If you don’t know this theme yet, you should check it out at Graph Paper Press.
Modularity Lite is Thad Allender’s freebie version of a larger framework. I was customising this theme for Jerry Hyde’s site recently, and thought I’d take some notes to share with you.
UPDATE January 2011: This article gained a lot of attention since it came out in January 2010. Code changes dramatically with each release, which is why I’ve written an updated version for Modularity Lite 1.3. This article is about version 1.2. Tweaks may NOT work in later versions.
How to add your own Background Image
The background image gets loaded via the style.css file in the following line of code:
/************************* GLOBAL STYLES ***************************/
body {color:#eee;background: #111 url(images/bg.jpg) no-repeat center fixed;}
The full path to the default background image is wp-content/themes/modularity-lite/images/bg.jpg. Change it to your heart’s contempt!
How to add your own Logo or Header
have a look at the header.php file and find the following section:
<!-- Begin Masthead -->
<div id="masthead">
<h4><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ? rel="nofollow">/" title="Home"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a> <span><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></span></h4>
</div>
Delete the <h4> and <span> tags and replace them with a link to your logo like this:
<div id="masthead">
<img src="http://yourdomain.com/yourlogo.jpg">
</div>
If you’d like that logo to link to your home page, wrap it in a link like this:
<div id="masthead">
<a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ? rel="nofollow">/" title="Home">
<img src="http://yourdomain.com/yourlogo.jpg">
</a>
</div>
Image Sizes
If you’re hosting images in places other than your website (say Flickr) you may find that those images are too big for your layout. Rather than fiddle with that, let’s have imgaes automatically resize when they’re wider than your theme.
Have a look at the style.css file and find the /* Floats & Images */ section, under which you’ll find these three declarations:
img.centered...
img.alignright...
img.alignleft...
The last value on each line ends with
max-width:950px
Change that to a smaller value and your images will be resized automatically. You may also want to add
heigh:auto
to each line so your images don’t get squashed. I don’t know which image alignment you’re using when you embed an image, so for safe measure, amend all three of them. As an example, here’s the first line of code in its entirety changed to 500px width:
img.centered{display: block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;max-width:500px; height: auto;}
Slowing Down the Slideshow
The slideshow is generated in Java Script. Have a look in your functions.php file and look for a code block under the heading // Load Dom Ready Javascripts – it looks like this:
jQuery("#slideshow").cycle({
speed: '2500',
timeout: '500',
pause: 1
In it, you’ll find two parameters:
- SPEED which is in fact the cross fade duration,
- and TIMEOUT which is the duration of each slide.
1000 is about 1 second, 2000 is 2 seconds, and so forth. Play with those and see what happens. If you’d like cuts instead of corss fades, change the SPEED parameter to 1. The PAUSE parameter doesn’t seem to do anything so leave it alone.
I’ve added my own logo/graphic to the header. I need the logo/graphic to link back to the homepage or get some sort of navigation going in the sidebar where users can click to get back to the homepage. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Hi Kevin,
I imagine you’ve added your header like this: <img src=”header.jpg”>, right? In which case, all you need to do is amend it with an <a> link like so:
<a href="yourdomain.com"><img src="header.jpg">
</a>
Hope this helps 😉
Is there a way to display images only when I post & upload multiple images?
I just want to see the full sized images under the text.
Hi Greg,
yes there is – slightly more hidden than obvious. Have a look at a file called blog.php in wp-content/modularity-lite/library/apps/blog.php. Find the statement that looks like this:
if ($i == 1) {include (THEMELIB . '/apps/multimedia.php');
the_content();
}
else {
the_post_thumbnail();
the_excerpt();
}
What this does is to display the_content() on the first post, and only the_excerpt() from the second post onwards – hence you’re only seeing pictures on your very latest post.
Comment out the last two lines
the_post_thumbnail();
the_excerpt();
and replace them with
the_content();
Now you should see full posts displayed – including all your pictures. Let me know if that works for you 😉
I made that change to the code & now no images show up.
Here’s what I’m trying to do. When I bulk upload images they show up as thumbnails. I want to be able to bulk upload & see full sized images only, no thumbnails.
The only way I have been able to see the full sized images is to upload them 1 at a time as part of the post.