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for The Privateer Theme
This manual is intended to help you get a WordPress site setup quickly with The Privateer theme. As
such, options are detailed in order of the steps I recommend for setting up a site with the Privater.
If you run into trouble or need a hand, please visit the Privateer Theme Forums.
If you do not have the theme, please consider picking up a copy!
Setting up the colors and fonts for your Page Menu Bar
Colors to use for the page menu bar are set via the following options:
Border around all menu items : This sets the border style for each item. If you want it to look
like there are no borders, set the color element to match the background color.
Background color: This sets the background color for normal items in the page menu bar
Background color: Hover: This sets the color to change to for menu items when a user hovers
over one.
Background color: Parent: This sets the color to change to for parent items when one is
hovering over a child item in the menu. This color will apply to all parent items.
Font Size and Face: This sets the font to be used for each menu item.
Link Color: This sets the color for each text link in the page menu bar
Link Color: Hover: This sets the color for text links that are being hovered over.
Transform text in Page Menu Bar?: If you want to have the links shown transformed, set this
option appropriately. e.g. uppercase, lowercase, capitalize, or none
White or Black Arrows as Sub Menu Indicator?: Use this option to choose whether or not
pages with child pages will have black or white arrows next to them.
Width of Sub Menus: This option specifies how long sub menu items will be. If you use long
page names you should tweak this to get things looking the way you want.
Once you have all of the options the way you want them, choose “Save Changes” and your site will
now show the page menu bar according to the options you have set.
home page?
Header Image: Height Specify how tall you want the header bar to be. This will clip the image
if the image is taller than what you set here
Header Image: Alignment Specify how you want the image aligned. This determines which
part of the image is displayed if the entire thing is not displayed.
Opacity Left/Right: Value How opaque do you want the left and/or right opacities?
Opacity Left/Right: Width How wide do you want the left and/or right opacities?
Opacity Left/Right: Color What color do you want to use for the left and/or right opaque
areas?
Overlay Logo over header image? Do you want the logo drawn on the image? This will use
settings for the logo from the Logo Bar options.
Overlay Blog Title over header image? Do you want the blog title drawn on the image? If so,
options set for the Logo Bar will apply to it.
Overlay Blog Tagline over header image? Do you want the tagline drawn on the image? If so,
options set for the Logo bar will apply to it.
Overlayed blog title/tagline style This styles the DIV container that holds the the Logo, Title,
and Tagline, if they are set to be overlays.
Overlay RSS over header image? Do you want the RSS link form the logo bar overlayed? If
so, it will use the Post RSS options from the logo bar.
Overlay RSS Comments over header image? Do you want the RSS Comments link to be
overlayed? If so, it will use the Comments RSS options from the logo bar.
Overlay Search Box over header image? Do you want the Search Box overlayed? If so, it will
use the Search Box options from the logo bar.
Overlayed RSS style This styles the DIV container that holds the Post RSS, Comments RSS,
Email RSS, and/or Search Box if overlayed.
Overlay RSS Email over header image? Do you want the RSS Email link overlayed? If so, it
will use the Email RSS options from the logo bar.
The main things to keep in mind when setting up the image bar are that you need to upload the
images that you want to use for it and that overlays done via two DIVs, one containing the logo, title,
and tagline and the other containing the rss links and search box.
Configuration for these two bars are located in the Header Setup options menu along with the
options for the Logo Bar:
“Privateer” → “General Display” → “Header Setup”
Bar 1 is styled via the “Horizontal Bar 1: Styling” option.
Bar 2 is styled via the “Horizontal Bar 2: Styling” option.
These two bars are primarily intended to add different looking horizontal sections to the header for
use as either dividers between other bars or top and bottom sections.
Body Styling
You can style the html body element, which will provide styling for everything that does not get its'
own styling. To do so, set styles in the “Body Style” option of the “Text and Links” admin menu:
“Privateer” → “General Display” → “Text and Links”
This is a good place to set a background image for the entire site as well as padding above and
below the site.
This is also a good place to set the primary font that you want to use for your site.
In the Privateer, each template type has its own configuration menu in addition to two special
template configuration menus which allow you to setup default styles to be applied to either all
templates or only the archive templates.
At the time of this writing, the privateer allows individual configuration of the following templates:
home.php – Your home page
single.php – Individual Post pages
page.php – Individual Page pages
search.php – Your search results page
404.php – Your page not found page
category.php – Your category archive page
tag.php – Your tag archive page
author.php – Your author archive page
date.php – Your date archive page
The control panel for each template has one or more of the following sub-panels:
Page Display – Page level content for the template
Page Styling – Styling for page level items on the template
S.E.O. - Search optimization options for the template
Page Nav – Navigation bar options for the template (if any)
Nav Styling – Styling for navigation bars on the template
Post Display – Post level content for the template
Post Styling – Styling for post level content on the template
Custom Displays – Optional extra methods to use in displaying the template
Although there is a lot to this, the defaults are fairly sane and, once you see how it works, it is fairly
straightforward.
Show Thumbnails in Post Excerpts? - If a thumbnail is set for a post, should it be drawn on
this template when we are showing excerpts?
Show Thumbnails in Full Posts? - If a thumbnail is set for a post, should it be drawn on this
template when we are showing full posts?
Post Footer – The content, if any, for a post footer to be displayed under the content.
Additionally, next to each option is a “Show” checkbox. If you want to hide something without
clearing the contents, uncheck the box next to it and save your changes.
Check the “Post Display” submenu of any template panel for more information about displaying
posts.
If this seems confusing, be sure to check out the following video:
Page and Post Sections in the Privateer Theme
The Single Post and Single Page templates are different in that custom displays activated for them
are added to the list of those available for use when editing posts and pages. This allows you to choose
a particular display to use for each post and/or page on your site. When selected in a post or page you
must save in order for any related options to be displayed in the editor.
Meta Title
This is displayed in both the html header ( used by search robots ) and, in many browsers, in the title
bar ( and to save bookmarks ). By using the variables outlined at the top of the SEO tab, you can easily
create custom meta titles.
Meta Description
The meta description is placed within the html header ( used by search robots ) and can be set up to
be shown in search results under the title via the noodp and noydir options.
You can use different variables here, just as you can for the meta title.
Meta Keywords
Meta keywords help search robots get information about your pages. Today, they are of debatable
use...but they are available if you wish to use them. You can choose to have the Privateer build these for
you by using relevant tags, categories, the title, and the subtitle as well.
Canonical Data
Canonical data is used to tell search engines that seemingly different pages are actually the same
page. This can help to prevent duplication as well as to increase page rank by having search engines
attribute all of the rank belonging to a particular page to it rather than splitting it between what it
believes are different pages.
Meta Robots
The meta robots tags are used to tell search robots whether or not to index your page and whether to
use descriptions pulled from yahoo directory or the open directory project instead of those you set
yourself.
Other Items
I choose to do without the various “No follow on X” type options as I set no-follow options by hand.
Of course, if there is want, I can add such options to the Privateer...and might well do so in the near
future for things such as the page / category menu bars in the header, sidebars, etc.
If you are selling sites which use the Privateer Theme, please consider recommending that those
who buy them pick up a copy.
If you make a killing using the theme, please pick up a paid copy if you haven't done so already.
And, of course, if you use and like the theme but cannot afford to pick up a paid copy, feel free to
stop in and say thanks!