StudioPress is happy to announce the release of the eleven40 1.0 child theme. This WordPress theme works on the Genesis Framework and can be downloaded by Pro Plus members in the support forum. All others can purchase the package here.
Mobile Responsive Design
The eleven40 theme is the second child theme released here at StudioPress which has been developed to be mobile responsive in design. It’s also the first theme we’ve developed that extends 1140px wide vs. our current themes which are 960px.
Click here to see how the eleven40 theme looks across mobile devices.
Theme Features
The eleven40 theme includes the following features: 6 layout options, 4 theme colors (blue, green, orange, red), custom background, featured images, footer widgets, mobile responsive design and threaded comments.
Screenshot of the eleven40 Theme
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That’s awesome..nice and clean theme..
Nice looking theme. If this is the *second* mobile responsive theme StudioPress has done, can someone tell me which one was the first?
Yep, it was the Generate theme that we released last month.
A quick take shows this to look like a simple and lean theme that renders better on mobile than any other Genesis Theme (original or third party) in the stable.
It appears the little sewn leather looking image at the top is the target size to fit your banner image to fit exactly into the smaller mobiles.
Great work!
Cannot wait to see what other themes Brian is working on…
Nice crisp and clean theme.
Nice Release!! perfect for a blogs but what happened with new Agency theme? also is a studiopress responsive slider available yet?
Ooooh, we would love that too! SO happy that you’re rolling out a different main nav solution for responsive in this theme. I’m really getting into using Genesis now and I’m so happy and my clients will be so happy with these options!
Really like the look of this one! And you seem to be on a roll with the roll-outs!
Had been looking at the peek preview link posted on Twitter. Thanks for the exercise that can help us out in developing the responsive themes on Genesis…
If you want it to work as easy as in this theme you need to have some things present from the start.. like: nice small logo, no search field in the header etc. Then it will work immediately on a phone (or any other small screen)
In “real life” situations you will often find a larger logo, header-images and or other specific needs/wishes for the client, so then there will be more specific adaptations needed to get it to work as nice as on this theme….
Thanks again for the lesson provided…
I love the abundant whitespace and 1em font-size… (too many designers still want to reduce the font-size to 11/12px. )
I just built out a responsive layout w/Genesis and noticed that in resizing the Search was the first to drop, but wanted to try and see if I could keep it. Need to work on that…
This is awesome! I’ve been oh so patiently waiting for this one and once again I’m blown away at it’s awesomeness! Nice work!
I like the nice clean look. Simple, thumbs up
Nice design work, guys. I like this one a lot.
When is Agency 2 coming?
Hoping to make that the next released theme. Possibly next week.
Looking forward to that one Brian.
I’ve kept a few projects on hold waiting for it.
Looks a great theme I wish it would have a portfolio like Cristal theme, this would be just perfect!
Great looking theme.
I love the large headlines and the larger font for the general text.
I’m beginning to dislike websites with small fonts.
Prefer the orange, but good to have a choice.
Great work Genesis team.
Well you be keeping this as your theme Brian… or is it on to the next one?
Awesome theme, nice and clean! Thanks for the hard work!!!
Hello. I’ve been paying attention to Studio Press for a couple of months – keeping my eyes out for a clean responsive theme with larger font. This is my favorite so far – Kudos to you and your team!
Before I place my order, how difficult is it to change the theme color to Purple? This color option is key for my business branding. I’m hoping that it’s a simple tweak that I can handle on my own without having to hire a developer yet.
Thanks and great job! I know several people who strongly recommend Studio Press. I look forward to joining.
Hey John – it’s not all that difficult if you’re familiar with CSS. There’s only a few places of CSS at the bottom that are required to change if you want to go with a purple scheme.
Thanks for your help Brian! You have my business and will purchase theme this weekend.
John
You’ll always get help in the forum.
I get by with a little html and CSS but no PHP.
As long as you can cut and paste.
Thanks for your assistance Keith! That was very helpful. See you in the forum.
Look forward to it John.
This theme rocks, going to build a new site asap just so I can look at it everyday heh.
Wow! Gotta say, I love it! I just switched my design over!!
I love the simple design and the look. Very neat! Good job!
Please can we get the next new themes with a Home area so we can drop widgets in them?
The Eleven Forty Theme is great but has no Home Widget area so I think it is aimed more for blogs.
It’s nice to have a choice of widgetised home page or blog style.
Most of the businesses I deal with prefer a home page that looks like a standard website, not a blog.
I’m *very* excited about this theme and how easy StudioPress is making it to tinker with responsive design. Planning to try this out on my next couple of sites. I haven’t wrapped my head around how this would work with a widgeted homepage but I am looking forward to working with the theme.
simply great look!
Responsive is not supported for IE 6.5 (I tested this version only). should i use respond.js(https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond)?
Instead of hacking to support IE6, why not update your browser?
yes, i can update.
But here most of the friend has only win XP, which can run only IE 8 or below. The real problem is responsive not supported up to IE8.
Anyway we can test the backend of it? user/pass demo?
We don’t have a “try before you buy” area, but we do have a 30-day money back guarantee. You’re more than welcome to purchase a theme or themes and then apply for a prompt refund if they turn out not to suit your needs.
Nice theme, Brian. The orange text highlights are nice and in-tune with publishing trends.
This is YOUR blog theme! Great design and very focused on content. Perfect typography and orange colour looks just perfect for this design.
Thanks Bob – appreciate it. I figured it’d be fun to release the theme I was using for my own site since so many people had asked!
Cool theme. What does “GET ALL OF OUR THEMES” means? Can i get also your themes from Gallery?
Gallery? Not following…. can you explain what you mean?
Another great theme and I love that it’s mobile ready!
After reading the post, I had the same question in mind that Kent had above about what the other theme was that was mobile ready. You answered, but that gave me an idea that would be helpful. Could you graphically indicate on your theme thumbnails which ones are mobile responsive? Or someway for us to find mobile responsive themes and maybe showcase examples too.
The other theme that is responsive is Generate… we’re actually working on some stuff behind the scenes that will help people search through our themes easier. More to come.
TOP DRAWER!
Hi Brian,
The typography is really taking off with new themes.
I love the new headline font compressed for longer headlines and the bigger and serif copy font and size.
Would it not be possible to have featured thumbnails in the post in homepage kind of styling?
I see that many above are asking for the homepage template as a feature in this cool new theme?
Is it possible to refine it a bit more then?
Same question for category and archive posts? Thumbnails in excerpts possible?
Without CSS coding I mean.
I can write up a tutorial early next week on my blog for “how to add a widgeted homepage on the eleven40 theme”.
Will that work?
That would be a very populat tut.
Would the tutorial be applicable to any “blog type” theme.
That footer opt-in… love to see more of that in future themes.
Great work guys.
Now I’ll have to redesign my site all over again.
Thanks for all these GREAT themes!
Thanks for the excellent new theme.
It would be great to include a portfolio page option like the Crystal theme in your new themes…or better still create a Genesis Plugin to do the job. Any chance?
Top marks!
I’m having trouble with the site title showing up as a white bar above the templates logo and custom menu. Can anyone help remove the issue? I’ve googled with no solution. Thank you!
Hm, your site title should be showing up in the orange – no idea how/why you have the text showing up a second time in the white section.
It’s in both the orange and the white. When I remove it from the the admin, it’s totally gone but so is the title.
Ahh I figured it out, it was a plugin competing with the title somehow.
This is really awesome… Guess my site is going to soon move on from Prose to eleven40 soon!
Hi Brian, you might want to check the behavior of the top menu on your own site,, when viewed on iPad in portrait. The way the menu divides in 2 line is less attractive… Imho.
Keep these less is more themes coming… That message will never grow old
Now… this is nice design with lot of space for content visibility and ease of reading !
Awesome Brian. Great to see a theme with more than 960 pixels. I have been manually increasing the pixels in a lot of the other themes from the CSS while using them in my websites. Good to see that you are now extending the themes to more than 960 pixels which does not work out especially in three column settings.
I love it!
This is awesome design to focus visitor only on content and still looks professional.
Hey Brian, any chance you can release the PSDs for this awesome theme? Just put mine into production today but I really want to “officially” edit the size of that title background. Or perhaps you could release a theme update and make it fluid?
Nevermind, I just did some editing to the CSS to give it sorta a minimalist look. Still, thanks for all the hard work!
Excellent theme already switched my blog over to it. I’ve used the page title widget as a place to add my slider. Any chance you’ll be making the genesis slider responsive anytime soon?
Site looks good Faye… as for the slider, yes – we have an upcoming Genesis Responsive Slider plugin in the works.
That would be great. I wound up adding in the nivo slider since I thought it was responsive, AND I really wanted the navigation dots at the bottom. But your Genesis slider is just a version of it, isn’t it?
Looks great! One question, I’d love to have some understanding of the decision to move to 1140px wide instead of 960px.
Do you have any stats or research on percentage of users with various monitor settings? What are the considerations when increasing standard page view size?
As designers we LOVE the bigger view. I just want to understand more what the overall users are experiencing before I take the leap.
Hey all, just wanted to let you know that I’ve written a tutorial that will show you How to Add a Home Widget Area to the eleven40 Theme.
One of the best features of this theme I think it’s the widget after the post. Great idea!
Hi Brian,
This theme really looks beautiful. One question on the mobile aspect to it. How does it manage youtube videos. Does it automatically change the size of the video clips down to the right size so it looks “normal”?
Thanks
Michael
Hey Michael – no it does not, but that is definitely something that should be easy to add via CSS (and something I should consider adding into the next update.)
Thanks Brian:)
simple and clean theme, i like simple theme. simple is the best
Very cool theme! This theme for professional blogs. Good job Brian.
Hi can you please tell me if this works with genesis connect yet? Thanks
No it does not work with Genesis Connect. I’m sure Ron will be working on that fairly soon.
Just had the opportunity to purchase this theme, looks out standing great work guys.
Good stuff Robert, thanks for the purchase and hope you enjoy the theme!
Hello Brian you are most welcome my friend money well spent, I currently have the FREE Copyblogger theme installed because I was unable to get the Manhattan theme customized the way I wanted, so I changed it for the Eleven 40, I hope to have it customized soon……
I should also have a blog post up soon about your products, letting others know how great this service is, not to mention customer support as well. Thanks so much. RG
Really nice one, gonna buy this!
Thanks for the excellent new theme, i love it
Another great theme! The day it was launched, I changed my blog’s theme from Focus to Eleven40 : http://bhramit.com
Will the theme updates you mentioned also include options for 1140px in addition to being responsive?
If not, any chance of a tutorial (or a cheat sheet of short cuts) that some of us could use to quickly “upconvert” existing themes like Backcountry, News and Magazine from 960px to 1140px?
There’s really no easy way to spell out how to upconvert those themes, as each one has very specific CSS. When the theme updates come out with responsive CSS, that will be easy to take and place into a customized version. (assuming that a significant amount of rework hasn’t been done.)
Nice theme, cool look. I love Genesis framework.
Brian,
Does eleven40 them offer a landing page option? Also, what do you recommend for putting an opt-in box in the sidebar this one? Thanks man and great work on these themes. I’m torn between this eleven40, prose, and generate but I like the look of eleven40 the best.
Josh
You can integrate a landing page into any Genesis child theme: http://www.briangardner.com/create-landing-page/
And another great tutorial from Brian: http://www.briangardner.com/kickstart-email-list/
I have a question: On the buy page for the Genesis Framework it says “Includes All Future Themes We Make”. Thats the version for 59.90$
Is that really the case? So if I would have bought the Genesis Framework last year, the eleven40 theme would be free for me to download and use?
thx
andi
Andi – sorry about that, I’ve updated that page. So no, Genesis does not include all of the child themes.
Great job Brian. I really like all four color schemes – it’s good to have a choice. Fantastic thing is that theme responds to all screen widths and resolutions.
really excellent theme, I am going to use this on my site. Is this available for $79 with Genesis framework or i have to pay $59 .
The $79 package includes both the eleven40 theme and the Genesis Framework.
This theme does look pretty smart. Are these themes “future proof”? I mean, is it the sort of theme which a few major WordPress updates could break, or should they last “forever”? I already had a bad experience with once theme, have to quickly build a new one after it broke. I am looking for something stylish, adaptable and stable. Currently using a free theme with edited CSS.
Hey Brian, thank you for releasing an excellent theme, I really want to buy this, however, I’ve already own Genesis framework, so how to buy this theme alone?
Please let me know.
Thank you
Hey Jenni – there’s text below the purchase box that says “Already Own Genesis?…” That’s where the link is to purchase just the child theme.
Oh, I see that! Thank you so much, Brian.