Morten Rand-Hendriksen

Jetpack has a widget for that called “subscribe by email” or something like that.

Try Building a One-Page Style Site. It builds directly on the Underscores course.

The first post on the blog is shown in full unless you use the <!– more –> tag. The rest of the posts show just the excerpt. To change this behavior you need to create a child theme and change the content call in content.PHP from the_excerpt() to the_content().

Yes, you can bug me here.

If you want specific header images for specific pages you need to write a function for it. Essentially you create a function that detects the pages using conditional tags and inject that function into the header.php template file replacing the code that is currently adding the header image.

To get the author box to appear the author has to have a bio defined. This is done under Users -> Your Profile -> Biographical Info. Once the bio info for the use is inserted the author box appears at the bottom of posts by this author and at the top of the author index.

As for the featured images, if you want a shorter image (vertically smaller) simply upload a featured image that is shorter. The max image size for big featured images is 1060px w by 650px h.

The file you get when you click the Download button is zipped. It sounds like your system is automatically unzipping the archive when it is downloaded which is odd. It could be because you click on the file when it is downloaded which on a Mac will extract the archive in the download location folder.

That said it should not be necessary to download the theme. You can install it directly from Appearance -> Themes by searching “simone”.

Hope that helps.

Hi Jon,

What you are describing is the default intended behavior of the Simone theme. The first post on the front page displays as a full post and can be controlled using the <more> tag. The remaining posts on index pages will show a short and wide featured image and the excerpt. This is to ensure the visitor can scroll through many pages in indexes and find what she us looking for.

If you are seeing a small image in the top right corner on posts it is likely because you installed Simone after adding those images. When you install a new theme you have to regenerate your thumbnails so WordPress has the correct image sizes to work with. Looks to me like you figured that out.

As for the header image that again is a design decision. If you just display an image it needs to be an active clickable element, and it should be of a fixed size. When there is regular text the image is instead added as a background element and it will resize to fit the screen.

When I built Simone it was to provide a theme that does what the users want. That means if you have a request and others want the same thing I might very well add it in a new veraion. You can leave a feature request on the GitHub repository at http://GitHub.com/mor10/Simone or submit your own pull request.