Zen Kitten

Add Your Own Header

admin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:26:06 +0000

Zen Kitten automatically uses your blog’s title as the header on your homepage. You can change the height of the text in the Zen Kitten theme options in your WordPress admin area.

If you like, you can swap out the text header for your own logo or image instead. Adding your own image takes just three clicks using our easy swap image uploader:

You can also set your subheader, which can include HTML code such as links or emphasis — WordPress doesn’t normally allow this in site taglines, so we created a special box to make it easy. Of course, if you don’t have a tagline, you can just leave the box blank.

Organise Your Homepage

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:49:24 +0000

The Zen Kitten WordPress theme shows off your posts in a refreshing homepage layout that’s fully customisable. Choose which categories are shown and how many posts from each category are listed in the handy Zen Kitten Theme Options in your WordPress admin area:

Finally, you can also choose whether or not to show category titles on the homepage — selecting ‘no’ in the ‘show category titles’ drop down hides them. We recommend this if you’re using the homepage to display your latest posts only, rather than splitting it into category sections.

Using categories for static homepage content

With smart use of categories and the Zen Kitten theme, you can create static areas on your homepage to hold content that doesn’t change when you add new posts. This means you could have a ‘Latest Posts’ block at the top of your homepage, with featured posts from other categories further down.

Using this technique you could list ebooks or other products on your homepage, while still showing your most recent content. We think it’s nifty.

Add Featured Images

admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:32:31 +0000

The Zen Kitten theme supports WordPress’ new featured images function. It means that you can attach an image to each of your posts, and have them automatically display below your post’s title on pages like this one, or in a neat frame on the homepage and category pages.

We’ve set Zen Kitten up to know what the featured image size needs to be, so you don’t even have to crop or adjust your uploaded image — even if it’s come straight from your digital camera or phone.

The featured image for this post as seen in the WordPress post editor.

Of course, if you want to have full control over how your featured images appear, you can do that too. Just crop them to 148 pixels wide by 202 pixels high in your favourite image editor, and WordPress will leave them alone when you upload them.

Add Subscription Options

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:29:33 +0000

Zen Kitten includes a nifty black subscription drawer at the top of all pages. When visitors click the arrow, they’ll be presented with links to subscription options and social media services, both of which you can add in the Zen Kitten theme options:

Currently Zen Kitten supports Feedburner (RSS and Email subscriptions), Twitter profile links and Facebook profile links. For full instructions and more information about the subscription drawer, please visit the Zen Kitten Guide.

This Post Uses Subheadings

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:50:29 +0000

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A Post Showing Quotations

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:48:18 +0000

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A Demo Post With Bullet Points

admin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:58:36 +0000

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Sample Post With Images

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:00:34 +0000

This is to show you what a photo caption will look like in this theme.

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Announcing The Zen Kitten WordPress Theme

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:50:35 +0000

We at Wordprezzie are delighted to announce Zen Kitten, our minimal WordPress theme designed to put your content first. Zen Kitten is a departure from the done-to-death feel that many WordPress themes follow: the cluttered widgets, multiple sidebars, and bunched up text you’ve seen elsewhere have been dumped in the litter tray.

Instead, you’ll find a light, airy design with — shock — simple navigation, minimal distraction, and enough white space to swing a cat. Just don’t grab it by the tail; we’d never forgive you.

Remix your homepage

Zen Kitten’s homepage features a customisable header that’s plain text by default. You can swap the text for your own logo or image; it’s just three clicks using our automated image uploader in the theme’s options.

The homepage shows posts in a striking featured image format; just upload your chosen pic using the new WordPress featured image uploader in the post editor. You don’t even need to crop or resize it; Zen Kitten’s pretty nifty with a pair of scissors, so it’ll do that for you.

The homepage is yours to play with as you please: you can tell Zen Kitten to list posts from chosen categories with an optional header above each one, or just have it display your latest posts. It’s pretty flexible.

Let your content shine

The post and page templates automatically set your titles in a striking typeface called Titillium Title, and use Google’s Droid Sans for your body copy, making your content both easy to read and setting it apart from the average blog. The comments area is easy on the eye, with support for Gravatars.

We’ve carried the homepage design across to each category index, an example of which you can see in our own category pages, like this one for our posts about the theme.

Customise your footer

The footer section is widgetised, so you can add your own search boxes, links to static pages, adverts, and other tasty treats. We suggest you keep it fairly clean, but it’s yours to do with as you please. There are four customisable widget areas in total: two for the homepage footer (left and right) and two for the subpage footer.

Buy it now

Read enough and want to take Zen Kitten home with you today? We don’t blame you! It’s just $69, after all. Buy it now for instant download and get all the help and support you need here.

Otherwise, you’re welcome to read more about the theme options, see some sample posts, or learn more about the theme. You can also contact us with your questions and comments. We’d be happy to help.

Who is Zen Kitten for?

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:04:57 +0000

Ever thought that blogs might be better if they weren’t so… bloggy? Ever felt that web publishers who spend hours creating content only to litter their site designs with crap are missing a trick? We do too. It’s why we designed Zen Kitten, the simple, adorable WordPress theme to take home and snuggle up with today. You’re looking at it right now, and you can buy it now to download and use on your own site today.

Still reading? That’s fine too. We know you’re smart. You want all the details. You’ve already thought of 16 friends who’d love Zen Kitten but, just for kicks, you want to know our thoughts. Here are the types of people we think it’s for:

For web writers

Writing for the Web is hard. Visitors don’t care like they used to. And they don’t read like they did, either. They skim, flit, and dart about your pages looking for an exit. They exist in a world where clicking — not reading — is the plat du jour. If only you could ween them off it…

What you need is a theme that grabs visitors by their eye stalks. A theme that waves the most important thing on your site — your precious words — right in their slack-jawed faces. A theme where their single, solitary option is not to search desperately for a way out, but to read the damn copy you spent four hours hacking together over caffeine and crumpets. A theme like Zen Kitten. Buy it today. That’ll teach ‘em.

For Mac-loving minimalists

Life’s better when it’s simple and beautiful. Why shouldn’t your website reflect the other stuff that’s passed through your life? Your iMac, your MacBook, your iPad, the iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone4 and — heck — even the Apple TV you weren’t sure about but have since grown to love, cradle in your arms, and whisper to on cold nights. They each called to you; you bought them by following your heart, not following a cost-benefit analysis, feature list, or fad.

We think that Zen Kitten is perfect for people like you. People with a thirst for the pared-down-to-the-minimal and the not-quite-white. People in search of a better life; a more simple life. People who can’t help wonder when the iPhone 5 is due out.

For arty farty tarty types

Started a blog about Leonardo’s lost lasagne recipes? Like to craft short stories? Write erotic literature? Waffle on enthusiastically about Paris in the Spring? We already think you’re wonderful, but you’d be the cat’s pyjamas with Zen Kitten by your side.

For people much like you

Zen Kitten isn’t just for web writers, Mac addicts, art critics, and harlots. Whatever you publish online, we’re confident that Zen Kitten can improve all types of sites. Even yours.