Getting Started
After activating your Caliper WordPress theme, visit the Customizer to set up the basic theme settings, such as background color, custom header, site logo, or custom menu.
Required Plugin
Jetpack is required plugin for Caliper WordPress theme. Jetpack is comprehensive and free plugin by WordPress.com which provides several features under one roof. You need to install and activate the Jetpack plugin in order to use the supported modules.
For Example:
- Site Logo
- Infinite Scroll
- Many More…
Site Logo
Go to Customizer → Theme Options to add your site logo.
Theme Options
You’ll find Caliper’s theme options in the Customizer, under Customizer → Theme Options.
1. Theme Layout
Use Caliper‘s wide style or personalize it with beautiful backgrounds using the boxed style.
Wide Style
Caliper will cover the full screen width in wide-layout mode. Any background color or background image will not be visible using wide-layout mode.
Box Style
Caliper will wrap the content in a box. This option is best if you want to use a background color or background image for your website.
Skin Options
You’ll find Caliper’s skin options in the Customizer, under Customizer → Theme Skin.
1. Primary Color
Use Caliper‘s primary color to personalize it with your favorite color.
2. Secondary Color
Use Caliper‘s secondary color to personalize it with your favorite font.
Fonts Options
You’ll find Caliper’s fonts options in the Customizer, under Customizer → Theme Fonts.
1. Headings Font
Use Caliper‘s headings font to personalize it with your favorite font.
2. Body Font
Use Caliper‘s body font to personalize it with your favorite font.
Featured Images
Caliper supports Featured Images on blog posts and pages. They appear near the title on the blog index and archive pages. For best results, use an image at least 2052px wide and 1100px high.
If you upload larger Featured Images or images with different proportions, they will be automatically resized to match the required dimensions.
Add a Custom Header Image
Add a Custom Header image by going to Customizer → Header. Your uploaded image should be at least 200px tall. The width should be at least 1920px to provide a visually crisp background.
Add a Custom Background Image or Color
Add a Custom Background via Customizer → Background. You must choose the Box Layout in the Customizer’s Theme Options area to see background colors or images.
Custom Menus
Caliper allows you to have one Custom Menus, which can be set under Customizer → Menus.
Select the Primary Menu location in the Menu Settings to display your Custom Menu in the header.
Social Links Menus
Caliper allows you to display links to your social media profiles — like Twitter and Facebook — as icons using a Social Links Menu in one location.
Select Social Links Menu location in the Menu Settings to display Social Links Menu in the footer.
Read the full guide for setup instructions.
Available Icons
Linking to any of the following sites will automatically display its icon in your menu.
- CodePen
- Digg
- Dribbble
- Dropbox
- Email (
mailto:links) - Flickr
- GitHub
- Google+
- RSS Feed (urls with
/feed/) - StumbleUpon
- Tumblr
- Vimeo
- WordPress
- YouTube
Widget Areas
Caliper comes with four widget areas: one in the sidebar, and up to three in the footer. The footer widget areas will activate once you add widgets to them in Customizer → Widgets.