ProudFolio gives designers, developers, artists and photographers a framework for a great-looking portfolio site and a feature-rich blog.

The homepage is a combination of those elements, highlighting the latest projects from your portfolio, as well as your most recent blog post.

Throw in clear navigation, a dark, worn look, and a simple options panel for tweaking the layout and colour scheme, and you’ve got one of the best portfolio themes around.

The ProudFolio WordPress theme also includes: a built-in video panel, which you can use to publish any web-based Flash videos; an automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images; custom page templates for Archives, Sitemap and Image Gallery; built-in Gravatar support; an integrated banner management script to display random banner ads of your choice site-wide; and Widgetized sidebars.

Cost

The ProudFolio theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s licence. Alternatively, join the WooThemes club for $150 per quarter.

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Sharpfolio is a beautiful theme that makes the creation of a professional portfolio a snap.

The code is clean and the design is simple yet stylish, with all the focus on the work being presented rather than on flashy headers or sidebar widgets.

Adding your recent work is extremely simple, making the upkeep on a portfolio site easy.

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Linquist is an elegant and minimalist WordPress theme purely oriented towards the creation of portfolio websites showcasing photos, artworks or visual designs.

Users can choose between light and dark colour styles, both of which are effective and beautiful, putting the portfolio images front and centre, and allowing for small captions containing information about each work.

Each item has its own page and comments, and there’s an Options panel to help make the site run the way you want it to.

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