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Kinetic: Recreating the Demo - Sidebar

Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Kinetic Theme for WordPress


Sidebar Section

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RokNewsPager
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Text
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Gantry Menu
4
RokTabs
5
Gantry Meta
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Gantry Recent Comments

Here is the widget breakdown for the Sidebar section:

  • RokNewsPager
  • Text
  • Gantry Divider
  • Gantry Menu
  • RokTabs
  • Gantry Meta
  • Gantry Recent Comments

RokNewsPager

This area of the demo is a RokNewsPager widget. RokNewsPager is no longer supported by RocketTheme. Many of its features and functionality have been integrated into RokSprocket.

Text

This section of the page is a standard text widget. You will need to enter the following in the main text field.

<p><strong>Plugins</strong> are an important aspect of any WordPress site, and
Kinetic has styled integrated for many of our RocketTheme plugins such as
<em>RokStories, RokAjaxSearch, RokTabs, &amp; RokNewsPager</em></p>

<p><a href="http://rockettheme.com/wordpress">Download</a> our themes <a href=
"http://rockettheme.com/wordpress">Today</a></p>

<p>You can find all of these plugins in our Kinetic theme!</p><img alt=
"Plugins" src=
"http://demo.rockettheme.com/live/wordpress/kinetic/wp-content/rockettheme/rt_kinetic_wp/frontpage/extensions.png">

Here is a breakdown of options changes you will want to make to match the demo.

  • Set the Title to Styled Addons.
  • Switch the Widget Variations option to Ribbon 2.
  • Leaving everything else at its default setting, select Save.

Gantry Divider

This widget tells WordPress to start a new widget column beginning with the widget placed directly below the divider in the section.

Gantry Menu

The Gantry Menu widget should be set to match your site's main menu as it serves as the primary menu widget for the entire site. You can customize this menu by navigating to Administration -> Appearance -> Menus and creating or modifying your selected menu there.

Here is a breakdown of the widget options for this menu widget. Any options not present in this breakdown are left at default and should not be adjusted.

Option Setting
Title Main Menu
Menu Main Menu
Menu Theme SplitMenu
Limit Levels Yes
Start Level 0
End Level 1
Show All Children No
Show Empty Menu No
Maximum Depth 10
Load CSS No
Enable JavaScript Yes
Menu Opacity 1
Menu Effect Slide and Fade
Hide Delay 500
Menu Animation Sine.easeOut
Menu Duration 200
Enable Pill No
Pill Animation Back.easeOut
Pill Duration 250
Centered Dropdowns No
Level 2 X Offset 10
Level 2 Y Offset 8
Submenus X Offset 0
Submenus Y Offset 2
Enable Active ID No
Widget Variations Box 5

RokTabs

This area of the demo is a RokTabs widget. RokTabs is no longer supported by RocketTheme. Many of its features and functionality have been integrated into RokSprocket.

Gantry Meta

The Gantry Meta widget gives the visitor quick access to common tools such as the site admin and RSS feed. Here are the settings we used with this widget.

Option Setting
Title Meta
List Class menu
Widget Variations Box 5

Gantry Recent Comments

The Ganty Recent Comments widget lists the latest comments in a clean, seamless way. Here are the settings we used with this widget.

Option Setting
Title
Number of Comments to Show 1
Word Limit 7
List Class jclist
Link Class jcl_comment

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