Do you own YourFullName.com? How do you use it? For a long time, it was just geeks and online programmers who went through the effort of registering the domain name for their full name. Nowadays, however, owning your personal domain name is an essential part of good personal branding.
In recent years, personal vCard and resume websites have taken off like wildfire. Where personal resume or CV websites used to be just for web developers, designers, photographers, or others in the most technical or creative careers, now these websites are used by professionals in any number of industries. Now, graduates in English, business, or practically any other field are pushing their personal brand online, with help from these trusty little websites.
Numerous platforms for accomplishing this personal branding empire without a website exist, such as LinkedIn, About.me and other industry-centric networks. However, when executed well, personal websites will always have a degree of flexibility, customization, and personality that extends beyond the rest.
What’s the best way to accomplish that? Using a vCard or resume WordPress theme, of course! And good thing for you – there are lots of great options already out there, ready for you to add the finishing touches that truly make them your own.
If you want to show off your own vCard or resume website to potential employers, these 15 WordPress themes are just what you need.
1. Profession
Also available in a horizontal format:
Profession is a beautiful one-page responsive WordPress theme rendered in flat design that is perfect for bringing your CV or resume to life.
The demo offers up four different styles to choose from: regular vertical layout, a sliding horizontal format, the option to add a full-screen background, and an optimized RTL version for CVs in languages that read right to left. Choose from 8 predefined color packs or set your own colors. The designer’s recommended format is horizontal, which automatically switches to a vertical version on smaller screens and devices.
The theme is topped off with a responsive slider with optional animation. There is space for an introduction and signature, and the sections that follow are a sortable portfolio, an infographic-style set of circle graphs for showing off your skills, a space for work experience, a contact form, and a map showing your location. The portfolio allows the following post formats: quote, image, image slider, video, or audio.
Profession is the perfect all-in-one solution for showing off what you can do to potential employers. Bring your resume to life with the Profession theme today.
2. BookCard WP
If you want your digital resume to stand out, this is the theme to make it happen. BookCard WP is an incredibly unique WordPress resume/portfolio theme that turns your CV into a digital pamphlet, complete with unfolding animation. It includes four “pages”: the cover with customizable “headlines,” your resume, your portfolio, and your contact information. The inner sections scroll individually with custom scrollbars.
This theme is completely responsive, adapting masterfully to devices with smaller screen sizes. Instead of resting on a background on smaller devices, the theme zooms into the cover, and allows the viewer to move through the various sections with ease. The theme is retina-ready, which means that it will display beautifully on devices with high quality screens.
The theme is extremely customizable, and comes ready with 50 predefined styles already built in. It also comes with over 20 social media icons so you can easily show visitors your other homes on the web.
If you are looking for a resume WordPress theme to really help you stand out from the rest, BookCard WP may be exactly what you need. Click the buttons below to view or download BookCard WP.
3. ResumeX
ResumeX is a bold and beautiful one-page WordPress resume theme perfect for showcasing your skills and accomplishments all in one place.
This theme was built with Bootstrap, meaning that it is responsive and will look great in any browser or on any device.
ResumeX allows for unlimited color configurations, comes with Revolution Slider (a $19 value) for free, and also boasts a super easy to use set of theme settings. Decide which sections to use, and easily reorder them with a simple drag and drop interface. The sections available with this theme are: an intro slider, about me, skills, experience timeline, education, portfolio, testimonials, blog, social network list, and a Google map with an embedded contact form. Users can scroll to reach their desired section, or click the links in the menu. Many of the sections feature pleasing animations, such as the timeline and education, which fill out as you scroll down to them.
ResumeX has all the things you need for the perfect one-page resume website. Download ResumeX today to supercharge your resume!
4. ShiftCV
ShiftCV takes your resume and makes it beautifully clean, modern, and minimal.
If you are looking for a responsive and retina-ready WordPress theme in the flat design format to digitize your resume, ShiftCV is the theme for you. ShiftCV includes a blog, portfolio, resume with animated infographic-style widgets, testimonials, and contact form. There is also a printable page. The different sections are accessed via tabs and they feature nice transition animations between them.
ShiftCV comes in either a dark or a light version with a customizable accent color. You can choose a default and give your users the power to toggle between the two versions, or turn the toggle off to stick to one color scheme in particular. This theme renders beautifully to smaller screen sizes, stacking elements in a pleasing way and retaining many of the charming animations.
ShiftCV is the perfect way to bring your resume to the modern age.
5. Zwin
If you are looking for a digital business card, Zwin is just what you need.
Zwin’s default page is very business card-like, with a headshot, essential info, and icons for the various sections of your resume. Click the icons to move between the profile, resume, portfolio, and contact page. Links to your social profiles are at the top right. It’s the perfect way to pull together your resume and contact information, all in one place.
This theme features a nice flat design and comes with five color options: yellow, red, green, blue, and purple. Portfolio entries can be images, videos, or even Flash animations.
Zwin is just what you need if you are trying to figure out how to put your business card online.
6. Aegolius
Looks great on mobile:
Aegolius is one of the most professional-looking WordPress resume themes available. While other WordPress resume or vCard themes might just be supplementary information to a resume or CV, you could actually send your website out as a resume if you use this theme.
The theme comes with three preset color options: the white/blue shown above, white/red, and a sleek black/yellow color scheme. All options are fully responsive, shifting around to look beautiful on any size screen, and it is retina-ready to boot.
The theme offers up three pages: the default resume page, a portfolio, and a contact page. There are also print and download options, making this resume fully-featured for professional use. Take advantage of the theme’s many custom shortcodes to make the resume exactly what you need it to be.
If you are looking for a WordPress theme that will completely replace your paper resume, Aegolius is it.
7. cvCard WP
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cvCard WP is another resume-replacement WordPress theme, with more of a designy feel. The theme places major emphasis on good typography, a pleasant grid, and white space.
Like many of the themes on this list, cvCard is responsive and retina-ready. It features a unique horizontal sliding format and four pre-defined skins: minimal, flat, overlay, and overlay bold. It includes the following sections: about me, resume, blog, portfolio, and contact. The portfolio supports both images and videos and allows for filtering.
You really can only get a sense of the unique sliding format if you take a look at the demo! Click the button below to check it out.
8. Personal One
Personal One is a brilliant full-screen, one-page, responsive resume and portfolio. Show off your best side with this beautiful theme!
Personal One starts out with a huge full-screen slider that gets the important information out there: your name, your tagline, and links to download your resume and view your portfolio. The slider alone makes it a great choice for sending out to contacts. Sorry for the dotty look of the slider in my screenshot — you’ll get a much better idea of what the slider looks like if you click the button for the demo below.
This theme comes with both light and dark versions, as well as three premade slider templates, using Revolution Slider, which is included for free ($19 value). It has unlimited color options and comes feature-packed with 7 custom widgets. It includes an Ajax portfolio which can integrate videos as well as still images.
If you are looking for a great template to showcase your portfolio and point people to your resume, Personal One is a fantastic choice!
9. Profile
Profile is a responsive and retina-ready resume and portfolio theme that will make you look awesome.
Profile features unlimited color customization, as well as a real emphasis on strong typography and powerful shortcodes.
The thing that makes Profile unique is its WooCommerce compatibility, which lets you sell products right from your portfolio — a great feature for photographers and artists in particular.
Looking to sell your photography right from your portfolio? Check out Profile and make it happen!
10. Coffee and Cream
Coffee and Cream is a powerful one-page, retina-ready resume and portfolio theme featuring parallax scrolling effects. It comes free with Revolution Slider, 27 premium widgets, 10 skins and 3 color schemes.
Some of the sections you can add using Coffee and Cream’s custom widgets include: about me, education, employment history, services, skills, portfolio, contact form, slider, clients, testimonials, social media, latest tweets, and a download section. With so many different widget options, you can mold Coffee & Cream into whatever you need it to be.
If you are looking for one of the most flexible resume WordPress themes out there, Coffee and Cream is for you!
11. VR
VR is a responsive vCard WordPress theme built with Bootstrap. It uses flat tiles as navigation to the various parts of your portfolio, as well as to your social media outlets.
Boasting unlimited colors, 6 pre-defined theme color sets, and FontAwesome icons, VR is just what you need to bring your resume to the digital world. VR also includes infographic-style charts and graphs for the resume page.
VR is a great little theme if you are looking for something modern and minimal.
12. Premium Layers
Premium Layers is a responsive and retina-ready WordPress theme that puts your vCard into a simple tabbed website reminiscent of a business card. Create pages for your personal info, portfolio, resume, blog and contact form using pleasing transitional animations.
This theme has a beautiful, clean design that comes with 8 premade skins to choose from.
If you are looking for something clean, fast, and simple, Premium Layers is for you!
13. Selfless
Selfless is a responsive one-page WordPress template perfect for photographers and other creatives looking to put their resume and work online.
Scroll through or hit the tabs for personal info, skills, portfolio, pricing tables, your blog, and your contact page. Meanwhile, the fullscreen background image is on a timer and regularly changes, showing off your work behind the translucent layers.
Selfless is a simply beautiful theme — check out the demo or download it with the buttons below!
14. NEW
NEW is a retina-ready and responsive vCard and resume theme for WordPress.
This theme is modern and sleek, boasting a flat design with an accent color and aesthetically-pleasing grid.
Pull your resume or CV into modernity with this theme!
15. FlatCV
FlatCV is the flat, responsive, and colorful final theme on this list.
Starting out very business card-like, FlatCV expands when you click on the tabs for resume, portfolio, and contact form with gorgeous animations. The one page format is perfect if you are not looking to put tons of information online, just your resume and a few work samples. Customize by choosing your own accent color. The theme looks beautiful on any device with its responsiveness and being retina-ready.
Click the buttons below to download FlatCV and start using it today!
