Civic HearthA welcoming home for public life.
A free WordPress theme for councils, libraries, charities, and community groups, with native blocks and familiar Customizer controls.
- WordPress 6.7+
- PHP 7.4+
- v1.0.0
Open full size- Free to use
- Every theme feature included
- Lifetime updates
- Activate your free key
- Unlimited websites
- One key, all your sites
- Native WordPress
- No required page builder
Built for everyday public information.
Civic services
Help people find services, understand the next step, and reach the right information.
Libraries and community spaces
Bring useful resources, local updates, and opportunities to learn together.
Charities and neighborhood groups
Make your work clear and give people simple routes to support and participation.
Keep WordPress familiar.
Pages you can edit
Nine native patterns cover a civic homepage, service directory, search hero, news, questions, contact information, and service pages.
A familiar place to customize
Set the palette, text size, reading width, navigation, news layout, site notice, and footer in the WordPress Customizer.
Readable by design
Atkinson Hyperlegible fonts, underlined links, visible keyboard focus, and a comfortable reading width give your content room to work.
Layouts for real information
Use standard pages, a full-width directory, news posts, archives, search results, and an optional sidebar.
A self-contained foundation
Fonts are hosted locally. The theme needs no third-party page builder and supports translation and right-to-left layouts.
See the theme in use.
Explore the homepage, service pages, news, Customizer controls, and responsive layouts. Open any preview at full size.
Start with the page you need.
Install the theme
Upload the ZIP from your free order, activate Civic Hearth, and add your site identity.
Start with a useful page
Choose the Civic homepage template and insert its matching pattern. Replace the sample text and service links.
Make it your community
Choose colors and layouts in the Customizer. Add your menu, footer information, news, and published service pages.
Make it fit your community.
Free today. Yours to use.
Free
One complete theme, with a lifetime update key for unlimited websites.
- All theme features
- GPL-2.0-or-later
- No recurring fee
A few useful answers.
What the theme includes, how to edit it, and how its free update key works.
What does hybrid mean here?
Civic Hearth uses classic PHP templates, menus, widgets, and the Customizer alongside the WordPress block editor, theme.json styling, and native patterns. It does not replace the Customizer with the full Site Editor.
Is the whole theme free?
Yes. Every theme feature is included in the free download. The license is GPL-2.0-or-later, and there is no recurring fee for the theme or its lifetime update key.
How do free updates work?
Complete the free checkout to receive a lifetime key for unlimited websites. Add it under Appearance > Civic Hearth License in your WordPress dashboard. WordPress can then check for theme updates. All theme features work without a key.
Does it need a page builder?
No. The included layouts use native WordPress blocks. You can edit page content in the block editor and use the Customizer for the overall site design.
Does it include forms or council transactions?
The theme includes working WordPress search and information layouts. Use an appropriate plugin or service for form delivery, payments, event management, or transactional public services.
What does update activation send?
Activating a key sends the key, theme version, and website address securely to gauravtiwari.org. Subsequent license checks use the saved activation. This connection is used for license verification and theme update delivery.
Build a clearer community website.
Build around the information your community needs. Start with Civic Hearth and make it your own.