=== Simmer ===
Contributors: symelo
Requires at least: 7.0
Tested up to: 7.1
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.0.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

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.

== Description ==

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.

== Frequently Asked 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.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 =
* First release.

== Copyright ==

Simmer WordPress Theme, (C) 2026 Symelo LTD. Simmer is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

== Resources ==

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://dev.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.
