Theme

The Wigmorean Theme is the baseline UI shipped with every Suite install — a minimalist, single-column WordPress theme designed to let wigmorean-pages and the Suite modules render without fighting the layout.

What it is

Most themes carry opinionated layouts: sidebars, multi-column grids, sticky headers, built-in sliders. The Wigmorean Theme deliberately does none of that. It's a clean canvas: fixed nav, single-column content, carefully tuned typography. Marketing pages render themselves via wigmorean-pages; everything else (blog, search, 404, archives) falls through to the theme's minimal templates.

Template files

header.php — fixed nav with fonts preloaded
footer.php — one-line copyright + nav
single.php — blog post layout (eyebrow + title + date + content)
page.php — WP page layout (wigmorean-pages overrides for matched pages)
index.php — fallback for archives, search, blog home
404.php — italic rust 404 glyph + back button
sidebar.php — intentionally empty (theme is single-column)

CSS tokens

Every color and spacing value lives in custom properties at the top of style.css. Override them in a child theme to rebrand:

:root {
  --cream:      #faf8f5;
  --rust:       #c4572a;
  --gold:       #b8943e;
  --text:       #1a1a1a;
  --text-2:     #6b6560;
}

Customizer options

Via Appearance → Customize:

Site identity — logo, site title, tagline
Colors — override any CSS token from a color picker
Typography — heading/body font family (DM Serif Display + Outfit by default)
Navigation — primary menu + contact CTA

Changes preview live, then save to persist.

Supported features

Post thumbnails, post formats, custom backgrounds, HTML5 markup
Gutenberg wide and full-width alignments
Editor-style styles (Gutenberg previews match the frontend)
Block patterns (three curated starter patterns for blog posts)

Forking vs child theme

For light changes, always create a child theme — Theme Development walks through it. Forking the whole theme is overkill for CSS tweaks and disconnects you from upstream improvements.