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Acajou

Requires at least: WordPress 6.0
Tested up to: WordPress 6.5
Requires PHP: 7.4

License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

A minimalist woodstyle theme for WordPress.

Description

Acajou WordPress theme

Acajou is a clean, simple, and fully responsive WordPress theme that feels like wood and looks awesome on any device. Its name, pronounced /a.kaˈʒu/ in French, refers to a tree from tropical forests. It adjusts automatically to any screen size including tablets and smartphones as well as Retina displays. The theme is built using Zurb Foundation, a framework for HTML5 / CSS3 which is SEO friendly. This WordPress theme was built with blogs and creative portfolios in mind but be creative and unleash its full potential in eCommerce, business and other projects. Acajou is available in English, French, and Spanish for now.




Installation

Manual

  1. Download theme by using "Download zip" button on the right side and unzip it.
  2. Upload the acajou folder to the /wp-content/themes/ directory
  3. Activate the Theme through the Apperance - Themes menu in WordPress
  4. See Appearance -> Customize to change theme specific options.

WordPress Admin Panel

  1. Download theme by using "Download zip" button on the right side
  2. Go to Appearance > Themes
  3. Click on Add New
  4. Click on Upload Theme
  5. Choose the acajou.zip file
  6. Click on Install Now

Adapting existing content

If you already have menus and widgets on the website, you need to do this after finishing the theme activation process:

  1. Go to Appearance > Menus and update theme locations
  2. Go to Appearance > Widgets and add old widgets to new sidebars

If you already have uploaded images on the website, you should regenerate thumbnails. To do that you can install Regenerate Thumbnails plugin.

If you didn't use featured images you can install the Easy Add Thumbnail plugin to dinamically set featured images for old published posts.

Customization

This theme has loads of customization options available. To open WordPress Customizer go to Appearance > Customize. There you will find the following sections:

Header

Change the header image. It might support a random image list.

Social links

Set the link for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networks.

Colors

Acajou comes with six flavors: chocolate, blue, green, red, dark, and yellow. You might switch between these colors in using the Customizer.

File structure

In this theme we are using a default WordPress template hierarchy.

/css/ - Style(CSS) files.

/scss/ - SASS files for those that are comfortable with CSS preprocessors.

/inc/ - Includes custom logics that are non-standard to WordPress.

/js/ - Theme javascript files.

License

This theme is based on Underscore WordPress theme by Theme Horse.

The theme is released for free under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and some parts under their respective licenses. In general words, feel free and encouraged to use, modify and redistribute this theme however you like. You may remove any copyright references (unless required by third party components) and crediting is not necessary. The theme is offered free of charge. If someone asked money for it, someone just tricked you.

Unless otherwise specified, all the theme files, scripts and images are licensed under GNU General Public License version 2.

The exceptions to this license are as follows:

Available CLI commands

acajou comes packed with CLI commands tailored for WordPress theme development :

  • npm run watch : watches all SASS files and recompiles them to css when they change.
  • npm run compile:css : compiles SASS files to css.
  • npm run lint:scss : checks all SASS files against CSS Coding Standards.
  • npm run lint:js : checks all JavaScript files against JavaScript Coding Standards.
  • npm run bundle : generates a .zip archive for distribution, excluding development and system files.

Change log

All notable changes to this theme are documented in CHANGELOG.md file.