WP Theme Review: Work-A-Holic

A couple years back you’ll have a difficult time finding a good portfolio style WordPress theme thats free. These days, there are lots of very nice premium quality portfolio themes that WordPress users can choose from. One of those themes comes from Graph Paper Press and its called the Work-A-Holic theme.

Work-a-holic is a free minimalistic two and three column WordPress theme that focuses mainly on showcasing portfolios for artists, web designers, photographers and illustrators. Work-a-holic separates your portfolio from your blog, enabling easy navigation for clients in a clean, intuitive fashion. It also has a separate sidebar for portfolio (shows recent projects) and a separate widgetized sidebar for the blog and pages.

Main Features:

Separate Blog and Portfolio Section
Blog lists posts as normal blog
Portfolio pulls latest thumbnail of the post and lists each of them on three columns
Multiple image gallery container (slider) on portfolio posts
Basic Theme Options
Twitter integrated – shows latest Tweet
Separate sidebar on Portfolio and normal sidebar on Blog
One Page template with separate sidebar
Ability to have a separate desired Thumbnail if WP-Post-Thumbnail plugin is installed
jQuery effects on Portfolio thumbnails
Multi-level Drop Down Menu
Support Nested Comments
Three footer widgets
Uses 960 css framework and jQuery javascript framework
XHML: This theme has been tested on Firefox, Safari, IE 8, 7, 6.