Clean Blog is a carefully styled Bootstrap blog theme that is perfect for personal or company blogs. This theme features four HTML pages including a blog index, an about page, a sample post, and a contact page.
- Built to support the latest, stable releases of all major browsers and platforms.
- Fully responsive template created with Bootstrap 4.
- Modern design with a subtle splash of color (which is easy to customize, especially with LESS!).
- Distraction free blog text optimized for legibility with a menu bar interface that conveniently appears when you scroll up!
- Five pages including a blog index, an single article page, an archive/search page, a contact page and an error page.
- Contact form powered by com_connect.
- Footer with social links and copyright information.
- SASS/SCSS files included for deeper customization options.
- Textpattern 4.7
- cbs_gravatar - a simple, clean plugin to display gravatars in comment forms.
- com_connect - form mailer plugin for Textpattern CMS.
- Upload the cleanblogtxp folder to the themes folder in the root of your Textpattern install.
- In the Textpattern, go to Presentention/Themes and on the Import from disk drop-down list select Clean Blog for Textpattern, then click on Upload.
- Upload the assets folder to the root of your Textpattern install.
- Go to Presentention/Themes and on the first drop-down list, select Clean Blog for Textpattern, then click on Import.
Install and activate with level 5 both cvs_gravatar and com_connect plugins.
Go to Admin/Preferences/Advanced/Custom Fields and create one called Article BG to insert the image used as header backgound on your posts.
Edit and replace the contents of standard pages archive, default and error_default for the content of file with the same name and type. Create contact and single pages and paste the content of respective files.
Configure the Sections this way:
| Name | Title | Page | Style | Appears | Syndicate | Search |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| default | default | default | default | yes | yes | yes |
| contact | Contact | contact | default | no | no | yes |
| articles | Articles | default | default | yes | yes | yes |
| archive | Archive | archive | default | no | no | no |
| about | About | single | default | no | no | yes |
The navigation menu has the section list hard coded, so when you create new pages or sections don't forget to update the form clear_nav.
- Create a new section and use the single page as template.
- Create a new post and use the section you just create.
- Fill in the title, it will be displayed on the article body of this page, and summary field will be displayed in the page header.
- In Excerpt markup select Leave text untouched.
- Each page has a beautiful background header, to be simple to change for your own images, the theme will look for a file with a pattern section_name-bg.png.
- Upload an image file to the assets/img folder using this section_name-bg.png pattern name, it will be the header background of this page.
- Publish!
- Create a new post and use the section article.
- Select the categories.
- Fill in the title and summary fields. Its contents will be displayed in the page header.
- In Excerpt markup select Leave text untouched.
- Fill in the custom Article BG field with image you want to be displayed as header background.
- Publish!
This theme wouldn't have been possible without the following open source resources:
- Textpattern (htto://textpattern.io)
- Bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/)
- JQuery (https://jquery.com/)
- Gravatar plugin made by Christophe Beyls (http://textpattern.org/plugins/628/cbs_gravatar)
- Connect plugin (zem, Mary, Stuart, wet, Tranquillo, aslsw66, jdykast, Ruud, Bloke, and now supported and tested to destruction by the Textpattern community. Textpattern
- Font Awesome iconic font set (https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/)
And a special thank you to Michael K Pate (http://michaelkpate.com/) for having pointed out many bugs.
Clean Blog is a theme that belongs to the Start Bootstrap, a project created and maintained by David Miller at Blackrock Digital.
Based on Bootstrap.
Clean Blog for Textpattern is a port form the original made by Wagner Brahm.
Licensed under GNU General Public License Version 3 https://github.com/brahm/clean-blog-textpattern/blob/master/LICENSE.