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Documentation Gist – Clean and Minimal WordPress Theme Theme Installation Via WordPress Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels. Go to the Appearance panel, then Themes. Click Add New . Search theme name Gist. After installing the theme Click Activate button. Via FTP Use your FTP software to browse to wp-content/themes folder. Extract gist.zip and upload the folder. Once it’s uploaded, go to your WordPress Admin, browse to AppearanceThemes . Click the Activate link. Dummy Data Download Dummy data from here. Go to ToolsImportWordPressUpload the XML file and click on Import Note: Your existing data may be lost, so make sure before uploading the dummy data. Posts To create a post on your site, it’s easy. Follow the below-listed methods. Go to Administration Panels Go to Posts and Click on Add New Give the title of the post and add the content Set the featured image for the post from the right corner. Set that post in the Category. Click on Publish Button. Add more post like the above methods. Pages To create a page on your site, it’s easy. Follow the below-listed methods. Go to Administration Panels Go to Page and Click on Add New Give the title of the page and add the content Set the featured image for the post from a right corner. Click on Publish Button. Add more page of the above methods. Categories To create categories, follow the below steps. Go to Administration Panels Go to PostsCategories Give the title of the category Click on Save The added category will appear on the Add Post Page. Widgets Gist Comes with Added Custom Widget for Featured Post, Social Icons, and Author Information. You can use the available widgets and custom widgets on available widget area. This theme has Primary Sidebar area inside AppearanceCustomizeWidgetsSidebar. You can add the available widget inside there. Gist Featured Post Widget This widget is specially developed to show recent post or selected category post on the sidebar on the sidebar. Title: Title of the Widget Category: Select the category to display the post. Number enter the number to show the number of posts. Gist Author Widget This widget will help to show the information about the author. You can check the demo to know more about it. Title: Title for the popular Widget Image: Select the image for the author. Description: Enter a short description for the author. Social Links: Enter valid link for social. Example ( www.facebook.com/candidthemes ) Gist Social Widget Title: Title for the Social Links Widget If the Social menu is created on AppearanceCustomizeMenus automatically the social icons will display on the sidebar. Site Title, Tagline & Logo Go to AppearanceCustomizeSite Identity Click on Select Logo Select the logo. If the preview is fine, click on Save & Publish to save the changes. Colors Go to AppearanceCustomizeColors Select the required color for the background and Site Title. Click on Save & Publish to save the changes. Background Image Go to AppearanceCustomizeBackground Image Select the best image for the site background. Select the required setting for the background. If the preview is fine, click on Save && Publish to save the changes. Menus This theme comes with one menu locations. Primary Menu and Social Menu. Primary Menu This menu will appear on below the site title. Create a menu and add the items on the menu. Set the menu on the Primary. Save the Menu. Social Menu Social Menu will appear on Right Side of the Logo(As in Demo) Add the link to social Menu(Use Custom Link to create this menu) In the custom link, add a link to Facebook Menu(www.facebook.com/username) Add the menu and follow the same steps for Twitter, Instagram. Select the Social Menu for this. If the preview is fine, click on Save & Publish to save the changes. Gist Theme Options Blog Section Options This section includes Sidebar Options, Content Show Options, Excerpt Options, Featured Image Options, Meta Show hide Options. Sidebar Options Go to AppearanceCustomizeBlog Section OptionsSidebar Section Check all the available options on the drop-down If the preview is fine, click on Save & Publish button on the top to save the changes. Select Preferred Sidebar from this Options section of customizer help you to change the layout of your site. This theme has Right Sidebar, Left Sidebar, Middle Column and No sidebar Options. Right Sidebar If you select the right sidebar, only the right sidebar will appear and the left sidebar will remain empty. Left Sidebar: If you select the left sidebar, only the left sidebar will appear and the right sidebar will remain empty. Middle Column: Middle Column options will help to hide the sidebar on your site and content will be on its position. No Sidebar: No sidebar options is useful to hide both the sidebar, left and right. Content Show Options You can show the content either from Content or Excerpt. Choose the preferred options from the drop-down. Go to AppearanceCustomizeBlog Section OptionsShow Content From Check all the available options on the dropdown If preview is fine, click on Save & Publish button on the top to save the changes. Excerpt Length With the help of this options, enter the excerpt length in Words. Go to AppearanceCustomizeBlog Section OptionsEnter Excerpt Length Enter the length for the blog excerpt length. If preview is fine, click on Save & Publish button on the top to save the changes. Featured Image Options The Gist has 4 type of featured image options for blog page. Full Image Right Image Left Image Hide Image Select the required image layout for the home page. The default is Full Image. Meta Show/Hide Options If you want to hide the meta tags like date, author etc on your website, use this setting. Go to AppearanceCustomizeBlog Section OptionsMeta Show/Hide Options Checked to hide the meta fields. If the preview is fine, click on Save & Publish button at the top to save the changes. Read More Text Looking for the option to change the default Read More text, Go to AppearanceCustomizeBlog Section OptionsRead More Text Enter your own text for Read More. If the preview is fine, click on Save & Publish button at the top to save the changes. Pagination Options Want to change the default pagination to numeric? Check the pagination options, Go to AppearanceCustomizeBlog Section OptionsPagination Options Select the required pagination. If the preview is fine, click on Save & Publish button at the top to save the changes. Single Post Options This options will help to manage the content of the single page. Related Post Options Text The related post appears just below the end of content in the single page. The related post will appear from the same category of the above post. Go to AppearanceCustomizeSingle Post OptionsRelated Post Options Checked to show the related post. If the preview is fine, click on Save & Publish button at the top to save the changes. You can get more options for the related post in Premium Version. Featured Image Options in Single Page Go to AppearanceCustomizeSingle Post OptionsFeatured Image Options Checked on Show/Hide Featured Image on Single Post If the preview is fine, click on Save & Publish button at the top to save the changes. Typography Options The gist has options to manage typography. Available options to manage typography are, Font Family URL Font Family Name Font Size Line Height & Line Spacing Font Family URL Google Fonts are used for font family. If you want to change the font family, go to Google Fonts Page. Select the required font. Copy the link, Example link: //fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans Paste this link in this field. Make sure, the link is similar with the above example format. You should change the font family name below to get the font changed. Font Family Name You should need to write the font family name. See the below image to know about the name of font family for the select font family URL. Example: Open Sans, sans-serif Hope this will work for you. You can change the font size, letter spacing...