📝 Blog & Magazine Ⓦ WordPress

Inkwell

A clean, fast magazine theme for people who actually write.

Download free 95 KB zip See the live demo

Version: 1.0.0
Platform: WordPress
Licence: GPL v2 or later
Requires: WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+
Download size: 95 KB
Downloads: 3

Screenshot of the Inkwell WordPress theme — The demo is this theme, rendered from the same stylesheet that is inside the download.

What Inkwell is for

Inkwell is a free WordPress blog and magazine theme built for readability. It pairs a large featured-post grid with a comfortable 68-character measure, supports light and dark colour schemes out of the box, and loads no external fonts or scripts. Ideal for personal blogs, news sites and editorial publications.

What’s in it

Featured-post grid on the homepage, switchable to a classic list
Right sidebar, left sidebar or no sidebar — set per site in the Customizer
Reading-optimised 68-character measure and a built-in reading-time estimate
Light and dark colour schemes that follow the visitor’s system setting
Full block editor support with matching editor styles
No Google Fonts, no jQuery, no external requests of any kind

Installing it

Download the zip — inkwell.zip, 95 KB. Do not unzip it.
In WordPress, go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme.
Choose the zip and press Install Now, then Activate.
Set it up under Appearance → Customize — colours, menus, layout and the front-page sections all live there.

Installing by FTP instead? Unzip it and upload the inkwell folder into wp-content/themes/, then activate it from Appearance → Themes.

Frequently asked

Can I use Inkwell on a client site?

Yes. It is licensed GPL v2 or later, so you can use it on any number of sites, personal or commercial, and modify it however you like.

Does it work with Gutenberg blocks?

Yes. Inkwell ships a theme.json palette, supports wide and full-width blocks, and loads matching editor styles so the admin preview looks like the front end.

How do I turn the sidebar off?

Appearance → Customize → Layout → Sidebar position → None. You can also hide it on single posts only.

Is it fast?

Inkwell loads one stylesheet and about 2 KB of JavaScript. There are no web fonts to download and no external requests, so it starts rendering as soon as the HTML arrives.

Colours

Every one of these is editable in the Customizer, and they flow through to the block editor palette.

Accent #1f6feb
Secondary #e0483d
Text #14161c
Background #ffffff

In the zip

style.css — one stylesheet, no imports
theme.json — block editor palette
functions.php + inc/
Full template hierarchy
languages/inkwell.pot
readme.txt and LICENSE

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Need it customised?

We build WordPress sites, iOS apps and internal tools for businesses across Canada. If a theme here is close but not quite it, we can finish the job.

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The same promise on every theme here

Genuinely free, including commercially

WordPress themes are GPL v2+, Shopify themes are MIT. Either way: use it on client sites, change it, rename it, sell the site you built with it. There is no “pro” version being withheld and no licence key.

No account, no email, no upsell

The download button is a download button. We do not ask who you are and there is nothing to unsubscribe from afterwards.

Nothing phones home

No Google Fonts, no analytics, no external requests of any kind. Everything the theme needs is inside the zip, which is also why they are small.

Not a page-builder trap

Every theme works with the block editor and the Customizer alone. None of them require a plugin to look like the demo.