Overview

What this theme gives you

Grounds makes a real place easier to understand before a visitor arrives. People can explore an illustrated desktop map, open a landmark as a readable section, or use the same content as a straightforward district guide on a phone.

How to use it

Open the theme-management entry for Theme Grounds, note the site’s current theme, and select only the site you intend to review.
Choose Preview Theme Grounds to view this theme privately on that site’s existing content without changing its selected theme. Check available page areas, sections and the mobile layout; create a page first if there is nothing to preview.
When ready, choose Apply Theme Grounds for that site. This changes its public design immediately, including already-published pages.
Choose Campus Green, Night Market, or Blueprint in Theme Studio.
Add one World Frame to the homepage and select Quad, High Street, Ring, or Riverside.
Add six to ten Landmark Plot widgets directly after it. Give each a unique landmark ID and use the same world slug.
Add one Minimap Nav and a Wayfinding Signpost using those same IDs.
Preview the desktop map, mobile district strip, list mode, keyboard navigation, and reduced-motion mode before publishing.

To recover the previous design, reopen the previous theme’s management entry, select the same site and choose its Apply button. This restores the theme selection; it does not undo content or shared Theme Studio settings. Saving those settings can affect public pages using that theme, so do not treat settings edits as private preview changes.

Grounds sections

World Frame introduces the place and chooses the coordinate template.
Landmark Plot holds one real place with its own heading, introduction, media, and link.
Minimap Nav and Wayfinding Signpost remain working fragment navigation without JavaScript.
District Directory, Resident Profile, and Opening Hours Board cover everyday visitor information.
Events Billboard, Visit Planner, and Trail Story support programming, conversion, and place stories.

Good to know

Use only one Minimap Nav on a homepage. Extra instances deliberately stay as plain navigation lists.
Template slots are tested not to overlap for ten normal landmarks. A coordinate override wins over the template and can create an overlap, so use it only after checking all desktop sizes.
Keep landmark copy concise. Very tall authored content remains readable when focused but makes the spatial footprint harder to scan.
The map/list choice is stored only for the browser session. Reduced-motion visitors start in list mode and can opt into instant map jumps.
Mobile is intentionally a district strip and stacked guide, not a compressed draggable map.
Fernworks Yard is fictional. Replace its names, directions, hours, contacts, links, and landmarks before publishing.

Try fictional demo content safely

Use private theme Preview for existing content. Ask a developer to follow safe demo setup in a disposable local site when you want fictional sample pages instead.

A scoped demo run writes sample pages, widgets and demo layouts, including on repeats, and can adopt the site recovery page. An unscoped run refuses existing sites; a scoped run preserves site configuration unless the developer deliberately chooses the documented overwrite option. Review the target, languages and domains together before setup.

For developers: see the README.