Meridian for WordPress is coming
The HTML template that started as a coffee-shop side project is becoming a full WordPress theme. Here's what's changing, what's staying, and when you can get it.
When I built Meridian, I wanted a template that felt like a good espresso bar looks: warm, considered, a little bit dark, nothing wasted. It found its people as an HTML template — and the first question almost every buyer asked was the same one.
“Is there a WordPress version?”
Now there is one on the way.
What’s changing
The HTML edition is hand-written markup you drop on any host. The WordPress edition keeps the exact same design language — the espresso palette, the editorial menus, the tactile feel — but moves it into a theme you can manage from the WordPress admin. That means:
- Real menus and pages you edit without touching code
- A proper blog and post layouts
- Widget-ready sections for the bits café owners actually change weekly
- The same fast, lightweight front-end I’m known for — no page-builder bloat
What’s staying
The thing people bought Meridian for: restraint. I’m not bolting on forty demos and a settings panel with three hundred toggles. The WordPress edition will ship opinionated and clean, the way the HTML one does. You shouldn’t need a manual to make it look good — it should look good out of the box, and get out of your way.
When
The theme is in final review on ThemeForest. If you want to be told the moment it’s live, the best place to catch the announcement is the journal and my LinkedIn. I’ll post a demo walkthrough the same day it goes up.
If you already own the HTML version — thank you. The WordPress edition is a separate item, but loyal buyers will get a heads-up first.