Marathon WordPress Theme

SWP Marathon Pro is a marathon WordPress theme built for race organisers, running clubs and endurance events that need a fast, modern website ready before registration opens. It ships with every page a race needs – a race-day countdown, distance cards, entry fees, a route schedule, a training banner, a photo gallery and a contact form – all editable from the WordPress Customizer without touching code.

Built for race organisers, not generic templates

Most multipurpose themes treat a running event like any other business. This marathon WordPress theme starts from how runners actually use a race website. They want to know the date, the distances, the price and the start time, and they want to register in two clicks. The homepage puts all four above the fold: a full-screen hero with your headline, a live countdown timer to the starting gun, and Register Now and View Route buttons.

Below the hero, the Our Races section presents every distance – full marathon, half marathon, 10K run, 5K fun run, kids dash, wheelchair and relay – as selectable chips beside large photo cards showing distance, start time and cut-off. Runners find their event in seconds.

Every section a running event website needs

• Hero with countdown timer – set the race date and time in the Customizer and the countdown updates live.
• Our Races – distance chips and race cards with image, tag, distance and start details.
• About the race – story, edition badge and three headline statistics such as runners, volunteers and funds raised.
• Why runners come back – four feature boxes for course, aid stations, medals and live chip timing.
• Race day schedule – a timeline of gates, wave starts and awards, beside a route image with distance, elevation and aid-station stats.
• Registration and entry fees – four pricing cards with a highlighted Most Popular plan.
• Training plan banner – promote free 16-week plans or group runs.
• Gallery, testimonials carousel, sponsors, blog, FAQ and contact – everything from last year’s photos to finisher reviews and partner logos.

Each section can be shown, hidden and reordered, and every heading, text, image, button and link is a Customizer setting.

Complete Customizer control

SWP Marathon Pro puts design and content control in one place. Change the brand orange, the dark accent and the Outfit typography. Upload separate logos for the header, the sticky header, the footer and the preloader – the theme selects sensible defaults out of the box. Control the testimonial carousel speed and autoplay, and choose which blog posts appear on the homepage.

A built-in marketing pop-up opens when a visitor scrolls 50% down the homepage. You control its title, text, image, button, delay, frequency and on/off switch, so you can push early-bird pricing or a newsletter sign-up without installing another plugin.

Inner pages and Contact Form 7 ready

The theme includes page templates for About, Races, Schedule, Pricing, Gallery, Blog and Contact, each with a matching page banner and breadcrumbs. The contact page and homepage contact section are styled for Contact Form 7, so registration questions, volunteer sign-ups and sponsorship enquiries land straight in your inbox.

One-click demo import

The setup wizard installs the recommended plugins and imports the demo in one click: pages, menus, blog posts, images and Customizer settings. Your site looks like the live demo in minutes, and you replace the content with your own event details.

Fast, responsive and SEO friendly

Speed matters when thousands of runners visit on registration day. SWP Marathon Pro loads one lean stylesheet and one small vanilla JavaScript file with no jQuery dependency on the front end. Images are lazy-loaded, Google Fonts are preconnected, and emoji and embed scripts are removed. The layout is fully responsive, from a 4-column desktop grid down to single-column cards on phones, with a touch-friendly mobile menu.

Clean semantic HTML5, proper heading order and schema-friendly markup help your running event website rank for the searches that matter: your race name, your city marathon and the distances you offer.

Why choose this marathon WordPress theme

• Purpose-built for marathons, half marathons, fun runs and trail races
• Live race countdown and entry-fee pricing tables
• Testimonial carousel and 50% scroll pop-up included
• Separate header, sticky, footer and loader logos
• Contact Form 7 styling and one-click demo importer
• Translation ready, accessible focus states and reduced-motion support
• Gutenberg compatible, child-theme friendly and regularly updated

Whether you run a 400-person community 5K or a 12,000-runner city marathon, SWP Marathon Pro gives you a professional race website that sells entries, informs runners and celebrates every finisher. Install the marathon WordPress theme today and open registration this week.

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