![Briar](http://slicejack.com/shared/briar-featured.png "Briar")

# Installation
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Installing this theme is pretty easy. After download you should have a briar.zip (compressed file with all folders and files of this theme).

### Installation
You can use WordPress Admin Panel to install this theme or do it manually.
###### WordPress Admin Panel

1. Go to **Appearance > Themes**
2. Click on **Add New**
3. Click on **Upload Theme**
4. Choose the `briar.zip` file
5. Click on **Install Now**

###### Manually ( FTP )

1. Exctract the `briar.zip`
2. Using an FTP client or Control Panel to access your host web server and upload `briar` folder to the `wp-content/themes`


#### Activate the theme
After installation you can click on **Activate** or:

1. Go to **Appearance > Themes**
2. Hover over the **Briar** screenshot and click on **Activate**


# Adapting existing content
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If you already have menus and widgets on the website, you need to do this after finishing the theme activation process:

1. Go to **Appearance > Menus** and update theme locations
2. Go to **Appearance > Widgets** and add old widgets to new sidebars

If you already have uploaded images on the website, you should regenerate thumbnails. To do that you can install [Regenerate Thumbnails](http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/) plugin.

If you didn't use featured images you can install the [Easy Add Thumbnail](http://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-add-thumbnail/) plugin to dinamically set featured images for old published posts.

# Customization
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### Customizer
To open WordPress Customizer go to **Appearance > Customize**. There you will find the following sections:

#### Header
Set the site title and tagline, choose what to display in header (logo or site title and tagline).

#### Footer
Add, modify, reorder or remove social buttons.

#### Layouts
Choose what layout will be displayed globaly and on specific pages (home, blog, post, archive, category, search, 404 and default page).

#### Colors
Choose a color scheme and change the color of specific elements on page.

#### Background
Change background color and/or set a background image.

#### Navigation
Select which custom menu to use on the site.

#### Front
Choose whether to display a static page or your latest posts on the front page.

#### Widgets
Add, modify, reorder and remove widgets in the theme’s designated widget areas.

## File structure
In this theme we are using a default [WordPress template hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy).

**/admin/** - Admin panel files.

**/css/** - Style(CSS) files.

**/inc/** - Includes stuff that are non-standard to WordPress.

**/js/** - Theme javascript files.

**/languages/** - There is a language file that you can use to translate theme on your language. About WordPress translating you can read here - [Translating WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress).

**/source/** - Source less and javascript files.

## License

All contents of this theme are licensed under the [MIT license](https://github.com/themejack/briar/blob/master/LICENSE), except FitVids which is licensed under the [WTFPL license](http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/) and FontAwesome which is licensed under the [SIL Open Font License](http://scripts.sil.org/OFL).

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