Below you will find mini guides on setting up the various aspects of The Privateer Theme for WordPress.
There is a lot to The Privateer, but getting everything setup should be rather quick and painless with the information to be found below.
Site Layout
Whether you want a fixed width display, a display that expands to fill users viewports, or one that has a minimum display width as well as a maximum, you can use the quick site layout guide to get the look you want with The Privateer Theme.
Site Header Setup
The site header setup mini guide will walk you through the various sections of The Privateer theme’s header and show you how to configure them to get the look you want for the header of your site.
Sidebar and Widget Setup
The sidebar and widget setup mini guide will walk you through getting your sidebars positioned, and sized as well as making the widgets displayed within them look the way you want.
HTML Entity Look and Feel
The html entity look and feel mini guide for The Privateer will take you through setting up all major html entities for your site:
- paragraphs (<p>)
- tables (<table>)
- headings ( <h1>, etc. )
- ordered lists (<ol>)
- unordered lists (<ul>)
- horizontal rules (<hr />)
- preformatted text areas (<pre>)
- code text areas (<code>)
- data lists (<dl>)
- forms (<form>)
- images (<image>)
- blockquotes (<blockquote>)
Page Default Styling
The page default styling mini guide will take you through setting up the default look and feel for all pages on your site, including styling the following:
- Page Kickers ( blurbs above titles )
- Page Titles ( the titles for individual site pages )
- Page Bylines ( blurbs below titles )
- Page Top Content ( extra things to place before any displayed wordpress post or page content )
- Page Post List Area ( the container that holds wordpress post or page content )
- Page Bottom Content ( extra things to place after any displayed wordpress post or page content)
- Page Footers ( displayed at the very bottom of a page )
- Page Subtitles ( which can be put inside of some of the other areas above )
- Page Summaries ( which can be put inside of some of the other areas above )
- Navigational Bars for the various page types
- WordPress Post / Page Content Kicker, Title, Subtitle, Byline, Summary, Content, and Footer areas
Template Configurations
The template configurations guide will show you how to setup the various individual WordPress Templates to have the look and feel that you want.
Currently, the following templates can be individually configured within the admin panel:
- The Home Page (home.php)
- Single Post Pages (single.php)
- Single Page Pages (page.php)
- The Search Results Page (search.php)
- Date Archives (archive.php)
- Category Archives (archive.php)
- Tag Archives (archive.php)
- Author Archives (archive.php)
- 404 Not Found (404.php)









