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6. Footer Right Sidebar
Add each widget to the relevant widget areas and arrange them in any order you want.
Following image shows HitMag Widget areas and Widgets.
HitMag Widget areas and Widgets
6. Add a Custom Logo
Adding a custom logo is very easy. Please use the following steps.
Go to Customizer > Site Identity in the WordPress Dashboard. ( Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Site Identity ).
Then click on the “Select Logo” button which is under the “Logo” title. Then use the upload tab to upload a logo or select the previously uploaded logo from the popped up media library window.
Now if you don’t want to show the site title and description text you can un-check the “Display site title and tagline” check box.
Click “Save and Publish” button at the top.
Go to Appearance > Menus in the WordPress Dashboard.
In the edit menus tab click on the “create new menu” link.
Give a Menu Name and click button “create menu”. For example if you are planing to use this as main menu type “Main Menu”
Then you can choose/create the links from the tabs (Pages/Posts/Custom Links/Categories) which are in the left hand side of the screen.
After Creating the menu select the Theme Location of the menu.(It’s under the Menu Settings which is in the bottom of the page. ) Select where you want to show this menu. Theme has three menu locations. ( Main Menu, Top Menu, Social Media Menu )
Finally Hit Save.
Social Media Menu.
It is very easy to add a social media menu to your site top bar with HitMag theme. Adding a social media menu is same as adding other menus as described above. Use custom links to add social media links ( eg: https://facebook.com/themezhut ) and select the menu location as “Social Media Menu”.
Use custom links to add social links.
Now your social links will be displayed at the top bar of the site as shown in the demo.
8. Featured Images and Slider
Sometimes you may have noticed that when you upload featured images from posts they don’t have same sizes in the blog index page or magazine page. To fix that please use the great regenerate thumbnail plugin to crop images. It will crop all the featured images of posts.
Activate slider
Note: You have to have activated the magazine homepage as described above, in order to display slider.
1. Go to Appearance > Customize > Slider Settings.
2. Switch On Featured slider.
3. Then select the category of posts which you want to display in the slider. ( Featured images of posts of the selected category will be displayed as slider images.
– Featured images of posts should be at least in width of 735px and in height of 360px to display slider images properly.
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174 thoughts on “HitMag WordPress theme documentation”
March 20, 2022 at 4:30 pm
Thank you for an awesome theme.
I have been editing the Main Sidebar and I have several “add block” objects displayed. On the rendered webpage, these “add block” objects show up as blank space.
Is there a way to get rid of them so they don’t show up as white space?
PS. My website isn’t live yet but here is the link to the draft https://bak.vhf.mybluehost.me