No theme library with thousands of options. Just three official starters for blog, marketing, and portfolio — and premium themes coming for docs, editorial, and agency. Everything with clearly defined use cases and real GitHub repositories.
What you can do here
Why EmDash themes work differently
You fork a real Astro project, not a skin over a PHP monolith. The repository is your product, not just a theme file you're renting from a platform.
Every starter is a complete working project. No dependencies on dozens of plugins to get basic functionality. What you see is what runs.
The seed file defines the data model you edit in the admin UI. Understandable, traceable, and extensible — not a black box of plugin behavior.
Cloudflare Workers, not legacy hosting. Fast, serverless, and future-proof. Deploy with git push, not FTP.
Official Starters
These are the starters built by the EmDash team and ready to fork and launch today. Each has a clear use case, working repo, and live demo.
A free official starter for studios, creators, and agencies that sell through visual proof and case studies.
Work showcases, project archives, case studies, and image-led service sites.
Use this as a real free starter today, then customize the repo and seed around your content model.
A free official starter for SaaS sites, launch pages, product marketing, and conversion-first offers.
Product sites, landing pages, offer pages, and conversion-first homepages.
Use this as a real free starter today, then customize the repo and seed around your content model.
A free official starter for founder blogs, editorial sites, changelogs, and content-led brands that publish often.
Content-led sites that need strong reading flow, archives, and repeat publishing.
Use this as a real free starter today, then customize the repo and seed around your content model.
Premium Themes
These premium themes are being developed for use cases that require more than the base starters offer. They're not available yet, but they show where the ecosystem is heading.
A premium direction for agencies and consultancies that need service pages, case studies, proof blocks, and lead capture.
Service pages, lead capture, proof sections, and case-study-driven conversion flows.
This is not live inventory yet, so it is better as a roadmap choice than an immediate launch base.
A premium editorial direction for media brands, niche publications, and creators who want more atmosphere than a standard blog starter.
Magazine-style homepages, opinion-led publishing, sections, and premium editorial rhythm.
This direction is close enough to evaluate now, but you should treat it as launch inventory rather than a ready-made starter.
A premium EmDash direction for docs, changelogs, migration content, and search-led product education.
Documentation hubs, changelogs, knowledge bases, and search-led product education.
This is a concept direction, not a production-ready starter yet.
Why EmDashThemes.com
We work directly with the EmDash team and early adopters to identify the best directions. We're not aggregating everything — we're surfacing what works.
Every listing is judged on project quality, not just how it looks. Good repositories, clear seed models, and real buyer use cases matter more than pretty screenshots.
We don't sell vaporware. What's live is truly available. What's coming is clearly marked with expected timelines and realistic expectations.
Our articles and comparisons help you choose without WordPress-era assumptions. Learn how EmDash themes work, how to build them, and when they're the right choice.
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Guides & Comparisons
Guide
Stop picking themes by screenshot. Here's how to choose between the blog, marketing, and portfolio starters based on the actual job your site needs to do.
Built to help buyers choose a base and help builders understand the repo-first model.
Guide
WordPress themes are installed inside a platform. EmDash themes are closer to deployable Astro starters with schema, seed, and Cloudflare workflow built into the product.
Built to help buyers choose a base and help builders understand the repo-first model.
Guide
The fastest way to build an EmDash theme is to start from the right official starter, shape the seed around one buyer job, and ship a demo plus repo that feel launch-ready.
Built to help buyers choose a base and help builders understand the repo-first model.