Rocket Board – Metro WordPress Theme Overview
Rocket Board builds a home page from a grid of tiles rather than a list of articles. Each thumbnail takes one of four footprints, from a single square to a double-width, double-height block, so emphasis is set tile by tile. Every box carries its own colour or the panel default, and rests either as that flat colour or as the featured image.
GoodLayers publishes it. Nine background colours and eight overlay patterns are supplied, or an owner’s own image can be uploaded. A drag and drop page builder and slider manager are included, with five custom post types covering galleries, portfolio entries, testimonials, pricing and personnel.
The vendor’s opening line calls this a portfolio theme, and that is the honest reading. Blog posts can feed the same board, which is why it sits in the blog and magazine category, but the result is a visual index rather than a newsroom front page.
Key Features of Rocket Board – Metro WordPress Theme
- Four tile footprints, from one square to a double-width, double-height block
- Colour chosen per tile, or the default set once in the admin panel
- Tile resting state set to a flat colour or the featured image
- Nine background colours, eight overlay patterns, or an uploaded background
- Portfolio entries and ordinary posts both able to populate the board
- Three article layouts, each with left, right, both or no sidebar
- Five custom post types: gallery, portfolio, testimonial, pricing, personnel
- Drag and drop page builder and slider manager
- Thumbnails holding a static image, a slider or a video
- Translation template, font and logo uploaders, six footer layouts
Who Rocket Board – Metro WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
The format suits a Canadian business whose work is the argument: a photography or design studio, an illustrator, a music venue, an agency wanting one scrollable index of projects. The pricing and personnel post types also cover a rates page and a team page without extra plugins.
It is weak for a publication filing several stories a day. There is no breaking-news strip, no editor’s-pick slot and no section hierarchy, so a magazine would curate tiles by hand. A blog that publishes occasionally and leads with photography gains far more.
Important Notes About Rocket Board – Metro WordPress Theme
The listing publishes no changelog, linking to one on the vendor’s support site, so the only release marker in the item page is the packaged stylesheet at 1.3.8. The item dates from 2013, maintenance is recorded in August 2026, and the declared range runs from WordPress 6.1 to 7.0. Two of the three bundled slider scripts have had no upstream development in years, so check them on the demo.
The declared record adds WPML, which the body never mentions; the body offers only a translation template, so multilingual work needs that separate licence. Demo photography is credited to named illustrators and is not supplied. Nothing here serves advertising, meters access or sends email: sidebars are widget areas. Comment records are personal information under PIPEDA, Quebec’s Law 25 and the Alberta and British Columbia acts, and a commercial site serving Quebec is expected to publish in French. AppiAppi gives no legal advice.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
The customer buys the GoodLayers licence, so the theme stays theirs. AppiAppi installs it, builds the board from real projects and posts, sets each tile’s footprint, colour and resting state, then configures archives, the article template, typography, sidebars and footer.
After launch AppiAppi loads galleries, pricing and team entries, keeps the theme and WordPress patched, watches image weight so a tile-heavy front page stays quick, and supplies AI-assisted SEO and content support. Enquiries are answered at the level the subscription plan covers.
Original design by GoodLayers. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source