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Creating a decent portfolio requires covering a lot of bases. Creating an outstanding portfolio must cover them even better. Showcasing images of your work is not necessarily difficult. But providing the right level of textual content alongside each image can be tricky.

The theme you choose can make achieving this balance a real challenge. It might not have the features or functionality to organize and display your work the way you want. You should not only look for a theme that provides a simpler way. Look for one that is bundled with other features like a slider or lightbox. It can further enhance your final product.

That said, you don’t have to be a web design whiz to put a compelling portfolio together. There are a number of WordPress themes that can help you put one together.

Here are 8 of the very best.

Porto – Ultimate WordPress + eCommerce Theme

Porto offers the better choice for your website design needs and for your portfolio-building needs in particular. Bootstrap 4 based, this multipurpose WordPress theme is superfast and features a bunch of demos, including extremely powerful eCommerce demos. Its speed optimization wizard helps you optimize you’re your site step by step as Porto is super-optimized for site performance.

Another area in which this theme has constantly excelled is its ability to keep in tune with the latest design trends and best code practices. It’s compatible with and optimizes all major plugins including Visual Composer and Revolution Slider. Porto is 100% mobile ready.

Porto offers tons of design options too, included a host of portfolio options, including several different layout, view, slider, and skin options, together with breadcrumb options to help users navigate back and forth within portfolios or from portfolios to other website pages.

You’ll also benefit from the wide variety of header and footer, post and page, WooCommerce, and BuddyPress and Social Share options that are included in the package.

You naturally expect to receive top-quality service and support with this caliber of a WordPress theme. That’s precisely what you get.

BeTheme

With the largest selection of pre-built websites on the market, 350+ and counting, BeTheme is well positioned to find the perfect match for any website type or business client. BeTheme also has the largest number of core features of any WordPress theme, making it an ideal tool for creating stunning portfolios in any style that suits your fancy.

These professionally-designed, customizable pre-built websites can be installed with a single click. Once installed, BeTheme’s popular Muffin Builder, in combination with its powerful Admin Panel, Shortcode Generator, and Layout Configurator will take it from there.

You can build a complex website complete with text, images, and all the trimmings in a little as 4 hours, or you can create an awesome portfolio in even less time. There’s never a need for coding, there’s ample documentation, and Be’s customer support is superb.

Kalium

When your objective is to showcase your work in the best way possible, Kalium is more than up to the task. This highly-rated WordPress theme features the WPBakery drag and drop page builder, considered by many to be the world’s best at what it can do for you.

You can clone any of Kalium’s demos with a single click to get off to a quick start on building a website, build pages in minutes, and select among the 15+ modern header styles with plenty of navigation options. 100+ shortcodes are included to help you along.

With respect to portfolio building, you’ll have over 30 crafted portfolio layouts in multiple types to select from, or you can easily create your own portfolio layout if you wish. Kalium offers a nice variety of blog and shop layouts as well.

TheGem – Creative Multi-Purpose High-Performance WordPress Theme

Although TheGem is a multi-purpose WordPress theme, it will serve you as well as any specialty theme as a high-quality portfolio builder. Its many portfolio styles and options include column numbers and gap sizes, highlighted projects, masonry grids, metro style grids, and the classic list portfolio overview.

You can include sidebars with your portfolio or mix portfolios with other content by placing them in any position you wish.

Uncode

Uncode is a creative multiuse theme that’s tailored for portfolios. This powerful, user-friendly theme has all the features and functionality you need to showcase your work in a breathtaking portfolio.

Its features include 16 portfolio styles, an advanced grid and thumbnails system, Album Galleries, and Slides Scroll. A nice selection of blog layouts is included, and Uncode is fully integrated with WooCommerce.

Studio 8

Studio 8 is a modern, elegant WordPress theme oriented toward to agencies, web designers, artists, and other creative professionals. It is designed to help you introduce and showcase your work to your site’s visitors in an eye-catching yet totally professional way.

This awesomely designed, flexible, and fully responsive theme will help you and other web designers create websites and portfolios that will give you or your clients an edge over the competition.

Pofo – Creative Portfolio and Blog WordPress Theme

Pofo is a modern, premium WordPress design theme well suited for artists, creative teams, and photographers as well as for agencies, corporations, and businesses with projects or services to showcase. Bundled plugins include the WPBakery page builder and Revolution Slider.

More than 150 pre-built design elements along with 25+ home pages and 200+ demo pages are also features of this blazing-fast theme.

Cesis – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

If powerful, easy-to-use, and front-end building and editing sound good to you, Cesis should sound good to you as well. No coding is necessary and Cesis’ theme options panel lets you modify any part of your website separately from the other.

Both beginners and advanced users will find this WP theme easy to work with. A single click to import a pre-made template or demo will get your project off to a fast start.

Conclusion

If your criterion is to select a tool that can deliver a stunning website, any of these 8 products will fill the bill.

Your decision will most likely depend on your plan. You can create one portfolio for a client, many portfolios for many different clients. It is easy to create one for your own business, as well. In any case, you’ll find a product here that precisely meets your needs.

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