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!
Eric
February 8th, 2010 6:54 amNice 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!
Eric
February 8th, 2010 6:54 amNice 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!
Naga
February 8th, 2010 7:05 amNeat & 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
Naga
February 8th, 2010 7:05 amNeat & 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
Scott Fuller
February 8th, 2010 7:33 amLike it for an internet radio station site
Scott Fuller
February 8th, 2010 7:33 amLike it for an internet radio station site
brum
February 8th, 2010 7:52 amThat’s amazing portfolio theme. Clean and useful. Thx…
brum
February 8th, 2010 7:52 amThat’s amazing portfolio theme. Clean and useful. Thx…
David
February 8th, 2010 9:40 amThe 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.
David
February 8th, 2010 9:40 amThe 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.
Erika Koenig
February 8th, 2010 9:48 amHi, very cool will use for sure, dumbness strikes….how and where do I download it for free….with thanks, Erikakw, salonunidad.wordpress.com
Erika Koenig
February 8th, 2010 9:48 amHi, very cool will use for sure, dumbness strikes….how and where do I download it for free….with thanks, Erikakw, salonunidad.wordpress.com
manu
February 8th, 2010 9:50 amwith a theme forest touch and smashing taste, great!
manu
February 8th, 2010 9:50 amwith a theme forest touch and smashing taste, great!
Fred
February 8th, 2010 9:51 amNice work, Omar. I’m impressed!
Fred
February 8th, 2010 9:51 amNice work, Omar. I’m impressed!
D E N Y
February 8th, 2010 10:19 amawesome!
D E N Y
February 8th, 2010 10:19 amawesome!
Benschi
February 8th, 2010 11:37 amNICE!..i love this simple design :-)
Benschi
February 8th, 2010 11:37 amNICE!..i love this simple design :-)
Alice
February 8th, 2010 2:54 pmReally beautiful, very simple yet effective layout. Definitely trying this one out! Thanks!
Alice
February 8th, 2010 2:54 pmReally beautiful, very simple yet effective layout. Definitely trying this one out! Thanks!
Chris
February 8th, 2010 4:58 pmImage uploading does not seem to work on PHP 5.3
Omar E. Corrales
February 8th, 2010 10:30 pmthat is a wordpress plugin, this theme does not contain any uploading scripts.
Chris
February 8th, 2010 4:58 pmImage uploading does not seem to work on PHP 5.3
Omar E. Corrales
February 8th, 2010 10:30 pmthat is a wordpress plugin, this theme does not contain any uploading scripts.
Monie
February 8th, 2010 5:10 pmBeautiful theme. Thanks…
Monie
February 8th, 2010 5:10 pmBeautiful theme. Thanks…
David A
February 8th, 2010 5:31 pmThanks Omar, and thanks Smashing. What a treat to see great design principles translate into a clean, versatile, and durable theme.
David A
February 8th, 2010 5:31 pmThanks Omar, and thanks Smashing. What a treat to see great design principles translate into a clean, versatile, and durable theme.
Cheshmehregi
February 8th, 2010 7:00 pmits actually a good theme, I like it , thanks for sharing
Cheshmehregi
February 8th, 2010 7:00 pmits actually a good theme, I like it , thanks for sharing
Jared Spurbeck
February 8th, 2010 10:28 pmThe 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?
Jared Spurbeck
February 8th, 2010 10:28 pmThe 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?
plexasys
February 9th, 2010 3:37 amI love this how simple and clean this.
plexasys
February 9th, 2010 3:37 amI love this how simple and clean this.
Pavel
February 9th, 2010 6:44 amnice theme, but Museo no Cyrillic! this makes it impossible to sites in Russian
Pavel
February 9th, 2010 6:44 amnice theme, but Museo no Cyrillic! this makes it impossible to sites in Russian
Edgar Tanaka
February 9th, 2010 7:59 amI have the same error as Alex:
Stylesheet is missing.
I tried installing it by uploading the theme.
Anyone got lucky installing it?
Omar E. Corrales
February 9th, 2010 11:40 amYou have to download and unzip the theme, not upload it directly as-downloaded, the zip contains more files then just the theme.
Edgar Tanaka
February 9th, 2010 7:59 amI have the same error as Alex:
Stylesheet is missing.
I tried installing it by uploading the theme.
Anyone got lucky installing it?
Omar E. Corrales
February 9th, 2010 11:40 amYou have to download and unzip the theme, not upload it directly as-downloaded, the zip contains more files then just the theme.
Rodrok
February 9th, 2010 11:10 amNice this theme seems perfect for my site!
Rodrok
February 9th, 2010 11:10 amNice this theme seems perfect for my site!
Alex
February 9th, 2010 4:47 pmMaybe I miss the point, but… Shouldn’t a designer use their own design?
myname
February 10th, 2010 11:25 amNot 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
Alex
February 9th, 2010 4:47 pmMaybe I miss the point, but… Shouldn’t a designer use their own design?
myname
February 10th, 2010 11:25 amNot 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
jackchen
February 9th, 2010 7:12 pmit’s very succinctness. i ❤ it …
jackchen
February 9th, 2010 7:12 pmit’s very succinctness. i ❤ it …
Monie
February 9th, 2010 11:30 pmAny way for you to make the sticky post available?
I mean different style for it..
Monie
February 9th, 2010 11:30 pmAny way for you to make the sticky post available?
I mean different style for it..
Carlo Rizzante
February 10th, 2010 12:16 amGreat, thank you Omar. It’s also a good chances to learn more about WordPress and theming for it.
Wishing you the best time :)
Carlo Rizzante
February 10th, 2010 12:16 amGreat, thank you Omar. It’s also a good chances to learn more about WordPress and theming for it.
Wishing you the best time :)
Graphicator
February 10th, 2010 1:33 amHey I like this. I was able to transform csunama.org overnight
Graphicator
February 10th, 2010 1:33 amHey I like this. I was able to transform csunama.org overnight
Stefan
February 10th, 2010 2:03 amThis 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!
Stefan
February 10th, 2010 2:03 amThis 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!
Rob
February 10th, 2010 4:25 amHI,
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!
Rob
February 10th, 2010 4:25 amHI,
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!
myname
February 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?
myname
February 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?
Raj
February 10th, 2010 3:55 pmHey Thanks for this great theme
Raj
February 10th, 2010 3:55 pmHey Thanks for this great theme
riz
February 11th, 2010 11:51 amHow I setup portfolio page ???
riz
February 11th, 2010 11:51 amHow I setup portfolio page ???
Aiden Vrenna
February 11th, 2010 8:08 pmAs 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).
Aiden Vrenna
February 11th, 2010 8:08 pmAs 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).
Aiden Vrenna
February 11th, 2010 10:09 pmAnother 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($text_count, ”)
to this:
the_excerpt()
Aiden Vrenna
February 11th, 2010 10:09 pmAnother tip:
If you want the image slider on the home page to use the “exerpt” of your portfolio posts instead of using the first x number of characters from the post itself, open template-home.php, and change this:
the_content_limit($text_count, ”)
to this:
the_excerpt()
Chris
February 11th, 2010 11:29 pmThe live demo does not work:
“Error establishing a database connection”
:-(
Chris
February 11th, 2010 11:29 pmThe live demo does not work:
“Error establishing a database connection”
:-(
Jose
February 12th, 2010 12:03 amDEMO?
Error establishing a database connection
Omar E. Corrales
February 12th, 2010 4:12 amIt has been fixed.
Irsyad Razk
February 13th, 2010 4:38 amwhere i can get this free worldpress theme..?
Jose
February 12th, 2010 12:03 amDEMO?
Error establishing a database connection
Omar E. Corrales
February 12th, 2010 4:12 amIt has been fixed.
Irsyad Razk
February 13th, 2010 4:38 amwhere i can get this free worldpress theme..?
fksd
February 12th, 2010 1:40 amreally nice theme. like it.
fksd
February 12th, 2010 1:40 amreally nice theme. like it.
Jason
February 12th, 2010 6:10 amIm 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.
WP Handyman
May 7th, 2010 4:26 amJason,
You might be having problem using the theme. Try this:
Create a page called “Home” and use the “Home” template instead of the “Portfolio” template.
That should do the trick.
I’ve come up with the steps on using this theme too.
regards
WP Handyman
Jason
February 12th, 2010 6:10 amIm 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.
WP Handyman
May 7th, 2010 4:26 amJason,
You might be having problem using the theme. Try this:
Create a page called “Home” and use the “Home” template instead of the “Portfolio” template.
That should do the trick.
I’ve come up with the steps on using this theme too.
regards
WP Handyman
J. Jerrald Hayes
February 12th, 2010 7:38 amGreat theme Omar! I downloaded the “fixed” version and it work great. Very clean and uncluttered. I would describe it as being zen-like.
J. Jerrald Hayes
February 12th, 2010 7:38 amGreat theme Omar! I downloaded the “fixed” version and it work great. Very clean and uncluttered. I would describe it as being zen-like.
Jason
February 12th, 2010 11:32 amWell 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.
Jason
February 12th, 2010 11:32 amWell 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.
Ali
February 13th, 2010 9:51 amnice them, well done
Ali
February 13th, 2010 9:51 amnice them, well done
Paul
February 14th, 2010 4:00 pmLove 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.
Gaurav Chaudhary
August 15th, 2010 11:10 amJust download and install WP-PageNavi plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/ and install it into your wordpress installation
Paul
February 14th, 2010 4:00 pmLove 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.
Gaurav Chaudhary
August 15th, 2010 11:10 amJust download and install WP-PageNavi plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/ and install it into your wordpress installation
croata
February 15th, 2010 7:49 amperfect theme , thanks
croata
February 15th, 2010 7:49 amperfect theme , thanks
DanS
February 18th, 2010 7:47 amLooks a lovely theme – nice and clean.
Thanks for providing :)
DanS
February 18th, 2010 7:47 amLooks a lovely theme – nice and clean.
Thanks for providing :)
Luca
March 1st, 2010 1:09 pmIt’s a perfect theme for my online porfolio! Great!
Luca
March 1st, 2010 1:09 pmIt’s a perfect theme for my online porfolio! Great!
David
March 1st, 2010 2:44 pmGreat theme, and can work well now in Wolf CMS, too!
http://www.wolfcms.org/wiki/themes:start#simple_folio
Thanks so much for this!
David
March 1st, 2010 2:44 pmGreat theme, and can work well now in Wolf CMS, too!
http://www.wolfcms.org/wiki/themes:start#simple_folio
Thanks so much for this!
modifywordpress
March 4th, 2010 9:45 amI love this one :)
modifywordpress
March 4th, 2010 9:45 amI love this one :)
Fernando
March 6th, 2010 8:39 pmMy 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 selected
ps: i found my mistake portfolio page only show posts with small images, post without images isnt showed
Fernando
March 6th, 2010 8:39 pmMy 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 selected
ps: i found my mistake portfolio page only show posts with small images, post without images isnt showed
Felix
March 8th, 2010 2:55 pmHi! 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
Felix
March 8th, 2010 2:55 pmHi! 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
Christian
March 8th, 2010 6:04 pmGreat 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.
Christian
March 8th, 2010 6:04 pmGreat 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.
Ivar
March 12th, 2010 4:49 amHey nice theme, I tweaked it a bit and made my portfolio already :) Check it out http://www.ivarprudnikov.com
Ivar
March 14th, 2010 4:21 amBut you know I have an issue with one of my works to appear in IE, although it is the same file as others *.png, but it is not showing in IE, even after few re-uploads of it.. Spooky..
Ivar
March 12th, 2010 4:49 amHey nice theme, I tweaked it a bit and made my portfolio already :) Check it out http://www.ivarprudnikov.com
Ivar
March 14th, 2010 4:21 amBut you know I have an issue with one of my works to appear in IE, although it is the same file as others *.png, but it is not showing in IE, even after few re-uploads of it.. Spooky..
Mario
March 14th, 2010 5:16 pmlooks like an excellent theme. I am downloading it. thanks for sharing!
Buntu
March 17th, 2010 7:22 pmHow do you upload it? Mine It keeps fails.
Can you help me?
Thanks.
Mario
March 14th, 2010 5:16 pmlooks like an excellent theme. I am downloading it. thanks for sharing!
Buntu
March 17th, 2010 7:22 pmHow do you upload it? Mine It keeps fails.
Can you help me?
Thanks.