Watson was inspired by the clean lines and bold strokes of a classical newspaper. From the typography to the uncluttered article view, we focused on bringing that clean and classic look to your website. Watson boasts a neatly organized front page layout, a myriad of in post styles, and a pleasurable reading experience. It may be our finest magazine-style production yet.
Typographically pleasing
Liven up your content using Watson’s custom editor formatting buttons. 10 hand-crafted styles add polish and charm to your ever-so-important words.
Responsive
Every new theme from The Theme Foundry looks beautiful on every device; Watson is no different. As your screen narrows, Watson shapes itself to provide a great reading experience.
Attention-getting
Place your posts in Watson’s featured slider or featured thumbnails section and your readers can focus on special articles they may have missed otherwise.
Try Watson today
Watson was designed with writers in mind, free of clutter and focused on your content.
Included with your purchase is access to the top-notch support we’ve become known for at The Theme Foundry. We’re happy to answer any questions you have as you get started on your site.
Quick Specs (
all measurements in pixels):
- Watson is a flexible-width, responsive design.
- Slider and featured images should be at least
608 by 400.
- On single posts and the default page template: The main column maximum width is
492.
- On the with-sidebar and sitemap page templates: The main column maximum width is
550.
- On the full-width page template: The main column maximum width is
900.
All images and video will scale to fit the viewing screen.
Video walkthrough
Click here to watch a 20 minute video walkthrough on setting up the Watson demo site.
Please note: This video walkthrough was recorded using the WordPress
.org version of Watson (
Available here). The
Primary color and
Credit line text options are
not available here on the WordPress
.com version.
Featured slider
The featured slider is displayed above your post list, on your home page. To add a post to the featured slider:
- Go to the Edit Post screen for your post.
- Check the “Show in featured slider” box in the Watson Theme Post Options meta box:
- Set a featured image.
- Save your post.
Posts that are included in the featured slider will not appear in the default blog post listing. Since the posts in the featured slider are included at the top of this listing, they will not appear a second time in that same listing. Featured slider posts will, however, display in archives and RSS feeds.
Featured thumbnails
The featured thumbnails are displayed after the second post in your post list, on your home page.
To add a post to the featured thumbnails:
- Go to the Edit Post screen for your post.
- Check the “Show in featured thumbnails” box in the Watson Theme Post Options meta box:
- Set a featured image.
- Save your post.
Posts in the featured thumbnails area will appear in the default blog listing. These posts will be displayed twice if included in the featured thumbnails area.
Theme options
Changes to your theme options can be previewed in real time. Your can preview changes by clicking “Customize” on the Appearance → Themes page of your admin panel.
From here, you can:
- Set a logo and high-resolution logo (for Retina/Hi-res devices).
- Autostart the featured slider.
- Hide tags, categories, authors, dates, and featured images.
- Set up Watson’s social icons.
Watson adds a set of buttons to WordPress’s visual editor, which make it easy to use Watson’s pre-defined styles in your posts. To view these extra buttons, make sure you’ve enabled the “Kitchen Sink” option on the visual editor.
Stylistic elements include:
- Horizontal rule
- Alert boxes
- Footnote and sidenote
- Run-in
- Excerpt
- End
Examples of these elements can be viewed on Watson’s demo site.
To add items to your sidebar or two footer areas, navigate to the Appearance → Widgets screen on your admin dashboard.
Watson’s sidebar cannot be disabled. If empty, the sidebar will display a message explaining how to add sidebar widgets.
The Watson Theme Recently Discussed widget is featured in the sidebar of the demo site. The widget was designed to be placed in the sidebar, and probably shouldn’t be placed in either footer simply because it won’t look as nice.
The widget displays the featured image, title, and date of last comment for your 3 most recently commented posts.
The Watson Theme Recently Discussed widget will not be carried over if you switch themes.
Slideshows in posts and pages
To add a slideshow on a post or page, add your gallery; then, paste the following shortcode into your page content, replacing the default [[gallery]] shortcode:
[[gallery slider="true"]]
To autostart a slideshow within a post or page, include autostart="true" into the shortcode, like so:
[[gallery autostart="true" slider="true"]]
