#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.
#Image Sizes in px:
Post Thumbnail
Width: 620
Height: 413
Slider
Width: 1920
Height: 800
Featured
Width: 880
Height: 660
Landscape
Width: 480
Height: 320
Thumbnail Size
Width: 90
Height: 68
Custom Header Image
Width: Flexible (recommended width 1920px)
Height : Flexible (recommended height 800px)
#How to add Featured Image in Post/Page?
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#Regenerate Thumbnails
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Lucida Pro currently has 26 widgetized (Sidebar) areas that are 1. Primary Sidebar, 2. Footer Area One, 3. Footer Area Two, 4. Footer Area Three, 5. Footer Area Four, 6. Header Top, 7. Header Top Left, 8. Header Top Right, 9. Header Right, 10. Header Bottom, 11. Before Content, 12. After Content, 13. Before Posts/Pages, 14. After Posts/Pages, 15. Featured Widget Content, 16. Promotion Headline Left, 17. Promotion Headline Right, 18. 404 Page Not Found Content, 19. WooCommerce Primary Sidebar, 20. Optional Homepage Sidebar, 21. Optional Archive Sidebar, 22. Optional Page Sidebar, 23. Optional Post Sidebar, 24. Optional Sidebar One, 25. Optional Sidebar Two and 26. Optional Sidebar Three “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.
Lucida Pro offers exciting Menu Options! This theme supports and recommends using “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through “Appearance => Menus” from your WordPress Dashboard.
Select Menu Locations
You can assign your custom menu in 5 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Menus => Manage Location” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Location”
Select your Custom Menu as Primary Menu to display it as the Main Menu, which will replace the default Page Menu
Select your custom menu as Secondary Menu to display Menu below Primary Menu
Select your custom menu as Header Top Menu to display Menu in Header Top Area
Select your custom menu as Header Right Menu to display Menu in Header Right Sidebar Area
Select your custom menu as Footer Menu to display Menu in Footer Area
#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 Change and Enable Custom Header Image?
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Note: If you want to move header Image Position, choose the position of header below “Featured Header Image Position”
#How to enable/disable Breadcrumb
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#How to Change the Excerpt Length and Read More Text?
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#Feed Redirect
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Note: If you custom feed(s) are not handled by Feedblitz or Feedburner, do not use Redirect Options.
#How to select different font for different sections?
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- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Right Sidebar Options”
- Click on “Check to disable Header Right Sidebar”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Top Options”
- Click on “Check to fix header to top” to disable header top
- Click on “Check to disable date” to disable date
- Click on “Check to disable social icons” to disable social icons
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to Set Certain Categories to Display in Homepage/Frontpage?
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#Layout Options
Lucida Pro has 8 Default Layout options, 8 Woocommerce Layout options, 4 Archive Content Layout options and various 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 box 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 “Lucida Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.
WooCommerce Layout
Select layout for your WooCommerce pages. Option to choose from 5 Layout Options: i.Primary Sidebar, Content, ii.Content, Primary Sidebar, iii.No Sidebar (Content Width), iv.No Sidebar(One Column) and v.No Sidebar (Full Width).
Archive Content Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Archive Content Layout” which will set our site archive layout.
Single Page/Post Image Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box 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 “Lucida Options => Single Page/Post Image Layout”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.
How to edit individual posts/pages layout?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:
- Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
- There you can find Lucida Options
- Then click on Layout Options
- You select required option under “Default”
- Finally Click on “Publish/Update”
How to select optional sidebar for individual Page/Post?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:
- Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
- There you can find Lucida Options
- Then click on Select Sidebar
- You can make the required changes by clicking on options under “Select Sidebar”
- Finally Click on “Publish/Update”
How to enable/disable Header Featured Image for individual Page/Post?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:
- Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
- There you can find Lucida Options
- Then click on Header Featured Image Options
- You can select option “Enable or Disbale”
- Finally Click on “Publish/Update”
How to select Single Page/Post Image Layout for individual Page/Post?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:
- Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
- There you can find Lucida Options
- Then click on Single Page/Post Image Layout
- You can select various size options under Single Page/Post Option
- Finally Click on “Publish/Update”
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- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Responsive Options”
- Check option “Check to disable footer mobile menu”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
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#How to change default text in search box?
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#How to Disable Single Post Navigation?
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Single Post Navigation”
- Click on “Check to disable Single Post Navigation”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to enable/disable update notifications?
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#How to enable/disable Zoom, Lightbox and Slider effects for WooCommerce Product Gallery?
Frontpage using Essential Content Type?<
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#Additional CSS
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#Color Options
Lucida Pro has various you can change the color in various elements in the site through Color Picker options categorized in section such as Basic Colors, Header Colors, Content Colors, Sidebar Colors, Pagination Colors, Footer Colors, Promotion Headline Colors, Scrollup Colors, News Ticker Colors, Header Highlight Colors, Featured Slider Colors, Featured Content Colors Options, Primary Menu Color,Header Top Menu Colors, Header Right Menu Color and Footer Menu Color.
To change the colors, go to “Appearance => Customize => Color Options”, then select Color Scheme, change individual colors and then click on “Save & Publish”
Header Highlight Content is used to Highlight your content in header.
Lucida Pro supports 5 Header Highlight content types. They are: 1. Post Content, 2. Page Content, 3. Category Content, 4. Custom Content and 5. Embed Content. For Header Highlight Content, go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Highlight Content”.
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Highlight Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
- To enable Header Highlight Content, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Header Highlight Content on”
- Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Post Content, Page Content , Category Content, Custom Content or Embed Content” as per your need
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Post Content:
Post Content is created to highlight your Post as Header Highlight Content. So, first you need to create a Post and then add Featured Image to the Post.
How to enable Featured Post Content?#
- Make sure Header Highlight Content is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Highlight Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
- Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Post Content”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Note:
When you select post, make sure your Post have Featured Image. Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.
Page Content:
Page content is created to highlight your Page as Header Highlight Content. So, first you need to create a Page and then add Featured Image to the Page.
How to enable Page Content?#
- Make sure Header Highlight Content is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Highlight Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
- Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Page Content”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Note:
When you select page, make sure your Page have Featured Image. Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.
Category Content
Category content is created to highlight your posts from specific categories in the featured content. So, first you need to create a Post, add Featured Image to the post and assign posts to specific category.
How to enable Category Content?#
- Make sure Header Highlight Content is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Highlight Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
- Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Category Content”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Note:
When you select categories, make sure your Posts in those categories have Featured ImageClick here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.
Custom Content:
Custom Content is created to highlight independent images in the content.
How to enable Custom Content?#
- Make sure Header Highlight Content is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Highlight Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
- Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Custom Content”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Embed Content:
Embed Content is created to highlight Embed Content as Header Highlight Content.
#How to enable Embed Content?
- Make sure Header Highlight Content is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Highlight Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
- Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Embed Content”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to change Headline and Sub-headline for Header Highlight Content?
- Make sure Header Highlight Content is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Highlight Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
- Under “Headline for Header Highlight Content”, you can add desired text or leave it empty if you dont want to disable fields”
- Under “Sub-headline for Header Highlight Content”, you can add desired text or leave it empty if you dont want to disable fields”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to change number of Highlight Content?
- Make sure header highligh content is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Highlight Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
- Under “No of Header Highlight Content” set number of Header Highlight Content as required(You need to save and refresh the page after changing number of Featured Content)
- Then, select your pages in “Page Content #”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
How to select Post Content in Header Highlight?#
- Make sure post content is enabled
- Under Post 1, Post 2 and so on, add the desired “Post Id”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Note: Post is determined according to selectedNumber of Header Highlight Content.
#How to select Page Content in Header Highlight?
- Make sure page content is enabled
- Under Page 1, Page 2 and so on, add the desired “Page”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Note: Page is determined according to selectedNumber of Header Highlight Content.
- Make sure category content is enabled
- Then select the category you want, and you may select multiple categories by holding down the CTRL key(windows)/Command Key(Mac)
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to select Custom Content in Header Higlight?
- Make sure Custom Content is enabled
- Under Header Highlight Content #1, Header Highlight Content #2 and so on, add the “Link” and “Title”
- Check option “Check to Open Link in New Window/Tab”, to open link in new window
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Note: Custom Content is determined according to selectedNumber of Header Highlight Content.
#How to select Embed Content in Header Higlight?
- Make sure embed content is enabled
- Under Embed Content 1, Embed Content 2 and so on add desired embed
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Note: Embed Content is determined according to selectedNumber of Header Highlight Content.
How to Display/Hide Content?#
- Make sure header highlight content is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Highlight Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
- Under Display Content, you can select “Show Excerpt, Show Full Content or Hide Content” to display excerpt as content, whole content as content or not display content respectively, as per you need
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Note: You can further Hide/Show “Category Meta”, “Tag Meta”, “Posted On Date” and “Hide Author Meta” only while selecting Post Content and Category Content
#Featured Content
Lucida Pro supports 5 featured content types to choose from: 1. Widget , 2. Post, 3. Page, 4. Category and 5. Custom . For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content”.
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#News Ticker
Lucida Pro supports 4 news ticker types. They are: 1. Post, 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Custom. For News Ticker, go to “Appearance => Customize => News Ticker”.
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#Featured Slider
Lucida Pro supports 4 featured slider types to choose from: 1. Post , 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Custom . For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider”.
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#Social Media Icons
Lucida Pro has custom social icons for various social networking sites. You can activate the social icons you want by adding in your social profile links through “Appearance => Customize => Social Links => Social Links”, in your WordPress Dashboard.
Further, you can add your own custom social image, title, links through “Appearance => Customize => Social Links => Custom Social Links”, in your WordPress Dashboard.
Lucida Pro has 14 Widgets to choose from. They are: 1. CT:About, 2.CT:Advertisement Codes, 3. CT:Advertisement Images, 4.CT:Featured Embeds,5. CT:Featured Images, 6. CT:Featured Pages, 7. CT:Featured Posts, 8.CT:Gallery Images, 9. CT:Galley Pages, 10. CT:Galley Posts, 11.CT:Instagram, 12.CT:Newsletter, 13. CT: Social Icons and 14. CT: Tag Cloud. You can add widget in widget area as per your need.
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This widget is used to add About Information
- Add CT:About Widget to desired widget area. More Info
- Then add “Title”, “Image Title”, “Image Url”, “Image Link”, “Image Alt Text”, “About Text”, “More Link” and “More Text” under respective fields
- You can check “Check to Open Link in new Tab/Window” option to open link in new tab
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
This widget is used to add Code as Advertisement.
- Add CT:Advertisement Code to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, change “Columns” and “Layout” under respective fields
- Then under “Code” you can add codes inside box
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Note: Please do not add CT:Advertisement Code widget in Header Top Left and Header Top Right widget area
This widget is used to add Image as Advertisement.
- Add CT: Advertisement Images to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, change “Layout” and “No of Items” under respective fields
- Then under “Image Url” add Url of image, you can further add “Image Link” and “Alt Text”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Note: Please do not add CT:Advertisement Images widget in Header Top Left and Header Top Right widget area
#How to add “Featured Embeds” in widget area(CT:Featured Embeds)?
This widget is used to add Featured Embeds Codes.
- Add CT:Featured Embdes to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, change “Layout” and “No of Items” under respective fields
- Then under “Code” you can add codes inside box
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to add “Featured Images” in widget area(CT:Featured Images)?
This widget is used to add Featured Images.
- Add CT:Featured Images to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, change “Layout”, “No of Items”, “Image Alignment” under respective fields
- Then under Image# add “Title”, “Image Url”, “Image Link”, “Alt Text” and “Content” in respective fields
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to add “Featured Pages” in widget area(CT:Featured Pages)?
This widget is used add Featured Image.
- Add CT:Featured Pages to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, “Page ID”, “Layout” under respective fields
- Then under “Image Alignment”, “Image Size”, “Content Type”, “Limit content” and “More Text” you can change as required
- You can further find option to “Disable Image” and “Disable Title”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to add “Featured Posts” in widget area(CT:Featured Posts)?
This widget is used add Featured Image.
- Add CT:Featured Posts to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, change “Select Post From”, “No of Post”, “Order By”, “Order”, “Layout”, “Image Alignment” and “Image Size “under respective fields
- You can further change “Post Meta Info”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to add “Gallery Images” in widget area(CT:Gallery Images)?
This widget is used add Gallery Image.
- Add CT:Gallery Images to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, change “Layout” and “No of Items”
- Then under Image# add “Title”, “Image Url”, “Image Link”, “Alt Text” and “Content” in respective fields
- Further you can click in “Check to Open Link in new Tab/Window” to open link in new tab
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to add “Gallery Pages” in widget area(CT:Gallery Pages)?
This widget is used to dispaly gallery page with thumbnail.
- Add CT:Gallery Pages to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, “Page ID”, change”Layout”, “Image Size”, “Content Type”, “Limit content” and “More Text”under respective fields as per required
- You can further find option to “Disable Title”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to add “Gallery Posts” in widget area(CT:Gallery Posts)?
This widget is used to display post with thumbnails.
- Add CT:Gallery Posts to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, change “Select Post From”, “No of Post”, “Order By”, “Order”, “Layout”, “Image Size”, “Content Type” and “More Text” under respective fields
- You can further change “Post Meta Info” and “Disable Title”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
How to add “Instagram” in widget area(CT:Instagram)?
This widget is used to display your latest Intagram photos
- Add CT:Instagram to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, “Username”, change “Layout”, “Number of photos”, “Instagram Image Size and “Link Text” under respective fields
- To open in new tab check “Check to Open Link in new Tab/Window” option
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to add “Newsletter” in widget area(CT:Newsletter)?
This widget is used to display posts with thumbnails.
- Add CT:Newsletter to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, “Text To Show Before Form”, “Text To Show After Form”, change “Service” under respective fields
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
#How to add “Social Icon” in widget area(CT:Social Icon)?
This widget is used to add social icons as a widget.
- Add CT:Social Icon to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title” under the respective field.
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
For externally hosted videos (for example a YouTube or Vimeo video), you can directly paste the link of your video page into the content editor. You do not necessarily have to paste the embed code in the content. WordPress will automatically embed the video from the link.
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