Floe

A WordPress platform built so every site starts from a foundation that lasts. Strategy, product design, a design system and WordPress engineering, all by the studio.

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The Floe website home page

The problem

Every site started from a blank page.

Most agency websites begin the same way: a blank theme, a new set of layouts, and a client who soon needs a page nobody designed. Editors either break the design or wait for a developer. We wanted the opposite: a library of designed pieces every site could start from, branded for each client, and simple enough that anyone on the team can build a good page.

Floe's blocks as pieces in a wooden type tray

The idea

Everything is a block.

Pages are made of blocks, and every block should arrive designed. Editors pick what the page needs and fill it in; the layout, spacing and responsive behaviour are already solved. Anything that can be native WordPress is. What can’t be lives in the theme, and anything that should outlive a theme change is a small, focused plugin.

The library

Twenty-five blocks for every part of a page.

Openings, storytelling, proof, details and conversion: each block is ready for real copy and images, on a light or dark background.

The Floe blocks showcase page
A selection of Floe's storytelling blocks

Design system

Wireframe, design and code that match.

Every block starts as a wireframe and a design in Figma before it’s built in WordPress, and the three stay in step. Each client gets their own colour, type and imagery on the same foundation.

Responsive by default

Every block, on every screen.

The Floe website home page, from the hero to the footer
The Floe website on a phone

Principles

Built to be used, not just launched.

Native WordPress

Built on the block editor, theme.json and core features. No page builder plugin to fight or outgrow.

Its own brand

Each client site is a child theme of Floe, so it keeps its own brand and gets every improvement.

Made to be edited

Every block comes with guidance for editors, so the hundredth page looks as designed as the first.

Where it runs

Floe runs floewp.com and getnumbat.com today, and it’s where every Gloe website starts. When a project needs something Floe doesn’t have, we design it, build it, and it becomes another block in the library.

Want a site built on Floe?

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