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A one page business theme with scroll-linked homepage sections.
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Shapely
by Colorlib
A one page theme with full-width sections and a simple homepage builder.
4.6One pageFreemium
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What Shapely is
A one page theme with full-width sections and a simple homepage builder.
It sits in the one page part of the theme market and is sold by Colorlib on a freemium basis. A theme decides your layout, your typography and a large slice of your page weight, so it is the hardest thing on a WordPress site to change later.
Before you commit, record a speed test of your current site, then run the same test after you switch, on the same page, so you can see exactly what the new theme costs you.
What Shapely looks like
The official screenshot from the WordPress.org theme directory, as published by the theme authors.
See it running on a live demo site at the WordPress.org preview.
Real user ratings
Score
4.6/5
Reviews
67
Active installs
10,000+
Downloads
1.5M
Latest version
1.3.1
Last updated
2026-09-06
Figures come straight from the public WordPress.org theme directory API for version 1.3.1. You can check them yourself on the WordPress.org listing.
Where Shapely ranks elsewhere
| Publisher | List | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Kinsta | Best WordPress Themes | #18 of 34 |
Positions are read from the published articles themselves, so they reflect that publisher's order rather than ours. Lists get re-ordered over time, so follow the link if you want the current version.
What changed in the latest version
v1.3.1Latest release
- Fixed link colours changing after the 1.3.0 update on sites that set a different colour for links and for buttons. Both were being written to the same internal colour slot, so whichever was saved last won and links took the button's colour
- Fixed child themes that swap out the theme's Bootstrap, FlexSlider or Owl Carousel. 1.3.0 renamed those asset handles, which silently turned `wp_dequeue_style( 'bootstrap' )` into a no-op -- the parent's stylesheet came back on top of th...
v1.3.0
- Removed the vendored Epsilon customizer framework. It was 144 files and 1.3 MB -- 52% of the theme -- and provided 31 toggle controls, one slider, two customizer sections and the welcome screen. All of those are now built on core WordPre...
- Added theme.json, so the palette, type scale and layout widths have a single source of truth that the block editor reads. Colour options in the customizer still work exactly as before -- each one now overrides the matching theme.json val...
- Fixed "Wide width" and "Full width" doing nothing on blocks. The theme has declared support for them since 2018 without ever shipping the CSS they need
- Fixed images in post content overflowing their column. Bootstrap 3 only makes images responsive via a class that block markup never carries
- Rebuilt the welcome screen and the demo importer on core APIs. The old AJAX endpoint accepted a class name and a method name from the request and called them; dismissals now run through a single handler with a nonce and a capability check
- Fixed 11 customizer controls that would have disappeared entirely if the framework had ever failed to load, because their fallback registrations were incomplete
- Renamed the bootstrap, flexslider, owl.carousel and owl.carousel.theme asset handles to be theme-specific. Generic handles can be claimed by a plugin first, which silently suppresses the theme's own file -- the same fault that blanked ev...
- The block editor now offers the theme's palette, and the editor canvas matches the front end
v1.2.21
- Fixed the back-to-top arrow sitting off-centre in its button. The 36px button's content box was 22px tall and 10px wide after border and padding, so a 18px glyph with a 27px line box could not centre on either axis; measured 2.8px right ...
- Fixed one-page section links in the menu, and the page-builder customizer, using site_url() where home_url() was meant. On installs with WordPress in its own subdirectory those pointed at /wp/ instead of the site address
- Added add_theme_support( 'wp-block-styles' ) and add_editor_style(), so core block styles apply on the front end and the editor canvas matches the theme's typography
- Added three block styles (two button styles and a short rule) and two block patterns, built from the theme's own button and colour values
- Removed two orphaned Font Awesome 5 stylesheets that nothing enqueued
- Fixed the arrow on submenu items that have a further submenu sitting well below its label, near the bottom edge of the row. It was centred with the 55px top menu bar's line height rather than the submenu row's, putting it 11.5px too low ...
- Fixed Font Awesome 6 loading its glyphs from a leftover Font Awesome 5.15.3 font directory. The bundled stylesheet asked for "../webfonts/", which resolves out of assets/css/fontawesome6/ and into the old assets/css/webfonts/, so every i...
- Removed the orphaned Font Awesome 5 font files, which nothing referenced once the path above was corrected. The release zip drops from 3.16 MB to 1.88 MB
Release notes are the developer's own words, published on WordPress.org. Read the full changelog
Pros and cons
- Straightforward and light for a landing style site.
- Rated 4.6 out of 5 by 67 WordPress.org reviewers.
- There is a free version you can trial before paying.
- Works with the block editor and the mainstream page builders.
- Typography choices are limited.
- Switching themes later means rebuilding page layouts, so choose deliberately.
How to use it
- 1Activate the theme and set the homepage to the theme's one page template.
- 2Enable only the sections you need: hero, services, about, gallery, contact.
- 3Give each section a clear anchor so the menu scrolls to it correctly.
- 4Keep the hero image small; it is your largest contentful paint on almost every visit.
- 5Add a real contact form and test delivery before launch.
How it compares
Other one page themes we recommend, with their public WordPress.org score where one exists.
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