Are you looking for a portfolio extension that can help you to build up an impressive gallery of portfolio? I'm sure that you could be flooded with numerous results on the internet, without knowing which suitable one to choose. This article will shed light on your confusion because you'll be unleashed with 5 best portfolio extensions for Joomla in 2019. It's time to discover!
1. TZ Portfolio+ (Free download)
TZ Portfolio+ is a powerful advanced portfolio extension for Joomla, developed on the base of its former version TZ Portfolio. TZ Portfolio+ allows you to have a full access to a bunch of premium add-ons, stunning template styles with free charge. It's absolutely interesting, isn't it?
It supports different types of media including image, image gallery, and even video ( Youtube and Vimeo). Additionally, custom field is an important part to help users to create custom fields for category or portfolio item. Beside that, ACL Manager is available to allow super user grant a specific access control to various user groups in both back-end and front-end.
On the purpose of globalizing TZ Porfolio+, it's calling for users' contribution in translating the extension to different languages at Transifex - TZ Portfolio Plus
2. Advanced Portfolio Pro (Paid download)
Advanced Portfolio Pro is an awesome extension from Extstore team, upgraded from its former version Advanced Portfolio. It's built with the compatibility for Joomla 3x with a clean responsive style, as well as outstanding features. This extension comes with both list and detail view to enhance user's visual experience.
You can easily manage your projects by tags or categories, but only Pro version allows this feature. Each project contains short and full description, easy image management, video and metadata options optimized for SEO.
3. JUX Portfolio Pro (Paid download)
Developed by JoomlauUX team, JUX Portfolio Pro came out like a professional version of previous one - JUX Portfolio. With JUX Portfolio Pro, you're allowed to set up your gallery with 3 main styles: classical, masonry, and packery. Moreover, it offers different single styles which brings you numerous options to display both images and content in your wish. Lightbox feature is also supported by this product
4. Smart Portfolio (Paid download)
Smart Portfolio developed by PulseExtensions Team provides a simple solution to trigger a front/back card style navigation. You can add the content and use the plugin to generate it easily. With Smart Portfolio, it's possible to present your portfolio with various fading styles (about 10-12), as well as different choices for transitions like fly, fade, fan, tilt, zipper, flip, curl and so on. Especially, its admin panel allows user to control images, title, and description in a dynamic manner. You can use it as a portfolio , Sponsors , personal identification or many place on your website.
5. WS - Portfolio (Paid download)
WS - Portfolio is a simple Joomla Portfolio module providing with a flexible and expandable and stunning outlook. Developed using jQuery Isotope and masonry brings you this responsive Joomla Portfolio modules a lots of options, all of them can be easily set in the nice looking back-end of Joomla.
It's easy to sort and filter your portfolios by setting up Main Filter, as well as control the number of columns for each portfolio. The disadvantage of this module is that you can only create maximum 50 portfolio items, and possibly increase the number by using coding field. In general, this module bring you a very simple way to display a portfolio. Let's have a look at it!
Wrap Up
After having done a research in finding the best portfolio extensions for a Joomla site, I finally conclude that all mentioned portfolio extensions have their own powerful features and useful functionalities. Supporting with frequent updates and the compatibility for latest Joomla version , and Joomla 4 alpha, they're worthy for you to have a try. However, let's think about the one providing a free access to premium add-on system and stunning style collection, it definitely calls the name TZ Portfolio+. Feel free to share your thoughts and comment below