WP Engine plans to make Frost a freely distributed, open source Full Site Editing WordPress theme.
WP Engine has announced that it has acquired the premium WordPress theme Frost from Brian Gardner and will make it available for free to all users. Gardner released Frost earlier this year as the main product of his new startup business according to a new report from WP Tavern. Before developing Frost, Gardner spent a great deal of his career working on the StudioPress theme framework. However, just like it now has with Frost, WP Engine acquired StudioPress back in 2018. While Gardener stepped down from his role at StudioPress the following year and spent the next two years developing Frost, he found his way back to WP Engine in September of this year and became the company’s Principal Developer Advocate.
