Goldleaf: a free WordPress theme for design studios

Install it

What you can change in the Site Editor

Open Appearance → Editor and the home page is there as 5 patterns: Hero, Run, Services, Run 2 and Reviews. They are ordinary blocks, so you click into a heading and type, swap a photo from the media library, or move and delete a whole section. The header and footer are template parts and change on every page at once.

The contact form is the Formgong plugin's form block. The theme holds no form code and collects nothing by itself; the plugin sends each message to your Formgong inbox and email.

What is in the zip

Everything sits in one folder, goldleaf/, with 40 files (707 KB zipped). theme.json sets the colours, fonts and spacing, templates/ has 404, archive, front-page, index, page, search and single, parts/ has the header and footer, and patterns/ holds the 7 patterns. assets/ carries the CSS and JavaScript, 1 image and the Fraunces and Open Sans font files, so nothing loads from Google Fonts.

It needs WordPress 6.5 or later (tested up to 7.1) and PHP 7.4 or later.

Limits on WordPress

The form needs the free Formgong plugin; without it the page has no working form. The design covers the home page, while posts, pages and archives get the same header, footer and fonts in a plain layout. The photos were generated for the template, so swap them in the editor before launch.

Goldleaf isn't in the WordPress.org theme directory yet, so you upload the zip instead of searching for it by name.

Tell us what's missing

If Goldleaf breaks on your WordPress site, or a step here doesn't match what you see, email support@formgong.com. We read every message and fix the page, and the next templates we make are the ones people ask for there.