In the main blog, visit Design > Theme Options. Fill in this info as necessary:
All other fields are intelligently applied/ignored.
Some Theme Options can also be set in the Photo Gallery blog.
Creates an image carousel (dissolving slide show) on the home page of the main blog, between the navigation bar and the body content of the page. Image for the carousel should all be scaled to the same height and correct width. Upload the images via FTP into a folder on the website. (The carousel images do not need to be imported as Assets through the MT interface.) You may use from TWO to SIX images.
@featuredarticle
tag. The five most-recent entries with the @featuredarticle
tag will be displayed in this widget.@featuredvideo
tag. Only the most recent entry tagged @featuredvideo
will be displayed here. The widget displays the contents of the Entry Excerpt field, so you will want to enter the HTML to a reduced-size video here, to fit the sidebar width. The sidebar width is 202 pixels.@contact
tag. This tag is responsible for adding a link in the navigation header and footer links in the site. Be sure to enable commenting on this page, which creates the contact form for visitors to use.@about
tag; which adds it to the navigation header and footer links. Use H2 HTML tags to delineate sections, which will then appear in the Highlights sidebar widget.@footernav
tag) or the header (@topnav
). (You don't need to use @contact
and @about
to place those Pages, @topnav
and @footernav
work fine, too.)After adding any pages with @about
, @contact
, @footernav
, or @topnav
, the site must be republished to update all pages.
Choose Display > Options on the Create/Edit Page screen to enable these custom fields:
By default, the navigation menu is built with pages tagged @topnav
, @about
, and/or @contact
. This is a solid and simple way to build menus.
But, if a drop-down menu is needed, the CTP has provisions for it, although it is considerably more complex. To enable drop-down support visit Design > Theme Options > Design Options.
Once enabled, menus must be built. Similar to the simple navigation, links to the Main and Gallery blogs are first created; also, @about
and @contact
will add those pages just as with the simple navigation.
Folders are the backbone of the drop-down navigation. Create a folder structure (Manage > Folders) where each item to appear in the menu must be a folder. The parent/child folder relationship will be directly translated to the menu/submenu relationship published to the site. Any number of submenus and sub-submenus can be created simply by nesting Folders. Order the menu and submenu items (that is, order the Folders within the navigation menu) with HTML comments. Precede the Folder Label with "@@" for the first menu item, and "@@" for the second menu item. This comment ordering applies to both top-level menu items (relative to the other top-level items) and sub-menu items (relative to the other items in the same parent folder).
If there is any possibility of having more than 9 items in a given menu, use two-digits for ALL their folder label comments: "@@", and "@@" and so on, otherwise they will not sort properly.
At this point, you've created a menu structure that works, however it doesn't link anywhere. Add pages as destinations of each folder: select Create > Page and select the Folder you want this page to be attached to. Update the basename of this page to "@index@" and save. Selecting the Folder will place the file in the correct destination, and giving the page a basename of "@index@" will make it the default page. Many pages can exist in a Folder, but only the one with the basename "@index@" will be linked from the menu. Note that the "@@topnav@" tag is not necessary with the drop-down style menu.
The header image is specified at the site level through Theme Options. A category-specific or folder-specific header image can be displayed in its place, however.
Visit Manage > Categories and click a category name to edit it. There, use the Category Header Image field to add a header image specific to this category. Entries and category archives will both make use of this custom header. The Folder custom header override works the same way.