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Released under the GNU General Public License.
Copyright 2009 by Khoi Vinh.
Basic Maths is a rock-solid, standards-compliant and microformats-friendly WordPress theme, released under the GPL license.
Every template is based on a rational, methodical typographic grid for impeccable layout guidance. PLUS, a shortcut (SHIFT + ALT + G) magically displays the column structure on a transparent layer.
Change up Basic Maths’ minimalist color scheme in a matter of seconds: a theme option allows you to specify and apply your own colors with a single click.
Widgets abound, and they're all smartly and seamlessly formatted. Includes three custom widgets: Archives, Recent Posts, and Site Info, hand-crafted for Basic Maths.
Users get quick access to your archives via tags or categories, available on every page of Basic Maths. An intuitive, fluidly organized archives page serves as a comprehensive table of contents to your entire site.
Before uploading new images, go to the Settings > Media page in the WordPress backend.
Please note: you may need to change the sizes of the images that you currently have in your blog. Sounds tedious, but there is a really great plugin that can handle it all for you. Try the Regenerate Thumbnails Plugin. It will make your life a lot easier.
There are also a number of Theme Options that allow you to customize certain areas. These option can be found at Appearance > Basic Maths Options in the Backend.
The theme includes templates for an Archives page, which shows a list of all your Tags and Categories along with a date based Archive at the bottom. To use it, go to Write > Pages in your WP Admin. Create a new page and select the Basic Maths Archive Template from the Page Template dropdown menu.
Basic Maths also has some custom shortcodes which can be used to display Page content in a number of different ways as seen in this example. Here is a list of the shortcodes and how they can be used:
[topcolumn] your text [/topcolumn]: Fills page content to the full width with and adds a border to the bottom of the text block.[leftcolumn] your text [/leftcolumn]: Creates a left column at 50% of the width of the page content. Also adds a divider to the right of the text block.[rightcolumn] your text [/rightcolumn]: Creates a right column at 50% of the width of the page content.Be wary of nesting short code items which can cause errors when done incorrectly. Here’s an example of how to use the shortcode correctly.
WordPress adds a number of image classes to every image that you place in a post or page with the WordPress Media Uploader. Basic Maths uses a few of these classes to hang images to the left of the post measure while still holding to the grid. Here is a blog post that illustrates how the different class selectors will work with the grid. There’s also a cheat sheet below to help out with this. Make use of the SHIFT + ALT + G jQuery plugin which will help out quite a bit as well.
Basic Maths uses a revised version of the jQuery Grid Layout plugin with permission from Teevio. This feature was rewritten by Erin Sparling.
All sample images are courtesy of their respective authors.
Please make sure that you have followed all of the instructions to the smallest detail and make sure that you are using the latest version of WordPress. The WordPress Support Forums is a great resource for everything related to WP and theming — we are sure that you will be able to find your answers there.
For support with bugs or theme related issues, send an email to basicmaths
subtraction.com
Basic Maths is Copyright © 2009 by Khoi Vinh. It is released under the GNU General Public License, version 3, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
It was designed and developed
by Khoi Vinh of Subtraction.com
with Allan Cole of fthrwght.com
Released under the GNU General Public License.
Copyright 2009 by Khoi Vinh.