Themes can extend WordPress into much more than just a blogging platform, and it’s common for theme developers to create themes with a focus on specific niches. For example, a few weeks ago we posted a collection of business WordPress themes that were aimed at giving business owners an easy way to get a great looking site online. So for this post, the focus is on portfolios and galleries. We’ve rounded up 10 themes that are ideal for designers and photographers who don’t have web design skills to build their own portfolio site. The themes we selected for this post are well designed and do an excellent job of presenting the content in a professional manner.
Work
Work is an elegant portfolio theme built for showing off your work. This theme has a clean and professional style that is perfect for displaying anything from illustrations to photography. Easily build your portfolio with the numerous built-in page templates that give you the ability to create one, two, three, and four column gallery layouts.
On Assignment
On Assignment is primed for photographers, videographers and journalists who need to feature their portfolio and connect with followers and potential clients with status updates and news/blog posts.
Photography
Photography is a theme built for photographers. Includes easy to use galleries, integrated Flickr support, and two gorgeous color schemes.
Portfolio
The Organic Portfolio Theme offers a clean, professional way of displaying artwork, design, photography and more. The theme features a portfolio category template that allows for 1, 2 or 3 column layout, a featured content slider, additional portfolio page templates and an options page for easily changing the content of the home page.
Blogfolio
Blogfolio is an advance theme that provides unique layout options to display your portfolio and blog posts. It is designed to give maximum space to display your work.
Photolist
A minimalist theme for Photographers and bloggers alike with features such as image filters and a unique gallery slider.
Widescreen
Widescreen is a photography theme for WordPress that features multiple homepage layout and design options including a fullscreen slideshow, a homepage video, featured posts and much more.
deLucide
deLucide is a very sleek and elegant portfolio theme to showcase your photos or any other work in a professional and lucent design.
DeepFocus
DeepFocus lets you turn your WordPress blog into a fully functional online photo gallery while still maintaining all of the features of a normal blog. Along with the gallery layout, DeepFocus comes with a robust blog and CMS-style homepage as well, making it an amazing solution for artists/photographers looking to build an online presence.
Aperture
Aperture is a multi-functional photo-blogging theme with a unique home page, consisting of a latest posts slider, a visual category display, a blog module and lots of stylish widgetized spaces.
Disclaimer: The Work theme is a product of Theme Trust, which is founded by Henry Jones, who is also founder of Web Design Ledger.