Christine is a theme for WordPress users that don’t want their page to look like a blog.  Using a series of plugins Christine allows you to build your site using pages and easily include them in a menu.

That’s not to say you can’t blog with Christine.  There is a spot for that as well still wrapped in the same design.  And the blog pages are widget ready with 4 separate sidebars covering the right sidebar and a 3 column footer.

Blog Page

Page Options

Each page has its own set of options that allow you to determine how it is displayed.  Note that not all of the options may be visible depending on what page type you’re using.

Page Type
Can be one of 5 different types.

• Default – This will be your most common page type.  It is just a generic page that you can put anything on that you want.
• Blog – The home page to your blog.  You should only have one of these, but it will link out to all of the categories in your blog.
• Home – This page is a holder for the content on your home page. Note that a page type of home will cause the page to stay a draft regardless of whether you try to publish it.  It will still show up as your home page.  It just needs to stay a draft so that it doesn’t show up as two pages.
• Redirect – Redirect is a special kind of page that lets you create a link in your menu that redirects to an external site.  For example, if you are proofing with a company that hosts your proofing account on another server you can create a redirect page to that site.  More on this below.

In Menu
Most likely you will want to have this checked for most of your pages.  If this is checked the page will show up in your menu.  If not, it will not be in the menu.

You will be able to change the sort order of the menu on the options page – see below.

Menu Title
Normally the caption in the menu is the same as the name of the page.  This field will allow you to have a different caption in the menu.  For example, you can have a page titled Contact Bob Smith Photography, but fill in Contact in this field.  Contact is what will be used in the menu.

Redirect URL
Only used on a redirect page.  This is the page that your visitor will be redirected to when they click on that menu item.

Redirect Type
Either a permanent or temporary redirect.  Unless you have a good reason otherwise you probably want to use a 301 – Permanent redirect.

Theme Options

The Christine theme also has several site level options that you can use.  These are set on the Christine link under the Appearance category.

Home Link / Home Label
If this is checked then there will be a link to your home page in the menu using the text set in the Label field.  If Label is empty the the label will be ‘Home”.

Menu Rows
By default the menu is in one row if there are 3 or fewer links and 2 rows if there are 4 or more links.  Checking this forces it to stay on one row regardless of how many links you have  in your menu.

Show in Page Lists
If you use the page list widget or the wp_list_pages() function in your theme you can check this to keep any pages listed in your menu out of the other lists.

Other Pages
Check this to sort your menu pages to the end of any other pages.  This will keep resorting your menu pages from affecting the order of any other pages.

Menu Order
Drag and Drop the page names to change the order of display in your menu.  Note that the home link, if enabled, is always first.

Sidebars

Christine has 4 widget ready sidebars, all of which are shown only on the blog pages.   There are three footer sidebars – right, middle, and left – and a right sidebar.  To customize the sidebars click on the Widgets link under the Appearance category.

History

0.9

• Initial Release

0.9.1

• Home page now parses shortcode from plugins
• Image attachments do not show any of the blog sidebars
• Check for the function automatic_feed_links() before calling it to allow Christine to work on WordPress 2.7 instead of just 2.8 or later.

Questions?

How do I change the logo?
The logo is saved in the themes folder as /images/logo.png.  Simply upload your own logo on top of that on.  The default logo is 75 pixels tall so you probably want to keep yours about the same size.

Who is Christine?
There isn’t one.  Well, there are a lot of Christines in the world.  But this theme isn’t named after any of them.  I was listening to the Phantom of the Opera while designing this theme and Christine stuck out.

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