Trying out a newblog theme: Imbalance. It works especially well for photoblogs. The front page is a grid of featured images. If your posts don’t contain images, this is probably not the theme for you.
Do have to activate 3 plugins:
- WP-PageNavi
- Cleaner Gallery
- Advanced Excerpt
I’d recommend using the Auto Post Thumbnail plugin as well. Activate it then run the script in Settings-Auto Post Thumbnail.
Buttons for Twitter and Facebook are the in menu. To add them, go to Appearance-Theme Options and paste in the URLs. Note: These buttons seem to appear whether or not you enter a URL. For instance, I left the Facebook link empty, so the menu button goes to the blog’s homepage instead.
Things to do / tweaks:
- Set the featured images for all of the posts
- Option 1: Use Auto Post Thumbnail to generate featured images from the post content
- Option 2: Set a featured image for each and every post
- Get rid of the theme name in the header
- Go to Appearance-Theme Options. Under Custom Logo: Either upload a header image or paste in the URL to the existing file. Save.
- Image size is 461 px wide x 70 px tall. You can choose an image that is larger, but it doesn’t fit well.
- Change default thumbnail
- http://blogs.otis.edu/otisvrc/wp-content/themes/imbalance/images/default-thumbnail.jpg
- Preferably make it similar to a custom header
