Rating: 5 stars
Ollie has set the bar for block themes as far as I’m concerned. If you’re transitioning to FSE there is no better theme than Ollie. It’s clean, impeccably coded, the patterns are awesome and the support is next level. I highly recommend getting Ollie Pro to take it to the next level, the full site page designs and patterns are beautiful.
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Have been using since release and this theme was handy for blogs
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Ollie is the perfect FSE theme for switching from a classic theme!
Everything works and look and it looks great too.
I’ve converted 6 sites originally built using Astra Pro. I converted five to Ollie and one to Ollie Pro. I’ve been holding back on converting two sites. Nothing to do with Ollie, more to do with WordPress where I am patiently (not) awaiting a fix to the navigation menu and some basic form of collapsible menus on mobile.
Ollie is awesome. It also has good support.
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Mike McAlister created great Classic Themes and now he shows how FSE/Block Themes should be: Simple, logical and with a wonderful pixel-perfect design.
Don’t forget to download the Ollie Dash plugin from the Ollie homepage and you’ll have the perfect starting aid for switching from classic themes!
Rating: 5 stars
I’ve spent a month using the Ollie theme now following a couple of builds with Twenty Twenty-Four. Ollie really helps to take the website to the next level. Everything works and look that little bit better.
I had a couple of issues that got sorted and will be signing up the pro version as soon as it’s available.
Brilliant theme, highly recommended.
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Wonderful theme, great patterns.
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A very forward looking development by smart people. Ollie is my recommended entry point to explore the power of the block theme idea. Currently developing an industrial website, multilingual. Let’s see how friendly Ollie will be …
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Very easy to understand and work with.
Has a page template with sidebar which some other FSE themes do not have.
Has a page template full width, no title, which you typically need on a front page.
Has many really nice patterns including patterns meant to be used to create the front page – each of these patterns contains many rows and many blocks to create an instant starting point for a complete front page.
Has IMO nice fonts out of the box, no need to add fonts.
Well supported in support forum.
Separate plugin available to help people do the initial setup and configuration of the theme – very helpful especially for people new to FSE themes.
Very impressive.
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Ollie is stable, nicely designed, and lightly opinionated. I’ve used it to replicate existing designs and create entirely new ones. It’s definitely what I would consider a “designer’s theme” as Mike McAlister comes from a web design and product design pedigree and is highly attentive to the various ratios, rhythms, and components a good base theme needs to be useful and extensible.
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I’m a completely newbie web developer. But I have to create a site for my professor. And Ollie is saving my life. Thank you very much Mr. McAlister !!!
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I installed Ollie and the plugin, super easy to set up a blog quickly and easily. An excellent approach!
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It’s really fast, and the pre-built pattern is beautiful. Kudos Mike!
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I really like Ollie! It makes starting a new Website easy and straight forward.
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Best Block Theme finally available
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just can’t understand why the WP team blocked this for so long.
Ollie actually maps what the WP FSE is trying to do, making WP the site builder, leveraging on patterns, unbloating from heavy block builders that each go into a separate direction.
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Great FSE theme, I hope that it will gain popularity and always introduce new features as WordPress evolves.
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I can′t wait to see more developments!
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Ollie is a phantastic block theme with a lot of love for details:
And so on and so on.
Now that it’s in the directory I am really looking forward to using Ollie on real web sites (and in tutorials).
The name refers to a skateboard trick, and for many skateboarders the ollie is one of the first tricks they learn.
I’m sure that for many WordPress users the Ollie theme will be one of the first block themes they try. And probably the last. It’s that good.
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And the standard version being open source is great and gives much confidence in this theme.
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Love this block theme! Highly recommended if you want to keep your entire workflow in the block editor.
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Until now what I have seen has been great! Keep up the great work.
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I am using Ollie since the beginning on several WordPress websites that I own and I can say that the theme is blazing fast and it helps edit my website with FSE easily.
Patterns that cames with theme are really nice and build with the default Gutenberg blocks.
Give OllieWP a try!