A free WordPress block theme for artists and illustrators. It lays your work out like pieces on a studio table, with torn paper edges, taped prints and big narrow headlines, and every part of the site stays editable in the Site Editor.
Free theme. Complete checkout to get your download.
Version 0.1.0 · WordPress 7.0+ · PHP 7.4+
This download includes free updates in WordPress. Automatic theme updates do not require a license key.
An artist’s site has two jobs: show the work, and make it easy to buy a print or book a commission. Indium’s front page opens with your name and two pieces taped to the page, then walks a visitor from new work to the series, the studio and the ways to hire you.
Swap in your own pictures, sizes and prices, and the pages are ready for your next show.
Start with Paper, or pick another design under Styles in the Site Editor. Each one changes the ground, the ink and the colored papers, and your content stays where you put it.
Headings are set narrow and heavy in Bricolage Grotesque, with notes written in Caveat. Three heading presets work with any design: Poster tightens the two largest sizes, Wide lets the headings run at full width, and Handwritten sets the two largest sizes in Caveat. Both fonts ship with the theme.
Most artist sites need the same handful of pages, and building them one section at a time eats the week you meant to spend making things. Indium includes seven full page layouts. Insert one into an empty page and change the words and pictures.
Indium builds every pattern from WordPress core blocks, so your content stays editable if you change themes later. Only the styling follows the new theme.
You can change the header, the footer and every template in the Site Editor, and build new pages from the included patterns without a page builder.
Indium bundles Bricolage Grotesque and Caveat, so both fonts load from your own domain.
Indium’s stylesheets add up to about 46 KB, and block styles load only on pages that use those blocks. The theme ships no JavaScript of its own.
The gallery below shows all 58 patterns in the inserter. Select any preview to open the full-size image, or follow a group’s demo link to see the patterns in place.
Shown in the Paper design with example content. The artist, the quotes, prices and dates are placeholders, and the collages ship with the theme, ready to swap for your own work. Full pages are shown from the top.
Showing 58 of 58 patterns
Grid of pieces1400 × 1750 · View full size 
Scrapbook1400 × 1750 · View full size 
The six series1400 × 1680 · View full size 
One featured piece1400 × 1005 · View full size 
Work index1400 × 1125 · View full size 
A line of prints1400 × 778 · View full size 
Sketchbook1400 × 740 · View full size 
Prints for sale1400 × 1028 · View full size 
Image and details1400 × 906 · View full size 
Large image1400 × 1229 · View full size 
Pair of pieces1400 × 1086 · View full size 
Close-ups1400 × 865 · View full size 
How it was made1400 × 654 · View full size 
Series statement1400 × 594 · View full size 
Note from the studio1400 × 669 · View full size 
Print edition1400 × 657 · View full size 
Where it was shown1400 × 684 · View full size 
More from the series1400 × 739 · View full size 
About with portrait1400 × 747 · View full size 
Short CV1400 × 614 · View full size 
Exhibitions1400 × 1124 · View full size 
How commissions work1400 × 733 · View full size 
Commission rates1400 × 854 · View full size 
Clients1400 × 799 · View full size 
Press1400 × 921 · View full size 
Kind words1400 × 607 · View full size 
Workshops1400 × 884 · View full size 
Questions1400 × 854 · View full size 
Studio letter1400 × 485 · View full size 
Ways to get in touch1400 × 641 · View full size No patterns match those filters. Try another name or group.
See the templates, the full pages and every pattern in place on the live demo. Every page there uses the theme’s own patterns.
Tour the Live DemoComplete the free checkout, then download the latest Indium theme ZIP from your order downloads. Choose the package with free updates included.
Go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme. Choose the ZIP, install it and activate it.
Post each piece in a category named Work, choose the Artwork template and set the picture as its featured image. The grids on the front page fill in on their own.
Indium 0.1.0 is a first release, so it is wise to try it on a staging site with your own content and plugins before you switch a live site.
The studio letter patterns are layouts too. Point the button at your newsletter sign-up page, and add a form plugin if you want a working contact form.
Everything here is quick to set up, light on your pages and built to do one real job well. I only charge for the tools that can make you money. The rest are free.
I design, build and support every product on this site myself. When you email me, the person reading it is the one who wrote the code.
I’d rather ship one tool you’d miss if it vanished than ten that sit in your plugin list doing nothing.
18+years building websites, plugins and stores, since 2008
Switch a feature off and it loads nothing. What does load stays small. A tool that replaces a plugin shouldn’t make your pages slower.
Clear screens, sensible defaults and settings written in plain English. If you need a tutorial for the basics, that’s my design mistake, not yours.
Full keyboard support, visible focus, proper labels and text you can actually read. When more people can use your store, more people can buy from it.
My paid tools help you sell, renew, license or convert. If one just sits in your stack, I haven’t done my job.
I won’t charge for anything that can’t make you money. The free tools get the same care as the paid ones, down to the last setting.
The complete Indium portfolio theme is free under GPL-2.0-or-later. Download it, make it yours and use it on as many sites as you need.
Version 0.1.0 · Free checkout · Free updates
