Formgong

WordPress theme

Shoal: a free WordPress theme for real estate agents

Template page:Shoal, every version

Shoal started as an Astro and HTML site for real estate agents. We ported it to WordPress by hand as a block theme, and its demo pages and menu come in a separate import file.

Short answer: Download shoal-wordpress.zip, upload it under Appearance → Themes → Add New Theme → Upload Theme, then install the free Formgong plugin and paste your access key under Settings → Formgong. It needs WordPress 6.5 or later and PHP 7.4 or later.

Install it

Shoal home page
Shoal: the home page of the design.

Download shoal-wordpress.zip Live demo

  1. Download shoal-wordpress.zip. Don't unzip it.
  2. In WordPress, open Appearance → Themes → Add New Theme → Upload Theme, choose the file, click Install Now, then Activate.
  3. Install the free Formgong plugin (Plugins → Add New, search for "Formgong"). Create a free form at formgong.com/new and copy its access key. It starts with fk_ and is safe to put in a web page. Paste it under Settings → Formgong.
  4. Optional: download shoal-wordpress-pages.xml and import it under Tools → Import → WordPress for the demo pages and menu. Then pick Home under Settings → Reading → A static page.
  5. Send a test message from your site and check that it reaches your Formgong inbox.

What you can change in the Site Editor

Open Appearance → Editor. Besides the header and footer, the theme brings 17 patterns, the pieces its pages are built from: 404 content, Island guide: Brannock Island, Island guide: Fennick Island, Island guide: Larkspur Point, Island guide: Teal Harbor, Footer, contact button and contact dialog, Islands, Call to action, Home: hero, Meet the agent, Notes, Services tiles, About page, Buying page, Contact page, Selling 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, shoal/, with 59 files (2.1 MB 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 18 patterns. assets/ carries the CSS and JavaScript, 17 images and the Metropolis and Newsreader 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 shoal-wordpress-pages.xml to get them, or build your own pages from the patterns.

Shoal 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 Shoal 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.

Questions

Is Shoal free for WordPress?

Yes, under the MIT license. Use it on your own site or a client's, and change anything.

Will it replace my current theme's content?

No. Posts and pages stay as they are. Switching themes changes how they look, and you can switch back under Appearance → Themes.

Sources

Checked on 20.10.2026 against these public pages: Formgong plugin on WordPress.org, WordPress: block themes.

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