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Overdrive
1986's idea of the future, selling today's product.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Platform
- WordPress
- Licence
- GPL v2 or later
- Requires
- WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+
- Download size
- 476 KB
- Downloads
- 3
Look inside Overdrive
Real pages from the live demo, not mock-ups. Open any of them to click around.
What Overdrive is for
Overdrive is a landing-page and business theme for startups, SaaS products, apps, agencies and launches that would rather be remembered than blend in. The hero is drawn entirely in CSS — a striped sun, wireframe mountains and a grid running to the horizon — with a chrome-gradient headline over it. Underneath is a complete business site: logos, features, a numbered how-it-works, a real pricing table, testimonials, an FAQ that prints its own structured data, a newsletter block and a contact form with spam protection. Every section has a toggle and an order, so the front page is arranged from one field.
What’s in it
- An outrun hero drawn entirely in CSS — striped sun, wireframe mountains, horizon grid, zero images
- Chrome-gradient headlines and neon buttons, all built from your own colour settings
- A real pricing table from one textarea: plans, features, a featured plan and a monthly/yearly switch
- FAQ accordion built on native details, printing FAQPage structured data from the same text
- Front-page sections reordered from a single field, each with its own toggle
- Contact form with honeypot, timing check and rate limit — no plugin, nothing stored
- Four colour presets and eleven individual colours, including the sun and the sky
- Grid, stars, scanlines, glow and reveal effects that all stop under "reduce motion"
Installing it
- Download the zip — overdrive.zip, 476 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 overdrive folder into wp-content/themes/, then activate it from Appearance → Themes.
Frequently asked
Do I need a page builder?
No. The whole front page is assembled from Customizer settings — each section has a toggle, and one field sets their order. There is no builder to learn and nothing to migrate if you leave.
Is the hero an image?
No. The sun, mountains and grid are drawn in CSS, so they are sharp at any screen size, weigh nothing, and recolour instantly when you change the palette. You can still put a product screenshot beside them.
How does the pricing table work?
One line per plan: name, price, period, features, button text, link and whether it is the featured plan. Start a feature with a minus sign to show it as not included. Add yearly prices and a monthly/yearly switch appears automatically.
Can I remove the theme credit?
The copyright line is yours to edit in the Customizer. The small "Overdrive theme by The Big Head" credit is part of the theme. It is GPL, so you may modify the code, but there is no setting that hides it.
Is it too loud for a serious product?
That is what the presets are for. Turn the sun, stars and scanlines off and pick the quieter palette and you have a clean, modern SaaS layout with the same structure. The retro styling is a setting, not the architecture.
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.
