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SamuraiSamurai is minimal blog theme. This responsive theme is best to use for blog, travel, informative and life style coaches. It comes with option to change color of entire site, author profile widget, social links to connect with social networking sites and more. Samurai Blog Theme Contains Related Post, Featured Section. It Support Popular Plugin WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, Easy Digital Download. ThemeInstallation FromWordPressDashboard
• LogintoWordPressadminpanel• Goto>Appearance>Themes• ClickinaddNew>UploadSamuraizipfile>InstallNow• Activatethetheme
Afterinstallingthetheme,nowyoucancustomizeyourwebsiteasperyourpreference.Whatispageandhowtocreateit?Pagesarestaticandarenotlistedbydate.Pagesdonotusetagsorcategories.AnAboutpageistheclassicexample.PagescanbedisplayedinthesidebarusingthePageswidget,andsomethemesdisplaypagesinthenavigationatthetopofthesite.-Tocreatepage
• Gotodashboard• Clickinpages>AddNew>followinstructionsasbelow
• Afteraddingallcontent,youcanpublishyourpageandcreatenecessarypagesbysamemethod.
Whatiscategoryandhowtocreateit?Categoriesprovideahelpfulwaytogrouprelatedpoststogether,andtoquicklytellreaderswhatapostisabout.Categoriesalsomakeiteasierforpeopletofindyourcontent.Categoriesaresimilarto,butbroaderthan,tags.-Howtocreatecategories
• Gotodashboard• ClickinPosts>Categories
• Youcanputyourownslugtoo,mostofthetimeitisleftblankwhichmeansnameofthecategoryitselfwillbeitsslug.
• [Foreg.yoursite.com/category/category_name]• Youcanputdescriptionifyouwant.• Nowafteraddingcategory,yourcategorywillappearinrightsideofthe
postpage.• Youcanaddmorecategoriesinsamemanner.
HowcreateMenusThisthemecomeswiththreemenulocations.Primarymenus,SocialmenusandTopmenus.
Youcancreatemenusintwoways.1. FirstisfromAppearance>Customize>Menus>CreateNewMenu
2. Second fromAppearance>Menus.Werecommendsecondoptionforcreatingmenus.
• CreateNewMenu[Youneedtocreatethreemenusinthiscase]• Givenameofthemenu[Foreg.PrimaryMenu]>CreateMenu
• Nowaddmenusfromleftside.WhetheryouwantyourpagestobemenuorCategories.YoucanalsoaddcustomURLasmenu.
• ClickinAddtoMenubutton• SelectwhetheryourmenusarePrimary,ToporSocial.• YouneedtocreatedifferentmenusforTopMenus,PrimaryMenusand
SocialMenus.• ForsocialmenusyouneedtoincludeCustomlinksofyoursocialprofilesas
bellow.
WidgetsYoucancustomizeyourblogasperthewidgetoptionsprovidedwithSamurai
• Appearance>Customize• OrYoucanaccesswidgetoptiondirectlyfromAppearance>Widgets• Samuraiprovidesyoufollowingwidgetoptions
Check every available options for the widget.
Customization optionsYoucancustomizeyoursitefromthecustomizeoptions
• Appearance>Customize
SamuraiOptionsInthisoptionyoucanchangethepositionofthesidebarinyourside.IfyouchooseNonethenyoursitewillnothaveanysidebar.Youalsochangecopyrighttextfromthisoption.SiteIdentity
Fromthisoptionyoucanchangelogoorsitetitle&tagline.Youcanalsosetsiteicon.Colors
Thisthemegivesyouonlytwocoloroptions.• HeadercolorandBackgroundcolor
HeaderImageHeaderimagecomesonthetopofyoursite.Thisimageresidesinthebackgroundofthesitetitle.
BackgroundImageFrombackgroundimageyoucansetyoubackgroundimage.Generally,thisoptionisnotused.MenusYouhavealreadycreatedmenufromtheAppearance>Menuoption.Butyoucanalsomanagethepositionofthemenusandadd/deletemenusfromthisoptions.
Youcaneditlocationsofthemenusfromtheviewalllocationsoptions.
WidgetYoucansetyourwidgetfromthisoptiontoo.ButyouhavealreadysetthewidgetfromAppearance>widgetoption.HowtoaddauthorInfoinsidebar?Youcanaddprofessionallookingauthorboxasshownbelow.
Inordertoaddanauthorbox,followfollowingsteps
• CreateapagecalledAbout.• Writedescriptionaboutyourself.• Setfeaturedimagethatyouwanttodisplayandpublishit.• Nowgoto>widget>addAuthorInfointhesidebar.• Settitleasyoulikeandchooseaboutpage.• Clickinsamebutton.
InthesamemanneryoucanaddCategories,navigationMenus,Archives,pagestoyoursidebar.HomepagesettingYouhavetwooptionshere.Ifyouwantyourhomepagetobestatic(Samealways)thenyoucanchooseAstaticpageotherwise,youcanchooseYourlatestpostsoption.Inordertosetastaticpage,youneedtocreateastaticpagefromthepagesection.CreatingapostNowafterallset,youcanstartwritingyourpost.Followthesesteps• Gotodashboard>Posts>AddNew
• Finally,clickinpublishButton.Youcanpreviewyourpostbeforeactuallypublishitjustmakesureeverythingisok.Ifyouhavenotcompletedwritingyourpostthenyoucansaveitasdraft.