Essential Theme

minimalistic portfolio WordPress theme

Essential is a minimalistic photography and blogging theme optimized for mobile browsing. The responsive layout will automatically detect if the visitor is viewing your site on a desktop screen or a mobile device (smartphone or tablet) and will adjust accordingly. It's built on the Hybrid Core framework and inherits its professional and well-organized coding practices, making it an excellent starting point for further customization and development.

The theme is built to utilize the core WordPress functions for image and gallery management. With the exception of the in-bult Fancybox script and FlexSlider, no additional/custom functionality or third-party plugins are used to store, organize, or present the content.

Features

Intuitive, image-centric Design
2 intuitive post formats - 'standard' and 'gallery'
2 nav menus - one in the header and one in the footer
Responsive Layout
Sticky posts powered by FlexSlider 2
Custom Background
Theme Settings, many of which use the new theme Customizer for live editing
Advanced Widgets
Child-theme Friendly
Theme-matching styles for contact form plugins - Gravity Forms and Contact Form 7

Credits

Essential is based on Hybrid Core - an advanced WordPress theme development framework by Justin Tadlock.

The theme uses a couple of fonts and scripts that are released under GPL-compatible licenses:

Google Fonts (Bitter, Droid Serif, Droid Sans, Open Sans, Oswald) - licensed under OFL
Superfish (dual-licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses)
Fancybox (dual-licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses)
FlexSlider (license: GPL)

Copyright & License

Essential is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL).