LT Gravity is a theme for small planetariums and astronomy clubs, built with free Elementor: a home page that opens with the month drawn as a moon calendar (every night with the Moon in its phase, club nights ringed), this week's dome shows, the three kinds of club night and the Moon phase that sets each one, what you can see through the club telescopes, the dark-sky field, membership with example prices, first-night questions, sky notes and directions. Inner pages cover the shows and tickets, school and group visits, observing nights, telescope loans and membership, and visits are requested with a ready booking form. A Hello Elementor child theme with bundled fonts, one-page mode and a mobile menu.
Editions
| Edition | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | The child theme with its design, fonts, header and footer, The club and Visit and join pages, blog and 404 templates, one-page mode and the mobile menu. Credit link stays. |
| Pro Standard | $29 a year | Every page, sample posts and one-click demo import, credit removal. Downloads, updates and ticket support for 1 year, 1 website. |
| Pro Unlimited | $49 once | Everything in Pro Standard plus the AI kit. Unlimited websites, lifetime updates and ticket support. |
Pages in Free (Appearance → Starter setup): The club, Visit and join, Sky notes. Pages in Pro (Appearance → Demo import): Home, The club, Membership, Planetarium shows, Show times and tickets, School and group visits, Observing, Club nights, Dark-sky nights, Moon nights, Planet nights, Telescope loans, Visit and join, Sky notes.
Quick setup
- Install the free Elementor plugin and the Hello Elementor theme, then upload and activate LT Gravity (Install and update).
- Optional: activate WPForms Lite for the booking and club request form.
- Pro: Appearance → Demo import → Import (Demo import). Free: Appearance → Starter setup.
- Replace the demo content and pictures (below), set your logo and the header button.
Pages in the demo
| Page | Under | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Home | – | Pro |
| The club | – | Free |
| Membership | The club | Pro |
| Planetarium shows | – | Pro |
| Show times and tickets | Planetarium shows | Pro |
| School and group visits | Planetarium shows | Pro |
| Observing | – | Pro |
| Club nights | Observing | Pro |
| Dark-sky nights | Club nights | Pro |
| Moon nights | Club nights | Pro |
| Planet nights | Club nights | Pro |
| Telescope loans | Observing | Pro |
| Visit and join | – | Free |
| Sky notes (blog) | – | Free |
Home page sections
The home page sections, in order, with the name they have in Elementor’s Navigator and their CSS ID (the anchor used by one-page mode and by links such as /#month).
| Section (Navigator name) | CSS ID |
|---|---|
| This month | #month |
| Under the dome | #shows |
| Club nights | #observing |
| What you can see | #sky |
| The dark-sky field | #field |
| Join the club | #club |
| First night | #questions |
| Sky notes | #sky-notes |
| Visit | #visit |
- The moon calendar: The home page opens with the month drawn as Moon phases, one cell per night, club nights ringed in red light, so visitors see at once when to come out.
- Club nights set by the Moon: Dark-sky, moon and planet nights each shown with the Moon that sets them, plus their own pages with where, when and what to bring.
- Dome shows and tickets: This week's shows on a night board with the next one ringed, the shows on now, ticket prices and school and group visits.
- Telescopes and the sky: What you can see through the club telescopes with best months and magnitudes, the dark-sky field and telescope loans.
- Free Elementor and a booking form: Every page is built with free Elementor widgets on Hello Elementor, with a booking and club request form made with the free WPForms Lite plugin. Fonts are bundled: no Google Fonts requests.
Menu
The demo import creates this main menu (Appearance → Menus):
- Home
- Shows → Show times and tickets, School and group visits
- Observing → Club nights (Dark-sky nights, Moon nights, Planet nights), Telescope loans
- The club → Membership
- Sky notes
- Visit and join
Header button: Book a show (link /contact/#booking), changed in Appearance → Customize → LT Gravity options.
One-page mode (Pro)
With Pro Standard or Pro Unlimited, tick One-page mode on the home page in Appearance → Customize → LT Gravity options and the menu scrolls to these sections: This month, Under the dome, Club nights, What you can see, The dark-sky field, Join the club, First night, Sky notes, Visit. To change the labels or leave sections out, see One-page mode.
Used the old LT Gravity onepage WordPress theme? It is not sold any more: version 2.0 is one theme for both. Install its Pro edition and turn on one-page mode.
Colours and fonts
Change them in Elementor Site Settings → Global Colors and Global Fonts; the whole site follows.
| Name in Global Colors | Value |
|---|---|
| Red torch (buttons, links, rings on light) | #9A2A1F |
| Slate (soft text) | #4D5366 |
| Ink (text) | #191C29 |
| Red light (rings and marks on night only) | #FF8A73 |
| Lunar grey (page) | #EDEEF0 |
| Twilight (tinted sections) | #DEE1E8 |
| Hairlines | #C6CAD4 |
| Night sky (calendar panel, dome band, footer) | #151A30 |
| Text on night | #EDEEF0 |
| Soft text on night | #AEB4CB |
| Button hover | #7A1F16 |
| Moonlight (the lit side of the Moon) | #F6F1DE |
| Earthshine (the dark side of the Moon on night) | #323A5C |
| Name in Global Fonts | Font |
|---|---|
| Headings (Old Standard TT 700) | Old Standard TT |
| Dates, times, menus and labels (Cantarell 400) | Cantarell |
| Body text (Old Standard TT 400) | Old Standard TT |
| Buttons (Cantarell 700) | Cantarell |
Form
With WPForms Lite active, the demo import creates the form Booking and club request on the Visit and join page. Fields: Your name (required), Email (required), What is it about? (required), Show or night, and date, Number of people (required), Have you been to the dome or a club night before?, Anything we should know. Email subject: “Booking or club request from the website”. After sending, visitors see: “Thank you. We reply by email within two days with seats or details (sample). Nothing is booked until we confirm.”
See Contact form for where messages go and how to change the fields.
Demo content to replace
Everything marked with one of these in the demo is sample content: names, numbers, prices and addresses that you replace with your own (or delete):
(sample)Example pricesexample.com(555)Hollow HillCutler RidgeSpringfield
- Keep the Moon true: when you change the month, set each night's phase class from a moon phase table, and put club nights where the Moon allows (dark-sky nights near new moon).
- Do not ring a night in the calendar unless something happens that night; the ring always means a club night.
- Use red light (accent) only on the night panels and bands; on daylight sections use red torch (primary).
Only publish facts that are true for your business: real prices, opening hours, reviews and qualifications. Pro Unlimited’s launch checker lists every sample marker left on the site.
Photo guide
The demo uses placeholder pictures. Replace each one in Elementor (click it → Choose image) with a photo of about this size; save photos as JPEG or WebP under about 300 KB.
| Picture | Upload size |
|---|---|
| A white observatory dome with its shutter closed on a dark hilltop under a starry sky | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A person in silhouette looking through a telescope on a tripod under a sky full of stars | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A person in silhouette pointing at the night sky beside a small telescope on a ridge | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A few people with a telescope under the Milky Way on open ground at night | 1600 × 900 px |
| The Moon a little past first quarter, craters sharp along the line between light and shadow | 1600 × 1200 px |
| A class seen from behind on floor cushions watching Jupiter projected on a darkened wall | 1200 × 1800 px |
| A hand holding open a star atlas with constellations drawn on dark blue pages | 1600 × 1600 px |
| Rows of empty theatre seats in deep blue light | 1600 × 900 px |
| Star trails circling the sky in a long exposure photograph | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A telescope on a tripod in silhouette against a blue twilight sky | 1600 × 1200 px |
| The Milky Way across a dark sky crowded with stars | 1600 × 1067 px |
AI kit (Pro Unlimited)
The AI kit’s AGENTS.md tells an assistant how LT Gravity is built. The CSS classes it relies on (keep them when you edit):
| CSS class | What it is |
|---|---|
lt-hero | home hero band (intro next to the moon calendar) |
lt-lunar | the moon calendar on a night panel: lt-lunar__title, the lt-lunar__week row of weekday names, the lt-lunar__grid of nights, lt-lunar__caption |
lt-night | one night of the calendar: lt-night__day (the date, with the Moon drawn above it) and an optional lt-night__tag; lt-night–blank for days of another month |
lt-night--new|wxc|fq|wxg|full|wng|lq|wnc | the Moon phase that night: new, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent |
is-event | a club night: the Moon is ringed in red light and the tag says what happens |
lt-moon | a single Moon drawn in a phase (lt-moon–new|wxc|fq|…, same names as the calendar), next to a kind of club night |
lt-kind | one kind of club night: its Moon, name, what happens, where and when |
lt-board | the dome show board on a night band; each lt-slot row, is-next rings the next show |
lt-object | one row of the sky list: object (catalogue name in italic), what you see, best months, magnitude |
lt-price | label/value row (memberships, tickets, facts, hours) |
lt-step | a step of a real sequence (school visit), lt-step__n is its number |
lt-person | one club member or staff (name and role) |
lt-desk | contact block (who, email, phone) |
lt-pagehead | inner page heading band |
lt-map | the street drawing around the planetarium |
See AI kit for the prompts, the safe edit tool and the launch checker.
Questions about LT Gravity
Do I need Elementor Pro?
No. LT Gravity uses only the free Elementor plugin and the free Hello Elementor theme. The header and footer are part of the theme, so you do not need Theme Builder.
How do I change the month in the moon calendar?
Each night is a small Elementor container with the date as text and the Moon phase as a CSS class (new, wxc, fq, wxg, full, wng, lq, wnc). Look the phases up in any moon phase table, set the classes, and add or move the ringed club nights.
Does it sell tickets online?
It sends booking requests through a WPForms Lite form, and you confirm each booking by email or phone. There is no online payment built in.
Will my site look like the demo?
Yes, with Pro: Appearance > Demo import creates every page, the colours, fonts, menu, header and footer. The demo photos are replaced by placeholders you swap for your own.
What is the difference between Free and Pro?
Free has the design, header and footer, The club and Visit and join pages and the blog. Pro adds the home page, the Shows and Observing pages with their sub-pages, sample posts, one-click demo import, credit removal, updates and support. Pro Unlimited adds the AI kit.
I have the old LT Gravity. Is this an update?
It is a new version 2.0 with a new design, built for free Elementor. Your current site keeps working; install 2.0 on a new site or a staging copy and import the demo there.
Also for Joomla
LT Gravity also exists as a Joomla template: see the LT Gravity Joomla docs.
Ask AI about LT Gravity
Ask in your own words. The assistant answers from these docs and links the sections it used.
AI answers can be wrong; check the linked section. Never share passwords or licence keys. Open a ticket