How to install theme?

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How to update theme to the latest version?

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Always Set Featured Images

This theme relies heavily on Featured Images. If your post is missing a Featured Image, the post image will not show up on homepage, on archived pages and on Featured Page Slider Content. Click Here to see how to add Featured Image in your Post/Page.

How to add Featured Image in Post/Page?

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Regenerate Thumbnails

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Customizer (Theme Options)

You can customize this theme using cool additional features through Customizer at “Appearance => Customize” from your WordPress Dashboard.

How to add Logo?

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How to enable/disable Site Title and Tagline

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How to add Site Icon (Favicon/Web Clip Icon)?

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How to add Header Video?

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How to add Header Image?

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Menus

Blakely offers exciting Menu Options! This theme supports and recommends using “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through “Appearance => Menus” from your WordPress Dashboard.
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Select Menu Locations

You can assign your custom menu in 2 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Menus => Manage Location” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Location”
Select your menu as Primary Menu
Select your menu as Floating Social Menu on header

How to Change the Excerpt Length and Read More Text?

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Featured Content

Blakely supports Custom Post Type(requires Essential Content Type Plugin ). For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Content”

How to use Featured Content using Custom Post Type?

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Featured Slider

Blakely supports Page as featured slider. For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options =>Featured Slider”.
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Hero Content

Blakely supports Page as Hero Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Hero Content Options”.
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How to Set Certain Categories to Display in Homepage/Frontpage?

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Layout Options

Blakely has 2 Default Layout, 2 Homepage/Archive Layout and 1 Single Page/Post Image Layout to choose from “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options”

Default Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the option below “Default Layout Options” which will set our site layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Blakely Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing

Homepage/Archive Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the option below “Home/Archive Layout Options” which will set our site layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Template”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing

Single Page/Post Image Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the option below “Single Page/Post Image Layout” which will set our posts/page image layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting Single Page/Post Image Layout for individual pages and posts through “Template”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.

How to enable/disable Scrollup feature?

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How to change default text in search box?

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Portfolio

Blakely supports Custom Post Type as Portfolio.
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Service

Blakely supports Custom Post Type as Service.
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Sticky Playlist

Blakely supports Page as Sticky Playlist. Follow the following steps to add Sticky Playlist to your theme:

  1. Go to “Customize => Theme Options => Sticky Playlist”
  2. Under Page choose the page you want to display as playlist
  3. To add sticky playlist, open the edit page of post, page or category you have selected, on the left hand side you will find “Add Media” button click on that Inside “Add Media” you will find Create Audio Playlist option, from there you can choose you audio to add in sticky playlist
  4. Finally, “Save & Publish”

Testimonials

Blakely supports Custom Post Type as Testimonials.
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How to change Pagination Options?

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Widget Area (Sidebar)

Blakely currently has 4 widgetized (Sidebar) areas thay are: 1. Sidebar, 2. Footer One, 3. Footer Two and 4. Footer Three. Go to “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.

Widgets

Blakely supports CT: Social Icons. You can add widget in widget area as per your need.

How to add Widgets in widget area?

You can add widgets to your widget area from two location
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How to add “Social Icon” in widget area(CT:Social Icon)?

This widget is used to add social icons as a widget.

  1. Add CT:Social Icon to desired widget area. More Info
  2. Add “Title” under the respective field.
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Additional CSS

You can add your custom CSS that will overwrite the theme CSS for further design customization through “Appearance => Customize => Additional CSS”, in your WordPress Dashboard.

Note: If you are doing heavy customization and adding lot of custom css then we recommended to build Child Theme and add it in your child theme style.css file. Read More about child theme…

Webmaster Tools

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Recommended Plugins

* Catch Web Tools for Webmaster Tools, To Top, Catch IDs
* Essential Content Type
* Catch Dark Mode
* WP-PageNavi for Numeric Pagination
* Regenerate Thumbnails to for Regenerating Thumbnails
* Jetpack for Infinite Scroll, Gallery, Stats, Image CDN and many more