Newspaper Pro: Site Settings
From the admin dashboard, navigate to Settings → Reading to update your site’s blog settings. Below are the settings used in the theme demo:
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Newspaper Pro: Menus
To configure your sites navigation menus, navigate to Appearance → Menus from the admin dashboard. If you imported the sample.xml file included with the theme you should already have 2 example menus created, the Off Canvas Menu and the After Header Menu: Select the After Header Menu from the dropdown and scroll to the bottom …
Newspaper Pro: Custom Colors
To change the theme’s custom colors, navigate to Appearance → Customize → Colors from the admin dashboard. To demonstrate which colors are changed, each custom color has been changed to blue in the screenshots below. Background Color The Background Color setting is pretty self-explanatory. It changes the color of the site background. Default color is …
Newspaper Pro: Header Right Widget Area
The Header Right widget area is used to display a search widget. This widget requires no configuration.
Newspaper Pro: Primary Sidebar Widget Area
The Primary Sidebar widget area contains 5 widgets in the theme demo. Custom HTML This image is a placeholder for a 300 x 250 ad. The HTML should be replaced with your own Google Ads code snippet. Genesis – Featured Posts Displays a list of the latest posts from your site. Genesis – eNews Extended Displays …
Newspaper Pro: Before Content Widget Area
The Before Content widget area contains one Custom HTML widget in the theme demo. This widget area can be used to display a large banner ad before the page content as seen in the demo.
Newspaper Pro: After Content Widget Area
The After Content widget area is not used in the theme demo. It can be used similarly to the Before Content widget area.
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 …
Newspaper Pro: Footer 1 Widget Area
The Footer 1 widget area uses one Custom HTML widget and one Simple Social Icons widget in the theme demo. Custom HTML The HTML content used in the demo widget is provided below: <img width="150" src="https://demo.seothemes.com/newspaper-pro/wp-content/themes/newspaper-pro/resources/img/logo.svg"> <br> <p>Newspaper Pro is the ultimate, monetizable magazine style blogging WordPress theme built for the Genesis Framework.</p> Simple Social …
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 …
Newspaper Pro: Footer 2 Widget Area
The Footer 2 widget area contains one Navigation widget to display a list of categories. In order to display a navigation menu, at least one menu needs to be created from Appearance → Menus.
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 …
Newspaper Pro: Enabling AMP
The theme demo showcases an example AMP post using the AMP for WordPress plugin. Once this plugin has been installed and activated you will be able to access the AMP version of posts by adding /amp to the end of the post URL. For example: https://demo.seothemes.com/newspaper-pro/top-10-best-ways-to-teach-yourself-how-to-code/ Becomes https://demo.seothemes.com/newspaper-pro/top-10-best-ways-to-teach-yourself-how-to-code/amp
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 …
Newspaper Pro: Adding Code Snippets (advanced)
Unlike most Genesis child themes, this theme uses a setup function to load Genesis the correct way. Please seethis article from Genesis expert Gary Jones for more information on why we have chosen to use this method. One drawback of using this method is that copying and pasting code snippets into the functions.php file will …
How to Use Elementor Page Templates
The theme demo uses the Elementor Full Width template and the Elementor Canvas templates. To set these page templates on a per page basis, navigate to the Edit Page screen for the page you wish to edit and select the desired template from the Page Attributes section on the right side of the screen:
How to Use Gutenberg
The theme demo showcases an example page which contains all of the current Gutenberg blocks. Please note that Gutenberg is currently in beta and can change at any moment. To enable the Gutenberg editor on a page or post the Gutenberg plugin must be installed and activated. For more information on Gutenberg please refer to …
Newspaper Pro: Importing Demo Content
Before installing the demo content, it is strongly recommended to install recommended plugins and also delete any existing content on your site that is not required including Posts, Pages, Comments and Widgets. All of our child themes come with the sample content used in the demo. Importing sample content Once the theme and recommended plugins …
Newspaper Pro: Importing Demo Content
Before installing the demo content, it is strongly recommended to install recommended plugins and also delete any existing content on your site that is not required including Posts, Pages, Comments and Widgets. All of our child themes come with the sample content used in the demo. Importing sample content Once the theme and recommended plugins …
Newspaper Pro: Genesis Settings
To update your site settings, navigate to Genesis → Theme Settings from the admin dashboard. Below are the Genesis settings used in the theme demo. Default Layout The default layout should be set to Content Sidebar to match the theme demo. Featured Images To display featured images on archive pages like the demo, check the …