Sukelius Magazine WordPress theme

Sukelius Magazine is a parent theme for WordPress.

This theme is a parent theme. All modification should be made via a child theme.

Features

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

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 system.
Built-in pagination.
Post thumbnails that work with WordPress' featured image functionality and provide extra features.
Multiple sidebars: Primary, Secondary, Subsidiary, Header and After Singular.
Dynamic global, post, and comment CSS classes.
Fully internationalized, so you can run the theme in any language.
Built-in WordPress menu system. There are two menus in the theme: Primary and Secondary.
Context-aware action and filter hooks.
Some of the most-used filter hooks are shortcode-ready and have accompanying shortcodes.
Theme settings page (Appearance »» Theme Settings) that allows you to set default layout, enable / disable content slider, and set your social profiles.
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.
Support for Post Formats.
Custom header background
Custom body background
And much, much more!

Child themes

Since Sukelius Magazine 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 sukelius-magazine-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: Sukelius Magazine 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: sukelius-magazine
 */

This will give you a blank design. You'll probably want to import Sukelius Magazine parent theme style, so just add this to your new style.css:

@import url( '../sukelius-magazine/style.css' );

/* Custom code goes below here. */

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

Notes

This theme has a very specific header design. The site title, description, and Primary and Secondary nav menus have limited widths. Because it's impossible to know everyone's title, description, and menu items, you'll have to configure these items based on your unique needs. Some people may not be able to use as many menu items in the Primary nav menu as others because of the social icons.

If you want custom header background image, that image will not replace site title, it will appear only as background-image and it won't be linked to your home page.

If content slider enabled, custom body backround image (or color) will appear bellow slider. If you want to change slider background color, you'll need to use child theme.

Theme Settings - Appearance / Theme Settings

General Settings

Sukelius Magazine comes with 6 predefined layouts, and you can set them individually for each post, or page in post editor. Here's the list:

One column (full width, no sidebars)
Two columns, left
Two columns, right
Three columns, left
Three columns, right
Three columns, center

Second option is to enable / disable content slider. To add posts to content slider - just make them "sticky", and set featured image (940x385) for that post. After you upload image, select sukelius-slider-image under Sizes: in uploader. If image is bigger, theme will resize it.

Social Networks

Here you can set up few links to your social profiles (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and RSS URL). Please include http:// in all URL's, or it won't work as it should. If you don't wan't some icon to show in Primary menu, just delete URL from input field.

Footer settings

Change your footer text.

Credits:

Hybrid Core framework by Justin Tadlock
Google Font Overlock, which is licensed under OFL.
Nivo Slider, which is licensed under the MIT license.

Theme support

Support for the Sukelius Magazine 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.

Copyright & license

Sukelius Magazine is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL).