Deprecated themes - Some clarifications and recommendations May 26, 2025

All included official themes have been marked as deprecated since Zenphoto 1.6. A note is added on the backend. This leads to some confusion especially with new users.

These themes all are quite old and outdated and it does not make sense to update or rework them as their base is quite old. They will be removed with the next major release which is sadly still quite a while away. Untill then these themes will only get bugfixes and no actual feature updates anymore like special layouts. They will get the occasional plugin support if it is just a function to add. There will be at least one new official all-purpose theme included in the future.

There are also these third party themes with "limited support" from us. That means we roughly maintain and fix issues on these themes to keep them compatible with the latest Zenphoto release:

• https://www.zenphoto.org/theme/zpBootstrap/
• https://www.zenphoto.org/theme/zpbase/
• https://www.zenphoto.org/theme/zenji/
• https://www.zenphoto.org/theme/libratus/

We welcome bug reports and/or pull requests with fixes.

There are also some good maintained third party themes you can use

• https://www.zenphoto.org/theme/multiverse/ (the author bic is ZP team member so this is bascally "half-official")
• https://www.zenphoto.org/theme/paradigm/
• https://www.zenphoto.org/theme/collections/