Portfolio Manager Lite is a WordPress app, with a 3.7 average rating from 9 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Portfolio Manager Lite is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by OTWthemes. With a rating of 3.7★ from 9 reviews.
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Portfolio Manager Lite is a mixed-rating WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 9 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by OTWthemes — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (3.7★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (9) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Portfolio Manager Lite works
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Portfolio plugin for any theme. Show your work in beautiful portfolio lists. Easily, No coding. Well organized. 5 media types. Variety of templates and options.
The Portfolio Manager can also be used to create beautiful image galleries. Every template can display just the images.
Check on the Portfolio Manager Lite: Demo site | Documentation page
Upgrade to the Pro version of this plugin including tons of more features, regular updates and premium support:
Portfolio Manager Pro |
Demo site
How Portfolio Manager works – The workflow
It is pretty easy to create a beautiful portfolio list or a gallery. It is all done in the plugin interface with zero coding requirement.
The short version is:
Upload portfolio items
Create lists
Display the lists wherever you need them
Bellow we go in a little more details.
First you need to upload your portfolio/gallery items. Each item is a separate post similar to the default WordPress posts. You can fill in variety of options for each portfolio posts: title, description, short description, details, upload media, and choose categories and tags.
Once you have uploaded your portfolio items you can create lists with them:
Choose a template
Select the portfolio items to display
Modify the layout by using the settings for your list
Add some custom styling via the custom css field, if needed.
Once you have a list created you can display it wherever you need: your pages, your template files, your sidebars as a widget.
There is no limit for the number of portfolio items or lists you can create. Have as many as you need.
Templates
This plugin comes with 8 templates to choose from. Once you select a template then you can customize it however you want.
Grid – Portfolio 1 col
Grid – Portfolio 4 col
Image Left – Portfolio 1 column
Newspaper – Portfolio 3 columns
Widget Style – Image Left
Timeline
Slider
Carousel 3 columns
Select and re-arrange list item’s content
For each portfolio list you can choose to show or hide the following content. You can also re-arrange it. It is all drag and drop, easy!
Title
Media
Portfolio item details
Excerpt text
Continue reading
Single portfolio items
Portfolio items are well organized in a portfolio custom post type, categories, tags and item details. Use the Media Left template or the default theme’s post template to present your portfolio post items.
Media Types
Select media types for your portfolio items / posts:
Image
Slider
Youtube
Vimeo
Soundcloud
Images are optimized to save your hosting storage. Do not worry, quality stays as the original image you have uploaded.
Add a list in your site
Once you have created a portfolio list you can add it everywhere in your site:
In page/post content area (WYSIWYG editor)
In template files
In a sidebar
Every list has a shortcode you can use to add the list in a page/post content area. Or add it in a template file by using the do_shortcode WordPress function. The plugin comes with a widget that can be used to add portfolio posts list in a sidebar.
Styling
Style your list using the Custom CSS class name.
Translation/Localization
This plugin comes Localization/Internationalization ready. It is following WordPress I18n standards.
This plugin is 100% WPML compatible too.
Pro version of the plugin
Pro version coming soon!
Some of the features of the Pro version:
40+ ready to use templates
Page builder
Tabs for single portfolio items
Create unlimited portfolio item details
Single post template builder
More single portfolio options – show title, previous/next navigation, related posts, edit option titles, media cropping, lightbox
More add list options – exclude categories, tags, authors, delimiter, Load more pagination, Infinite scroll, border and background, social icons, list title and link, click on image and title link to lightbox, 20 hover effects, strip html tags and shortcodes, edit continue reading, portfolio item details elements and order, styling interface
Translation/Localization .po/.mo files ready to use
Support and free updates.
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What is Portfolio Manager Lite?
Portfolio Manager Lite is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 3.7-star rating from 9 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by OTWthemes.