32 Best WordPress Portfolio Examples 2026 (With Themes Used)

The best WordPress portfolios put the work first, give every project its own page and use WordPress for what it does well: custom post types for projects, WooCommerce for prints and products, and a blog or newsletter next to the work. The 32 sites below are real portfolios from designers, artists, photographers, architects, writers and developers. If you want to start from a design instead, browse our best WordPress portfolio themes.

Each entry names the theme and page builder the site actually runs, read from its own code: the theme folder and its style sheet header, plus plugin folders and generator tags. Eight of the 32 use a page builder (Elementor, Divi or Beaver Builder), three run Semplice, a portfolio theme with its own editor, two use block themes and nineteen use classic themes, fourteen of them custom-built or adapted for the site. We never guess a theme from how a site looks.

Designer Portfolios on WordPress (Graphic, UX and Web)

Designers are the pickiest WordPress users, so their sites show the full range: a portfolio theme with its own editor, a page builder, or a theme written for one person.

1. Mackey Saturday

Built with: WordPress

Mackey Saturday, a Brooklyn brand designer, runs his studio site on Semplice, a WordPress theme made for designers that comes with its own drag-and-drop editor. Every project is a Semplice project post, and the Instagram page is a good example: a one-line brief, then the question he faced with the logotype, whether to show off his own style or stay true to what users already knew.

The Info page lists interviews and talks, from 99U to HOW Design Live, and the site is hosted on Flywheel.

What stands out: Open each project with the question it had to answer.

2. Anthony Burrill

Built with: WordPress

Anthony Burrill’s menu is four words, Showcase, Shop, Archive and Profile, and the split is built into WordPress: showcase and archive are their own post types in a custom theme the footer credits to designer Sam Harrison and developers Cliff Studio. WooCommerce runs the shop.

A showcase page reads like a gallery label. The Ampersand Chair, an Eames chair hand-painted with his ampersand to raise funds for The Peel, gets a title, an overview and a photography credit.

What stands out: Give commissions, shop and archive separate doors.

3. Ingrid Picanyol

Built with: WordPress

Ingrid Picanyol Studio in Barcelona lets a client filter the project archive twice: by discipline, from brand identity to font design, and by sector, from perfumery to restaurants. Projects are a custom post type in a bespoke theme by Marc Permanyer, and WPML serves the site in more than one language.

Each case study reads as an essay, such as the Almarge restaurant identity with menu text pushed to the page edge, and the Studio page lists her FAD Laus awards.

What stands out: Let clients filter by the kind of work and by their own industry.

4. Andrew Webb

Built with: WordPress

Andrew Webb, a product designer in Canada, solves the NDA problem with a feature WordPress has always had: post passwords. His airline case studies show a lock and ask for “the password provided on my resume”, while the eCommerce app case stays open to everyone.

The site runs on the Divi theme, with case studies as Divi projects filed under product design and content design, and a Testimonials page quotes former colleagues at WestJet and BMO.

What stands out: Lock confidential case studies instead of leaving them out.

5. Suleyman Sarigoz

Built with: WordPress

Suleyman Sarigoz builds his UX case studies in Semplice, and the Orontes page shows why the editor suits long reads: a metadata block of role, team, industry, timeline and tools, then a section headed Working Within Real Limits. There he admits the job had no formal research and that he learned only after launch that the client had no developer.

Rebuilding the site around the product label, he says, helped close 10 retail partnerships.

What stands out: Say what went wrong as plainly as what went right.

6. Eva Sánchez

Built with: WordPress

Eva Sánchez, an interactive designer from Tenerife based in Barcelona, runs her portfolio on CSSKiller, a custom WordPress theme that behaves like one of her own web projects. The Index of work switches between accordion and list views, a live Barcelona clock sits in the header, and each project gets a short brief, such as the Gemini microsite made with Porto Rocha.

A Playground page keeps unused concepts, and the About page notes her seat on the Awwwards jury.

What stands out: Let the portfolio itself show the interaction work you sell.

For designers on every platform, see our graphic design portfolios, UX portfolio examples and web designer portfolios.

Illustrator and Artist Portfolios on WordPress

Illustrators and artists have large archives, so these sites lean on WordPress post types and categories to keep years of work browsable.

7. Jean Jullien

Built with: WordPress

Jean Jullien’s studio site is a custom version of Grate, a theme by the studio.bio team, and it treats his output like a catalogue. The Work archive is a wall of recent jobs, from Doraemon to Le Bon Marché, with a sidebar that filters by clothing, editorial, exhibitions, packaging, posters and product.

Older work loads on request through the Ajax Load More plugin, and News is a separate post type used for announcements, such as a solo show at the Wooyang Museum.

What stands out: Keep news out of the work archive so both stay tidy.

8. Loish (Lois van Baarle)

Built with: WordPress

Loish, the Dutch digital artist Lois van Baarle, has a custom theme by Arjen Klaverstijn that files every painting under a portfolio category. The Client Work page gathers commissions such as the Horizon Zero Dawn comic covers, Procreate release art and LEGO Friends.

Fan questions go to an FAQ built as its own post type, sorted into brushes and tools, career advice and permission to use her art, and a Free Resources page signs people up to Loish’s Digital Art School.

What stands out: Answer the questions you get every day on one page.

9. Lizzie Harper

Built with: WordPress

Lizzie Harper, a natural history illustrator, uses her Commissioning page to get a usable brief: send your ideas, ball-park budget, licensing requirements and deadline. The same page points buyers to an image library of existing drawings ready to license.

Her custom theme, built by Antoine Mouquod on the Underscores starter theme, files finished jobs in a Job Showcase by type, from Jersey Post stamp issues to packaging, and originals for sale are split into framed and unframed categories.

What stands out: Tell clients exactly what to put in their first email.

10. Christoph Niemann

Built with: WordPress

Christoph Niemann’s site, a custom theme by Freddy Leitner of dreamer.de, keeps a very large body of work easy to browse. A Filter tab on the Works overview narrows the grid to one strand, such as New Yorker covers, Sunday Sketches, visual essays or site-specific art, with the newest pieces first.

Exhibitions get a plain running list of solo shows, from Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich back to museums in Hamburg and Vienna, and Books has its own index.

What stands out: One filter can make a huge archive feel small.

11. Nona Inescu

Built with: WordPress

Nona Inescu’s site runs on Invisible Folio, a portfolio theme from invisible.tools, and documents each project the way it was exhibited. Daisyworld opens as a numbered sequence of installation photographs, 01 of 31, with an Info line naming the show, the dates and the gallery, Brooke Benington in London.

Navigation is little more than her name, and the About page adds her representation by Catinca Tabacaru, while a Bibliography page lists catalogues that include her work.

What stands out: Present each project as the exhibition a curator would have seen.

For more illustrators, from editorial to picture books, see our illustration portfolio examples.

Photography Portfolios on WordPress

Photographers sell prints, sessions and workshops as well as commissions, and WordPress lets one site do all of it, often with WooCommerce behind the shop.

12. James Maher

Built with: WordPress

James Maher, a New York photographer and city guide, runs a print gallery, a studio and a column from one site. It is an Astra child theme with the Astra Pro add-on, WooCommerce for the cart and The Events Calendar behind a map of current New York photography shows.

The prints page publishes sizes and prices, from 150 USD for 7 x 9 inches to 1,250 USD for 40 x 60, beside a searchable archive of 1163 photographs, and his Glass City column goes out twice a month.

What stands out: Publish print sizes and prices so buyers never have to ask.

13. Will Burrard-Lucas

Built with: WordPress

Will Burrard-Lucas tells the story behind his best-known pictures on the same site that sells them. The BeetleCam page explains how he built a four-wheel-drive remote control buggy to carry a DSLR close to lions and leopards, and how a lion wrecked the first camera.

The site is a Divi child theme he maintains himself, with WooCommerce running a store of his Black Leopard book, limited edition prints and a cast metal BeetleCam model.

What stands out: Let the story behind the pictures sell the prints.

14. Ami Vitale

Built with: WordPress

Ami Vitale, a National Geographic photographer and filmmaker, organises her site around stories rather than single frames. Each one, like Black Rhino Revival made with The Nature Conservancy in Kenya, is a photo-story post in a custom theme by Nick Harbaugh, with a short note, a grid of pictures and related work below.

A Shop page gathers fine art prints, her panda book, portfolio reviews and classes, with WooCommerce Payments at checkout, and an Events page lists her talks.

What stands out: Group pictures into stories, not just galleries.

15. Dean Bradshaw

Built with: WordPress

Dean Bradshaw, a photographer and director working from Los Angeles and New York, keeps stills and films in two separate Semplice grids. The Photo page filters by adventure and travel, automotive, commercial, editorial, music and outdoor, and each project, like Teranga for Blanc Magazine, is a page of large images with no text in the way.

The contact page names clients from Adidas to YSL Beauty. The site is hosted on Kinsta, and images come through an image CDN.

What stands out: Separate stills from motion so each client finds the right reel.

16. Naomi Holligan

Built with: WordPress

Naomi Holligan, a London newborn and maternity photographer, sells the experience before the photographs. Her site uses Cora, a child theme from StyleCloud for Kadence, with Kadence Blocks for the layouts, and the Experience page lists what a session includes: a welcome magazine, a style guide and a wardrobe of dresses for mothers and children.

It states a session fee from £150 and answers the timing question, photographing newborns between 5 and 14 days old.

What stands out: Answer price and timing before the enquiry form.

For photographers on every platform, browse our photography portfolio examples.

Architect and Interior Designer Portfolios on WordPress

Architects and interior designers publish fewer, bigger projects, and the WordPress sites here give each one credits, a location and a record of press.

17. Rozana Montiel

Built with: WordPress

Rozana Montiel’s Mexico-based studio pairs the Hello Elementor theme with Elementor Pro, and TranslatePress switches every page between Spanish and English. Project pages lead with a credits block: on Casa Estudio, a house in an oak forest in Valle de Bravo, that means the co-architect, collaborators, landscape designer, location and photographer.

The News page is split into publications, awards, lectures, academic work and exhibitions, which is where the Médaille du Paysage from the Académie d’Architecture appears.

What stands out: Credit the whole team before telling the story.

18. Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation

Built with: WordPress

Andrés Jaque’s Office for Political Innovation, based in New York and Madrid, runs a research practice through WordPress custom post types: work, exhibitions, books, articles and media coverage each have their own archive.

The theme is Phlox with a child theme made for the office by Sohl Weber. A project such as Shift Landmark, a climate landmark proposal for Rotterdam, opens as an image carousel with About, Credits and Related tabs, so long texts never push the pictures down.

What stands out: Give each kind of output its own archive.

19. David Whitney

Built with: WordPress

David Whitney, an architect in Arlington, Massachusetts, sorts his work the way homeowners arrive: new houses, renovations or additions, each a menu of town names such as Truro, Concord or Winchester. The site runs on a Divi child theme by kaleidaweb, with the Modula gallery plugin and DiviFlash add-ons.

Project pages stay short. The Arlington renovation featured on This Old House gets three sentences on the porch, the Italianate eaves and the new kitchen, and the phone number sits in every footer.

What stands out: Organise projects by the job the client needs done.

20. Mi Zhou

Built with: WordPress

Mi Zhou, an architectural designer now at Columbia GSAPP, uses Minimalio, a minimal portfolio theme, with its companion Minimalio Portfolio plugin supplying the project post type. Each studio project opens with the facts a reviewer checks first: the year and term, the site, whether it was individual work and the instructor.

The Kaurna Culture Kindergarten page then walks through the design in numbered steps, and the footer credits all images, drawings and text to her unless noted.

What stands out: State the brief, site and authorship before the images.

21. Heidi Caillier Design

Built with: WordPress

Heidi Caillier Design, a Seattle interior studio, uses its Press page as a credibility list: magazine and issue, one per line, from the Architectural Digest AD100 to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. The site is a custom Genesis child theme by Made to Thrive.

Projects are a portfolio post type listed by place, such as Carmel-by-the-Sea or East Hampton, a Collections page links her product lines with Lulu and Georgia and Joon Loloi, and WP Rocket handles caching.

What stands out: A plain list of press can outweigh another gallery.

22. NICOLEHOLLIS

Built with: WordPress

NICOLEHOLLIS, the San Francisco interior design studio, keeps a running record on its News and Awards page, one line per item, from Elle Décor’s A-List to LIV Hospitality Design Awards for the Rosewood Sand Hill villas and spa. The custom theme is built on the Underscores starter theme, with Jetpack Boost and LiteSpeed caching.

The homepage promotes the studio’s monograph, Artistry of Home, and the menu adds a shop beside Work, Studio and Contact.

What stands out: Keep awards in one running list that is easy to update.

See more in our architecture portfolio websites and interior design portfolio examples.

Writer and Journalist Portfolios on WordPress

WordPress began as a blogging tool, and writers still use it best: clips filed by topic, samples by format and a newsletter beside the work.

23. Rachel Pascal

Built with: WordPress

Rachel Pascal, a medical and healthcare writer, is open about what a portfolio cannot show. Public samples are grouped as journal articles, consumer health blogs, white papers, website copy and patient education, then she lists the work she writes but cannot share, from advisory board reports to objection handlers and pharma launch narratives.

The site is a Hello Elementor child theme by Wildflowers & Pixels built with Elementor Pro, and a Kit form offers a hand-picked portfolio by email.

What stands out: List the confidential work you do, even if you cannot show it.

24. Jen A. Miller

Built with: WordPress

Jen A. Miller, a freelance journalist who calls herself a Hired Pen, files every clip under a topic, and each topic page opens with a paragraph on her record in that beat. The B2B page starts with the week Lehman Brothers collapsed, then lists articles with the outlet and a Read Article link.

The site pairs StudioPress’s Genesis framework and Authority Pro theme with Beaver Builder and Beaver Themer, and a Coaching page prices a one-hour consultation at $100.

What stands out: Introduce each beat before listing the clips.

25. Jennifer Goforth Gregory

Built with: WordPress

Jennifer Goforth Gregory, a Raleigh B2B technology writer, sorts her published articles by the industry a client works in: B2B technology, healthcare IT, finance and insurance, hospitality and more, one heading each.

The site is the Beaver Builder Theme with a child theme by Sumy Designs, and the WP Courseware plugin runs a Courses section of training for other freelance writers. Her newsletter promises freelance advice and weenie dog stories, a light touch on a practical site.

What stands out: Sort samples by the reader’s industry.

26. Karen Rempel

Built with: WordPress

Karen Rempel, a New York technical writer, built her own site on a child theme of Twenty Sixteen, one of WordPress’s default themes, and the footer says the construction and content are hers. Her Portfolio is a parent page with a child page for each kind of document, from standard operating procedures and online help to a how-to book and web API documentation.

Samples state what they achieved, and the Resume page offers a download and clients from Bloomberg to BC Hydro.

What stands out: Organise samples by document type, the way hiring managers search.

27. Brian Jenner

Built with: WordPress

Brian Jenner, a UK speechwriter, cannot publish most of his work, so his Costs page describes the jobs instead, such as writing speeches for the chairman of a FTSE 100 company at £5,000 to £8,000 each, or reworking a law firm partner’s Christmas address.

It opens by saying 95% of the work happens by phone and online. The site is a custom theme by Europa Studio, and Testimonials quotes anonymised clients from a DAX company to a bridesmaid.

What stands out: Describe confidential jobs and what they cost.

Read about more writers in our writer portfolio examples.

WordPress Developer Portfolios

For a WordPress developer the portfolio is also the proof of skill, so these sites show how they build as much as what they built.

28. Cory Hughart

Built with: WordPress

Cory Hughart, a full-stack WordPress developer, built his own block theme, Boldly Go Blocks, and says so in the footer. The site has a sci-fi game voice: the blog is a Quest Log dated in stardates, projects are the Inventory and the contact page is Summon.

Behind the jokes is solid work. The projects list labels each one as a website, plugin, game or app, including block themes for clients and a Term Query Loop block whose ideas reached WordPress core.

What stands out: Build your own site with the tools you sell.

29. Mark Root-Wiley

Built with: WordPress

Mark Root-Wiley builds WordPress sites for nonprofits in Seattle, and his own site is plain in the way he recommends: Stripey Stripes, his child theme of Twenty Sixteen, with projects kept in Jetpack’s portfolio post type. The homepage says who he serves and why before any work appears.

The Portfolio gives each project a one-sentence summary, and a plugins page lists the tools he has released on WordPress.org, such as MRW Simplified Editor, which he installs on every site he builds.

What stands out: Say who you build for before you show what you built.

30. Carrie Dils

Built with: WordPress

Carrie Dils, a WordPress developer and LinkedIn Learning instructor, opens with an Available for new projects badge and three figures: 25+ years of experience, 200+ projects delivered and 30+ courses. Her site runs on Ollie, a block theme, with her own child theme and Ollie Pro.

The Projects page covers work beyond client sites, including her role as co-chair of the technical steering committee of FAIR, a Linux Foundation project for safer WordPress software distribution.

What stands out: Put availability and track record in the first screen.

31. Kevin Leary

Built with: WordPress

Kevin Leary, a Boston WordPress consultant, writes case studies the way enterprise buyers read them: each opens with Key Takeaways before the background. The Harvard Law Review study describes eight years of engineering continuity for a publication whose student masthead turns over every year.

His own custom theme and a site-specific plugin keep case studies as a post type, the homepage leads with a Trusted By logo row, and the site is hosted on WP Engine.

What stands out: Lead every case study with the takeaways.

32. Tamal Sen

Built with: WordPress

Tamal Sen’s developer portfolio runs on Ohio, a creative theme by Colabrio, with a child theme and Elementor Pro, and uses the theme’s portfolio post type for his projects. The Web Development category lists client sites such as Flight Local and AI Lab Granada.

Each project page states the client and, where it matters, the strategy and technology, like Flutter with the BLoC pattern for the Tryotel travel app. A Dark and Light switch sits in the header, and WP Engine hosts the site.

What stands out: Name the stack on every project page.

For developers who build with other stacks, see our developer and software engineer portfolios.

More WordPress Examples and Themes

Related pages on Colorlib, for more examples or a theme to start from:

• Best WordPress portfolio themes: free and premium themes built for showing work.
• Free personal WordPress themes: portfolio and CV themes that cost nothing.
• Popular blogs using WordPress: publications and personal blogs on the platform.
• WordPress website examples: brands, publishers and studios running WordPress.
• Squarespace portfolio examples: the same roles on a hosted builder.
• Bootstrap portfolio templates: HTML templates for a hand-coded portfolio.

What Makes a Great WordPress Portfolio?

Choose one way to build and stick to it. The sites here split between a page builder, a portfolio theme with its own editor, and a plain theme, often custom. Elementor, Divi and Beaver Builder let Rozana Montiel, Andrew Webb and Jennifer Goforth Gregory lay out pages visually; Semplice gives Mackey Saturday and Dean Bradshaw a designer-first editor; Cory Hughart and Carrie Dils build with block themes and the Site Editor. Pick the approach you are willing to keep updating, and let it carry the whole site.

Make projects a post type, not a pile of pages. Most sites here stores work as its own content type with categories: Jetpack’s portfolio type for Mark Root-Wiley, Divi projects for Andrew Webb, a photo-story type for Ami Vitale, a portfolio archive listed by place for Heidi Caillier. That gives you filterable archives, like Ingrid Picanyol’s, for free, and WordPress post passwords let Andrew Webb lock NDA case studies instead of hiding them.

Sell from the same site with WooCommerce. Four sites here run WooCommerce. Will Burrard-Lucas sells books, limited edition prints and a BeetleCam model, Anthony Burrill sells prints beside his showcase, and Ami Vitale takes payments for prints and classes. James Maher publishes his print sizes and prices on a plain page and takes print orders by email, which works when most sales start with a conversation.

Keep the images light. On one test load, the lightest homepages here, Brian Jenner’s, Carrie Dils’s, Mark Root-Wiley’s and Rachel Pascal’s, transferred less than half a megabyte, while three image-led homepages each pulled in 18 MB or more, one of them including an animated GIF of almost 8 MB. Serve resized images, as Ami Vitale and Jen A. Miller do through Jetpack’s image CDN, and add page caching: LiteSpeed, WP Rocket, NitroPack and managed hosts such as Kinsta and WP Engine all appear in this list.

Keep plugins few and maintained. Semplice sites such as Suleyman Sarigoz’s load no plugin assets on the homepage at all, and Mark Root-Wiley installs his own simplified-editor plugin on every site he builds. Every plugin is something to update. Leftovers show too: while checking candidates we found a theme’s default placeholder paragraph on a photographer’s contact page and a PHP warning printed on a designer’s project page. Click through the whole site after every update.

Add a blog or newsletter beside the work. A dated post is the easiest proof that a portfolio is current. Jen A. Miller runs Notes from a Hired Pen as a newsletter and ebook series, James Maher emails his Glass City column twice a month, Mark Root-Wiley writes case studies on his blog, and Cory Hughart keeps a developer log. WordPress was built for this, so it costs nothing extra.

Use your own domain and your own hosting. Every site in this list is self-hosted WordPress on its own domain; none runs on a wordpress.com address. The hosts we could identify range from shared plans at Bluehost and SiteGround to managed WordPress at WP Engine, Kinsta and Flywheel. A domain in your name stays yours if you change themes, builders or hosts.

Frequently Asked Questions

Wrapping Up

The WordPress portfolios above run on very different stacks, from Semplice and Divi to hand-built block themes, but the strong ones share habits: projects as a proper post type, the work shown before the words, a clear next step for the client, and a site that is kept up to date.

For portfolios on every platform, start with our best portfolio website examples, or browse the portfolio templates to find a design to build on. Ready to pick a theme? See the best WordPress portfolio themes.