A decent portfolio must cover a lot of bases. Apart from showcasing your work, the text alongside each piece must give the right level of context. Not only that, it must also be designed well enough to catch people’s attention without shifting focus away from the work itself.

Finding a suitable theme among the many available could be difficult, especially if you’re unsure of the functionality you require. You might be looking for a simple way to organize and display your work, along with attractive typography and design options, or you might be considering whether a theme is bundled with a slider and/or lightbox plugins, to further enhance your work.

Rather than have you guys go through theme after theme, we’ve decided to compile our picks of the best portfolio themes available for WordPress in 2018 below.

Jevelin

Jevelin is a highly resourceful and graphically stunning portfolio theme. This theme’s creators have crafted this theme as an expert set of tools for efficient and hassle-free development of websites, spanning a veritable cornucopia of interests and applications across the board. With this theme, setting up your own customized website is as easy as selecting your favourite demo website or page template, and then proceeding to make use of the intuitive drag and drop page builder to customize your layouts and styling in a matter of minutes. Advanced admin tools allow for deep and meaningful graphical and behavioural fine-tuning.

This theme comes with transitions and animations for header and footer styling, not to mention well over 40 shortcode elements ready for you to deploy, each with its own set of customization choices for you to fiddle with. It should also be noted that Jevelin is based on a modular Bootstrap design that renders your every page perfectly across all devices and browsers out there, while its HTML5 code empowers media-savvy handling of your high-resolution images and embedded video content with lightweight and fast-loading code. 

Adios

Tech-savvy and very modern, this multipurpose WordPress portfolio website theme is easy to use, lightning fast, and responsive. Adios has been crafted as the ultimate portfolio theme for creative individuals in need of an elegant, tasteful framework for presenting their works of any kind to a massive, online audience.

Based on the industry-standard Visual Composer premium page builder plugin, Adios puts the power of hundreds of fonts, limitless colours, dozens of custom modules, elements and a ton of layout styles, animations and transitions in order to allow you to customize your end user’s navigational experience from top to bottom. With this theme, a wealth of handsome layouts are but a single click away, turning your pages into eloquent soapboxes spreading the word of your trade and works.

The Agency

The Agency is a clean and sophisticated portfolio theme from WPLook. This theme is built on SASS, which boasts more features and abilities than any other CSS extension language out there. This theme is totally responsive so your target audience can visit your website no matter what kind of device they prefer to browse on. This theme is very simple to set up, and includes HTML, XML and PSD files to speed up the website development process. It also comes with 2 custom post types and 3 widget areas to help you create stunning and professional pages for your website.

The Agency features an incredible theme options panel that allows you to edit the header design, personalize the background of your website, and upload your own icon and logo. The theme comes with a full-width slider to help you showcase your content and promote user engagement on your website too. It is also is widget-ready to make it easier for site admins and developers to incorporate elements that could spice up the overall look and functionality of your website.

Kallyas

Kallyas is a flexible framework for making eloquent and purposeful websites in a flash. You don’t need any coding skills to get professional quality results with Kallyas, all you need to do is drop your elements and modules into the fray. Use the Visual Builder to customize your sections and layouts through a few clicks. Kallyas includes over 100 elements, each providing all sorts of advanced functionality. This theme is perfect for crafting sharp and impressive portfolio websites within minutes.

The Revolution Slider provides you with stunning slideshows that you can customize at your leisure. Advanced technology like the 3D Parallax visual effects and smooth animations are also at your fingertips. Convenient Big Social Media Blocks let you stay relevant and communicate effectively. Built on Bootstrap, Kallyas is cross-compatible with platforms and devices across the globe. Maximize your reach and broaden your audience with this stunning theme.

Brando

Brando is built to empower webmasters from all walks of life, with or without previous development experience, to effortlessly craft their own sophisticated one-page websites with seamless results. Whether you’re building a personal blog, professional portfolio or a business product showcase, Brando has the stuff you need. It has one of the most intuitive designs and development interfaces on the market today.

Creators and developers looking for a handsome way to present visual or textual content of any nature to an online audience will find a strong ally in Brando. With seamless capabilities for Portfolio elements and Portfolio showcases, you can quickly build remarkable pages for your works that dazzle and impress your potential clients and customers the world over. It is packed with advanced HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap and jQuery technologies to furnish your portfolios with the most advanced visual effects, transitions and animations out there today.