Features

Birch comes with a wide range of custom features to make it easy to use for your website project. Features include:

Responsive design – layout adjusts the display accordingly across all screen sizes and devices (desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile)
Retina optimized – show off graphics on high density displays
Theme Options – Custom theme options makes changing many features of the site as easy as clicking a button
Custom logo upload
Custom favicon upload (aka bookmark icon)
Call to Action bar – custom text and button on every page/post
Custom CSS – Add custom CSS as needed to completely stylize every aspect of the site
Custom colors – Easily change colors for any of the following site features: Call to Action, Font, Menu, Menu Hover, Links, Links Hover, Buttons, Buttons Hover, Footer Widget, Footer
Custom fonts – Use any Google Font to customize body text and heading text
Social icons in footer – optional icons that can link to social networks of choice–use only the ones you want: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, Map, RSS, Email, and a Custom link
Display your custom tagline in the header
Customize footer text
Localization – Includes a .po template file for theme translation
Analytics – Easily add Google Analytics code
SEO – Easily add a Meta Description for Google search results
Theme Documentation – Instructions for how to install and customize the theme to your website.

All sections of the homepage are optional and can easily be turned on/off as needed.

Homepage Parallax Slider – full width cover images with optional text and link
Homepage Featured Pages – highlight any 3 pages of your website such as About, Services, and Contact
Homepage About – promote your bio or share some interesting information about your company
Homepage Featured Posts – select from any Post Category to show an excerpt of the most recent posts
Homepage Testimonials – highlight your best testimonials in a slider
Homepage Additional Content – add any additional content to the homepage such as a welcome message, images, or SEO focused content
Homepage Footer Widgets – display a unique collection of footer widgets for your homepage and a different collection for other pages

Excerpts vs Full Posts – Choose whether to display post excerpts or the full post on blog and blog archive pages
Post Meta Data – Choose whether to display any combination of the following with every post: Author, Date, Category, Tag, Comment Count, Featured Image
Author Bio – Included at the bottom of every post and on the author archives page is a place for a short bio
Editor Styles – the visual editor has imported styles to look very similar to the published post
Post Featured Image – Display a featured images on posts
Post Featured Video – Display a featured video on posts
Comments – threaded comments and highlighted author replies

Clean Grid Layout – show off your projects and/or artwork in an attractive grid layout
Filterable Portfolio – visitors can filter projects by skill to view only the type they wish to see
Custom Layouts – individual portfolio pages can display content in a variety of custom layouts such as full width, columns, or slideshow
Optional Text – images can be displayed on their own or with accompanying text

Simple to use shortcodes can be added to any page, post, or widget.

Buttons – custom messages, links, colors, and sizes
Columns – format text into columns of one half, one third, two thirds, or one fourth
Slideshow – display images in slideshows on pages, posts, or widgets

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