Description
Municipality theme for WordPress with Events, Directory, Galleries and Documents Management plus a whole stack more!
Pressville is a professionally designed and developed WordPress theme with small to medium townships and municipalities in mind. You will find an extensive list of features to help create the website your town needs.
From news stories to directory listings, a powerful document management system to beautiful galleries and integrated event management, Pressville has got you covered.
Pressville is ready to be translated to your language (with support for RTL languages) and it is optimized for the new WordPress block editor (Gutenberg). The Elementor plugin and WPBakery Page Builder (bundled version is included) are supported as well.
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Packed with Municipality-specific Features
News
A good municipality keeps it’s people, stakeholders, employees and members of the public well informed.
Directory
Display a directory of businesses in your municipality with important contact details and opening hours.
Events
Versatile system that can organise town events with support for precise location, date, time and recurrence.
Documents
You can provide access to both local attachments that are uploaded into your WordPress installation and external links.
People
Display professional profiles of elected officials, service people and employees in a simple yet elegant manner.
Galleries
Show stunning photo galleries of your town’s most important assets, points of interest and architecture.
Notices
A handy way to display important information messages without bloating the main news feed.
Admin Screens
Click on each image for the full view.
Other Notable Features
- Google Maps, Mapbox and Open Street Map support for directory listing maps and event location maps
- Compatible with WordPress block editor (Gutenberg), Elementor and WPBakery Page Builder
- Clean code – easily customizable via child theme
- Modular post types – you can disable post types you don’t need
- Support for bbPress plugin
- Mobile-friendly design
- Demo content included
- Child theme included
- Custom color schemes
- Translation files included
- RTL support
- Slovak translation included
Images seen in live preview (demo) are NOT included.
Can’t Decide Between the TownPress and the Pressville?
When it comes to list of features, both themes are almost the same. Both are bundled with essential LSVR plugins for events, directory listings, documents, galleries, person directory and notices. The backend of both themes is almost indistinguishable from each other. Same applies to the code quality. Even though the TownPress was released two years before Pressville (so you may think it is a bit dated), the TownPress 2.0 update was released in January 2018. This major update was basically a complete rework of the theme from the scratch. The biggest difference between the two, and the one on which you should probably make the decision, is the design.
The Pressville is a great choice if you have many high quality photos of your municipality or some nice stock photos in general. It is ideal for bigger municipalities which want their site to be focused more on showcasing the city towards potential tourists or visitors. There is a lot of space between all the page elements so everything stands out on its own and nothing is cluttered, which creates a more modern look.
On the other hand, the TownPress is a great theme for municipal sites aimed mainly at providing as much information as possible for their residents. You can use two sidebars at once and there is a higher text density, so you can display a lot of information without making your pages too long to scroll. This is more traditional approach to a municipality theme, especially great for smaller municipalities, which do not necessary have a lot of high quality photos suitable for the web.
The good thing to keep in mind is that the transition between both themes is rather easy. All your core content like news posts, events, documents, notices, directory listings and galleries you’ve created in one theme will be available in the other one as well (in case you decide to switch from one to another in the future).
Customer Reviews
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 which are not covered in the offer.
Very professional design, looks great, plenty of theme customisation options.
Perfect theme for redoing my small city’s website.
Great Theme, great documentation, extremly fast Support – Great work!
Updates
v2.3.1 – 6 August 2020
Hotfix for the incorrect theme version number
v2.3.0 – 4 August 2020
Opening hours in directory listing posts can now be split into up to three time periods to accommodate (lunch) breaks. Updated LSVR Framework plugin to 1.7.0 Various small fixes
Complete changelog can be found here.
