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I've been using customized Paradigm theme for my Zenphoto website, but latest ZenPhoto release made it unusable due to some depreciated functions (for example, you could't even access theme options).
I wrote to original author offrench in February with bug report for several issues, got no reply and ended up fixing all of them myself.
Last week I wrote again to get permission to share my update and also got no reply.
So, the theme seems to be abandoned - I've decided to share it on my blog, in case someone else may get a use of it too.
What I did for version 1.2:
Info:
Paradigm 1.2 page: https://www.blog.private-universe.net/web-and-tech/zenphoto-theme-paradigm/
Contains:
My testing demo-site: https://demo.private-universe.net/
Comments
Great, such updates are always welcome. Technically a theme is GPL v2 or later (or some compatible licence) so legally it should be okay.
Perhaps consider to put it on GitHub or another open platform which to my knowledge the original author never did.
The theme demo seems to use Google fonts. If the theme itself does as well, it should be optional since as it is considered a privacy problem at least in the EU and other countries ("phoning home" to Google). Better is to have fonts included locally.
Technically it can be used but with privacy consent only. Same for GA of course (which seems not be enabled there though).
(And btw, its "Zenphoto", not "ZenPhoto" ;-))
I left it at my own site since author never stated his preference for this theme specifically - his photos, for example, exclude derivative works, but this theme uses bootstrap, so some building upon should be allowed?
I plan to post other themes I'm working on to github, but for that one I've decided to err on the side of caution.
With Google services - I'll probably just delete this font reference, if someone is reliant on it - they can add it themselves.
But with Analytics - I'll have to research what notices even have to be made... it seems everyone just leaves it to the owner of the site to make a decision according to their local laws.
A theme is a derivative and dependent work of Zenphoto as the "mother project" generally so it inherits its licences bec. There might be exceptions for design itself but at least for code itself there should not be a problem. It's handled like this on any even bigger CMS out there. Even the commercial themes for a certain widely used CMS are GPL generally.
I will tomorrow add a note to the paradigm theme entry that there is an updated fork available.
Looking forward to more themes :-)
Sure, the site owner is responsible and for GA you need an account so the owner should know what he is doing and nothing is "sneaked" in as it is possible with the fonts.
Thanks!
I've removed font link from template head section and added note in theme options about Analytics (support for GA4 & local laws)
Big update with a lot of new options in Paradigm version 1.3:
Added options:
Fixed noindex/nofollow for Tags pages.
It should be noted that the theme probably is not compabile with the html_meta_tags plugin which provides twitter and opengraph elements as well.
It's noted in the Installation notes and recommended options that you have to disable some stuff from list of html_meta_tags,
I'll check that all duplicate fields are mentioned.
Okay, good, I hadn't checked everything. I have (longterm) plans to extend html_meta_tags to be more flexible. But probably not for 1.6.x though.
Quick update to 1.3a