Learn about the intranet options

General intranet options

The intranet options are the theme’s own settings, separate from the WordPress settings and from the customiser. Go to Options in the admin menu. Only administrators can see it. It has four screens: General, described on this page, and Search, Modules and Agento Intelligence.

The General screen has four tabs: Style, Text and features, Header scripts and Subscription. Select Update at the top right to save any tab. Colours, logo, header and footer are not here: they are in the theme customiser.

Style

Login logo

An image to show above the login form in place of the WordPress logo. The ideal size is 320 by 84 pixels. Use a version of your logo that works on a white background. This is separate from the logo in the header, which is set in the customiser.

Card image ratio

The shape of the thumbnail images on cards and in listings. The default is 3:2, a landscape shape. Choose 16:9 for wider images, 4:3, 1:1 for square, or 3:4 for portrait. Original (no crop) shows the images in the news and blog widgets at whatever shape they were uploaded, and leaves every other listing at 3:2. The theme crops the image on the page to fit the shape; the size of the image files themselves is set under Settings, Media. Pick one ratio and ask editors to choose featured images that suit it.

Font Awesome variants

Which styles of the Font Awesome icon set to load. Solid and Brands are always loaded, because the theme needs them. Tick Regular, Light, Duotone Solid, Duotone Regular or Duotone Light if you want to use those styles in widgets, icons on categories, or icons in content. Each style you tick adds a stylesheet to every page, so tick only the ones you use.

Automatic link icons

The theme can add a small icon after links in content so that people know what a link will do before they select it. Tick the kinds you want:

  • Document links: a file icon for links to PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and similar files, showing which kind.
  • Email links: an envelope for links that open an email.
  • External links: an icon for links that leave the intranet.

All three are on by default. The icons are added when the page is shown, so nothing changes in the content itself.

Link icon style

The Font Awesome style used for the automatic link icons and for document icons elsewhere, such as search results. It must be one of the styles ticked above. The default is Solid.

Duotone icon colour 1 and 2

Duotone icons are drawn in two layers. Colour 1 is the main layer and Colour 2 the tint behind it. Each picker has an opacity slider. The defaults are a blue and a semi-transparent dark blue. These apply wherever a duotone style is used. See Change the duotone colours.

Text and features

Enable Block Editor

Off by default, and best left off. Govintra is built for the Classic Editor, and every kind of content uses it. Switching this on lets WordPress decide for each kind of content, and it also opens the content up to the WordPress REST API, which the block editor needs but which most intranets keep closed. If you switch it, ask editors to reload any edit screens they have open.

Hide reciprocal related links

When an editor adds page B as a related link on page A, the theme also shows page A in the related links on page B. Switch this on to stop that, so that related links only go one way, as the editor set them.

Who can manage categories and tags

There is no setting for this. Only administrators can add, rename or delete categories and tags, on every site and whatever custom roles it has. Everyone else picks from the existing categories and tags when editing content. See Roles and capabilities.

Accessibility copilot

Checks content for common accessibility problems every time a page, task or story is saved, whatever its status, and shows warnings at the top of the edit screen: tables without a header row, colours and fonts set directly on text, images with no alt text, and vague link text such as “click here”. It checks the main content and the other rich-text boxes, such as the sidebar. Off by default. The Accessibility checker plus plugin finds the same problems in content that already exists.

Show ACF admin

Shows the Custom Fields menu in the admin menu. It is hidden by default because the theme’s fields are built in and do not need editing. Switch it on only if Agento Digital asks you to.

404 page not found

What to show when someone reaches a page that does not exist, under the fixed heading “Page not found”. It is a full editor box, so you can add links, such as to the homepage, the search and the A to Z. If you leave it empty, the theme shows a short standard message with those suggestions.

Comment instructions (logged in)

Text shown at the top of the comment form to people who are logged in, such as a reminder of your house rules for comments. Leave it empty for no text.

Comment instructions (logged out)

The same for people who are not logged in, on intranets that allow comments from them.

Must login message

The message shown in place of the comment form to people who are not logged in, when login is required to comment. If you leave it empty, WordPress shows its own message.

Show registration link

Adds a Register button under the must login message, going to the WordPress registration page. Only useful if your intranet lets people register themselves.

Show login link

Adds a Login button under the must login message, which brings the person back to the same page after they log in. On by default.

Enable likes

Adds a like button to content. Anyone logged in can like an item once, the count is shown next to the button, and the Most liked widget becomes available for listing the most liked items. Off by default. The Likes report plugin lists who liked what.

Likes icon

A heart or a thumbs up. Appears when likes are on.

Likes post types

Which kinds of content get the like button: posts, news, news updates, blog, events, team news, projects, tasks, vacancies and wall entries. News and blog are ticked by default. Appears when likes are on.

Header scripts

Both boxes are added to every page exactly as typed, inside the page’s head. A mistake here can break every page, so paste carefully and check the intranet straight afterwards.

Tracking code

The script for your analytics service, such as Google Analytics or Matomo, complete with its script tags. It runs on every page.

Header code

Anything else that must go in the head of every page, such as the link tags for a web font. See Add custom fonts and scripts. Do not put CSS here: use the customiser’s Additional CSS instead.

Subscription

Subscription key

The key that Agento Digital gave you with your subscription. With it, the intranet checks help.govintra.pro twice a day for new versions of the theme and of the Govintra plugins you have installed, and offers them on the Themes and Plugins screens like any other update. Without it, you must download updates yourself. See Download theme updates. The key is shown as dots once saved.