Zento - Modern & Lightweight Blog for WordPress

Zento is a modern and lightweight WordPress theme created by EstudioPatagon, designed for bloggers, developers, and content creators who value speed, clarity, and readability above all else. Built for tutorial blogs, documentation, technology, personal content, AI, comics, biographies, and programming sites, this theme puts content at the center of the reading experience thanks to a built-in syntax highlighter compatible with a wide variety of languages.

Its main strength is performance: it is a theme of just 1 MB with minified and optimized code, ready for PHP 8.x, achieving excellent scores on Google Insights (up to 99% on desktop and 98% on mobile) and very low inode usage, ideal even for shared hosting. It includes lazy loading for lists, content, and embedded elements such as YouTube, Vimeo, or SoundCloud, and AMP support in transitional mode on the homepage, archives, author pages, and individual posts.

In terms of features, Zento offers six different layouts for individual posts (with or without sidebar), fixed header and fixed sidebar for articles, automatic table of contents before the main content, breadcrumbs compatible with Yoast SEO, NavXT, and Rank Math, Open Graph support, and compatibility with WooCommerce 8.0 or higher. It includes 12 custom widgets, such as the About Me widget or the category slider, a powerful options panel for easy administration, custom pages for author, tags, and 404 error, and an advertising system with dedicated sections under the header, before and after the content, and even between grid articles, ideal for monetizing the site.

The theme is fully responsive and retina-ready, works on Android, iPad, and iPhone, supports Disqus and Facebook comments, and is translation-ready with English and Spanish included. Its clean, well-documented, and SEO-focused structure makes it a solid choice for those seeking a fast, flexible, and easy-to-maintain blog, without sacrificing a modern and attractive design.

• Extreme performance: only 1 MB, minified code, and high Google Insights scores.
• Built-in syntax highlighting, perfect for programming and tutorial blogs.
• 12 custom widgets and options panel for easy management.
• AMP support, Open Graph, and compatibility with WooCommerce and major SEO plugins.
• Six post layouts, fixed header and sidebar, and multiple advertising spaces.