Simple & Elegant – Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

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Simple & Elegant is, as the name says, an elegant WordPress theme that’s simple to use — made for Instagram creators, yoga coaches, writers and anyone with zero coding knowledge. Careful design detail, four ready-made demos and a pile of premium features, with WPBakery Page Builder and Slider Revolution included.

Current version: v2.6.6 – August 9, 2026 (changelog)
Live demo: simple-elegant.themepreview.site
Online docs: themedocs.github.io/simple-elegant
Support: heronwp.support-desk.site

Features

WordPress 7.x compatible, and always kept compatible with the latest WordPress version
WooCommerce 9.x & 10.x ready, and kept compatible with newer versions
4 prebuilt demos: Simple & Elegant, Photography, Do It Yourself and Feminine
One-click concept switcher: change the whole look of your site — fonts and colours — with a single click
One-click import demo: content, settings and widgets end up 100% the same as the demo. No step 1, step 2, step 3
100% responsive, looks great on every device, touch and swipe friendly
Off-canvas menu for mobile, with swipe support
Retina-ready: icon fonts throughout, so your site stays sharp on MacBook Pro, iPad, iPhone and other retina screens
Save $64 — WPBakery Page Builder included, plus a set of extra Simple & Elegant elements
Save $26 — Slider Revolution included, with importable slider zips so you can reuse the demo sliders
Live Customizer with 300+ options: font face, size, weight, style and text transform for body text, menu, headings, copyright and more — no code
Unlimited colors for topbar, header, menu, footer, text and almost everything else
Any kind of font: the full Google Fonts library from a dropdown, plus Typekit and self-hosted fonts
Header layouts: centred or left–right, with custom padding, background colour and image
Footer layouts: centred or left–right, in a light or dark theme
Boxed & wide layout with background image, colour, size and repeat options for boxed mode
Sticky navigation
Mega menu and third-level dropdowns, enabled with a checkbox
Parallax sections using a translate3d technique that overrides the default WPBakery row parallax for much better performance
Beautiful portfolio with gallery, video and audio formats, plus column, style and image-ratio options: 2 columns, 3 columns, 4 columns
Multiple single-project layouts, with video and audio supported
Various blog layouts: standard, grid and list
Post formats: standard, gallery, video and audio, with video thumbnails pulled automatically from YouTube and Vimeo
Page layouts: fullwidth, sidebar left, sidebar right, and per-page options to show/hide the title and adjust padding
Pricing tables and a full element set for building pages fast
Built-in lightbox: responsive image lightbox based on Magnific Popup
Side navigation for long pages like history or documentation. Sample
WooCommerce features: quick view, off-canvas cart, image flip on product thumbnails, shop sidebar, breadcrumbs and YITH Wishlist integration. Sample shop
Widgets included: MailChimp, Instagram and an image widget using the native WordPress media uploader for banners and about-me boxes
40+ social icons: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn and more
Plugins supported: WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, WPML
Translation ready: *.pot file included in the languages directory
CSS & JS minified by default. CSS written in SASS for maximum browser compatibility and easy maintenance
Clean code & child theme included, easy to adapt
Free lifetime updates once purchased
Well documented: themedocs.github.io/simple-elegant

Credits

Thank you Nelly Shop, Daniel Kim and Pinkerton for the photos used on the demo sites. These photos are for demonstration only and are NOT included in the theme.

Icons and fonts: Font Awesome, Budicon and Google Fonts.

Scripts: Magnific Popup, Jarallax, Masonry, imagesLoaded, FitVids.js, Waypoints, FlexSlider, SlickNav, Superfish and Tipsy.