CorsoArchitecture WordPress Theme
Corso is a horizontal, spatial theme for architecture studios, where the homepage works as a promenade you walk sideways through, project by project, instead of scrolling down a feed. That horizontal scroll degrades cleanly to a vertical stack for reduced-motion preferences and mobile, so the concept never breaks accessibility. A Project custom post type tracks year, location, area, and typology alongside a position rail, set in Space Grotesk and Space Mono with a blueprint-cobalt-on-plaster palette.
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Highlights
- Horizontal “promenade” homepage — scroll walks it sideways
- Degrades to a clean vertical stack (reduced-motion / mobile)
- Project CPT: year / location / area / typology + position rail
- Space Grotesk + Space Mono, blueprint cobalt on plaster
Overview
A horizontal, spatial WordPress theme for architecture and interior-design studios — a deliberate break from the stacked-section homepage every other theme (and every competitor) ships. Here the homepage is a promenade: vertical scroll walks the page sideways, one full-height room at a time — an intro, a statement, a project index, a panel per project, the studio, the numbers, and contact — with a position rail that tracks where you are and lets you jump between stops. Blueprint cobalt on warm plaster, Space Grotesk over Space Mono, mono coordinate labels and big editorial type give it the feel of a working practice’s monograph.
The horizontal mode is genuinely progressive: under prefers-reduced-motion, without JavaScript, and on touch or narrow screens it degrades cleanly to a vertical stack, so content is always present, crawlable and accessible — the sideways scroll is a desktop enhancement, never a barrier. Under the surface it is a real portfolio system: a Project post type with year, location, area, status and typology, a Typology taxonomy, a one-click demo importer and a nonce-protected AJAX inquiry form that stores messages in a private inbox. Depth parallax, reveal-on-view and the position rail round out a motion layer that is confident but quiet — every effect disabled under 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.
