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Founder

By Compete Themes·Blog·Free
4.7(32 reviews)
·900 active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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As of April 2026, Founder is a WordPress theme with 900 active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 32 reviews. It has been downloaded 147K+ times in total. Requires WordPress false+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Twenty Twenty-Five.

4.7/532 reviews
900active installs
147K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

Founder's minimalist design presents your content in a simple, clean, and professional manner. As a responsive theme, Founder is beautiful on phones, tablets, and laptops, and is optimized to load quickly on each. Built with Google's multilingual font, Noto Sans, it is compatible with hundreds of languages. Lastly, as an accessibility-ready theme, visitors around the world can appreciate your content regardless of disability. Use Founder for a travel blog, business website, photography portfolio, or even a fashion blog. Thanks to the clean, minimal design, Founder can be used for nearly any kind of site. Get excited to share your site, and download Founder today. Now fully compatible with the new Gutenberg post editor. Preview Founder now on desktop, tablets, and mobile devices with our i…
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Ratings & Reviews

4.732 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Genau was ich gesucht habe
by woolfman·2 years ago

Ich wollte ein einfaches Theme und genau das habe ich hier gefunden.

Updated – happier now
by jabonlinedesign·2 years ago·1 reply

I have very much liked the clean look and feel of the Founder templates for my art portfolio website. I have been pleased to find many important accessibility features, too.

However there were still text colors that were not WCAG compliant that I had to customize. The fact that captions on images are centered aligned by default makes them harder to read for people with low vision who need magnification to see web content. It’s hard to have to scroll left to right to find the beginning of the 2nd line. I was able to customize that to my liking using the custom CSS feature in the tools, so that’s been solved.

I was disappointed that there is no way to edit the footer to be able to include a copyright blurb. I didn’t want to have to go into each of my 53 pages to add this. Turns out for $49 I could install the FounderPro plugin to upgrade, which included this feature. Much happier now.

I am new to WordPress so didn’t know if there is something I need to learn how to do, but this seems like a pretty basic thing to be able to do. Should have been part of a basic package, but I can appreciate the reason why it wasn’t.

More to determine: I made the pages live, a quiet launch, in order to be able to test it on a PC and other devices without a login. It’s a new domain, so I wasn’t concerned about people finding it yet. I still need to test high contrast mode to see if the social icons display, which has been a common issue with this type of feature, but maybe newer browsers support, not sure.

  • This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by jabonlinedesign. Reason: I disabled a plugin that solved one of my issues, no idea if it's related to the Founders template
  • This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by jabonlinedesign. Reason: found out how to get footer content, with an upgrade
Simple, easy but professional
by salihkn·3 years ago

Founder is easy to use and customize, but a professional theme. Highly recommended.

Clean, stable, minimalist
by qenomesum·4 years ago

We’ve been using Founder theme for about 6 or 7 years in our site. Some years with Pro version… It works perfectly for us. Faced some tiny little problems with plug-ins but they solved by the team’s immediate help. Thank to developers.

Ohne Farbänderung unbrauchbar
by fraumisanthropin·4 years ago

Fand das Theme toll, vor allem da es inklusiver ist. Habe allerdings herausgefunden, dass ich 50 Euro hinblättern muss, nur damit ich beispielsweise die Schrift auf schwarz ändern kann oder die Kommentare entfernen. Das wären auch die einzigen Änderungen gewesen, die ich vorgenommen hätte. Und das alles nur für ein Jahr. Sowas ist einfach unbrauchbar und viel zu teuer.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Theme Info
Version
1.56
Last Updated
Jul 3, 2024
WP Requires
false+
PHP Requires
5.4+
Active Installs
900
Downloads
147K+
Created
Jun 27, 2015
Type
Free

Tags

blognewsone columncustom logocustom menuphotographysticky posttheme optionsfeatured imagesthreaded commentstranslation readyaccessibility readyfull width templatertl language support

Author

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Compete Themes
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