cotrim.dev — Console

A dark, terminal-native WordPress block theme for cotrim.dev. Child of Twenty Twenty-Five.

The whole site reads as one long-running terminal session: shell chrome at the top, a live status bar at the bottom, ~$ prompts as section headings, and signal-green accents for anything live.

Design

• Dark only. #0A0C0F background, no theme toggle.
• Type. Manrope (sans) + JetBrains Mono (mono), loaded from Google Fonts.
• Palette. Ink, mute, dim, faint on neutrals; green/blue/amber/pink as signal colors.
• No shadows. Hairlines (--line, --line-bold) and background contrast do the separation.
• Live bits. Uptime counter in the footer, pulse dots, blinking caret, scroll-progress bar on posts.

Pages

• Home — ~$ whoami hero, recent posts, projects preview
• Blog — year-grouped post list with tag filter (essay, note, link)
• Post — reading view with breadcrumbs, meta strip, tags, prev/next
• Projects — card list with HTML-attribute-style metadata (custom page template)
• Now — 2×3 grid of "what I'm up to" cards + uptime block (custom page template)
• 404 — giant 404 + cd shortcuts back to safety

Installation

1. Make sure Twenty Twenty-Five is installed (this is a child theme).
2. Upload to wp-content/themes/cotrim.dev/.
3. Activate under Appearance → Themes.
4. Create two Pages, assign their templates:
   • /projects → Template: Projects
   • /now → Template: Now
5. Tag posts with essay, note, or link so the row colors and the blog filter pills work.

How it's built

Five moving parts — see CLAUDE.md for the full architecture notes:

• theme.json — palette, font families, spacing scale, custom template registrations.
• assets/css/terminal.css — all visual rules, scoped under .cotrimdev-retro-theme.
• assets/js/console.js — uptime tick, current-path label, active-nav, blog filter, reading progress.
• functions.php — shortcodes ([con_postlist], [con_archive_list], [con_post_*]) that render the console-specific row layouts the Query Loop block can't express.
• templates/ + parts/ — block-theme templates and shell header/footer.

Customising

• Uptime since. Change data-since="2024-06-01T00:00:00Z" in parts/footer.html, and on the Now page.
• Copy. The Projects, Now, and 404 pages have copy hard-coded in their templates; posts and the home lede are authored in WP.
• Colors. All palette values live in theme.json (settings.color.palette) and assets/css/terminal.css (:root custom properties). Keep both in sync.

Requirements

• WordPress 6.4+
• Twenty Twenty-Five parent theme
• PHP 7.4+

License

GPL v2 or later.

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Built by Bernardo Cotrim.