Driveway Theme Features
The Driveway theme is a dealership website and an auto marketplace in one. Vehicles and dealers are real records with registered fields, so the map search, the spec tables, the deal ratings and every monthly payment are computed from the same inventory — never typed twice — and every enquiry lands in a private inbox.
72Vehicles
10Dealers
92Editor blocks
$0Map API fees
One payment formula, everywhere.The estimated monthly payment on every vehicle card and the loan calculator share one formula and one set of defaults — APR, term, down payment, sales tax and documentation fee — set once under Car Dealer › Settings. The number a buyer sees on the grid is the number the calculator gives on the vehicle page.
01 · Map search
Find the car, then the dealer
A split-screen map where dealer pins show how many matching cars each dealership has, clustering as you zoom. Draw-to-search, a radius around a city or ZIP and search-as-you-move, with light and dark map styles. The same filters power a shareable URL, the hero form, live facet counts and every archive.
Make → model, year, price, mileage, body, fuel, transmission and drivetrain
Colour, dealer, features, monthly budget and distance filters
MapLibre with free OpenFreeMap tiles — no API key
02 · Vehicle pages
Every car gets the showroom treatment
A mosaic gallery with lightbox, key specs, a grouped specification table, equipment by group, the Driveway Report history card, a deal-rating gauge, video and 360° tabs, a running-cost estimator, the finance calculator, a test-drive scheduler, the dealer card with map and similar cars.
VIN, stock number, trim, MSRP, odometer, economy, EV range and battery as real fields
Deal rating against market value or comparable cars, explained
Schema.org Car / Vehicle JSON-LD with an Offer
03 · Finance & trade-in
Payments that match the sticker
Loan, lease and affordability calculators share the plugin’s finance defaults; the affordability calculator turns a monthly budget into a price cap and a link to the matching cars. Trade-in and pre-qualification forms file straight into the enquiries inbox — no social security number, date of birth or card data collected.
Loan, lease and affordability calculators
Trade-in estimator and pre-qualification form
Estimates, clearly labelled — never offers of credit
04 · Dealers & brands
A locator for every lot
Dealer profiles show open-now hours, brands carried, amenities, reviews and live inventory; the dealer locator puts them all on the map. Brand tiles and market insights round out the browsing paths, and every dealer gets AutoDealer markup.
Open-now hours and directions on every dealer
Brand tiles with live inventory counts
Market insights computed from the inventory
05 · The Site Editor
Click any card, restyle any pixel
The whole front page opens as ordinary blocks. Select a vehicle card, the hero search or the brand strip in List View and restyle it per breakpoint from the sidebar — Stepfox Looks turns every choice into a block attribute, so there is no child theme and no stylesheet to maintain.
List View reaches every block inside every card
Desktop, tablet and mobile values on each block
Every colour, gap and breakpoint is an attribute, not CSS
06 · The back office
One dashboard runs the lot
The plugin adds a single Car Dealer menu: vehicles, dealers and enquiries, the make, body, condition and feature taxonomies, and settings for currency, units, map defaults and finance defaults. Import the Los Angeles demo with one click and remove exactly what was imported.
Vehicles and dealers are ordinary posts with registered fields
Enquiries e-mailed to the dealer, with spam protection
One-click demo import and removal
The details buyers notice
Night modeA one-click toggle in the header flips the whole site — maps included — to a dark scheme, and remembers the choice.
No locked mega-blocksCards are ordinary core blocks plus 92 small car-dealer blocks — click into any vehicle card and edit it.
Zero design CSSEvery colour, gap and breakpoint is a Stepfox Looks attribute you change per device in the Site Editor.
Compare up to fourSide-by-side specs with differences highlighted, saved cars and recently viewed in the visitor’s browser.
Saved searchesVisitors keep the filters they care about and return to them from the header.
Bring your own inventoryEvery field is REST post meta — WP All Import, a CSV importer or a short script maps any feed.
Open Graph & SEOCar and AutoDealer markup out of the box; Open Graph tags when no SEO plugin is active.
Strict data rulesInvalid VINs, impossible model years and wrong dealer ids are dropped before they reach a page.
A journal, built inBuying guides and market stories with twelve demo posts, styled to match.
Prefer Elementor? It’s in the box.
A dedicated Elementor edition ships alongside the block theme: 40 native widgets with full Content and Style tabs, 6 dynamic tags (field, number, image, link, gallery and colour) and Theme Builder templates when Elementor Pro is active — driven by the same inventory plugin and the same records. Without Pro every route keeps a polished PHP fallback.
In the box
Driveway block theme — Gutenberg + Stepfox Looks, no design CSS of its own
Driveway Elementor theme — 40 widgets, 6 dynamic tags, Theme Builder templates
Stepfox Car Dealer plugin — vehicles, dealers, map search, finance tools and enquiries with 92 editor blocks
Los Angeles demo — 72 vehicles, 10 dealers and 12 journal posts, one click in and out
One-time payment|Free updates|6 months support
