Documentação do Quietype

Installation

Download the quietype.zip file from this page, then in your WordPress dashboard go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme. Choose the file, click Install Now, and click Activate on the screen that follows. Nothing else needs installing — Quietype bundles no plugins, no demo importer and no setup wizard, so the theme is live the moment you activate it.

Upload the .zip exactly as you downloaded it. If WordPress replies that the package could not be installed because the style.css stylesheet is missing, you have almost certainly unzipped the archive first and uploaded the inner folder, or a loose file. Re-download and upload the original archive without opening it.

Quietype is a block theme, so once it is active the dashboard changes shape. Your design controls now live under Appearance → Editor rather than Appearance → Customize. If you are arriving from a classic theme, that single menu item is most of what you have to relearn.

Getting started

First, decide what the homepage shows. Go to Settings → Reading and choose between your latest posts and a static page. Quietype is built for essayists and personal blogs, so the latest-posts option is the one most people want; pick the static page only if you have a deliberate landing page in mind.

Second, set your identity. Your site title and tagline live in Settings → General. If you would rather show a wordmark, open Appearance → Editor, edit the header template part, and replace the Site Title block with a Site Logo block. Keep it small — the header is intentionally quiet.

Third, build the menu. In Appearance → Editor, open the header and select the Navigation block, then add your pages to it. A reading-first site rarely needs more than three or four links, and the one-column layout gives a long menu nowhere useful to go.

After that, publish one real post and read it on a phone. Quietype has no sidebar and no widget areas to fill, so a single finished essay tells you more about the setup than any amount of clicking through empty templates will.

The reading measure

The whole theme is arranged around one number. Content is capped at 42rem, roughly sixty-eight characters per line, with a line height of 1.7. That range is where the eye finds the start of the next line without hunting, which is why the layout is one column and why there is no sidebar to widen the page.

Type sizes come from a fluid clamp() scale that runs from a 13px caption to a 52px display size and resizes smoothly with the viewport, so there are no breakpoints where headings jump. Set sizes using the named presets in the block sidebar rather than typing custom pixel values, or the block you changed will stop scaling with everything else.

Fonts are system stacks only — serif, sans and mono. Nothing is fetched from Google Fonts or any CDN, so the theme makes zero network calls for typography and renders text on the first paint instead of after a font download.

Quietype also ships a print stylesheet. Printing a post strips the site chrome and expands link URLs into the running text, so a printed essay keeps its references. Long-form readers still print, and this is cheaper than asking them to stop.

Block styles for essays

Quietype registers four block styles built for long-form writing. To use one, select the block in the editor, open the Styles tab in the settings sidebar, and pick the variation. They are ordinary block styles, so they can be switched or removed at any time without touching the content.

Hairline and Asterism are both separators. Hairline is a thin rule for a quiet section break; Asterism is the traditional three-asterisk mark for a scene change where a line would be too loud. Framed image puts a restrained border around an image so photographs sit inside the text column instead of floating in it. Plain quote removes the rule from a blockquote, leaving the indent and the type to do the work.

For a drop cap, select the opening paragraph of a post and turn on the drop cap control under Typography. Quietype's drop cap is aligned to sit on the baseline, so it does not drift above or below the first lines the way the default treatment tends to.

Customizing with the Site Editor

Everything visual lives in Appearance → Editor. The Templates section holds the page layouts — single post, page, archive, search, 404 — and editing one changes every post or page that uses it. Editing an individual post from the normal editor changes only that post. Knowing which of the two you are in saves most of the confusion block themes cause.

Template parts are the pieces shared across templates, mainly the header and the footer. Edit them once under Patterns → Template Parts and the change appears sitewide. Both are marked up as real landmarks, and each template exposes a proper main region with a working skip link, so try not to replace those wrappers with plain groups.

The Styles panel handles colour, typography and layout globally. Quietype does not bundle extra style variations, because it does not need them: every colour in theme.json is a custom property, so a reader's system preference flips the entire site and the editor canvas between light and dark automatically. Both palettes pass WCAG AA, and hard-coding a specific colour on a block is the one reliable way to break that.

Changes in the Site Editor are staged until you press Save, and Save lists exactly which templates, parts and global styles are about to change. Read that list before confirming — it is the fastest way to catch an edit you made in the wrong template.

Removing the footer credit

The footer carries a small Theme by Odie Themes link. You are free to remove it, it takes about three clicks, and nothing in the theme depends on it. There is no licence check, no nag, and no feature that switches off afterwards.

Go to Appearance → Editor → Patterns → Template Parts and open the Footer. Click the paragraph holding the credit line, then either press Backspace until the block is gone or use the block toolbar's options menu and choose Delete. Click Save and confirm the footer in the list of changes.

If you would rather keep a credit but word it differently, edit the paragraph text instead of deleting the block. And if you leave it as it is, that link is genuinely how people find these themes — but it is your site, and this is a licence, not a leash.