## About this documentation

Product: Grafton - Blog & Magazine WordPress Theme
URL: https://hub.jkdevstudio.com/docs/grafton/getting-started/about-docs
Updated: 2026-11-14
Summary: What Grafton is built for, what it needs, how these docs are organized, and a plain-language glossary of the block theme terms used throughout them.

Grafton is a block theme for an editorial blog or an online magazine. You build it in the Site Editor with WordPress blocks: no page builder, no Customizer panels. The theme draws the blog, single posts, pages, archives and search. Grafton Pro adds the magazine pages, story blocks, a newsletter and motion.

## What Grafton needs

- [x] WordPress 7.0 or newer
- [x] PHP 8.1 or newer
- [ ] A Grafton Pro license, for the home page, the story blocks, the newsletter and the motion settings

The full server checklist is in [server requirements](https://hub.jkdevstudio.com/knowledge-base/installation/server-requirements).

## How these docs are organized

The sections run in the order you set a site up. **Getting Started** to **Full Site Editing** cover buying, installing, importing the demo and working in the Site Editor; those pages are shared by every jkdevstudio theme. **Styles and settings**, **Pages, blog and patterns** and **Topics, authors and featured stories** describe what is specific to Grafton. Integrations, the Hub account, troubleshooting and policies close the list.

A crown next to an article means the feature needs Grafton Pro. See [Grafton and Grafton Pro](https://hub.jkdevstudio.com/docs/grafton/getting-started/theme-and-pro) for where the line falls.

## Glossary

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Block theme
: A theme built from blocks instead of PHP files. You change its templates, header and footer in the Site Editor, and its colors and fonts in Styles.

Site Editor
: The screen at [[Appearance > Editor]] where you edit templates, template parts, patterns, navigation and Styles.

Template
: The layout WordPress uses for one kind of page: the blog, a single post, a category, search results.

Template part
: A piece shared by many templates, such as the header or the footer. Edit it once and every page changes.

Pattern
: A ready-made group of blocks you insert from the Patterns tab. Once inserted, it is ordinary blocks you can edit.

Styles
: The site-wide design settings in the Site Editor: colors, fonts, sizes and spacing.

Style variation
: A complete alternative set of colors you switch to in one click. Grafton has Ink and Paper.

Theme Options
: The settings pages Grafton Pro adds under [[Grafton Pro > Theme Options]], such as Motion and Header.

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