Features:

• Built from the ground up using HTML5 and CSS3
• Portfolio custom post types
• Custom admin settings
• 2 alternative homepage image slider templates
• Admin settings for featured images in slider
• Widget-ready
• 2 columns
• Gravatar support
• Compatible with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari

Screenshots:
Homepage

Blog

Post

Portfolio

Admin Settings

Aside from it’s clean, sleek and professional design, the Graphite WordPress theme also has very good typography. It also features a very nice image slider with cool transitions on the homepage. Graphite is widget-ready and has built-in gravatar support. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to support threaded comments. Overall, the Graphite theme is still a very beautiful WordPress theme that should fit not only creative companies and individuals but any WordPress user who likes these types of themes.

As a bonus for MediaLoot subscribers (premium members) they will also get the original Fireworks PNG and PSD source files for Home Page, Portfolio Page, About Us Page & Blog Page in the download package.

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From WPZOOM:

At a closer look you’ll realize that, yet simple, this theme is great for a Portfolio showcasing works of a photographer or designer. Even if this theme is a “free” one, we didn’t hesitate to integrate a great Featured Posts Slider on the homepage of the theme, great for highlighting your greatest works.

Besides the above described “visual” features this theme has, it is also enhanced with our WPZOOM Options Panel, which allows you very quickly and easy to configure any option of this theme.

Features:

• Featured Slider
• Custom Widgets: Flickr Gallery, Social Profiles, Featured Posts
• Widgetized Sidebar & Footer
• Custom Post & Page Templates
• Gravatar support
• Threaded comments support

Screenshots:

Homepage

Regular Layout

Custom Layout (Full width)

Options Page

Designed by Oleg Dubinovich, Photoria is an awesome portfolio style WordPress theme that’s ideal for designers and photographers who want to showcase their works online. Not only does it look good but it also has very nice features. I’m sure many WordPress users would be able to use this theme for one of their projects, client’s website or their own portfolio.

Kudos to the designer Oleg Dubinovich, Pavel Ciorici and the rest of the folks of WPZOOM for releasing this nice WordPress theme for free to the community.

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NOTE: This theme was scanned using the Theme Authenticity Checker and doesn’t contain any hidden or encrypted code.

A couple years back you’ll have a difficult time finding a good portfolio style WordPress theme thats free. These days, there are lots of very nice premium quality portfolio themes that WordPress users can choose from. One of those themes comes from Graph Paper Press and its called the Work-A-Holic theme.

Work-a-holic is a free minimalistic two and three column WordPress theme that focuses mainly on showcasing portfolios for artists, web designers, photographers and illustrators. Work-a-holic separates your portfolio from your blog, enabling easy navigation for clients in a clean, intuitive fashion. It also has a separate sidebar for portfolio (shows recent projects) and a separate widgetized sidebar for the blog and pages.

Main Features:

• Separate Blog and Portfolio Section
• Blog lists posts as normal blog
• Portfolio pulls latest thumbnail of the post and lists each of them on three columns
• Multiple image gallery container (slider) on portfolio posts
• Basic Theme Options
• Twitter integrated – shows latest Tweet
• Separate sidebar on Portfolio and normal sidebar on Blog
• One Page template with separate sidebar
• Ability to have a separate desired Thumbnail if WP-Post-Thumbnail plugin is installed
• jQuery effects on Portfolio thumbnails
• Multi-level Drop Down Menu
• Support Nested Comments
• Three footer widgets
• Uses 960 css framework and jQuery javascript framework
• XHML: This theme has been tested on Firefox, Safari, IE 8, 7, 6.

Screenshots:
Portfolio Homepage

Blog Homepage

Blog Post

My Take:
If you’re an artist, web designer, photographer or illustrator who’s planning to create a WordPress-powered online portfolio, you should definitely check out the Work-A-Holic theme. If was gonna create my own online portfolio, I’d definitely consider this theme. Its simple and minimalistic but doesn’t lack on the features/functions that you’ll need for an online portfolio. This theme also lets you put up a blog and have it separate from the portfolio.

Basic features include widgetized sidebars, widgetized bottom bar/footer with custom widgets, built-in gravatar support, Twitter integration and nested comments support. For the portfolio section of this theme, you can have a multiple image gallery on your portfolio posts with jQuery effects on the portfolio thumbnails and if you have the WP-Post-Thumbnail plugin installed, you can choose to have a separate thumbnail.

This theme only has one color scheme but because it doesn’t use much custom graphics making it highly customizable. Customizing this theme is something that can be easily done via a few tweaks on the stylesheet and/or using your own custom background image. The Work-A-Holic theme has an option page that lets the user specify the Blog Category ID and Twitter username.

In the Work-A-Holic post page, the author has provided some links with examples of the built-in gallery script in action, portfolio category archive, blog archive and page template. There’s also a video tutorial on how to separate the blog and portfolio and setting up the images and excerpts on Work-a-Holic. The theme files also include an html file with instructions on how to install, setup and configure the Work-A-Holic theme.

The Work-A-Holic is an excellent portfolio style freemium WordPress theme and kudos to the folks at Graph Paper Press for a job well done and for creating and releasing it to the public.

IMPORTANT: Graph Paper Press requires users to sign-up with a valid email address to download their themes.

Preview or Download the Work-A-Holic WordPress theme.

NOTE: This theme was scanned using the Theme Authenticity Checker and doesn’t contain any hidden or encrypted code.