Cinder City FC
This is where the city shows up. Cinder City FC's background is a full-bleed, real-time Gaussian Splatting reconstruction of the stadium, with a camera that drifts on its own instead of sitting on a fixed hero shot. A WebGPU compute shader runs a genuine Mexican-wave simulation through the crowd, using TSL storage buffers with a WebGL fallback. An interactive SVG board lets fans page through tactics and formations, with Player and Fixture custom post types, a Position taxonomy, and an AJAX form for membership and ticketing enquiries.
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Highlights
- A genuinely different macro layout — a “matchday programme” editorial grid with a persistent numbered-page spine instead of the usual hero-and-stacked-cards structure
- Signature full-bleed, real-time Gaussian Splatting stadium reconstruction rendered as the hero’s actual background (not a boxed viewer) with autonomous camera drift and a scroll-linked parallax pull-back
- A WebGPU compute-shader crowd performs a genuine Mexican wave — persistent per-seat spring physics chasing a travelling target height, with a proven WebGL fallback
- Interactive SVG tactics board (4-3-3 / 4-4-2 / 3-5-2 / 4-2-3-1) plus Player & Fixture CPTs, AJAX membership/ticketing enquiry, and a scrolling results ticker
Overview
Cinder City FC is an official football club theme that abandons the usual hero-and-stacked-cards layout for the editorial grid of a printed matchday programme — fixtures, squad, report and standings sharing one dense, typographic system. The hero is a full-bleed real-time Gaussian Splatting reconstruction of the stadium, with an autonomous camera drift, so the ground itself is the identity rather than a stock crowd photograph.
A WebGPU compute shader runs a genuine Mexican wave through the crowd — the wave is simulated across storage buffers, not a looping sprite animation, and falls back cleanly to WebGL. An interactive SVG tactics board lets visitors flip the side between 4-3-3, 4-4-2, 3-5-2 and 4-2-3-1 and see the shape redraw. Squad, fixture and report content types cover what a real club site has to publish every week of the season.
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 |
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| 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.
