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Enhance home screen and front page customization options in Neve Free

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
php
Domain
design, frontend, web-dev

Research direction

Start by reviewing Neve’s existing Customizer, default page template, starter site templates, and block-editor setup to determine which front-page controls already exist in free mode. Done means the scope is narrowed to a defined set of free homepage options or patterns that meet the listed acceptance criteria and can be verified without requiring Neve Pro.

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Description

feature-request-triage

Impact: 65 · Confidence: 85 · Complexity: 50

Description

  1. Problem: Users adopting Neve Free struggle to customize their homepage layout/sections or feel restricted compared to expected theme customizer controls, leading to early churn within minutes of install.
  2. Desired behavior: Provide clearer homepage customization options, starter section templates, or expanded Customizer layout controls in free mode to allow quick setup of common homepage layouts without requiring Neve Pro.
  3. Acceptance criteria:
  • Surface clear homepage editing options or layout toggles in the Neve Customizer panel for free users.
  • Provide intuitive setup options or starter content block patterns for static homepages.
  • Ensure free users have basic layout flexibility (e.g., container width, header/content alignment) for front page templates.

Customer Context

Feedback entry collected from 1 site during theme deactivation (active for 27 minutes). Reason: 'It lacks options' — comment: 'Customize home screen in free mode'.

Root Cause Analysis

The customer wants to quickly build and customize a home page layout in Neve's free version. The underlying problem is that users evaluating the free theme find the front page customization options in the Customizer or default page template restrictive or hard to discover, prompting early deactivation. This can be addressed by improving free Customizer controls, homepage setup onboarding, or providing built-in block patterns for front pages.

Alternative Suggestions

Expand basic front-page customizer settings and block pattern presets in Neve Free so users can customize home screen sections easily without upgrading to Neve Pro.

Reasoning

The user uninstalled Neve after 27 minutes citing 'It lacks options' with the comment 'Customize home screen in free mode'. In Neve (a traditional WordPress theme), homepage layout/content customization relies either on starter site templates, standard Customizer options, or the block editor, whereas advanced front page controls and custom layouts are part of Neve Pro. Rather than creating an entire net-new module for homepage building in the free theme, improving front-page customization options, onboarding guidance, or Customizer presets in free mode addresses the root cause of users feeling constrained when setting up their home page.

Source: automated uninstall feedback — neve, 2026-09-26
Generated by feature-request-triage workflow (ID: feature-request-triage_6ab8a3106f4725.30749042)

Dominant language
PHP
Stars
307
Forks
88
Avg merge
1d 6h
Merged PRs (30d)
10

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