Dream in Infrared includes an options panel for personalizing the theme to your liking:
About Text
The text you write here will show up in the top right of your blog’s front page. This can be a temporary message to readers, a longer description, or a link to your “About” page. This way your blog’s title and meta description values will still be pulled from your blog’s tagline, but you can use HTML to add flair to your blog.
Footer Credits
As the name implies, this is where you edit your footer. HTML will work just fine, so you can easily add a creative commons license, or whatever you want. (if you add a CC license, you’ll probably want to remove the HTML comments, as wordpress converts the double dash to a special character). Additionally, there are a couple special tags you can use in this field:
- [blog]
- Automatically generates the title of your site, as a link to the home page
- [author]
- Generates an hCard for the administrator of the blog. (user 1 on the Authors & Users page of your dashboard). If nothing shows up when you use this tag, it probably means that you don’t have any of the name fields filled out for the administrator. If you have multiple authors, you probably want the administrator’s information to be set up for the blog, rather than one specific user
- [design]
- Generates a link to the theme home page, and to my site. I’d love it if you’d leave this in, but you’re not obligated to.
Post Signature
Anything you add here will show up at the end of blog posts on the main page, single pages, and in your feed.
Base Font Family
Choose a font for your content here. Your titles will still be shown in Georgia, but posts, pages, meta information, comments, and almost everything else will be in the font you choose here.
Show Categories/Show Author
These simple yes/no dropdowns control what’s shown on you blog front page, and on archive pages. Single post pages still show both items. The option to hide categories is mainly for people who rely on tagging.
Show Valid XHTML
This theme is valid XHTML and CSS. Your posts, and your plugins, may not be. So it’s up to you whether you want to show validation links in your footer. The idea of web standards is about more than just validation, so if you choose “Invalid”, it will add a link to Mike Davidson’s post about the subject (along with a version of his badge, which will invalidate your pages).
Check for Updates
This theme contains a simple callback to check whether there’s a new version of the theme available. By default, an update notification will show up in your dashboard. If you choose “Options Page”, the notification will only show up on the Theme Options page. You can also choose “None” if you don’t want to be notified. The callback goes to sourceforge, not to my personal site, feel free to peruse the Privacy Policy.
Pages to Exclude
Any pages you check off here will be removed from the menu underneath the link to your front page. They will still show in the list on each page. If you’ve set a static front page, it will be automatically removed from your menu, so it will be checked and disabled, since that’s controlled by the global Reading Options.
