Classy Ink

Please follow the tutorials below to create your site just like the demo. If you run into problems or have questions while following the tutorial please let us know. Don’t forget to submit your site to our Showcase page when you are done. We would love to see how your site looks!

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Start Here

• How to Install the Theme
• Install Plugins
• Install Widget Content

Install the Demo Content (optional)

If you are starting a brand new site… your site will look nothing like the demo. Uploading the themes demo content is a great way to get started. You will be able to delete what you don’t want and keep what you need. This is optional. You are welcome to skip this step and move to “Header & Menu Bar” below.

• Install Demo Content

Header & Menu Bar

• How to Setup the Menu Bar
• Social Icons on Menu Bar
• How to Add Your Own Logo – this is optional. You do not have to use a custom logo unless you want to. The best logo size is 800×400. If your logo is a different size please let us know, we can help you with that.

Homepage Setup

The Homepage is created with widgets in the FRONT PAGE widget sections. Follow this tutorial to set your homepage to look like the demo site.

Blog Posts

• Note – A good image size for your blog post’s “Featured Image” is 400px x 600px
• How to Add the “Share This” Buttons
• After Entry widget – you can place any widget in this widget area such as user profile, advertisement, or instagram widget. It will show at the bottom of every post, before the comments. I used the “Genesis – User Profile” widget on the demo site. Find the After Entry widget in Appearance >> Widgets.

Sidebar

• Welcome Image and Message
• Social Media Icons
• Subscribe Box
• Categories – while in Appearance >> Widgets… click on “Categories” and choose Primary Sidebar from the dropdown.

Footer

• Footer Social Menu
• Footer Call to Action – while in Appearance >> Widgets… click on “Custom HTML” widget then choose “Footer Call to Action” from dropdown. Copy/paste the following code into that widget and change the info to your own info. Click “Save” when done.

• Footer 1 – is displaying an Instagram Feed
• Footer 2 – is using a Subscribe Box

Contact Page

• Using a Contact Form

Instagram Page

• How to Create the Instagram Page

Category Page

Follow this tutorial on how to create a category page. The category page on Classy Ink looks like this.

To add a description to the Category page… click Posts >> Categories. Click on the category you would like to add a description too. Add your description where it says “Archive Intro Text”. Click “Update” at the bottom then view your Category page.

Page Template (these are optional)

These are optional pages and you do not have to use them unless you want to.

• Archive Page
• Landing Page

Color Customize

• Change the Colors of your Design

Images Used on Demo Site

All the images shown on the demo site came from Haute Stock (affiliate). Haute Stock updates their images regularly so we can’t guarantee that you will be able to find the exact same images.

Theme Information

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