Instructions

Damasking is a simple, girly theme that is designed to be used as either a traditional blog, or a website with blog inside.

I've added a few simple modifications you can do to change the look and feel of your site.

Page Templates

Damasking comes with several page templates:

Archives - This template will display a list of all of your pages and posts.
Links - This template will display your blogroll
Blog - If you choose a static front page, you can still display your blog posts on your site. Create a new page and select this template from the Page Template drop-down list. Save the page. You do not need to enter any content on the page. Your blog posts will automatically display on this page.
Full-Width Page - Select this template to remove the sidebar and allow your content to span the full width of the page. Please note this page does not include the comments form.

Sidebars

This theme includes two widgeted sidebar areas. 'Blog' appears on all blog pages and 'Page' appears on all static pages. You can add content to these sidebars from your Appearance > Widgets area.

About Me section

The about me section pulls the bio you set in your Profile from the Dashboard. It also uses the image called me.png, which is located in the images folder (damasking/images). You can replace me.png with a new me.png of your own (try to keep it under 100px x 100px).

To change the heading or to remove this altogether, you can edit this in sidebar.php (damasking/sidebar.php). To delete this section, remove all of this code:

<div id="about" class="widget">
<h2 class="widgettitle">Who am I?</h2>
<p><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/me.png" alt="<?php the_author_meta( 'first_name', 1 ); ?> <?php the_author_meta( 'last_name', 1 ); ?>" class="alignleft aboutme" /><?php the_author_meta( 'description', 1 ); ?> </p>
</div>

Custom Gravatar

From Settings > Discussion, you can choose to display a custom gravatar (the image that appears by default for commenters who don't have their own) rather than one of the standard WordPress gravatars.

You can also replace this image that matches one of your choice. In the images folder (damasking/images) is gravatar.png. Replace this with your own gravatar.png file and you've now got a custom look. Try to keep the image to 48px x 48px in size. If you change the image, you may need to resave your selection in your Discussion settings.

Media Settings

Set your thumbnail size to 150px wide by 150px tall.
Set your medium size images to 300px wide. Do not set a height.
Set your large size images to 540px wide. Do not set a height.
Set your maximum embed size to 540px wide. Do not set a height.