WordPress is rapidly becoming the perfect platform for, well, just about anything. Any sort of website that is; including creative portfolios! So if you're a web designer, illustrator, writer, developer, or any other type of creative person looking to launch an online portfolio then WordPress might be just the platform for you. Below I've gathered 30 of what I think are some of the best and best looking creative portfolio themes of 2012. Enjoy!
Humble
Humble is built on the GetSkeleton framework, well, a modified version specific to Humble. It’s been built from the ground up to accomodate mobile devices, tablets and big screens! Coupled with some powerful Modernizr scripts Humble is perfect on any device.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Self Titled
Self Titled is responsive WordPress photography theme with unique custom-written slider. Works great for both portrait and landscape photography.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Smasher
Smasher is modern, clean WordPress Theme packed with hand full of features. It is prepared to be customized in any way necessary.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Quartum
Quantum is a responsive WordPRess theme with 49 custom shortcodes, 9 widgets, 500+ google fonts, and a great design. Perfect for creatives looking to show off their work.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Mila
Mila is a masonry based Wordpress Theme optimized for a nice and good User Experience. Mila uses a smooth loading action to show off your pages which you can deactivate at any time. With the Theme Options, you can easily adapt the different page layouts to your needs.
- Full Details | Price: $40
Singlet
SINGLET is the Clean & Responsive One Page Portfolio Template for Individual Professionals & Agencies. Clean Lines & Minimal Design Approach Highlights your Work. Showcase your Portfolio on any device efficiently with its Unique Responsive layouts
- Full Details | Price: $35
Hive
Hive Responsive Portfolio for WordPress features Portfolio hearts rating system added with Ajax portfolio pages. It also has a fullwidth and 2 column blog listing.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Artist
Artist is a 100% Responsive theme created for illustrators, videographers, photographers, and other creatives looking to present their work on an ultra-professional website. It embraces cutting-edge design trends & tech, looks amazing, and is guaranteed to adapt to your unique style of work. Further, the entire site revolves around your work and personality. It puts your work first and foremost, ensuring that your audience will know exactly what type of creative professional they are about to meet. More importantly, it raises you above the competition through pristine technology and unprecedented sharing abilities. Once you dig in, we’re positive that you’ll be amazed by how powerful this theme truly is.
- Full Details | Price: $39
Miniature
Miniature is optimized for your visitors viewing on tablets and phone. Checkout the demo on your iPhone or iPad to give it a try. This theme also contains a variety of shortcodes for button, code blocks and column layouts. Built on StagFramework, Miniature gives you a complete freedom to control and customize all settings of your theme.
- Full Details | Price: $39
Allura
Allura is a minimalist portfolio WordPress theme for people that want to show their work with no distractions. Your work is the star of the show not the “cool” shiny button with gradients!
- Full Details | Price: $39
Zenbox
Zenbox is a simple, responsive portfolio WordPress theme on one page. All portfolio items are separated in boxes and load via Ajax.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Gridone
Gridone is a big, bold, beautiful, portfolio theme for creatives. Gridone is a grid-based, fullscreen, portfolio, WordPress theme with 4 stunning looks and many functionalities.
- Full Details | Price: $39
Website
Website is a responsive theme, which means it adapts to the device on which it’s displayed.
The theme cares for your content so it looks great on all devices, but you can also decide to show part of a content on some versions only, and hide on others.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Bigbang
Bigbang is a best-selling fully responsive WordPress theme that offers a lot to creative professionals. This theme can be used for agencies and individuals alike. It comes with 6 blog post formats, 6 portfolio post formats, photostreams, shortcodes, 2 contact page layouts, 2 home page layouts, and a social icons widget.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Daisho
Daisho is a portfolio solution for creative professionals and companies looking for a minimal and professional look. Flexible and responsive presentation, smooth navigational flow and clutter-free approach. Put your works in focus. Powerful Typography Plugin included. The definitive portfolio solution for creative professionals available now.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Coraline
Coraline is the perfect theme for the creative agency, freelancer or general business. Has a lot of modules are ready for homepage, it’s simple-to-use, customize and install.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Masculine
Masculine is perfect for a creative agency, a modern freelancer or general business. Bold design, responsive layout, and a bunch of awesome features to make everyone happy.
- Full Details | Price: $40
Creative Skeleton
Creative Skeleton is a unique WordPress theme for creative professionals who want a standout portfolio. It comes absolutely packed with rich features, useful shortcodes, and a well thought-out admin panel.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Pixia
Pixia is a Wordpress theme designed specially for creatives. Using a modern and liquid layout you can get a stylish website in a few minutes.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Atom
Atom is a fully responsive WordPress theme for freelance creatives or agencies. It has an excellent built-in quote system, unlimited color options, lots of shortcodes, and much more.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Punch!
Punch is a premium responsive WordPress theme that uses slick shape overlays and impressive animations – perfect for any creative or digital agency. With powerful meta options and features, Punch is ready to help you show off your work the way you want to with stunning precision.
- Full Details | Price: $40
Un Altro
Un Altro is a modern and clean WordPress Theme. It is a creative centric, stylish portfolio that features a responsive design for any screen (desktop, tablet or mobile phone).
- Full Details | Price: $40
Renovatio
Fullscreen, responsive theme. Perfect for online portfolio, blog and gallery. Packed with shortcodes, widgets and options. Take your website to another level!
- Full Details | Price: $40
Viewr
Viewr is the perfect theme for any creative agency or freelancer who wants to show off their kick-ass work in a professional and creative way. A sleek, fully responsive, easy to customise theme – Viewr supports various post formats, self hosted audio / video, unlimited color customisation, filterable portfolio, easy to use short-codes and whole bunch of creative goodness.
- Full Details | Price: $40
Blox
A big, bold, beautiful, portfolio theme for creatives. Designed to put your work in the forefront, Blox is all about showcasing your talent. Each portfolio is its own “block” of creative awesome which can feature your designs, demo reels, or audio tracks. Or all three.
- Full Details | Price: $50
Feather
Show your work in a great way on all devices with Feather – a responsive theme for the creative agency, freelancer or business. It comes in dark, light and grey base colors with plenty of options to customize and a ton of features.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Sketch
Sketch is a responsive, one-page WordPress theme with a super clean, fluid design. Images, videos, galleries and text will scale down gracefully to iPad, iPhone and all mobile devices. This theme looks just as great on your phone as it does on the desktop!
- Full Details | Price: $40
Scrollcase
Scrollcase is a tidy little theme which could be used for a personal portfolio website – show off your photos or graphic work in style with a separate portfolio section and an optional homepage slider.
The theme contains a normal blog section and some custom widgets so you can show off your flickr photos and list your latest tweets. It has several sidebars so you can have different content for your blog sidebar, pages sidebars and portfolio page sidebars. The theme has space for entering your twitter, facebook, RSS and dribbble usernames and will display links to them in the header with a count of how many followers you have.
- Full Details | Price: $49
Themesoft
ThemeSoft is a clean & responsive portfolio theme for creatives, businesses and freelancers.
You can customize the homepage layout with the slider, intro text, call to action button (with icon), features widgets (with icons), portfolio and blog item modules.
The theme is responsive which means it looks just as good on a large desk top display, tablet screens and mobile phone screens. Try resizing the browser window to see this in effect (remove the frame first).
- Full Details | Price: $49
Caption
Capiton is an extremely clean theme suitable for a portfolio or business website, it has minimal styling is very versatile. From the theme options panel you are able to change around the homepage by showing / hiding the slider, choosing how many portfolio and blog entries to display and choosing between 4 included styes – Light, Light Wide, Dark and Dark Wide.
- Full Details | Price: $49
