Simple Persona Pro is a clean, elegant, and responsive personal blog WordPress Theme for professionals. The theme has been especially crafted for the professional to create their personal website. The theme is extremely creative, easy to use, modern, and user-friendly. Simple Persona Pro will take care of everything to give your website an awesome online presence which in turn will definitely attract more visitors to your blog. Some of the highlighting awe-inspiring features in Simple Persona Pro are responsive design, portfolio, testimonials, events, featured content, featured slider, hero content, ecommerce, and many more. This simple personal blog WordPress theme for professionals lets you highlight every little detail that you want your visitors to know about you. So, you can say that Simple Persona Pro is a WordPress theme for professionals that can improve every element of your blog. With Simple Persona Pro, display your portfolios at large and let the whole world know about you. For more information, check out Theme Instructions.
Features
Theme Options
The most powerful feature of Catch Themes is its Theme Options which will allow you to easily customize your website with clicks. So, now you no longer need to be a designer or a programmer to build customized websites. Theme Options allow you to toggle on and off features, adjust layouts, change colors, fonts, logo, favicon, background, add social links and custom CSS.
Responsive Design
One of the key features of our themes is that your website will magically respond and adapt to different screen sizes delivering an optimized design for iPhones, iPads, and other mobile devices. No longer will you need to zoom and scroll around when browsing on your mobile phone.
Featured Post Slider
Featured Slider is an option that is helpful to highlight noteworthy posts on your site. You can have columns of content as well as selected images set on your post slider. The fun part is, you get to decide for how long a post stays on your page before something else comes up on the slider. How will you make that happen? By exercising your control over different slide effects and their timing!
Webmaster Tools
Webmaster Tools option helps you to minutely manage your site. Firstly, it helps to verify the site in Google, Yahoo and Bing. Additionally, whether it is something like site optimization, keeping track of your site traffic or overseeing and altering your display settings, you can call the shots for you site through Webmaster tools. These tools also allow you to add to your site Header and Footer Scripts like Google Analytics, Site Stats, Facebook, twitter and much more.
Custom Widgets
Our themes have widgetized areas commonly known as sidebar. Here, you can add up various widgets and customize their display to satisfy your unique needs.
Incredible Support
We have a great line of support team and support documentation. You do not need to worry about how to use the themes we provide, just refer to our Tech Support segment. Further, if you need to do advanced customization to your website, you can always hire our theme customizer!
Featured Image Slider
Featured Image Slider allows you to not only add images, but also write a description for them. If a descriptive caption would not suffice, you also have the option of providing a clickable link. This way, as per your unique needs, should you require, you can easily add a URL to your content.
Featured Page Slider
Featured Page Slider is an option that is helpful to highlight noteworthy pages on your site. You can have columns of content as well as selected images set on your page slider. The fun part is, you get to decide for how long a page stays on your page before something else comes up on the slider. How will you make that happen? By exercising your control over different slide effects and their timing!
Featured Content
Featured Content allows you to highlight your recent & popular posts on your website. It can either be displayed on Homepage or the entire site. You can add your title and sub-title for featured content, select the number of featured content, display Meta, select multiple categories, and enjoy displaying your featured & recent posts.
Custom Fonts
You can choose different types of stylish and engaging fonts for your Site Title, Tagline, Headline Tags, Content Title, and Content Body. Choose the font that suits best for your website from the font family options and makes your website more striking.
Hero Content
You can now display the best assets of your website with the Hero Content feature. The feature allows you to highlight the most important content in a fashion that is easily attention-grabbing. You can enable the hero content either on Homepage or the entire site. Hero Content - the easiest way to display your strengths.
WordPress Standard Codes
Our code is secure and optimized. We do proper data validation and sanitization and follow core theme guidelines. Our developers are active contributors to WordPress theme review and WordPress core. Our themes will always be updated as things change in WordPress.
Testimonials
People are always curious about what your goods and services are really like. Since customer testimonials are candid and not by the company promoting the product, they assist in building trust. You can display testimonials on Homepage, the entire site or disable it completely.
Portfolio
Portfolio empowers you to showcase your professional skills and accomplishments to the world at large. Display your Portfolio in an elegant manner on the Homepage/Frontpage, the entire site or you can also disable it completely if you don’t need it. An astounding way to easily display your experience, skills, talent, and expertise.
Footer Editor
Footer Editor Options enables you to edit the content of the footer easily. You can either add HTML, plain text, or custom shortcodes which will be inserted into your theme automatically. You can use shortcodes like [the-year], [site-link] and [privacy-policy-link] for the current year, site link and privacy policy link respectively.
More Features
- Theme Options
- Responsive Design
- Featured Slider
- Webmaster Tools
- Alternative Styles
- Page Templates
- Color Options
- Featured Thumbnail
- Threaded Comments
- Dropdown Menu
- Excerpt Length
- Feed Redirect
- Gravatar Ready
- Localized for translations
- Custom Header / Logo
- Custom Favicon
- Custom Menu
- Custom Footer
- Custom Background
- Custom Layout
- Custom Widget
- Custom Fonts
- Custom Homepage
- Custom CSS
- Support
- WooCommerce Ready
- WPML Ready
- Hero Content
- Portfolio
- Events
- Testimonials
- Header Video
- Clean Header
- Featured Content
- WordPress Standard Codes
Free Vs Pro (Premium)
| Free | Features | Pro (Premium) |
|---|---|---|
| Responsive Design | ||
| Super Easy Setup | ||
| Color Options for various sections | ||
| Header Media | ||
| Primary Menu | ||
| Social Menu | ||
| Breadcrumb | ||
| Comment Options | ||
| Excerpt Options | ||
| Featured content: Post | ||
| Featured content: Page | ||
| Featured content: Category | ||
| Featured content: Custom | ||
| Featured content: Custom Post Types | ||
| Featured Slider: Post | ||
| Featured Slider: Page | ||
| Featured Slider: Category | ||
| Featured Slider: Custom | ||
| Font Family Options | ||
| Footer Editor Options | ||
| Hero Content:Post | ||
| Hero Content: Page | ||
| Hero Content:Category | ||
| Hero Content:Custom | ||
| Site Layout | ||
| Default Layout: Right Sidebar ( Content, Primary Sidebar ) | ||
| Default Layout: Left Sidebar ( Primary Sidebar, Content ) | ||
| Default Layout: No Sidebar | ||
| Default Layout: No Sidebar: Full Width | ||
| Homepage/Archive Layout: Right Sidebar | ||
| Homepage/Archive Layout: Left Sidebar | ||
| Homepage/Archive Layout:No Sidebar | ||
| Homepage/Archive Layout:Full Width | ||
| WooCommerce Layout | ||
| Menu Options:Classic and Modern | ||
| Pagination Options | ||
| Portfolio: Post | ||
| Portfolio: Page | ||
| Portfolio: Category | ||
| Portfolio: Custom | ||
| Portfolio: Custom Post Type | ||
| Scroll Up Options | ||
| Search Options | ||
| Testimonials: Post | ||
| Testimonials: Page | ||
| Testimonials: Category | ||
| Testimonials: Custom | ||
| Testimonials: Custom Post Type | ||
| Update Notifier | ||
| WPML Ready | ||
| WooCommerce Ready | ||
| WPML Ready |
Theme Instructions
#How to install theme?
Go to this link
#How to update theme to the latest version?
Go to this link
#Always Set Featured Images
This theme relies heavily on Featured Images. If your post is missing a Featured Image, the post image will not show up on homepage, on archived pages and on Featured Page Slider Content. Click Here to see how to add Featured Image in your Post/Page.
Image Sizes:
Post Thumbnail
Width: 470px
Height: 470px
Portfolio
Width:1920px
Height: flexible
Archive Image Top
Width: 990px
Height: 557px
Featured Slider
Width: 1920px
Height: 884px
Testimonial Image
Width: 180
Height: 180
Featured Content Image
Width: 697px
Height: 392px
Hero Content Image
Width: 592px
Height: 592px
#How to add Featured Image in Post/Page?
Go to this link.
#Regenerate Thumbnails
For regenerate thumbnails got to this link
#Widgets Areas (Sidebar)
Simple Persona Pro currently has 14 widgetized areas(Sidebar) they are 1. Sidebar, 2. Footer Area 1, 3. Footer Area 2, 4. Footer Area 3, 5. Footer Area 4, 6. Instagram, 7. WooCommerce Sidebar, 8.404 Page Not Found Content, 9. Optional Homepage Sidebar, 10. Optional Archive Sidebar, 11. Optional Page Sidebar, 12. Optional Post Sidebar, 13. Optional Sidebar One, 14. Optional Sidebar Two, 15. Optional Sidebar Three. You can add a variety of Widgets to this theme from “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.
How to select optional sidebar for individual Page/Post?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:
- Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
- There you can find Simple Persona Pro Options
- Then click on Select Sidebar
- You can make the required changes by clicking on options under “Select Sidebar”
- Finally Click on “Publish/Update”
Customizer (Theme Options) #
You can customize this theme using cool additional features through Customizer at “Appearance => Customize” from your WordPress Dashboard.
#How to add Logo?
Go to this link
#How to enable/disable Site Title and Tagline
Go to this link
#How to add Site Icon (Favicon/Web Clip Icon)?
Go to this link
#Color
Go to this link
#Header Image
Custom Header Image is different from site logo. It’s a large global image in the header to obtain a much more Simple Personalized look and feel. To add header image, you need to go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Media =>Header Image”. Here, you can add/change/hide Header Image, select option to Enable Featured Header Image on, Size and add in links and alt tag as per your website need.
Options to Enable Header Featured Image
When you are in “Appearance => Customize => Header Media => Header Image”, you will see option “Enable Featured Header Image on”. There are 7 options, which gives you flexibility to add Header Image as per your website need.
Option 1: Homepage/Frontpage
This option will show header image in Homepage/Frontpage only.
Option 2: Excluding Homepage
This option will show header image throughout the site, excluding Homepage.
Option 3: Excluding Homepage, Page/Post Featured Image
This option will show header image throughout the site excluding Homepage. But in Page/Post, your header image will be replaced by Featured Image.
Option 4: Entire Site
This option will show header image throughout the site.
Option 5: Entire Site, Page/Post Featured Image
This option will show header image throughout the site. But in Page/Post, your header image will be replaced by Featured Image.
Option 6: Page and Post
This option will show Header Image in Page and Post only. But in Page/Post, your header image will be replaced by Featured Image.
Option 7: Disable
This option will disable Header Image completely.
#How to Change and Enable Custom Header Image?
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Image”
- Now, select enable options in “Enable Featured Header Image on”
- Click on “Add New Image” to add new header image
- Then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
- Click on “Select and Crop” and you can either crop image or skip cropping
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
How to enable/disable Header Featured Image Options in different Pages/Posts?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:
- Go to Edit option of Page/Post you want to edit
- There you can find Simple Persona Pro Options
- Then click on Header Featured Image Options
- You can select “Enable” option for Header Featured Image
- Finally Click on “Publish/Update”
How to select Single Page/Post Image Layout for individual Page/Post?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:
- Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
- There you can find Simple Persona Options
- Then click on Single Page/Post Image Layout
- You can select desired option
- Finally Click on “Publish/Update”
How to select date for events using Page/Post?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:
- Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
- There you can find Simple Persona Pro Options
- Then click on Events
- You can select desired Date Day and Date Months for your events
- Finally Click on “Publish/Update”
#Menus
Simple Persona Pro offers exciting Menu Options! This theme supports and recommends using “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through “Appearance => Menus” from your WordPress Dashboard.
- For more detail, Click here to watch video Screencast
Select Menu Locations
You can assign your custom menu in 2 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Navigation” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Locations”
Select your Custom Menu as Primary Menu to display it as the Main Menu, which will replace the default Page Menu
Select your custom menu as Social Menu
Note: If you do not see Navigation Option in “Appearance => Customize”, it will mean you have not created any menu. Go to “Appearance => Menus” to create menu first.
#How to enable Breadcrumb?
Go to this link
#Comment Options
Go to this link
#Events
Simple Persona Pro supports 4 events types they are: 1. Post, 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Image. For Events, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Events”.
Go to this link
#How to Change the Excerpt Length and Read More Text?
Go to this link
#Featured Content
Simple Persona Pro supports 4 featured content types they are: 1. Post, 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Image. For Featured Content, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content”.
Go to this link
#Featured Slider
Simple Persona Pro supports 4 featured slider types, they are: 1. Post, 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Image. For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider”.
Go to this link
#How to select different font for different sections?
Go to this link
#How to edit Footer Content?
Go to this link
#Hero Content
Simple Persona Pro supports 4 Hero Content types to choose from:1. Post , 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Image. For Hero Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Hero Content”.
Go to this link
#How to Set Certain Categories to Display in Homepage/Frontpage?
Go to this link
#How to disable recent posts/content on homepage?
This is additional option on Simple Persona Pro.
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Homepage/Frontpage Options”
- Then check option “Check to disable Recent posts/Content”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#Layout Options
Simple Persona Pro has 2 Site Layout, 4 Default Layout, 4 Homgepage/Archive Layout, 4 Single Page/Post Layout, 4 Archive Content Layout, 4 Single Page/Post image layout and 4 Woocommerce Layout to choose from “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options”
Site Layout
Choose your site site layout as Fluid or Boxed
Default Layout Options
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Default Layout Options” which will set our site layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Simple Persona Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.
Homepage/Archive Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Homepage/Archive Layout” which will set our layout for Homepage/Archive Page. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Simple Personal Trainer Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing
Single Page/Post Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Single Page/Post Layout” which will set layout for single pages/posts.
Archive Content Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Archive Content Layout” which will set our site archive layout.
Single Page/Post Image Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Single Page/Post Image Layout” which will set our posts/page image layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting Single Page/Post Image Layout for individual pages and posts through “higher-education Options => Single Page/Post Image Layout”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing
WooCommerce Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Woocommerce Layout” which will set layout for WooCommerce pages.
#WooCommerce Layout and Sidebars
Go to this link
#How to choose different menu style and disable search box in header?
- Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Menu Style
- Under “Menu Type”, choose Default or Classic as per your need
- To disable search box in header click option “Check to disable search box in Header”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to change Pagination Options?
Go to this link
Note: WP-PageNavi Plugin is recommended for Numeric Option(But will work without it).
#Portfolio
Portfolio option in Simple Persona Pro is used to highlight Page, Post, Category or Image in your website as Portfolio. There are 5 Portfolio Types to choose from. They are: 1. Page, 2. Post, 3.Category , 4.Image and 5. Custom Post Type.
Go to this link
#How to enable/disable Scrollup feature?
Go to this link
#How to change default text in search box?
Go to this link
#Testimonials
Simple Persona Pro support 5 types of testimonial, they are: 1. Post, 2. Custom Post Type, 3. Page 4. Category and 5. Image
Go to this link
#Custom Post Type
To use this featured, install Essential Content Type
Plugin
How to add Testimonials in Homepage/Frontpage using Essential Content Type?#
Go to this link
#How to enable/disable update notifications?
Go to this link
#How to enable/disable Zoom, Lightbox and Slider effects for WooCommerce Product Gallery? #
Go to this link
#Widgets
Simple Persona Pro suppots CT: Social Icons. You can add widget in widget area as per your need.
#How to add Widgets in widget area?
You can add widgets to your widget area from two location
Go to this link for more detail
#How to add “Social Icon” in widget area(CT:Social Icon)?
This widget is used to add social icons as a widget.
- Add CT:Social Icon to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title” under the respective field.
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#Embed Multimedia into Posts or Pages
For externally hosted videos (for example a YouTube or Vimeo video), you can directly paste the link of your video page into the content editor. You do not necessarily have to paste the embed code in the content. WordPress will automatically embed the video from the link.
#Webmaster Tools
Go to this link for more detail
#Translating Your Theme with WPML
Go to this link for more detail
Recommended Plugins
* Catch Web Tools for Webmaster Tools
* To Top
* Catch IDs
* Essential Content Type
* Contact Form 7 for Contact Form
* WooCommerce for E-commerce
* WPML for multi-language
* WP-PageNavi for Numeric Pagination
* Regenerate Thumbnails to for Regenerating Thumbnails
* Jetpack for Infinite Scroll, Gallery, Stats, Titled Gallery, Image CDN and many more
Change Log
2.3.2 (Released: February 26, 2024)
- Bug Fixed: Removed unnecessary comment code in custom-header.php
- Bug Fixed: Theme updater deprecation notice in PHP 8.1
- Removed: Depreciated Instagram Feed Plugin recommendation
- Updated: WordPress 6.4 ready
2.3.1 (Released: August 24, 2022)
- Bug Fixed: Category slider default order issue
- Updated: Google Font hosted locally (https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/06/18/complying-with-gdpr-when-using-google-fonts/)
2.3 (Released: February 16, 2022)
- Updated: WordPress 5.9 ready
2.2.3 (Released: November 19, 2021)
- Updated: Demo import support
2.2.2 (Released: September 10, 2021)
- Added: Link in the Portfolio post title
- Bug Fixed: Multi flex-height, changed to flex-height and flex-width
2.2.1 (Released: May 25, 2020)
- Bug Fixed: $post variable in featured content
2.2 (Released: May 21, 2020)
- Bug Fixed: HTML h1 tag issue
- Bug Fixed: Multi Category Sanitization issue
- Removed: Updating Pro Theme tab in About Theme page
- Updated: Updater support for child theme
- Updated: readme.txt and style.css as per the new requirements
2.1 (Released: October 22, 2019)
- Added: About page
- Added: Automatic Update using license key
- Added: Support for wp_body_open action
- Updated: Meta Styles
2.0.2 (Released: January 30, 2019)
- Bug Fixed: Spacing in end of infinite scroll
- Bug Fixed: Spacing issue in section
- Bug Fixed: Events Date Day metabox issue
2.0.1 (Released: January 24, 2019)
- Bug Fixed: Events Date Month meta issue (Reported by: patrickmandemaker)
- Updated: Blocks css
- Updated: Blocks editor styles
2.0 (Released: December 19, 2018)
- Added: Theme support for for editor styles
- Added: Theme support for block styles
- Added: Theme support for full and wide align images
- Added: Theme support for responsive embeds
- Added: Theme support for custom editor font sizes
- Added: Theme support for custom color scheme
- Added: Theme support for for editor styles
- Updated: Author info design
- Updated: Testimonial design
- Updated: Responsive design
- Updated: Design for calendar widget, RSS widget & Recent Posts widget
- Updated: Editor Styles
- Updated: Optimized css for portfolio section
- Updated: Metabox UI
- Updated: Readme file as per new requirement
1.2.2 (Released: October 25, 2018)
- Bug Fixed: Added Content Filter to image/custom sections content that takes html
- Bug Fixed: Testimonial Typo corrected
- Bug fixed: Custom Hero Content readmore button not showing up until Content added
- Updated: Migration Script from free to pro
- Updated: Label changed from Image type to Custom
- Updated: Content delivered through the_content filter
1.2.1 (Released: August 01, 2018)
- Bug Fixed: Header Featured Image issue in blog page
- Bug Fixed: Free to pro options migration script
1.2 (Released: July 02, 2018)
- Added: Header Image Support for Testimonials, Portfolio, Services and Featured Content via Essential Content Types
- Added: Core Privacy Policy link support in footer
- Bug Fixed: missing else in header image condition
- Replaced class_exists( 'woocommerce' ) with class_exists( 'WooCommerce' ) as WooCommerce update caused issues
1.1 (Released: March 18 2018)
- Added: Option to show recent posts on static front page
- Bug Fixed: Design issue with Catch Infinite Scroll plugin
- Bug Fixed: Page Title not displaying in static front page
- Bug Fixed: Image size hard cropped for Archive Image Top
- Bug Fixed: Removed unnecessary function
- Bug Fixed: Single Page/Post metabox index value
- Bug Fixed: Testimonial slider scripts loading
- Bug Fixed: Testimonial section text alignment css fixed when slider is unchecked
1.0 (Released: Feb 07 2018)
- Initial release
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