Your site title and tagline are one of the first things someone sees when visiting your site. Site Title The site title is displayed in the title bar of a web browser and in the header of most themes. Your site title can be anything to describe your site and doesn’t have to be the…Continue Reading Change Site Title and Tagline
Category: Appearance & Themes
Customizer
The customizer is designed to make it easier for you to customize your theme and see the results in real time. It allows you to customize any theme before you activate it. The Customizer Here is how you use the customizer: 1. Go to Appearance > Themes. 2. Click on ‘Live Preview‘ on the theme…Continue Reading Customizer
Adding images and badges to your sidebar
The Image widget plugin makes it easy to add images and badges to your sidebar. Once you’ve activated the image widget plugin in Plugins > All an image widget is added to Appearance > Widgets. To add an image: 1. Go to Appearance > Widget. 2. Click on the desired Sidebar to expand (so you can…Continue Reading Adding images and badges to your sidebar
Sending posts to pages other than your front page
A common question we’re asked is “how to use one blog with multiple classes or subjects?” or “How do I send posts to multiple pages on my blog?” This is easily done by assigning different categories to posts, such as assignment, discussion, maths or English, and then use a custom menu to create links to…Continue Reading Sending posts to pages other than your front page
Twitter widget
You can display your latest Tweets in your sidebar by pasting embed code for a Twitter widget in a text widget. Here is an example of what it looks like: Add a Twitter widget 1. Go to publish.twitter.com 2. Select what you want to embed. For a User Timeline, enter the username of the user…Continue Reading Twitter widget
Links Menu (Blogroll)
Links widgets are used to provide links to other websites and resources. The most common type of link widget you’ll hear mentioned is a blogroll. A blogroll was originally used by bloggers to provide a list of links to their favourite bloggers. Nowadays the term blogroll refers to any list of links that appear in the…Continue Reading Links Menu (Blogroll)
Custom backgrounds
Majority of our themes allow you to customize the background of your site by uploading an image or selecting a color. Changing your theme background is a way of adding your “own personal touch” to your site. Using own background image 1. Go to Appearance > Customize in your dashboard. Or click on ‘Customize‘ under the active theme. 2….Continue Reading Custom backgrounds
Add Google Calendar to your sidebar
Google Calendar is a free web-based calendar which you can use for keeping track of important events in one place from any device anywhere. You create several calendars for different uses in the same Google Calendar and for each calendar you can choose to: keep private share with friends via email make public so others…Continue Reading Add Google Calendar to your sidebar
Upload user and blog avatar
Your avatar is an online representation of you. Types of Avatars There are two types of avatars: 1. User Avatar The user avatar is also known as your comment avatar. You upload the user avatar via Users > Your Avatar and it displays in places where you leave comments and next to posts you publish on…Continue Reading Upload user and blog avatar
Create custom menu
Most themes support custom menus which makes it easy to change the links displayed at the top of your site. Below is an example of a custom menu with the sub-menu items Curriculum Vitae and Graduate attributes under About me: The number of display locations of a menu is theme dependent. Some theme only provide…Continue Reading Create custom menu