A child theme for Reactor designed for my website at schneidan.com, a photography portfolio and blog.
Reactor (Customized DP version)
- Go to Settings -> General
- Set the Site Title
- Create a blank page called "Homepage"
- Select the template "Front Page" from the templates at right
- Don't put any content in the page body
- Head to Settings -> Reading and set "Front page displays" to "A static page"
- Select the Homepage page you just created under "Front page"
- While you're here, don't forget to set the RSS feeds to "Summary"
- Under E-Mail -> E-Mail options:
- Set "E-Mail Text Link Style" to Custom
- Set it to:
<a href="%EMAIL_URL%" rel="nofollow" title="%EMAIL_TEXT%" target="_blank">%1$s</a>
- Be sure to connect Jetpack to Wordpress.com
Appearance -> Customize
- General
- Uncheck "Show Title & Tagline"
- Navigation
- "Top Bar Title" is not displayed (doesn't matter what it is)
- Check "Fixed Top Bar"
- Check "Contain Top Bar Width"
- Posts & Pages
- Set "Default Layout" to "One Column"
- Delete all text from "Read More Text" and leave blank
- Uncheck "Show Post Meta"
- Uncheck "Show Comment Link"
- Uncheck "Show Breadcrumbs"
- Fonts & Colors
- Set "Title Font" to "Yanone Kaffesatz"
- Set "Content Font" to "Vollkorn"
- Set link color to #EEEEEE
- Front Page
- Check "Exclude From Blog"
- Set "Post Columns" to "1 Column"
- Check "Link Post Titles"
- You will need one menu of categories. Be sure to check the box to display it in the Top Bar Right position. Should be titled "Top bar" or "top bar"
- Your footer menu must be called "footer links"
- Should include a link to the home page (Pages -> View All -> Homepage)