Barhop

Barhop is a lightweight theme designed for Anchor CMS. Page templates are in minimal PHP and focus on the writing, not the extra stuff. Some features include:

• Markdown and HTML editing in Anchor
• Fully mobile-responsive design
• Featured image included in blog list (see below for setup)
• Flickr image credits automatically added (blog post).
• Post descriptions displayed on home page
• Comment permalinks
• Category article counts in the sidebar

See a live demo

Currently, the Barhop theme is only available for Anchor. I'm planning on porting it over to Wordpress if I can get around to it.

##Setup

There are a few customizations you'll need to make in order to take advantage of the features.

Featured Images

Barhop uses featured images to give a clean, modern look to your blog, but it must be enabled by the user. To do so:

1. Create a new Custom Field under Extend > Custom Fields in your admin settings
2. Enter the following in the form:
   • Type: post
   • Field: text
   • Unique Key: featured_image (this is the slug used by Anchor)
   • Label: Featured Image
3. Click Update
4. To set a featured image in the post editor:
   • Scroll to the bottom of the editor
   • Paste an image source URL into the Featured Image field.
   • Images can be static or animated GIFs.

If you do not set up a featured image, or don't set an image, a random color will be applied to the Home page and the post header.

Twitter

Anchor CMS is so light because it comes completely unconfigured.

Set up a reusable username variable:

1. Create a new Custom Field under Extend > Site Variables in the admin settings.
2. Enter the following in the config form:
   • Name: twitter_account
   • Value: yourusername - do not include '@'!

Credits

This theme is built for Anchor CMS.

License

Barhop is created by Brian Bennett (2014) is licensed with The MIT License and is free to use, modify and distribute.