One of the fastest growing niches on the WordPress theme marketplace is the segment for creative professionals & business. Photographers, artists, designers and anyone else is usually looking to showcase their work in a high quality, visual way. If you search the web, a multitude of templates is ready to transform your website. Due to the various opportunities, we now face a new problem: How to choose the right one?
Touching the delicate balance between aesthetics and intelligent functionality is a challenging task even for a creative person. The theme authors race to develop a beautiful portfolio that merges the high visual designs with the business branding requirements. But are these enough?
After analyzing dozens of templates, we found those particular elements necessary for a creative and interesting portfolio WordPress theme. Summarizing the most important features we have reached to seven mandatory attributes. A creative theme must come with high-quality design, parallax effects, full-width sliders, multiple portfolio layouts, integrated functionality for eCommerce, and various blog post templates.
In the ‘Most Beautiful Creative and Portfolio WordPress Themes’ collection we included responsive and retina ready WordPress templates. They also come equipped with amazing features, advanced theme options, and shortcodes capable of building a spectacular website to showcase your work in a unique way.
The Most Beautiful & Creative Portfolio WordPress Themes of 2020
1Bridge Theme Review
Bridge is a creative multi-purpose WordPress theme released in 2014 by Qode Themes, an Envato Power Elite author. Part of an extensive portfolio, Bridge is a powerful and friendly template designed to help you create a remarkable website. With a minimal design and a top level of customization, Bridge was created to give you a great start for a professional looking website. With various features, a...
2Kallyas Theme Review
Last updated on August 31, 2017 Kallyas is a multi-purpose theme launched in February 2013 by Hogash, an Envato power elite author. This theme has a strong, visual design powered by a flexible front-end page builder. Thanks to the multiple options and features provided, Kallyas will help you build a remarkable website. Inspired by the ancient Greek word ‘kallias’ which means ‘beauty,’ this theme brings you...
3Salient Theme Review
Last updated on September 4, 2017 Salient is a multi-purpose theme, launched in March 2013 by ThemeNectar, an Envato Power Elite author. This is an elegant theme, with various customization options and a clean code structure. ThemeNectar designed this template as a creative and flexible template, with modern lines and extensive visual effects. The Salient theme combines strong graphics with stylish design to create a complete and...
4Uncode Theme Review
Uncode is a multi-purpose theme released in November 2015 by Undsgn, an Envato Elite author. The developers describe this template as creative, innovative and user-friendly. Based on visually appealing features and many pre-built templates called ‘concepts’ (demos), Uncode is a great theme to start your amazing website. The Uncode theme aims to be versatile, with many helpful tools and styles, defining a more visual approach....
5TheGem Theme Review
TheGem is a multi-purpose template, launched in August 2016 by Codex Themes, an Envato Elite author. Designed for both creative and business industry, it helps you create a beautiful online portfolio, multiple niche websites, and virtual stores. TheGem is packed with features, demos, styles and layouts, ready to transform any project plan into reality. A modern and minimal theme, TheGem was designed to help you...
6Impreza Theme Review
Impreza is a premium creative theme, developed by UpSolution, an Envato power elite author. This template is versatile, with many features that make it easily integrable in the multi-purpose category. Impreza is a nice theme if you plan to build a creative, personal blog or a portfolio website. Beautiful demos, custom header styles, grids and image sliders will give you a lovely WordPress experience. Impreza comes...
7Kalium Theme Review
Last updated on January 26, 2017 Kalium is a creative and portfolio theme, developed in April 2015 by Laborator, an Envato Power Elite author. With a considerable number of options, portfolio styles, custom elements, lightbox and hover effects, the multi-purpose category is a more suitable one to include this beautiful template in. Whatever your plan is, Kalium can be the right choice for your photography,...
8Perfect Portfolio Pro
Perfect Portfolio Pro is a creative WordPress theme designed to showcase your work and milestones beautifully. This theme is ideal for freelancers, photographers, and agencies willing to build an innovative, personal blog or portfolio website. Perfect Portfolio Pro features a clean and modern design built to attract more customers. It is responsive in design and works perfectly on all screen sizes. Perfect Portfolio Pro has...
9Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a premium and creative WordPress theme, designed by the United Themes author. The template is a truly multi-purpose parallax with more than one layout. No matter if you use it as a photographer, traveler, web design agency, non-profit or environmental organization, SEO expert, blogger, with Brooklyn you'll have the website of your dreams. It comes with the premium drag and drop page builder -...
10Oshine Theme Review
Last updated on September 6, 2017 Oshine is a creative multi-purpose theme released in December 2014 by Brand Exponents, an Envato Power Elite author. It is described as one of the most beautiful templates on this creative niche, with many features and pre-built demos, that will give you a starting point in developing an impressive and well-customized website. Do you like white spaces, minimal lines, and...
11Ronneby Theme Review
Ronneby is a premium creative WordPress Theme released in June 2015 by DFDevelopment, an Envato Elite author. This beautiful corporate template was built to satisfy the desires of developers and agencies. Merging bold designs with extreme functionality, Ronneby brings stunning visual aesthetics while providing decent page loading performance for any website you plan to develop. Ronneby comes with a modern and elegant design inviting users...
12Boo
Boo is a premium WordPress theme designed to be the framework of creative websites, such as blogs, eShops, photography, portfolio or others. The Boo template gives you the ability to create a great design with ease, without knowing a line of code. In this behalf, you can go through the pre-built templates and choose the one you lice. Also, you can customize your site using...
13Stockholm
Stockholm is an attractive premium multi-purpose WordPress theme designed to help you build a business website with style. With over 40 pre-built demos ready to transform your site, Stockholm is a flexible theme which allows you to develop any website from portfolios to e-shops without too much effort. This template comes with various customizable header styles, and many of the demos' features can be easily...
14Jevelin
A multi-purpose, mobile friendly WordPress theme for business, freelance, and private use. Designed in an up beat creative manner to suit basic and more complex website projects. With a built in WooCommerce plugin, the theme can function like a marketplace for selling items. The theme also includes Slider revolution and is SEO friendly, and has RTL compatibility options. With a powerful admin interface, this theme...
15Photography ThemeGoods
Photography is a premium WordPress theme, designed by ThemeGoods, an Envato power elite author. This original template comes with a clean and beautiful, minimal and elegant design, suitable for Photography Creative Portfolio websites. It is built with the latest technology so that you can develop a photography portfolio website with ease. Photography has a responsive layout, so it looks great on all devices. It...
16Norebro
Norebro is a carefully crafted, flexible WordPress theme for personal and corporate use. It comes packed with the most popular page builder, Visual Composer. Choose from over 30+ inner pages or combine your own page layouts. All you have to do is fill it with original content and your website is ready to go. You can change the looks of your header with the various...
17Pofo
Pofo is a portfolio and blog WordPress theme that helps you build the perfect corporate, creative agency, or blog website. Give your pages that hand-made feel by using any of the hundreds of web elements at your disposal, and select from over 200 pre-built templates for a complete, ready to roll-out website. Its crisp design will showcase your best feature – your content. Because sometimes, less is...
18The Ken
The Ken is a multi-purpose and creative WordPress theme built by Artbees, an Envato Power Elite Author. It comes with a nice art library of elements, layouts, and features. Exhibition, Hotel, Coffe House, Designer, Agency are just a few of the pre-made templates that come with The Ken. You can manage menu styles, custom layout box, color gradients, shortcodes, headers and other tools, to...
19Yorke
Yorke is a beautiful theme specially designed for businesses and companies of all sizes and all fields. With a modern design and numerous features, this newly developed WordPress theme can be interesting. Mobile friendly, powered by Visual Composer Page-builder, Yorke brings you ten unique homepage layouts. This creative portfolio WordPress Theme is described by the author as a lightweight and fast loading template. Smooth CSS3 Animation Unlimited...
20Werkstatt
Werkstatt is a premium WordPress template developed by Fuelthemes, an Envato power elite author for creative and portfolio websites. It comes with seven different blog styles, Typekit, Google Fonts, various animation effects and more features to help you showcase your content in a beautiful website. Werkstatt has a responsive and retina ready layout allowing you to work from any device.
21Novo
Novo is a creative, modern photography WordPress theme. With it, you can create your own unique and beautiful site for photographers, blogger, photography agency or photo studio. Various galleries will show the uniqueness of your work, and a simple and convenient store to sell your valuable photos. With Novo, you are able to customize your website using the homepage variants, multiple color choices, horizontal gallery, fullscreen...
22Haar
Haar is a new WordPress Portfolio theme created especially for designers, artists, and illustrators. Built to be responsive and retina ready, Haar comes with many of the powerful tools you need to be able to showcase your creative work online. The author, Edge-Themes, loaded the template with a collection of engaging portfolio single layouts ready to be used. Haar comes with an easy-to-use admin interface. One-click import of demo...
23Berly
Berly is fresh Portfolio WordPress Theme created in 2018 by webRedox. The minimalistic and clean design is main reason that Berly is present in this collection. You can use this portfolio template for an agency, personal portfolio, architect agency, freelancer, photography studios, sound and music, musician, painter portfolio, artworks, art, artist portfolio, web design works, illustrators, trainer, projects, freelance designer. One Click Demo Data ...
24Ampster
Ampster is a fresh-out-of-the-box creative WordPress theme for business websites designed by BeantownThemes. With more than 58 pre-made, ready to use complete websites, this is a WordPress solution for a huge variety of markets and business types. Quickly import your demo website, customize styles & effects, headers & footer, team & portfolios, build your pages with the powerful page builder, and use as many of our...
25Archi - Interior Design
Archi is a clean WordPress Theme specially made for Interior Design services, Residential Design, Furniture Design, Office Design, Commercial Design, Hospital Design, Cottage, Architecture, contractor, construction, building, Construction & Business and so on. Archi helps you to create a beautiful and modern website in no time, making sure that your site stands out of the crowd. New Design and New Homepage with header bottom 12...
TheGem is perfect for every pixel! Though, I am attracted to use Kalium for my second web, since it has so neat design for photography sites. Thanks for sharing the creative top <3
Brandon, Ilike very much the Gem, the demos and all in it. But i’m not sure if i will be able to create a fashion blog with it and show my creations. I have no computer skills :(…it is complicate to use it? or should i use the Kalium or other theme?
Dear Rose, I guess it’s ok to not having code skills.You can give TheGem a try. Me myself don’t have that much coding knowledge and I’m pretty good working with it. The documentation is really great and same are the videos! Hope it helps and sorry for my way late response ?
Hi Brandon, Rose! Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us! Good luck with your projects!
Awesome list. Thanks for sharing.