WordPress is a wonderful publishing platform for your portfolio site. Most people ie: photographers and graphic designers , and digital artists are aiming to own their own portfolio to showcase most of their works. As an designer or camerist having an good looking online portfolio websites will making your work look its absolute best, some of them are free responsive wordpress portfolio themes.

This post is a compilation of great portfolio wordpress themes that you can use to showcase your works for portfolio and image gallery websites.

You may want to take a look at the following related articles: Best Free WordPress Themes 2011, Free Corporate WordPress Themes, Clean Free WordPress Themes, Gallery / Showcase WordPress Themes.  

Clippy responsive, pin-style theme

Theme design is optimized for proper displaying on iPhone and iPad. Implemented using HTML5 and CSS3 technologies along with HTML5Boilerplate-specific resources.

Workality

A fully responsive portfolio theme for creative people and agencies. It's great way to display your portfolio through 4 different thumbnail size types and responsive layout. And it's completely free!

Pronto Free Masonry Gallery WordPress Theme

Pronto is a very clean and minimal jQuery Masonry WordPress theme that’s perfect for showcasing your posts in a grid like fashion, that will re-adjust depending on your visitors browser size. Everything is set to work right out of the box, simply install, add your posts and you are set. The theme includes a custom logo upload field, Symple Shortcodes, threaded comments… and some other sweet features.

Bulletin Tumblog Style WordPress Theme for Blogging

Bulletin is a Tumblog style WordPress theme designed right here by WPExplorer, and for sale on Themeforest. This simple blogging theme is great for portfolios, photography, and personal sites.

Mixfolio Portfolio WordPress Theme

Mixfolio is a responsive, HTML5 portfolio theme for WordPress. Best of all, it's free! Use it to build your portfolio or your online brand. Create Image, Gallery, Video or Standard posts using Mixfolio' Post Formats feature.

Imbalance Portfolio 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.

Shaken and Stirred Portfolio WordPress Theme

This free portfolio wordpress theme is perfect for you if you’re in need of a gallery/portfolio website or if you just want a website with a unique grid layout that not many websites have taken full advantage of yet. “Shaken Grid” uses the jQuery Masonry plugin which “arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid.” The result is a gap-less layout even if you have varying post heights.

BlueBubble Portfolio WordPress Theme

This free portfolio wordpress theme is clean and simple, contains a theme options page, uses post image thumbnail plugin, has 2 widget ready sidebars and uses jQuery/PHP-based contact form with easy customization. Requires WordPress 2.9+.

Work-a-holic Portfolio WordPress Theme

Work-a-holic is a free three column portfolio WordPress theme that focuses mainly on showcasing portfolios for artists, web designers, photographers and illustrators.

SimpleFolio Portfolio WordPress Theme

SimpleFolio is a portfolio wordpress theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items from the blog page. It also includes a front page slider. It has 2 different widget areas and threaded comments, and also supports paged comments and has 2 different page templates for advanced usage. The control of images is done from the post page.

Pure II Theme Portfolio WordPress 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.

Fotofolio Landscape Portfolio WordPress Theme

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.

Fullscreen Portfolio WordPress Theme

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.

Elegantia Portfolio WordPress Theme

Elegantia includes premium-quality features but can be downloaded and used at no cost.

Style Design Portfolio WordPress Theme

Very similar in style to the previous theme, but still very impressive in its own way.

Paragrams Portfolio WordPress Theme

Grid based lightweight theme, i think its ideal for magazine or alternatively a photoblog.

Portfolium Portfolio WordPress Theme

Portfolium as the name implies is a portfolio theme, its moder and minimalist. I think its ideal for photographers and designers, who want profesional looking portfolio for free.

Grid Portfolio WordPress Theme

Grid Portfolio another minimal WordPress theme, whic was designed for photographers, designers, artists to showcase their beautiful work.

JoumalCrunch Portfolio WordPress Theme

JournalCrunch is a multi purpose theme. Which can be used for magazine or portfolio websites.

Satoshi Portfolio WordPress Theme

Satoshi is a very neat and minimal free portfolio WordPress theme that was designed to help professionals display their work. Satoshi-v2 comes with many features like page templates, custom frontpage, portfolio page, contact page, stylish blog and many more.

Creative by Nature Portfolio WordPress Theme

Creative by Nature is a high-quality portfolio WordPress theme especially designed for Photographers, artists, designers.

Portfolio Press Portfolio WordPress Theme

Portfolio Press a very neat portfolio theme. This awesome theme was designed keeping in mind all the professional’s needs. When you active the theme you will see a special area to update your portfolio. The theme can also be used for photography, art, web sites etc with very less effort.

Minimal Portfolio WordPress Theme

The name states the main feature of this WordPress theme Minimal is really Minimal but beautiful and with awesome features.

However, not all people are knowledgeable in creating portfolios. It actually takes time to learn the basics. You need to design the portfolio you want then code them. Check out 20 fresh free portfolio WordPress Themes 2012 Edition and use them as you want.

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