🖼️ Portfolio Ⓦ WordPress

Overture

A portfolio that opens at full volume. Enormous type, full-bleed work.

Download free 76 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: 76 KB
Downloads: 1

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

What Overture is for

Overture is a free WordPress portfolio theme for designers, studios, directors and art directors who want the site to make an impression before the work loads. It uses oversized display typography, full-bleed alternating case-study rows and a numbered project index that previews each piece on hover. The quiet alternative is our Studioframe theme.

What’s in it

Oversized fluid display type that scales from a phone to a 5K display
Full-bleed case-study rows that alternate side to side as you scroll
Numbered project index that previews each piece on hover — and on keyboard focus
A marquee headline strip you can put your own words in
Dark by default, because work photographs better against it
Every animation disabled automatically under prefers-reduced-motion

Installing it

Download the zip — overture.zip, 76 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 overture folder into wp-content/themes/, then activate it from Appearance → Themes.

Frequently asked

How is this different from Studioframe?

Studioframe is quiet — a masonry grid that disappears behind the work. Overture is the opposite: huge type, full-bleed rows, dark background. Same licence, opposite personality.

Will enormous type break on a phone?

No. The headline sizes are fluid with clamp(), so they scale down rather than overflowing. It was checked at 375px.

Can I use a light background instead?

Yes. Appearance → Customize → Colours → Scheme → Always light, or set your own background colour.

Does the hover preview work on touch?

On a touch device the preview image is shown inline under each index row instead, because there is no hover to detect.

Colours

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

Accent #ff4d00
Secondary #00e5b0
Text #fafafa
Background #0e0e0e

In the zip

style.css — one stylesheet, no imports
theme.json — block editor palette
functions.php + inc/
Full template hierarchy
languages/overture.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.