I am confused about lack of functionality with Catalyst compared to Frugal

[BobBessette]

Hi,
I have recently installed Catalyst and I am amazed at the lack of customizability compared to Frugal. The versions I have are: PHP 5.2.6, WordPress 3.1.2, and Catalyst 1.2. In Frugal I was able to change colors, etc and in Catalyst I have Core Options and Advanced Options but hardly any customizing options. Have I missed something?

Thanks,
Bob

[justme]

Welcome to Catalyst.

It certainly does sound like you are missing something as the customization options of Catalyst over frugal are considerable. It sounds like you don’t have Dynamik installed (or activated).

Make sure you install Catalyst, install Dynamik, then activate Dynamik at Appearance > Themes.

http://catalysttheme.com/how-to-inst...alyst-dynamik/

[eric]

Hey Bob,

I was scratching my head when I started reading your post because Catalyst is WAY more customizable then Frugal! Then I realized, "Ooohhhh...he just hasn't installed the Dynamik Child Theme yet."

So yeah, do what justme mentioned and I think you'll find what you're looking for.

Eric

[BobBessette]

Thank you both. I know it didn't make sense! I appreciate your quick response.

Best,
Bob

[BobBessette]

Hi Eric,
I think I'm all set now BUT (always a BUT right?) all I want to do is to center align the title of each post without code. Can I do that with Catalyst without code now that I have everything installed?

Thanks,
Bob

[eric]

Hey Bob,

This is what the #Custom boxes are for. So if you were to go to Dynamik Options > Content > Content Heading Font you'll find a #Custom button. Click that and then paste in:

text-align: center;

Then click the #Custom button again to retract the box and then save your changes. Now your post/page titles should be centered.

And if you want to do this with your Byline Meta content as well you can do the same thing with the #Custom box in Dynamik Options > Content > Content Byline Font.

Now, I know you said no coding and we thought of that too! If you click on the "Show/Hide CSS Builder" button at the top of the Dynamik Options page you'll find a CSS building tool that gives you an option based interface, allowing you to select your styles based on no coding options and then it will spit out those styles into CSS code. From there you can just copy and paste the code into your #Custom boxes.

So for the centering of your titles you would just got to the "Fonts" tab in the CSS Builder and then use the "Insert Text Align" option to spit out your CSS code.

When Catalyst first launched we had a few Frugal transports ask out of a bit of frustration, "Where did all those font option "extras" go, like Font Weight and Text Align, etc...?" But they quickly realized that with this #Custom box/CSS Builder scenario you have an unlimited number of options with a single Dynamik Option as apposed to 6 or 7 "extra" options with 6 or 7 Dynamik Options. So this gives you a cleaner interface, yet with more options and greater flexibility, which has always been the goal with Catalyst as a whole.

Eric

[David]

Hey Bob - check out the cheatsheet - it's free and will give you an easy way to get to grips with a lot of what Catalyst has to offer....

It's the post underneath where you downloaded Catalyst from in this forum...

http://catalysttheme.com/forum/showt...yst-Cheatsheet

There's a lot to Catalyst - hope it helps...

Best
David

[BobBessette]

Thanks Eric, that is great info!

Best,
Bob

[BobBessette]

Thanks David,
I appreciate the link!

Best,
Bob

[mcederholm]

Hi

Thanks for the info. It works for my post/page titles, but it doesn't work for my Byline fonts. Those are still aligned left. Do I need to change the align code that I paste into the #custom box?

//Best regards
Mathias
www.mathiascederholm.com