Perfect Portfolio Theme Review

General Design

This free portfolio theme has a minimalistic style and pure, clean, and modern design. Especially, no matter how different your images are, that can scale to fit with beautiful gallery and portfolio of Perfect Portfolio. Such a perfect portfolio!

Other Elements

The header is pretty simple and leaves as much blank space for the About section under it as possible. Thereby, users are able to seize people's attention to their personal image and gain the spotlight for their biography.

Review the first screen area

Then, I'll review the most important elements: the portfolio section. It's a grid-based gallery that is arranged neatly and tightly. That makes it become solid and concise. Especially, when you click the category button, the corresponding photos will be displayed. I think that is a wise feature as it allows people to view photos conveniently as quickly. Besides, the overlay when hovering a mouse is a good idea to show brief information only when needed, while still keep the gallery clear and prominent.

You can switch the portfolio category easily

This portfolio can display images beautifully regardless of image size and ratio aspect. Only when your images' height is by far smaller than the default size, will the portfolio switch to the masonry layout like this:

Portfolio with smaller-height image

The archive page has a simple header so I think you will leave it to read the post immediately. It also has a masonry layout, yet this time, more space between posts added, giving more freedom and air.

Archive page with masonry style

In addition to the masonry layout, there are two styles, which are both beautiful and extensive. Here is the grid layout. I find that it looks not really different.

Archive page with grid style

This style makes your first post more overwhelming so you can take this advantage to showcase your featured post.

Archive page with one big featured post

Finally, the single post page is really readable with big texts and wide space between elements. You can even switch to the larger featured image in order to make this page more amazing.

Another single post style with large featured image

Especially, the sidebar can appear here on the left, right, or can disappear. The sidebar also looks simple and spacious following the general style of this theme.

Responsive

Perfect Portfolio looks fine on PC, laptop, smartphone, ... or any screen size without any mistake.

Review the responsive design

After installing, your website hasn't looked like the demo yet so you need to set it up. You can use instant demo import, which is compatible with RARA One Click Demo Import plugin. It helps you have an exact site like the theme demo. But you need to read its instruction carefully and download dummy data from the documentation page. That may be quite complicated if you're a beginner.

Otherwise, Live Customizer will help do it with although it requires more manipulations and steps. First, it needs a static homepage, set up some special sections like Call to action, Author, Service, Portfolio. Then, you have to install RaraTheme Companion to get extra widgets like Rara Social Media and Rar. I bet that will take you a bit of time. But don't worry, it's not so difficult because the Customizer is easy to use.

With the existence of RaraTheme Companion, this free portfolio theme is powered with 14+ advanced widgets like feature page, call to action, FAQs, client logo, and so on ...  They are so useful, unique, for example, the FAQs widget to create FAQs will make your site stand out in the crowd.

Using Customizer can greatly change your website's outfit with this free portfolio theme. There is an intuitive interface that lets you easily imagine the options like layout, the positions of the sidebar, ...

Review the intuitive customization interface

I reviewed all the customization sections and find that they can be changed properly without any problem. It's also not difficult to add new items or modify and select the changeable options there.

Perhaps, taking the Font Awesome icon is the most complicated step of all. On the other hand, you seem to have unlimited social media items to add. I added up to 20 items and it didn't stop there.

Social media icons customization

Then, the typography is more than easy to deal with. You just need to select one among many standard fonts here and it will apply for all text on your site

Typography customization

The most interesting feature of this free portfolio is that it supports up to 14 widgets from Kaza. They're useful, easy to use, and rendered properly without.

Review the special widgets

Using this free portfolio theme every day is enjoyable. All standard formats from Gutenberg are ready to use and display nicely.

Like this blockquote, it can be easily distinguished from other texts.

Review the blockquote

And a video can be so overwhelming like this.

Review the video embed

This is a beautiful gallery.

Review the gallery

I analyzed SEO optimization on Perfect Portfolio by some special method. The static shows that this free WordPress portfolio theme hasn't been totally ready for SEO yet. But depending on users, it can be optimized properly because I just checked the demo site and it may have some difference in reality.

Perfect Portfolio is a good theme if you want to speed up your website. It's fast on computer according to some speed checking tool.

Theme's speed check by Google PageSpeed Insights

But I think that the speed of this theme on mobile devices needs improving, much lower than on computers.

I love the way Raza organizes the documentation: they divided and put each different sections in different articles and put a search bar at the top. Hence, it's quick and easy to find what you want from there. Besides, the step-by-step tutorial accompanied with annotated screenshots and video makes it so understandable.

The support system is so smart. You can select your problem here and it can automatically troubleshoot your problem. But if it can't still resolve your issue, feel free to contact the support team.