Kent Documentation

A responsive theme designed for writers who want to write. Stripped back to the minimum — it’s designed to work well on all internet-enabled devices.

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Getting Started

Documentation for WordPress.com is available here.

Standard Features

Featured Images - Image thumbnails for your blog posts and pages.
Infinite Scroll - Continuously loading content to encourage your readers to stick around.
Sticky Posts - Stick posts to the top of your blog.
SEO - Search Engine Optimization to improve your sites rankings.
Custom Front Page - Change the design of your front page to make it exactly as you want.
Custom Colours and Fonts - Tweak the fonts and colours on your site without touching any code.
Image Resizing (Photon) - Resizes all of your images to fit the thumbnails used.
Custom CSS - Edit the CSS on your website.
Contact Form - Add a simple contact form to your website or blog.
Featured Images - Image thumbnails for your blog posts and pages.
Localization - View your theme in your native language.
Related Content - Display content, related to the current blog post, to give your readers something to look at next.
Social Sharing Buttons - Display social buttons that encourage readers to share your content.
Custom Page Templates - Different page layouts for static WordPress pages.
Customizer - Edit site settings and get a live preview of the changes.
Widget Visibility - Show and hide widgets on different pages according to rules you set
Theme Demo Content - Demo content to help you get started with your theme.
GDPR and Theme Privacy - Keeping your users safe.

Kent has the following translations included:

Azerbaijani, French, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish

Changelog

1.9.7 - 2nd April 2021

Fix text input width.

1.9.6 - 31st January 2021

Clear html widget to prevent floated content from breaking the layout.

1.9.4 - 27th October 2020

Add 'navigation-widgets' to supported html5 types.
Set max width for user avatar in side cover.

1.9.3 - 5th October 2020

Add support for wp_body_open.

1.9.2 - 7th August 2020

Update rtl styles.
Minor css improvements.

1.9.1 - 11th July 2020

Fix infinite scroll button styles.

1.9 - 12th March 2020

Improve coding standards.
Improve white space for better readability.
Add support for Gutenberg.

1.8 - 2nd August 2019

Improve readability of menu button.
Make font sizes more consistant (and ever so slightly larger for easier reading)
Use Jetpack social menu instead of Jetpack social links. This will not affect existing sites since the older social links function is still active, however if a social menu is setup then it will be used instead.
Improve responsive behaviour of the slideout menu.

1.7.3 - 23rd April 2019

Improve display of post author comments.

1.7.2 - 22nd August 2018

Add an intermediate size for responsive post titles to improve long post title display on medium screens.

1.7.1 - 18th August 2018

Improve responsive behaviour for very long post titles.

1.7 - 25th May 2018

Add support for privacy policy link in the site footer.
Fix display of the cookie consent checkbox in the comments form.

1.6.1 - 28th January 2018

Improve css browser prefixes.

1.6 - 13th July 2017

Remove include for inc/wpcom.php, since it's automatically included by WordPress.com sites

1.5 - 13th June 2017

Improve white space, and text readability
Improve header size and position on archive pages (in particular responsively)
Adjust empty search results layout to not have multiple h1's
Make image attachment page title consistent with all the others :)

1.4.2 - 12th April 2017

Make iframes work better in sidebars - in particular for social widgets. They will now scale more nicely on small screens.

1.4.1 - 13th September 2016

tweak word wrap properties to make them behave a little nicer.
remove css box shadow prefixes

1.4 - 9 June 2016

use core function - the_archive_description - on archive pages
add code to help with default sizing for social media widgets
more improvements to coding standards and code appearance

1.3 - 30 May 2016

Improve coding standards (lots of files changed but little actual functionality)
Minor css changes

1.2.3

Fix issue with image attachments

1.2.2

Make infinite scroll work on author archive pages
change search archive pagination so it only shows when there are search results
tweak the menu drawer so that sub menu items are easier to interact with
tweak typography - in particular line heights and margins - so it works better on smaller screens
fix bug with mobile devices and image sizes that caused images to shrink more than neccessary on small screens

1.2.1

CSS Tweaks and Improvements
Update urls for documentation etc

1.1.1

remove kent_numeric_pagination and replace with WP core function

1.1

update the theme to meet wp.com theme review standards, and to ensure it's making the best use of WordPress functionality
Various CSS improvements

1.0

Initial release

Please note: Unfortunately we are unable to offer support or help with theme customizations. For more info on Customization services please go to our Theme Customization page.