Originial Hello Darling

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 fail to import that content.

• 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.
• Portfolio Post Type – Provides the custom post type for your portfolio
• WooCommerce– This is used for the ecommerce area of the site. If you aren’t using this feature, don’t install this plugin.
• Genesis Connect for WooCommerce– This is used in conjunction with the WooCommerce plugin to work nicely with Genesis.
• Instagram Feed– This is used to show your latest Instagram feed.
• 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. Run the regenerate thumbnails plugin. (tools>regenerate thumbnails)
6. Install XML file with demo content (only if you feel you need it).
7. 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 1200×400. 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.

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

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.

2. In your wordpress dashboard go to Appearance > Editor This should default to your theme style sheet. Always double check on the right hand side what file in the theme you are working on. Make sure “StyleSheet” is what is in bold. You will scroll a little bit down this page and find the section in the photo below. Only change out the 3, 3-digit numbers to the new numbers. Leave everything else the same or it will not work. If you want to adjust the transparency amount you can change the very last number from the range of 0.0 (not there) to 1.0 (solid). Right now the top set of numbers is set at 0.5 which is 50% transparent. The portfolio hover effects, below, are set to 0.9 or 90% Transparent.

After you have changed the numbers, hit “update file” and then view your new homepage to see the gorgeous changes.