Stoat

Stoat is a fast, privacy-friendly WordPress theme for news sites, magazines, newsrooms, and independent journalists. It loads no external fonts, scripts, or trackers – typography comes from your system fonts or the WordPress Font Library, so nothing is requested from a third-party server. The Customizer covers text, accent, background and meta colors, separate fonts for body, headings, navigation and logo, three header layouts with a light or dark skin, and a header call-to-action button. Archives can feature the newest post as a hero and control thumbnail side, ratio and width, excerpt length, and every meta item; single posts get their own toggles. Also included: three menu locations, a footer widget area, a search dialog, automatic social icons, sticky post styling, and editor styles so the block editor matches the published page. It brings Ghost-like experience while still let you keep WordPress. Live preview: https://stoat.owldraft.com