Portfolio themes are one of the most popular areas of WordPress theme development, we have looked at them previously on a few occasions, but since our last look in september there have been loads of great new ones released so lets take a look at what is available to the designers and photographers in 2012. Here are 30 of the best …

Notebook

Notebook is a fun multimedia theme that takes advantage of WordPress post formats and advanced CSS3 animations. The result is a unique and highly engaging design that is sure that impress your visitors. Notebook makes it easy to share a variety of content, including audio, video, photographs and standard blog posts.

• Full Details | Price: $39 ( Includes 70+ other Themes! )

Primero

Show off your work with this easy-to-customize and fully featured WordPress Theme. When purchasing this theme, you will receive a detailed help file along with additional features like Unlimited color schemes and a 3 unique featured slider options.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Creative

Creative is a very powerful theme with many features easy to edit for both beginners & developers. Its best suitable for portfolio and personal websites.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Elementi

Elementi is a super-awesome Premium WordPress Theme with oodles of features. Elementi comes packed with an easy-to-use un-branded Options Panel and great documentation. Elementi is suitable for any type of site. Portfolio, photographer showcase, inspiration gallery, freebie site, this theme can do it.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Angular

Angular is a responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site. The Theme is built on top of the fabulous Avia Framework and comes with support for the bbPress Forum plugin, just in case you need it.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Triangle Studio

A clean minimal portfolio theme with sortable portfolio and showcase with custom slider. You can easily arrange portfolio and showcase items with user friendly drag and drop feature.

• Full Details | Price: $30

Silence

Silence is modern theme created to be easy to modify and customize. It’s based on 960 grid system. Silence can be used by photographers, companies, private blogs and more.

• Full Details | Price: $35

William

William is a grid-based, responsive, minimalistic, ajax powered portfolio theme for creatives. The theme comes with a well thought out responsive layout, unlimited sidebar management, 5 post formats, simple theme options and much more.

• Full Details | Price: $30

Appius

Appius is a powerful, clean and easy to use WordPress theme.Your able to create almost any homepage template structure you want. And also with our visual option panel your able to create any style you want.

• Full Details | Price: $35

XO

XO is a SUPER responsive WordPress theme, that boasts an awesome clean look and beautiful media support.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Vue

Ever wanted to create an inpiration gallery like Creattica? Or maybe a freebie site? Or even a portfolio, this theme can do them all.

• Full Details | Price: $35

WP Artisan

WP Artisan is a powerful portfolio theme purpose built to showcase your work whether it be images or video, and its fully responsive to boot! Put the focus on your work and not the theme.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Spectra

Spectra is a clean-cut and colorful WordPress theme. Choose from one of the 5 included background styles or choose your own. Use the homepage to show a mix of portfolio items, featured content, recent posts and more.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Era WP

Offer yourself, or your clients, a beautifully designed, aesthetically clean and to-the-point theme. A theme that cares about visuals and performance, design and speed, typography and usability. A theme that combines the excellence of design quality, with the functionality of powerful code.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Reach

Reach is a business portfolio / showcase WordPress theme that offers clean styling with easy use and flexible layouts though shortcodes and template options.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Simflex

Simflex is a simple & flexible portfolio/blog theme, suitable to create an online presence with style, with more than 8 background options, 2 content layouts and a responsive style, simflex is a very flexible and customizable theme.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Salutary

Salutary is a very powerful theme with many features easy to edit for both beginners & developers. It empowers you to change any elements such as backgrounds, texts, links, menu, typography, etc. The main content block is placed before the sidebar regardless of the sidebar position, so it is crawled first by search engines, so its SEO Optimized.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Minim

Minim is a very clean and professional portfolio and small business theme. The focus is on the portfolio content which allows you to easily showcase your work online in an elegant fashion.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Vithy

Vithy is the theme for all of those who are in need for a nice stylish looking portfolio or business theme without having to do much work. It’s packed with a new feature, a pricing table add-on. Create as many pricing table add ons as you please and just simply ad them anywhere you want with shortcode.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Aware

Aware is an interactive, responsive portfolio theme perfect for freelancers, web designers, photographers and videographers alike. Its user interactive interface delightfully enhances your most loved portfolio pieces. Now, you can take your portfolio with you, in your pocket.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Lustrel

Lustrel WP with WP 3 .2+ features is a clean and modern multipurpose WordPress theme preferably designed for portfolios, designer or agency websites etc.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Showcase

Premium Display/Gallery WordPress Theme

• Full Details | Price: $35

Screenplay

Screenplay is the perfect theme for showcasing your work. It features a minimal and eye-pleasing design, and has many admin features.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Lucky Times

Responsive portfolio theme

• Full Details | Price: $30

Spark

Spark is an amazing portfolio wordpress theme. Simple to use, it’s designed to display any kind of content and it’s perfect for every business. The theme is built on a solid framework and it’s HTML5 and CSS3 based.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Scope

Scope is the perfect theme for the creative agency, freelancer or general business. Strong lines, strong colours and a bunch of super-awesome features to keep you busy.

• Full Details | Price: $40

Refined

Refined WP is a WordPress 3.3+ Ready Premium WordPress Theme specifically designed for corporate / business websites, portfolios, designer or agency websites etc.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Thunder Art

This is a very powerful, minimalistic portfolio theme which suits all designer needs. It will help you build amazing portfolio with unique animations and best user experience in no time.

• Full Details | Price: $35

Alus

Alus is the WordPress theme for Portfolio, Business built with latest WordPress 3.3+ features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors, Extensive admin panel, Pricing Table etc

• Full Details | Price: $35

Yin & Yang

Yin & Yang is a light, minimalistic, simple to use portfolio theme. Quick to setup and easy to customize, thanks to the powerful admin panel, and the detailed documentation, Yin & Yang is the perfect theme for showcasing your most important work directly in front of your potential clients.

• Full Details | Price: $35

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