There are many professionally developed free WordPress theme for showcasing portfolios. Choosing the right theme could be time consuming and difficult. After testing hundreds of WordPress themes we have prepared this collection of the best portfolio WordPress themes for photographers, artists, designers, and anyone who want to showcase their work on their WordPress sites. While searching for themes our main objectives were to find a portfolio themes which are easy to use, user ratings, popularity, features and look and feel.

I-DESIGN is a clean and beautiful, multi-purpose WordPress theme with professionally designed ready to import 30+ unique layouts for you to use. This theme comes with plugin “TemplatesNext ToolKit”, which packs around 20 Shortcodes, Portfolio, Testimonial, Team, Itrans Slider widgets for page builder plugins like “SiteOrigin Page Builder” and “Elementor”. Oshine is a highly customizable WordPress theme and you have access to top google fonts, unlimited color variations, and much more.

Also, this theme supports many popular plugins such as SiteOrigin Page Builder, Brizy Elementor, BuddyPress, WooCommerce, Contact Forms 7 and others. I-DESIGN has portfolio as post types, means it actually creates portfolios like posts and pages. The advantages of having portfolio a post type is, you do not lose the data when you change the theme.

Main Features

• Easy Customization.
• One Click Demo Import.
• RTL And Multilingual Support.
• WooCommerce Support.
• Page Builder Support.

Allegiant is a beautiful multipurpose WordPress theme for small business and artists. This highly responsive theme looks great in all kind of devices. With WooCommerce you can start your store right away, it comes with many WooCommerce features. This theme comes with features like portfolios, testimonials, and team member sections as well as pre-bilt demo layouts.

Main Features

• Responsive Design.
• WooCommerce Support.
• Full-width Slider.
• Page Builder Support.

Virtue is popular free theme loaded with nice features. This responsive theme is easy to customize and looks great on all kind of screen sizes. Virtue also supports WooCommerce and comes with many WooCommerce related features. It also comes with portfolio posts and pages to showcase your work.

With Virtue you can customize your header in three different styles. You can use different font on different part of your site using google fonts feature. This theme also comes with One Click Demo Import to start your website with one of its demo.

Main Features

• Multiple Header Menu Options.
• WooCommerce Support.
• Wide And Boxed Layout.
• Portfolio Custom Post Type.

Illdy is a beautiful theme built based on Bootstrap, which makes it highly responsive and looks good on any device. This highly customizable theme can be used for business startup or landing page for your product or showcase your work.

Illdy supports most of the popular plugins such as  Contact Form 7, Yoast SEO, Jetpack, WP Super Cache, NextGEN Gallery etc. One of the eye catching feature of this is its customizable parallax section with fullscreen image background. This well documented theme translation ready.

Main Features

• Responsive & Flat Design.
• WordPress Customizer Support.
• Full-screen Hero Image.
• WooCommerce Support.

Lightning is a functional bootstrap based theme which adopts to any screen size nicely. This theme comes with a plugin called “VK All in One Expansion Unit”, which increases the functionality of this theme many folds. Some of the widgets and blocks  it includes are; Recent Posts widget to display latest posts, Page content widget to display the contents of any page. Profile Widget to display profiles, etc.

Main Features

• Responsive Layout.
• WordPress Customizer Support.
• Translation Ready.
• Custom Post Type Support.

Roseta is a beautiful and multi-purpose WordPress theme with high flexibility. If you are looking for a free portfolio theme, you must try Roseta. You also can use it for your blog, business website or WooCommerce store. With this lightweight and responsive theme you can create beautiful landing pages. Roseta comes with dynamic slider, customizable text areas, icon blocks, etc.

Main Features

• Customization Options.
• Ready To Use Sections.
• Translation Ready.
• On Page SEO.

Screenr is minimal one page portfolio theme suitable for small businesses, personal portfolio, digital agency or free-lancers. If you are looking for a nice portfolio site without spending lots of time and effort, Screenr is a must try. This responsive wordpress theme comes with many useful features useful for a one page site. This theme comes with full screen parallax image header and custom content bloks like about info, services, clients, latest posts from the blog, contact form, etc.

Main Features

• Responsive Design
• Custom Content Blocks.
• Advanced Theme Customize.
• Parallax Background Effect.

Photograph is a simple but beautiful portfolio theme specifically developed for photographers, studios and bloggers. This theme comes with one click demos to help you kick start your website. Photograph comes with ready to use templates for contact us and Gallery page. This well documented theme has all the necessary customization options to make it look awesome photography portfolio.

Main Features

• Multiple Layout.
• Responsive Design.
• Social Media Integrated.
• WooCommerce Compatible.

As the name suggest this theme is highly customizable and can be used for portfolio, blog, business or personal website. Extremely responsive and looks beautiful in any device with any size. This theme has a flexible framework and supports all the popular page builders like SiteOrigin Page Builder, Beaver Builder or Elementor. One useful feature we like in this theme is custom header and footer builder. If you are looking for a simple but versatile theme to show-case your work, you must give this theme a try.

Main Features

• Comprehensive Header & Footer Builder.
• Ready to import websites.
• Made for page builders.
• Fast & friendly support.

Eight Sec is a beautiful one page wordpress theme can be used as portfolio, blog, business or any other creative site. It comes with pre-built customizable sections. Once you install the theme, you will have pre-built sections ready to edit or customize, the sections are slider section, about section, portfolio section, Call To Action section, blog section, testimonial section, contact us section and widgetized footer. This highly responsive and light weight theme is for tor the people who wants their website ready in few minutes.

Main Features

• Boxed and full width layout.
• Multiple slider options.
• Multiple blog post layout.
• WooCommerce integrated.

All the above themes are free and well supported via WordPress official website support forum. Do share your thoughts about the list in the comment section below.