Barton Demo 4
Use the guide below to mirror Barton Demo 4. Remember, your theme may look a little different, depending on the colors and fonts you select, how many posts you've published, and the images you've uploaded to your media library, posts, and pages.
Each large heading section below corresponds to one of the main tabs in the Customizer. To access the Customizer, from your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Customize. Look for the Header Options tab, which is the first section in our guide below. Continue on to note the sub-tabs and various sections within each parent tab. If you work your way down the Customizer tabs and follow the guide below, you should cover the bases!
Need a little help visualizing? For a visual of how our Help Desk Demo Guide headings correspond with tabs in the customizer, please review this article.
Happy customizing!
HEADER OPTIONS
SITE IDENTITY TAB
Header Text Options
- Site Title: [enter your site name in the field]
- Tagline: [enter your tagline in the field, if using. In the demo, our tagline is "Our most flexible theme yet"; however, it is not visible on the site as we have opted not to display it.
- Display Site Title: ON
- Display Site Tagline: OFF
Upload your Favicon
- Follow the instructions and upload an image that is sized at 512 x 512px.
HEADER LAYOUT
- Choose header layout: Inline
SOCIAL MEDIA
- Enable Social Media: ON
- Choose Location: Top Right
- Enter Your Social Media Links: [Paste in URLs for your desired social media platforms and pages.]
SEARCH
Search
- Enable Search Button: ON
- Display Icon: ON
- Display Search Text: OFF
- Choose Location: Top Right
Search Modal
- Display Search Title: ON
- Search Modal Title: [Enter text of your choosing. We used "What are you searching for?"]
FEATURE TAB
- Display Feature Tab: ON
- Choose Location: After Primary Menu
- Link Text: [insert the button text here. In the demo, we used "Buy Theme."]
- Link URL: [insert where a URL for where the button should link to]
- Open Link in New Tab: We recommend turning to ON if the link is external, i.e., not on your actual site
- Display Icon: ON
- Submenu > Enable Submenu: ON
SCROLL NAVIGATION
- Enable Scroll Navigation: ON
- Display Social Media: ON
- Display Search: ON
- Display Feature Tab: ON
- Display Top Left Menu: OFF
- Display Top Right Menu: OFF
Upload your logo
- Display logo: OFF
Upload your logo
- Display logo: OFF
COLOR OPTIONS
This layout uses the default colors with the exception below:
HEADER COLORS
HEADER COLORS
- Background: #FFFFFF
SHOWCASE OPTIONS
SHOWCASE COLUMN 1
- Enable Showcase Column 1: ON
- Content to Display: A featured post
- Display Latest Post: ON
SHOWCASE COLUMN 2
- Enable Showcase Column 2: ON
- Content to Display: A widget area
SHOWCASE COLUMN 3
- Enable Showcase Column 2: OFF
POST DISPLAY OPTIONS
SHOWCASE POST DISPLAY OPTIONS
- Display Post Date: ON
- Display Category: ON
- Display Comments Link: ON
- Display Excerpt: ON
- Excerpt length: 15
- Read More Text: View Post
BLOG FEED OPTIONS
POST FEED 1
- Continue Post Feed: ON
- Select your Post Feed Layout: Classic Feed
- Select Your Sidebar Layout: [right sidebar]
- Number Posts to Display: 4
POST FEED 2
- Display Post Feed 2: ON
- Continue Post Feed: OFF
- Select your Post Feed Layout: Grid Feed
- Feed Title: [Insert a title here. We used "Crafting With Kids"]
- Number Posts to Display: 3
- Select Featured Posts: ON
- Select Posts: [select the posts you want to feature]
POST FEED 3
- Display Post Feed 2: ON
- Continue Post Feed: OFF
- Select your Post Feed Layout: Grid Feed
- Feed Title: [Insert a title here. We used "Halloween Costume Ideas"]
- Number Posts to Display: 3
- Select Featured Posts: ON
- Select Posts: [select the posts you want to feature]
POST FEED NAVIGATION
- Enable Post Feed Navigation: ON
- Older Posts Text: Older
- Enable Newer Posts Button: ON
- Newer Posts Text: Newer
INTERSTITIALS
- Enable Interstitial 1: ON
- Enable Interstitial 2: ON
- Enable Interstitial 3: ON
BLOG ARCHIVES OPTIONS
- Select your post feed layout: Grid Feed
POST & PAGE DISPLAY OPTIONS
CLASSIC POST OPTIONS
- Select Your Featured Image Size: Portrait
- Display Share Buttons: ON
- Display Post Date: ON
- Display Category: ON
- Display Author: OFF
- Display Comments Link: ON
- Excerpt Length: 20
- Read More Text: View Post
CLASSIC (LARGE) POST OPTIONS
Note: This post type does not appear in this demo, so you may skip these settings if you prefer
- Select Your Featured Image Size: Portrait
- Display Post Date: ON
- Display Category: ON
- Display Comments Link: ON
- Display Author: OFF
- Display Share Buttons: ON
- Excerpt Length: 50
- Read More Text: View the Full Post
FEATURED POST OPTIONS
Note: This post type does not appear in this demo, so you may skip these settings if you prefer
- Select Your Featured Image Size: Landscape
- Display Share Buttons: ON
- Display Post Date: ON
- Display Category: ON
- Display Comments Link: ON
- Display Author: OFF
- Excerpt Length: 20
- Read More Text: View the Full Post
GRID POST OPTIONS
GRID POST POST DISPLAY OPTIONS
- Select Your Featured Image Size: Portrait
- Display Post Date: ON
- Display Category: ON
- Display Comments Link: ON
- Display Author: OFF
- Read More Text: Continue Reading
SINGLE POST OPTIONS
SINGLE POST DISPLAY OPTIONS
- Select Your Sidebar Layout: [right sidebar]
Entry Header Display Options
- Display Post Date: ON
- Display Category: ON
- Display Comments: ON
- Display Author: OFF
Entry Footer Display Options
- Display Category: ON
- Display Comments Link: ON
- Display Share Buttons: ON
Related Posts Options
- Display Related Posts: ON
- Related Posts Title: [More posts you'll love]
- Number of Recent Months to display Posts From: 48 (read more about Related Post settings here)
- Order Posts By: Number of Comments
- Select your Featured Image Size: Portrait
Comments Section Options
- Comment Form Title: Leave a Comment
- Comment Form Submit Text: Submit
- Comments Title: Comments
- Display Comment Count: ON
- Display Comments Title: ON
Post Navigation Options
- Display Post Navigation: ON
- Older Posts Text: Previous Post
- Enable Newer Posts Button: ON
- Newer Post Text: Next Post
PAGE OPTIONS
- Select your sidebar layout: [right sidebar]
404 OPTIONS
- 404 Page Title: Nothing Found
- 404 Page Text: It looks like nothing was found at this location. Please try searching below.
POST SHARING OPTIONS
- Display Facebook Share: ON
- Display Twitter Share: ON
- Twitter Username (including @): [insert your Twitter username, e.g. @empressthemes]
- Display Pinterest Share: ON
- Display Email Share: ON
FOOTER OPTIONS
FOOTER LAYOUT
FOOTER LAYOUT:
- One Column
STACK WIDGETS IN FOOTER:
- Set to ON
COPYRIGHT
- Display Copyright: ON
- Copyright: Copyright
- Display Current Year: ON
MOBILE OPTIONS
MOBILE NAVIGATION
- Enable Mobile Navigation: ON
- Display Icon: ON
- Display Menu Text: ON
- Choose location: Top Left
- Display on Tablet: ON
- Display on Phone: ON
TABLET DISPLAY OPTIONS
Header Options
- Top Left Menu: OFF
- Top Right Menu: OFF
- Social Media: ON
- Search Button: ON
- Feature Tab: ON
- Primary Menu: OFF
- Scroll Menu: OFF
Layout Options
- Sidebars: OFF
- Interstitials: ON
- Header Featured: ON
- Featured Post Feeds: ON
- Showcase Column 1: ON
- Showcase Column 2: ON
- Showcase Column 3: ON
PHONE DISPLAY OPTIONS
Header Options
- Top Left Menu: OFF
- Top Right Menu: OFF
- Social Media: ON
- Search Button: ON
- Feature Tab: OFF
- Primary Menu: OFF
- Scroll Menu: OFF
Layout Options
- Sidebars: OFF
- Interstitials: OFF
- Header Featured: OFF
- Featured Post Feeds: OFF
- Showcase Column 1: ON
- Showcase Column 2: ON
- Showcase Column 3: ON
MENUS
Menus may be highly variable based on your specific website and content needs. We've outlined how we structured our menus in this demo below, to give you an idea of how you could set yours up similarly. Keep in mind that while you can name a menu anything you wish, you must also assign menus to a menu location. The table below shows you what menus we assigned to which location. The link list in the second column will help guide you in terms of which menu in the demo corresponds to which location.
| Menu Location: | Link List in theme: |
| Top Left | Explore Templates (Dropdown listing blog post and page templates for theme) |
| Primary | Style, DIY Projects, Grid Plugin, Boutiques Plugin, Pop Up Plugin |
| Scroll | No separate scroll menu created. Inherits Primary menu items. |
| Mobile | No separate mobile menu created. Inherits Primary menu items. |
| Feature Tab Submenu | Shop Barton Theme, Shop Plugins |
| Footer | Home, About, Contact, Terms of Use, Privacy Policy |
- For help on creating menus, including creating dropdown menus, please read this Help Desk article.
WIDGETS
The Widget tabs below should appear if you have set your theme up exactly as outlined in the Blog Feed Options tab described above. Below each tab title, we've described the widgets we added in the exact order, and where relevant, any features we turned on within each widget.
POST FEED 1 SIDEBAR
- Barton: About Widget: added Link 1 and Link 2 (About, FAQ in the demo)
- Barton: Social Links Widget
- Text Widget
- Barton: Highlight Widget
- Search
SHOWCASE COLUMN 2
- Barton: Featured Posts Widget (Title: Favorite Projects; Number of posts to show: 3; Featured Image Size: Square; Selected Featured Posts; Checked display subtitle)
HOME FEATURED INTERSTITIAL
- Barton: Subscription Widget
INTERSTITIAL 1
- Barton: Featured Post Widget
INTERSTITIAL 2
- Left empty in this demo
INTERSTITIAL 2
- Left empty in this demo
HEADER FEATURED
- Left empty in this demo
FOOTER FEATURED
- Barton: Highlight Widget
FOOTER LEFT
- Custom HTML widget (added a Smash Balloon Photo Feed shortcode)
- Barton: Social Links Widget
FOOTER RIGHT
- Left empty in this demo
IMAGES & RETINA SUPPORT
Retina Support
- Enable Retina Support: ON
- Explainer Tabs: For easy reference, here are our Help Desk articles explaining what Retina display is, and why images are often the wrong size when you switch to a new theme.