Pressville - Municipal & City Government WordPress Theme
Pressville is a premium WordPress theme tailored for municipal, parish, town, or county websites, featuring built-in modules for directories, documents, events, galleries, and news with accessibility and SEO-focused design.
Main Features
- Directorymodule is a great solution to display a directory of businesses in your municipality with important contact details and opening hours.
- Documentsmodule can provide access to both local attachments that are uploaded into your WordPress installation and external links.
- Eventsmodule is a versatile system that can organise town events with support for precise location, date, time and recurrence.
- Galleriesmodule is the most efficient solution to show stunning photo galleries of your town’s most important assets, points of interest and architecture.
- Newsmodule will help you to keep your municipality citizens, visitors and members of the public well informed.
- Noticesmodule is a handy way to display important information messages without bloating the main news feed.
- Peoplemodule is a simple tool to display professional profiles of elected officials, service people and employees in a simple yet elegant manner.
General Features
- Several map providers: Google Maps, Mapbox and Open Street Map support for directory listings and event locations.
- Mobile-friendly design ensures the theme looks great on devices of various screen sizes.
- Gutenberg compatible: support for WordPress native editor to easily build your custom pages. There is no need for a 3rd party page builder (but it also works with Elementor and WPBakery Page Builder).
- Forum capabilities: Pressville supports the bbPress plugin, which can be used to create a powerful forum within your website.
- Custom color schemes: Create a custom color scheme by picking main colors via admin in just a few clicks, or use the dedicated CSS (SCSS) file to change every color of the theme.
- Translation files included: This theme and all the bundled LSVR plugins are completely translatable.
- Modular post types: You can disable post types you don’t need to keep your admin bloat-free.
- Demo content included: Re-create the live preview site quickly (demo images are not included for copyright reasons; imported demo pages can be edited with the WordPress block editor only).
- Developer-friendly code: The code is well-commented and all front-end code can be overriden via a child theme.
- Child theme included: Ready for more advanced code customization.
- RTL support: The theme will automatically switch to RTL mode when the site language is RTL.
- PHP 8 compatibility: Optimized for the latest PHP version.
- Images seen in live preview (demo) are NOT included.
Admin Screens
- Front page edit screen
- Event post edit screen
- Directory pages customizer screen
FAQ
- Is the price of the item a one-time payment or a recurring one?
- As with all items on ThemeForest, it is a one-time payment. This includes six months of support and updates for the lifetime of the item (as long as the item is sold on ThemeForest). You can extend support if needed.
- What is included in the item support?
- Item support covers help with theme-related issues or explanations of features. Customization is not included, but I can provide simple CSS snippets and tips for code customization. Please read the documentation before contacting support, as it should answer most questions.
- Can I use the theme on both staging/development sites and the live site at the same time?
- Yes, you can use the theme on multiple staging/development sites in parallel with your live site. The limitation is that a single license allows one final live site.
- How can I contact you privately?
- You can use the contact form on my profile page to send a private message.
- Is the WPBakery Page Builder plugin included with the theme?
- Yes, the bundled version of this plugin is included.
Can’t Decide Between Wordbench, Pressville, and TownPress?
If you are choosing a theme for a municipality or local government website, all three are solid options designed for this use case. Their feature lists are very similar and all are bundled with essential LSVR plugins for events, directory listings, documents, notices, galleries and person directory. The Wordbench theme also includes additional plugins like FAQ and Testimonials. The backend is nearly indistinguishable across all three, as is code quality. They are highly developer-friendly and customizable via a child theme. The primary difference is in design, so pick the one that best fits your municipal branding and style.
Need Assistance?
- Online Documentation
- Support and Presale Forum
- Send a PM
Customer Feedback
- This an awesome theme! Very easy to modify and the customer support is outstanding!
- Amazing design, with all the required features for a municipality web-site. Technical support is top notch, always a detailed on-time response, and the author goes over-board to help customers with issues not covered in the offer.
- Very professional design, looks great, plenty of theme customization options.
- Perfect theme for redoing my small city’s website.
- Great Theme, great documentation, extremely fast Support – Great work!
Updates
- v2.6.17 – 8 July 2025
- Updated LSVR Framework to 1.9.3
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder plugin to 8.5 (learn how to update it https://themeforest.net/item/pressville-municipal-wordpress-theme/19949423/faqs/32830)
- Complete changelog can be found here.
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