Changelogs

The phone menu’s full-screen sheet has its padding back, so the close button and the links no longer touch the edge of the screen.

This zip is the direct build. It updates itself for free from gauravtiwari.org, with no account or license key. That channel arrived in 0.1.1, which shipped only through the product page.

SHA-256: bd36cecd9e1ed6325c70c38ee5bdc364d8719ddc912b01cb366550bdd10b3b9e

Xenon is a block theme for studio portfolios: photographers, designers, architects, and small studios. It opens on a dark gallery ground, sets your name as large as the screen allows, hangs your projects as an uneven mosaic, and lists every one in a ruled index. It is built the way Osmium is, with core blocks only and no theme JavaScript, and it takes the opposite look.

Install

Download xenon-0.1.0.zip below, then go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme.

What is in 0.1.0

• 13 templates. Five of them can be picked per post or page: a project with a full-screen cover, a project with a sticky details column, a journal entry at a reading measure, a page with no title, and a blank canvas.
• 49 patterns in eight groups: Openers, Work, Project kit, Studio, Pages, Post layouts, Headers, and Footers. The project kit covers a whole case study: lead and facts, brief, full-bleed and paired images, a gallery, a client quote, results, credits, process, and the next project.
• Five designs. Darkroom is the default. White Cube is the bright gallery, Cyanotype is Prussian blue, Safelight is black with a darkroom red, and Silver is the warm gray of a silver print.
• Four headline presets, Condensed, Regular, Wide, and Poster. They change the headline’s width from one Archivo file, so no extra font loads.
• Section and block styles that keep patterns to core blocks: a Flash band that inverts the palette, Raised, Glow, and Ruled sections; Mosaic, Stagger, Index, and Strip post grids; Flash and Mono-until-hover images; Spec tables; Index lists; and a Status line.
• Two bundled fonts, Archivo and Fragment Mono, served from your own domain, and fourteen photographs made for the theme.

How projects work

Projects are ordinary posts. Put them in a category with the slug work, tag each one with its discipline, and give it a featured image and a one-line excerpt. The front page, archives, and work patterns pick them up. Until the site has a work category, the grids show every post, so a fresh install is never empty.

Known limits

• The full-page patterns are built for the Page, no title template. On the default template, the page title prints above the pattern’s own heading.
• A post without a featured image shows as a card with only its title.
• This release has not been run through the Theme Check plugin or tested in right-to-left languages.

Requires WordPress 7.0 and PHP 7.4. Tested up to WordPress 7.1.