Essu 2.6 - Minimal Portfolio WordPress Theme

Essu at a glance: core purpose and audience

Essu combines handcrafted design with professional usability to help creatives showcase work efficiently. It supports responsive performance, intuitive setup, and scalable features suitable for both novices and experienced users.

Core strengths

• Handcrafted design with attention to details
• Built by professionals for professionals: freelancers, agencies, creatives, architects, photographers, video makers and other individual creative folks
• Responsive layout that looks great on mobiles and tablets
• Intuitive user interface that saves time during setup
• Best suited for personal portfolios, agencies, products showcases, and more

Menu styles and builder

• Three menu types: Classic menu, Minimal menu, Side menu
• Custom Page Builder for easily managing content
• RTL support

Layout options and portfolio capabilities

Essu provides versatile portfolio layouts with powerful organization and display options to suit different creative disciplines.

Layout families

• Grid layout: 2 columns, 3 columns, 4 columns
• Masonry layout: 2 columns, 3 columns, 4 columns
• Mosaic layout: 2 columns, 3 columns, 4 columns

Portfolio controls

• Available gaps between projects on portfolio pages
• Portfolio layout with filter function
• Rich portfolio layouts

Media and performance

• Gif images support for portfolio thumbnails
• Lazy loading images
• 100% mobile-friendly

Media, fonts, SEO and compatibility

• 800+ Google Fonts
• Envira gallery supported
• SEO optimised
• WordPress SEO by Yoast Supported
• Easy sorting of gallery photos
• Quick accent colour change
• Multisite support
• Multi-language, Translation Ready, WPML Support
• Unlimited portfolio and photography gallery pages
• Child theme included
• WPML compatible
• Contact Form 7 compatible
• Extensive Documentation
• Accurate and valid cross-browser code
• Free Updates
• Demo data included
• ...and more…

Developer tools and customization

• Live Customizer to tweak the theme
• One click demo import
• Custom Page Builder for content management
• RTL support

Best suited for

• personal portfolio
• agency
• products showcase
• architect agency
• design studios
• painter
• modeling agency
• art
• photography studios
• web design works
• illustrators
• wedding photographer
• freelancer portfolio
• graphic designer
• minimal portfolio

Updates

• Version 2.6 - RTL support · Performance improvements
• Version 2.5 - Added ability to use *.svg as images when using svg plugins
• Version 2.4 - New Dark style
• Version 2.3 - GIF images are played with animation
• Version 2.2 - Added ability to display a project title below an image on the portfolio page
• Version 2.1 - Stability and performance improvements; Fixed issues with shortcodes on the blog page
• Version 2.0.2 - Fixed 'Share' button hover issue; Google+ removed from 'Share' button
• Version 2.0.1 - CSS improvements
• Version 2.0 - Plugins update
• Version 1.9 - Fixed issue when user wasn't able to see option to select what to display on the portfolio page; Plugins update; Added ability to change navigation order through projects (new option can be found in Customizer -> Appearance)
• Version 1.7 - Fixed images of the metabox cleared when changing image the post content in Gutenberg
• Version 1.6 - Fixed issues when user wasn't able to see more than 10 Envira galleries while editing the project; Plugins update
• Version 1.5 - Fixed issue where options for portfolio page isn't visible while using Gutenberg editor (WordPress 5.0+); Plugins update
• Version 1.4 - Added ability to change URLs structure for portfolio items (new option can be found in the Settings -> Permalinks)
• Version 1.3 - All theme settings were moved into the WordPress Customizer; Added ability to select Google fonts
• Version 1.2 - fixed logo issue
• Version 1.1 - fixed issue with images while using 'Top' layout with plain images
• Version 1.0 - Initial release