10 Best & Shortlisted Business Portfolio WordPress Themes 2015 [by InkThemes]

Starting up a portfolio website has often been a clever choice for marketers. Since the emerging of digital media marketing, WordPress themes with various standard designs and layouts are available to gear up your business. But, while creating a portfolio business site, you are ensuring that you have secured a collection of previous work in your portfolio pages.

In many ways, portfolio WordPress themes are beneficial for business. It doesn’t affect the size and nature of the business, for instance, whether you are a freelancer or a business person, the samples or past work always help to increase the interest of the potential clients who are ready to pay in exchange of your genuine services.

Also, having an own WordPress site is a matter of pride that can assist to promote our work. Even a freelance graphic designer can create a portfolio based website with some selected themes that work extremely fine. Creating a portfolio website has never been easier. Thanks to the hand-picked list of 10 best and shortlisted portfolio WordPress themes in InkThemes arsenal for 2015, that will reduce hopefully most of your search time and technical work.

Just imagine, emailing resume to your clients every time and doing modifications for every project seems to be a daunting task. Indeed sending only a portfolio page link to your customers is a hassle free way that looks more professional. Links often look more realistic, and companies also appreciate portfolio pages and online present. It is a proven kickass technique to use portfolio websites instead to display work in resumes and used by most of the online marketers smartly.

Top 10 shortlisted portfolio themes that we include in the list are ideal for creative artists, graphic designers, web developers, painters, photographers or even service providers and small businesses like interior designers. All these themes come with a large number of specifications and different page variations to build an ideal portfolio website for various businesses.

NatureShoot – Nature Photography WordPress Theme

NatureShoot WordPress Theme

NatureShoot is determined to take your creative work in the spotlight. As a matter of fact, the theme is designed for nature and landscape photographers. Regardless of being a top portfolio theme, it also has a one-page layout. Don’t forget to visit the demo page and its exceptional portfolio page that comes with a category filter layer.

Main menus are bundled under the collapsible navigation bar. This collapsible menu bar has an elegant design to showcase most of the website features. Further, this menu bar includes widgetized area, contact information and social media integration.

Unlike the other business themes, NatureShoot has exclusively image slider that is entirely dedicated to an image-centric site.

Since it is a premium WordPress theme developed by InkThemes, therefore you will get extremely simple theme options panel to edit your theme functionalities. The theme management is just easy as managing a FaceBook account at your fingertips.

Theme Features

  • One page WordPress theme
  • Image filterable portfolio page
  • Collapsible navigation menu
  • Vertical navigation menu with widgetized area
  • Social media icons
  • One column blog page
  • Responsive WordPress theme
  • SEO options to make your theme search engine friendly

Theme Demo       Theme Info

PhotopointWordPress Theme For Professional Photographer

PhotoPoint WordPress Theme

It is an excellent choice to keep your work records in portfolio pages but what about a WordPress theme with photo blogging features. Photopoint has a nice layout for portfolio/gallery page, but it also has a tremendous photo blogging feature that permit you to show your work/images in blog style.

It is most suitable for photographers like the wedding, fashion, destination, travel, wildlife photographers and also for graphic designers who need to update frequently their work or portfolios. Photopoint is available in two colors, black and white to create an excellent looking portfolio website with a professional touch.

Mobile devices often resist high-quality portfolio themes while browsing. Thankfully, Photopoint is highly optimized for all devices. Its responsiveness offers the fluid layout of the web pages that means it fits in all screens whether it is a cell phone or a tablet.

Theme Features

  • Photoblogging feature
  • Image slider with a row containing thumbnails
  • Different page layout
  • Contact page
  • Mobile ready WordPress theme
  • Landscape layouts for images
  • Four column widgetized footer
  • Complete PSD files included with the theme

Theme Demo         Theme Info

Ray Photy – A Modern Portfolio WordPress Theme

RayPhoty WordPress Theme

We have seen Ray Photy design and performance from a while and it seems completely elegant and optimized in all aspects. The homepage will only appear with a logo and a navigation button with a background full of images. Once the button is being clicked, a navigation menu pops out the entire screen. Even this portfolio theme has an attractive layout for blog posts with a right sidebar.

Any freelancer or community can establish an appealing website with Ray Photy as it has many modern functionalities to keep your site up to date with latest web designing trends.

If you create a portfolio page with this theme, it is better to know, it has two different layouts only for portfolio page including portfolio featured image and portfolio grid. You can set page layout as portfolio featured image to arrange all your images with random sizes. Conversely, portfolio grid layout will assist you to create an image gallery with equal sizes of images in grid view.

Theme Features

  • Navigation button that pop outs the navigation list
  • Two different portfolio pages – portfolio featured and portfolio grid
  • Blog layout
  • Perfect fonts
  • Custom widget ready
  • Drag and drop website builder – Visual composer
  • Extensive theme options panel yet simple to use
  • Responsive design for mobiles and tablets

Theme Demo         Theme Info

Dekor – eCommerce & Portfolio WordPress Theme

Dekor WordPress Theme

When you want to show your art works and photography skills towards a wider audience, it is great to use a perfect photography WordPress theme. But if you want to turn your hard work into cash, that means if you like to sell featured images created by you, then you need an outstanding Portfolio theme with eCommerce functionality. Since the Dekor theme is created to fulfill all your need with a powerful WooCommerce integration.

Since the emerge of Dekor WordPress theme, setting up an online store in your website could become possible. This theme comprises of some advanced features like it has five different portfolio layouts including masonry, 4 columns, 3 columns, 2 columns and single style. We had amazed while we saw the last layout named single style itself has five different styles – slider full width, slider small, gallery style, video style and floating style.

Theme Features

  • Visual composer
  • Translation ready
  • WPML compatible
  • Integrated WooCommerce
  • Mega menu
  • Revolution slider plugin
  • bbPress plugin to create forum in your website
  • Google web fonts and font awesome icons

Theme Demo         Theme Info

Legendary – Multipurpose WordPress Theme

Legendary WordPress Theme

We have featured Legendary in 10 shortlisted portfolio WordPress theme since it can be used as portfolio, eCommerce, magazine or corporate site. When we looked up the theme, its portfolio layout has very user-friendly vibe emanating through the demo page. So, we couldn’t resist to include this theme in out list.

It has two homepage style, three blog page style, and three portfolio styles. The footer also has two different layouts, first is completely widgetized with four columns and second comes with navigation menus and social media integration. If you are planning to use the first one, you have to manually use custom social media widgets in four column footer.

Theme Features

  • Retina ready WordPress theme
  • Compatible with mobile screens and tablets
  • Drag and drop page builder
  • Isotope portfolio
  • 400 integrated icons
  • Built in audio player
  • Pricing table
  • Multi-functional widget

Theme Demo         Theme Info

Rain Drop – Portfolio WordPress Theme With Rain Effect

RainDrop WordPress Theme

Rain drop is also a multipurpose theme that available with one-page style. It comes with four different demo pages, and each page comes with ultimate transition effects. The first three demos have rain effects except the fourth one for those who don’t like to adapt rain effect in their website.

It has a nice and minimalist portfolio section with gallery filter options. You can share videos, images, audio files in your portfolio sections and enjoy the better one-page surfing with a sticky navigation menu. It has various mind-blowing features like counter stats, three column blog section, team member, client logo and much more. To explore all the functionalities, visit the demo link shown below.

Theme Features

  • Retina ready WordPress theme
  • Isotope filterable gallery
  • Stats Counter with excellent graphics
  • Page builder by premiumcoding
  • Revolution slider
  • Five blog post template – standard, video, link, gallery audio
  • Filterable portfolio layout
  • About section with three column
  • Facts/counter stats
  • Ultimate raining effects
  • Team member featured section

Theme Demo         Theme Info

Mynd – Artistic WordPress Theme

Mynd WordPress Theme

Mynd is a wonderful theme with an artistic design and will be a perfect choice for those who want to display their best photographs, products, designs and creative arts. There is a perfect combination of the theme colors and design. Though, its powerful framework allows us to create a multipurpose website with Mynd WordPress theme.

Mynd is somewhat unique portfolio theme due to its clean, minimalist design and various shortcodes features. The theme is mobile ready to ensure that its fluid elements set up their width automatically whenever surf from a mobile or tablet.

Theme Feature

  • Retina ready WordPress theme
  • One click demo install
  • Responsive design
  • 100 + shortcodes including count blocks and progress bars
  • Portfolio page in three different style
  • Single column blog page
  • Sticky navigation bar
  • Social media integration
  • Professional front page

Theme Demo         Theme Info

Zoomy – Responsive Photography WordPress Theme

Zoomy WordPress Theme

If are looking for a high-quality portfolio theme with tidy design and completely professional look, then Zoomy may be a quintessential WordPress theme for your business. Zoomy is a potential theme having the ability to create a premium quality website. The demo page shows a retro styled photography website. The front slider is quite wider and simple yet having an eye-capturing design.

The installation process is not so tough and the most critical part will handled by the theme itself. Zoomy has three gallery layouts with large-sized thumbnails in which you can display your work portfolios. It also has four blog posts style one of which comes with a customizable sidebar. Thanks to the various shortcodes available with the Zoomy, where these shortcodes help to create featured team members, tabs, buttons, pricing tables, and much more.

The theme has some unconventional features that distinguish the theme from the crowd. We have tested the theme and observes homepage behaves as portfolio page with three different layouts while gallery page serves as a page for the collection of images with filterable category feature.

Theme Features

  • Three different layout of homepage
  • Three different layout of gallery page
  • Fout layouts for blog page
  • Compatibility with several short codes
  • Client testimonial section
  • Stats counter for skills
  • Social icons integration
  • Widgets for contact information

Theme Demo         Theme Info

Phototastic – Grid Style Portfolio Theme

Phototastic WordPress Theme

Photostatic is amazingly stylish, incredibly flexible and powerful WordPress theme with grid style portfolio homepage. Apart from the homepage, gallery page is available in four different layout that is entirely suitable for handling the different type of portfolio websites. Starting from the web designer to a professional painter, anyone can use this WordPress theme to showcase their previous work in best style.

Myriad of features and eCommerce integrity makes this theme adaptable for individuals as well for business. If you are a photographer and want to sell your high-quality photographs then no doubt, Phototastic is an ideal solution to get most out of your work.

Theme Features

  • Five galleries
  • Homepage in complete view and grid view
  • Social media icons
  • Revolution slider
  • WooCommerce compatible
  • Various blog posts formats – standard, aside, image, video, quote, link, gallery, status, audio
  • Integrated Ninja form
  • Fourteen custom widgets
  • Full support for child theme
  • Compatible with various famous plugins like All in one SEO

Theme Demo         Theme Info

Photomaker – One-page Portfolio Theme

Photomaker WordPress Theme

Photomaker is an innovative one page WordPress theme appropriate to create a website for photographers, photo bloggers, graphic designers, etc. The theme comes with extremely flexible features such that it can be used for a multitude of websites. The theme is bundled with the most advanced CSS codes that ensures the responsiveness of the theme and amazingly the theme fits fine on all portable internet-enabled devices.

Photomaker allows you to create a website with different color skins, pages with variation, pre-built sections that smoothly navigates with one-page scrolling. Portfolio page has an outstanding layout with filterable image features where anyone can filter images with categories.

Theme Features

  • Vertical and collapsible navigation menu
  • Stylish portfolio page with image filtration
  • One column blog page
  • Widgetized main navigation menu
  • Mind blowing color skins
  • Five post formats including standard, slider, videos, images, quotes
  • Responsive WordPress theme
  • Compatible with most of the famous plugins

Theme Demo         Theme Info

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