Now available — TailPress v5

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WordPress themes
with Tailwind CSS

A modern WordPress starter theme powered by Tailwind CSS v4 and Vite. Fast, flexible, and ready to customize.

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WordPress · Tailwind CSS · Vite · PHP 8 · TailPress

Everything you need to ship fast

TailPress gives you a production-ready foundation so you can focus on building, not configuring.

Tailwind CSS v4

Latest Tailwind with the new Vite plugin. CSS-first configuration, no tailwind.config.js required.

Vite Build System

Lightning-fast HMR and optimized production builds with tree-shaking and asset hashing.

WordPress Native

Full Gutenberg block support, theme.json, custom menus, and all standard WordPress hooks.

PHP 8 Framework

Clean object-oriented PHP with autoloading, service classes, and a fluent theme API.

Child Theme Ready

Designed from the ground up to be extended via child themes with isolated build pipelines.

Optimized Output

Production builds emit only the CSS classes you actually use — typically under 10 kB gzipped.

About this theme

A solid foundation, not a framework prison

TailPress is intentionally minimal. It handles the WordPress boilerplate — enqueuing assets, registering menus, enabling theme support — and then gets out of your way.

With Tailwind CSS v4's new engine, you get instant builds and a smaller output than ever. Pair that with Vite's HMR and you have a development loop that feels instant.

  • Zero runtime CSS-in-JS overhead
  • Manifest-based asset versioning
  • Block editor stylesheet support
  • PSR-4 autoloaded PHP classes
app.css

@import 'tailwindcss';

@import './theme.css';

@import './custom.css' layer(utilities);

@source '../../**/*.php';

/* That's it. Vite handles the rest. */

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