Agile Base

A clean, fast Full Site Editing (block) theme for WordPress — built for blogs and simple sites. No page builder, no build step: everything is driven by theme.json, block templates, and core blocks.

Install it from the WordPress.org theme directory, or in your dashboard under Appearance → Themes → Add New Theme (search for "Agile Base").

• Full Site Editing with templates for the homepage, blog, posts, pages, archives, author pages, search and 404 (templates/)
• Extra templates to pick per post or page: Post (Wide), Page (Full Width), Page (No Title) and Blank Canvas (no header or footer, for landing pages)
• Three headers (default, Centered, Minimal) and two footers (default, Columns) to swap in from the Site Editor (parts/)
• Ready-made page layouts for About, Services, Pricing, Team and Contact, offered when you create a new page
• Section patterns: hero, logos, features, stats, testimonial, FAQ, team, pricing, call to action and a style guide (patterns/)
• Alternative designs for archives (Archive (List)) and the 404 page (404 (Search First)), picked from the template's Design panel in the Site Editor
• theme.json v3 design system — fluid typography, fluid spacing, color palette
• Light and Dark style variations (styles/)
• Self-hosted Figtree, Space Grotesk, and Space Mono fonts (no external requests)
• Translation-ready (agile-base text domain)

• WordPress 6.6+
• PHP 7.4+

This is a no-build theme. Edit theme.json, the .html templates/parts, and the .php patterns directly, then edit visually in Appearance → Editor. The Create Block Theme plugin is handy for exporting Site Editor changes back to these files and for managing fonts.

Checks (CI runs them on every pull request):

node tests/release-check.mjs        # source checks: versions, changelog, templates, patterns
bash tests/release-package-check.sh # builds a release zip and checks its contents
composer install && vendor/bin/phpcs . # WordPress coding standards (phpcs.xml.dist)

To build a release, run bash bin/build-release.sh. It writes build/agile-base-<version>.zip without the dev-only files, ready to upload to WordPress.org.