10 Best Minimalist WordPress Portfolio Themes
12th Jul 2011 | Posted by Eko S. | 4 CommentsHaving your work displayed online removes the geographical restraints that traditional portfolios impose on you. And today with the internet many designers and creative take advantage of it. Since minimalistic site designs are always around and they are actually pretty trendy right now, with beautiful, unique and highly creative portfolio – it makes design works sparkle and you can grabs visitors attention immediately.
In this article, we have collected 10 best WordPress portfolio themes, for those looking beautifully minimalistic portfolio theme and get the user’s attention. Enjoy!
Dandelion – Powerful Elegant WordPress Theme
- Unlimited Skins
- Powerful Admin Settings
- 2 jQuery Sliders (Unlimited Usage)
- 3 Flexible Portfolio Galleries (Unlimited Number of Pages)
by pexeto
Dandelion is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Dandelion theme is highly flexible, so changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites.
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Classica: Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme
- 2 Portfolio Detail Page Layouts: Stacked and Slider
- jQuery Magic (Dropdown Menus, Multiple Sliders, Filterable Portfolio)
- Full Localisation Support (contains .po/.mo files)
- Self Hosted Video & Flash Support (.mov, .swf etc)
by OrmanClark
Classica is a beautifully minimalistic portfolio theme, free from gimmick and trend, making your talent the focal point of your portfolio – the way it should be. Present your work in a professional manor with a timeless design.
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Folo – Portfolio & Business Theme
- Feature circular slider
- 21 layout choices (7 layouts x 3 sidebar options)
- Choose up to 4 homepage column widgets
- Coded with HTML5 & CSS3
by Themify.me
Folo is a business + portfolio theme where you can showcase work samples, products and services. Homepage features a circular slider to highlight products and services. The theme comes with various grid and list layout options (21 choices in total). It allows you to build custom pages with specific categories. On top of that, there is an optional sorting/filtering navigation where your visitors can filter the post types. Read related post.
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The PaperCore – Elegant WordPress Theme
- 4 Different Styles
- 2 jQuery image Sliders
- 8 Different page templates
- Works and looks similar in all major browsers: IE6 , IE7 , IE8 , Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome
by pexeto
“The PaperCore” is an unique, elegant and minimal WordPress theme and it is here to present your business and work in the best way.
There are 4 different professionally designed and unique styles. There are 2 stylish Portfolio/ News/ Featured Item sliders that are great to emphasize and present your products. The PhotoShop files are easy customizable and well organized.
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Gridlocked: Minimalistic WordPress Portfolio Theme
- Gimmick-free, Grid-Based Design & Valid HTML
- Filterable Portfolio (can be used as homepage or site section)
- Post Format Support (Asides, Images, Galleries, Quotes, Links, Standard, Audio, Video)
- jQuery Magic (Re-shuffling grids – try resizing your browser!)
by OrmanClark
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.
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Folioway – Premium Portfolio WordPress Theme
- Minimalist + Perfect pixel + Grid based design Screenshots
- 10 preset fonts + fully integrated with Google Web Fonts = A 200 + and keep increasing fonts library on hand
- 10 preset sidebars + unlimited custom sidebars + 1-to-N relationship with posts/pages + build-in sidebar manager
- “Not to touch my code” to protect your page from messed up by WordPress auto formatting
by addway
Folioway is a perfect pixel WordPress theme, not only its clean and elegant, it also comes with tons of features like amazing slider, unlimited colors, etc. It’s incredibly powerful and flexible and easy to use! It is just the best wordpress theme for your or your company’s work presentation!
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Themeology – Portfolio and Blog Theme
- Over 20 custom skins, including 2 special Dark layouts not shown.
- eatured slider that can launch lightboxes or full pages.
- 4 Unique Gallery layouts.
- NivoSlider included! (with a full management panel)
by epicera
Themeology is a premium WordPress Theme that has been built from the ground up to take full advantage of brand new WordPress 3.0 features, including the new Menu system, thumbnails, and lots more. Quite literally everything from the page layouts to custom Javascript features are configurable from a super easy to use options panel. Heck, it even comes with pre-packaged shortcodes and typographic extras to make your site look professional and ready for action.
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The Cotton – Powerful Minimalistic WordPress Theme
- Unlimited Skins
- Powerful Admin Settings
- Flexible Font Management
- 3 jQuery Sliders (Unlimited Usage)
by pexeto
The Cotton is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme designed in a minimalistic style. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Cotton theme is highly flexible, so customizing the theme or simply changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites.
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Catalyst WordPress Portfolio Theme
- 100 Icons shortcode
- Nivo Featured Slides
- Videos and Images Lightbox
- Change style.css Item name to Change Theme Options Name – Easily implement your custom brand.
by imaginem
Catalyst Premium theme will give you plenty of features to build site with many of its portfolio and blog post styles. A powerful theme, tons of features, yet easy to customize.
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Suco – WordPress Theme
- Optional header RSS, search form, and social network icons
- WordPress post formats (image, video, gallery, quote, etc.)
- 9 theme skins
- Coded with HTML5 & CSS3
by Themify.me
Suco offers a stunning homepage design with a customizable slider, highlighted services/products, call-to-action text, and optional widgets. It is our first business theme that offers custom WordPress post formats. If you are not familiar with post formats, it allows you to associate a post type to each post such as: image, video, gallery, quote, etc. (pretty much like Tumblr). Designed with a great attention to details, Suco is a perfect theme that can be used as a business site, Tumblr-like blog, or just a static general site.
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3 Comments to “10 Best Minimalist WordPress Portfolio Themes”
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Here is really some beautiful Portfolio themes. I have found here actually what I am finding just now. Thanks a lot.
i really like ecoPhoto2 wordpress theme ( http://idesigneco.com/themes/ecophoto2 ) and use it for my portfolio. so slick!