Grand Portfolio WordPress

A portfolio that looks good on mobile and badly for the rest of the business

People who live by showing their work often share the same problem: the photos or projects are good, but the website buries them under confusing menus, slow galleries or templates designed for a blog. Grand Portfolio WordPress is built the other way round: the work comes first, everything else after.

Galleries and projects: what Grand Portfolio does with your work

The theme includes its own content types for photo galleries, portfolio, events, testimonials, pricing and team members. You can create unlimited portfolio and gallery pages, and the gallery admin lets you upload several images at once.

• Content of each project: a static page, YouTube, Vimeo, video hosted on your own site or a custom link.
• Infinite scroll in galleries and portfolios, so visitors don't have to paginate.
• Lightbox with gestures on touch screens.
• Purchase link per image, useful if you sell prints or specific pieces.
• Split-screen layout that uses your photography as the page background.
• Parallax effect on backgrounds and a custom header image.

It also has more than 70 predesigned templates for galleries and portfolios, plus predefined single-project layouts that import with one click.

Design, menus and editing without touching code

Customisation goes through the WordPress Customizer with an instant preview. You can change typography (size, style and colour), pick colours with a colour picker and switch between a light and a dark scheme. Google Web Fonts are included.

To build pages there is a drag and drop content builder with modules for portfolio, gallery, blog, testimonials and more. It lets you import and export what you build. There are 11 menu layout combinations, a mega menu, a sticky menu, one-page navigation, an off-canvas side menu and instant AJAX search.

It also comes with a shortcode generator, column shortcodes (2 to 5) and style shortcodes, and unlimited sidebars so you can assign a different one to each page.

What to keep in mind before choosing it

• Its builder is its own. If you already work with another page builder, it does not replace it or integrate as such: you will learn this one.
• The shop depends on WooCommerce. The theme supports it for a cart, but it is not a full e-commerce theme.
• For several languages you need WPML (mo/po files are also available for translating).
• Revolution Slider and iLightbox come with the theme, but their use is tied to it.
• Deeper adjustments are best made in a child theme, which is supported.

Frequently asked questions

Is it good for more than photography?

Yes. There are demos in styles such as agency, music or fashion, and the predefined styles cover architecture, design, bands and publishers.

Does it adapt to mobile?

Yes, it is responsive and ready for retina screens. If you prefer, you can turn off the responsive features with one click from the dashboard.

Can I publish events?

Yes. Events support maps, directions and ticket purchase options.

Does it work with SEO and cache plugins?

There is support for Yoast SEO, WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache.

Demos import with one click, but check before choosing one

There are 8 handcrafted demos. After importing one, you replace images and texts with your own. Check in the demo that the menu type and gallery style convince you before importing, because undoing an import on a site you have already worked on takes more effort than choosing well at the start.

If you are going to sell or use several languages, install WooCommerce or WPML before building the pages, and make your own changes in a child theme.