Monet Documentation

Monet is an elegant, delicate and responsive WordPress template for your portfolio or blog. Suited to photographers, designers, bloggers and other creatives, the crisp typography ensures your site’s design will ooze quality.

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Getting Started

Documentation for WordPress.com is available here.

Custom Templates

Monet has 2 Custom Page Templates. These can be used as different layouts for your websites pages, or as a Custom Front Page.

Contributors - this page displays a list of all the people who have published content on your blog.
Projects - this page displays a list of all the projects you have published.

Standard Features

Site Logo - Add a logo to make your site your own.
Featured Content - Select your best content to appear in a Slider or other special area on the homepage.
Infinite Scroll - Continuously loading content to encourage your readers to stick around.
Social Menu - Display links to your social media channels.
Portfolio and Projects - Show off your Portfolio of work.
SEO - Search Engine Optimization to improve your sites rankings.
Custom Front Page - Change the design of your front page to make it exactly as you want.
Custom Colours and Fonts - Tweak the fonts and colours on your site without touching any code.
Image Resizing (Photon) - Resizes all of your images to fit the thumbnails used.
Custom CSS - Edit the CSS on your website.
Contact Form - Add a simple contact form to your website or blog.
Featured Images - Image thumbnails for your blog posts and pages.
Localization - View your theme in your native language.
Related Content - Display content, related to the current blog post, to give your readers something to look at next.
Social Sharing Buttons - Display social buttons that encourage readers to share your content.
Custom Page Templates - Different page layouts for static WordPress pages.
Customizer - Edit site settings and get a live preview of the changes.
Widget Visibility - Show and hide widgets on different pages according to rules you set
Theme Demo Content - Demo content to help you get started with your theme.
GDPR and Theme Privacy - Keeping your users safe.

Monet has the following translations included:

German, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish

Changelog

1.3.9 - 2nd April 2021

Fix text input width.

1.13.8 - 31st January 2021

Clear html widget to prevent floated content from breaking the layout.

1.13.7 - 2nd January 2021

Fix jQuery error since jquery migrate has been removed.
Fix sub menu link colours on mobile devices.
Update rtl.css

1.13.6 - 5th October 2020

Add support for wp_body_open.

1.13.5 - 13th July 2020

Add support for accessible widget lists: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/07/09/accessibility-improvements-to-widgets-outputting-lists-of-links-in-5-5/
Add 'navigation-widgets' to supported html5 types.

1.13.4 - 9th July 2020

Remove use of deprecated Jetpack function is_ipad.

1.13.3 - 12th March 2020

Add Gutenberg support.
Improve coding standards.

1.13.2 - 24th July 2019

Tweak archive styles to make things work better when displayed.

1.13.1 - 18th June 2019

Fix button styles in forms. input elements looked good but button elements were not styled. They are now!

1.13 - 13th May 2019

Add font display swap to Google Font loading, to increase font display speed.

1.12 - 5th November 2018

Ensure touch devices can see the post titles.
Remove old prefixes.

1.11 - 31st May 2018

Add support for hiding the footer credits.

1.10 - 25th May 2018

Add support for privacy policy link in the site footer.
Fix display of the cookie consent checkbox in the comments form.

1.9.2 - 30th January 2018

Make the menu change when a parent link uses # as the url (to allow the full text to work as opposed to just the arrow)
Remove errant console.log
Ensure long menu items are readable and don't bleed into sub menus.

1.9.1 - 27th January 2018

Simplify the menu selection javascript, which in turn removes errors on some menu items.
update rtl.css

1.9 - 25th January 2018

Highlight current menu item in menus
Remove responsiveNavigation.js code since it will never be executed (it's left over from my starter theme)
Select current menu level when you visit a page in the nav.
Add option to enable/ disable the submenu selection feature.
Tidy codes

1.8.5 - 20th December 2017

Fix issue with custom page templates not displaying shortcodes properly.
Fix navigation issue that can occcur when widgets are used in the header sidebar.

1.8.4 - 21st July 2017

Hide sidebar widgets when using sub navigation. Just in case the sub menus are longer than the main menu and so cover the widgets.
Fix a bunch of coding standards errors.

1.8.3 - 13th July 2017

Remove include for inc/wpcom.php, since it's automatically included by WordPress.com sites

1.8.2 - 9th June 2017

Fix small display issue on mobile, touchscreen, devices that improves readability of post titles on different post formats.
Update rtl.css
Improve compatibility with WP 4.8 media widgets

1.8.1 - 17th May 2017

Fix issue with featured image on single post pages not honoring theme option.
Tweak responsive layout on single posts and pages for small screens so that titles and content fit better.

1.8 - 28th March 2017

Add support for Jetpack content options
Make Customize preview work more nicely - showing real time updates and edit links for a number of elements

1.7.1 - 10th February 2017

Improve print styles.
Fix issue with minor sidebar not displaying in all the situations it's meant to display.
Reduce size of minor sidebar on small devices.
Add support for jetpack projects by default.

1.7 - 6th February 2017

Increase thumbnail size on archive pages, and size of featured images in slider and single opost page to stop issues when social sidebar is hidden. May need thumbnails to be recreated (https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ works well for this)
Consolidate one of the image sizes to reduce the amount of featured images needed.
Add support for selective refresh to sidebars.
Improve coding standards.

1.6 - 29th November 2016

Allow social sidebar to be hidden when content is empty.
Various improvements to rtl styles.
Add body class for missing sidebar.

1.5 - 18th November 2016

Add widgets sidebar into header underneath site title.

1.4.3 - 27th October 2016

Tidy up the codes.

1.4.2 - 19th October 2016

Improve the dropdown sidebars so that they stretch to fill the available space.

1.4.1 - 15th October 2016

Tweak word-wrap properties to be less agressive
remove box-shadow css prefix
allow slightly longer lines on blog post navigation to reduce number of lines when long post titles are used

1.4 - 28th July 2016

Improve rtl.css
fix post subscription form layout
Improve behaviour of overlay widgets in the Customizer
Code style improvements

1.3.6 - 30 May 2016

Tweak responsive styles so that post titles are immediately readable and don't need to be interacted with

1.3.5

Update slider.js to remove flash on display of first slide
Add support for more post types in featured content

1.3.4

Fix issue with image attachment template

1.3.3

Improve coding standards
Make sidebar menu links with no hrefs open sub menus (if available)

1.3.2

Fix issue with header description changing colour with custom header

1.3.1

fix content display on projects template

1.3

add a projects page template to allow setting the homepage layout to use Jetpack Projects instead of blog posts
add portfolio categories to archive template

1.2

improve the infinite scroll & masonry loading setup (better code and nicer effect)
improve widget styles

1.1

add Customizer option to hide featured images on blog posts
minor css improvements

1.0

Initial release

Please note: Unfortunately we are unable to offer support or help with theme customizations. For more info on Customization services please go to our Theme Customization page.