Theme Name: Softlights Theme URI: http://corpocrat.com/2014/01/23/softlights-free-wordpress-theme-with-unlimited-colors/ Author: Prabhu Balakrishnan Author URI: http://corpocrat.com Description: Fully customizable wordpress theme with unlimited colors through color picker, ideal for content hungry websites. It is simple, easy to use theme and doesnt dazzle you with setting hundreds of theme options. Pick the colors you want for header, background, footer, widgets, showcase box and go live within a minute. The theme comes with left and sidebar widgets, top widget, footer widget and automatically reverts to full width template layouts. This theme packed with easy to use admin panel, the theme itself is lightweight for fast loading sites. You will love this theme if you are full screen layout lover. License: GNU General Public License v2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Tags: light, dark, one-column,two-columns,three-columns,right-sidebar,left-sidebar,threaded-comments,full-width-template,custom-header, custom-colors,custom-header,custom-menu,full-width-template,theme-options,featured-images Text Domain: softlights This theme is licensed under the GPL. Please spread the word by any means. Thank you Instructions ============= This theme loves to present the content in full width layout. If you dont specify sidebar widgets or any widget, this theme automatically shows full width post and page content. You can specify left sidebar or right sidebar or both, depending on what you want !!! 1. Install and activate the theme. 2. Go to Appearance > Softlights options > 3. Color settings: You can set colors using color picker using softlights options settings. To set set logo and background color see below.. 4. You can chose to show or hide comments sidewide using the settings in theme options page. Comments are sometimes a nuisance for business websites. 5. You can set logo as a slice or as a complete header. Set logo from Appearance > customize or Appearance > header. Slice the logo to small dimensions (300x90 or 200x90) and upload as header. 6. Set background image from Appearance > Customize or Appearance > Background. To solid background solid color, go to Customize > Colors > set solid color Code snippets are auto styled using pre tags and you dont need to install specific plugin for this. Logo ================= First create a logo in PNG. Then go to header and upload it. Header Backgrounds ========================= You can create header backgrounds of 1150x150 px and then set it in header settings. Theme Backgrounds ========================== You can set theme background in Background settings under theme options. Set a solid color or upload a repeating background image. Setting a color works very well for this theme. Favicon ========================== Create any PNG file 100x100 pixels and set it as favicon in theme options page. INDEX PAGE ========================== This theme shows full width index page with latest blog posts and does not support left and right sidebars. WIDGETS =========================== Theme has 1 Top widget, Left and Right Sidebar widgets. The top widget will not work in index page, but available in single.php, page.php. You can use top widget to put up wide banner or adsense ads. Page Templates ========================================= Full Width Template: Assign a this template if yuo want to present a full width content page. Theme Styles =========== You can select color variations from color picker. Play around with various options. Dont forget to set the foreground font colour and background colour of navigation menu and showcase box. Keep in mind it is not possible to set the font colour for widgets or left and right sidebars (only background possible). Page Sections ===================== To create page sections in post/pages use to break the content. Custom Excerpts ================== This theme supports user and generated excerpt to show on the posts page. If tag is missing, excerpts are auto generated or it shows the user excerpt. Look for inserting more tag in the wordpress editor. Banner/Adsense Advertisement ========================== Create a text widget in top widgets and then paste the ad code. This way we are converting top widgets to serve as ad banner. RESOURCES LICENSE ======================= All resources bundled with this theme (scripts, images etc) are licensed under GPL.