We’re delighted to introduce two new professionally designed blog Starter Sites to the GeneratePress Premium Site Library, Archive and Headline.
WordPress has its roots as the premiere platform for bloggers, and two decades after its founding, it’s still the fastest and easiest way to start a new content-heavy site.
Of course, any blog must be performant to keep readers engaged, and choosing the right theme is paramount. GeneratePress adds less than 10kb to your page size, ensuring your site loads quickly and performs flawlessly. Paired with GenerateBlocks, a powerful and lightweight block-based plugin, GeneratePress makes building stunning, performant websites simple without sacrificing functionality.
Archive: The Flexible Wireframe Starter Site
The Archive starter site is a minimalist’s dream. Built as a wireframe, Archive provides a clean, versatile foundation that you can mold to fit your brand’s unique vision. Whether you’re running a personal blog, a niche news site, or a professional portfolio, Archive’s unstyled structure allows you to customize colors, fonts, and layouts with complete freedom.
With Archive, you’re starting with professional, clean layouts that are already optimized for performance and SEO. Want to experiment with bold typography or a vibrant color palette? Archive’s flexibility makes it easy to create a blog that’s uniquely yours, all while maintaining the speed and accessibility that GeneratePress is known for.
Headline: Bold, Visual, and Customizable
If you’re looking for a starter site with a bit more flair, Headline is the perfect choice. This visually striking template comes preloaded with royalty-free images and a carefully curated color scheme, giving your blog a professional, polished look right out of the box. Headline is fully customizable, so you can tweak the colors, swap out images, and adjust fonts to align with your brand.
Headline is ideal for bloggers who want to make a strong first impression with eye-catching visuals and a modern design. Whether you’re covering lifestyle, travel, or tech, this starter site leverages GeneratePress’s lightweight framework to ensure your content loads quickly and ranks well on search engines. With GenerateBlocks, you can easily modify Headline’s layouts, add dynamic elements like featured posts or author boxes, and create a blog that’s as functional as it is beautiful.
Why GeneratePress and GenerateBlocks Are a Blogger’s Best Friend
Blogging is all about delivering content that’s timely, engaging, and easy to find. GeneratePress and GenerateBlocks are the ultimate tools for achieving this. Here’s why:
- Unmatched Performance. GeneratePress is designed with speed in mind. Your blog loads lightning-fast, critical for user experience and SEO.
- SEO-Friendly Architecture. GeneratePress adheres to WordPress coding standards and uses schema.org markup to enhance how search engines interpret your content. This makes it easier for your blog posts to rank higher on Google and other search engines.
- Effortless Customization with GenerateBlocks. With lightweight blocks, GenerateBlocks transforms the WordPress block editor into a powerful design tool. You can build complex layouts, add dynamic content, and create custom blog templates without touching a line of code.
- Starter Sites for Quick Setup. Archive and Headline are part of GeneratePress’s extensive library of over 100 pre-built starter sites. These templates save hours of development time, allowing you to launch a professional blog in just a few clicks.
Things You’ll Love About These Starter Sites
Homepage Hero Area Establishes Trust
Drive your site visitors to your top stories fast, with a clear call to action to help them find your latest posts or critical information.
Made with GenerateBlocks Free
These Starter Sites are built with GenerateBlocks Free. If you’re a GeneratePress Premium user, you can use these Starter Sites easily, leveraging GeneratePress Elements for greater control over how blocks are used throughout the site.
Responsive Experience for All Devices
With mobile page views topping 60% of global traffic, your site must work well for all screen sizes. These Starter Sites are built with that requirement in mind.
Category-Driven Navigation
Allow your site visitors to browse by categories to dive deeper into topics of interest.
Intuitive Menus and Footer Navigation
Both the header menu and footer navigation make finding information easier than ever, with clear navigation to social media sites and intuitive site information architecture.
Clutter-free Single Post Pages
Your content is the star of the show with clear and clean single post pages.
How to Get Started with Blog Starter Sites
We recommend installing any starter site on a fresh WordPress installation. If you decide to install it on an existing site, your settings will be overwritten.
To get started, Go to Appearance > GeneratePress. Make sure the Site Library is Activated.
Next, click the link to go to the Site Library.
Choose Archive or Headline from the GeneratePress Starter Site Library.
Review the plugins required for the Starter Site, then click “Get Started.”
You’ll need to confirm that the process will overwrite existing site content.
Click “Begin Import.” The process of downloading content to your site will take a few moments.
Once you’ve done this, click “View Site” to see your new site! You can then edit each page within the site editor and customize colors and fonts to match your brand.
GeneratePress Makes Professional Sites Easy for Any Blog
Ready to launch your next blog? With Archive and Headline, GeneratePress makes it easier than ever to create a professional, high-performing WordPress site. Archive offers a flexible wireframe for those who love to customize every detail, while Headline delivers a visually stunning starting point with royalty-free images and customizable colors. Both starter sites are built on the lightweight, SEO-friendly foundation of GeneratePress and enhanced by the power of GenerateBlocks.
WordPress remains the ultimate platform for blogging, and GeneratePress is the ideal theme to bring your content to life. Whether you choose Archive’s minimalist wireframe or Headline’s bold visuals, you’ll be launching a blog that’s fast, SEO-friendly, and ready to engage your audience. Start building your dream blog today with GeneratePress and GenerateBlocks!
These starter site are beautiful 🚀
Thanks you, Leonardo! More are coming, too. Exciting time to be using GeneratePress.
I build SEO-focused websites, so I really appreciate how clean and fast these new starter sites are. Archive is great for content-heavy blogs, and Headline adds nice visuals while still being lightweight. GeneratePress + GenerateBlocks is my favorite setup for SEO.
Thanks, Rob. We’re glad that GeneratePress is helping you rank!
I can’t import it, it does not show up in the site library.
Make sure you turn off GenerateBlocks version 1 blocks to see the new Starter Sites and then click refresh sites at the bottom of the Site Library. If you have more issues, please let us know.
How do I do that? I checked Google but I do not have the toggle?
Go to “GenerateBlocks > Settings” to turn off the version 1 blocks. Doing this will not affect your existing version 1 blocks on your website. All it will do is make it so the version 2 blocks are now the available blocks in the block inserter.
Hi, I got GeneratePress One, but when I go to the Theme Library, I can’t find the new themes… 🙁. I checked the plugins and everything, but they don’t appear. Does someone know why?
Make sure you turn off GenerateBlocks version 1 blocks in GenerateBlocks > Settings. Then, you’ll see the new Starter Sites. You might need to click Refresh Sites at the bottom of the Site Library. If you have more issues, please let us know.
These are so good. Thank you so much 🙂
Glad you like them. We have many more Starter Sites coming.
Been with you guys a couple of years now and honestly, your support is hands-down the best I’ve ever experienced. I’ve learnt so much just by using GeneratePress and seeing how everything works. I really love how clean and simple the designs are making it super easy to build on and tweak as I go. Big thanks for creating something that just works! It’s a pleasure to add – ‘my loyalty will always remains with GeneratePress’
Thanks so much, Andy! We’re grateful for your confidence in GeneratePress and our team.
I’m using the latest versions of GP, GPBP but I still can’t see these themes in Site Library. I don’t see how you turn off the GB version 1 blocks in the settings.
Ensure you update to GB 2, and then navigate to GenerateBlocks Settings. Details are here: https://learn.generatepress.com/blocks/block-guide/generateblocks-1-x-to-2-0/