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10 Free WordPress Themes for Portfolio Sites
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Trevin ShireyVP of Marketing
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- Trevin serves as the VP of Marketing at WebFX. He has worked on over 450 marketing campaigns and has been building websites for over 25 years. His work has been featured by Search Engine Land, USA Today, Fast Company and Inc.
1. Imbalance WordPress Theme
This free WordPress theme features modern, clean aesthetics that puts your visual content in the forefront. It has a custom jQuery image gallery, a custom Twitter widget, and its own options page to manage and customize your WordPress portfolio site.
2. Pure II Theme
This elegant and stylish free WordPress theme has a one-column layout and a design that uses web fonts for beautiful typography. It comes in three color schemes. The theme has a built-in slideshow and custom page templates for your portfolio page and site map page.
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3. Fullscreen
With Fullscreen, your content will be front and center. This free WordPress theme is a one-column layout developed particularly for photographers, visual artists, and multimedia professionals. This theme has a built-in HD video player, a slick side-scrolling content area using jQuery, and embedding features for media web services such as YouTube and Google Video.
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4. Shaken Grid
Fitting for portfolio sites and image gallery, Shaken Grid is a free WordPress theme with features such a custom themes panel (for customizing the look-and-feel of your site) and a gallery layout that automatically self-adjusts depending on the dimensions of your images.
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5. BlueBubble WordPress Theme
A free WordPress theme for designers and photographers, BlueBubble boasts premium-like WordPress theme features such as a custom theme options panel and support for 8 different color schemes and styles. Note that this theme requires WordPress 3.0 or higher.
6. Mansion WordPress Theme
Designed primarily for photobloggers, the Mansion WordPress Theme is nonetheless a wonderful option for presenting visual content. It uses a thumbnail grid that can contain screenshots of your latest projects that, when clicked, takes the interested user to another page that can have a brief description of the image.
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7. Fotofolio Landscape
Specifically crafted for visual artists, photographers, and media designers, this free WordPress theme has multiple layouts and style options, a custom theme panel for managing your theme, and special page templates for client testimonials and image slideshows.
8. AutoFocus+
The AutoFocus+ WordPress theme, while aimed primarily towards photographers, is a wonderful option for anybody working with visual media. The design is clean and laid out in a grid, flexibly working around your content. This is a child theme of Thematic, a popular WordPress theme framework.
9. SimpleFolio
Exclusively released on Smashing Magazine, SimpleFolio is a clean and professional free WordPress theme intended for use on portfolio sites. It has custom page templates and the ability for you to give specific pages a full-width layout by hiding the right sidebar.
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10. Work-a-holic
Work-a-holic is a free minimalistic WordPress theme for showcasing the work of designers and digital artists. It has a two- or three-column page layout on a perfect grid and a sidebar widget that presents your most recent projects.
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Trevin serves as the VP of Marketing at WebFX. He has worked on over 450 marketing campaigns and has been building websites for over 25 years. His work has been featured by Search Engine Land, USA Today, Fast Company and Inc.
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