Benjamin

Benjamin is a flexible and feature rich WordPess theme build with Automattic's _s (underscores) theme 18f's Web Design Standards.

Be sure to install the companion plugin, Franklin to include various 18F components via shortcodes!

Features

Post Format support

• Video
• Audio
• Image
• Quote
• Status
• Other post formats can be toggled, but there is no special support yet

Customizable layout settings:

• Header background image (select the default image if a "featured image" is not set)
• Header background image positioning
• Header Size (slim, medium, big, and full page)
• Sidebar position (left, right, and none)
• Sidebar size (narrow and wide)
• Sidebar visibility (hide or show on different screen sizes)
• Hide parts of a page (such as the navbar or footer)

Template specific layout settings:

• Default settings (the templates below can override the defaults)
• Feeds (archive, search, categories ect)
• Frontpage - a flexible page with sortable rows of widget areas
• Single Posts
• Single Pages
• Widgetized Page - a flexible page template with sortable rows of widget areas
• SideNav Page - a page template which automagically looks for ID'd anchor tags and displays a sticky sidenav linking to said tags
• 404 page
• 4 extra page templates
• Custom post type single pages, and feeds
• Each of these templates has it's own specific widget area (only used when override the default settings)

Sortable Pages

Some templates have sortable content area - 3 rows widgetized areas and a row for the page content.

Feed Featured Posts

• a post can be marked as "featured" and displayed promptly in the feed page hero.
  This replaces the "sticky" feature and works on all custom post types

2 Color schemes

Header Settings

• Change the order of the site banner (collaspsible widget area), the Hero, and the navbar.
• Change the navbar size (slim and standard padding, it makes a difference when changing the order)
• Display search in the navbar
• Use a brand image for your site title
• Make the navbar stick to the top of the page
• A dark navbar color scheme

Header content customizer

• the 404 page and the frontpage have customizable header content

Footer Settings

• The footer is made up of optional, sortable components like:
• return to top link
• footer menu area
• and 2 widget areas

3rd party plugin support

Contact Form 7 checkbox/radio, and form validation support

Custom post type support

Co-authors Plus support

Shortcodes and Components

These shortcodes are NOT included in the theme by default, but are available in the companion plugin, Franklin.

Here are a list of the currently available shortcodes in Franklin:

• Labels
• Buttons
• Alerts
• Accordions
• Accordion Groups
• Contact Block
• Brand
• Media Block
• Callout
• Navlist