12 Portfolio Website Templates for Developers, Designers and Freelancers
By Manob Editorial ·
A good portfolio template makes your best three projects easy to find, loads fast on a phone, and lets you add new work without fighting the layout. We compared 12 picks across HTML, WordPress, React and Figma, grouped by who they suit. For most people, a one-page HTML template such as Welfare or Naven is enough.
Pick your format first
The format matters more than the design, because it decides how you'll update the site in a year.
- HTML templates are the cheapest to host and the hardest to break. You edit files directly, so they suit developers and anyone who updates their portfolio a few times a year.
- WordPress themes give you a dashboard for adding projects and blog posts without touching code. They need PHP hosting and regular updates.
- React and Next.js templates make sense for developers, since the code itself shows what you can do, as long as you're clear about which parts you wrote.
- Figma templates are designs only. They help if you want to design your site first, but someone still has to build it.
Web developer portfolio templates
Recruiters and clients skim. A developer portfolio needs a short intro, three to six projects with links to live work or code, a skills list and a contact link. Fancy animation matters less than a fast, clean page.
Rejuan: best WordPress theme for a developer portfolio
Rejuan is built for developers, designers and freelancers. It adds a dedicated portfolio post type with categories, a services section, and archive and single templates for both. You edit colors, typography and logo in the WordPress Customizer with live preview. The seller lists WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility, ARIA labels, keyboard navigation and RTL support, which are worth testing in the demo if accessibility matters to your clients.
A modern, responsive, and high-performance personal portfolio WordPress theme for developers, designers, freelancers, and creative professionals. Built with clean code and best…
Welfare: best HTML template for a simple personal site
Welfare comes as both a one-page and a multi-page personal portfolio, vCard and résumé template. It has 3 homepage layouts, a blog and single-post page and an integrated Google Map, on Bootstrap with valid HTML5 and CSS3. It's tagged for programmers and freelancers, and with no build step it's simple to edit if you know basic HTML.
Welfare is an One Page and Multi-Page Personal Portfolio / vCard / Resume / Showcase Responsive HTML5 Website Template with clean, creative and flat design.It has all of the fea…
Edifice: best React codebase to adapt
Edifice is a React 19 and TypeScript app on Vite 7 with React Router v7 (19 routes), Bootstrap 5, GSAP scroll animations and SCSS. It was designed for an architecture and interior studio, so you'll swap the content, but the structure is a clean example of a multi-page React portfolio: all content sits in static JSON files and it ships a vercel.json for deployment. It includes six project gallery layouts.
Édifice is a multi-page front-end portfolio website for a fictional San Francisco architecture and interior studio. Built with React 19, TypeScript, and Vite, it uses Bootstrap…
For more React and Next.js options, see our React templates roundup.
Portfolio templates for designers and photographers
Visual work needs big images, a filterable gallery and a lightbox. These three put the work first. Graphic designers should also look at Vertiqo and Reep in the next section, which have several portfolio layouts for case studies.
Frame & Light: best for a portfolio with a blog
Frame & Light is a Next.js and Tailwind CSS template with markdown-driven content: each project or post is a file, so adding work doesn't mean editing components. It includes portfolio and blog listing and detail pages, blog category and tag pages, a hero slider, filters and a contact page with a map.
Frame & Light is a modern Next.js photography template for studios, freelancers, and creative agencies. It includes a dynamic home page, portfolio showcase, blog with category/t…
Lumiere: best one-page template for wedding and portrait photographers
Lumiere is a static, single-page HTML template with a black-and-white design. Its masonry gallery filters by category (wedding, couples, portraits, fashion and editorial), and it includes a full-screen hero slider, session pricing packages and a testimonial carousel. It runs straight from the files with no build tools, on HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Bootstrap 4.
Lumiere is a static, single-page photography portfolio website for a fictional Brooklyn-based studio called "Lumiere Photography." Built with HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and Bootstrap…
Foxden: best minimal photography portfolio
Foxden is a one-page photography template on Bootstrap 4 with Isotope filtering and a responsive lightbox. It's simple by design, which suits a photographer who wants a fast, filterable gallery rather than a full website.
Foxden is a responsive one-page Photography template suitable for any Photography Portfolio. Foxden will help you to make photographer, portfolio agency or other business very e…
Photographers who want a full CMS should also see our photography WordPress themes roundup.
Portfolio templates for freelancers and small agencies
Freelancers sell services, so the portfolio sits next to services, process, pricing and a clear way to hire you.
Vertiqo: best multi-page HTML portfolio
Vertiqo has 18+ HTML pages, 3 homepages, 5 portfolio layouts and 3 blog layouts, plus team, pricing and contact pages. It's built on Bootstrap 5, and its custom scroll animation engine (14+ animation types) runs on plain JavaScript, though the stack list also includes jQuery 3.6 for plugins such as Swiper, Isotope and Fancybox. There's no npm or build step, so you can deploy the files as they are.
Vertiqo is a production-ready static HTML5 template for creative agencies, IT firms, and portfolios. It includes 18 HTML pages built with Bootstrap 5, custom CSS, and vanilla Ja…
Reep: best if you want many starting designs
Reep comes with 30+ prebuilt homepage demos for creative agencies, studios and freelancers. It's written in HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap and Sass, and it supports dark and light modes. If you know SCSS, you can retheme it from variables instead of hunting through CSS files.
Reep is a modern, clean, and powerful HTML5 template specially designed for creative digital agencies, design studios, freelancers, startups, and marketing companies who want to…
Dreamer: best WordPress theme for freelancers
Dreamer is a personal portfolio theme for Elementor aimed at freelancers, designers, developers, photographers and marketers. It includes portfolio showcases, service sections, blog layouts, testimonials and contact forms, all editable with drag and drop.
Dreamer is a clean, modern, and highly customizable Personal Portfolio Elementor WordPress Theme designed for freelancers, creative professionals, agencies, and entrepreneurs wh…
Zolafi: best Figma template if you design before you build
Zolafi is a Figma template for IT firms and creative agencies with organized layers and a global style guide. It's a design file, not a website, so it suits freelance designers who want to rebrand a layout in Figma and then build it, or hand it to a developer. Our Figma UI kits guide covers how a Figma design becomes code.
"Zolafi" is a premium, modern, and pixel-perfect Figma template designed specifically for IT firms, creative agencies, and tech startups. It features a sleek, user-friendly layo…
Résumé and CV website templates
Naven: best one-page résumé site
Naven is a one-page résumé, CV and vCard template on Bootstrap 4. It has light and dark color schemes, an RTL version and a working Ajax contact form. Use it when you want a personal link to put on job applications instead of a PDF.
Naven is a creative resume, CV & vCard template, responsive HTML5/CSS3 one page based on Bootstrap 4. Naven has a unique design you can use for your personal resume, CV, or your…
DreamHub CV: best WordPress résumé theme
DreamHub's CV theme combines résumé sections (skills, experience and achievements) with a portfolio that you can filter and sort. Because it's WordPress, you can update your experience from the dashboard as your career moves.
DreamHub - Your Personal Portfolio & CV Resume WordPress Theme Unlock the gateway to your professional success with DreamHub, the ultimate Personal Portfolio & CV Resume WordPre…
How to choose a portfolio template
- Count your projects. With three to six projects, a one-page template is cleaner. With ten or more, or with detailed case studies, choose a multi-page template or WordPress.
- Look for a case-study page. Open a single project in the demo. It needs room for the problem, your role, the process and the result, not just a big image.
- Filtering if you do several kinds of work. If you design logos and websites, or shoot weddings and products, a filterable gallery (Lumiere, Foxden, DreamHub CV) helps visitors find what they came for.
- Image weight. Portfolios are image-heavy. Compress your images and test the demo on your phone with PageSpeed Insights.
- A contact form that works. HTML contact forms usually need PHP on your host or a form service. Check how the template's form sends email before you rely on it.
- Be honest about the code. If you use a template for a developer portfolio, say what you built yourself. Reviewers read source code too.
Licensing: Regular or Extended
A Regular License covers a single end product whose end users aren't charged, which is what a personal portfolio is. If you build portfolio sites for clients, each one needs its own license. The Extended License is for an end product whose end users are charged. Neither license lets you redistribute the source as-is. Every purchase includes 6 months of seller support through Manob's built-in ticket system, and you can extend it at 30% before it expires or renew at 75% after.
When to look elsewhere
- You want it free. Manob's templates are paid, priced by sellers from $9 to $93 across the catalog. The WordPress.org theme directory has free portfolio themes, and Figma Community has free design kits.
- You only need a gallery. If you never plan to write about your work, a profile on a portfolio platform may be all you need.
- You need a personal Figma portfolio kit. Manob doesn't currently have one with a working preview, so Figma Community is the better place to look.
- You run an agency. A studio with a team and services may need more pages. See our WordPress agency themes.
Browse all HTML site templates on Manob, each with a live preview.
Frequently asked questions
What should a portfolio website include?
A one-line intro, your best three to six projects with short case studies, a list of skills or services, and an easy way to contact you. Add a résumé link if you're job hunting.
Are there free portfolio website templates?
Yes. The WordPress.org theme directory has free portfolio themes, and Figma Community has free design kits. The templates in this roundup are paid and include 6 months of seller support.
What's the best template for a web developer portfolio?
For a quick site, a one-page HTML template like Welfare is enough. If you want the code to show React skills, adapt a React template such as Edifice, and say which parts you wrote.
Do I need WordPress for a portfolio?
No. If you update your portfolio a few times a year, an HTML template is cheaper and simpler. Choose WordPress if you'll add projects or blog posts often and don't want to edit code.
Can I use a Figma template for my portfolio?
Yes, as a design. A Figma file isn't a website, so you'll still need to build it in HTML, WordPress or React, or have a developer build it.
What's the difference between a portfolio and a résumé site?
A portfolio shows your work; a résumé site summarizes your experience. Templates like Naven and DreamHub CV combine both.