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Putting a decent portfolio together involves a lot more than slapping a bunch of images on a page. Order is important, size or size difference is important, as is text and how its placed and what it says.

Much of this is of course up to the website owner/designer, but the website- and page-tools used are also important. There’s an abundance of themes you can use to build a decent portfolio website but many if not most of these same themes can place limitations or constraints on you that make it difficult to create an awesome, award-winning one.

Still, there are some really great WordPress themes available; like the following 8 that, with respect to creating portfolio websites, were definitely designed with a sense of awesomeness in mind.

Top Portfolio WordPress Themes

Be Theme

Bigger doesn’t always mean better. But it certainly does with Be Theme, the biggest WordPress theme of them all. What makes Be Theme better? Ease of use, great flexibility, and 40+ core website-building features among other things.

Be can boast of a wide assortment of website building tools, including its library of 450+ customizable pre-built websites that cover all website types and the majority of business sectors.

With respect to building an online portfolio, these pre-built websites are a web designer’s dream. There’s more than a few you can use to get a portfolio website-building project off to a fast start, with BeAgency proving to be one of the favorites. Although it can be used for a variety of business purposes, this pre-built website, featuring a beautiful Ajax portfolio, is preferred by many agencies to showcase their work.

A Be Theme-built portfolio website will be something you can be proud of. It will be responsive and SEO-friendly, and you can have it up and running in as little as 4 hours.

Kalium

Kalium is minimalist in its design, yet extremely powerful and flexible in its use. In addition to its impressive selection of layout designs, high-quality demos, theme options, and drag and drop content elements, Kalium gives its users a rich selection of portfolio item types to work with.

Portfolio options include 2, 3, and 4-column formats with or without margins, with or without titles, and Masonry styles. Similar layout options are included for blogs and product displays.

This highly-rated theme’s showcase of user-inspired websites will give you a good idea of what the possibilities are (virtually limitless), and although this WordPress theme is easy to use for beginner and pro alike the package includes more than 130 documents pertaining to its use together with a set of video tutorials.

Kalium is also developer friendly; you can extend it however you want.

Uncode

This pixel-perfect theme has everything needed to build pixel-perfect websites of any type and for any use. It’s main strength however is the ways in which it can help its users build superlative blog and/or portfolio websites thanks to its advanced Masonry/Isotope/Carousel, adaptive grid, and advanced imaging systems.

Whatever you choose to use Uncode for, and if you’re reading this the guess would be to create a portfolio website, you’ll be working with an all-time ThemeForest best seller that’s racked up more than 50,000 sales to date.

Your portfolio website is guaranteed to shine brightly, and correctly, whether its displayed on a large-screen PC, a handheld device, or anything in between. Also worth noting is Uncode’s cascade options system which gives you the exact control you need when designing your portfolio layout.

Hello

The Hello theme is an excellent starter theme; especially for Elementor users. In fact, if you use Elementor, Hello is the best theme you can use. Hello is also the fastest and lightest WordPress theme on the market. It’s lightning fast and there’s nothing to slow you down.

Plugins can create problems for some themes, but not this one. Hello is compatible with all the popular WordPress plugins, it’s open source, and it’s free.

Bridge

Packed with 376+ pre-built websites and a seemingly endless supply of design aids and features and used by more than 110,000 happy customers, Bridge has established itself as the best-selling creative theme on ThemeForest.

Bridge’s open-ended customizability and huge array of website building options makes it an ideal choice for building portfolio websites or any other type of business website.

The Gem

TheGem has gained a solid reputation as the ultimate website-building kit. To any individual or business looking for the best online solution to showcase their work this, the best WordPress theme for building portfolio websites, offers unlimited opportunities

With TheGem, you get the premium WPBakery drag and drop page builder, flexible page layouts, more than 20 dedicated portfolio designs, portfolio sliders, and multiple grid options including masonry and metro.

Movedo WP Theme – We DO MOVE Your World

Once you’ve decided on page layouts and formats for your portfolio website, you still have to import your content, which is where the design process tends to slow down.

Not so with MOVEDO with its clean, modern design, amazing responsive options and easy to work with import features. There are plenty of exciting new features as well that will ensure your portfolio website avoids any sense of “sameness” and stands out above the rest.

Pofo

Pofo is a multi-purpose theme that lends itself particularly well to portfolio, blog, and eCommerce website building. The package includes the WPBakery page builder and Revolution slider plugins, an excellent selection of demo and home pages and a WordPress customizing tool and custom shortcodes to give the user maximum design flexibility.

Creative teams, agencies, photographers, and artists will find there is much to like about this premium theme.

Conclusion

It’s nice to have a few hundred multipurpose themes to choose from that seem to have what it takes to create a decent portfolio website. Searching takes time however, and you might even have to undertake some trial and error testing before settling on one that best meets your needs.

It’s much easier if you have only 8 themes to choose from. Since any one of the above should be up to the task, it’s a can’t-lose situation. Just pick one you think will work best for you. You won’t be disappointed.

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