BUILT NOT BEGGED
Template Club
One membership. The whole template shelf.
The Template Club is the Built Not Begged template catalog under one monthly membership. Join once, and the shelf is yours while you are a member: the mainstream print and template catalog, the After Dark theme line, and a new drop on the 1st of every month.
$4.95 a month. Billed monthly. Cancel any time. No setup fee and no per-site toll booth.
What is in the catalog
Mainstream division
- 12 CPA branding template families. Full branding kits for accounting firms, ready to customize and print.
- 13 LocalPro template kits. Local business designs with print-ready artwork and PDF proofs across the set.
- 4over certified print templates. Trade-print-ready files that plug straight into print ordering, so a template can become a physical print order, not just a download.
After Dark division
- Three installable Gantry 5 WordPress themes: VideoVault, a video portal design; CreatorClub, a creator subscription platform design; and AfterDark, an editorial magazine design. The Components plugin all three require is included.
- Design collections: Midnight Cinema, Neon District and Velvet Atelier, layered design sets with previews and design tokens.
- Every theme package ships with install docs, a license file and a test report that states its known limits in plain sight.
Adults only for the After Dark division. The designs themselves are non-explicit; the division is built for adult platform builders.
How the club works
Members download from the club library on this site, organized by division. The founding catalog is being packaged into the library now, division by division, After Dark first. The templates live in one system with a style selector, so new looks arrive as variations instead of a pile of separate installs.
A new drop lands on the 1st of every month. Drops are produced and staged months ahead of time, so the calendar never depends on last-minute production. Joomla templates on Gantry 5 and forum themes for phpBB 3.3 and bbPress are on the club roadmap and arrive as drops. They are not in the launch catalog, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Membership also opens the member forum on this site, where support questions get answered in the open, once, where every member can find them.
The production standard
Every WordPress theme in this club is built the same way: a Gantry 5 child theme, with Elementor widgets and WPBakery elements for its components, shortcodes, starter content and builder templates. Elementor and WPBakery are supported, not bundled. Bring your own WPBakery license if that is your editor. Each theme is tested on current WordPress and PHP at desktop and mobile widths before it ships, and the test report travels inside the package.
License, in plain language
While your membership is active, build with anything on your shelf, for your own sites and for client work. If you cancel, downloads stop and you cannot start new builds from the club files, but every site and print you already built stays up and stays yours. The files remain ours. Your work remains yours.
After Dark, stated plainly
The After Dark themes are presentation themes and content tools. They do not take payments, run memberships, verify age, protect media, handle messaging or pay creators. A lock in the design is a picture of a lock, not access control. If you build an adult platform, pair the themes with your own billing, age verification and media protection stack. That honesty is part of the product.
Questions
What happens if I cancel? Your membership runs to the end of the paid month. Downloads and member areas close after that. Sites and prints you built stay live.
Can I use the templates for client work? Yes, while you are a member. That is what the club is for.
When do new drops land? On the 1st of every month, staged into the library ahead of time.
Do I need Elementor or WPBakery? No. Club themes run on Gantry 5 either way. Both builders are supported if you want them.