Portfolios and Galleries

Linquist

Linquist is a simple, portfolio oriented theme, without all the usual blogging clutter. While technically based on the Sharpfolio theme featured below, I felt it was distinguishable enough from the original to feature on its own.

Features

• 2 color styles – light & dark
• style switcher
• built-in simple lightbox
• gravatar support
• an options page to set up all these things

Download Linquist | Demo

Sharpfolio

Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio. Sharpfolio aims to focus primarily on your work, because after all, this is what’’s most important.

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Snapshot

Snapshot provides two different layouts allowing you to choose between a personal portfolio/photoblog for your own work or a design gallery for showcasing best-of collections.

Features

• Three Unique Color Schemes
• An Integrated Theme Options Page

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Fotofolio

Fotofolio is a wordpress portfolio style theme designed specifically for photographers. The name pretty much says it all.

Features

• Easy and simple to use
• Automatically resize image for Thumbnail and preview
• Jquery Integrated for Featured Photos and Previews
• Theme Options for easy configure
• Editable homepage slideshow category and numbers

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Portfolio Press

Portfolio Press is a dark-colored theme suitable for anyone who wants to create a quick portfolio or wants to showcase his work through WordPress.

Features

• CSS/XHTML Validated
• Easy to Modify Code
• Gravatar Functionality
• SEO Optimized
• Tested in Firefox, IE7, IE6 and Opera

Download Portfolio Press | Demo

CSS Gallery

CSS Gallery is a theme for webmasters who want to build a CSS showcase or simply a web gallery. Once again, the title tells it all in this clean and minimalist theme.

Features

• Built in Tagging
• Google and Sidebar ad ready
• valid CSS/XHTML

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Gallery

Gallery is a beautiful, free, gallery-style Thematic child theme for WordPress that is extremely flexible and can be used as a starting point for design galleries and portfolios.

Features

• WordPress 2.7 compatible
• jQuery hover effects
• ‘Save to Delicious’ and ‘Tweet This’ links
• Flexible footer widget area
• Integration with WP-PostRatings, Contact Form 7, and BuySellAds plugins

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CSS Gallery Theme 2.0

CSS Gallery Theme 2.0 is a re-tooled version of the CSS Gallery theme, for webmasters whose focus is on building a CSS showcase or web gallery. With an uncomplicated elegance of design, this crisp layout is a wonderful jumping off point.

Features

• Integrated Plugins
• Valid XHTML and CSS
• Search Engine Optimized Sidebar Titles
• Custom Layout / Design to Display Gallery Images
• Logo .psd integrated

Download CSS Gallery Theme 2.0 | Demo

Monochrome Gallery

Monochrome Gallery is a free widgetized theme for Wordpress built with the Blueprint CSS framework.

Features

• Author Archives page
• AJAX Slideshow
• Categorized posts with thumbnails

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WPESP

WPESP is a “minimalist” Theme based on the idea of portfolio created by DAILYWP. The Theme is a starting point in the creation of portfolios, using Wordpress as CMS. This design is fully customizable depending on what the user needs.

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Magazine

Premium News

Premium News – This theme may be a bit rough around the edges (in terms of its looks), but they have used the same solid base for all their subsequent themes, so it seems to be a functional favorite. Enjoy this themes’ minimalistic beauty and make it your own today!

Features

• Integrated Theme Options (for WordPress) to tweak the layout, colour scheme etc. for the theme
• Built-in video panel, which you can use to publish any web-based Flash videos
• Automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images
• Custom Page Templates for Archives, Sitemap & Image Gallery
• Built-in Gravatar Support for Authors & Comments
• Integrated Banner Management script to display randomized banner ads of your choice site-wide
• Widgetized Sidebars
• Featured Posts panel on the homepage using jQuery technology to display / hide the posts
• Animated horizontal drop-down menu’s for category navigation

Download Premium News | Demo

Magazeen

Magazeen is a bold magazine 2 column theme designed to place the main focus on typography, grids and the magazine-look. A fantastic base to allow the content to shine through.

Features

• jQuery image showcase
• related posts drop down effect
• featured and recent posts

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Digital Statement

Digital Statement is a simple theme with a massive amount of room for the user to customize the layout to suit whatever needs they have to meet.

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The Morning After

The Morning After was created based on a brief survey on the WordPress forums which asked people what they would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme…and the people have spoken.

Features

• Clean grid-based design
• Detailed documentation regarding installation, usage and customisation
• Support for WordPress widgets
• Three-column home page
• “Featured” post highlighting
• Associating images/thumbnails with recent posts (with automatic thumbnail generation)
• Customisable logo/header image
• Support for WordPress’s in-built image wrapping classes and galleries
• Threaded comments (WordPress 2.7+ only)
• Support for asides
• Support for Gravatars
• Option for readers to email posts to friends
• Option to switch to a print-friendly view to print posts

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