Simone is a responsive modern design theme designed and developed by Morten Rand-Hendriksen available from the WordPress Theme Directory.
Simone's design is focused on typography and aims to put the content front and center. Fonts are large and clear and scale according to screen width. On wider screens blockquotes and images can be aligned left and right to break out of the main stream and get a pull-quote effect. The featured images are responsive through the use of the
Simone ships with English as the default language. Translations are available for:
- Finnish (fi via Sami Keijonen)
- French (fr_FR via Christine Rondeau)
- German (de_DE via Caspar Hübinger)
- Hungarian (hu_HU via Beata Kozma)
- Italian (it_IT via Giorgio Riccardi)
- Norwegian Bokmål (nb_NO)
Extended options available from the Customizer:
- Header background color
- Header text color
- Link color (changes link colors throughout the site including site title. Also sets color of .border-custom class.)
- Optional Header image of 1280px x 300px
- Right sidebar, max content width 300px.
- Footer, max content width 320px.
Standard and Aside post formats are supported. Asides are displayed without headings or meta content in index pages. All other displays are identical with Standard posts.
Posts and pages can have Featured Images. On single posts and pages max Featured Image (Post Thumbnail) size is 1060px x 650px. On index pages the featured image is displayed in 780px x 250px hard crop.
The header features an optional social media menu which is displayed on the far right of the menu area. Social media icons are automatically generated based on the URLs of different social media services so a link menu item with a Twitter URL will automatically show the Twitter icon etc. To activate the menu simply create a new menu and assign it to the Social Menu template location. The social menu is inspired by this article by Justin Tadlock.
Simone ships with three border options for images and other elements that can be applied by adding a class to the desired element. The classes add a 1px solid border around the current element. The classes are .border-black (black), .border-gray (#b9b9b9 or 25% gra), and .border-custom (defaults to header color but is overridden by custom link color in Customizer). These classes are added to allow the user to add borders in a semantic and standards based way.
Simone is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2
Simone's code base started out as _s as it were on February 6, 2014.
The theme features three custom fonts:
- Lato: SIL Open Font Licence 1.1
- PT Serif: SIL Open Font Licence 1.1
- FontAwesome: Published under various licenses
The accessible main menu is powered by SuperFish. MIT License Responsive triggers for Superfish and Masonry powered by Enquire.js. MIT Licence Responsive featured images powered by Picturefill
Simone is named after philosopher Simone de Beauvoir
- New translations for Finnish (courtesy of Sami Keijonen) and Italian (courtesy of Giorgio Riccardi).
- New translations for French, German, and Norwegian. Hungarian translation added courtesy of Beata Kozma.
- Full refactoring of translation files including updated nb_NO translation.
- Minor translation updates to address date formatting and wider language support. Stop-gap while waiting for more translation files to come online.
- French translation courtesy of Christine Rondeau
- German translation courtesy of Caspar Hübinger
- Translation files updated to reflect recent changes.
- Various translation improvements throughout
- Norwegian Bokmål translation updated
- Various translation improvements courtesy of Caspar Hübinger (@glueckpress). See mor10#5 for details.
- Featured image on single posts and pages and the first post on index page now responsive with
element - Fixed .screen-reader-text based on http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/hiding-content-for-accessibility