Design smarter, build faster with Ollie

A WordPress block theme is a modern, highly customizable WordPress theme built entirely with the block editor, enabling full site editing capabilities. It allows you to easily customize every aspect of your site, from headers to footers, using a user-friendly, drag-and-drop interface.

With centralized design settings via global styles, and access to a pattern library, block themes offer unparalleled speed and flexibility, ensuring your site looks great on any device without needing any coding knowledge. This makes creating and maintaining a professional, responsive website faster and easier than ever.

Best of all, you don’t need a WordPress page builder anymore. With a WordPress theme like Ollie, you can do all of this amazing site building right inside WordPress.

WordPress patterns are pre-designed components that can be easily inserted into your site, providing a quick and efficient way to create complex designs without needing to build from scratch. Patterns can be as small as a testimonial box, or as big as a full page layout.

Patterns are super valuable because they save you tons of time, ensure design consistency, and make it easy for users of all skill levels to create professional-looking pages.

By leveraging patterns, you can enhance your site’s appearance and functionality with minimal effort, allowing you to focus more on content and less on design.

Ollie is a free WordPress block theme available on WordPress.org. Anyone can install Ollie on their WordPress site for free and start building with blocks, patterns, and the site editor. Learn more about block themes and the site editor, visit our video library where we have videos for each feature.

Think of Ollie like a design system — it provides fluid typography and spacing presets, color palettes, custom styles for blocks, and a collection of patterns and templates that all work harmoniously with the WordPress block and site editor.

Ollie Pro is a paid plugin that adds even more WordPress patterns to your site via a cloud pattern library with an intuitive interface. That means you can build more websites even faster by mixing and matching hundreds of patterns and layouts.

Because the Ollie pattern library is in the cloud, it doesn’t weigh down your website and new patterns are available instantly without having to update the plugin.

Nope! The beauty of block themes and the site editor is that you can build your entire website with blocks, patterns, templates and styles, all within the WordPress editor. If you want to customize your site with code, you can, but it’s not required.

Ollie Pro currently ships with 4 pattern collections — sets of patterns that are all designed with a similar aesthetic. Each pattern collection will continue to receive new patterns each month, giving you hundreds more patterns you can mix and match to make unlimited layouts. Entirely new pattern collections will also be launched throughout your subscription.

We’ve created the Ollie Builder Academy video library to help you learn the ropes of building with modern WordPress features like blocks, block themes, patterns, and the site editor. Combined with our YouTube channel and blog, we’re pretty serious about helping you learn these new tools.

For Ollie Pro customers, we offer email-based one-on-one customer support to help you with any issues relating to Ollie or Ollie Pro. We’re here to help! You can access the support form via your Ollie Pro account.

After you’ve completed your purchase of Ollie Pro, an account will be created for you and you will receive an email with instructions on how to access your new Ollie Pro dashboard.

In your account dashboard, you’ll have access to the Ollie Pro plugin, the Ollie block theme, any other assets in your plan, and settings to manage your account.

Your subscription grants you one year of access to the Ollie Pro pattern library and any other Pro plugins or assets outlined in your plan’s pricing table.

Your subscription will auto-renew each year until cancelled. Don’t worry! We’ll send you an email when your subscription is about to renew in case you’d like to modify your subscription.

Once your subscription is inactive, you will no longer be able to access the Ollie Pro pattern library or add new Ollie Pro patterns to your site.

The patterns you already have in use on your site will not be affected by your subscription. We’d never mess with your website like that!

We don’t offer a traditional trial, but we do provide a 14-day refund window. If you’re not satisfied with our service within the first 14 days, you can request a full refund.

If you would like to modify your subscription, you can log into your Ollie Pro account where we have a painless way to cancel or upgrade your subscription.

We’ve designed and developed Ollie to integrate seamlessly into the core WordPress experience, blending it in seamlessly with the WordPress interface. This means it can be integrated into an array of different product and hosting setups.

If you would like to license Ollie Pro for use in your product or hosting environment, please contact us at hello@olliewp.com for pricing and details.

Ollie is hand-crafted and managed by veteran WordPress creators and all-around friendly folks, Mike McAlister and Patrick Posner. Collectively, we’ve been working in WordPress and creating intuitive products for decades.

Mike McAlister is the award-winning designer and engineer behind historically popular WordPress products such as Array Themes and Atomic Blocks (acquired by WP Engine), both used by hundreds of thousands of WordPress creators.

Patrick Posner is the creator of the hugely-popular Simply Static plugin (and many other plugins), which helps you generate a blazing-fast static website from your WordPress site.

We here at Ollie are not just passionate about crafting intuitive, forward-leaning products like Ollie Pro, we’re also passionate about education and user experience. We think it’s awesome that people like you want to use Ollie, and we want to do everything we can to make sure everyone is successful with it.

We’re hyped when someone designs and publishes their first blog with Ollie or learns some huge, time-saving tip from our tutorials! That’s why we’re here — the products are just one part of the experience we aim to provide.

If you have a question we haven’t answered here, please visit the Contact page and we’ll be happy to help you out!

An ollie is a fundamental skateboard trick. Here’s a step-by-step guide to performing an ollie:

Start by placing your back foot on the tail and your front foot around the middle of the board. Get low by bending your knees; this helps you prepare for the jump.

Now, press down hard on the tail with your back foot to make that popping sound and lift the front wheels off the ground. At the same time, slide your front foot up towards the nose of the board to level it out. As you do this, jump off your back foot, which will lift both you and the board into the air.

Try to keep the board level while you’re airborne. When you come back down, bend your knees slightly to absorb the impact and aim to land with your feet over the bolts for better balance and to avoid breaking your board. Keep practicing, and you’ll nail it in no time! Later, skater!