Campaign – Political WordPress Theme Overview
Campaign is a compact WordPress design built around the three jobs a candidate’s website usually has to do: gather supporter contact details, publish a schedule of upcoming appearances, and make giving easy to find. The donate button sits in the header menu and can be pointed at any giving page, not only a PayPal account.
It comes from scubetheme on ThemeForest and dates from an earlier era of WordPress design, before visual page builders arrived. Layout choices are made in theme options: a boxed or full-width body, one of four colour schemes, a background pattern, and a content column set left or right. Widgets fill the home banner and footer, sized automatically.
Supporter sign-ups run through the WP Email Capture plugin, free or paid, and collected addresses can be exported to a mailing service such as MailChimp or Constant Contact. Listings are styled for The Events Calendar, and translation files ship with the download, French among them.
Key Features of Campaign – Political WordPress Theme
- Header donate button that can link to any giving page or processor
- Supporter capture through the WP Email Capture plugin, free or premium
- Export of collected addresses to MailChimp, Constant Contact and similar services
- Styling that matches The Events Calendar and its Pro edition
- Boxed or full-width body with a left or right content column
- Four colour schemes and six background pattern options
- Four custom widgets, including a SlabText widget for oversized headline type
- Home page feed limited to one category or showing every post
- Embed fields for YouTube and Vimeo video across posts and slides
- Home page slider, image lightboxes, hover effects and social media icons
Who Campaign – Political WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
The price and the feature set both point at a lean local effort: a first-time council or school board candidate, a riding association, a ratepayers’ group, or a small advocacy organisation that mostly needs to announce meetings and build a mailing list. The bundled translation files help where English and French are both expected.
Nothing in it is tied to a party or a platform, so your own wording, photography and colour choice do the positioning. Groups needing a membership area, a store or a layered giving workflow will outgrow it quickly.
Important Notes About Campaign – Political WordPress Theme
This is an old listing, and the vendor still describes XHTML markup and jQuery effects, so AppiAppi tests it against current WordPress and PHP on a staging copy first and confirms the plugins it leans on still behave. The block editor plays no part in how pages are assembled here.
The footer disclaimer field was written for American committee rules, so a Canadian campaign needs its own authorization wording instead. Canadian rules govern who may contribute and how much, how contributions are receipted, who must be named as authorizing election advertising including online ads, and when third-party advertisers register; they differ federally, provincially and municipally. Supporter lists carry privacy duties, the campaign is responsible for compliance, and AppiAppi offers no legal advice.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
You choose Campaign and buy its licence yourself on ThemeForest, where scubetheme remains the author and the source of theme support. AppiAppi installs it, sets up the plugins it depends on, and replaces the demo with your material: a biography, issue pages, news posts, the events list, a sign-up form, and a header donate button aimed at your own payment processor.
From there we run the site on whatever subscription plan you hold, posting announcements and event details, adding photos and video embeds, testing updates before they reach visitors, and passing on messages that arrive through your forms. AI-assisted SEO and content support is included, so local searches turn up the site.
Original design by scubetheme. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source