Picompany – a wmk corporate theme
Setup and configuration
Picompany is a theme that is suitable for the website of a company, open source project, club, or similar. It can be used for a personal blog but is not specially designed for that. The theme is based on the Company example for the Pico CSS framework.
Add Picompany to your site by cloning it into themes
as picompany
or adding it as a git submodule. Remember to run git submodule update --init --recursive
to fetch dependencies. Then add the line theme: picompany
to your wmk_config.yaml
and rebuild the site.
Site variables
site.title
,site.description
,site.keywords
andsite.lang
set basic metadata.site.base_url
should be set to a hostname with a http/https prefix and no slash at the end.site.leading_path
is usually an empty string but can be set to a path relative to a web root if the wmk site put into a subdirectory. Again, the path should not have a trailing slash.site.google_font
is an optional name of a font on Google Fonts, e.g. "Gentium Book Basic". It is also possible to specify a separate font for headings and a few other things withsite.google_font_headings
.site.topnav_brand
is the brand name/image to be shown in the top left corner, whilesite.topnav_links
are links for the top navigation at the top right. Each item in the list of links should have the attributesurl
andtitle
.site.hero_title
andsite.hero_tagline
indicate the contents of the text atop the hero header;site.hero_call_to_action
is the hero button and should have the attributesurl
andtitle
.
The sidebar
The sidebar is normally populated with Markdown content which has sidebar: true
in the frontmatter. The order can be affected with sidebar_order
. Each item should have an image, a title and a subtitle or summary. If you wish to link to something which is not on the site, set sidebar_item_url
and add do_not_render: true
to the frontmatter. By default, 4 items are shown.
The hero block
By default, the hero component is only shown on the frontpage. You can turn it on in markdown content by setting with_hero
to true in the frontmatter. You can also control the content of the block by setting the variables hero_title
, hero_tagline
and hero_call_to_action
, similarly to the corresponding site variables. The call to action button can be turned off by setting hero_no_call_to_action
to true. Example.
The easiest way to change the background image in the topnav header and hero area is to put a new image into static/img/hero.jpg
. The image should be quite dark and around 3000×1000 pixels in size.