Rainier Spine Theme: What is the Rainier Spine Theme?
The Rainier Spine Theme is an additional set of functionality and CSS styles that can be applied to the default WSU Spine design. The Rainier Spine Theme is intended to provide a better starting point for creating sites using the WSU Spine.
The main features of the Rainier Spine Theme include an updated site header, bold banner images for pages, clean content areas, and a site-wide footer.
The Rainier Spine theme has an updated site-wide header. When a banner image is used on a page the header is transparent and sits over the top of the image. If there is no banner image the header renders as a crimson bar at the top of the page.
The Rainier Spine theme features prominent page banners that bleed to the right of the page. The page banners include a title and and optional tagline. All of the styling for the page banners is built into the theme.
The Rainier Spine theme includes update CSS for text, content headings, sidebars, and a variety of other common site elements.
The Rainier Spine theme features a new site-wide footer that can be customized with deep-link style menus and other available widgets.
Please review these before switching to Rainier.
Page banners can be added to any page by setting the "Featured Image" typically in the right column of the page editor interface.
By default Rainier uses the page title as the primary title in the banner. To use an alternate title, scroll down to the bottom of the editor and look for the "Page Settings" section. The "Page Settings" section should have fields labeled "Alternate Title" and "Tagline". Adding either an alternate title or tagline in the "Page Settings" will override the default text in the banner.
This guide uses the WP Widget Admin interface for editing the widget areas; the Customizer also has a widget editing interface which will allow you to preview changes on your live site as you make edits (provide the preview works).
***Note: This guide assumes you have already created a menu in the "Appearances" → "Menus" editor for use in your footer.
To add deep link menus to your footer navigate to the Widget Admin interface (see above). Select the "Navigation Menu" widget on the left and drag it into the "Footer Widgets" on the right. Once you have the Navigation Menu widget in Footer Widgets you should be able to use the widget editor to select a menu to display. By default, menus entered in the footer will span the full with of the footer with each menu item (and child menu items) divided into columns.
Unlike menus (which stretch full width) additional widgets added to the footer will span horizontally across the footer in a column layout.