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Overview

A light, photography-led travel and attractions guide: experiences as perforated tickets, region pages, itineraries, events and maps, with no plugins.

Wayfare is a block theme for destination guides, regional tourism sites and travel writers who list sights, tours, events and places to stay. Big landscape photos and generous white space set the tone; postage stamps, postcards and luggage tags give it its travel-magazine character.

  • Experiences: a listing type with themes (museums, beaches, hikes, food tours…), regions and "Good to know" notes (family friendly, step-free, free entry), shown as tickets with a perforated edge and a price stub.
  • Search and filters: search by keyword, theme and region, plus price, "open now", verified and sorting.
  • Single experiences: a photo mosaic with lightbox, opening times with a live "open now" status, prices, a prominent map with "Get directions", contact buttons and an inquiry or booking form.
  • Region pages: a wide banner with the region's photo and its sub-regions as chips, then every experience in it.
  • Itineraries: a "Three days in the region" hero and an itinerary pattern that lists experiences as numbered stops on a dotted route.
  • Events: a "This month" strip of upcoming events with calendar tiles.
  • Heroes: a landscape with a luggage-tag search, a postcard stack, a three-day route, a background video (with a pause button), a featured experience and a region bento.
  • Built in, no plugins needed: contact, newsletter and trip request forms (messages are stored under Messages in the dashboard), photo galleries (masonry and carousel) with a lightbox, featured video, scroll rails, entrance animations that respect reduced motion, and a light/dark color scheme switch.
  • Style variations: Night train (dark), Alpine, Riviera and Desert.

Secure Custom Fields (free, from WordPress.org) is the editing interface for opening hours, prices, galleries and the other experience details; the theme shows a notice with a one-click install. Experiences display without it.

Questions

Where do form messages go?

Every form submission is stored under Messages in the dashboard. Messages → Settings sets who receives an email copy; it defaults to the site's admin email. Inquiries about an experience also go to the experience's own inquiry email when it has one.

How do I add an experience?

Experiences → Add New. Give it a cover (featured image), a theme and a region, then fill in the details tabs: hours, prices, location (latitude and longitude for the map), contact and photos. Choose the type "Event" for festivals and markets, "Stay" for guesthouses.

How do I import the demo content?

Appearance → Import demo imports the Saltmere Coast guide: 12 experiences, themes, regions, the pages and a menu.

Can I add a featured video?

Yes. In the editor's sidebar, the Featured video panel takes a YouTube or Vimeo link or a video file. It plays where the template shows the featured video and falls back to the featured image.

How do I turn off the animations?

Animations are added with motion classes on blocks (Advanced → Additional CSS classes or the Motion panel); remove them there. Visitors who ask their system for reduced motion see no animations.

How does dark mode work?

The sun/moon button in the header switches between the light palette and the dark "Night train" palette and remembers the choice; by default the visitor's system setting decides. With the Night train style variation the site stays dark.

All versions

  1. 1.0.0WordPress 7.0+ · PHP 7.4+ZIP · 2.6 MB
    • First release.

    SHA-256 5dd206c681290fdfeccbff215f70837a94c56375cf37d441da376360a2b0da58

Credits

Wayfare WordPress Theme, (C) 2026 Symelo LTD. Wayfare is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Symelo Theme Kit (inc/kit) and Symelo directory foundation (inc/foundation) License: GPLv2 or later (C) 2026 Symelo LTD

Lucide icons (inc/foundation/src/Support/Icons.php) License: ISC (inc/foundation/LICENSE-lucide.txt); icons derived from Feather: MIT Copyright (c) 2026 Lucide Icons and Contributors; (c) 2013-present Cole Bemis Source: https://lucide.dev

Tabler Icons: the "dental" icon, used as the tooth icon (inc/foundation/src/Support/Icons.php) License: MIT (inc/foundation/LICENSE-lucide.txt) Copyright (c) 2020-2024 Pawel Kuna Source: https://tabler.io/icons

DM Serif Display License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (assets/fonts/dm-serif-display/OFL.txt) Copyright 2014-2017 Adobe Systems Incorporated, with Reserved Font Name 'Source'. Copyright 2019 Google LLC. Source: https://github.com/googlefonts/dm-fonts

Albert Sans License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (assets/fonts/albert-sans/OFL.txt) Copyright 2021 The Albert Sans Project Authors Source: https://github.com/usted/Albert-Sans

Images from the Symelo placeholder library (https://symelo.com/tools/placeholder-images), (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, distributed with the theme under the GPLv2 or later:

  • assets/images/coast-road.webp: travel-1
  • assets/images/viaduct.webp: travel-3
  • assets/images/terraces.webp: travel-6
  • assets/images/country-lane.webp: travel-11
  • assets/video/valley-pan.mp4: a slow pan made from travel-6
  • inc/foundation/demo/images/cafe.webp: interiors-8
  • inc/foundation/demo/images/bakery.webp: food-12
  • inc/foundation/demo/images/trattoria.webp: food-4
  • inc/foundation/demo/images/guesthouse.webp: interiors-4
  • inc/foundation/demo/images/cowork.webp: workspace-8
  • inc/foundation/demo/images/ceramics.webp: workspace-6
  • inc/foundation/demo/images/spa.webp: interiors-7
  • inc/foundation/demo/images/gallery.webp: architecture-12
  • inc/foundation/demo/images/old-town.webp: travel-9
  • inc/foundation/demo/images/harbour.webp: travel-5

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