Whether you are a professional photographer, designer, programmer, or writer, creating a website is crucial enough to strengthen your personal brand. You can create a portfolio website to display your works and tell everyone about yourself. You might be wondering, is it possible to create a website without having programming skills?
WordPress is a free CMS that you can use to create a website. No programming skills are required. There are 3 main components you need to create a portfolio website with WordPress:
- A domain name (i.e yourdomain.com)
- Web hosting
- An appropriate theme
Before the page builder era, WordPress users had to master PHP, CSS, HTML, and JavaScript to create a theme. Today, you can create a WordPress without coding. Some page builder plugins such as Elementor and Divi Builder come with a theme builder feature that allows you to create a WordPress theme using a visual editor. If you prefer to use an existing theme, here are our recommendations to create a portfolio website.
1. Arlo
Arlo is an affordable WordPress theme. You can get it at only $19. This theme is designed specifically for portfolio websites, just like what you want to create. Arlo is bundled with Elementor, a popular page builder with an intuitive visual interface.
While you can use Elementor to create beautiful pages from scratch, Arlo offers ready-to-use templates to save you time.
2. Wavee
Same as Arlo, Wavee also uses Elementor as its page builder. So, if you love Elementor and are looking for a theme to create a portfolio website then this theme is a perfect option. Wavee is especially a great theme if you want to create a full-screen portfolio website. There are premade templates you can import to save you time to create a website, including 5 homepage templates, 8 portfolio templates, and so on.
There are over 19 page templates offered by this theme in total. You can use Wevee whether to create a personal portfolio website or a portfolio site for your agency.
There are 5 portfolio layouts offered by Wavee: Grid View (two layouts), Fluid View, Masonary View, and Fuild View with Title.
Although the Elementor included on the Wavee bundle is the free version, you can add a parallax background to your page. The Wevee theme is bundled with the following plugins:
- Wavee Core
- Elementor
- ACF Pro
- Redux Framework
- MailChimp
- Contact Form 7
3. Leverage
You can use the Leverage theme whether to create a one-page portfolio website or a multi-page portfolio website. The theme provides website demos you can import with a single click. There are about 16 website demos provided by this theme for each website type (single page and multi-page).
Leverage comes with a default page builder. When creating a new page with Leverage’s page builder, you can add the following elements:
- Portfolio
- Pricing
- Slider
- Parallax
- Team members
- Testimonials
- And more
In addition, this theme also comes with a default contact form feature so you don’t need to install an extra plugin to add a contact form to a page. Although Leverage comes with a default page builder and contact form builder, it is also compatible with popular page builder plugins like Elementor and WP Bakery and popular form builder plugins like Contact Form 7 and Gravity Forms. Other features offered by this theme include sticky header, animation, responsive menu, popup builder, modal, and so on.
4. Werkstatt
Werkstatt comes with a bunch of website demos you can import with a single click. A website demo is a set of templates designed specifically for a certain website type. It allows you to have a complete website in no time. You just need to replace the default content of each template such as text, image, and so on. The demos offered by Werkstatt ranging from a digital agency, designer, developer, freelancer, and so on. Werkstatt itself uses Visual Composer as its default page builder. Werkstatt offers a bunch of elements you can add to your page when you are creating a new page with Visual Composer, including Pinterest, Tabs, Pie Chart, Line Chart, and so on.
A unique feature offered by this theme is the ability to set sound effects for click and hover. It also comes with some animated effects.
5. Divi
Divi is not designed specifically for portfolio websites. Instead, it is a multipurpose theme that you can use to create any type of website. Divi comes with over 100 layout packs that allow you to have a complete website in no time. A layout pack itself is a set of layouts (templates) with a consistent design concept.
A layout pack is designed specifically for a website type. There several layout packs and Divi child themes designed for portfolio websites. Divi itself comes with a page builder called Divi Builder. You can use the page builder to create beautiful pages on your website.
The Divi Builder page builder itself comes with a theme builder that you can use to create a custom header, custom footer, custom single post layout, custom 404 page, and so on. In other words, you can use Divi Builder to create a WordPress theme without coding.
6. Jupiter X
Jupiter X is an Elementor-based WordPress theme. Although this theme has its own theme customizer feature, you can also create a custom theme part (footer, header, single post layout, and so on) using Elementor. The Jupiter X theme itself is not designed specifically for portfolio websites. Instead, it is a multipurpose theme you can use to create an online magazine, blog, and — of course — a portfolio website. There are about 43 website templates offered by Jupiter X that are designed to create a portfolio website.
Jupiter X is bundled with premium Elementor add-ons from Crocoblock:
- JetBlog
- JetElements
- JetEngine
- JetMenu
- JetPopup
- JetSmartFilters
- JetTabs
- JetTricks
- JetWooBuilder
The add-ons above worth about $159. With Jupiter X, you can get those add-ons with only $59 with a one-time purchase option. Jupiter X is especially a great theme if you work for an agency since it comes with a white-label feature that allows you to replace the Jupiter X attributes with your company attributes (logo, icon, name, and so on).
7. Quanzo
Quanzo is another theme that uses Elementor as its page builder. So, if you are a fan of Elementor then this website is a great fit. Quanzo is designed specifically for portfolio websites.
Same as other themes above, this theme also comes with premade templates to allow you to create a website more quickly. Quanzo comes with demos for a designer, artist, photographer, videographer, architect, copywriter, and so on.
8. Nimbus
Elementor has become the most popular page builder for WordPress as it is free to use. This allows theme developers to include Elementor to the themes they develop without spending extra money. Nimbus is another theme that uses Elementor as its default page builder.
The developer of this theme offers exclusive Elementor widgets that you can use when creating a new page. The theme itself offers premade page templates you can import although the number is not significant like, for instance, Jupiter X.
9. Victim
Victim is also designed specifically for portfolio websites. This theme uses Elementor as its default page builder to make it easy for you to create a new page. There are 22 extra widgets offered by this theme that you can use when creating a new page.
Website demos are available in case you have no idea about the design concept of the website you want to create. You can import a demo with a single click.
