/santiagum

Santiagum 1.0 — A Medium-like WordPress theme

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Santiagum 1.0

Medium-like theme for WordPress, based on Readium made by Sven Read for Ghost platform. This port tailored theme for WordPress comes with several improvements and some pretty little design extras.

## Features

  • Mobile-first design approach
  • Fully responsive layout
  • Awesome automatic figcaptions from your images alt tags
  • Valid HTML5/CSS3
  • Minimal design
  • Designed for Readability & Sharability
  • FontAwesome implemented for easy use of icons fonts
  • Highlight.js integrated for Syntax highlighting - Highlight JS
  • OpenGraph & Twitter Cards meta's
  • Free & Open Source font usage
  • Ready for WordPress 3.x.x
  • Configuration panel (under Theme Options) to customize site logo, favicon, social networks, custom feed URL, Google Analytics code, etc
  • Tagging support
  • Side navigation pane just like in Medium, for categories, pages and archives
  • Comments ready

To-Do

  • Rewrite CSS document in LESS
  • Add lightbox for preview large images
  • Add gallery support
  • Add language/internationalization support

Send your feature request or to-do as an Issue in this repo or drop me an email to m.juanpablob [at] gmail [dot] com.

Installation

  1. Grab a copy of Santiagum in your computer
  2. Copy santiagum folder into wp-content/themes/
  3. Activate Santiagum from WordPress Administration panel in Appearance > Themes menu

## Usage notes This theme works just like any other Wordpress theme. Just keep in mind:

  • To attach an image to a post or page as cover photo (just like in Medium), just add the image to Set featured image option under post/page editing
  • To stick posts under Featured Posts in home page, mark the post as Sticky. Do this by expanding Visibility option under post editing
  • The author's avatar is taken from Gravatar
  • There are two navigations: One of them in the left side pane of theme (through upper-left corner logo) which contains search area, pages, categories and archives. And the other one is a quick navigation for most important links/pages or it could be act as shortcuts, it's located bellow blog name and tagline in home page. To activate and configure this navigation go to Appearance > Menus.

Suggestions

  • This theme is in active development, so expect new releases over the next weeks. You can update it easily just by pulling the changes from this repo or by replacing the entire theme folder in your site. Since there are many enhancements coming, be careful when editing.
  • Also, for a correct visualization in Santiagum, I suggest configure the media sizes in your WordPress as:
    • Medium: 700x900
    • Large: 1024x1024

Support

  • Language: Only available in English lang. The internationalization feature will come over the next few months
  • Browser support: All major browsers
    • IE8+
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    • Opera
    • Webkit Mobile Browsers

At any time you can add an Issue to this repo to notify bugs or broken things. I'll be watching for new issues to fix them as soon as I can.

Thanks to

  • Sven Read for taking the time to make a well-done theme for Ghost
  • Medium Team for their awesome work! And also for guiding the line towards a better design trends related to news reading and blogging
  • Rodrigo Almendras for taking that beautiful photo of Santiago, Chile, used as default cover in this theme
  • WordPress and Ghost for existing