Corporate was built for small to mid-sized businesses, and its feature set is one your company will love: beautiful testimonials, stunning and fully-responsive page headers, multiple navigation menus for information-rich websites, and a variety of page templates to give your team total control over your site’s layout. All these elements and more make Corporate the right choice for your online brand.
Brilliant Home Page
Setting up Corporate‘s home page is a breeze, and can be done almost entirely from within the Customizer. Single posts and pages display brilliant, fully-responsive headers, and look beautiful on all of your devices. The featured content section is a great way to show off the parts of your website that matter most. Put any content imaginable into your home page, including, text, images, videos and audio clips.
Tailored for All Sizes, Completely Customizable
Corporate is totally responsive and retina-ready. A custom site background is supported, as well as a custom site header image, custom site footer image, custom site logo, and custom colors. The theme was designed to be sleek enough to feel professional right out of the box, but versatile enough to give your company total control over its branding.
Documentation and Support
In-depth Corporatesupport documentation can be found directly on its demo site, as well as a detailed step-by-step setup guide directly on the support tab of this page. If we’re missing something, or if you’re having trouble getting up and running with the theme, please contact us in the premium theme forum and we’ll be happy to assist. You can also learn more by watching the theme video tutorials and demos.
Pre-Sale Questions
If you have any pre-sale questions about Corporate, feel free to contact us. Please note that all theme support inquiries will be answered in the premium theme forum.
Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels):
The main column width is 770.
The sidebar width is 304.
The footer widget area supports up to five widget columns (166 each). Four-column widgets are 229. Three-column widgets are 333. Two-column widgets are 542. A single widget in the footer will occupy the entire footer at 1164.
The recommended custom header dimensions are 1440 by 405. These values are flexible.
The maximum display dimensions for the site logo are 500 by 500.
The maximum page and post hero height is 1024. The hero will automatically scale to fit your device’s viewport perfectly.
The default body font of the theme is Georgia. The default heading font is Playfair Display. We also use Source Sans Pro in some locations.
The default body color of the theme is #222222.
The default background color of the theme is #444444. When a custom background color or background image is chosen, additional padding is added around your web site at all times. In mobile views 5 pixels of padding is added; in tablet views 10 pixels is added; and in desktop views 20 pixels is added.
More in-depth Corporatesupport documentation can be found directly on the demo site. If we’re missing something or you’re having trouble getting up and running with the theme, please contact us in the premium theme forum and we’ll be happy to assist.
Step 1: Set Your Header Content
Add content into the top of your website, like business contact information or special announcements. You’re able to display the text in this area to the right, left, center, or justified.
Customizer → Theme Options → Header Content
Step 2: Set Your Site Title, Site Description, & Site Logo
A custom site logo is supported in Corporate. The maximum display dimensions for the logo are 500 pixels by 500 pixels. If you would like use a larger image, we suggest using the custom header functionality in the theme instead.
Customizer → Site Title, Tagline, and Logo
Step 3: Set Your Navigation Menus
Four custom site navigation menus are supported by Corporate: 1) Site Header, 2) Main Menu, 3) Site Footer, and 4) Social Links. Your Site Header, Social Links, and Main Menu will appear at the top of your site and your Site Footer will appear at the bottom of your site.
Customizer → Navigation
Step 4: Setting a Static Front Page
All you need to get started with a static front page (example) and a page for your updates (example) is at least two pages, on your site, and the rest of your home page setup can be done from within the Customizer.
Customizer → Static Front Page
Step 5: Set Your Custom Header
Corporate supports a custom header for your website, which appears just above your site title. Simply hop into your Customizer and locate the section titled Header image. A header image size of 1440 x 405 pixels is recommended, but you can use any header image size that you like.
Customizer → Header Image
Step 6: Set Your Custom Background
Setting a custom background color or image in Corporate is easy. Simply hop into your Customizer, locate the Colors & Backgrounds section, and set your Background color. You can also set a custom background image in the Background image section of your Customizer.
Customizer → Colors & Backgrounds
Step 7: Set a Custom Footer Image
Add a custom footer image into your site. This will always be displayed on your home page, and you also have the option of showing it in the footer of every page.
Customizer → Theme Options → Footer Image
Step 8: Set up Your Widgets
Corporate supports up to two widgets areas: Primary Sidebar and Website Footer. Both the primary sidebar and website footer will be displayed on all pages of your website if you have manually added widgets into your site. You can also control your widget displays conditionally.
Customizer → Widgets
Step 9: Explore Your Layout Options
Your blog page in Corporate, as well as your entire site itself, comes with a variety of layout options that are sure to help you make your site shine in exactly the way you’d like it to appear. View the video below to see just how much flexibility you’re given with the theme’s simple, but powerful, layout options.
Customizer → Theme Options → Website Layout
Do More: Use Your Page Templates
Page templates are special pages that include additional features or custom layouts. Corporate comes with several custom page templates (listed below) to help you enhance your site, and we’re always adding more. Click on each page template title to learn more about it, and watch the quick video below to learn how to locate page templates from the Dashboard:
Corporate supports all of the most common theme features that you’ve become accustomed to on WordPress.com. You’ll find a table of contents of the most useful support documentation available to you for Corporate below. You can also hop over to the theme video tutorials and demos to get a better idea the theme in action.
The Grid
Corporate was designed with a grid that has 12 columns and 11 gutters. Gutters are 30 pixels wide (max). The maximum width that will be occupied by the theme content in Desktop views is 1170 pixels. In mobile views the grid will collapse and all columns will be set to 100%. See the Corporate grid in action.
And More
We’ve written extensive documentation on comments, common page elements, post formats, readability, and more on the demo site for Corporate. Hop over to it to learn more about the theme and if you need help setting anything up, don’t hesitate to contact us in the premium theme forum.
The Professional Themes Support Promise
If you’re a WordPress.com user who has either purchased Corporate or subscribed to it via the Business plan and would like to use Guided Transfer or simply move to a self-hosted setup, you will need to contact us with the following information:
Your Name
Your Email Address
Your Current Website
Your proof of purchase information for Corporate
Our policy for customers who move away from WordPress.com is that if you are on a Business plan, you will need to purchase the theme from us to use it on a self-hosted blog. For users who have already purchased the theme from WordPress.com and are past the 30-day refund window, we will continue providing support for your site even though you’ve moved away from WordPress.com. Simply contact us with your details when you’re ready to move.
If you are within the 30-day refund window for Corporate on WordPress.com then you can initiate a refund through your Dashboard and purchase the theme for self-hosted sites. If you have any questions about this please do not hesitate to get in touch.