After screening hundreds of themes I’ve found Hermes: simple, cool, clean and nice. It fits perfect to my needs and after only one day building up the content my new site was on and is getting a very positive feedback from my customers. And: I’m a total web-newbie. The support, by the way, is quick and qualified!
Hermes
Premium WordPress theme
$79
- 1 theme included
- 12 months download access
- 1 year of priority support
- 12 months updates
- 30% discount on renewals
- 14 days money-back guarantee
Hermes is a unique and modern theme evoking a sense of minimalism, elegance, and simplicity. It’s perfectly suited for creative bloggers in any field.
Theme standard features
Social links menu
Specially designed menu will make it easy for you to add and display social media links on your website.
Responsive design
Your website content will always look beautiful on smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop screens.
Simple customization
Using the Customizer, you will be able to customize your theme and preview all changes in real time.
Custom page templates
Choose from a selection of pre-made page templates to add variety to your site, and create an unique look.
Widgets ready
Using WordPress widgets, you can easily add additional sections to your website without coding it yourself.
SEO friendly
Each page is carefully build with search-engine-friendly code to ensure your website is noticed by search bots.
Author biography
Display author profile on single posts to build a personal brand and establish reputation among your readers.
White label theme
Customize a default branding text in the footer area and add your own credit links to fit the needs of your site.
Featured Content
Powerful, yet easy-to-use slider will allow you to highlight most important content in front of your readers.
Also includes:
- Custom background
- Custom menu
- Site logo
- Editor style
- Featured images
- Theme options
- Threaded comments
- Infinite scroll
- RTL support
- Sticky menu
- Left/Right sidebar
- Translation ready
We got you covered by offering everything you need to achieve results. With us, you are in great hands regarding the set of features that bring real value in the long run.
Knowledgebase
Our efforts go into making installation as easy as possible for you. This is the reason why all our WordPress themes come with a detailed documentation, so you can have a step by step guide on how to set up your theme.
Plugins
While our themes should work fine with most plugins, there is no way for us to test and guarantee that all of these plugins will be compatible with our themes. If the plugin has been coded to WordPress’ standards then it should play nicely with our themes.
Updates
All our themes are compatible with the latest WordPress version. We perform tests and updates on a regular basis to keep them safe and stable. You can find all informations regarding to the theme updates by clicking the link below.
Support
We are serious about providing the best support to our customers. If you need help, our friendly support staff are ready to answer all your questions and aim to help you to solve the challenges you're having with the theme.
Blank child theme
Before making any heavy changes to the theme code, we recommend that you use a child theme. This ensures that your changes won’t be lost when updating to a new version of Hermes.
== 1.3.7 July 16, 2019 ==
- Update: optimize theme styles;
- Update: change a way of loading the RTL style;
- Update: improve theme performance for the RTL sites;
- Fix: grid layout issue (RTL sites);
- Update: simplify a markup of the header search section;
- Update: styles of the header search form;
- Update: improve performance of the header search form;
- Update: improve accessibility of the header search button;
- Fix: grid issue in smaller screens;
- Update: add the `display` parameter to the google fonts to improve performance;
- Update: use CSS to detect mobile devices;
- Update: avoid adding a special body class using wp_is_mobile();
- Update: post type variable name to avoid overriding WordPress globals;
- Fix: sanitation issue of the theme name in the Updater;
- Update: trigger a new wp_body_open action (WordPress 5.2) immediately after the opening body tag;
- Update: improve accessibility of the search widget;
- Update: styles for the sticky menu;
- Update: hide the sticky menu section for screen readers;
- Fix: accessibility issue associated with the close button in the toggle sidebar section;
- Add: theme typography options;
- Add: Amazon icon to the social menu link;
- Add: Theme Options panel in the Customizer;
- Update: WordPress audio player styles;
- Update: remove unnecessary styles;
- Update: HTML tag for the 404 label;
- Update: improve accessibility of the 404 page;
- Update: styles for default HTML elements;
- Update: comments styles;
- Update: main translation file of the theme (.pot);
- Update: remove recommendation for the Google Fonts plugin;
- Update: remove option to disable default fonts;
- Fix: mix of ordered and non-ordered placeholders;
- Fix: style issues with the search form;
- Add: support for Facebook short url in the social menu;
- Update: improve accessibility of the header search form;
- Update: improve accessibility of the mobile menu section;
- Update: improve accessibility of custom menus;
- Update: mobile menu section styles;
- Update: update functionality of the mobile menu section using a plan JS;
- Update: dequeue JS plugin for the mobile toggle section because the theme now uses its own functionality to create this section;
- Update: sort CSS properties alphabetically;
- Update: HTML structure of the social menu;
- Fix: JS issue when custom menus are empty;
- Update: add a version number to the main stylesheet to avoid browser cache issues;
- Update: add a version number to the main JavaScript file to avoid browser cache issues;
- Update: improve performance of the theme;
- Update: rewrite the theme JavaScript functionalities using a plain JavaScript;
- Update: remove unnecessary prefixed CSS styles;
- Update: group CSS media queries;
- Update: add a type attribute to the buttons in the header template;
- Update: hide a search icon element for the screen readers;
- Update: improve accessibility of the theme;
- Update: use a button element instead of a link element for closing the header search form;
- Update: load a print style only when it is needed;
- Update: do not load unused Infinite Scroll stylesheets and scripts in archive views;
- Update: move a grid framework styles to the main theme stylesheet;
- Update: remove HTML data attribute for a number of posts per page in archive views;
- Update: remove unused styles;
- Fix: spacing issue in the post meta section in single views;
- Fix: color issues in the header search form;
- Fix: grid issues in smaller screens;
- Update: theme URI in the parent stylesheet;
- Fix: update the main translation file of the theme (.pot) to list the latest theme strings;
- Add: phone icon to the social menu;
- Add: title and class attributes to the social menu link;
- Add: arrow icon to the menu item with a sub-menu;
- Update: optimize font icons;
- Update: make Skip to Entry actions more accessible;
- Update: use a global icon class to display an icon;
- Update: use a proper HTML tag for the Go to Top action;
- Update: use a plain JS for the Scroll to Element actions;
- Fix: do not cover the content when the Scroll to Entry action is used;
- Fix: reply style issue in the comments section;
- Add: load a child theme stylesheet if a child theme is active;
- Update: improve performance of the theme;
- Update: load a minified version of JS and CSS files of the theme;
- Update: information page of the theme in WordPress dashboard;
- Add: better support for Gutenberg;
- Add: option to disable a default theme font;
- Fix: grid issue for the sites that display a large number of posts per page (>40);
- Fix: readability issues on protected posts in archive views;
- Fix: add a missing mobile class;
- Fix: styling issues in search view;
- Remove: unused styles;
- Update: grid algorithm in archive views;
- Update: improve the sticky header functionality;
- Update: formatting of archive view templates, and add per-page attribute to the grid container;
- Update: clean up some CSS in the archive grid section;
- Fix: Infinite Scroll incorrect behavior;
- Update: optimize header animation in single views;
- Update: improve performance of the sticky header;
- Update: remove some unnecessary CSS in the Featured Content section;
- Fix: resolve a \"scroll-linked positioning effect\" warning in Firefox;
- Fix: header visibility issue when a single view page has been scrolled too fast;
- Fix: share buttons (Jetpack) spacing issues;
- Fix: spacing issues in the Author section;
- Fix: some minor styling issues;
- Update: replace http with https in the meta data profile;
- Update: add a better way to set the content width, based on the theme\'s design and stylesheet;
- Add: support for the Featured Content (Jetpack);
- Update: add better accessibility to the comment links in archive view;
- Update: move functionality of skip-link-focus-fix.js file to the theme JS file;
- Update: reduce number of http requests;
- Update: reorganize and optimize the theme JS file;
- Fix: date format when populating datetime attributes;
- Fix: move window.load outside of document.ready in the theme JS file;
- Fix: optimize the theme JS file and improve performance by avoiding to call the ready event multiple times;
- Add: support for Jetpack Content Options;
- Update: add better accessibility for the \"edit\" links;
- Fix: do not display an empty footer element in single-page views;
- Fix: some styling issues in single views;
- Add: optional sticky header functionality;
- Add: Snapchat, Tripadvisor, Telegram and Yelp icons for the social menu;
- Add: span tag around the archive title prefix so that the prefix can be hidden with CSS if needed;
- Update: add mobile menu links using JavaScript;
- Update: functionality of the theme updater;
- Add: additional social icons to the social menu;
- Update: font icons to a newer version;
- Update: optimize site header section and theme javascript file;
- Fix: featured image jumping issue in single views;
- Add: escape functions to some translation strings;
- Add: native navigation functions to the comment template;
- Update: changelog information in readme.txt file;
- Update: page formatting;
- Update: optimize sidebar template by eliminating unnecessary checks;
- Update: make the code more cleaner;
- Update: provides proper semantic structure for site title;
- Update: single header sections by moving all the checks to the function;
- Update: refactoring the code in the google fonts function;
- Update: optimize scripts function;
- Fix: translatability of comments title;
- Fix: only generate pingback url header tag when relevant;
- Fix: add \'hfeed\' class only to non-singular pages;
- Fix: script naming issue (toggle sidebar script);
- Fix: display a sidebar class only in single views because archive views are not designed to display a sidebar;
- Remove: fallback functions for older WordPress versions;
- Remove: unused search content template;
- Remove: superfluous check in the comment template;
- Remove: unused styles from the theme stylesheet;
- Remove: unnecessary arguments from the social menu;
- Update: the functionality of theme updater;
- Fix: Getting Started page issues;
- Add: support for Recommended Plugins;
- Fix: single view height issue;
- Add: support for a native Custom Logo option (Jetpack Custom Logo option has been removed);
- Fix: several sanitizing issues;
Frequently asked questions
Do I get free updates?
Yes, updates are free! Each Themes Harbor purchase includes a full year of support and on-click automatic updates that can be done via your WordPress dashboard.
Is my site secure with your theme?
At Themes Harbor we take security very seriously. We are completely committed to making and keeping our themes as secure as possible.
What will I need to use this theme?
Like any website, you’ll need to have your own domain and have self-hosted WordPress installed on a web hosting of your choice. Also, we recommend Jetpack for additional features.
Will you customize theme for me?
Although we don’t provide custom work services for any of our themes, we do have amazing partners who are ready to take your project and professionally customize it.
Can you help with minor CSS changes?
We are happy to provide basic CSS tweaks with regards to simple changes. For more advanced queries, please see our Customization page.
What’s your support policy?
Customer satisfaction is our top most priority. We take pride in providing our customers with professional and friendly support to ensure that our products suit their needs.
Andreas Büter
Food & lifestyle coach