium’s the definitive theme for Portfolio’s, with powerful plugins and multi-language support
Portfolio specific
Includes premium plugins
Fully documented
Kalium is designed specifically for portfolios.
There are multiple styles available. Each of which can be edited with the Visual Composer, Revolution Slider and LayerSlider plugins. These are all premium plugins and usually cost around $25 (£18.8). Users can customize fonts, colors, footer styles and opt to integrate with social media.
Kalium is compatible with WPML and Multilingual Plugin. It has been translated into over 16 languages. It includes support for RTL languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Persian.
Users can customize their portfolio on the ‘Theme Option’s area. They can also choose some of the premade layouts. Users can select from over 100 portfolio types with options to align images, spacing and text options.
Kalium is straight forward and easy to use. Newer users need not worry as no coding knowledge or experience is needed to start working on this theme.
The theme is fully responsive and retina ready. It also comes fully documented making it simple to find the information you need to build your website.
Users can purchase Kalium for $60 (£45.65). This includes future updates and 6-months support. This can be extended to 12-months for an additional $18 (£13.69).
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