Amalie Lite - WordPress Theme
"Amalie Lite" is a feature rich, uniquely designed premium blogging theme built upon the free "Twenty Fifteen" WP theme.
Responsive grid is a standard these days and "Amalie Lite" makes a good use of it to preserve its unique looks across the whole range of internet capable devices.
As a bonus this theme comes with a couple of custom page templates, color customization options and a top notch Soliloquy slider that will help to further customize the theme.
Jetpack
Amalie Lite features "Jetpack" plugin for WordPress that supercharge your website with amazing set of cool features.
1. Getting Started
To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For information regarding the installation of the WordPress platform, please see the WordPress Codex - http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
Theme uses basic, core WordPress options (pages,post,categories) to create site that is easy to use even for very beginners. There is no option panel with many settings in it, all available theme options are available from inside the WordPress "Theme Customizer" that allows site admins to tweak a theme's settings and see a preview of those changes in a real time. You'll be able to upload your logo or change the site title and tagline, change background color, upload background image, change header image and more.
*Please note that the pictures in the Live Preview are for the presentation purposes only and are not included with the theme.
1.1 Installation
When you are ready to install the theme, you must first upload the theme files and then activate the theme itself. The theme files can be uploaded in two ways:
- FTP Upload: Using your FTP program, upload the non-ziped theme folder "amalielite" into the /wp-content/themes/ folder on your server
- WordPress Upload: Navigate to Appearance > Add New > Upload. Go to browse, and select the ziped theme folder "amalielite.zip". Hit "Install Now" and the theme will be uploaded and installed.
Once the theme is uploaded, you need to activate it.
After activation, you should see Amalie Lite Theme as an active theme:
1.2 Plugins used with this theme:
1. "Jetpack" plugin for WordPress that supercharge your website with features until now only available on WordPress.com.
Plugins mentioned above are not mandatory for theme to work.
1.3 Introducing WordPress Theme Customizer?
The Theme Customization screen (i.e. "Theme Customizer") allows site admins to tweak the theme settings and see a preview of those changes in real time.
Amalie Lite has implemented customizer and added some useful options to help you style the background, color elements, upload image logo and to write copyright text on your own.
Navigate to Appearance > Customize
On the left side, you'll find Theme Customizer with all the options it contains.
OPTIONS:
1. Site title and tagline
This gives you freedom to change the title and the tagline for your site.
2. Logo
This gives you the option to upload image logo instead of the site title and tagline.
3. Header Image
This gives you the option to change header image of the post page.
4. Background Image
This gives you the option to change background image.
5. Widgets
This gives you the option to preview all available widgets on the page you are viewing and to add or change widgets inside available Widgetized Areas.