Glam Blog Series Setup

If you plan on importing the demo content and widget file you will want to download these plugins first before doing that. If you download the demo content first and a plugin is missing that the demo uses, it will not import the content for that particular plugin and give you a “failed to import” message. You do not have to use all of these plugins, or any of these plugins. Only activate what you will use.

• Genesis Enews Extended– This is used for the subscribe/newsletter areas.
• Simple Social Icons– This is used for the social media icons in the sidebar.
• Soliloquy Lite– This is for the slider on the home page.
• Genesis Simple Share– This is used for the social media sharing at the bottom of blog posts.
• Instagram Feed– This is used to show your latest Instagram feed.
• Testimonial Rotator– Displays your testimonials.
• Regenerate Thumbnails– This is used to recrop your images if all your images are oddly sized.
• Widget Importer & Exporter– This is used to import all the widgets from the demo and helps with setting up the theme for the first time.

1. Install the Genesis Framework and make sure it’s activated.
2. Install the Theme and activate it.
3. Install the plugins listed above before proceeding (leave off any you don’t plan to use).
4. Reset permalinks. Click “Settings” in your admin menu, then permalinks, and save.
5. Your theme uses a Widgetized homepage. Go to Settings > Reading > Select Front Page Displays > Your Latest Posts
6. Delete old Widgets or Widgets that are located in the wrong section now due to activating a new theme (this applies only if you had an active site, not a new install)
7. Run the regenerate thumbnails plugin. (tools>regenerate thumbnails)
8. Install XML file with demo content (only if you feel you need it).
9. Install the Widget demo file (only if you feel you need it).

If you are starting from a new install you should be able to start editing the demo content with your information. If you have an active site and are switching themes, you will need to do some “cleaning up” and re-arranging of the widgets to have your theme display right. Go to Appearance > Widgets and then open each widget area and delete or rearrange the widgets that are in places they shouldn’t be.

Image – To add a header image, click “Appearance > Header” and you’ll be prompted to upload your logo. Your logo is retina ready and fully responsive, the optimal size is 700×350. The logo is then compressed to half the original size. This keeps the logo from being fuzzy on mobile devices. The easiest way to properly size the logo is with picmonkey.com or other image editor. Start by creating a canvas the correct size, then place your logo on that canvas and adjust it to fit. Don’t worry about the amount of space on the sides of the canvas, focus more on the height and the logo being centered. For more help on placing your logo on the proper size canvas, visit this tutorial How to upload & Size your Logo

Text – If you prefer to use text, that will automatically appear. You can set your site name by visiting “Settings > General”

• Place your blog name in the ‘Site Title’ field
• Place your tagline in the ‘Tagline’ field

To setup your Navigation menu go to Appearance > Menus. Your theme comes with a Left Menu (Primary Navigation) and Right Menu (Secondary navigation) that displays on either side of the logo. As well as room for 4 additional menus in the footer if you wish. You can also use any one of the Font Awesome Icons in the Navigation Menu by adding the full icon code before, or after the menu name.

Second Description

This theme comes with the option to add a pretty little description under the main menu name. To set this up you would click Settings in the top right of the menu screen. Then make sure that the Description option is checked. Once you have done that you can open up the menu and add a description that will show under the menu item.

Footer Menu with Social Links

In the demo one of the menus that was created is to highlight your social links. To create this look you would use the “custom link” option and copy and paste your social URL into that spot. Then use a Font Awesome Icons with the name. An example is below.

Your theme comes with few options to customize the site. If you go to Appearance > Customize you will open the theme “Customizer” screen. There you can change the background and main colors to match your brand. Here is a preview of what that screen will look like.

This is a NEW feature for our themes. You can add or remove the blog from the front of the homepage by going to Appearance > Customize > Front Page Content Settings. There you will have the option to show or hide the blog as well as rename what the intro says. To adjust how many are shown per page, you go to Settings > Reading > Blog Pages to Show at Most > Then select the number you would like to show on the homepage.

The footer is optimized for SEO and will pull from your site Title. To change that information you would go to Settings > General > Then adjust what is shown in the Site Title field.