1789 Handbook | Georgetown University

Introducing 1789

1789 marries a modern, Georgetown-themed design with the scalability and wide range of components that editors rely on in our WordPress themes.

Our design philosophy

Block Catalog

Explore the various components you can use to structure your web pages.

Moving from Whitehaven Nu

Learn about the difference between the themes, new blocks, common mistakes to avoid, and tips for working in the 1789 theme!

Request the 1789 Theme

Learn about the process, requirements, and additional options.

Web Services Updates

The best way to keep up to date with all things Web Services is through our monthly newsletter, The Cache, and by keeping up with our Whitehaven Nu Release Notes and our 1789 Release Notes. Release Notes accompany each of our deployments where we release the code updates we’ve been working on, which typically happens every other week.