Looking to set up a personal website, online C.V, or resume? We’ve got you covered, with this collection of amazing personal WordPress themes for creating a professional, personal online presence.
Having a professional presence online for your personal brand is a great thing. Whether you’re a freelancer, consultant, academic, or other professional — people are going to Google your name. And when they do, it’s a good idea to have a friendly, welcome website that can create a good first impression!
These personal WordPress themes are the perfect way to do that.
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These themes are perfect for creating an online version of a curriculum vitae (C.V), or resume. Next time someone asks to see your resume, send them a link to your beautiful website that shows your skills, education, training, experience, and references. It can’t fail to impress!
vCard WordPress Themes
A vCard theme is one that takes simplicity to a new level. Create a virtual online “address book card”, but one that’s fully interactive. It can be as simple as your name, contact details, and links to social media profiles. Or it can take the minimal design and pack in features like a mini portfolio, blog, and more.
Jason is a minimal personal WordPress blogging theme that aims to simplify the process of launching a new blog. The feature list of Jason isn’t big enough to rival all of the best personal WordPress themes in this collection, however, the design of this theme should appeal to a wide audience who are looking for a bright and clean template for their blog.
Miss Sunshine is a personal WordPress theme that’s ideally suited to lifestyle bloggers. In addition to the stylish templates, the Miss Sunshine package includes two powerful slider tools to help you add slideshows to your website, a drag-and-drop page builder plugin, and full ecommerce support should you ever want to sell products from your personal website.
Silk is a WordPress blogging theme aimed at fashion bloggers or anyone looking for a stylish design for their personal website. While the pre-built layout of this personal WordPress theme looks great it doesn’t take much effort at all to customize it to meet your goals.
As well as the intuitive set of customization controls, Silk also comes with a page builder tool integrated into its interface.
Growth WordPress theme comes with a highly professional design. This theme is most suitable for making personal, resume, CV, and portfolio websites for marketers, designers, writers, and other professionals.
The theme lets you choose from 4 different premade homepage layouts. Each layout features unique sections and elements for effectively showcasing your personal details, portfolio gallery, and detailing your services.
You can easily customize the theme using Elementor page builder. With it, you can rearrange sections of the theme to design a unique homepage layout. The theme also includes lots of inner-page layouts as well.
Orys is a truly unique WordPress theme made for creating portfolio websites for photographers and designers. The theme comes with a design that gives center-stage to your portfolio items with its image-centric content design.
The theme is available in 2 different homepage layouts. Each layout features stylish parallax effects that give them a one of a kind look and feel. The simple and clean design makes this theme perfect for creative professionals as well.
It’s also fully compatible with the new Gutenberg block editor as well as Polylang for offering translations. The theme supports GIF images and comes with multiple inner-page layouts, including blog layouts.
Gorgo is a content-focused WordPress theme that’s ideal for personal blogs but also works well for magazine websites too. The pre-built website demos in the Gorgo package all share a modern and minimal design but are different enough to give you a good range of distinct options when creating your personal WordPress website with this theme.
Blogxer has 12 homepage layouts for you to choose from as well as 15 templates for the inner pages of your site. What’s more, all of the Blogxer content can be easily customized through the integrated Elementor page builder plugin.
You also get a varied selection of header and footer layouts to help you get these areas of your site looking just how you want them.
Jonny is a modern WordPress theme made for creating personal websites for professionals and freelancers. The theme comes with an effectively sectioned design that allows you to describe your skills, services, and showcase your portfolio at the same time.
It gets powered by Visual Composer and lets you easily customize the design to change colors and layout however you like.
Selfer comes with a minimalist and dark color design that makes this WordPress theme truly one of a kind. It includes a creative header section where you can introduce yourself, include links to social profiles, and describe your services and skills.
The theme supports WPML plugin and lets you easily customize the design using Elementor page builder plugin.
Alia is a highly minimalist WordPress blogging theme you can use to setup a beautiful personal blog or a journal using the popular CMS. The theme features a single-column layout that puts more focus on your written content.
It also includes a header section where you can include a display photo, links to your social media, and links.
Unica is a multipurpose WordPress theme that can be used to create many different types of personal and professional websites, such as a portfolio or a resume website. The theme also includes premade designs for agencies, studios, web hosting, and salons.
It comes bundled with Visual Composer and Slider Revolution plugins as well.
Aveo is a modern CV and portfolio WordPress theme. It comes in 2 different homepage designs, one for creating an online vCard-style resume website and the other design can be used to make a portfolio website for designers and illustrators.
The theme is fully responsive and lets you easily customize the design using a drag and drop page builder as well.
Cooper wants to help you build a creative personal portfolio website with WordPress. No matter what type of work and projects you want to display to your target audience, Cooper should have a pre-built layout or template that’s suitable.
If not, then the bundled Visual Composer drag-and-drop page builder plugin is sure to come in handy.
MiResume is a stylish personal WordPress theme with multiple demos. Whether you’d like a video background for your online resume website or something a bit more traditional such as a static photo or an image slider, MiResume gives you those options.
In addition, thanks to integration with the Layers page builder plugin this is one of the most flexible personal WordPress themes around.
Hire Me is one of the newest personal WordPress themes in this collection. It might also be one of the most flexible vCard themes as well.
With multiple page templates, header layouts, and customization options, you’ll have no trouble giving this theme and therefore your website, a personal twist.
Fair is a multipurpose option in this collection of the best personal WordPress themes. However, while all of the demos that this theme includes are ideal for creatives, the Personal homepage demo is the perfect choice for building an online resume or portfolio with WordPress.
Due to the inclusion of the Visual Composer page builder plugin, you can customize any aspects of the Fair theme you're not sure about.
This Squareroot CV Theme has a fully responsive layout, and comes with four home page variations, three navigation styles, and fully customisable backgrounds (colors, images or patterns). It has a fun parallax effect to give your personal website a dynamic touch, and can feature your blog, portfolio, and more.
cvCard is a responsive, dynamic vCard theme with a sliding horizontal layout (to make you stand out from the crowd!). It features HTML5, CSS3, and a jQuery powered retina-ready design that works in all browsers.
Create a filterable portfolio, a blog, and more, all on a slick platform for your personal website.
Bionick is a fully responsive, personal WordPress theme with a scrolling page built to showcase your top-notch portfolio. It's made for designers, photographers, illustrators, video producers , architects and others who need an easy, attractive and effective way to share their work with clients (or showcase an online resume when searching for a job!)
"One" is a flat-styled, responsive resume and personal portfolio theme. It has a big header photograph and call-to-action, pie charts of your different skill areas, a creative portfolio area, and a contact form.
“Flato” is a flat, minimalist, and multi-purpose vCard for showcasing your personal information, whether you are a designer, programmer or manager. It's a one-page resume WordPress theme that lets you share contact details, skills, portfolio examples, and more.
Plus, a powerful contact form for people to get in touch with you.
Empathy is a professional way to represent your online identity. It has a unique layout and sleek design, with plenty of customization options that you can tweak to reflect your style.
It has a minimal sidebar for navigation, crisp typography, and bold colours. Perfect for a personal blog, portfolio, and identity.
Empathy Rating & Updates
Current Version
1.4.4
Last Updated
28 August 2020
Rating
4.51 (83 reviews)
Empathy Features & Compatibility
Columns
4+
Layout Style
Responsive
Browser Compatibility
IE11, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, Edge
Documentation
Well Documented
Files Included
PHP Files, CSS Files, JS Files
Gutenberg Ready
No
High Resolution Ready
Yes
Widget Ready
Yes
Interested in a Portfolio Theme?
If you’re interested in a theme that can showcase your portfolio of projects beautifully, we have you covered. Take a look at our collection of the best portfolio WordPress themes to find one that’s a great fit!
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