A theme for Bludit CMS with many configurable options.
The Configure 8 theme began under a different name as a starter theme, a boilerplate for developing themes for Bludit CMS. Because it has a simple, familiar look it still is considered by its developer to be a starter theme, and that is why the repository is offered as a template. However, it now has many presentation options and the theme has evolved into much more than its humble blog beginnings.
This theme requires its companion plugin to be installed in order to access theme options. Find this at https://github.com/BaselessCMS/configureight-plugin.
The minimum PHP version required is PHP 7.4. The standard plugin hooks are provided.
The theme can be used without its companion plugin, if so desired.
Some version-compare steps have been taken to make this theme compatible with Bludit 4.0 but it is not ready. And from the looks of the activity on the development repository, v4 is a long way off.
Direction and layout styles for right-to-left languages are implemented automatically when an RTL language is set in the site settings.
Several page template options are built into the theme, which can be employed in the page edit screen under Options > Advanced. More than one template may be used at once, with space between each template slug, depending on the template type.
Templates (slugs) include…
- Full screen cover image (full-cover)
- No sidebar (no-sidebar)
- Bottom sidebar (sidebar-bottom)
- Static front page (used automatically)
- About page (about)
- Contact page (contact)
Many color schemes are provided, including dark versions for dark user preference, and custom scheme options that use popular color palettes such as those from Tailwind, Bootstrap, Adobe, Material Design, etc.
Several font schemes are provided, which can be used by editing the configuration file.
Most font files have variable weights and all are stored locally.
The theme plugin offers several guide pages to help you in customizing your website.
Default cover image by Christina Rumpf on Unsplash.