Dark Mode features

That is the difference between a dark mode a reader keeps on and one they switch off after a paragraph.

The engine — the part that does the real work — is fetched the moment somebody chooses dark, and never before.

A reader who chose dark last time never sees a white page appear and then correct itself, which is the single thing that makes a dark mode feel bolted on.

While a page is dark that bar takes the page's own dark background, from the first paint, and your theme's colour comes back with light. Your own scripts can follow as well: a map, a chart or a chat window is told each time it switches.

Layers draws with rounded panels instead of lines; Bold is pure black with white text and thick dividing lines, for low vision and bright rooms. Every one of them was checked for contrast before it shipped, so picking one and changing nothing gives you a page people can read. Change any of the four colours and the change is yours to keep.

Only styles that stay readable once applied are offered, each with its contrast.

Or hide the floating button and place it yourself: as a navigation menu item, a block, a shortcode, or a link in your own template. All of them ask one screen for their wording, so none of them can drift, and every one says what it does out loud for a screen reader.

On a new site their choice ends at your schedule's next switch, or with no schedule the next time they visit with their phone set the other way, then the site follows it again, decided in their browser before the page is painted. Or place Light, Auto and Dark, three buttons where Auto hands the choice back, as a block, a shortcode or a menu item.

And ?dark=1 on any address opens that page dark — read before the first paint, so a link you send in the evening does not flash white on the way there.

Or from sunset to sunrise at the place you name — and with no place named, each visitor's own device decides.

Name them and they keep their own colours exactly. Bright photographs can be dimmed by as much or as little as you like.

Choose Fix dark mode here in the toolbar, click the part, and choose to keep its own colours, invert it or give it a dark version from your Media Library. The panel shows how many things on the page it will catch before you save, the page shows the result at once, and Undo is right there. It is for administrators only: visitors never load the picker.

Any other image can be paired with a dark version the same way.

It works on the Shop page and the Posts page too. No rule to write on another screen, and no list to remember you added a page to.

For a membership site or a shop it can also be saved to their account — so a customer who chooses dark on their phone finds your site dark on their laptop too.

The file holds settings only — no content, no customer data and no licence key.

No addresses, no pages, no identifiers, no cookie of ours, and nothing leaves your own database. Off until you switch it on.

The screen where you choose says plainly what each one costs and what it gets wrong, so you are choosing rather than guessing.