Simple & Elegant - Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme
Themeforest Simple & Elegant - Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme WordPress Theme
Thank you Nelly Shop, Daniel Kim, Pinketon for photos used on the demo site. These photos are not included in the download package.
In case you need support: withemes.ticksy.com
 | Totally Responsive100% Responsive. Tested carefully on various screens from mobile, tablet, desktop… Off Canvas menu integrated with mobile touch swipe friendly! | |
 | Multi-ConceptSelect your prefered style with a single-click. Your site will change the look totally by the way of changing font faces & colors. | |
 | One-Click Concept SwitcherSwitch your site’s look with a single click. It’s fun and easy. | |
 | Page BuilderSave $34 because you’ll get Visual Composer for free with extra elements. Intuitive, easy to learn, easy to use. Million of people can not be wrong. | |
 | Ton Of OptionsFrom v2.0, Simple & Elegant gives you total control of typography & colors. More and more options will be added but sill keep compatibilility with previous versions. | |
 | Single Page OptionsEach page comes with options allowing you to show/hide title, adjust padding & sidebar position. | |
 | Mega MenuThird Dropdown + Native Mega Menu supported. Customize menu font face, font size, font weight and colors… | |
 | Boxed & Wide LayoutBoxed layout supported with custom background image upload. Customize background color, image, size, background repeat… | |
 | Parallax SectionSetup Parallax Section with Simple & Elegant. Translate3d technique used override VC default row parallax, allows you to create highest performed parallax effect. | |
 | Built-in LightboxBuilt-in image Lightbox with fade effect allows you to setup image gallery professionally. | |
 | Use any kind of fontYou can select any font from Google font library for body text, heading and navigation bar. It’s also easy to integrate Typkit or any service font, as well as upload your own font. | |
 | One-Click Import DemoJust a click then… Boom! All content, settings, widgets… will be 100% same as demo. No further steps! | |
 | Sell with Simple & ElegantSimple & Elegant is 100% WooCommerce ready. It means you can setup a shop with the most popular eCommerce WordPress plugin | |
 | Pricing TablesSetup a professional pricing table easily with pricing element from Simple & Elegant’s element set. | |
 | Multiple Portfolio StylePortfolio has three styles you can choose between to show up your works perfectly. Furthermore, setting up 2, 3 or 4 columns as well as image ratio is up to you. | |
 | Multiple Project LayoutSimple & Elegant comes with various single project layouts that allows you to setup your portfolio flexibly. Furthermore, video and audio types are supported. | |
 | CSS & JS are minifiedAll CSS & JS files are minified by default for faster loading. CSS has been written by SASS for maximum browser compatiblilty & maintenance. | |
 | 40 Social Icons40 social icons supported with the most popular services: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, G+, LinkedIn… | |
 | Multiple Blog LayoutsSimple & Elegant allows you to setup your blog in your manner. Standard blog layout or grid, list are your choices. |
Full Feature List
WordPress 4.7+ ready and continue to be compatible with newer versions of WordPress
WooCommerce 3.0.x ready and continue to be compatible with newer versions of WooCommerce
One-Click installation. Setup the site 100% same as demo with ONLY one click. No more step 1, step 2…
100% Responsive, looks great on all devices. Touch & Swipe Friendly for mobile devices.
Off Canvas Menu for mobile devices. View live demo.
Retina-ready: Simple & Elegant uses icon font library so your site always look sharp on all retina devices like Macbook Pro, iPad, iPhone…
Translation Ready: Simple & Elegant contains *pot file in languages directory, that allows you to translate this theme into your own language.
Clean Code & child theme included (easy to adapt)
Multi-Conept: With ton of options, Simple & Elegant allows you to switch between concepts. In v2.0, it comes with three concepts: standard, photography and DIY. You can switch between concepts easily with only a single click.
Elegant & Clean Design with “Simplicity” in mind
WooCommerce compatible: You can setup a shop to sell anything with Simple & Elegant. WooCommerce is totally free and is the most popular shop plugin for WordPress. Visit sample shop.- Sticky Navigation
Mega Menu & third-dropdown supported
Header Layouts: Center header or Left – Right.
Header Style: You can customize header padding, background color & image.
Footer Layouts: Center Footer or Left – Right Footer
Footer Themes: Light or Dark Footer
Boxed & Wide Layout: Background Image option for boxed layout.
Live Customizer with 300+ options: You’re totally free to change font face, color, font weight/font-style as well as text transform… of common elements like body text, menu, heading, copyright… It’s super flexible withou touching a line of code.
Google Fonts Dropdown Select from Customizer: All Google Fonts in the library are ready to use.- Easily integrate any kind of font from Typekit or self-hosted fonts
Save $19 with Slider Revolution included. Slider Revolution is the most popular and the best slider at the moment with more than 1 million of people using it. All sliders come with importable zip file so you can adapt and setup your own slider same as demo.
Save $34 with Visual Composer included. Visual Composer is the most popular page builder with more than 1 million of people using it. Simple & Elegant comes with extra elements to help you build your site even easier.
WPML Compatible: Build a multilingual website with confidence
Gravity Forms Compatible.
Beautiful Portfolio with formats: Gallery, Video, Audio. From v2.0, you can select many portfolio options with column, style, image ratio… Furthermore, each single project has its own layout options to choose from.
Portfolio 2 Columns
Portfolio 3 Columns
Portfolio 4 Columns
Various blog layouts: Standard, Grid, List
Post Formats: Standard, Gallery, Video, Audio
Automatically get video thumbnail from YouTube & Vimeo for video posts
MailChimp widget styled & ready to use
Instagram Widget styled & ready to use
Image Widget built-in with native WordPress media upload for banner, advertisement and about me widget.
Contact Form 7 supported: The most popular contact form plugin ever.
Unlimited Colors from Live Customizer. You can change colors for almost things: topbar, header, menu, footer, text color…
Show/Hide almost everything- Full set of Social Icons: More than 40+ social icons included with most popular websites such as facebook, twitter, instagram, youtube, pinterest…
Comprehensive page layouts: Fullwidth, sidebar left, sidebar right
Side Navigation: Allows you to create history page, documentation… Sample Side Navigation
Beautiful Lightbox: Responsive image lightbox customized from Magnific Popup of dimsemenov.
Obvious use, documentation included
Lifetime Upgrades
Dedicated Support from Elite Author. Visit Support Desk.
Credits
Thank you Nelly Shop, Daniel Kim, Pinketon for photos used on the demo site. These photos are not included in the download package.
Support
In case you need support: withemes.ticksy.com
Changelog
Version 2.1.1 – April 27, 2017
- Update Visual Composer & RevSlider
- Compatible with WooCommerce 3.0.x
- Fix importing main demo issue
Version 2.1 - March 24, 2017
- Update RevSlider to v5.4 and Visual Composer to v5.1
- Auto import Revolution Slider after importing demo
- Loads default settings after importing demo
- Theme compatible with Gravity Form
- Theme compatible with WPML
- New Documentation
Version 2.0.1 – November 13, 2016
- Update Visual Composer to v5.0
- Fix Responsive Issue
- Migrate theme options from v1.3 to 2.0
Version 2.0 - November 03, 2016
- NEW: Multi-Concept: Standard, Photography, DIY. Concept switcher with a single click
- NEW: More demos
- NEW: One click installation. No further steps
- NEW: Add many color options
- NEW: Add many typography options
- NEW: More options to show/hide elements
- NEW: Boxed layout with background image
- NEW: Page Optons to hide title, adjust padding & layout
- NEW: Side Navigation
- NEW: Header layout center/left-right
- NEW: Header background option
- NEW: Select mega menu easily with a checkbox
- NEW: Off Canvas mobile menu
- NEW: Footer Layouts & Footer Style Options
- NEW: Envato Market plugin recommended for future automatic updates
- NEW: Multi-site compatible
- NEW: WP Rocket plugin compatible
- NEW: Full translate file *pot
- NEW: WooCommerce options
- NEW: WooCommerce Lightbox by Magnific Popup
- NEW: More Portfolio column options
- NEW: More Portfolio item style
- NEW: Option for portfolio slug and category slug
- NEW: More single project layout options
- NEW: More blog layouts: grid & list layout
- NEW: Author social icons
- NEW: Image widget with native WP uploader
- NEW: Search result page with list style
- NEW: Shortcode Styling Options
- NEW: Button element for Page Builder Addons
- NEW: Call to action element for Page Builder Addons
- NEW: Gallery element for Page Builder Addons
- NEW: Post Grid element for Page Builder Addons
- NEW: Slider element for Page Builder Addons
- NEW: Team member with more social icons positon options
- NEW: Pricing Column for Page Builder Addons
- NEW: High-performance Parallax for Visual Composer Row
- NEW: Video Background for Visual Composer Row
- NEW: Integrate Full set of BudIcons
- NEW: SASS for CSS
- NEW: Compress all CSS & JS files for faster loading
- NEW: Update Visual Composer to version 4.12.1
- NEW: Update Revolution Slider to version 5.6.3
- NEW: Addons & Portfolio plugins to version 2.0
Version 1.3 – July 15, 2016
- Redesign some elements
- Fix Portfolio pagination issue on front page
- Update Font Awesome to 4.6.3
- Add more thumbnails square & portrait
- Redesign demo site
- WooCommerce Support
- Integrate Budicon
- Integrate iLightBox
- New demo importing file
Version 1.2 – June 20, 2016
- Update the latest VC version
- Update the latest Slider Revolution version
- Include Vafpress post format UI to theme core
- Fix Testimonial Slider due to new update of VC
Version 1.1 – December 04, 2015
--- Features added:
- Testimonial slider shortcode
- Latest news shortcode
- Update the latest version of Slider Revolution
- New demo.xml
--- Fixes:
- Submenu Dropdown issue on Tablet devices by adding Superfish Library
- Requirement WordPress 4.2 or higher
- Visual Composer function update notice for PHP old versions
- Instruction text when there's no posts
- Fix container width option
- Change accent color to #5EA7B1
- Change the default logo
- Add versions for plugins
- Change slightly the iconbox shortcode & general style (eg. form input)
Version 1.0 – December 01, 2015
Initial release
Hi, my website already have been instaled with another theme, if i quick setup with Simple and Elegant i will loose my DB?
ReplyDeleteHi ellen_aquino,
ReplyDeleteDatabase won’t be lost anyway for sure!
Hope this helps,
WiThemes
Hi, I have a question. My clients loves this theme. :))) He has been using it for a while, and asked, if it is possible to disable the menu on one of his pages, so he can use it as a landing page. I havent find a solution, but I wanted to be sure, so I asked. Is it possible? Thank you for your answer.
ReplyDeleteThere’re few ways to accomplish but using CSS seems to be the simplest one. Please insert this code to Customize > Addional CSS:
ReplyDelete.page-id-548 #wi-mainnav, .page-id-548 #hamburger {display:none;}
While 548 is the page ID (while edit page, look at the address bar you’ll see page ID).
Hope this helps,
WiThemes
Awesome.:) Thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteHi there, I cannot install Visual Composer. It always says this:
ReplyDeleteEntpacken des Pakets … (english translation: unpacking package)
Das Plugin wird installiert … (Plugin is being istalled)
Der Zielordner existiert bereits. (the file already exists)
/homepages/46/d602250385/htdocs/clickandbuilds/peterstoechter/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/
Die Plugininstallation ist fehlgeschlagen. (Installation failed)
Plugin not activated. A higher version of Visual Composer is needed for this theme. Please update the plugin.
We have another theme running at another website we built at www.leanrt-w.de, which also uses the VC. Is it possible that this is the problem? Since the ftp server seems to be the same.
At the moment, my website is development.peters-toechter.de
Thank you!
Hi alisa2208,
ReplyDeleteCould you please open a support ticket at https://withemes.ticksy.com/ with your site wp admin (username & pw). Our support will assist you on this & help you to install Visual Composer.
Kind Regards,
Cuong Tran
Hi! How could I disable sidebar on pages and post. What do I need to write in sidebar.php
ReplyDeleteHi anapenkrat, Please follow 2 steps:
ReplyDelete1/ Open sidebar.php & sidebar-page.php and add this code to the line before first ?>
return;
2/ Please add this code to Customize > Custom CSS:
#primary {width:100%; padding-right:0 }
Note that by this way, you’ll disable sidebar for all pages. You can disable sidebar for each page by choosing fullwidth template for the page you wish to set fullwidth.
Hope this helps,
Cuong Tran
Withemes, thank you
ReplyDeleteWithemes, could you help me change this design of posts? So I have now http://prntscr.com/fdqoel but would like the same http://prntscr.com/fdqo1e
ReplyDeletePlease, I need in your help
ReplyDeleteHi anapenkrat,
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately we do not provide customizing service so I think you have to hire some freelancer to help it out with few lines of CSS code. This is out of our support scope. Apologize for this inconvenience.
Let me know if you need more assitance about our theme. We’re glad to help.
Cheers,
Cuong Tran
Hi, can i use blog page as grid layout and another page with a list of categories with list layout?
ReplyDeleteHi ellen_aquino,
ReplyDeleteTo setup blog page as grid layout, you can go to Customize > Blog > Blog Layout.
About the “another page with a list of categories with list layout”, I don’t totally get it because categories don’t have thumbnail image so if you want to list them in a list, you can use WP Categories element from page builder or list them manually by text.
Kind Regards,
Cuong Tran
To setup another page in the menu only with a specific categorie, but i dont wan’t to display as grid, but as list.
ReplyDeleteHi ellen_aquino,
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately we have no post list element. The best approach is the “Latest News” element.
Ok, thank’s.
ReplyDeleteHi there, just bought this theme and trying to customise – when I go to Site Identity my website name is there, but online it still shows ‘Simple and Elegant’ as the title. Subheading has changed however…. Why does this not work? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi 1973pen,
ReplyDeleteSimple & Elegant is an image logo (not text) you can change at Customize > Header > Logo
Hope this helps,
Cuong Tran
Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I didn’t realise that – I simply wanted to use the same font for my website title… Is it possible to know the font you used so I can generate my own in the same font?
ReplyDeleteHi 1973pen,
ReplyDeleteI used Futura (with font weight 300) for the words “Simple”, “Elegant” and “Libre Baskerville” for the character “&”. Please note that Futura is not a free font. However, you can use alternative free fonts such as Lovelo or Josefin Sans.
Hope this helps,
Cuong Tran
I’ll try – thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis theme will not let me install it. I have downloaded the whole zip with all files and then also just the installable. I have no plug-ins running, and it just tells me it can’t install. Can you please help, I purchased this due to issues with my site and I have a job interview tomorrow and need to get this site up tonight.
ReplyDeleteHi auniakahn,
ReplyDeletePlease unzip the whole package to get simple-elegant.zip file then install that zip file.
After installing, please go to Apperance > Install Plugins to install neccessary plugins.
If you still can not install the theme, let drop me an email via my profile contact form with your login credentials, I’ll help you to install it.
Kind Regards,
Cuong Tran
Hello, I have done that many times… it does not work. I even tried doing the child theme just to see (of course it wont let me do it without the parent theme) but I can’t get it to work
ReplyDeleteHi auniakahn,
ReplyDeleteAs I said before, you can send me your login credentials so I’ll help you to install the theme. Don’t be panic, theme works normally while more than 700 customers already setup & used it for their site.
Kind Regards,
Cuong Tran
I do have one other question. I can’t seem to get a sidebar to work on the store/shop dedicated page with Woocomerace. Could you point me in the right direction. On the page itself I have tried to dedicated the sidebar position in the page settings and I get nothing? Thank you! Thank you Cuong Tran.
ReplyDeleteHi auniakahn,
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately shop page with sidebar isn’t quite ready for Simple & Elegant. We hope you can live with it for a while, we’ll add this feature to wishlist.
Kind Regards,
Cuong Tran
Thank you for letting me know. One other questions, is there a way to HIDE the large Featured image from the post itself and only show it on the preview. It takes up so much of the full blog post? I would rather it not, or to be able to use a much smaller image. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteExp: http://auniakahn.com/card-readings/june-4-2017-tarot-spread/
ReplyDeleteHi auniakahn,
ReplyDeleteTo hide the featured image, let add this code to Customize > Custom CSS:
.singe .post-thumbnail {display:none;}
To make it smaller, please use this code:
.singe .post-thumbnail {max-width:400px;margin:0 auto 2rem;}
Hope this helps,
Cuong Tran
Thank you for taking the time. I pasted this exact info (both options) in the: Appearance> Customize>Custom CSS and I am not seeing any changes to the post. I also closed my browser, cleared history and restarted my computer.
ReplyDeleteHi auniakahn,
ReplyDeleteApologize I made a shame typing mistake:
.single .post-thumbnail {display:none;}
and
.single .post-thumbnail {max-width:400px;margin:0 auto 2rem;}
are correct.
Thank you so much for helping me. It works perfect!
ReplyDeleteHi!
ReplyDeleteI have a few pre-purchase questions:
1) I know there is a boxed layout for the home page, but can this boxed layout be applied for all pages? (i.e About, Portfolio, etc)? I notice that an image background is featured on the boxed layout homepage, but it seems to disappear on the other pages (i.e. About, Portfolio etc.) I would like to replace the image with a solid colour fill which features across all pages, is this possible?
2) Is there an option to have an image slider on the boxed layout home page instead of a single still image (which is shown in the demo)?
3) Are you able to have 2 portfolios on the website i.e. one for photography and one for weddings? (Note I’d need 2 portfolios rather than separating the portfolio posts in to categories)
Thank you!
Hi & thank you for being interested in
ReplyDelete1/ Boxed layout applied for whole site and indeed, it can not be applied for only single page (ie. only homepage for instance). In my demo, it shows only for homepage because I just wanna tell you that boxed layout is possible and I had to use a trick to do so. And if you don’t set background image, background color you set will be applied.
In short, yes for your demand.
2/ Yes. Indeed, it’s a slider with only 1 slide (because I’m just lazy). You can add unlimited number of slides you want.
3/ Unfortunately using categories is the only solution for my theme at this time.
Kind Regards,
Cuong Tran
Hi I am trying to use the Simple and Elegant theme. It appears as though the style.min.css is not working. Can anyone help with this. http://staging.loswillows.com/classic-package/
ReplyDeleteHi Hayes,
ReplyDeletestyle.min.css still works on your site but it seems icon font is not loaded correctly (or do you have any other problems?) Could you please help me to check somethings:
www and non-www on your site
Site URL at Dashboard > Settings > General
Hope this helps,
Cuong Tran
The url on my site in General is now staging.loswillows.com ( I just changed this)
ReplyDeleteAlso, I am not seeing fonts pull in or buttons, etc.
ReplyDeleteHi Hayes,
ReplyDeleteCould you please send me your login credentials via my profile contact form. I have to check the backend to know why some CSS files are not loaded.
Sent! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAfter installing (Simple & Elegant) Addons plugin, things work well.
ReplyDeleteLet check your site.
This comment is currently being reviewed.
ReplyDeleteHello,
ReplyDeleteI have few questions about the theme. I have purchased and installed and overall love the experience so far.
Is it possible to rearrange the social icons? By default, Facebook would come first, LinkedIN next, etc, while I would like to achieve a slightly different order.
From what I have seen, the Journal page does auto-crop the images to align them correctly. However, I have noticed that under some circumstances (e.g. when image is too small) the Journal will get scrambled and not aligned correctly. Same applies for when adding an image in the Team Member component. Is there a minimum size of the image in order for the auto scaling of images to work fine>
Also, the Journal page misses a heading/title and there seems to be no way to add it via the editor. Is there a way to add a title on the Journal page?
Thank you in advance and keep up the great work!
Best Regards, Velizar
Hi Velizar,
ReplyDeleteI apologize for the delay on your response.
1/ To reorder the icons, you can open simple-elegant/inc/template-tags.php file and reorder elements of the array withemes_social_array
2/ About the image of journal page, could you please provide me a URL of your site, I’ll provide you a custom CSS code to control images better.
3/ Hmm, you have to add this code to simple-elegant/index.php file
<header class="page-header">
<h1 class="archive-title">Blog</h1>
</header>
~ line 26, after <?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
Hope this helps,
Cuong Tran
Hi Cuong,
ReplyDeleteYou are awesome. Thanks a lot for the help.
As for 2/ – as it is a site for a public organization, I would prefer to send that privately. What would be the best option to do that? Probably submit a ticket directly?
And just to confirm, any custom changes, like the template-tags.php array change, would be overwritten with any future update I apply for the theme, right?
Thanks once again, I really appreciate the help!
Best Regards,
Velizar
Hi Velizar,
ReplyDelete2/ You can drop me an email via my contact form. It’s 100% private.
3/ You can use a child theme for prevent losing your customization in future updates.
Hope this helps,
Cuong Tran
I am going to buy this theme but before i do can you confirm if you are able to change the fonts? What is the current font you use as standard for the site please?
ReplyDeleteHi Sarah,
ReplyDeleteSure, as you can see we have 3 demos with different fonts. The default font for our demo was Lato.
Kind Regards,
Cuong Tran
Hi there,
ReplyDeleteI’ve purchased the theme and installed it. I’d like to set up my website using the Photography demo as a starting point – how do I do this please?
Thank you.
Hi LTPCANBERRA,
ReplyDeletePlease follow the instructions in the Documentation (included in the download package) to setup demo.
In short:
1. Install all neccessary plugins
2. Go to Appearance / Install Demo Data and select “Photography” to install/import.
Hope this helps,
Cuong Tran
Good Morning,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your theme, this is the best theme.
I would like to have a question related to the word count in the blog post section.
Could you please point out how to get the word count like you in the image below?
http://thammyhansoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/sample.png
My blog’s format is different from yours
http://thammyhansoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/default.png
TH
Hi Tuan,
ReplyDeleteI apologize for the delay due to weekend.
For your first screenshot, that’s the “post grid element” I built by Visual Composer.
For the second one, that’s the default blog grid layout. You can control number of words in the excerpt at Appearance > Customize > Blog > Excerpt Length.
Hope this helps,
Cuong Tran