Socially Awkward WordPress theme

Socially Awkward is a parent theme for WordPress. It was created to handle media and creative work.

This theme is a parent theme. What this means is that to customize it, you should be creating a child theme. Is it a theme framework? Some people might call it that. All you need to know is that it's a solid, yet flexible, starting point for any blog.

Features

Socially Awkward is built from the rock-solid Hybrid Core theme framework, an ongoing open-source theme project that has been in development for 5+ years.

No hard-to-use theme settings. This theme works right out of the box. The only thing you might want to set up is your nav menus.
Integration with the Custom Content Portfolio plugin.
Custom "Formats" page template that links to all your post format archives.
Beautiful designs for self-hosted media.
Toggle button for self-hosted audio and video info.
Several nav menus for interesting and never-before-seen uses.
Post setting that allows you to add a custom stylesheet for individual posts.
Post thumbnails that work with WordPress' featured image functionality and provide extra features.
Dynamic body, post, and comment CSS classes.
Fully internationalized, so you can run the theme in any language.
Ability to create custom templates for any post type in multiple ways.
And much, much more!

Child themes

Since Socially Awkward is a parent theme, you'll want to create a child theme if you plan on making any customizations. Don't know how to make a child theme? It's relatively simple. Just follow the below steps.

Create a theme folder in your /wp-content/themes directory called socially-awkward-child.
Then, create a style.css file within your theme folder.
At the top of your style.css file, add the below information.

/**
 * Theme Name: Socially Awkward Child
 * Theme URI: http://link-to-your-site.com
 * Description: Describe what your theme should be like.
 * Version: 0.1
 * Author: Your Name
 * Author URI: http://link-to-your-site.com
 * Tags: Add, Whatever, Tags, You, Want
 * Template: socially-awkward
 */

From that point, you simply need to start adding your own styles. The parent theme styles will automatically be loaded for you.

Note that child themes are now the officially-supported way of modifying themes in WordPress.

Important Notes

Portfolio menu

This menu will only work if you have the Custom Content Portfolio plugin installed. Otherwise, it won't appear at all. It is only shown on portfolio-related pages.

Formats menu

This menu uses Genericons to display links to post format archives. I highly recommend just leaving it alone. However, if you want to customize it, you should only add links to your blog page (i.e., posts page) or post format archives. Anything else will be replaced by a star icon.

Social menu

The Social menu uses Genericons rather than text to display links. You simply need to type in the correct URL for your menu items. The theme will take care of the rest. Only the following social Web sites are supported. Anything else will be replaced by a star icon.

CodePen.io
Dribble
Facebook
Flickr
GitHub
Google+
Instagram
LinkedIn
Pinterest
Tumblr
Twitter
WordPress.com
WordPress.org
YouTube

Theme support

Support for the Socially Awkward theme is not offered on the WordPress support forums. There is a community called Theme Hybrid where support is offered for this theme. You are encouraged to sign up to the site to use its support forums and become a part of the community.

Credits

This theme makes use of several open-source projects and resources.

Hybrid Core (GPL)
Theme MediaElement (MIT)
Genericons (GPL)
Lora (SIL Open Font License 1.1)
Open Sans (Apache License 2.0)
Open Sans Condensed (Apache License 2.0)

Copyright & license

Socially Awkward is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (GPL).