Installation
Installing this theme is pretty easy. After download you should have a briar.zip (compressed file with all folders and files of this theme).
Installation
You can use WordPress Admin Panel to install this theme or do it manually.
WordPress Admin Panel
- Go to Appearance > Themes
- Click on Add New
- Click on Upload Theme
- Choose the
briar.zipfile - Click on Install Now
Manually ( FTP )
- Exctract the
briar.zip - Using an FTP client or Control Panel to access your host web server and upload
briarfolder to thewp-content/themes
Activate the theme
After installation you can click on Activate or:
- Go to Appearance > Themes
- Hover over the Briar screenshot and click on Activate
Adapting existing content
If you already have menus and widgets on the website, you need to do this after finishing the theme activation process:
- Go to Appearance > Menus and update theme locations
- Go to Appearance > Widgets and add old widgets to new sidebars
If you already have uploaded images on the website, you should regenerate thumbnails. To do that you can install Regenerate Thumbnails plugin.
If you didn't use featured images you can install the Easy Add Thumbnail plugin to dinamically set featured images for old published posts.
Customization
Customizer
To open WordPress Customizer go to Appearance > Customize. There you will find the following sections:
Header
Set the site title and tagline, choose what to display in header (logo or site title and tagline).
Footer
Add, modify, reorder or remove social buttons.
Layouts
Choose what layout will be displayed globaly and on specific pages (home, blog, post, archive, category, search, 404 and default page).
Colors
Choose a color scheme and change the color of specific elements on page.
Background
Change background color and/or set a background image.
Navigation
Select which custom menu to use on the site.
Front
Choose whether to display a static page or your latest posts on the front page.
Widgets
Add, modify, reorder and remove widgets in the theme’s designated widget areas.
File structure
In this theme we are using a default WordPress template hierarchy.
/admin/ - Admin panel files.
/css/ - Style(CSS) files.
/inc/ - Includes stuff that are non-standard to WordPress.
/js/ - Theme javascript files.
License
All contents of this theme are licensed under the MIT license, except FitVids which is licensed under the WTFPL license and FontAwesome which is licensed under the SIL Open Font License.
Change log
All notable changes to this theme are documented in CHANGELOG.md file.
