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General archive settings

To configure this section, go to the dashboard in "Crane theme > Theme Options > Blog > Blog archive settings"

Blog archive settings

Groovy menu preset

Select a proper menu created by Groovy menu plugin. This setting is global for blog archive (blog archive, categories, tags).

Hint: you can use custom menu presets for every page. To do this just switch menu preset from "default" to the necessary value in page meta and save the page

Sidebar position

This setting controls visibility and position of sidebar on the page.

Available options:

  • Hide the sidebar
  • on the right
  • on the left The following additional options appear if you select sidebar position on the left/on the right:
  • Bar contents - enables to select one of available bars. Sidebars are located at "Appearance-> Widgets" page
  • Sidebar width - set the sidebar width
  • Page content width - set the page content width

Content padding

Set upper/lower content padding

Layout

Select one of blog layouts:

  • Standard
    blog-layout-standart
  • Cell
    blog-layout-cell
  • Masonry
    blog-layout-masonry

Every layout has general and unique options enabling you to create a wide variety of blog types:

Standard layout

Standard layout has the following settings controlling visibility of specific items:

  • Show tags
  • Show comment counter
  • Show social share button

Open on click in

  • currently open window
  • in a new window

Cell layout

Adaptive placement of columns

Select resolution at which items will be placed as 1 per row.

Space between items

Select the space between portfolio items.

Cell layout has the following settings controlling visibility of specific items:
  • Show title
  • Show tags
  • Show Excerpt. Put a tick for display of excerpt from portfolio post. The text will be taken from "excerpt" field or, if "excerpt" field contains no text, from the text editor of portfolio post. If you put a tick, additional field appears where you can set the height of displayed text block - “Excerpt height”.
Open on click
  • in currently open window
  • in a new window

Masonry layout

Style

Select one of styles:

  • Corporate
  • Flat
Top content proportion

Set top content proportion. Top part of the content is a field where content corresponding to port type is displayed. For instance, in case of video-post this will be the first video of the post, in case of a standard post - post featured image, etc.

Select one of the following proportions:

  • 4:3
  • 3:2
  • 16:9
  • 1:1
  • 3:4
  • 2:3
  • Original size (proportions will be maintained).
Number of columns

Set the number of columns in one row.

Adaptive placement of columns

Select resolution at which items will be placed as 1 per row.

Space between items

Select the space between portfolio items.

Masonry layout has the following settings controlling visibility of specific items:
  • Show title
  • Show tags
  • Show Excerpt. Put a tick for display of excerpt from portfolio post. The text will be taken from "excerpt" field or, if "excerpt" field contains no text, from the text editor of portfolio post. If you put a tick, additional field appears where you can set the height of displayed text block - “Excerpt height.
  • Show social share button
Open on click in
  • currently open window
  • in a new window