Venture Theme
Free Drupal theme · GPL-2.0-or-later
A flat-design responsive business theme from 2014 — two releases in a single month, and one of the most adopted themes in the set.
June 2014 — the flat-design wave, and near the end of the theming years.
Venture belongs to the last group of themes I published, when flat design had gone from a fashion to the default. The header, navigation and buttons drop shadows, gradients and bevels entirely; what is left is type, spacing and colour doing the work. It is a business and portfolio theme with twelve block regions, a one- or two-column layout, and FlexSlider driving a captioned front-page slideshow.
The detail worth flagging is the dependency. Venture requires the jQuery Update module configured to jQuery 1.8, because Drupal 7 core shipped jQuery 1.4.4 and the slider would not run on it. That is a real cost I passed to every installer: a theme that needs a contributed module and a specific version of a library underneath it is a theme that can break for reasons which have nothing to do with the theme. I would make the same call again for the slider, but I would document it far more loudly than a line near the bottom of a project page.
Two releases went out, both in June 2014, and then nothing. That is less neglect than a career turning: by mid-2014 I had moved into application and platform work and the theme queue stopped getting my evenings. Venture is one of the most installed themes in the set anyway, which says something uncomfortable and useful about the relationship between how much you maintain a thing and how much it gets used.
It is still listed as maintained, and the issue queue is still open. What it no longer gets is new releases.
- Project page
- drupal.org/project/venture_theme
- Reported installs
- 1,370 sites report using it on drupal.org, as of August 2026
- Releases I shipped
- 2, June 2014
- On branches
- 7.x-1.x
Downloads, the full release history and the issue queue all live on the drupal.org project page. The other themes, and everything alongside them, are on the open-source index — and next from here: What 'white-label' actually demands of your architecture.
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