Pawlour
Pawlour is a warm, cosy theme for pet groomers, sitters, and small pet-care businesses, built to WordPress.org standards so it installs like any free directory theme. The hero pairs a soft aurora-glow gradient with a welcoming pet photo, and a drifting paw-print canvas plus a cursor paw-print trail carry the warmth through the page. It ships with a full business layout covering stats, services, gallery, and hours, and is free on wp.org with an optional Pawlour Pro companion plugin for more.
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Highlights
- Warm aurora-glow hero + welcoming pet photo
- Drifting paw-print canvas + cursor paw-print trail
- Full business layout: stats, services, gallery, hours
- Freemium: free wp.org theme + Pawlour Pro plugin
Overview
A warm, cosy WordPress theme for neighbourhood pet-care businesses — grooming, boarding, daycare and gentle training — in a soft palette of cream, caramel, peach and sage, with a friendly Fraunces display serif over humanist Manrope. It is the one theme in this collection built strictly to the WordPress.org directory standard: no plugin-territory code in the theme itself, every output escaped, fully translation-ready, so it can ship free on the official directory. The front page opens on a two-column hero — a welcoming pet photo framed by a drifting paw-print canvas, a warm aurora glow and a cursor paw-print trail — then moves through a credibility stat band, a photo-rich services grid, a “why choose us” promise, a full-bleed statement band, a happy-guests gallery and opening hours: a real small-business homepage, not a blog with a banner.
Pawlour ships as a freemium pair, the same model as Astra and Kadence. The free theme (design, Customizer, starter content and motion-safe effects) exposes template action hooks, and the optional Pawlour Pro companion plugin hooks into them to add bookable Services with pricing, a Team directory, Testimonials, a WooCommerce shop section, block patterns and a one-click demo importer. Activate Pro and the sections light up; deactivate it and the theme degrades gracefully with zero errors. Every animation is fully disabled under prefers-reduced-motion.
What's included
- Full theme source — every template, style sheet & script
- One-click demo importer (idempotent, no page builder)
- Live Customizer controls for copy, colours & content
- Translation-ready .pot file + RTL stylesheet
- HTML documentation + a CHANGELOG file
- Lifetime updates + 6 months support (renewable)
Specifications
| WordPress | 5.6 – 7.0 |
|---|---|
| PHP | 8.0 – 8.3 |
| Browsers | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge (latest) |
| Layout | Fully responsive, mobile → desktop |
| Localization | Translation-ready · RTL included |
| Accessibility | Keyboard-navigable · prefers-reduced-motion |
| Page builder | Not required — native Customizer |
| License | GNU GPL v2 · single-site commercial |
Release
The complete, dated version history ships in the theme’s CHANGELOG file. Every purchase includes lifetime access to future updates.
