Astra Starter sites by Starter Templates is a WordPress-focused library and builder workflow designed to help you create polished websites fast, without starting from scratch. It’s for anyone who wants to launch a new business site quickly—freelancers, agencies, marketers, and beginners alike—while still keeping control to customize the result. Instead of spending hours assembling headers, footers, layouts, and page sections, you can choose from a large set of professionally designed templates and blocks and use the included AI tools to generate or refine a complete website direction in minutes.
With Starter Templates, you get a blend of ready-to-use designs and AI-assisted setup. You can build with AI by describing your business and preferences to generate a tailored layout, or you can start from expert-designed templates and then personalize everything to match your brand. The template library includes niche-focused options
Common use cases include building client websites more quickly by importing complete starter designs and then adjusting only the brand-specific elements
On the technical side, Starter Templates is distributed as a WordPress plugin, and the site outlines that the plugin is primarily used for importing designs; after setup you can deactivate it without affecting the imported site design. During import, it installs any additional plugins required for the selected template, and the docs also cover steps such as installing, using the builder, and importing templates