Soho – Clean Multipurpose WordPress Theme Overview
Soho is a WPBakery-based theme from Select-Themes built for portfolio and photography sites, with enough breadth for ordinary business pages too. Rather than naming industry demos, the listing counts what ships: fifteen home page layouts and nine inner page templates, assembled from fullscreen and parallax showcase sections.
The structural choice on offer is navigation. One arrangement puts the header across the top; the other runs a fixed menu down the left edge, which changes the proportions of every page beneath it. Around that sit unlimited header and title-area configurations, a mega menu, a side menu, sticky behaviour and Ajax transitions between pages. The download includes WPBakery Page Builder and LayerSlider, while a Soho Core plugin supplies the custom post types and shortcodes.
Despite a 2014 release, the update log runs to February 2026 and the packaged version matches it, so this is a maintained product rather than an abandoned one. It stays a presentation layer: the owner brings the work and the photographs.
Key Features of Soho – Clean Multipurpose WordPress Theme
- Fifteen home page layouts and nine inner page templates
- Two navigation arrangements, a top header and a fixed left menu
- Unlimited header and title-area configurations, fixed or sticky
- Parallax image and video slider, plus video background sections
- Ajax transitions between pages, with smooth scrolling
- Multiple portfolio list and single-project layouts
- Several blog list styles including a masonry layout
- Mega menu, side menu, sticky content menu and expandable search
- WPBakery Page Builder and LayerSlider included in the download
- WooCommerce integration, Contact Form 7, WPML and translation files
Who Soho – Clean Multipurpose WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
Photographers, illustrators, product and interior designers and small studios are the natural audience, particularly those who want a left-hand navigation column and large imagery instead of a conventional business header. The nine inner templates and the WooCommerce integration also make it workable for a studio selling prints beside its portfolio.
It suits an owner comfortable with a page builder. Anyone committed to the block editor should look elsewhere, since the theme is not flagged for it, and a business needing booking or membership features will add them from outside the package.
Important Notes About Soho – Clean Multipurpose WordPress Theme
Three dependencies deserve attention. WPBakery shapes every layout, so changing builder later means rebuilding pages. LayerSlider is a separate commercial product with its own release cycle, reaching the owner through theme updates rather than from its publisher; confirm with that publisher what support the bundle carries. Soho Core holds the portfolio post types and shortcodes, so deactivating it empties the pages that use them. The log also records the removal of a retired sharing network.
The vendor states plainly that the demo photographs are licensed to them and cannot be reused, so the owner supplies their own. A portfolio showing commissioned work usually needs the client’s permission, and Canadian moral rights cannot be assigned, only waived, which matters when cropping or recolouring someone else’s work. None of this is legal advice.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
AppiAppi installs the licensed theme with its bundled plugins, then settles the choice between top-header and left-menu arrangements before content goes in, because it affects everything afterwards. We import the nearest home layout, build the project pages, set up the filterable portfolio categories, create the studio and services pages, configure the enquiry form and connect shop pages if prints are sold.
Image handling is much of the work: compression, responsive sizes and lazy loading so a fullscreen showcase loads on a modest connection. Parallax and Ajax navigation also carry accessibility costs we can reduce. We then provide AI-assisted SEO and content support, apply updates and answer enquiries in line with the plan.
Original design by Select-Themes. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source