If you notice, it says that “WordPress theme specifically for photographers looking for a simple and elegant way to display their work online”. Another helpful hint if you still can’t figure out if this theme is right for you is to look at the tags at the bottom of the description. For this particular theme, they include: “photoblogging, fixed-width, one column, threaded comments, white”. Lastly, if you still aren’t sure if this theme is right for you, you can click the preview button and see how it changes you profile.

However, changing your profile to a theme more photography based will change your settings. For example, using the original theme you are given, UNC Clean on page 11 of themes causes your dashboard to look like this:

However, as soon as I switch to the theme AutoFocus 1.0.1 by Allan Cole, my dashboard changes and now no longer includes “Homepage Bulletins”. This change is seen below:

This is one of the many examples of small changes that are made when switching between themes. These changes can be useful once you adjust and find the right theme for what you are trying to accomplish. There are problems that arise out of these changes though since we don’t have a list of all the changes that occur and the help videos made on this website are all made using the UNC Clean theme which may have different settings than your theme depending on your theme. Bottom line, some themes create restrictions on what you can do in some areas while also opening doors to new settings that can be helpful in creating your page the way you want. I would recommend taking some time to explore different themes and don’t be afraid to switch themes until you find the one that works for you! When in doubt, try it out!

Add Theme Setting to set Default New Page Template

If you  are always going to be using the same page layout you can go to Appearance – UNC Theme Settings – General and choose the “Default New Page Template” from the dropdown.  All new pages you create after this point will have the layout you indicate here.

Add Theme Setting to Control Top Page Navigation Font Weight

By default the top page listing is bolded. Some sites find that too dark for them and would like a lighter, cleaner look.  You can now make it unbolded by going to Appearance – UNC Theme  Settings – Header – Top Menu Font Weight.

Add Page Templates “Right Sidebar” and “Two Sidebars”

Sometimes you don’t want a right and a left sidebar.  You can now select a template that has just a right-sidebar.  We renamed our Right Template to “Two Sidebars” to clearly identify this option will have a left and a right sidebar.  You can set the default new page by going to Appearance – UNC Theme Settings – General, or on each individual page you can select the page template on the right hand side under “Page Attributes” and then “Template”.

Remove “Comments Off” when comments are off on pages.

If you want to set up a site that is informational you might now want folks to comment.  You can always turn those off for the whole site under Settings – Discussion, or at the bottom of each post or page.  Now if they are off there will be nothing under your content.

Add Theme Option to specify Post Heading Style.

The post part of the carolina theme always had a blue bar for the title of the post.  You can now specify if you would like a different look for your post entries by going to Appearance – UNC Theme Settings – Post Content – Post Headings.

Enable Excerpt feature on Posts Page listing.

If you are using your posts to display news items you may want to control what shows up on the front page.  You can now use the optional field at the bottom of posts entitled “Excerpt.”  If you add your short excerpt there it will show up on the post listing pages.

Enabled individual Post Banners using custom field “featured-banner”

Just like you might want to add a custom banner to pages, you can now add it to posts.  This custom field will allow you to put a URL of an image into a custom field and it will show the image above the post content.

Add option to hide post Tags

Want to hide all Metadata from ever showing up.  This was the last of the items that sometimes show up at the bottom of posts. Now you can hide it as well so it can be straight information.  Now it’s your choice what you want to appear.

Changelog:

• Add Featured Bulletin Options panel to specify the featured bulletin area.
• Add Option to specify how many featured bulletin items to show (up to 9).
• Add Option to specify the color the featured bulletin background.
• Added custom field to pages “featured-banner” that allows you to add a picture to the top of a page (711X200)
• Add footer area with 5 widget areas, and footer options in theme settings
• Renamed Left and Right Sidebars to make clearer
• Replace Arts & Sciences, and Global Icon for header image
• Set theme to have default “Getting Started” widget
• Enable Page Comment Fields
• Reorder Theme Settings Area
• Add Theme Options for Post Metadata location
• When Comments are off nothing appears.
• Fixed Breadcrumb Trail in Category and Archive Listing
• Fix Captioned Images and Right Justification of Images in CSS
• Add Option to hide the title of page
• Moved Theme settings tab under Appearance

Log into your website today and check out all the new themes!

As always, let us know if there is anything we can help with or problems you encounter.