Benjamin Lu

Amicable is a parent theme for bloggers that use multiple nav menus, several sidebars, and custom post layouts. It has a pixel-perfect design that’s great for any blogger who wants a enw look for their site.

Amicable is a a parent theme. What this means is that to customize it, you should be creating a child theme. All you need to know that it is a solid, yet flexible starting point for any blog.

Features

Amicable is built from the rock-solid Backdrop Framework theme framework, so it provides a great starting point with many useful features.

• Per-post layouts that allow you to quickly change the layout of your site.
• Post thumbnails that work with ClassicPress' featured image functionality and provide extra features.
• Multiple sidebars that you can customize however you like.
• Ability to create custom templates for any post type in multiple ways.
• And much, much more!

Child themes

Since Amicable is a parent theme, you'll want to create a child theme if you plan on making any customizations. Don't know how to make a child theme? It's relatively simple. Just follow the below steps.

• Create a theme folder in your /wp-content/themes directory called amicable-child.
• Then, create a style.css file within your theme folder.
• At the top of your style.css file, add the below information.

/**
 * Theme Name: Amicable Child
 * Theme URI: http://link-to-your-site.com
 * Description: Describe what your theme should be like.
 * Version: 0.1
 * Author: Your Name
 * Author URI: http://link-to-your-site.com
 * Tags: Add, Whatever, Tags, You, Want
 * Text Domain: amicable-child
 * Template: amicable
 */

This will give you a blank design. If you want to import the Amicable parent theme style, simply append this code after the above information:

@import url( '../amicable/style.css' );
/* Custom code goes below here. */