The header area of The Privateer Theme consists of six possible sections that can be arranged and configured as you see fit:
The Page Bar
This bar displays the pages on your site. It can also display a home page link on the left and store, cart, and/or rss feed links on the right side.
The Category Bar
This bar displays the categories on your site. it can also display a home page link on the left and store, cart, and/or rss feed links on the right side.
The Logo Bar
This bar can be styled and set to display a logo, your site title, your site byline, rss feed links, and/or a search bar.
The Image Bar
This bar is just like the logo bar, but randomly picks images from a specified directory to display as the background image. You can set a static background image by placing only on image in the folder it pulls from.
Two Static Bars
There are also two static bars that you can style and use wherever you wish in the header. These can be handy for creating top and bottom images, spacing things out, etc.
Each of these sections flow completely across the display, like rows in a table.
You can choose which you want to display and the order that you want them displayed in. You can even choose to display none of them.
Choosing and Ordering the Header Bars
To specify which bars should be displayed, and in what order:
- Go to the "Privateer" » "General Display" » "Header Setup" admin panel.
- This will display core header setup information.
- Locate the "Header Setup" option.
- This should be the first option displayed.
- Enter the values for each bar that you want displayed, in the order you want them displayed.
- You can use the horizontal bars multiple times if you are inclined to do so.
- %pages
- This will cause the Page Menu Bar to be displayed
- See the Page Menu Bar styling page for details.
- %cats
- This will cause the Category Menu Bar to be displayed
- See the Category Menu Bar styling page for details.
- %logo
- This will cause the Logo Bar to be displayed.
- The Logo Bar can contain a logo, your sites title, your sites description, rss links, and a search bar.
- See the Logo Bar styling page for details.
- %image
- This will cause the Image Bar to be displayed.
- The Image Bar can display a background image at random from a group of images you have uploaded.
- It can have two overlays, one which can contain your logo, title, and side byline, the other which can contain rss links and/or a search bar.
- See the Image Bar styling page for details.
- %bar1
- This will display a bar wherever you place it, between, above, or below items.
- %bar2
- This will display a bar wherever you place it, between, above, or below items.
- The reason for a second bar, when you can use both or either more than once, is so that you can style them differently and use them both if you wish.
