Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Myriad Theme for WordPress
Here is the widget breakdown for the First Full Width section:
This area of the demo is a RokSprocket widget. You will need to do two things to prepare this widget so that it looks similar to the one in the demo.
First, you will need to create the RokSprocket Widget. You can do this by navigating to Administration -> RokSprocket Admin and creating a new Features widget.
You can find out more about RokSprocket and how to set up and modify widgets by visiting our RokSprocket documentation.
We used the Simple Provider to enable us to create custom RokSprocket content without having to create separate posts or pages to do so. Here are the details of one of the Simple Items in the Featured Article List.
Option | Setting |
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Title | <span class="wow fadeInDown">RokSprocket</span> |
Image | Custom |
Link | None |
Description
<span class="wow fadeInUp">A powerful, content switchblade plugin with multiple default layout modes and various theme variants, alongside its custom administrative interface. RokSprocket therefore, provides a quick and easy solution in delivering sophisticated content structures, with efficiency and style.</span>
Here is a look at the Features Layout Options for this widget.
Option | Setting |
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Display Limit | ∞ |
Theme | Slideshow Style 3 |
Article Titles | Show |
Article Text | Show |
Preview Length | ∞ |
Strip HTML Tags | No |
Arrow Navigation | Hide |
Pagination | Show |
Animation | Bottom to Top |
Autoplay | Disable |
Autoplay Delay | 5 |
Image Resize | Disable |
The Slideshow Style 3 theme is unique to Myriad and was created to give the RokSprocket mode a certain set of attributes that enables it to look the way it does in this theme. You can find more information about overriding themes here.
You can set the RokSprocket filters to include any category, specific posts, or otherwise you would like to have featured in this widget.
Once you have created this widget, you can add it via the Widgets menu by clicking RokSprocket and dragging it to the appropriate section. When you have done this, you will need to complete the following.
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in the Custom Variations field.The widget should now be created and ready for use on the front page of your WordPress site.