FlagshipSimmer
- Free
- Education
- 4 styles
- WordPress 7.0+
- PHP 7.4+


Scroll inside the preview
Overview
A warm kitchen menu-card theme for cooking schools, chefs and food studios: classes listed like a menu, chef profiles, private events and gift vouchers.
Simmer dresses a cooking school like the menu card on a trattoria table: cream paper, tomato red and olive, DM Serif Display headlines with italic accents, scalloped cards and dotted leaders between each class and its price.
- Classes as a menu. The class menu lists every class with dotted leaders, the price on the right and the next date underneath, with a chalk "2 seats left" tag when places run low.
- Recipe cards. "What you'll cook" sits on a ruled index card with a tomato rule; dietary notes show as chips (List block style "Dietary chips").
- Class pages with the trailer or photo in a scalloped frame, the method step by step, the chef, dates and seats, the venue map, reviews, questions, a menu-card booking box and a request or waitlist form.
- Chefs on plates: monograms (or photos) with a plate rim, roles, specialities, quotes and their classes.
- Catalog with filters for cuisine, level, format, price and order, and archives for every cuisine and level.
- Private events and gift vouchers with their own request forms (date, guests and occasion; voucher, recipient and delivery).
- Five openers: the menu-card hero with a class search, "Bake it yourself" full-bleed hero, a background video of a pasta morning, a chef spotlight and the private events split hero.
- About 30 patterns: class menu, order tickets of upcoming classes, cuisines on plates, reviews on pinned notes, numbers, questions, galleries (masonry and carousel with a lightbox), video, newsletter, pantry marquee and full pages (Home, About, Contact, Private events, Gift vouchers, Gallery, Landing).
- Light and dark schemes (Wine bar) with a switch in the header, and style variations: Trattoria, Wine bar, Pâtisserie and Market.
- Forms, galleries, lightbox, video, maps and animations are built in: no plugins needed. Course fields use the free Secure Custom Fields plugin (the theme offers to install it).
- Demo content: Appearance → Import demo creates eight classes, four chefs, cuisines, levels, the pages and a menu.
Questions
Where do form messages go?
Every form (class requests, private events, gift vouchers, contact, newsletter) is stored under Messages in wp-admin and emailed to the site administrator. Change the recipients under Messages → Settings, or per form in the block settings. Class request forms use the address set under Courses → Settings.
How do I add a class?
Courses → Add New. Fill in the price, dates and seats, what you'll cook, the method and the chef in the fields below the editor. Dates with five seats or fewer show a chalk "seats left" tag.
How do I show dietary notes as chips?
Add a List block and choose the "Dietary chips" style.
Can I add a featured video to a class?
Yes. The Featured video panel in the document sidebar takes a YouTube or Vimeo link or a video file; it plays in the scalloped frame at the top of the class page.
How do I turn off the animations?
Visitors who ask their system to reduce motion see no animations. To remove one, select the block and clear its Motion setting.
How does dark mode work?
The moon button in the header switches between light and dark and remembers the choice; until then the site follows the visitor's system setting. Each style variation brings its own dark palette.
All versions
- 1.0.0WordPress 7.0+ · PHP 7.4+ZIP · 2.8 MB
- First release.
SHA-256
cafb30ce3b87f29ce67ccdff3fd88dab38729e82a4231626f7fe6dab8148746d
Credits
Simmer WordPress Theme, (C) 2026 Symelo LTD. Simmer is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Symelo Theme Kit and the education foundation (inc/kit, inc/foundation) License: GPLv2 or later. (C) 2026 Symelo LTD.
DM Serif Display, (C) 2014-2017 Adobe Systems Incorporated, (C) 2019 Google LLC License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (assets/fonts/dm-serif-display/OFL.txt) Source: https://github.com/googlefonts/dm-fonts
Work Sans, (C) 2019 The Work Sans Project Authors License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (assets/fonts/work-sans/OFL.txt) Source: https://github.com/weiweihuanghuang/Work-Sans
Images in assets/images (croissants.webp: food-12, sourdough.webp: food-2, green-bowl.webp: food-5, peaches.webp: food-11, citrus.webp: food-1), the video assets/videos/pasta-pan.mp4 and its poster (made from foundation image food-4), and the foundation's images in inc/foundation/demo/images (pasta-class.webp: food-4, workshop-loft.webp: interiors-6, italian-street.webp: travel-9, and the others listed in that folder) Symelo placeholder library (https://symelo.com/tools/placeholder-images), (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, distributed with the theme under the GPLv2 or later.
Social and brand icons: Simple Icons (CC0), through the kit.
More education themes
Browse all 10 themes
Flagship
