This is a minimalist WordPress child theme for Fictioneer. To use this theme, ensure that the parent theme is also installed and do not rename any folders. Always download the zip file from the Releases page. Requires Fictioneer 5.22.2 or higher.
Fictioneer Minimalist is open source and completely free. If you enjoy the theme, please consider supporting me on Patreon, Ko-fi, or GitHub Sponsors.
As the child theme builds upon the main theme, some settings and options work better than others or have been removed. The following recommendations should be applied under Appearance > Customize; feel free to make changes as you see fit.
SITE IDENTITY:
- Site Title - Minimum Size: 32
- Site Title - Maximum Size: 32
- Tagline Title - Minimum Size: 14
- Tagline Title - Maximum Size: 14
HEADER IMAGE (IF ANY):
- Show header image shadow: OFF
- Minimum Height: 150
- Maximum Height: 300
LAYOUT:
- Site Width: 896 without sidebar, 1036 with sidebar
- Mobile Menu Style: Slide in from left
- Story Page Cover Position: Floating Top-Left
- Story Page Cover Shadow: No Shadow
- Content List Style: Lines
CARDS:
- Card Image Style: Seamless
- Card Footer Style: Combined
- Card Shadow: Shadow Small
You cannot make a child theme of a child theme, which can pose a challenge for further customization. The cleanest way is to add your own must-use plugin to the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory (create one if it does not exist). You can copy the provided customize-mu-plugin.php as example — it’s really just a single PHP file.
The plugin file includes an example filter to change the post meta row, removing icons and separating the items with a pipe. You can use this by uncommenting the add_filter() line in custom_initialize() simply take it as a guide on how to add actions and filters yourself. Note that mu-plugins are executes before normal plugins and the theme; unless you delay functions, as shown in custom_initialize(), nothing of the plugins and themes will be available.
