Do you want to customize your blog? Really customize it? Four freshly installed themes give you more control than you ever dreamed of.
They all offer menus, custom layouts and/or colors, widgets, multi-columns, color schemes; and each has its own special tweaks – icons, sliders, fonts, mobile versions. The possibilities to make your blog unique will grow exponentially.
Some details on what they offer…
Mantra:
- Custom header image
- Custom header height
- Background image or background color
- 3 menus: top, main and footer
- 8 widget areas: 2 each in 2 sidebars; four in the footer
- 1,2 or 3 columns in 6 different layouts
- Customizable column widths
- “Presentation” front page with multiple columns and sliders
- Customizable font (for text, headers, sidebars, subheads) faces, colors, sizes, indents, alignment, letter- and word-spacing, shadows, line heights
- Customizable borders, icons
- Options to display titles, tables, text elements, post information (dates, authors, etc.)
- Post excerpt lengths
- Featured images, thumbnails
- 5 different social media links, with custom placement
- Custom CSS if it comes to that.
Weaver II
- Looks a lot like 2010
- Custom header image, rotation
- Custom background image or background color
- Primary and secondary menus; mobile-specific menu
- 16(!) widget areas, site-wide, page-specific, blog-specific, headers, footers, archive pages, mobile views.
- 28 child themes – different color schemes and header images. They can then be tweaked to customize:
- Text colors
- Backgrounds
- Rounded corners
- Borders
- Custom CSS
- Width
- 1,2 or 3 columns, 8 options. Can specify different layouts for home, pages, posts, archives
- Fonts and sizes
- Widget colors, margins, borders
- Header font sizes, colors, image size
- “Shortcodes” that let you embed iFrames, show things only to logged-in users, VIMEO embeds, breadcrumbs
Graphene:
- Custom header images, rotating selection
- Background image or background color
- 3 menus: top, main and footer
- 2 sidebar and one footer widget areas, with the option to add more.
- Twitter widget
- Customizable “slider” of home page posts
- Twitter & Facebook buttons
- Sharing
- Header display options (light, dark, random image, disable image)
- 1, 2 or 3 columns in 6 different layouts
- Customizable column widths
- Detailed post and meta display options
- Customize all colors and gradients, including buttons and widgets
- And if all else fails, custom CSS can be embedded.
Suffusion
- 18 color scheme selections — 9 dark and 9 light
- Custom header images including tiling and position
- Rotating header image
- Custom background image or color, including gradients, and height.
- 6 icon sets
- Extensive control of navigation bars’ colors, fonts, shadows, transparency, borders, alignment
- 2 menus, top and main
- 34 widget areas. They can be placed just about anywhere.
- 1, 2 or 3 column layouts, with fluid widths. Different setups can be applied to pages, archives, authors, search results, front page etc.
- Very granular font faces and colors control. Drop caps.
- Custom CSS and javascript
- Custom RSS and Atom feeds.
- Show full posts, excerpts, titles, mosaic, tiles on home or archive pages
- Custom 404 page, sitemap.
Any one of these offers a staggering variety of options.
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