Elegant and comprehensive blogging theme for WordPress. Specially made for lifestyle & fashion bloggers, Brittany shapes for your users a website to remember.
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Setting up your theme
WooCommerce
This theme has the WooCommerce plugin pre-installed for you. If it is deactivated, you can go under Plugins > WooCommerce and activate it. Also go under WooCommerce > Settings and in the Products tab set the image sizes that best fit your shop under the Product Image Sizes section, in case you need different values than the theme sets by default.
1) Populating your blog
To add new posts to your blog, go to Posts > Add New and proceed to:
- add a title to your post
- enter the content in the editor
- add a category and/or tag to the post
- upload a featured image by clicking Set featured image on the Featured Image panel
- Select the preferred post layout from the drop down in the Layout section
- Once done click the Publish/Update button.
2) Customizing the appearance
All theme customization is done via the WordPress’s built in Customizer. If you haven’t used it or want to learn more about it, please read this article.
Go to Appearance > Customize and you will see this:
TIP: Any changes you make in the tabs below will be previewed live on the site which appears in the right side of the screen. However to save these changes you need to click the Save & Publish button on the top of the bar. If you have made a change but the button is grayed out (for example changed the font size of a heading), move the cursor outside the input box, to the next input box. The button should be clickable again.
Let’s take a look at the options each tab gives you.
Header Options
Toggle the sticky menu, social icons and inline logo. Additionally you can customize the header colors.
Menus
Here you can create and assign menus to the theme. The theme features one menu location, the main menu. To learn more about menu creation, check out the Codex’s menu user guide.
Site Identity
In this tab you can modify the site’s title, tagline, logo and site icon.
Layout Options
Here you can define the layouts of the blog listing and single post, set the blog columns, modify the length of the automatic excerpt, toggle the excerpt display in listings or select between numbered and older/newer pagination.
Front Page Carousel
In this tab you can toggle the appearance of the slider, select a source post category to display on it, or specific posts via their IDs. You can also limit the number of posts that appear on the slider and modify slider timings. Finally you can select where you want the slider to appear.
Typography Options
Here you will find various options regarding the theme’s typography. You can change heading, body text and widget title sizes and toggle the capitalization of various elements.
Content Colors
Are you looking to create your own unique color scheme? This tab will help you do it by allowing you to modify the colors of many elements of the content. To do that click the Select Color button and either use a hex color value in the box or use the palette to select a color.
Widgets
Through this tab you can add widgets to the theme’s sidebars. The theme features ten sidebars, the blog, pages, two homepage sidebars, an e-shop sidebar, the pre-footer Instagram one and four footer sidebars.
Sidebar Colors
This tab will allow you to modify the colors of various sidebar elements to complete your custom color scheme.
Social Networks
Here you can fill in the URLs to your various social network profiles supported by the theme. You can display them in a sidebar by using the Theme – Social Icons widget.
Posts Options
Here you can toggle various aspects of a single post, like the appearance of categories, tags, date, comments, social sharing etc. You can also set the default single post layout and change the related posts section title.
Pages Options
Here you can customize the display of the signature and social sharing buttons on pages.
Footer Options
Here you can edit the credits text.
Static Front Page
Use this tab to make the Home page your static front page so you can take advantage of the homepage template we created for you.
Other
In this tab we host the custom CSS panel. You can use it to insert styles for elements not covered by the rest of the tabs. You can also set the Google Analytics ID to get statistics on your site.
Theme pages
The Home page
To utilize the front page layouts this theme includes , create a page named Home and apply to it one of the available front page templates. These are:
- The Widgetized Homepage with Full screen Slider template offers you a full screen slider that adapts to the screen size, with all homepage widgets below.
- The Widgetized Homepage template offers a slider with a fixed height and the same width as the rest of the content.
- The Widgetized Homepage with Full width Slider gives you a front page with a full width slider with fixed height.
The template can be selected from the Page Attributes drop down.
The Contact page
To create a contact page similar to the one on the theme’s demo, create a new page, name it Contact and use the Contact Form 7 plugin to help you create a contact form. Then paste the shortcode it provides in the page’s text editor, publish and you are done.
Widgets
Apart from the WordPress widgets provided, Brittany features four custom made. The Theme – Items and the Theme – Latest Posts, will help you generate your front page layouts. You can view information about all of them in the image below:
Each widget has a text about its usage.
How to use the latest posts widget
The Theme – Latest Posts widget is the cornerstone on creating the various homepage layouts. It’s a highly versatile widget. Let’s take a look at how to use it.
Add a title to the widget and select a post category to display on it (leaving the option empty will display posts from all categories). Underneath it, select whether you want your posts to appear at random (default is by date from newest to oldest) or not and how many posts you want to display on the widget. Finally set the number of columns your items will be displayed upon and select one of the thirteen available layouts.
Excluding post categories from the widget
As mentioned above, if you don’t select a post category on the widget, it will display posts from all categories. It’s very easy to exclude some of them if you wish, by selecting them in the Categories to exclude latest posts from field. Don’t forget to click Save when you’re done.
Suggested layouts for optimal appearance
While all posts appearance & column combinations will work, the once suggested below will provide you the best visual result.
TIP: These combinations work for the blog listing layout ( See layout options in the Customization section above) and the Items widget.
Blog Page Layout: Right Sidebar
| Demo preview | Item appearance | Columns |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Column | Default | 1 |
| 2 Columns | Default | 2 |
| 2 Columns Fixed | Fixed | 2 |
| Horizontal left fixed | Horizontal left fixed | 1 |
| Horizontal right fixed | Horizontal right fixed | 1 |
| Horizontal fixed alternating | Horizontal fixed alternating | 1 |
| Media 2 columns | Media | 2 |
| 2 Columns no excerpt | No excerpt | 2 |
| 3 Columns no excerpt | No excerpt | 3 |
| 2 Columns plain | Plain | 2 |
| 2 Columns reveal | Reveal | 2 |
| 2 Columns vertical | Vertical | 2 |
Blog Page Layout: Left Sidebar
| Demo preview | Item appearance | Columns |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Column | Default | 1 |
| 2 Columns | Default | 2 |
| 2 Columns Fixed | Fixed | 2 |
| Horizontal left fixed | Horizontal left fixed | 1 |
| Horizontal right fixed | Horizontal right fixed | 1 |
| Horizontal fixed alternating | Horizontal fixed alternating | 1 |
| Media 2 columns | Media | 2 |
| 2 Columns no excerpt | No excerpt | 2 |
| 3 Columns no excerpt | No excerpt | 3 |
| 2 Columns plain | Plain | 2 |
| 2 Columns reveal | Reveal | 2 |
| 2 Columns vertical | Vertical | 2 |
Blog Page Layout: Fullwidth narrow
| Demo preview | Item appearance | Columns |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Column | Default | 1 |
| 2 Columns | Default | 2 |
| 2 Columns Fixed | Fixed | 2 |
| Horizontal left fixed | Horizontal left fixed | 1 |
| Horizontal right fixed | Horizontal right fixed | 1 |
| Horizontal fixed alternating | Horizontal fixed alternating | 1 |
| Media 2 columns | Media | 2 |
| 2 Columns no excerpt | No excerpt | 2 |
| 3 Columns no excerpt | No excerpt | 3 |
| 2 Columns plain | Plain | 2 |
| 2 Columns reveal | Reveal | 2 |
| 2 Columns vertical | Vertical | 2 |
Blog Page Layout: Full width wide
| Demo preview | Item appearance | Columns |
|---|---|---|
| Default 2 columns | Default | 2 |
| Default 3 columns | Default | 3 |
| Default 4 columns | Default | 4 |
| Fixed 3 columns | Fixed | 3 |
| Fixed 4 columns | Fixed | 4 |
| Media 2 columns | Media | 2 |
| Media 3 columns | Media | 3 |
| No excerpt 3 columns | No Excerpt | 3 |
| No excerpt 4 columns | No Excerpt | 4 |
| Plain 3 columns | Plain | 3 |
| Plain 4 columns | Plain | 4 |
| Reveal 3 columns | Reveal | 3 |
| Reveal 4 columns | Reveal | 4 |
| Vertical 3 columns | Vertical | 3 |
| Vertical 4 columns | Vertical | 4 |
Recreating the demo’s homepage layout
If you chose not to import the default widgets, but want to recreate the homepage layout of the theme’s demo, you can achieve that too by following the instructions below.
The homepage consists of the Slider area and the Homepage sidebar.
The Slider area
The slider can be configured under Customize > Front Page Carousel. The size of the slider depends on the template you have selected for the Home page.
The Homepage sidebar
Under Customize > Widgets you can access the homepage sidebar. Let’s take a look at the widgets used on the theme’s demo:
- Theme – About Me it displays some information about the author
- Theme – Latest Posts displaying six items from a post category, in a three column layout with the reveal appearance setting
- Instagram widget provided by the WP Instagram Widget plugin
- Theme – Latest Posts displaying six items from all but one post categories in a three column layout with the vertical appearance setting
- Theme – Items displaying three products in a three column layout with the default appearance setting
- Text a text widget with a newsletter form and some text
Additional Information
Useful Plugins
- Contact Form 7: Use this plugin to create a contact form, then copy the shortcode it gives you and paste it in the page that will serve as your contact page.
- WP Instagram Widget: Use this plugin to help you display your Instagram feed in any of the theme’s sidebars.
- WordPress Jetpack: You can use this to create a contact form instead of Contact Form 7, insert sharing buttons, create tiled galleries etc.
Image Sizes
The minimum recommended image sizes for Brittany are:
- Post thumbnail: 750×460px
- Slider images – Fullwidth featured image: 1140×475px
- Fullwidth slider: 1920×850px
- Square thumb: 300×300px
- About me widget thumb: 360×220px
- Plain layout thumb: 360×450px
- Vertical thumb: 360×540px
- Vertical fixed: 355×325px
- Horizontal fixed thumb: 375×430px