Built for Everyone
Foundry is built to allow both the novice and professional to create sites from the ground up with an easy-to-use, modular, mobile-first approach.
Iron-clad
Foundry’s core is built around Bootstrap, the web’s most popular responsive framework, to provide a solid foundation for all of your sites.
No Code Needed
Whether you’re new to web design or an advanced RapidWeaver user, Foundry provides you the tools to craft great websites.
Infinite Possibilities
Foundry helps you build your pages from the ground up. Get the look and feel you want with drag-and-drop simplicity.
A Combo Like No Other
Foundry takes full advantage of the modular flexibility of the Stacks plugin, allowing you to arrange your pages just the way you like. This lets you design your site from the ground up! Foundry’s vast library of stacks all work together.
Requires Stacks v3.56 or newer.
What's new in v2?
Foundry v2 brings a forge full of new features to help you in crafting more versatile, professional looking websites. Everything from Dark Mode and Remote Image support to a plethora of new stacks.
Dark Mode
Integrated throughout Foundry v2, Dark Mode allows you to customize your site's appearance for visitors who are using Dark Mode in their browser or mobile device.
Try switching your OS or mobile device to Light Mode to watch this page change before your eyes.
Try switching your OS or mobile device to Dark Mode to watch this page change before your eyes.
Navigation Bar Pro
Adds a brand new, manually curated navigation bar stack. Use its 3 zone, customizable system for crafting out of this world navigation for your site.
Partitions
Build useful sections of content using Partition's fixed position, scrollable content areas. It's what we used for our documentation pages.
Remote Images
Many of Foundry's image-based stacks can now use remote URLs for linking to your image assets in addition to the normal drag-and-drop functionality.
Mask
Draw your visitor's attention to your content with custom, unique masked off sections on your pages.
Pop Up Gallery
A gorgeous lightbox-based gallery for all of your images. Includes beautiful animations, as well as the ability to remote import a folder of images.
Typeface
Typeface is now integrated into even more areas of Foundry to help unleash your inner type connoisseur.
Text Mask
Create eye-catching displays with images masked off in the shape of your text that are sure to grab your visitor's attention.
Eclipse
Hide and show specific content on your page based on whether your visitor is viewing your site in Light or Dark mode in their browser or mobile device.
Position
Use offsets and absolute positioning, as well as layered elements, to construct unique layouts for your content.
More Control
Breakpoint-based alignment, visibility, color, size and other various styling options have been added throughout v2.
So much more
Foundry v2 includes over 200 different changes and optimizations as well as 9 totally brand new stacks, like Navigation Bar Pro! You can learn about all of the changes in the Release Notes. We've also documented everything in our updated Documentation section, as well as added lots of new videos on both the individual documentation pages and the tutorials page.
Foundry Addons
Take things to the next level
While the base Foundry pack provides you everything you need to develop beautiful, modular sites, we also provide several addons for Foundry to help you take your designs to the next level, once you're ready.
Alloy
A flat-file blogging system for Foundry that allows you to create beautiful and easy-to-use blogs. You'll be publishing like a pro in no time – and without a database!
Potion Pack
Take your site building up a notch. The Potion Pack is a set of addon stacks ranging from advanced navigation and forms to lightboxes, and more!
Thunder Pack
A collection of next level stacks for Foundry that include prominent and stylish display sections, video backgrounds, vertical tabs and so much more!
Mason & Carpenter
The Mason & Carpenter template packs are pre-made sections for your Foundry based pages. These templates can be drag-and-dropped from your Stacks library and easily edited to include your content. This lets you quickly form complex page sections with just a little effort, as well as see how some more complex layouts work.
Choose a Project
Want to take a a quicker path? We offer some pre-made RapidWeaver project files that have beautiful site designs already laid out. Just jump in, edit the content, make a few tweaks and you’re off and running!
Integration
Works with your existing stacks addons
Its not just Foundry stacks or Foundry addons that can be used with your Foundry-based site. We've worked hard to make sure that most third-party stacks will work just as you'd expect within the Foundry framework. Give some of the stacks below a try, or visit the RapidWeaver Community site for more!
Community
Connect with others using Foundry
With the introduction of Foundry we’ve added an Elixir Community Forum. Share tips and tricks, look for help using Foundry, or seek the sage advice of other RapidWeaver users.
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