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solstice23/argon-theme

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TLDR

A lightweight, visually polished WordPress blog theme with built-in dark mode, flexible column layouts, math equation support, a micro-blogging feature, and an advanced Ajax comment system with Markdown.

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    Appearance
      Accent color picker
      1 2 3 column layouts
      Day and night backgrounds
      Dark mode built-in
    Reading Features
      Table of contents
      Reading progress bar
      Math equations
      Image zoom preview
    Comments
      Ajax system
      Markdown support
      CAPTCHA
      Email notifications
    Extra Features
      Micro-blogging Shuo Shuo
      Friend-link pages
      Shortcodes
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Bloggers who want a clean, modern WordPress theme with dark mode and lots of visual customization without coding

USE CASE 2

Writers publishing long technical or academic articles who need built-in math equation rendering and a table of contents

USE CASE 3

Site owners who want a micro-blogging section for short thoughts alongside full posts

Tech stack

PHPWordPressMathJaxKaTeXJavaScriptCSS

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 30min

Install via the standard WordPress admin panel by uploading the zip from the releases page. GPL v3 requires keeping the Argon footer link.

GPL v3, free to use and modify, but you must keep the Argon theme name and link in the footer of any site using it.

In plain English

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.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I've installed the Argon WordPress theme. How do I set up automatic dark mode that switches based on time of day?
Prompt 2
How do I enable MathJax in the Argon theme so I can display math equations in my blog posts?
Prompt 3
Walk me through adding a friend-links page in the Argon WordPress theme using its built-in friend-link feature.
Prompt 4
How do I use Argon theme shortcodes to insert a collapsible section and a GitHub info card inside a blog post?
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