Chun WordPress theme

Chun is a parent theme for WordPress. It was created to be a nice theme for creative people to showcase their work.

This theme is a parent theme. What this means is that to customize it, you should be creating a child theme. Is it a theme framework? Some people might call it that. All you need to know is that it's a solid, yet flexible, starting point for any blog.

Features

Chun is built from the rock-solid Hybrid Core theme framework, so it provides a great starting point with many useful features.

Custom "Portfolio" page template that integrates with the Custom Content Portfolio plugin.
Per-post layouts that allow you to quickly change the layout of your site.
Post setting that allows you to add a custom stylesheet for individual posts.
A smart breadcrumb menu that handles tons of permalink setups.
Built-in pagination for your home, archive, and search pages.
Post thumbnails that work with WordPress' featured image functionality and provide extra features.
Dynamic body, post, and comment CSS classes.
Fully internationalized, so you can run the theme in any language.
Uses the built-in WordPress menu system. No need to hack your navigation into place.
Context-aware action and filter hooks, so you don't have to learn WordPress conditional tags.
Some of the most-used filter hooks are shortcode-ready and have accompanying shortcodes.
Integration with the WordPress theme customizer to allow you to customize the look of your site.
Ability to create custom templates for any post type in multiple ways.
Highly-configurable widgets that give you full control over their display.
Widget areas are content-aware, meaning that they only appear if they contain active widgets.
And much, much more!

Child themes

Since Chun is a parent theme, you'll want to create a child theme if you plan on making any customizations. Don't know how to make a child theme? It's relatively simple. Just follow the below steps.

Create a theme folder in your /wp-content/themes directory called chun-child.
Then, create a style.css file within your theme folder.
At the top of your style.css file, add the below information.

/**
 * Theme Name: Chun Child
 * Theme URI: http://link-to-your-site.com
 * Description: Describe what your theme should be like.
 * Version: 0.1
 * Author: Your Name
 * Author URI: http://link-to-your-site.com
 * Tags: Add, Whatever, Tags, You, Want
 * Template: chun
 */

From that point, you simply need to start adding your own styles. The parent theme styles will automatically be loaded for you.

Note that child themes are now the officially-supported way of modifying themes in WordPress.

Important Notes

Chun was designed to work alongside the Custom Content Portfolio plugin. This means that the "Portfolio" page template will only work if you have that plugin installed and in use. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn't currently provide a way for me to hide this page template from users who are not using the plugin. There is a bug report for this issue currently open, so it should get put into WordPress at some point.

Other portfolio-specific features will open up (like a portfolio thumbnail size and custom menu) if you choose to use the plugin.

Theme support

Support for the Chun theme is not offered on the WordPress support forums. There is a community called Theme Hybrid where support is offered for this theme. You are encouraged to sign up to the site to use its support forums and become a part of the community.

Credits

This theme makes use of several open-source fonts available via Google Web Fonts:

Copyright & license

Chun is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (GPL).