Linen
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Setting a custom background
Navigate toAppearance → Background in your WordPress dashboard to quickly add a custom background image and/or background color.
Posting overview
To create a new post, please follow these steps:
- Navigate toPosts → Add New.
- Enter a title for your post.
- Set aFeatured image.Note: This image will appear as a small thumbnail to the left of your blog post.
- ClickPublish.
Removing the border around images
If you’d like to hide the border on individual images use thenoborder
class:
<img src="http://myimageurl.com/myimagename.jpg" />
If you’d like to hide the border onall images, add this to your child theme CSS file:
.entry img,img.single-post-thm { border: none;}
Remove Featured Image from the single post view
If you’d like toremove theFeatured image on your single post view, add this to your child theme’sstyle.css file:
/* Hide featured thumbnail from single post view */body.single .single-post-thm { display: none;}
Theme Options
Custom Logo
To use a custom logo image in your site header, follow these steps:
- Navigate toAppearance → Theme Options and click theCustom logo image section.
- Check the box next to “Enable custom logo image”.
- Input the “Logo URL” in one of three ways:
- Upload a custom logo image to theMedia Library by clicking “Upload Logo”, follow the directions to upload your file, then click “Insert into post”.
- Choose an existing image from theMedia Library by clicking “Upload Logo”, click the “Media Library” tab, find your image, and click “Insert into post.”
- Paste the URL of an external image into the “Logo URL” field.
- Enter a descriptive label for the logo to go in the
alt
attribute, such as the name of your brand or website. - To keep your tagline visible with the custom logo, check the box next to “Display tagline”.
Featured Slider
Before creating yourFeatured slider, you will need to create the posts that will be added to the slider:
- Navigate toPosts → Add New.
- Enter a title for your post.
- Set aFeatured image for the post.Note: YourFeatured image should be at least652px wide and300px tall. Smaller photos will be stretched to fit the slider and will look distorted. Larger photos are OK and will automatically be cropped to fit the slider. If your photos are larger than the recommended dimensions and do not appear to be cropped, ask your web host to install the GD image library.
- The description in the sidebar of the slider (underneath the title) is either generated from the content, or pulled from the post excerpt field. We recommend using the excerpt and keeping it short and sweet. If you don’t see a post excerpt field in your Edit Post screen, be sure to enable it through the“Screen Options” dropdown button in the top right corner of the dashboard.
- Mark your postSticky.
- ClickPublish.
Once you have created your posts, we need to set up theFeatured slider:
- Navigate toAppearance → Theme Options.
- UnderFeatured slider, use theShow featured slider drop-down to choose where you want the featured slider to display.
- ClickSave all changes.
Subscribe Links
To enable your subscribe links, complete the following steps:
- Navigate toAppearance → Theme options.
- UnderSubscribe links, check to enable your social links.
- Enter the full URL links to your social sites in the provided input fields.Note: For Twitter, only enter your Twitter ID.
Typography
Linen has built in support for selected web fonts. To adjust your site’s typography:
- Navigate toAppearance → Theme Options.
- UnderTypography, choose anAccent andBody font.Note: Using custom fonts will add weight to your page. If you want the fastest page load times, choose from Helvetica or Georgia.
- ClickSave changes.
Layout
You have the option to disable the sidebar or the footer through your entire site. To do this:
- Navigate toAppearance → Theme Options.
- UnderLayout, check to disable the sidebar or the footer.
- ClickSave changes.
Footer
You can add a custom copyright line to the footer of your site. To do this:
- Go toAppearance → Theme Options.
- UnderFooter, enter your custom message.
- ClickSave changes.
Create Pages
Full-width page
To create a Full-width page, you will need to use theNo Sidebar page template.
- Navigate toPages → Add New.
- Enter a title for your page.
- UnderPage Attributes, select theNo Sidebar template.
- ClickPublish.
Left sidebar page
To create a page with a left-aligned sidebar, you will need to use theLeft Sidebar page template.
- Navigate toPages → Add New;
- Enter a title for your page;
- UnderPage Attributes, select theLeft Sidebar template;
- ClickPublish.
Sitemap page
To create aSitemap, you will need to use theSitemap page template.
- Navigate toPages → Add New;
- Enter a title for your page (Sitemap, for example);
- UnderPage Attributes, select theSitemap template;
- ClickPublish.
The Sitemap page will be automatically generated; no need to write a single word.
Image dimensions
Where a height is not provided, feel free to insert your own custom value.
Featured slider image:
- Width: 652px
- Height: 300px
Blog post image:
- Width: 620px
Full-width banner logo image:
- Width: 900px