The instructions below will help you configure the widgets on the home page.
Slider
Click here for instructions for the slider - how to display featured posts, some troubleshooting advice and how to avoid blurry images.
Featured Boxes
The featured boxes are the 5 boxes below the slider section on the home page. You can use them to highlight important pages or label pages on your blog. You can add up to 10 featured boxes.
Before you start! The Image widgets in "Home Before Content (Grid)" have been altered for customization. If you remove them and then re-add them, they will not look the same. If you want to hide them for now, open each widget > uncheck "Show this widget" at the top and save the changes.
Go to Layout > scroll down to "Home Before Content (Grid)" > open each Image widget and add your information.
- Title - replace "Featured Box Title" with your own title
- Image - check "Upload image from computer" below Select image by: and upload an image
- Link - add your link to the "Link" field
How to add a title?
Go to Layout > scroll down to "Home Before Content (Grid) Header" > add a HTML/JavaScript widget > add your title to the "Title" field and save the changes.
Newsletter
Click here for instructions on how to connect MailChimp to the subscribe form + the HTML for the form in the sidebar.
This is the HTML of the form on the home page (some additional HTML to customize it - you can add the form action link the same way):
<div class="newsletter-wrapper"><div class="newsletter-wrap">
<div class="newsletter-header">
<h3>Join the Community</h3>
</div>
<form action="FORM-LINK" class="signup-form" method="post" target="_blank">
<input type="email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Email address" value="" required />
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe" />
</form>
</div></div>Profile
The profile is the "I'm Paloma Hart" section on the home page below the newsletter section. You can use it to add some information about yourself and your blog.
Before you start! The "Profile Image (Do Not Delete!)" and "Profile Text (Do Not Delete!)" widgets have been altered for customization. If you remove them and then re-add them, they will not look the same. If you want to hide them for now, open each widget > uncheck "Show this widget" at the top and save the changes.
Go to Layout > scroll down to "Home Before Content 2".
Add an image - open the "Profile Image (Do Not Delete!)" widget > check "Upload image from computer" below Select image by: and upload an image (don't add any text, just save the widget after you upload your image).
To add a title, text and a link to the button, open the "Profile Text (Do Not Delete!)" widget.
- Title - replace "Add a title here" with your own title; don't remove the h2 tags around the title
- Subtitle - replace "add a subtitle here" with your own subtitle; don't remove the h4 tags around the title
- Text - replace "Add some text here." with your own text; don't remove the p tags around the text
- Link - replace LINK with the link to your About page
Here's the HTML in the "Profile Text (Do Not Delete!)" widget:
<h2>Add a title here</h2>
<h4>add a subtitle here</h4>
<p>Add some text here.</p>
<a href="LINK" class="profile-button"><span>read my story</span></a>Popular Posts (Trending)
The popular posts widget ("Trending") is already configured to display the most popular posts (posts with the most views) from the last 30 days. If you want to change that to 7 days, all time or last year, go to Layout > scroll down to "Home After Content" > open the "Trending" widget.