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Zentile

Zentile is a lightweight magazine theme inspired by Yandex.Zen.

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Features

• Browsers: Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera
• Languages:
  • English
  • Russian
  • Spanish by @ruudhesp
• Responsive design
• Gutenberg-ready
• Translation-ready
• Built-in image light box
• Related posts
• Post views (Post Views Counter plugin required)
• 1, 2 and 3 column layouts
• 3 widget areas (left sidebar, right sidebar and footer)
• Theme settings
  • Customizable logo
  • Customizable background
  • Show/hide featured image at the top of the post
  • Show/hide author bio at the end of the post
  • Show/hide post navigation
  • Show/hide views in the post list
  • Show/hide related posts BEFORE comments
  • Show/hide related posts AFTER comments
  • Always show sidebar
• Custom widgets
  • Zentile: Categories
  • Zentile: Recent comments
  • Zentile: Recent posts

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.6
• Wordpress >= 5.3.x

Installation

• Go to Appearance > Themes > Add New and type zentile in the search box.
• Click Install and then Activate.

Manual installation

• Download the theme from the releases page on GitHub (zentile-x.y.zip).
• Go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme and upload the downloaded archive with the theme (WP version < 5.5: In order to update the theme in the future you need to install Easy Theme and Plugin Upgrades plugin).
• OR Unzip the archive to the /wp-content/themes/ directory.
• Go to Appearance > Themes and activate it.

Post installation

• Go to Settings > Reading and set Blog pages show at most to 5n (e.g. 5, 10, ...).
• Go to Appearance > Widgets and add widgets Zentile: Categories, Zentile: Recent Comments and Zentile: Recent Posts.
• Go to Appearance > Customize and customize theme as you need.

Recommended plugins

Color Palette Generator

If you want the post card's gradients to match its featured image dominant color, follow the steps below:

• Install and activate plugin Color Palette Generator.
• Go to Media > Color Palette Generator and set:
  • Number of colors to generate: 1
  • Automatically generate palettes on upload?: checked
• Click Save Changes.
• Click Generate.

Notice: The plugin automatically generate palettes for the images only if you upload them via the Media > Add New page, otherwise you need to generate it manually.

Post Views Counter

This plugin allows you to display how many times a post, page or custom post type had been viewed.

• Install and activate plugin Post Views Counter.
• Go to Settings > Post Views Counter > Display and uncheck all post and page types.
• Click Save Changes.

Development

Requirements: Node.js >= 12.x, Git

cd <wordpress>/wp-content/themes/
git clone https://github.com/denitcoder/wp-theme-zentile.git zentile
cd zentile

# install dependencies
npm install

# compile and minify all theme assets
npm run build

# or watch for changes
npm run watch

# or compile all assets and create the archive with the theme (e.g. <zentile>/releases/zentile-x.y.zip)
npm run release

Structure

Zentile
├── assets - Uncompiled assets (js, css)
├── dist - Compiled and minified assets
├── releases - Zipped builds ready to publish
├── components - HTML components (buttons, alerts etc)
├── inc - Classes and utils
├── widgets - Custom widget classes
└── languages - Translations