We’re super excited to announce a complete revamp of ShiftCV, our most popular CV, portfolio and resume WordPress theme. Now it’s version 3.0, and that means a lot of changes has been made.
Not only we’ve modified the visual aspects of the theme to make it look beautiful and in accordance with today’s design standards. The theme is also rebuilt completely from the technical point of view. ShiftCV 3.0 is based entirely around the Elementor page builder, granting you tremendous flexibility and control over your content in comparison to previous versions.
Due to these changes, you need to know how to upgrade from your older version of ShiftCV to the new one. Just for that purpose, we’ve made a video tutorial that guides you through each step of the upgrade. If you own the older version of ShiftCV, it’s a must of you to watch this video:
Make sure to backup your database before switching to the latest ShiftCV version. However, if you’re not switching from the old version, and simply want to install the latest one, feel free to skip this tutorial. ShiftCV is the finest portfolio template.
ShiftCV features a lot of goodies and options that help you create a beautiful and stylish resume website. Let’s cover them all in detail.
Multiple Designs for Your CV, Portfolio & Resume WordPress Theme
ShiftCV is now coming in different colors and styles. You’ve got such variations as a portfolio for photographer, lawyer resume, dietitian and health coach portfolio. You can also use ShiftCV for creating financial advisor CV, real estate agent portfolio and graphic designer resume.
You can switch colors easily in your theme settings, playing around with the color combinations and choosing the one you like the most. In addition to colors, you can also select your preferred typography options, choosing from the Google Fonts collection, or uploading a custom font.
Dark Version
In addition to style variations, you can switch to the dark version of your theme in a single click. Simply click on the dark version switcher at the top left corner of your screen.
The dark skin is easier for readability in dark surroundings when the screen of your laptop or mobile phone is the only source of light. You can customize the dark version of ShiftCV the same way you edit the default style, namely in the WordPress Customizer settings.
Skills & Resume
ShiftCV enables you to showcase your resume and skills in a beautiful, visual format using progress bars and charts. This can give your visitors an overview of your skills at a quick glance without the need to read through all the text.
In addition to charts and graphs, you can display ‘print’ and ‘download’ buttons, which let your future employers print out or download your resume file and view it locally.
Portfolio
For creative occupations such as graphic and web designer, photographer, or architect, it’s important to showcase your portfolio as well as the basic resume and skills information. After all, your work can tell much better about your abilities than anything else. This portfolio template is quite flexible.
ShiftCV lets you display all kinds of image galleries and showcase your work in such styles as masonry, classic gallery, or cobbles. You can also add filters that would enable you to sort images based on categories or tags.
Testimonials
Testimonials from your clients or people you work with can influence the decisions of your future employers, that’s why showcasing such kind of feedback is important for a successful resume website. With ShiftCV, you can display testimonials easily using the corresponding built-in custom post type.
Contacts
The contact section contains several important elements, such as Google Maps, contact form, and contact details, including the phone number, email address, and so on. Now everyone would be able to get in touch with you via several channels of communication.
Blog
For those of you who are fond of writing and are planning to jot down an occasional blog post or two from time to time, ShiftCV features a beautiful blog layout. You can publish articles here, share the opinion on certain topics, or even monetize your blog by displaying ads or featuring sponsored content.
Conclusion
ShiftCV is a powerful CV, Resume and Portfolio WordPress theme that covers multiple use cases and can be a great choice for a wide range of niches. ShiftCV would be perfect for graphic and web designers, photographers, real estate agents, lawyers, consultants, financial advisors, business coaches, fitness trainers, nutritionists, phycologists, and many other specialists.
The theme makes a big emphasis on your resume (you can print it out or download on your computer) and skills (display them visually in a form of graphs and pie charts). Also, you can showcase your portfolio, testimonials, and contact details. Thanks to integration with Elementor, you can customize your content visually by dragging and dropping, no coding knowledge is required. Get ShiftCV today and build an awesome resume website!
