LT Simple is a minimal photography portfolio theme for Elementor (free): a home page that opens with one wide photograph and its print and social crops marked in red, selected work where every picture keeps its own shape, the five delivery formats drawn to scale, three kinds of commission with what each delivers and its day rate, the four steps from brief to delivery, an about page, a work section by subject and a commission enquiry form. A Hello Elementor child theme with bundled fonts, one-page mode and a mobile menu.
Editions
| Edition | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | The child theme with its design, fonts, header and footer, the About and Contact pages with the commission enquiry form, blog and 404 templates, one-page mode and the mobile menu. Credit link stays. |
| Pro Standard | $29 a year | Every page, sample posts and one-click demo import, credit removal. Downloads, updates and ticket support for 1 year, 1 website. |
| Pro Unlimited | $49 once | Everything in Pro Standard plus the AI kit. Unlimited websites, lifetime updates and ticket support. |
Pages in Free (Appearance → Starter setup): About, Contact, Notes. Pages in Pro (Appearance → Demo import): Home, About, Work, People, Rooms, Objects, Commissions, Editorial portraits, Interiors, Homes, Hotels and restaurants, Architects' projects, Still life, Contact, Notes.
Quick setup
- Install the free Elementor plugin and the Hello Elementor theme, then upload and activate LT Simple (Install and update).
- Optional: activate WPForms Lite for the commission enquiry form.
- Pro: Appearance → Demo import → Import (Demo import). Free: Appearance → Starter setup.
- Replace the demo content and pictures (below), set your logo and the header button.
Pages in the demo
| Page | Under | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Home | – | Pro |
| About | – | Free |
| Work | – | Pro |
| People | Work | Pro |
| Rooms | Work | Pro |
| Objects | Work | Pro |
| Commissions | – | Pro |
| Editorial portraits | Commissions | Pro |
| Interiors | Commissions | Pro |
| Homes | Interiors | Pro |
| Hotels and restaurants | Interiors | Pro |
| Architects' projects | Interiors | Pro |
| Still life | Commissions | Pro |
| Contact | – | Free |
| Notes (blog) | – | Free |
Home page sections
The home page sections, in order, with the name they have in Elementor’s Navigator and their CSS ID (the anchor used by one-page mode and by links such as /#top).
| Section (Navigator name) | CSS ID |
|---|---|
| Welcome | #top |
| Work | #work |
| Formats | #formats |
| Commissions | #commissions |
| How it works | #process |
| Clients | #clients |
| About | #about |
| Notes | #notes |
| Call to action | #ask |
- A photo and its crops: The home page opens with one wide photograph, its 4:5 print crop and 1:1 post crop marked over it in red, with a caption that says how it was shot.
- Work in its own shapes: Selected work in three columns where every picture keeps its ratio, and every caption names the subject, the client and the ratio.
- Delivery formats drawn to scale: The five shapes clients need (3:2, 4:5, 1:1, 16:9, 9:16) drawn to one height, with what each is used for.
- Commissions, steps and rates: Editorial portraits, interiors and still life, each with its delivery set, day rate and its own page; four steps from brief to delivery; example rates and licences.
- Free Elementor and a ready enquiry form: Every page is built with free Elementor widgets on Hello Elementor, with a commission enquiry form made with the free WPForms Lite plugin. Fonts are bundled: no Google Fonts requests.
Menu
The demo import creates this main menu (Appearance → Menus):
- Home
- Work → People, Rooms, Objects
- Commissions → Editorial portraits, Interiors (Homes, Hotels and restaurants, Architects' projects), Still life
- About
- Notes
- Contact
Header button: Ask about a date (link /contact/), changed in Appearance → Customize → LT Simple options.
One-page mode (Pro)
With Pro Standard or Pro Unlimited, tick One-page mode on the home page in Appearance → Customize → LT Simple options and the menu scrolls to these sections: Welcome, Work, Formats, Commissions, How it works, Clients, About, Notes, Call to action. To change the labels or leave sections out, see One-page mode.
Used the old LT Simple onepage WordPress theme? It is not sold any more: version 2.0 is one theme for both. Install its Pro edition and turn on one-page mode.
Colours and fonts
Change them in Elementor Site Settings → Global Colors and Global Fonts; the whole site follows.
| Name in Global Colors | Value |
|---|---|
| Grease pencil (buttons, links, crop labels) | #A3261B |
| Fixer grey (soft text, captions) | #5F5F5B |
| Carbon (text) | #1C1C1B |
| Crop red (crop lines and frame outlines; marks only) | #E0412F |
| Print white (page) | #FBFBFA |
| Lightbox grey (tinted sections) | #EFEFEC |
| Hairlines | #D9D9D4 |
| Darkroom (dark bands) | #262625 |
| Text on dark | #F3F3F0 |
| Soft text on dark | #B3B3AD |
| Button hover | #7E1C13 |
| Name in Global Fonts | Font |
|---|---|
| Display (headings, light) | Zen Kaku Gothic New |
| Interface (menu, ratios) | Zen Kaku Gothic New |
| Body text | Zen Kaku Gothic New |
| Buttons | Zen Kaku Gothic New |
Form
With WPForms Lite active, the demo import creates the form Commission enquiry on the Contact page. Fields: Your name (required), Email (required), Company or publication (optional), Kind of job (required), Dates or deadline, Where the pictures will be used, About how many final pictures, About the job. Email subject: “Commission enquiry from the website”. After sending, visitors see: “Thank you. Mara will reply by email within two working days with free dates and a quote.”
See Contact form for where messages go and how to change the fields.
Demo content to replace
Everything marked with one of these in the demo is sample content: names, numbers, prices and addresses that you replace with your own (or delete):
(sample)Example pricesexample.com(555)Mara LindeTanner StreetSpringfield
- Name every photo's ratio in its caption and keep the photo in that ratio; do not force all photos into one cell shape.
- Use crop red only for lines on photos and frame outlines, never for text or backgrounds.
- Do not number work series or commissions; the four commission steps are the only numbered list.
Only publish facts that are true for your business: real prices, opening hours, reviews and qualifications. Pro Unlimited’s launch checker lists every sample marker left on the site.
Photo guide
The demo uses placeholder pictures. Replace each one in Elementor (click it → Choose image) with a photo of about this size; save photos as JPEG or WebP under about 300 KB.
| Picture | Upload size |
|---|---|
| An empty room with tall white-framed windows, a dark folding chair and a small heater on a wooden floor | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A woman in a white shirt sitting by a window, her face turned away and partly out of frame | 1600 × 2000 px |
| A wooden chair and a crate with books in front of a black-framed glass wall and a garden | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A round white ceramic vase in low warm sunlight against a brown wall | 1600 × 1600 px |
| A white concrete building with clean lines against a pale sky, seen from below | 1600 × 2400 px |
| Hands shaping wet clay on a potter's wheel, seen from above | 1600 × 2000 px |
| A grey sea under a pale sky with distant islands and a small buoy, in black and white | 1600 × 900 px |
| A photographer setting up tripods on a long wooden terrace, seen from far away against a white sky | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A gloved hand turning strips of film negatives on a lit light table | 1600 × 1000 px |
| An empty photo studio with lights on stands and a white backdrop, in black and white | 1600 × 1000 px |
| A calm sea and horizon in soft black and white | 1600 × 1000 px |
AI kit (Pro Unlimited)
The AI kit’s AGENTS.md tells an assistant how LT Simple is built. The CSS classes it relies on (keep them when you edit):
| CSS class | What it is |
|---|---|
lt-hero | home hero: headline, lede and the photograph with its crops |
lt-crop | the hero photograph (Image widget) with the 4:5 and 1:1 crop frames drawn over it in red (the one motion moment) |
lt-crop__cap | caption under the hero photo: how it was shot and how it is cropped |
lt-fmt | a delivery format drawn true to its ratio; lt-fmt–32, –45, –11, –169, –916 set the shape, the text is the ratio |
lt-fmt__use | what a format is for, or how many pictures come in it |
lt-fmts | a row of formats drawn to one height |
lt-shot | a work photo with its caption (lt-shot__cap: what it is, client, ratio) |
lt-r--45 | keep a photo at 4:5 (also lt-r–32, lt-r–11, lt-r–169, lt-r–23) |
lt-job | one commission row: what it is, its delivery set and its day rate |
lt-steps | the four commission steps (a real sequence); each lt-step with lt-step__n |
lt-price | price row (label + amount) |
lt-facts | label/value rows (length, light, lenses) |
lt-quote | sample client quote (large, light weight) |
lt-pagehead | inner page heading band |
lt-desk | contact block (phone, email, studio) |
lt-series | a work series on the Work page: photos and a short note |
See AI kit for the prompts, the safe edit tool and the launch checker.
Questions about LT Simple
Do I need Elementor Pro?
No. LT Simple uses only the free Elementor plugin and the free Hello Elementor theme. The header and footer are part of the theme, so you do not need Theme Builder.
Can I change the crop frames on the hero photo?
Yes. The crops are drawn by the theme's CSS over the Image widget with the class lt-crop; swap the photo in Elementor, and the frames stay. The format shapes are Text widgets with a ratio class you can change.
Is it a gallery theme?
It is a portfolio for a photographer who takes commissions: selected work, the work by subject, commissions with rates and an enquiry form. Add more photos with the free Image and Gallery widgets.
Will my site look like the demo?
Yes, with Pro: Appearance > Demo import creates every page, the colours, fonts, menu, header and footer. The demo photos are replaced by placeholders you swap for your own.
What is the difference between Free and Pro?
Free has the design, header and footer, the About and Contact pages and the blog. Pro adds the home page, the Work and Commissions pages with their sub-pages, sample posts, one-click demo import, credit removal, updates and support. Pro Unlimited adds the AI kit.
I have the old LT Simple. Is this an update?
It is a new version 2.0 with a new design, built for free Elementor. Your current site keeps working; install 2.0 on a new site or a staging copy and import the demo there.
Ask AI about LT Simple
Ask in your own words. The assistant answers from these docs and links the sections it used.
AI answers can be wrong; check the linked section. Never share passwords or licence keys. Open a ticket