Happy Boxes Wordpress Theme
Welcome to the Happy Boxes wordpress theme demo. This shows you the basic setup of the site. Happy Boxes is an extremely versatile wordpress theme that could be used across a variety of blogs, utilises vibrant colours and is text based so great for SEO.
A few important things to note…
1. This theme is setup with a randomize function so if you hit CTRL + F5 you’ll see the colours of the sidebar will change. This can be stopped by simply editing the BOXES.css file and the files in the “side_bars” folder
2. You can use widgets on this theme. In the control panel, under the widgets tab, you can select which sidebar area you want to use and add/remove a widget. For example you could make the area that I have setup as “Recent Posts” a “Tag Cloud”
3. You can manually set the colours of the widgets you select by editing the BOXES.css file. For example, once you select the top area, “top_wide” and make it a Tag Cloud, you can set the colour to blue by doing the following…
- Opening BOXES.css
- Finding:
/*blue widgets*/
.blue, .categories-1{
background-color: #004d95;
background-image: url(’images/bck_blue.gif’);
background-repeat: repeat-x
}
- Editing it to:
/*blue widgets*/
.blue, .tag-cloud{
background-color: #004d95;
background-image: url(’images/bck_blue.gif’);
background-repeat: repeat-x
}
“.tag-cloud” has been added to ensure the Tag Cloud area is blue.
4. You can edit the menu links at the top in the widgets menu by selecting “header_menu” or editing this in the “side_bars” folder.
The sidebar areas available to edit are:
header_menu
top_wide
bottom_wide
mid_left
mid_right
The common, default names for widgets are are:
recent-comment
recent-posts
rss-1 (rss-2, rss-3 …..) depending on how many you have
meta
links (blogroll)
categories-1 (categories-2 -3 -4….)
calendar
archives
tag_cloud