Are you looking for a CV or Resume theme for WordPress? Building an online resume with your CV can help you build a personal brand, find job, and make new contacts. WordPress is an ideal platform to build your professional online presence. In this article, we have hand-picked some of the best WordPress resume themes.
Getting Started with Your Online Resume Wesbite
In order to create your online CV or Resume website with WordPress, first you will need a domain and hosting.
We recommend using Bluehost because they are an official WordPress recommended hosting provider, and they are offering WPBeginner users an exclusive 60% off + a free domain name.
For more recommendations, you may want to checkout our guide on how to choose the best WordPress hosting.
Once you have setup your domain and hosting, you will need to install WordPress. Follow the instructions in our complete step by step guide on how to start a WordPress blog, and you will be up and running in no time.
Once you have installed WordPress, you can then install a WordPress resume theme on your website.
Having said that, here is our pick of the best WordPress resume themes in the market (both free and paid).
1. Freelo
Freelo is a beautifully designed WordPress theme for resumes, portfolio, and photography websites.It has a built-in portfolio section with multiple styles to display it using beautiful CSS animations. You can choose from multiple color schemes and create your own as well.
It also allows you to easily change fonts and has support to use Google Fonts. There are multiple page templates, unlimited sidebars, and even a sidebar generator packed inside.
2. OneEngine
OneEngine is a creative one page WordPress theme for professionals. It has a beautiful layout builder and sections to add services and portfolio items.
The homepage features beautiful animated counters, a skills section, contact form, and social media integration. It is quite easy to setup with tons of customization options.
3. Marvel
Marvel is uniquely designed WordPress theme for resume websites. It features a two column layout with a sticky sidebar on the left and a full screen slider to the right. It can be used as a single page theme as well with vertical navigation.
It has multiple layout options and page templates and it ships with a powerful drag and drop page builder plugin. It supports WooCommerce out of the box and comes with several ready to use WooCommerce widgets.
4. Get Noticed
Created by Michael Hyatt, Get Noticed is a premium WordPress theme for establishing your personal brand on the web. It is one of the most expensive WordPress themes in the market. But it is very easy to use, quick to setup, and flexible.
Our company’s CEO and founder, Syed Balkhi uses Get Noticed on his personal website.
5. Resume
Resume is a bold WordPress theme for online resume, cv, or a personal website. This beautiful online resume template comes with a built-in portfolio type and can be used as a one-page theme.
The homepage is made out of different sections like about, skills, projects, portfolio, blog, and contact form. It can be used for a multi-page website as well.
6. Creativo
Creativo is a multi-purpose WordPress theme with highly flexible options. It includes several layout choices and can also be used as a single page theme.
It has built in sections to easily add portfolio, services, photo galleries, etc. It ships with premium page builder and slider plugins as well.
7. Nico
Nico is a beautifully designed WordPress theme for resume, photography, and portfolio websites. It has a beautiful filterable portfolio with grid layout that helps you showcase the best of your work.
Nico is highly flexible with custom colors, background, header, and social media options. It comes with custom theme panel to help you quickly setup your website.
8. Hired
Hired is a free WordPress theme specifically designed to build an online resume website. It features a two column layout with social media menu on the left and a fullscreen header image on the right. The homepage displays a welcome message, address, email, and phone number.
Hired has different templates for regular pages, and a blog section. It is very quick to setup and easy to customize. The premium version of the theme also comes with additional page templates and more customization options.
9. My Resume
My Resume is a free WordPress theme designed specifically to quickly create resume websites. It comes with pre-defined sections for skills, education, work experience, etc. All theme options can be easily set up using live theme customizer.
10. Personal Page
Personal Page is a WordPress theme for resumes and personal websites. The homepage features parallax layout with bold typography and animations.
It has built-in portfolio, services, and testimonials sections. For customizations it comes in multiple colors and layout choices, social media widgets, and live theme customizer support.
11. Designer
Designer is creative WordPress theme to showcase your resume and portfolio. The homepage has a two column layout on desktop, and a single column layout on mobile. It’s minimalist approach to design offers a distraction-free and engaging view to showcase your portfolio items.
It comes with a collapsible sidebar, crisp typography, and a simpler quick setup to get you started right away.
12. Aperture
Aperture is a beautiful free WordPress theme perfect for a resume website. Designed for photographers and artists, it pays special attention to beautiful display of images.
It has a gorgeous fullscreen slider on the homepage allowing you to display your photographs in their full glory. You can also use an image as the fullscreen background. It has beautiful gallery layouts, blog, and page templates as well.
13. Parallax
Parallax is a stunningly gorgeous WordPress theme with fullscreen parallax backgrounds and a unique layout. It comes in 40 different layouts and an easy to use drag and drop page builder.
It also includes custom widgets for social media, portfolio section, and image filters. It can be used as a single page theme, a single page with infinite scroll, or as a regular multi-page theme.
14. Eclipse
If you are looking for a simpler and sophisticated theme for your resume website, then check out Eclipse. This beautiful theme is designed to showcase your creative work with elegant typography, spacious layout, and earth tone color schemes.
It includes a portfolio section, custom widgets for social media profiles and Instagram photos, and full WooCommerce support.
15. North
North is a beautiful WordPress portfolio theme that can be easily used to showcase your resume and work. It features a grid layout with minimalist approach to design and crisp typography.
It has multiple templates for your blog, portfolio, and static pages. It comes in multiple colors and supports post formats, custom header, and social profiles menu.
16. Remi
Remi is a clean WordPress theme for designers and artists to showcase their work. It includes a portfolio section to easily showcase your projects.
It has different templates for your homepage, blog, and static pages. The homepage features a two column layout with a sidebar on the left. It is quite simple to use and quick to setup a professional resume website.
17. Freelancer
As the name suggests, Freelancer is a personal WordPress theme for freelancers and professionals. Designed to showcase your professional skills and profile, Freelancer comes in a one-page layout with vertical navigation.
The homepage is divided into different sections to showcase your skills, portfolio, profile, and a contact form. It can also be used as a multi-page WordPress theme with a blog section.
18. Ambiance Pro
Ambiance Pro is a WordPress theme for professionals to showcase their resume. Built on top of the Genesis theme framework, Ambiance Pro features a spacious layout with a welcome message at the top followed by your content in a two column grid layout.
It has templates for homepage, blog, and landing pages. It comes with a straight forward setup with live theme customizer support.
19. Argent
Argent is a free WordPress theme for personal websites. The homepage layout is designed to display your portfolio items on the frontpage. It has navigation menu on top followed by a large header image and a custom welcome message. All theme options can be easily setup using live theme customizer.
20. Online CV
Online CV is a modern WordPress resume theme with a corporate look. It features a fullscreen background on the homepage with your name or site title displayed in large font size. You can also use a video as the background. The homepage also has parallax scrolling effect with beautiful animations.
It has sections for portfolio, testimonials, services, and photo galleries. It has multiple layout and color schemes choices among many other flexible customization options.
21. Saturn
Saturn is a one-page WordPress theme to showcase your resume, product, or business. It can be used as a one page theme with a beautiful slider on top followed by different sections.
It has built-in support to add your portfolio, services, skills, and an about section. You can quickly get started by importing the demo content with one click and then just replace content with your own.
22. Web Designer Resume
As the name suggests, Web Designer Resume is a WordPress theme for web designers to showcase their work. The homepage layout features fullscreen background with bold site title and welcome message. It can be used as a one-page theme with sections to show your work experience, skills, and a contact form.
23. Libretto
Libretto is a simpler classic blog theme for personal websites. It features an earth tone color scheme with beautiful typography which makes it ideal for a resume website.
It uses a single column layout for both blog and static pages, which makes it easier to setup.
24. Profile
Want to build an online social media hub with your resume, blog, and social media activities? Profile is designed to do just that. It is a personal website theme, with a custom recent Tweet widget, social profiles menu, portfolio section, and slider.
The homepage features your profile photo at the top, followed by your Twitter feed and social profile links. It is easy to customize and includes several shortcodes, page templates, and custom widgets.
Bonus Plugin
25. Resume Builder
If you already have a WordPress site or a theme that you like and want to add a professional resume, then Resume Builder is the plugin for you. It comes with an easy to use interface to create your resume. For detailed instructions, see our guide on how to create a professional online resume in WordPress.
We hope this article helped you find the best CV and resume theme for your WordPress site. You may also want to see our list of 24 must have WordPress plugins for business websites.
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