Zento – Modern & Lightweight Blog for WordPress

Zento is super modern Blog created by EstudioPatagon following all the latest trends. Highly focused in Speed and Flexibility, the theme fits perfectly any kind of blog specially Tutorials, Documentation, Technology, Personal, AI, comics/anime or biography blogs, also it fits any kind of Tutorial/Programming website thanks to the Syntax Highlighter (compatible with a wide amount of languages).This theme is focused in the content, speed, code quality and SEO in mind.

It is super light (just 1 required plugin for all features). This fast theme was made with multiple techniques to achieve excellent Scores on Google Insights, also we keep in mind the code quality and SEO. It is easy to use and customize. Includes 12 customs widgets and a powerful Theme Options Panel to make easier the administration.

Zento is fully compatible with AMP in Transitional Mode (home, archives, author and single post pages) and it is multilanguage, includes: English and Spanish. and you can easily translate the theme into any language you want.

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Important: This Theme is capable to get high scores on Google Insights (up to 99%) for Desktop and (up to 98%) for mobile Check the factors that could affect the speed here.

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Support:

We offer direct help via our support system, just submit a ticket if you have any question.

Main Features:

General Features:

• Super Light and Unique design.
• Highly optimized and lightweight (just 1MB size).
• AMP Support (Transitional Mode) Check AMP Home and AMP Single Post.
• Woocommerce 8.0+ Compatible check here.
• New: Breadcrumbs compatible with Yoast SEO, NavXT and Rank Math plugins.
• New: Table of Contents (before main post content).
• Using a shared hosting? Zento has a very low INODES usage.
• PHP 8.x ready (faster rendering time).
• Constantly updated.
• Translation ready (English, Spanish included).
• Minified and Optimized code.
• Open Graph Support.
• Built with SCSS and pre-compiled with Prepos 7 (Windows and Mac compatible).
• Dedicated advertising section (below header, before and after post content, custom advertise to place anywhere).
• Advertising section between grid posts, check demo here
• Sticky sidebar for Posts
• Sticky Header (desktop and mobile)
• Lazy Load for Lists (home pages, archives, categories, etc).
• Lazy Load for post content.
• Lazy Load for embed (iframes like Youtube/Vimeo/Soundcloud).
• HTML5 & CSS3 ready.
• 6 Single post dispositions (variations with/without sidebar)
  • Fullwidth with Sidebar, see here.
  • Fullwidth no Sidebar, see here.
  • Classic with Sidebar, see here.
  • Vertical with Sidebar, see here.
  • Vertical no Sidebar, see here.
• No Sidebar Style for Post and Pages see here.
• Custom Tag page, see here.
• Custom Author page, see here.
• Custom 404 Page see here.
• About me Widget.
• Custom Category Slider Widget.
• Custom Galleries.
• Advertising sections.
• Disqus and Facebook support.
• Fully responsive.
• Video Support (Vimeo, Youtube, etc).
• Retina Display Ready.
• Works on Android, Ipad and Iphone.
• Documentation included.
• Clean Design.
• Well Coded.
• Navigation Menu.

Changelog

v1.4.7 - 11 March 2025
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- Fixed: Duplicated sticky logo when Compact header is selected.
- Fixed: Duplicated sticky log on 404 page.
- Fixed: Custom sidebar does not work properly if Article sidebar is empty.
- Improved: WooCommerce compatibility up to v9.7.1
- Improved: Mobile logo default size.
- Added: German translation.

v1.4.5 - 12 November 2024
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- Fixed: Incorrect image size when is global Post style option is selected.
- Improved: How the Footer CTA text is being sanitized, this will fix a double content issue with specific page builders.
- Improved: Last Update format (SEO).
- Improved: TOC anchors automatic generation and sanitization (diacritics and special characters).
- Improved: Several Accesibility and SEO improvements on Single Post and Author archives page.
- Added: New state option "closed/open" for TOC module on Theme Options -> Blog -> TOC.
- Added: New Audio Embed Height for Single Post.
- Added: New Custom Audio Embeds for Single Post (Spotify, Podcasts, etc).

v1.4.1 - 01 September 2024
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- Fixed: Widget PHP error when using Heavy Cache Systems.
- Fixed: TOC (below title) do not scrolldown to the correct title.
- Improved: Single Post image size on mobile devices (crop removed).
- Improved: Speed Optimization, now Header Logo always will render an optimized version on Mobile device, this will improve LCP.
- Improved: Speed Optimization, Header Logo attributes and dimensions on mobile devices, this will greatly improve CLS.

v1.4.0 - 06 July 2024
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- Fixed: Menu Order number do not appear correctly when using Gutenberg editor.
- Fixed: Custom category color do not work when Background type is assigned to "image" or "gradient".
- Fixed: Sticky Header do not work properly if Back to top button is disabled.
- Fixed: Double Author link on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Incorrect Hover color for Related articles section (single post).
- Improved: Now date appears on Classic Articles on mobile devices.
- Improved: Now Single Toc and Widget Toc can be used at the same time.
- Improved: Now Unlimited social profiles will appear on About Me widget.
- Improved: Tested up to WordPress v6.5.5.
- Added: New option to "Heading Selector" for TOC on Theme Options -> Blog -> Table of contents.
- Added: New option to disable Built-in lightbox on Theme Options -> Adv settings.
- Added: New option to enable Views Counter.

v1.3.0 - 22 May 2024
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- Fixed: Social Widget was not translatable.
- Fixed: Incorrect containers alignment on Fullwidth Template.
- Fixed: Minor Spanish translation string.
- Added: Turkish Translation, thanks to Mevlüt Yaşar.
- Added: New option to order "Topics Index" widget by slug.
- Added: New option to order "Topics Index" widget by Menu Order.
- Added: New Option "Menu Order" to Articles (on post attributes section).
- Added:  New sortable option on Articles List by "menu order".
- Added: NEW! WooCommerce compatibility up to 8.8.3
- Added: NEW! Breadcrumb compatibility with Yoast, NavxT and RankMath plugins 
- Added: NEW! TOC with Toggle function before Article content on Theme Options -> Blog -> Single Post Content.

v1.1.1 - 02 May 2024
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- Fixed: Incorrect Alignment of primary tag on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Post format Video and Gallery layout on mobile.
- Improved: Alignment for articles without images.
- Added: New Right Sidebar option on Theme Options -> Sidebars.
- Added: New option to remove main menu decoration on Theme Options -> Styling -> Main Style.

v1.1.0 - 27 April 2024
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- Fixed: TOC do not work properly when Header notice is active.
- Fixed: Theme Wizard image load on very specific server configurations.
- Improved: H2 for Grid Articles.
- Improved: Image sizes information on back-end.
- Added: New module Gutenberg content to create complex home pages layouts.
- Added: New option to disable pagination button on Posts Modules.
- Added: New option to enable Author below title on Theme Options -> Blog -> Single post.
- Added: New option to enable Reading Time below title on Theme Options -> Blog -> Single post.
- Added: New option to enable Rating below title on Theme Options -> Blog -> Single post.
- Added: New Max Height option on TOC widget, to automatically add scrollbar if needed.

v1.0.0 - 06 April 2024
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- Initial Release

Credits

Translations:

Spanish Language By: Estudio Patagon

Images by Adobe Firefly and Unsplash

Fonts:

• Urbanist – https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Urbanist
• DM Sans – https://fonts.google.com/specimen/DM+Sans

Fonts icons by: Remix Icon