Ness – Minimalist Personal Photomagazine Wordpress HD Theme v1.3
Ness is a modern minimalist personal photo magazine theme for WordPress that can be used on any WordPress blogging niche, but perfect as a personal blog theme. It is responsive, HD (retina-ready) and has unique features to ensure this personal blog theme has great readability. Full-screen image embeds with no shortcodes, parallax featured images, beautiful full-screen gallery post type that is touch-friendly (and portrait-image friendly too), which all leads to a wonderful user experience on all devices and screen sizes and gives your personal blog that personal touch.
New sidebar option in v1.3 A popular request for Ness was an option for a sidebar. And in v1.3 it’s finally here – Sidebar option for posts (Left/right/none) 
Some Features
Clean, ultra modern and dynamic design for a professional and engaging visitor experience
Retina Ready (HD) WordPress blogging theme
RTL & WPML ready
Comes with .mo/.po files for quick and easy translation. Spanish already translated.
Integrated lightbox (can be turned on/off in theme options)
Responsiveness can be turned on/off in theme options
Touch-friendly sliders and user experience
Author pages can add social network icons that link to author profile links
Global featured image style override option from the theme options (Posts have an option inside them to ignore this override too for 100% control and easy setup)
Logo, Retina logo and favicon upload options
Code-editor for custom CSS option in theme options that shows if your code has errors automatically
Option to turn off By Line completely, or just disable specific parts of the By Line (Author, Date and Category)
XML file with demo content included
Advertising Options
Posts can have an advertising block appear at the end of the content (input box in theme options and also automatically executes shortcodes)
Each Category has an option to add an advertising block in between the cover image and posts list
Each Tag has an option to add an advertising block in between the cover image and posts list, see example here: Travelling Tag
Footer can have one, two or three columns of widgets for advertising possibilities.
Navigation Menu
Unique slide-in menu with option to show posts below. They can be random/most popular/latest, and the number of posts to be shown can be set too.
Unique progress bar to show how much of the article is left, unique and encourages readers to read the entire article.
Unique progress bar turns into a “Next/previous article” once a user finishes the article (reaches 100%)
Two styles for navigation bar (dark/light)
Homepage Options
Optional Full-screen slider to show latest posts or specific posts using Category/tag filters. Also has option to select number of posts to show in slider.
Offset Option is available when using the slider above posts for posts lists to not have duplicate posts appear on the same page.
3 Blog styles for homepages to show the latest posts:
Rows with 1 post
Rows with 2 posts
Rows with 4 posts
Infinite Scroll Options: All blog styles can use “Number pagination / Infinite Scroll / Infinite Scroll with Load More Button”.
Posts Featured
Post Format: Gallery. Beautiful full-screen gallery that is touch friendly and portrait-image friendly too, see demo here: Gallery Post Demo
Post Format: Video (Able to embed YouTube / Vimeo / Kickstarter / Viddler videos) and appearing in a unique overlay of the featured image by the press of the play button (YouTube starts playing automatically when the play button is pressed, and paused if the X button is pressed)
Post Format: External Audio(Able to embed any audio embed) and appearing in a unique overlay of the featured image
Post Format: Self-hosted Audio (Able to upload your own .mp3/.ogg audio files) and appearing in a unique overlay of the featured image by the press of the play button (audio starts playing automatically when the play button is pressed)
Full-screen image embeds with no need for shortcodes, see example here: Full-screen images throughout post
Post like system with multiple icons as options. When a user leaves a like on a post, a cookie is left on the visitor’s computer with the relevant post ID, to minimize chance of visitors liking the same post multiple times.
Change the featured Image style: Parallax, full-screen, slideshow or off (so you can manually insert an image at the top of the post)
Optional Byline at the end of every post with multiple options (different parts of it can be turned on/off)
Social Network Share Block (Can be turned on/off in Theme Options panel)
Unique Visitor Love Count with different icon options: Stars/Hearts/Lightning Bolt (Can be change and turned on/off in Theme Options panel)
About The Author Box (Can be turned on/off in Theme Options panel)
Next/Previous Posts Block (Can be turned on/off in Theme Options panel)
Comments (Can be turned on/off in Theme Options panel)
Category/Tag Options
Each Category/Tag has the option to have set cover image to appear behind the main title
Each Category/Tag has the option to have a different pagination style (Number pagination, infinite scroll, infinite scroll with load more button)
Each Category/Tag has the option to have an advertising block appear in between the cover image and the posts lists
Each Category has the option to use a different blog style (1 post per row, 2 posts per row or 3 posts per row)
Page Options
Featured Image Styles can also be used on pages (Parallax/full-screen/slideshow/off)
Option to turn comments on/off
Author pages can show social network icons that link to author’s social network profiles
Widgets included
Ness Social Media Icons Widget
Ness Latest Post Slider
Ness Facebook Like Box Widget
Ness Google+ Follow Badge Widget
Ness Retina Image Widget
Footer Options
Select column layout (1 column, 2 columns, 3 columns)
Set background color and/or image for footer
Optional to top button
Custom footer copyright
Typography Options
Set a color of links using a colorpicker
Ability to use any Google Font for the font options
Set a font for headings (h1, h2, etc)
Set a font for general body text
Optional font settings for article content area text (the actual post content). You can select color, a fontm font-size, font-style, text-align, font-weight, letter-spacing, line-height, text-decoration and text-transform. These options allow sites to tell their stories the way they want to.
Option to “Load latin extended charset”: Some languages need these extra characters
Option to “Cyrillic extended charset”: Some languages need these extra characters
A developer’s dream: Clean code and child-theme ready
Ness was written with very clean PHP, HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript code. The theme also comes with a ready-to-use child theme file that works instantly.
For all theme customizations (i.e. add or change the theme’s code to make it do something it doesn’t do or add specific functionality) you will need to hire a developer to help you out. It is recommended to look for one on http://studio.envato.com as that site is run by the same people who run Themeforest.
Suggestions for future updates?
If you have a suggestion that you think would improve the theme, please leave a comment with the details and it will be considered.
Credits
Video embeds from YouTube and Vimeo are of Big Buck Bunny ((c) copyright 2008, Blender Foundation / www.bigbuckbunny.org)
A couple of images used are from Unsplash and a special thank you to Forrest Cavale, Daniel Ruswick, Lacey Raper and Paula Borowska for sharing their beautiful photographs, and to Scatter Jar for sharing lovely free food pics!
Valendesigns: Option Tree
Scott Robin’s Backstretch
Ben Plum’s Boxer
07 September 2016 – Ness v 1.4
27 April 2015 – Ness v 1.3
07 October 2014 – Ness v 1.2
06 August 2014 – Ness v 1.1
25 July 2014 – Ness v 1.0
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