Benjamin
Benjamin is a flexible and feature rich WordPess theme build with Automattic's _s (underscores) theme 18f's Web Design Standards.
Be sure to install the companion plugin, Franklin to include various 18F components via shortcodes!
Features
Configurable settings for many template types:
- Feeds (archive)
- Frontpage - a flexible page with sortable rows of widget areas
- Single Posts
- Single Pages
- Widgetized Page - a flexible page template with sortable rows of widget areas
- SideNav Page - a page template which automagically looks for ID'd anchor tags and displays a sticky sidenav linking to said tags
- 404 pages
- 4 extra page templates
- Custom post type single pages, and feeds
Sortable Pages
As mentioned, both the frontpage and widgetized pages are sortable, so you have control over 3 widgetized areas and page content.
Template settings include:
- Header background image (select the default image if a "featured image" is not set)
- Header background video
- Header Size (slim, medium, big, and full page)
- Sidebar position (left or right)
- Sidebar visibility (hide or show on different screen sizes)
- Template specific widget ares
- Hide parts of a page (such as the navbar or footer)
Feed Featured Posts
- a post can be marked as "featured" and displayed promptly in the feed page hero
Template settings use a "fallback" system
- Allows setting things once for all templates
- Or lets you override settings on specific templates
- The "Feed" settings are used by default, all other templates must be activated
3 Color schemes
Standard - The regular US Design Standard colors
Classic - Based on the SitesUSA and DigitalGov sites
Red - A WIP
Header Settings
- Change the order of the US official site banner, the Hero, and the navbar.
- Change the navbar size (slim and standard padding, it makes a difference when changing the order)
- A dark navbar color scheme
Footer Settings
- The footer is made up of optional, sortable components like:
- return to top link
- footer menu area
- and 2 widget areas
3rd party plugin support
Contact Form 7 checkbox/radio, and form validation support
Custom post type support
Co-authors Plus support
Shortcodes and Components
These shortcodes are NOT included in the theme by default, but are available in the companion plugin, Franklin.
Here are a list of the currently available shortcodes in Franklin:
- Labels
- Buttons
- Alerts
- Accordions
- Accordion Groups
- Contact Block
- Brand
- Media Block
- Callout
- Navlist