Choose Your Language

In the Settings for Bayou Theme, you can choose your language using the codes below (English is default):

  • English (en)
  • German (de)
  • Spanish (es)
  • Finnish (fi)
  • French (fr)
  • Italian (it)
  • Portuguese (pt)
  • Russian (ru)

Configure Categories

The following references the default categories. You can change which categories are used for this purpose in the Bayou theme settings.

Bayou theme requires the use of specific categories to properly function. Every post that you’d like displayed on your homepage must include one of the following categories:

  • Microposts
  • Longform

Posts can have additional categories as well. The easiest way to do this is to utilize Micro.blog’s Category Filters feature. By setting up filters, you can correctly categorize all past and future posts automatically. Here’s how do set it up.

  1. Go to Posts → Categories in the Micro.blog Dashboard
  2. Add Microposts and Longform as new categories
  3. Click Edit Filters → New Filter
  • For the first filter, choose Post Length: Only short microblog posts and set the category to Microposts.
  • For the second filter, choose Post Length: Only long posts with a title and set the category to Longform.

All future posts will now be properly categorized. To categorize your back catalog, you can return to Posts → Categories → Edit Filters and choose Run Filter for each Filter. This may take a few minutes, but your previous posts will be properly categorized.

Set Number of Posts on Home Page

In Bayou theme settings, you can choose how many microposts to show (default is 1) and how many longform posts to show (default is 10).

Set Date Format

By default, all dates on the site will display in the format 2 Jan 2006, but you can customize it in the Bayou theme settings by entering a commonly used format. For example, you can use January 2, 2006 instead.

Add Home Page Bio/Content

On the Bayou Theme demo, you probably noticed the content on the home page that displays between the single Micropost and the list of Longform posts. This section is optional, but easy to setup. Microhooks power a lot of advanced features of Bayou Theme, including the home page bio section.

Visit the Microhook documentation to continue.