Wordpress Theme Template
A Basic Wordpress Theme
Upcoming Features
- Replace CSS with SASS
- Create Grunt task to compile and minify all assets
##Sidebar By default the theme uses a full width view with no sidebar. There are 3 templates which allow a sidebar to be added either to the left, the right, or below the main content area. This can be changed by editing a page and choosing the template dropdown.
##Footer The footer comes with 4 columns as standard. Columns 1-3 can be edited via the widgets page in Wordpress, Column 4 displays the company address.
##Theme Settings The theme includes a new "Website Settings" option that is added in the admin dashboard of Wordpress. By default this has a few basic option such as company details and social media URL's.
To add more options open up the /includes/theme-options.php file and add a new array into the main website_settings array. See the example below:-
/*
|-------------------------------------------------------
| Theme Settings
|-------------------------------------------------------
| Key:-
| Title - Title displayed on the input form
| Name - The name of the entry inserted into the DB
| Type - Input type used for form validation
| Placeholder - Placeholder text for the input field
|
|*/
array(
'Title' => 'My New Website Setting',
'Name' => 'website_new_setting',
'Type' => 'text',
'Placeholder' => 'Please enter some text here'
)
To use an option in your theme template use the get_option() function. For example:-
<?= get_option('website_tel_1') ?>
##Theme Shortcodes
Post Boxes
The grabs a select amount of posts and displays them as boxes. By default these are ordered by the post date.
Usage in the WP editor - [post-box amount="3"]
Usage in PHP - do_shortcode('[post-box amount="3"]')