Hi Leoism8,

Thanks for the interest in Zeen.

1) Yes, the theme comes with an Advanced Dark Mode system. Go on this demo: https://demos.codetipi.com/zeen/ and click on the Moon icon to see dark mode in action. There’s even an option in the theme options to enable dark mode automatically for visitors that have their browser settings set to dark mode.

2 and 3) Yes, in the theme options you can enable/disable practically all things like that, including view counts, comment counts, author name, author avatar, categories, date, heart system, etc. You can also select from different designs (with icons, pure text or dot separator). On this demo you can see the views count option enabled: https://demos.codetipi.com/zeen-blog/

And on this demo you can see the icons byline option design + comments count option enabled: https://demos.codetipi.com/zeen-play/

4) Yeah there are different author list templates (called “team” templates in Zeen). Here are 4 examples:

Hope this info helps

Codetipi

Hello! Thank you for sharing detailed information. Now I really feel like this is exactly what I want, but please let me know a bit more about the theme.

5) I still want to know more about the SNS share options. I will be publishing the blog for Japanese readers and would like to add “LINE” for sharing option. It’s possible by using plug-in “Share Buttons by ShareThis”. I might just use the plug-in but if it’s already an option, that’s very good to know in advance since some of the other themes have LINE as an option in their social share.

6) I checked different designs of “team” pages and I liked how I can choose its look Is it possible for me to add numbers of articles each writer posted, comments they got, total views? I have seen this feature in some other themes and I would love to add these numbers if possible. I guess it is??? Cuz https://demos.codetipi.com/zeen-robots/author/felix/ this author page shows number of his articles. Hope it is!

7) In the post design like this - https://demos.codetipi.com/zeen-robots/why-5g-and-quantum/ , I see author’s avatar and name above SNS share bar. Is it possible to make this avatar sticky instead of only SNS part. Like this theme does. http://jellywp.com/wp/shareblock02/my-favorite-skincare-gift-sets-on-holiday-sale/

Addition to the sos share bar. Is there a “copy url of the post” icon that can be listed in the SNS icons? I see “mail” option, so I am guessing it’s also possible?

Thank you!

You’re welcome, happy to help

5) Line.me is indeed an option in the theme’s sharing block. It’s an easy on/off so you can add it if you want on your site. No need for plugins

6) Currently those templates don’t show those bits of data, but as you already know the theme does show it on the author page itself so I can look into adding an option to show it on the team templates too.

7) I think the share block was made sticky as that is most likely to have interaction, but it’s definitely possible to also make the avatar sticky. I’ll look into adding an option to make it work that way too.

By copy url, do you mean visitors click it and get the url of the post saved to their clipboard? There is indeed an email share option and when it’s clicked, the url of the post is included in the body of the email automatically.

Hope this helps.

Codetipi

Thank you so much for the quick response. Yes, #8 means click to get url copied to their clipboard so they can use it for their way to share links.

One more question. Regarding “Previous” and “Next” post link button. I saw in few demos with simple arrow that opens widely when I place mouse pointer over and shows post title and image. Are there any other way of placing these button/banner? This simple arrow link doesn’t show in mobile view.

You’re welcome, happy I could help and apologies for the slow response this time!

Re #8, unfortunately there is no copy to clipboard option, the closest one is indeed the send email option.

Re Preview and Next question – indeed the theme comes with those 2 different designs you can choose from. What other design would you like to see?

Codetipi

Re What other design would you like to see? So how thee previous/next link look from mobile, first design is not showing, and the other (https://demos.codetipi.com/zeen-science/cosmos/dark-matter/) is lined up vertically. I like these to be lied up horizontally, simply, left half for previous, and right half for next. Like this post (http://jellywp.com/wp/shareblock02/best-inspire-dark-photo-in-the-winter-season/) from ShareBlock theme. My blog should be accessed by mobile more than PC so I want to make sure it’s adjustable.

Ah I see, so essentially you want Zeen’s current Previous/next design but on mobile to remain split in 50/50. If so, that is definitely possible, you’d require a tiny bit of custom css to achieve it. You’d copy/paste this into the Theme Options > Additional CSS tab:

@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) { 
.next-prev__design-1 { display: flex;  padding: 30px 15px; }
}

That’s it

Hope this info helps.

Codetipi

Great! I assume you’d help me customize after I purchase like this time?

Hi Nicko,

Please open a ticket at http://codetipi.ticksy.com and someone from support will happily help you investigate your issue

Codetipi

Sorry, support for this Envato Market purchase code has expired. You will need to extend support or purchase a new license.

Hi again,

I can report another user (RoyalRumble) did open a ticket regarding this and it was fixed for the next update

Codetipi

at least it pleases. thank you!

It’s no problem

because of this error, the bounce rate of site users increased

No worries, update will be out within the week

updated the theme. you still haven’t fixed the error in amp

Issue with images was indeed fixed, if you still have issues or something different you will need to open a ticket and include all the details to recreate it. The support team can help investigate it to get to the bottom of it.

to do this, you need to buy a support license again?

Hey Chelsann,

Thanks for the interest in Zeen

I have seen users use Adthrive with Zeen before and I don’t think there were issues like that. The important thing to know is that unlike the builders described in that article, Zeen actually encourages users to follow best WordPress practises. For example, this means that Zeen’s builder can not be used on pure posts. On pure posts you are encouraged to use Gutenberg or the classic editor (WordPress’ core editors) as the theme is fully optimized and compatible with both. Not to mention that Zeen comes with unique custom Gutenberg blocks too.

This entire approach means won’t have issues like the ones describe in that article

It also prevents the ticking-time-bomb issue all those builders have too – which is that if you use Elementor/Thrive/etc heavily on your site now, then in the future if you ever decided you didn’t want to use the builder any more for whatever reason, it will be a nightmare to edit all existing posts to whatever the new standard is. This has already happened to anyone who ever created a site using Visual Composer plugin years ago, they are having a nightmare trying to move to the new standard. Zeen users will simply not have this issue in the future

Hope this helps.

Codetipi

So is the tipi builder is just for layouts but I write posts in the gutenberg?

Yeah exactly. The Tipi Builder is what you can use for homepage, any landing pages, archive pages (category/tag pages) and things of that nature. For posts themselves you’d use Gutenberg (or classic editor if you prefer that)

Last question to clarify are blog post layouts inserted into Gutenberg for you?

Hey Lordreality,

Hm interesting, I can’t recreate that locally anywhere. What header layout are you using exactly?

Codetipi

Hey,

Screenshot: https://ibb.co/DpSfwkg

Great theme, goodluck