Sortable is quite different from other wordpress themes. It's basically a magazine/blog/photo theme with some nice unique features. Sortable lets the user find the latest content they are interested in quick and easy. Users can sort articles by category, date and title. You can easily create different layots from the admin panel. Sortable also have unlimited color options and even bulit in textures.
1. Upload to your wp-content/themes folder and activate the theme. Now you need to do a couple of things to configure it.
2. Important! The first thing you should do is to set up a menu under Apperance-->Menus (this is a built in WP3 Feature, remember to click save menu).
Now you should create some posts in the different categories (create some dummy posts just to see how this theme works).
All posts looks best with thumbnails. To use the automatic thumbnail function on blog posts you must upload an image in your uploader and grab the address to the image.
In custom fields write "thumb" in the name field and paste the image url in the "value" field.
Click "Sortable Options" in the left menu (in your admin panel).
Sortable Menu:
Create a category menu that let your visitors sort your posts. to do that you must create a list that matches your post categories. E.g. If you have three categories named "Featured", "News" and "Tutorials" your list should look like this:
<li class="segment-0"><a href="#" data-value="Featured">Featured</a></li>
<li class="segment-0"><a href="#" data-value="News">News</a></li>
<li class="segment-0"><a href="#" data-value="Tutorials">Tutorials</a></li>
Layout
Layouts are different ways of showing your posts.
Rounded Corners
If you want to have rounded corners in your layout simply type the border radius. 4 looks good (does not work in IE since it does not support border radius).
Comment Count
Display comment count on the frontpage
Show Excerpt
Both Article layout and Newspaper layout should show an excerpt, while Photo layout should not.
Thumbnail Options
Use the recommended settings for size and chose if you want a square cropped thumbnail or only resize the image keeping the correct aspect ratio.
Color Options
Customise the site with your colors. Use the color picker to pick any color you want or type in a color value. You may also add texture to spice up the site a little.
Sidebar Options
Sidebar(s) on the frontpage. Important! Select only one option (or none).
Display Custom Box
This feature adds an extra box to the layout which you can place this box in different sizes and places on the frontpage. You may use html and add whatever content you like in this box.
Custom Box width and height
Use recommended settings.
Box Position
Lets you set the position of the custom box. if you want to show one post before your ad you should set the position to 2. some important things to remember:
if you use the newspaper layout with no sidebars you will have four columns. Your custom box can be one, two, three or four columns wide. If you select a three column wide box and the height is one row you wil get gaps in your layout if you set the position to "3", this is because it is to wide for the layout and will push down the other boxes. The correct position in this case is 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10 and so on.
Another example: Say you have a box that stretches over two columns and two rows (height). Now you will get gaps in your layout if you set the position to 7. The solution to this is to check the "Align Advertisement" box below. Now the gap should be gone.
This may be a little confusing but if you play around a little with this you will find the pattern and how it works. (Rember if a custom box is higher than one row you can never position it in the middle of the layout, it must be on the left or right side (this should be the only limitation).
Box Content
Add your content here, you may use html and css.
Google Analytics
Pase your Goolge analytics code in the box.