Options theme settings
The Options theme comes with a lot of options that you can choose straight from your WordPress dashboard. So, just log in and go to Design > Options Settings. From there, you’ll be able to choose how things will be displayed on your blog.
Your theme settings page will be set up in this order.
About this theme
This section does exactly what it says — it gives you useful information about your theme.
There are links to the support forums and the theme’s page that you can easily access if you need to find out how something works.
General settings
These are basic settings for your blog’s display and how it functions
- Sidebar position
- Choose whether you want your sidebar to display on the left or right of your content.
- Navigation display
- There are several settings that will let you choose where your navigation (page and category navigation) goes. All choices are in relation to your header section.
- Search display
- Select whether you want a search box in your [page] navigation bar.
- Feedburner URL
- Input your Feedburner URL, and the theme will automatically include it for you. This defaults to your WordPress RSS feed.
- Feedburner ID
- Input this if you want to show a link for email subscriptions to your Feedburner account.
- Feed display
- Select this if you want to display your feed links in the header.
- Tabs functionality
- This will allow you to choose how tabbed sections function on your site. “Click” means that users must click the tab to change its content. “Hover” means that users only have to hover their mouse over the tab to change it. This does not apply to video sections, which will remain only clickable.
- Author bio
- Check this if you want to show your author’s biographical information and gravatar at the end of single posts.
- Author archive bio
- Select this if you want to show the author bio with an avatar on your author archive pages.
Home page settings
This is how the home page of your blog will display. Most of these sections have guides on how to use them on their own documentation pages.
- Home sections
- There are five home page sections that stack vertically. There are more than 20 different selections for each section. Choose these settings carefully though. Some sections will cause a lot more database calls than others. Below this, you can choose settings for most of the sections individually.
- Feature
- This is a single article that you can choose by category or tag.
- Features gallery
- Shows a constantly transitioning image and excerpt of your latest feature articles.
- Features numbers
- This is a tabbed feature article section. Users click a tab on the bottom of the section to switch between feature excerpts. Note that this section has been deprecated and will probably be removed from future versions.
- Gallery stream
- This section shows thumbnail images from your latest gallery post. It’s best to set up a category or tag that you will always use for posts with a lot of images. You must upload your images to that post with the WordPress media uploader for this to work.
- Post tabs/sections
- These are the settings for Post Blocks, Post Block Tabs, Post List Tabs, Post Sections, and Post Tabs. Yes, you only need to choose one of those sections in your five home page sections. Choose between 1 and 8 categories to be displayed. The number of posts shown will vary by tab/section.
- Video tabbed
- This is a tabbed section for your latest video posts. You must use custom fields for the videos.
- Video numbers
- This is another tabbed section for videos except that it shows the post excerpt too. You must use custom fields for this.
- Home insert 1 - 3
- These sections are pretty self explanatory. You can input XHTML or JavaScript here. You cannot input PHP. It’s pretty basic, but make sure you input valid, well-formed code so you don’t break the rest of your site.
Header and footer settings
Choose how things function in your header and footer.
- Header insert
- You can add JavaScript and XHTML in this section. Please note that this will be displayed between the
<head></head>tags on your site. So, be careful what you add there. It’s probably best to only add JavaScript in this section. - Footer insert
- You can add lots of stuff to this section. Your imagination is your limit. I believe the best use of it would be for adding stuff like tracking code for services such as Google Analytics.
- Site footer
- This will auto-generate your site’s name and copyright information in the footer. Something like — Your site title © 2008.
- WordPress love
- This just adds a link back to WordPress.org, so you can show your love of WordPress.
- Justin Tadlock love
- This is a totally optional link that will append “by Justin Tadlock” after the theme’s footer credit links.
- Credit removal
- If you’ve purchased credit removal, you can input your credit removal key and ID here to have the theme automatically remove the links back to ThemeHybrid.com
