Baleen By Adam D. Zolkover (http://basilosaur.us/) Baleen is small business theme that's also just right for blogging, Baleen is built for flexibility. It includes four different widgetized areas, built-in sliders, extended theme options, and shortcodes for inserting testimonials, icons, and columns. Baleen looks great on wide screens, and it's ready for mobiles. It's swift, feature rich, and attractive right out of the box. SHORTCODES: The Baleen theme offers a wide range of custom shortcodes that allow users simple and powerful control over the layout of posts and pages. These include codes for testimonials, columns, icons, buttons, dropcaps, slideshows, and more. Here is a quick shortcode cheat sheet: [button] - Enclose any link in a [button][/button] shortcode to style it like a button. [column] - Use the [column][/column] tab to create columns in the body of your post or page. It takes four attributes: class="", offset="", color="", and background="". Color and background define those attributes for the column. Class defines the width, and can accept the following: c25, c33, c40, c50, c66, c75, and c100 -- with each number defining a width by percentage. Offset accepts: ocenter, o25, o33, o40, o50, o67, and o75. The offset indents your column by that percentage of the width of the post -- or centers it. Close each column set with an [end_columns] tab. [dropcap] - Enclose the first letter of a paragraph in a [dropcap][/dropcap] shortcode. Use the color="" attribute along with any html code color (like #e6e6e6). [icon] - The [icon] shortcode accepts size="", alignment="", and color="" attributes. To insert an icon, choose from one of the following in name="": android, apple, book, bubbles, code, cog, console, document, facebook, feed, globe, google-plus, headphones, instagram, linkedin, linux, mail, mobile, network, paragraph, paypal, pdf, pen, phone, pinterest, podcast, search, share, spinner, tablet, twitter, user, users, vimeo, windows, wordpress, youtube. Icon names are case sensitive. [slideshow] - Insert a [slideshow] anywhere in the content. Slideshows accept two attributes: slideset="" and order="". In the slideset attribute, simply include the name of the slideset you want to insert. You may order it "newest," "oldest," and "random." [testimonial] - Encase your testimonials inside of a [testimonial][/testimonial] tag for a distinctive look. Inside of that shortcode, add the [testimonial-cite][/testimonial-cite] tag to denote the name of your happy client. The [testimonial] tag takes a color="" attribute, which changes the color of the background. MORE ABOUT SLIDESHOWS: Building a slideshow is simple with Baleen. Add as many new slides as you like through the "Slides" item in the WordPress admin menu. Add your slides to a slideset (slidesets work just like tags). Then follow the instructions for the "[slideshow]" shortcode to insert your slideshow anywhere in your content. Know that the titles of slides do not appear in slideshows. So to include a title, use

or

tags in the text. MORE ABOUT COLUMNS: For reference, know that the column creation syntax described in the "[column]" shortcode is compatible with the Column-Matic plugin. So if you have pre-existing plugins created with Column-Matic, they will work here. The only change you may need to name is the name of the classes that create the columns. See the entry for the "[column]" shortcode for details.