Somerville - Minimalist & Typography-First Theme for Writers

Stand out from the crowd and boost your page performance with Somerville WordPress theme. This bit unusual theme with modern flavor is optimized, coded with site performance in mind and brings full support for all native WordPress functionalities.

Theme is compatible with Gutenberg plugin which is a whole new way to use WordPress. Publishing experience has been rebuilt for media rich pages and posts and you can enjoy the flexibility that blocks will bring.

Very good performance rankings are possible thanks to complex theme optimization, but you can still extend functionality easily; lean and valid source code guarantees great plugin support and compatibility.

Somerville is a premium easy-to-use WordPress theme developed specifically for personal, streamlined blog websites. The theme is modern and brings minimalist feeling to your WordPress blog. Our theme comes with three main layouts (left sidebar, right sidebar and without sidebar) and with a fully responsive design. You will receive a detailed documentation along with additional features like unlimited color schemes, countless Google webfonts, custom widgets etc.

Functions are based on solid back-end Redux framework.

Blocks are a great new tool for building engaging content.

With blocks, you can insert, rearrange, and style multimedia content with very little technical knowledge. Instead of using custom code, you can add a block and focus on your content.

Be your own builder

A single block is nice—reliable, clear, distinct. Discover the flexibility to use media and content, side by side, driven by your vision.

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Main theme features:

• Advanced theme admin panel,
• Modular homepage,
• 2 overall layouts (single content vs content + sidebar)
• 4 main blog layouts
• 3 post layouts (left sidebar, right sidebar and without sidebar)
• Gutenberg compatible
• Responsive layout,
• Unlimited color schemes – using colorpickers,
• Countess Google fonts (font selector/custom typography),
• 5 Posts formats: standard, video, audio, gallery, link,
• Main menu (custom menu),
• Footer menu (custom menu),
• Archive templates,
• Translation ready,
• latest WordPress ready,
• Hide / show most post elements,
• Custom background images,
• Related posts,
• Footer logo input,
• HTML5 & CSS3 & latest WP standards,
• SEO Optimized markup,
• Structured Data markup,
• Clean source code,
• Very good site performance,
• Smooth tabless design.

Layouts & Templates:

• Modular Homepage (5 post layouts to combine),
• Blog template with 4 layouts,
• Full-Width template,
• Error 404,
• Archive templates,
• 3 post layouts (left, right and without sidebar),
• Search template

Plugin Compatibility:

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-pug/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-review/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/
• and more..

Widgets:

• Advanced shortcode generator (plugin),
• Custom widgets:
  • 5 homepage widgets (layouts)
  • Featured widget,
  • Ads widget,
  • Social Networks (custom widget),
• and more..

Change Log

// 16 September 2026 //
Version 2.3
- fixed: select dropdown arrows
- improved: post colors and dimensions management (theme.json)

Version 2.2 
- added: dimension settings (theme.json) 
- added: new social icons 
- added: automatic year change 
- fixed: admin panel translation 
- improved: Redux Framework inclusion inside the theme_setup function 
- updated: TGM activation 
- updated: language/translation file 
- updated: FontAwesome 6

Version 2.1 
- updated: demo import file (XML)

Version 2.0 
Major Update 
- added: support for Elementor 
- added: One Click Demo Import 
- added: support for AddToAny plugin 
- added: option to create post widgets based on the 'tags' selection 
- fixed: subscribe form in responsive mode - fixed: video in responsive mode 
- restyled: galleries - restyled: featured widget (sidebar)