argon-theme

Argon is a WordPress theme designed to be lightweight, clean, and visually polished. It is built around the Argon Design System, a front-end framework that gives the blog a modern, airy look with careful attention to visual detail. The README is written in Chinese, though the theme itself supports Chinese, English, and Russian.

The theme offers an unusually high number of customization options for a WordPress theme. Users can change the accent color, switch between one-column, two-column, and three-column page layouts, control the header bar and sidebar behavior, set a banner or background image, and upload different backgrounds for day and night modes. A dark mode is built in with three levels: regular dark, night, and pure black. It can switch automatically based on the time of day or follow the system setting.

Reading experience features include a table of contents for long articles, a reading progress indicator, estimated reading time, support for math equations (via MathJax or KaTeX), image zoom previews, and smooth scrolling. Comments are handled through an Ajax system that adds Markdown support, a CAPTCHA, the ability to edit after posting, private whisper mode, and email notifications when replies arrive.

A micro-blogging feature called "Shuo Shuo" lets the site owner post short thoughts that appear on a dedicated page or mixed into the main post feed. The theme also supports friend-link pages with multiple display styles, and a variety of shortcodes for inserting callout boxes, collapsible sections, GitHub info cards, timelines, and hidden text directly into posts.

Installation is done through the standard WordPress admin panel by uploading the zip file from the releases page. The theme is licensed under GPL v3.0, which requires that the Argon theme name and its link remain in the footer on any site using it.