TitanCore WordPress Theme

Ultra-fast, clean-coded WordPress theme for blogs and magazines. Dark mode, three front-page presets, built-in SEO, and zero bloat.

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Why TitanCore

Most WordPress themes ship megabytes of CSS frameworks, icon fonts, jQuery plugins, and page-builder overhead. TitanCore ships none of that. Every line is hand-written, every asset is justified, and the result is a theme that loads near-instantly for readers while staying dead-simple to manage.

No AI-generated slop. No bloated dependencies. Just clean PHP, minimal CSS, and vanilla JavaScript.

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Features

Performance

• Zero jQuery on the frontend (stays registered for plugin compat)
• No Font Awesome — inline SVG icons only (Lucide, ISC License)
• WordPress emoji scripts removed (~15 KB saved per page)
• Block library CSS loaded only when blocks are present
• Navigation JS deferred with strategy: defer
• Proper fetchpriority, loading, and sizes attributes on every image
• Locally hosted Inter variable font with optional preload
• Separate core block asset loading enabled
• Font Awesome auto-blocked from plugin injection

Dark Mode

• System-preference aware (respects prefers-color-scheme)
• Manual toggle with localStorage persistence
• Force light-only or dark-only via Customizer
• Full colour palette configurable per mode

Front-Page Presets

Switch between three layouts with one Customizer dropdown:

• Modern Blog — responsive card grid
• News Portal — hero article + trending sidebar + grid
• Magazine — featured duo + article list

Built-in SEO

When no dedicated SEO plugin is detected (Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, AIOSEO):

• Meta description fallbacks for all page types
• Open Graph + Twitter Card meta tags
• Canonical URLs with rel="prev" / rel="next" pagination
• JSON-LD: WebSite + SearchAction, Organization, Article, BreadcrumbList
• noindex on search results and 404 pages

All SEO output automatically suppressed when a dedicated plugin is active.

Accessibility

• Skip-to-content link
• Full keyboard navigation with focus management
• ARIA attributes on mobile menu, toggles, and navigation
• prefers-reduced-motion support (animations disabled)
• Semantic HTML5 throughout

Customizer Options

• Header: sticky toggle, logo vs text title, custom header code
• Colours: primary, accent, light/dark background and foreground, grid pattern colour and opacity
• Front Page: layout preset, tag limit, post limit
• Single Post: Table of Contents toggle
• Footer: custom footer code with safe-mode filtering
• Footer Widgets: optional block/widget area above the footer credits

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Installation

From WordPress Admin

1. Go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme
2. Upload the .zip file and click Install Now
3. Click Activate

Manual

1. Extract the theme folder to wp-content/themes/titancore/
2. Activate from Appearance → Themes

After Activation

• Set up menus at Appearance → Menus (Primary, Secondary, Footer)
• Configure the theme at Appearance → Customize
• Under Settings → Reading, set homepage to "Your latest posts" for the preset layouts

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Menus

Location	Purpose
Primary	Top navigation bar
Secondary	Tag/category pills below the front-page header
Footer	Footer navigation links

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Developer Notes

Filters

Filter	Default	Description
titancore_disable_frontend_jquery	false	Set to true to fully deregister jQuery on the frontend
titancore_block_fontawesome_assets	true	Set to false to allow Font Awesome from plugins
titancore_preload_main_font	false	Set to true to preload the Inter variable font
titancore_should_keep_core_block_assets	varies	Override block library CSS loading logic
titancore_custom_code_allowed_tags	array	Customise allowed HTML for header/footer code injection

Asset Build

TitanCore ships both source and minified assets. WordPress loads the .min versions:

assets/css/style.css        → assets/css/style.min.css
assets/css/enhancements.css → assets/css/enhancements.min.css
assets/css/frontpage-presets.css → assets/css/frontpage-presets.min.css
assets/js/navigation.js     → assets/js/navigation.min.js

If you edit a source file, regenerate the minified version before deploying. Cache busting uses filemtime().

File Structure

titancore/
├── assets/
│   ├── css/           # Theme stylesheets (source + minified)
│   ├── fonts/inter/   # Locally hosted Inter variable font
│   └── js/            # Navigation + theme toggle (source + minified)
├── inc/
│   ├── admin.php      # Admin welcome notice
│   ├── customizer.php # All Customizer settings and sanitizers
│   ├── enqueue.php    # Script/style enqueuing and performance hooks
│   ├── seo-schema.php # SEO meta, OG, schema, breadcrumbs
│   └── template-tags.php # Helper functions, TOC, caching, icons
├── template-parts/
│   ├── background-grid.php  # Dot grid overlay
│   ├── content.php          # Post card in grid loops
│   ├── content-none.php     # Empty state
│   ├── front-header.php     # Home/front-page intro + tag bar
│   └── loop-container.php   # Unified post grid + pagination
├── 404.php
├── archive.php
├── comments.php
├── footer.php
├── front-page.php     # Three preset layouts
├── functions.php      # Theme setup and includes
├── header.php
├── home.php
├── index.php
├── page.php
├── search.php
├── single.php         # Article + sidebar with TOC
├── style.css          # Theme metadata header
├── theme.json         # Block editor tokens
└── screenshot.png

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Requirements

• WordPress 6.0+
• PHP 8.0+

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Credits

• Theme by administraktor.com
• Font: Inter by Rasmus Andersson — SIL Open Font License 1.1
• Icons: Lucide — ISC License
• Hosting partner: WPinEU.com — WordPress Hosting in Europe

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License

TitanCore is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later.