Giving Day

A block-based WordPress theme for university, college, nonprofit, and community Giving Day events. Designed to pair with the giving-day-blocks and team51-donations plugins so a campaign site can be up in minutes.

Install

1. Activate the two companion plugins (and WooCommerce).
2. Activate Giving Day from Appearance → Themes.
3. Switch palette in Site Editor → Styles → Browse styles (Gray default, Crimson, Forest, or Ocean).

What's included

Custom page templates (8)

Selectable from the Page Attributes panel when editing any Page.

Template	Use it for
Donate Page	The main donation flow. Uses the minimal header so users don't bail mid-checkout.
Leaderboard	Standings: top donors, teams, beneficiaries.
Thank You	Post-donation confirmation + social share + recent donors.
Donor Wall	Public recognition of recent givers.
Sponsors	Match partners + sponsor logo wall.
FAQ	Help / common questions, accordion layout.
Contact	Email, phone, address, social.
No Title	Page with the title hidden — for hero-only landing pages.

CPT and taxonomy templates

Auto-matched by filename — no setup required:

• archive-giving_beneficiary.html + single-giving_beneficiary.html
• archive-giving_team.html + single-giving_team.html
• taxonomy-giving_cause.html

Plus standard FSE templates: front-page, home, page, single, archive, search, 404, index.

Template parts (5)

• header — logo + nav + Donate pill button
• header-minimal — logo only (used by Donate / Thank You flows)
• footer — four-column footer with social
• footer-tagline — slim event-tagline footer
• sidebar-campaign — countdown + goal progress + give-now button

Patterns (17)

Available from the block inserter under four categories.

Giving Day — Hero

• hero-countdown — full-width hero with the state-aware countdown block
• hero-progress — hero centered on the goal-progress block
• hero-story — image-left, copy-right storytelling hero

Giving Day — Page sections

• donate-cta-banner — accent banner with a pill donate button
• impact-stat-trio — three large impact stats
• leaderboard-section — heading + tabbed leaderboard
• beneficiary-grid — featured-beneficiary query grid
• team-grid — featured-team query grid
• sponsor-grid — sponsor logo wall
• donor-wall-grid — recent donor recognition
• faq-accordion — six pre-written collapsible Q&As
• story-quote — large serif pullquote

Giving Day — Cards & lists

• beneficiary-card — single beneficiary card (used inside query loops)
• team-card — single team card (used inside query loops)

Giving Day — Footer

• header-with-donate — composable header bar
• footer-columns — four-column footer
• footer-newsletter — newsletter call-to-action footer

Style variations (3)

Switch from Site Editor → Styles → Browse styles. Each variation redefines the same five color slugs so plugin blocks recolor automatically.

Variation	Primary	Accent	Background
Crimson	#8B0000	#D4A017	#FFFDF7
Forest	#1B4332	#F77F00	#FBFAF7
Ocean	#0B4A6F	#06B6D4	#F8FAFC

Block style variations (8)

Block	Variations
core/button	donate-pill, ghost
core/group	card-elevated, card-outline
core/heading	display-serif, eyebrow
core/pullquote	impact
core/separator	accent-rule

Theming notes

Color contract with the plugins

The plugin blocks read these five theme.json color slugs via CSS custom properties:

primary, secondary, tertiary, accent, background

Don't rename them. They're how giving-day-blocks picks up the theme palette. See plugins/giving-day-blocks/blocks/src/_shared/tokens.scss for the mapping.

Per-campaign color overrides

giving-day-blocks lets each giving_campaign post override its own primary / secondary / tertiary / accent / background. Those overrides cascade as inline styles on each block wrapper and must win over the theme palette. The theme avoids !important on --wp--preset--color--* for that reason.

Donor Wall = leaderboard block

There is no donation CPT — donations are WooCommerce orders. The Donor Wall page and the donor-wall-grid pattern both use giving-day/leaderboard with dimension: top_donors. Don't query orders directly from a theme template.

Fonts

Inter + Source Serif 4 (variable WOFF2) are self-hosted under /assets/fonts/. If a font file is missing, the stack falls back to system-ui / Georgia without error. See the readme.txt for re-fetch URLs.

Companion plugins (required)

Plugin	Provides
giving-day-blocks	7 blocks (countdown, totals, goal-progress, leaderboard, leaderboard-tabs, match-my-gift, causes-browser), 5 CPTs, 2 taxonomies, REST API
team51-donations	Donations Form block (basic / extended / compact), Donation Progress Bar block
WooCommerce	Required by team51-donations

License

GPL v2 or later — see LICENSE.