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SimpleFolio: A Free Clean Portfolio WordPress Theme
Today we are glad to release a beautiful, simple and clean portfolio WordPress theme — SimpleFolio, designed by Omar E. Corrales and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items from the blog page. It also includes a front page slider.
It has 2 different widget areas and threaded comments, and also supports paged comments and has 2 different page templates for advanced usage. The control of images is done from the post page.
Download the theme for free!
The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. You may modify the theme as you wish. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word.
- live demo
- large preview (main page)
- large preview (portfolio page)
- large preview (single post page)
- large preview (back-end options page)
- download the .zip-package (.zip, 0.93 Mb, including installation guidelines, updated to version 1.5)
- download mirror (version 1.5)
- official support forum
- release post on designer’s site
Features
Here are some of the features of the theme:
- CSS-based layout,
- 2 columns of fixed width,
- widget-ready,
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional valid,
- multi-browser compatibility: tested on Firefox, Safari , IE7, IE8, Chrome,
- easy to setup, theme options page.
Front page
Portfolio
Portfolio
Options page in back-end
Single post, main area
Single post, threaded comments
Single post, sidebar
Behind the design
As always, here are some insights from the designer:
I created this theme after getting tired of all the fancy design themes that are very popular now a days, this is a design for people that just need the job done without complicating them selfs. The best use can be either for just someone thats starting to blog or some artist that needs to expose there art.
Thank you, Omar. We appreciate your work and your good intentions!
Regular contributor and the member of the Smashing Editorial team.
(26 votes, average: 4.73 out of 5)
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February 7th, 2010 8:45 amLooks realy nice, thanks!
- 3February 7th, 2010 8:51 am
Seems like Im changing my Design! ;)
THX Omar!
- 4February 7th, 2010 8:52 am
Love it!
It’s absolutely great! - 5February 7th, 2010 8:52 am
Yeah. Omar You Rock. Great Man. Also thanks to SM for bringing this to community
- 6February 7th, 2010 8:53 am
Nice one!
- 7February 7th, 2010 8:54 am
This is a really useful and particularly good looking theme!
I have an idea where to use it!
Great job.
- 8February 7th, 2010 9:17 am
Very nice and minimalist theme! I like it very much. Thanks for this post!
Best wishes
Roland - 9February 7th, 2010 9:25 am
A demo for this theme would’ve been nice.
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- 11February 7th, 2010 9:25 am
Gibt es Möglichkeiten das Template “freizukaufen”? Heißt kein Copyright? Jeder weiß das Fremdwerbung, bzw. fremde Copyrights in Portfolios ziemlich schlecht zur Geltung kommen!
- 12February 7th, 2010 9:26 am
simplicity always rocks :)
- 13February 7th, 2010 9:33 am
Is Elja Friedman the wife or daugther of Vitaly Friedman?
- 14February 7th, 2010 9:36 am
oh yeah please a live demo for this one, thanks in advance.
- 15February 7th, 2010 9:54 am
The link to the demo-version of the theme and the link to the release post on designer’s website were added. Thank you, AxI.
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- 16February 7th, 2010 9:42 am
What font is being used in the logo? Thank you
- 17February 7th, 2010 9:48 am
@Axl & JP, If you visit my site you will find a support forum and a live demo.
@Ashlan K, the font being used in the logo and headers is Museo.
- 18February 7th, 2010 10:12 am
Image pre-loading required in s3Slider.js
- 19February 7th, 2010 10:50 am
I just want to say thanks! This theme is amazing! I do wish you guys would add more customizability options like the K2 theme instead of having to have to play with the core HTML and CSS. Otherwise, it’s an amazing theme that by far surpasses K2 in terms of its basic look and feel. I am using it for two of my sites now. Thank you!
- 20February 7th, 2010 10:55 am
After activating theme I see only blank page. I disabled all plugins and it didn’t helped.
Wordpress version: 2.9.1
Any ideas? - 21February 7th, 2010 11:07 am
thanks for creating such a excellent theme!
- 22February 7th, 2010 11:08 am
I’m not sure what’s going on here, but the demo seems to take a very long time just to switch to things like “about,” “blog” etc. Could some Javascript be getting stuck in very long, unnecessary loops? I don’t think it is my internet connection. And I’m using Firefox 3.6.
- 23February 7th, 2010 12:17 pm
If your talking about the demo, its because i’m having some server problems.
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- 24February 7th, 2010 11:26 am
I love how simple and clean it is!
- 25February 7th, 2010 11:30 am
Great work guys!
We tipped our caps to you over at http://themesforge.com - 26February 7th, 2010 11:39 am
I think the demonstrationpage isn’t slow because of the template, its the server. My demopage is as fast as usually http://soyludico.de/wordpress/
Question: Why does the portfoliopage donnot work? :/
- 27February 7th, 2010 11:44 am
Nice one. leaves plenty of room for personalization .
- 28February 7th, 2010 11:49 am
Great! I was waiting for a new free wordpress theme on smashing mag! Good job!
- 29February 7th, 2010 12:22 pm
Great Theme !! marks the trend of 2010 : Simplicity
Does the .zip file contain a .psd ??- 30February 7th, 2010 2:14 pm
It contains the PSD of the logo only.
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- 31February 7th, 2010 12:46 pm
this is one of the best wordpres themes ever! thanks for sharing all that stuff: the psd’s, the theme and the little readme file that explains itself.
truly and simply amazing and trend setting.
many greetings from germany
- 32February 7th, 2010 1:32 pm
I like the look and feel of it.
Unfortunately it’s not translatable. Which is something I’m definitely looking for in a Theme, pushed by Smashing.
Kinda disappointing to me.- 33February 7th, 2010 1:41 pm
What do you mean, Konstantin? I am not sure what is your problem.
- 34February 8th, 2010 2:11 pm
Well, if someone happens to want to use the Theme in any other language than English, he/she would have to go alter all the templates of the theme by either translating them directly, or making them compatible with Wordpress’ translation API.
Other than that it is a nice piece of code!
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- 35February 7th, 2010 1:43 pm
awesome and simple its just what I’m looking for!
- 36February 7th, 2010 1:49 pm
wow! nice themes.. i like it very much.. :)
- 37February 7th, 2010 2:05 pm
parse error in functions.php line 197
- 38February 7th, 2010 2:27 pm
Hi this error only appears when using the theme in localhost. I am looking into the exact cause of it. If you try it on a live host you will not see this error.
- 39February 7th, 2010 4:38 pm
No, that’s not the case… See http://www.slimmity.com/forum/topic/4 on your site for the reason…
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- 40February 7th, 2010 2:18 pm
So sick of Museo…
- 41February 16th, 2010 10:58 am
So don’t download and use the FREE theme.
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- 42February 7th, 2010 2:20 pm
Pretty cool! I think that I’ll try it in my site.
- 43February 7th, 2010 2:42 pm
Very nice. But Where is the contact page. Its listed in features, Any screenshot?
Thanks.
- 44February 7th, 2010 3:15 pm
Yes sorry there seems to be a mistake, the theme does not come with a contact form. But it does come with the styles for you to add any contact form plugin.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
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- 45February 7th, 2010 2:45 pm
I got the parse error on line 197 problem too and I was running the theme on a live host (with WP 2.9.1)
- 46February 7th, 2010 2:58 pm
Lovely! Good job, and thank you for sharing it with all of us! I especially love the typography – what font are you using for titles?
Thanks again!
- 47February 7th, 2010 3:08 pm
Museo Font, same as the logo
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- 48February 7th, 2010 3:53 pm
Great posting. Personally I find this design is not well suited to be a portfolio design. In my professional years, I’ve found that when a client is looking at a portfolio.. they want to see all your work at a glance, and then dig deeper. In the portfolio above you have to click through to see all the work.
- 49February 7th, 2010 6:18 pm
hello, great theme !! one thing which really i missed in and that is its using -moz-border-radius style in it to make the four corners rounded right! which isnt supposed to work in IE. lol how do u do that ?? !! im going to download and take a look in the css but with the firebug i didnt find anything so im kinda curious .
regards- 50February 7th, 2010 6:28 pm
Ayaz, Im not using -moz-border-radius for the for 4cornes, im using javascript actually.
- 51February 7th, 2010 6:46 pm
Hey agian. yeah i just checked out using DD Roundies im gona study it and see if i can work it out for my site too :) thanks again for this breakthrough for me lol
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- 52February 7th, 2010 6:37 pm
The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
Name Description
simplefolio-wp-theme Stylesheet is missing.- 53February 8th, 2010 4:33 pm
I’m getting the same problem alex. Haven’t yet found a solution. Maybe check the support forums?
- 54February 10th, 2010 1:49 pm
I had the same issue – you can’t just upload the .zip like with some other themes. Unzip the theme on your computer and find the folder labeled simply simplefolio then upload that via FTP (i.e. NOT via Wordpress) to your wp-content/themes folder. You’ll then find the theme in your WP dashboard ready to activate.
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- 55February 7th, 2010 7:37 pm
I love this template, simple but very cool…thanks for share
- 56February 7th, 2010 8:16 pm
Looks good and doesn’t make my eyes get sored.
Well, thanks Omar for the theme, and thanks SmashMag for delivering the theme to us :D - 57February 7th, 2010 8:41 pm
I really like the portfolio implementation and code.
- 58February 7th, 2010 11:46 pm
Nice one. Thanks. I like that kind of posts. It’s good to learn how it’s made theme:) and at all it’s very nice theme:)
- 59February 8th, 2010 12:33 am
jQuery slider is buggy under Opera 10.10 while loading next images.
- 60February 8th, 2010 1:17 am
on my localhost this theme is not working, when actived this theme and than is going white blank….help please..
- 61February 8th, 2010 2:46 am
The theme is updated now. Please download the latest version.
- 62February 9th, 2010 5:58 pm
thanks a lot SmashMagz….
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- 63February 8th, 2010 2:49 am
Awesome simple theme!
- 64February 8th, 2010 3:20 am
Oh my gosh, it’s just what I needed! I’ve been looking for a really nice, clean, simple theme for my portfolio website, I step by your site to look for useful links and what do I see? Man, you got it right on time!
Thanks a bunch to the SmashingMagazine people and the designer himself. :)
- 65February 8th, 2010 3:46 am
look good to me. clean. stylish
- 66February 8th, 2010 4:52 am
One more question: how can I get the same logo image? When I open PSD it shows me an “ok” mark instead of the one presented in demo.
- 67February 8th, 2010 9:30 am
Hi Aurelia, the image from the demo is my sites logo so its not available.
- 68February 12th, 2010 12:38 pm
Omar,
I am getting a js error. Could you please take a look ?
Thanks,
Sashidhar Kokku
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- 69February 8th, 2010 6:38 am
que tema, mas completo.
No solamente se deja personalizar, sino que esta muy bien estructurado para que funcione como todo un cms.
Muchas gracias- 70February 8th, 2010 7:27 pm
Orlando, me agrada encontrar a alguien que hable español, se me complica un poco en ingles.
Te hago una consulta, espero me puedas ayudar, en mi web no puedo ubicar el front page en el home, y ademas no puedo ver las fotos en los post del portfolio.
Te imaginas alguna solucion simple?
Gracias- 71February 10th, 2010 9:29 am
Yo menos, tampoco veo las imágenes de la página principal por lo que estoy usando VSlider, un completo plugin que básicamente hace lo mismo. Y respecto a las imágenes del portfolio, si seleccionas “Select a category” y pones mostrar submenu, sale el menu y le das click, salen las páginas y todo incluso con paginación pero no salen lás imágenes ni el texto. Aún así no deja de ser un buen theme.
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- 72February 8th, 2010 6:54 am
Nice job! I like the choice of font and the clean layout. I’m looking to redo my portfolio site and this may do the trick. Thanks!
- 73February 8th, 2010 7:05 am
Neat & Professional theme Omar. Thanks for sharing your great work. Am sure lots ‘ll use this theme if they come across this :)
Great work Smashing magazine & Slimmity
- 74February 8th, 2010 7:33 am
Like it for an internet radio station site
- 75February 8th, 2010 7:52 am
That’s amazing portfolio theme. Clean and useful. Thx…
- 76February 8th, 2010 9:40 am
The validator finds 7 errors.
And “CSS based layout” is barely a feature but besides that, it’s a great looking and simple theme, very nice. - 77February 8th, 2010 9:48 am
Hi, very cool will use for sure, dumbness strikes….how and where do I download it for free….with thanks, Erikakw, salonunidad.wordpress.com
- 78February 8th, 2010 9:50 am
with a theme forest touch and smashing taste, great!
- 79February 8th, 2010 9:51 am
Nice work, Omar. I’m impressed!
- 80February 8th, 2010 10:19 am
awesome!
- 81February 8th, 2010 11:37 am
NICE!..i love this simple design :-)
- 82February 8th, 2010 2:54 pm
Really beautiful, very simple yet effective layout. Definitely trying this one out! Thanks!
- 83February 8th, 2010 4:58 pm
Image uploading does not seem to work on PHP 5.3
- 84February 8th, 2010 10:30 pm
that is a wordpress plugin, this theme does not contain any uploading scripts.
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- 85February 8th, 2010 5:10 pm
Beautiful theme. Thanks…
- 86February 8th, 2010 5:31 pm
Thanks Omar, and thanks Smashing. What a treat to see great design principles translate into a clean, versatile, and durable theme.
- 87February 8th, 2010 7:00 pm
its actually a good theme, I like it , thanks for sharing
- 88February 8th, 2010 10:28 pm
The theme’s PHP code is licensed GPL, but the rest of it seems to be under a more restrictive license. Perhaps Smashing Magazine could look into that / ask for a relicense?
- 89February 9th, 2010 3:37 am
I love this how simple and clean this.
- 90February 9th, 2010 6:44 am
nice theme, but Museo no Cyrillic! this makes it impossible to sites in Russian
- 91February 9th, 2010 7:59 am
I have the same error as Alex:
Stylesheet is missing.I tried installing it by uploading the theme.
Anyone got lucky installing it?- 92February 9th, 2010 11:40 am
You have to download and unzip the theme, not upload it directly as-downloaded, the zip contains more files then just the theme.
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- 93February 9th, 2010 11:10 am
Nice this theme seems perfect for my site!
- 94February 9th, 2010 4:47 pm
Maybe I miss the point, but… Shouldn’t a designer use their own design?
- 95February 10th, 2010 11:25 am
Not every designer is a website designer, if you specialize in logo design, flyer design, or even illustration for posters, why should you need to learn how to design for the web? You want to show what you can do, and maybe what you can do is not website design
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- 96February 9th, 2010 7:12 pm
it’s very succinctness. i ❤ it …
- 97February 9th, 2010 11:30 pm
Any way for you to make the sticky post available?
I mean different style for it.. - 98February 10th, 2010 12:16 am
Great, thank you Omar. It’s also a good chances to learn more about Wordpress and theming for it.
Wishing you the best time :)
- 99February 10th, 2010 1:33 am
Hey I like this. I was able to transform csunama.org overnight
- 100February 10th, 2010 2:03 am
This is probably the best portfolio theme, I’ve ever seen for WordPress! Beautiful work!
Sadly, I have a little problem with it, because I want to use it on non-english blog and probably the Cufon can’t manage the cyrillic symbols. Sadly, I’m not good enough to make it work.Still, this is one of the best themes available! Keep up the good work and thanks a lot for sharing this masterpiece with us, SM and Omar!
- 101February 10th, 2010 4:25 am
HI,
I really like this theme but one problem i noticed is that the background on the blog in IE7 doesnt go all the way to the bottom of the content – where as it does in FF. Any ideas? It’s probably just a CSS glitch in IE.
Other than that it looks awesome!
- 102February 10th, 2010 11:20 am
“The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. You may modify the theme as you wish. Please link to this article if you want to spread the word.”
Does this mean I can even take off the “© 2009 SimpleFolio Demo. All rights reserved.
Theme by SmashingMagazine and Slimmity” at the bottom of the page? Or do I need to keep some kind of “theme designed by” information? - 103February 10th, 2010 3:55 pm
Hey Thanks for this great theme
- 104February 11th, 2010 11:51 am
How I setup portfolio page ???
- 105February 11th, 2010 8:08 pm
As of Feb. 11, 2010, the download link is for the 1.0 version. The latest on Slimmity’s site is 1.5 including bugfixes and security fixes. Make sure to get the latest version.
http://www.slimmity.com/2010/02/free-wordpress-theme-simplefolio/
This is really important! One of my web sites has been hacked 3 times recently – until I updated the core sys and all components (it’s a Joomla site).
- 106February 11th, 2010 10:09 pm
Another tip:
If you want the image slider on the home page to use the “exerpt” of your portfolio posts instead of using the first x number of characters from the post itself, open template-home.php, and change this:
the_content_limit($text_count, ”)
to this:
the_excerpt() - 107February 11th, 2010 11:29 pm
The live demo does not work:
“Error establishing a database connection”
:-(
- 108February 12th, 2010 12:03 am
DEMO?
Error establishing a database connection
- 109February 12th, 2010 4:12 am
It has been fixed.
- 110February 13th, 2010 4:38 am
where i can get this free worldpress theme..?
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- 111February 12th, 2010 1:40 am
really nice theme. like it.
- 112February 12th, 2010 6:10 am
Im trying to follow the directions the theme came with but cant seem to get the portfolio page to work I can see my categories but is all blank. I LOVE THIS THEME and have already started to customize it.
I like this Setup here: http://soyludico.de/wordpress
Im trying to switch from my first plan of Joomla but way too heavy for this purpose. - 113February 12th, 2010 7:38 am
Great theme Omar! I downloaded the “fixed” version and it work great. Very clean and uncluttered. I would describe it as being zen-like.
- 114February 12th, 2010 11:32 am
Well RTM read all the posts followed all the links and now have this template running as it was presented (mostly). Thank you Omar this template actually got me to start using Worpress.
- 115February 13th, 2010 9:51 am
nice them, well done
- 116February 14th, 2010 4:00 pm
Love the theme. How do you create the pagination for the portfolio page. On the demo it shows pages in number format. My installed SimplFolio theme shows older entries and newer entries. Do I need to install a seperate plugin for this? Thanks.
- 117February 15th, 2010 7:49 am
perfect theme , thanks
- 118February 18th, 2010 7:47 am
Looks a lovely theme – nice and clean.
Thanks for providing :)
- 119March 1st, 2010 1:09 pm
It’s a perfect theme for my online porfolio! Great!
- 120March 1st, 2010 2:44 pm
Great theme, and can work well now in Wolf CMS, too!
http://www.wolfcms.org/wiki/themes:start#simple_folio
Thanks so much for this!
- 121March 4th, 2010 9:45 am
I love this one :)
- 122March 6th, 2010 8:39 pm
My portfolio page is not showing my posts, only my home show my posts(portfolio items under Portfolio category). What is going on?
ps. my portfolio page is with portfolio template selectedps: i found my mistake portfolio page only show posts with small images, post without images isnt showed
- 123March 8th, 2010 2:55 pm
Hi! have the same problem as Aenigmatis. After activating the theme, every page goes blank, even the admin interface. So I had to remove the theme via FTP to go back to default theme.
Wordpress 2.9.2. german - 124March 8th, 2010 6:04 pm
Great theme. I’m doing some tweaking to make it work for my site, however I’m having an issue with the dropdown menus not showing in IE. When I make a sub page, the menu will show the nice dropdown in Firefox, but not IE. Also, in IE, the menu is just showing as standard text, not the cool javascript text rendering that shows in Firefox. Any fixes or workarounds for crappy Internet Explorer? Thanks.
- 125March 12th, 2010 4:49 am
Hey nice theme, I tweaked it a bit and made my portfolio already :) Check it out http://www.ivarprudnikov.com
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- @aniiish you are welcome, too :-) We are just doing our job and we love what we do!
- @MikePerry yes, for sure. But that's always a compromise: as they say, content doesn't grow on trees :)
- CSS3 Online Generator - http://bit.ly/aH9Tg6 (via @designshack)
- @MikePerry we do need traffic, and SU delivers hugetraffic to our site. Sending SU-links helps a lot. Or are Su-links too much to require?
- @MikePerry I have read it now. Thank you for your feedback. I will certainly keep it in mind. But you need to understand our situation, too
- @MikePerry I am not sure what exactly you mean :) #justsayin
- @honoki you are welcome! We hope that it will help you improve your skills and wil help your business too!
Thx Omar! Thx SM! very very Useful!