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Is inForward a good WordPress theme for a campaign or a party?
inForward from Monkeysan covers both sides of the niche properly: two candidate demos and two political party demos, so a personal campaign and a party organisation each get a fitting structure. It holds a 4.70 rating from 20 ratings across 910 sales and was updated on 21 May 2026. It costs $69 and runs on WPBakery, with Gravity Forms, Events Calendar Pro, WPML and WooCommerce support.
Best for: campaigns that need both a candidate site and a party organisation site from one licence
The inForward WordPress theme from Monkeysan is one of the few themes here that handles a candidate and a party equally well. Moreover, its 4.70 rating from 20 ratings is among the strongest in this collection.
Two candidates, two parties
inForward ships four demos: two individual candidate sites and two political party layouts. Furthermore, they are genuinely different structures – the candidate demos lead with a portrait and a biography, while the party demos lead with the organisation and its local groups. Therefore a campaign that starts around one person and later becomes a party operation does not need a second theme.
Gravity Forms, which matters more than it sounds
Most political themes ship a contact form and call it done. inForward supports Gravity Forms, which handles conditional logic, multi-step forms and proper data export. Consequently a volunteer sign-up that asks about availability, skills and district actually works. In addition, Events Calendar Pro covers recurring canvassing sessions rather than one-off events.
Made by the author of Candidate
Monkeysan also publishes Candidate, the best-selling political theme on ThemeForest with 2,655 sales. Moreover, both themes received updates in May 2026, which says something about the author’s maintenance habits. Therefore the support risk here is lower than the 910 sales figure alone would suggest.
WPBakery, and a design of its generation
inForward is a WPBakery theme, so volunteers used to Elementor face a learning curve, and the layouts do not travel. In addition, the visual language is a generation behind Veto and Progress. However, the structure is sound and the demo content is realistic campaign copy rather than filler, which makes the layouts easier to evaluate.
Key features:
- Two candidate demos and two political party demos
- 4.70 rating from 20 ratings across 910 sales
- Gravity Forms support for volunteer and pledge forms
- Events Calendar and Events Calendar Pro
- WPML, WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads
- $69, updated 21 May 2026
Our verdict on the inForward WordPress theme
Need a site that works for a candidate now and a party later? The inForward WordPress theme ships both. Open the Free Theme Demo and compare the candidate and party layouts!
Finally, Monkeysan last updated it on 21 May 2026 over on ThemeForest.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between the candidate and party demos?
The candidate demos lead with a portrait, a biography and a donate button. The party demos lead with the organisation, its local groups and membership. They are different structures, not different colour schemes.
Where is the real inForward demo?
The ThemeForest preview points at velikorodnov.com/themeforest/inforward-wp/preview/, a chooser. The working demos sit at the site root: /inforward/ for the main candidate layout, plus candidate-layout-2 and two party layouts.
Does inForward use Elementor?
No, WPBakery Page Builder. The same is true of Candidate and Nominee. For Elementor, look at Politic, Politicia or Progress in this collection.
Why does Gravity Forms support matter?
Because campaign forms are rarely simple. Gravity Forms handles conditional questions, multi-step sign-ups and data export, which a basic contact form cannot. It is a paid plugin bought separately.
inForward or Candidate?
Both are Monkeysan themes updated in May 2026. Candidate has far more sales and covers nonprofits and churches; inForward is more focused on campaigns and handles the party use case better.
Can inForward handle donations?
It provides donation page templates. For recurring gifts, receipts and donor records, add GiveWP or choose Veto, which uses Give by default.
This theme belongs to the WordPress Collections of:
- Best WordPress Political Themes
- Best NonProfit WordPress Themes
- Best WordPress Visual Composer Themes
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What we like
- 4.70 rating from 20 ratings - among the best in this collection
- Two candidate demos and two party demos, not one shape stretched to fit
- Updated 21 May 2026
- Gravity Forms support for serious volunteer and pledge forms
- Events Calendar Pro for recurring campaign events
- WPML, WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads
Worth noting
- WPBakery rather than Elementor
- ThemeForest preview points at a chooser, and the demo path is easy to get wrong
- Design is a generation behind Veto and Progress
- No built-in donation management beyond page templates
