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Zactonz Lite

v1.0.0

A featherweight block theme for publishers who care about page weight. It adds no stylesheet request of its own and downloads no web font by default.

WordPress 6.8+PHP 7.4+ Updated 5 Oct 2026

Styles & patterns

Style variations#

Style What changes
Default System font, white ground, dark green accent. Downloads no font.
Dark A dark ground with a light green accent.
Editorial Headings in Instrument Serif, bundled with the theme. The font file, about 15 KB, is fetched only while this style is active.
Ink Pure black on white with heavier headings.

Colours, fonts and spacing can all be changed further under Appearance › Editor › Styles. The overview shows each style.

Patterns#

Found in the inserter under Patterns › Zactonz Lite.

Pattern Use
Hero A large headline, a short paragraph and two buttons.
Three columns of features Three short columns, each with a heading and a paragraph.
Image beside text An image on one side with a heading and a paragraph on the other.
Call to action A boxed heading, a line of text and a button.
Posts list The latest posts with title, date and excerpt.

The header menu never switches to an overlay, which is what lets it work without JavaScript. On narrow screens it wraps onto more rows. A site with a long menu that needs an overlay can turn it on in the Navigation block's settings and restore WordPress's full navigation stylesheet with the filter below.

Faster navigation between pages#

On WordPress 6.8 and newer the theme asks the browser to prerender a link when a visitor is about to follow it, which makes moving between pages feel close to instant. It leaves WordPress's more cautious default in place when WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads is active, and never applies to cart, checkout or account pages. This affects navigation within the site, not the first page load.

Filters for developers#

Filter Default Effect
zactonz_lite_slim_navigation_style true Replace WordPress's navigation stylesheet with the theme's smaller one. Return false to keep the original.
zactonz_lite_preload_fonts true Preload a bundled font when the active style uses it.
zactonz_lite_speculation configuration array The final speculative loading configuration.
zactonz_lite_speculation_exclude_paths cart, checkout and account paths Paths never loaded speculatively. 
add_filter( 'zactonz_lite_slim_navigation_style', '__return_false' );