BigFeature has many settings, making the theme very flexible and customizable. Here is an overview of the most important ones.
Add/Remove Features
- Show the Logo
The logo must be uploaded first (se video above) and then this must be enabled for it to be visible. The file type can be gif/png/jpg.
- Show the Sitename
This is the Blog Title that can be changed in the Wordpress general settings.
- Show the Slogan
This is the Tagline that can be changed in the Wordpress general settings.
- Show the Navigation
Show/hide the top navigation (can be set as an alternative style in the misc section).
- Add a searchbox to the header
This is a searchbox that also can be added as an widget, but it might be better to have it in the header for easy access.
- Show the RSS Icon in the header
This icon can link to the wordpress rss feed or to a “Feedburner RSS Feed url” if this setting is set.
- Enable the Feature Image for posts
This enables the big feature article image (the size is set in the “Feature Image Width” setting). The first post on the frontpage and articles/pages will display this big image if the right width pic is uploaded (a post can be set as sticky to keep it at the top of the frontpage).
- Show Related posts below articles
This is posts with common tags as current. Good way to keep readers on the site.
- Show Recent posts below articles
This is the same as the recent posts widget, and it also takes the parameters from that widget. The advantage to have it below an article than in the sidebar is that on the frontpage the new posts are already listed, and it seems redundant to also have it in the sidebar.
- Show popular posts below articles (plugin)
This is using the “Popularity Contest plugin” (it must be installed for this setting to work). There is also an setting for how many popular posts to list.
- Enable Breadcrumbs (plugin)
This is using the “Yoast Breadcrumbs plugin” (it must be installed for this setting to work). The breadcrumb is shown on pages and article above the default image (if any).
Misc
- Show Post a Comment Link
Displays a link to the comments after the read-more link. This link will be displayed if no read-more exists.
- Show retweet button in posts (plugin)
Adds a a retweet button at the top of posts. The TweetMeme Button plugin must be installed for this to work. In the settings of the plugin set the position to manual, remove the styling, and then enable it in the theme settings. Also set a Source for retweets.
- Show RSS Feed links in the footer
Show/hide the rss links in the footer (will use feedburner rss if set).
- Include a top link in the footer
Adds a link that scrolls to the top when clicked on in the footer.
- Enable custom single templates
When this is checked the functionality for custom single.php templates is enabled. Here is more information on how to use it.
- Disable dynamic title tags
The dynamic title tag functionality outputs title tags based on post/page name etc. If this is disabled only the blog title will be shown, but then plugins like Headspace2 can be used to make it dynamic again.
- Disable meta tags
Meta tags for description and keyword is automatically added, if this is disabled no meta tags will be shown. This is useful if a plugin like Headspace2 is used to output meta tags instead.
- Use First Attached Image as default
If this setting is enables the first image uploaded will be automatically used as the default image (images can be set as first image in the attachment list by dragging them to the top of the list (can be useful when checking out different article images)).
- Add an image border to default images
Adds a (1px solid #ddd) border to default images (this also reduces the image width by 2px).
- Use an alternative styling for widget headings (cufonized)
Changes the widget heading for the main sidebar.
- Show Category name in the Archive
Show/hide the category name in the archive listing. When adding a category in the navigation it will be highlighted as current and therefore the archive heading might not be necessary.
- Enable Feature image for Categories in the archive
Makes the archive behave like the blog with a feature image at the top.
- Disable the feature image on the frontpage
If this is enabled, feature images will not be shown on the frontpage of the blog, but they will still be shown in the article view.
Thumbnail posts
- Show older posts on the blog frontpage as thumbnail posts
This will display the older posts (the posts after the first one) on the frontpage as thumbnails. There is also a thumbnails template that can be used to create a “non blog frontpage” or maybe a portfolio (see example on this demo site).
- Show the archive posts as thumbnail posts
The posts in the archive (lists of categories, tags etc.) will be shown as thumnail posts (like in the blog when that is enabled).
- Show the search result as thumbnail posts
The search result posts will be shown as thumbnail posts.
- Show recent posts (below the article) as thumbnail posts
The recent posts will be moved below the comments and shown as thumbnail posts.
- Show related posts as thumbnail posts
The related posts will be moved below the comments and shown as thumbnail posts.
- Show Read More for Thumbnails
Show/hide the read-more for thumbnails (for the frontpage and the tumbnails template).
- Show Meta info for Thumbnails
Adds the posibility to display the date, author and number of comments for the thumbnails.
- Add Date to the Thumbnail posts text
Adds a short formatted date at the beginning of the text in thumbnail posts. The date format can be set in the theme settings (Short Date Format)
- Exclude the text from thumbnail posts
Removes the text from thumbnail posts.
- Add an image border to thumbnail posts
Add a 1px border around the thumbnail post images.
- Produce thumbnails for videos (proplayer must be installed)
This works for videos (proplayer shortcode and url) added in the “Big Feature post/page settings” below the editor.
The rest of the general settings
- Container Width
This sets the width of the website (feature images must be at least this width to be displayed).
- Sidebar Width
This sets the width of sidebar (reduces the width of the content area).
- Sidebar 2 Width
This sets the width of the second sidebar column (reduces the width of the content area).
- Sidebar Margin
This sets the width of the margin between the content and the sidebar.
- Meta Information
Add/remove meta information below the post heading. Comment icon show the number of posts on the right side of the post heading.
- Upload a Logo
Here you can upload a logo (needs to be enabled in the featured section). See video for example how to.
- Logo URL
This can be set instead of uploading a logo (full url). Useful if the logo image is on an external site.
- Limit frontpage text
Number of words to automatically limit (cut off and a readmore is displayed to read the rest of the post) for the front page text (also archive and search). This is set off by default, so the post can be limited by readmore or using an excerpt instead.
- Limit thumbnail text
Same as above, but for thumbnails. This is enabled by default.
- Limit portfolio text
Limits the text in the portfolio2 template. This is enabled by default.
- Normal default image max height
This sets the max height of normal/medium default images.
- Thumb default image max height
This sets the max height of thumbnail default images.
- Date Format
php date format for the date meta information.
- Short Date Format
php date format for thumbnail posts and recent/related posts.
- Home menu name
The text for the navigation item for the frontpage.
- Read More text
The text for the read more link.
- Thumb posts Read More text
The text for the read more link for thumbnail posts.
- Number of Popular Posts
The number of posts to list using the “Popularity Contest plugin” after the article.
- Popular Posts Report Type
The type of “most popular” list to show.
- Number of Recent Posts
The number of “recent posts” to list under the article (if enabled).
- Max Number of Related Posts
The maximum number of “related posts” to list under the article (if enabled).
- Feedburner RSS Feed url
Feedburner rss url. Will replace all rss links.
- Feedburner ID For Email Subscription
Feedburner ID for the custom feed widget that shows a “subscribe by email” form (this is what’s after http://feeds.feedburner.com/ in the url above).
- Footer Text
Change The footer text and links (this replaces the designed by text). The rss links can be disabled in misc.
- Scripts
Adds code to the bottom the page (for Google Analytics and similar stuff).
Navigation
“Add/remove/Sort the Navigation” is a simple way to change the top menu by drag and dropping items to/from the navigation. In many themes you have to type the ID of the post to add it, and many don’t even include the possibility to add categories. Here you got an easy way to do both, without the hassle of finding the ID’s. The drag and drop functionality was added in version 1.0.1, a video of this functionality is available here. The next setting, “Enable dropdown menu for pages/categories” you can enable a dropdown hiearchy for the menu item. All children for the menu item will be included.
- Include Categories in the navigation admin
Adds categories to the navigation admin list.
- Include Links in the navigation admin
Adds links to the navigation admin list.
- Enable the multiple navigation functionality
Adds a + icon next to the main naviagtion. When it’s clicked more navigations will be added.
- Remove the add pages checkbox (from the pages admin)
Removes the “Add this page to the navigation” checkbox from the pages section.
- Show down arrow to indicate dropdown menu
Shows a arrow in the navigation to mark a dropdown menu.
- Navigation Style
Changes the style of the main navigation.
Typography
- Cufon font replacement
Setting for displaying the sitename, slogan, navigation, post heading, H1 & H2 tag as an anti aliased font. The font used is Vegur (a free font by dotcolon.net).
- Default Cufon font
Choose another default cufon font without uploading.
- Cufon Font Uploader
Makes it possible to add new cufon fonts. See this video for more info.
- Sitename text size
The font size in pixels for the sitename.
- Navigation text size (px)
The font size in pixels for the navigation.
- Article header & H1-tag size
The font size in pixels for the post header and H1 tag
- Body text size (px)
The font size in pixels for the body tag (whole website).
- Post text size (px)
The font size in pixels for the post text.
- Body text font Type
Default font family for the website.
- Heading font type
Font type for the headings.
Colors
Quite self explanatory, adds the possibility to change the colors for sitename, slogan, navigation, links, headings and the background.
Default Image Settings
When adding/editing posts/pages there this theme have added an meta box (below the editor) for adding a default article image. There is an “upload an image” button, which is the same as the small “add an image” icon above the editor. The reason this was added is that the icon is so small, might be easy to miss for new users of wordpress, so a big button with clear text might be helpful.
When uploading an image there is an setting called “default image” (a radio button for yes or no) added to enable or disable the image as default for the post (displays on the frontpage, search and archives). There is also an “enter an Image URL” input box in the default image meta settings, which overrides any uploaded image and will be displayed instead (only internal url’s are allowed).
The next option is to add a custom thumbnail to the post/page. This one overrides the default image thumbnail. The next one makes it possible to add videos as “default images”. The next checkbox is to disable the default image for this post. The last option is to disable feature size for images/videos. This is useful if the video is not that wide, so it doesn’t get that stretched. In pages there is also a checkbox for adding the page to the navigation.
