Orrery: a free WordPress theme for consulting companies

Install it

What you can change in the Site Editor

Open Appearance → Editor. Besides the header and footer, the theme brings 11 patterns, the pieces its pages are built from: 404 content, Call to action, Home: hero, How we work (media), Process, Services, When we say no, About page, Contact page, Services page and Thank-you page. The front-page template draws the home page from them, and since they are ordinary blocks you edit, move or delete them there like any others. 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, orrery/, with 37 files (448 KB zipped). theme.json sets the colours, fonts and spacing, templates/ has 404, archive, front-page, index, page-full, page, search and single, parts/ has the header and footer, and patterns/ holds the 13 patterns. assets/ carries the CSS and JavaScript and the Questrial 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 demo pages and menu are not in the theme zip. Import orrery-wordpress-pages.xml to get them, or build your own pages from the patterns.

Orrery 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 Orrery 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.