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Architect Pro Theme

Adding a Header Image

The Header Image, also known as the hero image is a large web banner image, generally placed in the front and center of the Home page. If you are experiencing issues getting the  Header Image to display it is most likely an issue with the overlay color opacity. See this article for instructions on How to change the theme colors. …

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Changing the Number of Blog Posts per Page

The Genesis Portfolio Pro plugin allows you to easily change the number of Portfolio Items shown on the Portfolio Archive page. From the admin, navigate to Settings → Reading Enter the number you want to display into the Blog pages show at most field. Click Save Changes

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Adding a Featured Image

To upload a Featured Image, navigate to the Edit Page screen of the post or page. Locate the Featured Image field just below the Update button. Click Set featured image and select the background image. Click Update to save changes. Recommended minimum size for featured images is 1280px wide and 720px tall.

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Installing WordPress

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For information regarding the installation of the WordPress platform, please see the WordPress Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

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Installing Your Theme

The following video shows how to install a child theme, the Genesis Framework and the theme’s recommended plugins. It uses the Business Pro theme but applies to all of our Genesis child themes.   Installing the Genesis Framework and a child theme follows the same process for installing any WordPress theme, except that you have …

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Changing the Number of Blog Posts per Page

The Genesis Portfolio Pro plugin allows you to easily change the number of Portfolio Items shown on the Portfolio Archive page. From the admin, navigate to Settings → Reading Enter the number you want to display into the Blog pages show at most field. Click Save Changes

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Architect Pro: Front Page Images

Architect Pro comes pre-loaded with default images that are used as the backgrounds for the Front Page 3 and Front Page 5 widget areas. You may use this default image or go to Appearance → Customize → Front Page Images to upload your own.  The default image size is 1920 x 1080 pixels. There are …

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Architect Pro: Recommended Plugins

Upon activating the theme, you will see a notice in the admin to install the recommended plugins. Architect Pro is optimized to work with the following plugins. Before you begin, you will need to install and activate them. Click on the Begin installing plugins link and follow the steps to install and activate all of …

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Set a Static “Home” Page (Front Page)

1. Create a “Home” page Skip this step if you have imported the theme demo content. In your site dashboard add a new page, and title your new page “Home”. Then, add another page titled “Blog”. Be sure to publish these 2 pages. 2. Set a Static Front Page Launch the  Customizer and click on the Static Front …

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Architect Pro: Widget Areas

Architrect Pro comes with 7 default widget areas. There are 5 front page widget areas and 2 site-wide widget areas. All widget content is included with the theme download inside the xml folder. To install the demo widget content please ensure that the Widget Importer & Exporter plugin is active. Upload the widgets.wie file located …

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Adding your Site Logo

Adding your Site Logo Open Appearance > Customizer and click on the Site Identity section. In the section that opens out, click the Select button to open the Media Manager. Upload a new image, or select one that’s already in your Media Library. Click Set as logo, and you will see your logo appear in the preview window. Click the Save & Publish button at …

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Create a Custom Menu

To add your first custom menu, follow these steps: 1. Create a Custom Menu From your WordPress admin, click Appearance > Customize. In the Customizer, click the Menus tab. If your theme already has a default/primary menu, you can click on it to begin editing. If your theme doesn’t have a default/primary menu, click + Add a Menu instead. Type in a name for …

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Adding Excerpts to Your Pages

Page excerpts allows you to display a short description about any post or page below the page title. To do this simply navigate to the page editor for the desired page. Find the ‘Excerpt’ box and enter your subtitle.  If the excerpt box is not visible, click on the ‘Screen Options’ button in the top …

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Adding and Configuring Widgets

In your Customizer, click on the Widgets tab. Your theme’s available widget areas will be displayed (and might look slightly different to this): To add a widget, first click on a widget area. In the panel, click on  Add a Widget. The Customizer will show all of the available widgets that you can add. Scroll the alphabetically …

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Changing a Page Template

On the WordPress editing page for Pages, there’s a sectioned labeled  Page Attributes, which contains a choice of templates that you can use to override default settings for that individual page.  Please note the choices in the Template field are set by your theme. If you use a different theme, you may have different choices in the Template field. …

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How to Regenerate Thumbnails

After installing the Genesis Framework and your child theme, we highly recommend regenerating the thumbnails for any existing images on your site. This will ensure that all image sizes that are defined in the theme are available in your site as you work to configure all the settings described in this theme setup guide. To …

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Changing the Theme Colors

All themes include the option to change the colors of some of the elements within the theme. Go to  Appearance > Customize > Colors to change the colors, if desired. Click  Select Color to reveal the color picker and choose a new color for each available setting. Please note that all themes have different color settings. The …

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