Every site I build starts from this foundation.
I built the Noble Maple Starter so a new nonprofit or small business website begins fast, secure, and easy for your own staff to update, instead of starting from a blank WordPress install and a pile of plugins.
Below is a demo site for a made-up organization, the Kennebec Family Shelter. You can click through it, open the editor, and change things. It runs entirely in your browser and resets when you leave.
Loads a full copy of WordPress in your browser. Takes 15 to 30 seconds and works best on a laptop. Click around, edit a page, break things: it resets when you leave.
What comes with it
- ✓A full-width photo hero, impact numbers, programs or services, testimonials, staff and board, FAQ, donate and call-to-action bands, newsletter signup, news, and contact sections
- ✓Six color schemes: four warm nonprofit palettes and two for businesses, or your brand colors
- ✓Two bundled fonts with open licenses, so nothing loads from Google
- ✓No page builder plugin. Your staff edit pages in WordPress's own editor
- ✓Security defaults switched on from day one: WordPress version hidden, XML-RPC off, author scanning blocked
- ✓Works with the donation, form, and event tools nonprofits already use
Pick a color scheme, or use your own
The same site in four of the built-in palettes. Your logo and brand colors drop in without a redesign.
Download the theme
If you're a nonprofit with a WordPress site and someone on staff who is comfortable in the WordPress editor, the theme is yours, free. It's my contribution to your mission.
What you get is the theme file and a short readme. What you don't get is setup help or support, because that's the work I do for a living. If you'd rather have it installed, set up with your branding, and looked after every month, that's Website Care.
Released under the GPL, like WordPress itself. Fonts are open-licensed. The sample photos are AI-generated placeholders: swap them for your own.
Want a site like this?
A new site on this foundation usually takes four to six weeks, and it comes with training and documentation so you are never dependent on one person. Most clients keep it looked after with Website Care.
The demo organization, people, and photos are fictional. The demo runs on WordPress Playground, a project of the WordPress community, and is not connected to any real site or data.