Rating: 5 stars

We are using a sibling theme of Blogsonry on our tech blog: https://techblog.king.com which went live on March 10, 2016.

We were searching for a theme that was simple, minimal, showed summaries of all posts on the front page, tiled effect, three column, mobile friendly. Blogsonry was easily the best one we tried. Easily. We were happy to see that 400+ others were using it, so it seemed stable and respected.

Out-of-the box Blogsonry looked about 90% of the way towards where we wanted to go, so we cloned it (calling ours Twenty Thirteen Blogsonry King), since we can′t do grandchild themes. This decoupled us from Blogsonry but not from Twenty Thirteen. Anyway, I don′t know if that’s the correct thing to do, but it was the approach we took, in our innocence.

We are really happy with it, love the way it looks now. Also, Mark, the theme creator, has been really quick to get back to us on issues and even pushed out a fix for a bug we reported inside 48 hours! Great service.

In case you are interested, the things we changed were:
– we have a King-mandated brand colour scheme
– we got obsessive about responsive design and widths, since most of our people stare at phone screens all day
– we changed all before/after/hover on links to remain the same colour
– we removed as much of the footer as we could, making people beg for pixels if they wanted to include anything.

Rating: 5 stars

Does what it says and adds a minimum number of files.
Thanks.

Rating: 5 stars

A great addition to a great theme! however, I don’t know why I couldn’t get image attachments to show descriptions?, I had to add a function and change the code in image.php in the parent theme to do it!

In case anyone else has the same issue:

in functions.php for blogsonry theme

function wp_get_attachment( $attachment_id ) {

	$attachment = get_post( $attachment_id );
	return array(
		'alt' => get_post_meta( $attachment->ID, '_wp_attachment_image_alt', true ),
		'caption' => $attachment->post_excerpt,
		'description' => $attachment->post_content,
		'href' => get_permalink( $attachment->ID ),
		'src' => $attachment->guid,
		'title' => $attachment->post_title
	);
}

In image.php for twentythirteen parent theme

<div class="entry-description">

<?php  $attachment_meta = wp_get_attachment();
echo $attachment_meta['description'];?>

							<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-links">' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentytwelve' ), 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>

</div>

If you need to do this, be sure to add image.php from twentythirteen to the blogsory child theme folder! Also, do so at your own risk!