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 same design language — the espresso palette, the editorial menus, the tactile feel — but moves it into a theme you manage from the WordPress admin:
- Real menus and pages you edit without touching code
- A proper blog and post layouts
- Widget-ready sections for the bits café owners change weekly
- The same fast, lightweight front-end — no page-builder bloat
The look, in a few frames
What’s staying
The thing people bought Meridian for: restraint. I’m not bolting on forty demos and three hundred toggles. The WordPress edition ships opinionated and clean — 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 own the HTML version — thank you; the WordPress edition is a separate item, but loyal buyers get a heads-up first.
