Where to Download RocketTheme's Old Templates and Gantry Themes for Free

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RocketTheme's old templates and Gantry themes are available for free from two places: the RocketTheme GitHub organization (github.com/rockettheme) for free Gantry themes, RocketLauncher installers, and developer tooling, and gantry.org for the Gantry framework itself. These archives are free and open source because RocketTheme's paid club, member downloads, and support forum closed on June 30, 2025, and no new memberships or renewals are offered. If you need a specific premium template that was never released as open source, it is not part of these archives.

What closed, and what that means for downloads

RocketTheme operated from 2005 to 2025, building premium themes and extensions for Joomla, WordPress, phpBB, and Grav, along with the Gantry theme framework that powered them. On June 30, 2025, the mission concluded: the club, member downloads, and support forum closed with the site, and no new memberships or renewals are available.

The practical consequence: anything that lived only behind the membership paywall is gone. What remains is the open-source portion, which the site describes as "free and open source."

Where the free archives live

Resource Location What you'll find
RocketTheme on GitHub github.com/rockettheme Free Gantry themes, RocketLauncher installers, and developer tooling from the RocketTheme years
Gantry Framework gantry.org The open-source theme framework behind RocketTheme's templates, for Joomla, WordPress, and Grav

RocketTheme on GitHub

This is the main archive for downloadable assets. According to the site, it hosts:

  • Free Gantry themes — the template layer built on Gantry
  • RocketLauncher installers — packaged installers that set up a site with a theme and demo content
  • Developer tooling — utilities from the RocketTheme years

Browse the organization at github.com/rockettheme to see which repositories are public and what each contains.

Gantry Framework at gantry.org

Gantry is the theme framework that powered RocketTheme's templates, available for Joomla, WordPress, and Grav. It is now in the hands of Tiger12, its official steward, and is still actively maintained. If you are installing an archived RocketTheme theme, check gantry.org for the matching framework version and current maintenance status.

What kinds of assets are available

  • Themes — free Gantry-based templates, not the full premium catalog
  • Installers — RocketLauncher packages for setting up a working site
  • Framework — Gantry itself, separately maintained at gantry.org
  • Tooling — developer utilities published under the RocketTheme GitHub organization

If you are looking for a specific commercial template from the membership era, confirm whether it appears in the GitHub organization before assuming it survived the closure.

Where the team's work continues

If you used RocketTheme and want to follow the same people, the site points to several ongoing projects:

  • Trilby Media (trilby.media) — the studio behind RocketTheme, offering Grav CMS consulting, custom development, managed hosting, and what it describes as the only official Grav SLA
  • Grav CMS (getgrav.org) — the open-source flat-file CMS started at RocketTheme in 2014, now shipping as Grav 2.0
  • KahunaCart (kahunacart.com) — ecommerce built into Grav, with products, orders, and customers in your own database and server, licensed once
  • SkulkWorks (skulkworks.dev) — native Mac apps from RocketTheme's founder, including Riffle for diff and merge and RasterFox for image optimization, with no subscriptions
  • YetiDevWorks (yetidevworks.com) — open-source developer tools and experiments in Rust and PHP

Practical notes before you download

  • Check the framework version. An archived theme needs a compatible Gantry release; gantry.org is the place to confirm what is currently maintained.
  • Expect no official support. The support forum closed with the site, so archived themes and installers come as-is.
  • Verify the license per repository. The site states the archives are free and open source, but individual repositories on GitHub carry their own license files.
  • Prefer the maintained path for new projects. Gantry is still actively maintained by Tiger12, and Grav 2.0 is the current release of the CMS that began at RocketTheme — useful if you want a supported stack rather than a frozen archive.