About this documentation - Grafton
Grafton is a block theme for an editorial blog or an online magazine. You build it in the Site Editor with WordPress blocks: no page builder, no Customizer panels. The theme draws the blog, single posts, pages, archives and search. Grafton Pro adds the magazine pages, story blocks, a newsletter and motion.
#What Grafton needs
WordPress 7.0 or newer
PHP 8.1 or newer
A Grafton Pro license, for the home page, the story blocks, the newsletter and the motion settings
The full server checklist is in server requirements.
#How these docs are organized
The sections run in the order you set a site up. Getting Started to Full Site Editing cover buying, installing, importing the demo and working in the Site Editor; those pages are shared by every jkdevstudio theme. Styles and settings, Pages, blog and patterns and Topics, authors and featured stories describe what is specific to Grafton. Integrations, the Hub account, troubleshooting and policies close the list.
A crown next to an article means the feature needs Grafton Pro. See Grafton and Grafton Pro for where the line falls.
#Glossary
- Block theme
A theme built from blocks instead of PHP files. You change its templates, header and footer in the Site Editor, and its colors and fonts in Styles.
- Site Editor
The screen at AppearanceEditor where you edit templates, template parts, patterns, navigation and Styles.
- Template
The layout WordPress uses for one kind of page: the blog, a single post, a category, search results.
- Template part
A piece shared by many templates, such as the header or the footer. Edit it once and every page changes.
- Pattern
A ready-made group of blocks you insert from the Patterns tab. Once inserted, it is ordinary blocks you can edit.
- Styles
The site-wide design settings in the Site Editor: colors, fonts, sizes and spacing.
- Style variation
A complete alternative set of colors you switch to in one click. Grafton has Ink and Paper.
- Theme Options
The settings pages Grafton Pro adds under Grafton ProTheme Options, such as Motion and Header.
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