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