A free WordPress block theme for photographers and small studios. It hangs your projects like prints on a studio wall, and every part of the site stays editable in the Site Editor.
Free theme. Complete checkout to get your download.
Version 0.2.0 · WordPress 7.0+ · PHP 7.4+
This download includes free updates in WordPress. Already using Xenon? Install it once to add the updater. Automatic theme updates do not require a license key.
A portfolio should open on the pictures. Xenon’s front page sets your studio name as large as the screen allows, puts your newest projects up as an uneven mosaic and lists every project in a ruled index below.
Write a post, give it a featured image and a one-line excerpt, and it goes up on the wall.
Start with Darkroom, or pick another design under Styles in the Site Editor. Each one changes the palette and the headline, and your content stays where you put it.
The four headline presets work with any design. Each one changes how Archivo, the bundled headline font, sets your headlines, and none of them loads another font file.
A case study needs more than a title and a pile of photographs. These 12 patterns give each project page a structure, and the case study layout puts the usual ones together for you.
Xenon 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.
Xenon bundles Archivo and Fragment Mono, so both fonts load from your own domain.
Xenon’s stylesheets add up to about 22 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 49 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 Darkroom design with example content. Names, quotes and numbers are placeholders, work grids show your own projects and the example photographs ship with the theme, ready to swap for yours. Full pages are shown from the top.
Showing 49 of 49 patterns
Lead and facts1400 × 346 · View full size 
Brief and approach1400 × 420 · View full size 
Process1400 × 403 · View full size 
Full-bleed image1400 × 945 · View full size 
Image pair1400 × 956 · View full size 
Offset images1400 × 884 · View full size 
Three portraits1400 × 709 · View full size 
Gallery1400 × 737 · View full size 
Client quote1400 × 328 · View full size 
What it came to1400 × 232 · View full size 
Credits1400 × 346 · View full size 
Next project1400 × 429 · View full size 
About with portrait1400 × 874 · View full size 
Services1400 × 724 · View full size 
Ways to work together1400 × 824 · View full size 
People1400 × 932 · View full size 
Testimonials1400 × 461 · View full size 
Clients1400 × 353 · View full size 
Press1400 × 462 · View full size 
Recognition1400 × 469 · View full size 
Latest from the journal1400 × 664 · View full size 
Commissions FAQ1400 × 601 · View full size 
Availability1400 × 500 · View full size 
Contact1400 × 705 · 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 Xenon 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.
Write a post in a category with the slug work, tag its discipline and give it a featured image. The front page picks it up on its own.
Xenon is an early 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 contact patterns show your email address. A booking form needs a form plugin behind the layout.
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 Xenon 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 0.2.0 · Free checkout · Free updates
