If you’re a photographer, a graphic or interior designer, a web designer, freelance creative professional or you just want a great way to show off cool design work, photographs, websites, you’ll want a great looking, well designed and reasonably priced WordPress grid portfolio theme. It’s sort of like your online business card. You want to give potential clients and customers a look at your work and the one-page grid layout is a great way to do that. WordPress grid themes seem to be getting more and more popular, thanks in large part to their flexibility and functionality, and this collection represents the absolute best grid design themes we could find.
Laying your website out in a grid format will help make the page look organized and modern. The masonry format helps attract the eye and you can even add a feature to allow for infinite scrolling, sort of like Pinterest, which can be something to help set your page apart from everyone else.
Lookbook
This is Lookbook, a wonderful and professional grid theme for building an awesome portfolio. With a great mosaic grid layout, this theme offers a really impactful visual first impression, showcasing your content on just one page. Like all of GraphPaper Press’ themes, Lookbook is very simple to customize, you can change up the headers, favicons, menus, text blocks and all of the widgets. Lookbook offers a responsive layout, great looking on all devices. Your images will look great with one of the pre-made masonry layouts that are included with this theme, display portfolios, image galleries and posts in the same awesome masonry layout.
With the Sell Media plugin, or Easy Digital Downloads if you’re more into that, you can set up a shop selling your digital products, like stock photography. There are tons of custom widgets, unlimited galleries, multiple post formats for videos, audio, images, links and quotes. Slideshows can be rapidly created by dragging and dropping your images into any order you’d like, no matter how many images. GraphPaper Press offers incredible levels of support and tons of documentation too.
Ultra
Ultra, by Themify.me, is a true premium WordPress theme and I’ve included it in this list of grid themes because of the demo site they’ve created with a gorgeous masonry layout, pictured above. Ultra allows for a massive amount of flexibility. A lot of themes advertise their flexibility, but they really don’t provide it, or they’re flexible, but difficult to use. Ultra is different, it’s simple to use and offers drag and drop page building that makes it effortless to create a layout like the one you see in this post. The layouts are limitless with over 60 included in your download package and more being created all the time. Ultra is eCommerce friendly, great for portfolios and blogs that want to add some eCommerce to their site. Ultra also includes bonus Themeify Builder addons, including a Timeline, Progress Bars, Countdown, Professional contact form and much more. If you want a full featured theme with a beautiful grid layout included, you should take a deeper look into Ultra.
Collecto
Collecto is a classic newspaper inspired WordPress theme with a very attractive grid layout that presents your posts in a professional, polished and beautiful way. It’s easy to navigate, because Collecto is so visual, your readers will simply click on the gorgeous images they see, the alluring headlines and they’ll be on to the next topic that interests them. It really does look a bit like a newspaper and I really love the typography that’s included in the vanilla demo. Single pages are just as attractive, with bold, minimal style that accentuates your content, not the site’s design. The result is a site that’s very easily navigated and that looks great on all devices, thanks to pure responsive design. Collecto should absolutely be considered for any site that wants a wonderful looking, dynamic grid based layout.
Eero
Eero is a great looking minimalist portfolio theme with a beautiful blog option and, of course, that attractively designed grid portfolio you see up above. There’s a lot of great features here, masonry gallery and column control included. Horizontal gallery and thumbnail gallery, retina ready display, support for Vimeo, TypeKit support too. With an advanced theme customizer, project desriptions and site title and tagline support, this theme is packed with features and flexibility. Any way you slice it, Eero is a fantastic theme for all kinds of creative sites.
Cre8or
This is Cre8or, a simple looking theme that packs a lot of great features into a minimalist design. Cre8or is perfect for portfolios or blogs and the simple but elegant design makes for a perfect frame for any sort of project. If you want a simple, clean and professional site, Cre8or is a great place to start, it’s modern, stylish, the typography is elegant and fun, yet highly readable on every device, thanks to perfect responsiveness. Cre8or is a great choice for agencies, freelance designers or studios who want to show off incredible designs with style. TeslaThemes does a fantastic job of providing solid documentation and fast, professional support for all of their themes and this template is no exception.
Create
Create is a multipurpose, premium WordPress theme for any kind of business and I think the grid layout, pictured above, could be something you’d be interested in. ThemeTrust is the company behind Create and they’ve made a really powerful, reasonably priced theme here in Create. With a drag and drop page builder included, in this case Site Origin’s Page Builder plugin, responsive design for maximum flexibility on all devices and many more options and features, Create is a true premium multi-purpose theme. Create is a WooCommerce ready theme so you can set up a shop online, there are multiple layouts possible with this theme too, since a drag and drop theme can make it possible to adjust any sort of content to anywhere you want it to be on the page. Create also has parallax backgrounds, single page layout with boxed or full width options and so much more.
Revoke2 Business WordPress Theme
The Revoke2 WordPress theme is specifically designed for businesses of all types. Its clean coding allows it to be easily customized for your specific business purposes so that you will quickly have your site up and running. It comes with demo data, which lets you easily insert content onto the site by simply replacing the sample with your real content. It features a full-width grid layout that has been extended to 1170 px to increase your layout options. The “Tesla Framework” that comes with this theme easily allows you to customize layouts so you can easily display items such as services provided, portfolios of projects and so on as well as customizing other details such as colors, headers and other sections of the site. Since the theme is designed to be fully responsive, the site will display on tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices.
Revoke2 comes with six custom post types, including portfolio, services, features, team & partners and testimonials, thus, you can easily add these sections to your site as you need them, and quickly insert new content such as team member profiles, client details with no hard work. The Portfolio page comes with options that allow you to display different types of content including videos. You are also provided with various short codes so you can easily add items to your home page such as sliders, recent blog posts and portfolio images. It is WooCommerce ready, so you can add an online store using this plugin, allowing you to sell anything on your site. It also comes with a free Slider Revolution plugin, which provides a host of slider management options and styling to help improve your content presentation. Other notable features include header widgets that let you display contact information on the header and support for a blog with a featured display page so you can easily add new posts.
Gallery Pro
Gallery Pro does what it sounds like it does, gives you professional grade WordPress gallery options for building your portfolio. Gallery Pro uses the Genesis Framework as the basics to building an amazing site. Don’t worry, you won’t have to learn how to code to use Gallery Pro, it’s full featured and ready to go, right out of the box. That’s because it’s a Genesis child theme and it works perfectly with the latest versions of Genesis Framework. With Gallery Pro, you can craft a website that looks precisely like you want it to look with incredibly visual impact for all your viewers. Gallery Pro has even more features than just a great looking portfolio gallery, it’s WooCommerce capable for selling products, it was perfectly built with fast page load times and immaculate SEO optimization. Gallery Pro is simple to use, easy to navigate and it’s a really strong theme that will never go out of style.
Peak
Here’s a theme from themify.me and it’s called Peak. What a fantastic layout for a portfolio, it’s bold and grid shaped, perfect for all size of images. The masonry style makes any amount of images look great, so you won’t have to go through and resize all your images to be the same. That can be tedious. No matter what screen size your visitors use, those magical grid layouts will adjust to look great for all screen sizes. The layout automatically populates too, so you won’t have to go through and tweak things every time you add another image to the site. However, what if you want to create a masonry grid with custom sizes? That’s easily done with Peak. Mega Menus, a bunch of post layouts and more make Peak an awesome all-around WordPress theme for any sort of portfolio.
ideo
Ideo is a simple three column theme that offers a masonry style portfolio option for those who want to create a nice looking site with very visual navigation and a clear layout of all of your content. Ideo includes a drag and drop page builder for ultimate flexibility, there are lots of other cool features too like Ajax portfolio filter, 6 footer layouts, hundreds of Google fonts, a drag and drop slider manager and more. Upload custom fonts, your site logo and more. Ideo is a really, really flexible theme.
News Grid
With a name like News grid, it’s a pretty safe assumption that this theme has what it takes to be on our list of the best WordPress grid themes. NewsGrid is a powerful theme, built on the latest Bootstrap 3.0 framework, with responsive design, 7 awesome home page styles, unlimited colors, hundreds of available Google fonts, limitless gallery templates and a flexible, user friendly style that is very easy to work with. You’re going to love this theme.
Eram
Eram is a beautiful WordPress theme that uses an amazing looking grid layout to give your site a very visual navigation system that’s ideal for any sort of portfolio. Eram is powered by Visual Composer, the most well known and powerful drag and drop page builder, it makes it effortless to tweak layouts and add or remove features as you need them to be added or removed. While I’m highlighting the grid style portfolio, Eram has a whole bunch of great looking designs, including a wonderful feminine style personal blog design, a minimal studio theme, agency themes for creative and portfolio sites and a lot more. Eram is responsive, it’s WooCommerce ready, includes multiple high quality slider plugins and more. A really high value theme all around.
Gridlove
Gridlove is one of my favorite magazine themes that offers a great looking masonry blog layout. It’s creative, it’s well designed and best of all, it’s focused on what matters: your content. There are hundreds of possible layouts that are premade, but there’s no reason you can’t tweak those layouts to create something entirely new. You’re also given that kind of flexibility on the page level too, so there’s no reason each post or page can’t have a unique layout. All possible through the power of drag and drop. Pretty cool. You can highlight posts, accenting any type of content you choose, there are multiple headers, customizable single post layouts, infinite fonts and color possibilities and much more.
If you’d like to see more attractive magazine themes like Gridlove, have a peek at our collection.
The Chatter
Most informational searches are now done online continuously increasing the popularity of blogs, e-magazines, and the like. When it comes to websites that offer an assortment of content, one of the best WordPress themes to use is called The Chatter. It is ideal for those who need a website to display articles in, arranged in various categories for easier navigation. The beauty of this theme is that The Chatter can be easily customized. It comes with pre-programmed sliders and layouts that site builders can start with. Different colors and text styles are accommodated and headers can also be used to personalize the website and its contents even more.
The Chatter theme for WordPress allows users to access a visual builder which comes with a drag-and-drop function allowing site builders to make as-is edits on the site. This makes it easier for site builders to see their design edits and how these are positioned exactly on the page. Optimized for search engines, websites created with this theme will be equipped with the necessary tags helping the site achieve a higher ranking across search engines for improved visibility. It also comes with multiple language support enabling translations for different languages should the site be accessed in different countries worldwide.
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