Dietitian Website WordPress Theme

A WordPress block theme for registered dietitians and nutritionists in private practice, laid out like a food magazine, with guided setup, a privacy-first consult form and accessibility tested for WCAG 2.2 AA. No page builder, no required plugin.

Journal is a WordPress theme for registered dietitian nutritionists in solo private practice. Your home page reads like an issue of a food magazine: a cover, a numbered contents, your credentials as a feature, your first consult as a recipe card, and your newest articles and recipes.

Try it before you buy. Open the live demo and click through every page. The Customise tab on the right lets you try all five colour palettes (or mix your own), the three font pairings, the corners, and all 8 headers and 8 footers.

Set up in about ten minutes, no code. Journal Setup opens when you activate the theme and asks you step by step, with your site shown live as a small magazine page:

- Your practice name, logo, credentials and contact details, entered once. The lines that show them stay connected, so a new license line or phone number is changed in one place.

- Your style: five colour palettes or your own colours (Setup checks every pair, so everyone can read your site), three font pairings, corners from square to round, and 8 headers and 8 footers, chosen separately.

- Your pages: Home, About and credentials, What I help with, First consult, Fees and insurance, Journal, Questions, Book a first consult and Website privacy, with menus, made from Journal's own designs.

- Optional free plugins: Contact Form 7 (installed and set up with the ready form), Yoast SEO and a security plugin. Journal Setup installs the newest version that works on your server.

Credentials people can check. Your credential, CDR registration and state licenses appear where visitors look for them, with links to the public CDR credential lookup and your state board's license lookup.

A privacy-first consult form. No health questions and no message box, on purpose: clients shouldn't type health details into a website form. The ready form asks for a name, how to reach them, when suits and how they'll pay. With the free Contact Form 7 plugin, messages go to your email and are not stored on your site.

Fees as a nutrition label. Your fees, insurance in plain words, an optional Medicare row, superbills and a Good Faith Estimate notice for self-pay clients. Three labels side by side or a compact price list: one click in the editor.

A journal for articles and recipes. Each entry is an article or a recipe, with an optional issue number. Recipes start from a ready pattern with a "Recipe, at a glance" label, ingredients and method.

One click, another look. The cover, the contents, the journal spread, the fees and the back cover each come in two or three looks made of the same blocks (13 in all). Your words and prices stay when you switch. A private Component gallery page shows every section and look.

Accessible, and tested. Built for WCAG 2.2 AA. Every page is tested in every colour style at phone, tablet and desktop width: no automated WCAG 2.2 AA violations, visible keyboard focus, readable contrast in hover and focus states, reduced motion respected, and no sideways scrolling at 320 px or 200% zoom.

Help when you need it. A PDF setup guide in your download, and online documentation with search, screenshots and short clips. Every step of Journal Setup has a Help link to the right page.

Nothing loads from other companies. Fonts are bundled and served from your own site. No tracking, no external scripts, no page builder and no required plugin.

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Features

- Guided setup (Journal Setup) with a live magazine-page preview; works without JavaScript too

- 5 colour palettes + your own colours with a live contrast check

- 3 font pairings, bundled (SIL Open Font License); custom corner radius (the magazine furniture stays square)

- 8 headers and 8 footers, chosen separately; your logo in all of them

- 13 one-click section looks for the cover, contents, journal spread, fees and back cover

- A private Component gallery page: every section and look, with its name and how to add it

- 9 page designs, 45 patterns, 9 templates, 21 block styles

- Credentials with CDR and state license lookups; optional Medicare row

- Privacy-first consult form for Contact Form 7 (free), placed by Journal Setup

- Fees as a nutrition label, plus fee labels and a price list

- Eating-disorder support notice; Good Faith Estimate notice

- WCAG 2.2 AA: automated tests on every page, colour style and width

- No page builder, no required plugin, no external requests

- One-click child theme; structured data for questions and your practice

- Setup guide (PDF) and demo content you can import

- Online documentation with search and short clips:

- Translation-ready (POT file included)

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What's included

- `lavanta-journal.zip`: the WordPress block theme

- `lavanta-journal-child.zip`: a child theme (only needed if your server won't let Journal Setup make one)

- `lavanta-journal-setup-guide.pdf`: the setup guide

- Online: the documentation website, (search, screenshots and short clips; linked from every step of Journal Setup)

- `lavanta-journal-demo-content.xml`: the demo pages and journal entries (WordPress importer)

- The privacy-first form as copy-ready text (inside the theme: `forms/contact-form-7.txt`)

Demo images: three free CC0 photos are included. The other photos in the live demo and in these preview images are not included; your download has simple placeholders in those spots.

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Requirements

- WordPress 7.0 or newer (tested on 7.0.7 and 7.1.3), PHP 7.4 or newer.

- Contact Form 7 is optional. Its newest version (6.2 and newer) needs WordPress 7.1 and PHP 8.3; on older setups Journal Setup installs the newest version that works on your site (for example 6.1.7 on WordPress 7.0).

- No page builder, no paid plugin.

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Not included

- Legal, billing or clinical advice. The privacy, Medicare, Good Faith Estimate and support texts are starting points: check them for your state and your practice.

- HIPAA compliance. A website theme can't make you HIPAA compliant: keep clinical information in your secure client portal or EHR.

- Hosting, a domain, email delivery (if test messages don't arrive, that is your host's email setup).

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FAQ's

1. Do I need to know code? No. Journal Setup asks for your details and your choices step by step, with a live preview. Everything else is changed in the WordPress editor.

2. Do I need a page builder or a paid plugin? No. The recommended plugins are free and optional: Contact Form 7 for the consult form, Yoast SEO and All-In-One Security.

3. Are the photos from the demo included? Three free CC0 food photos are included. The other photos in the demo and the preview images are for preview only; your download has simple placeholders in those spots.

4. Is Journal HIPAA compliant? A website theme can't make a practice HIPAA compliant. The consult form asks no health questions on purpose; keep clinical information in your secure client portal or EHR.

5. Can I link my booking tool or client portal? Yes. Add its link in Journal Setup → Your practice, and the booking page shows it.

6. Can I post recipes? Yes. Each journal entry is an article or a recipe; recipes start from a ready pattern with ingredients and method.

7. Which WordPress version do I need? WordPress 7.0 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer. Journal was tested on WordPress 7.0.7 and 7.1.3.

8. WordPress says "The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet". What now? You uploaded the whole download. Unzip it first: inside is the theme, lavanta-journal.zip. Upload that file in Appearance → Themes → Add Theme → Upload Theme.

9. Where do I get help? Search the online documentation (every step of Journal Setup links to it), read the PDF guide in your download, or send us a message through Creative Market.