TownPress is an accessible premium WordPress theme for municipal, parish, town or city websites. It is tailored to suit all the basic needs of a modern municipality. TownPress offers a lot of very niche-specific features like local weather widget, listing directory, upcoming events, town documents, galleries and more. All this packed in a classic three column layout.

Main Features

This theme comes with several built-in post types, allowing you to manage various types of content.

Directory module is a great solution to display a directory of businesses in your municipality with important contact details and opening hours.

Documents module can provide access to both local attachments that are uploaded into your WordPress installation and external links.

Events module is a versatile system that can organise town events with support for precise location, date, time and recurrence.

Galleries module is the most efficient solution to show stunning photo galleries of your town’s most important assets, points of interest and architecture.

News module will help you to keep your municipality citizens, visitors and members of the public well informed.

Notices module is a handy way to display important information messages without bloating the main news feed.

People module is a simple tool to display professional profiles of elected officials, service people and employees in a simple yet elegant manner.

General Features

Several map providers
Google Maps, Mapbox and Open Street Map support for directory listings and event locations.

Mobile-friendly design
The theme looks great and it’s easy to work with on devices of various screen sizes.

Gutenberg compatible
Support for WordPress native editor to easily build your custom pages. There is no need for a 3rd party page builder (but it also works with Elementor and WPBakery Page Builder).

Forum capabilities
TownPress supports the bbPress plugin, which can be used to create a powerful forum within your website.

Custom color schemes
Create a custom color scheme by picking main colors via admin in just a few clicks, or get more involved using the dedicated CSS (SCSS) file and be able to change every color of the theme.

Translation files included
This theme and all the bundled LSVR plugins are completely translatable.

Modular post types
You can disable post types you don’t need to make your admin completely bloat-free.

Demo content included
You can re-create the live preview site in a matter of few minutes (however, please note that demo images are not included for copyright reasons and imported demo pages can be edited using the WordPress block editor only).

Developer-friendly code
The code is well-commented and all front-end code can be overriden via a child theme.

Child theme included
Make your site ready for a more advanced code customization.

RTL support
The theme will automatically switch to RTL (Right-to-left) mode when you switch your site language to RTL one.

PHP 8 compatibility
Squeeze the most of your server performance by using the latest version of PHP.

Images seen in live preview (demo) are NOT included.