Introduction

Personalblog theme

Presented clean design is mostly for young, single-minded people that keep pace of time. People who enjoy blogging, travelling, music, healthy food and activities outside of the social mainstream. Using this WP theme you can easily express yourself, show you thoughts, poems and photos. Especially if you’re independent thinking, have an appreciation of art, creative, and intelligent.
We life and travel to experience new things, find familiarity abroad and connect all the strange dots that make this world so unique yet so familiar. And even if you don’t live or go to these places popular for hipster, take note that the Wordpress blog will always be your best friend. Blogs by other hipsters. You might also be inspired enough to write your own blog frequently.
If you're really good at something like art, fashion, cooking, technical gadgets or movies reviews, eco-awareness, etc., you might find yourself making amazing discoveries that are light years ahead of everyone else's thinking. This theme probably will be a natural choice for a hipster's creativity. Keeping pulse on today’s life, enjoying life as it is, and taking it as simple as possible – this is the lifestyle of a real hipster. We hope that this theme for Wordpress will inspire you for stunning posts from traveling, local trips and everyday life. We know that you need a simple theme which you can manipulate in very short time and that’s why we’ve created PERSONALBLOG – a theme with a very fresh and modern look.

Getting Started

Wordpress Installation

This Theme has been developed only for Wordpress 3.9 or higher version. So, you need to install WP before you can use this theme. Please see the CMS installation process. Here you can find the documentation : Wordpress Codex - Installing Wordpress

Wordpress Theme Installation

WordPress theme is simply a group of files, called template, bundled together that, when activated in CMS, determine the look and basic function of your site. By using professional themeum theme, you can have your site up and running with a new design - pretty fast. Theme installation is very easy process. Especially when you've chosen the theme you want to use, you'll need to install it into your WordPress website. You'll have the following two choices, as you did when adding new plugins:

  • You can add the theme directly from within the WP Admin, using "Upload Theme" option. From Admin Panel go the following path Appearance -> Themes -> Add New -> Upload Theme and select the zip theme, then click Install Now.
  • If your server is not set up properly or you have any problems, you'll have to extract and then upload the theme by hand. Using your favorite FTP client tool upload theme folder into the folder path /wp-content/themes/ on your server and active it from admin panel.

Note: On your WordPress site, the wp-content/themes folder holds all your themes. Each theme you install gets its own subfolder. All of a theme's style sheets and template files reside inside the theme's folder.

Personalblog Theme Typical Installation Process

Follow These Steps in Order to Install a New WP Theme

Fig: Install Personalblog theme Step by Step


Step 1: In Dashboard click on Dasboard => Appearance Menu

Step 2: Then click on Dasboard => Appearance => Theme Menu

Step 3: Then click on Install Themes tab.

Step 4: Then click on Upload Theme link.

Step 5: Then click on Choose file and select personalblog.zip file from your computer directory.

Step 6: Now click on Install Now button and wait for the installation complete. After successful installation of theme click on active theme click and enjoy theme theme feature. After activating, this theme will be used for whole site instead of Twenty Thirteen, the default WordPress theme.

Personalblog theme

Personalblog Essential Plugins and Installation

For using all Features you have to install and active all required plugins. All Essential plugins are included in the Personalblog theme.

  • Contact Form 7

Install above essential plugins by easy 2 step.

Fig: Essential plugins installation

Step 1: In Dashboard, click on Dasboard => Appearance Menu => Install Plugins Menu

Step 2: Then click on Install link under plugin title and enjoy the plugins.

Make sure to configure permalink. By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them; however, WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives. This can improve the aesthetics, usability, and forward-compatibility of your links. From WP admin panel go to the following path Settings-> Permalik then select (Post name).

Demo Import

Import Sample Data: Import Sample Data: If you want to use demo data for your website then you need to install sample data. From menu choose Tools -> Import -> Wordpress. Click Wordpress then you will see the "Import Wordpress" option which allows you to upload .xml file from /Demo Content folder. If this tool not be installed you have to install "Wordpress Importer" plugin manually.

Note: We don't include in our Wordpress Quickstart photos/pictures from Theme Demo Page. Instead we have included placeholder images (dummy "JoomShaper Logo") for each instance. We assume that our customers have their own photos, which better fit to their project goals. Why? Because presented images are not licensed to be distributed as a part of WP Theme.

Widgets Setting Import

Import Widget Setting Data: If you want to use Demo site widget setting for your website. Go to Dashboard > Theme Options > Import / Export . Which gives you the ability to import the demo widget settings, saved as a .json file type. Please choose Tools->Widgets Setting Import then select widget_data.json file from Demo Widget Settings folder directly from QuickStart package folder. Then Click on Show Widget Settings Button. Selected all or those widgets which you really need and use "Import from file" button. All widgets with registered sidebars will be imported.

Its an important part of Voval theme Installation process. Select your menu for menu location. Go to Dashboard-> Appearance-> Menu  then click on Manage Location and select menu for 2 locations. menu for "Primary Menu"€¯ location is mandatory. You can follow below screenshot.

Personalblog Theme Options

Header Settings

Its an important part of Personalblog theme Installation process. Select your menu for menu location. Go to Dashboard-> Theme Options -> Header 

  • Sticky Header: Enable or disable sicky Header
  • Header Top Margin: Enter custom header top marign ex. 70px
  • Header Bottom Margin: Enter custom header bottom margin ex. 0px
  • Main Menu Top Margin: Enter custom main menu top margin ex. 60px

Logo & favicon Settings

Its an important part of Personalblog theme Installation process. Select your menu for menu location. Go to Dashboard-> Theme Options -> Logo & favicon 

  • Favicon: Upload favicon image
  • Logo: Upload your custom site logo.
  • Text Type Logo: Enable or disable text type logo

Styling Settings

Its an important part of Personalblog theme Installation process. Select your menu for menu location. Go to Dashboard-> Theme Options -> Styling 

  • Preset Layout: Choose your preset style for theme.
  • Enable Custom Color Settings: Click to "On" button to enable custom color settings.
  • Body Background: You can set Background color or images or patterns for site body tag.
  • Content Background Color: Pick Color for Content ( default: #ffffff )
  • Sidebar Background Color: Pick Color for Sidebar Background ( default: #ffffff )
  • Footer Background Color: Pick Color for Footer Background ( default: #ffffff )
  • All Border Color: Pick Color for Border Color ( default: #f1f1f1 )

Typography Settings

Its an important part of Personalblog theme Installation process. Select your menu for menu location. Go to Dashboard-> Theme Options -> Typography 

  • Body Font: Select your website Body Font.
  • Headings Font: Select your website Headings Font.
  • Menu Font: Select your website Menu Font.

Blog Settings

Its an important part of Personalblog theme Installation process. Select your menu for menu location. Go to Dashboard-> Theme Options -> Blog 

  • Blog Single Page Social Share: Enable or disable blog social share for single page
  • Post Comment: Enable or disable post comment
  • Blog Author: Enable Blog Author ex. Admin
  • Blog Date: Enable Blog Date
  • Blog Category: Enable or disable blog category
  • Blog Tag: Enable Blog Tag
  • Post Edit: Enable or disable post edit
  • Single Post Comment: Enable Single post comment
  • Post navigation: Enable Post navigation
  • Blog Readmore: Enable Blog Readmore
  • Continue Reading: Continue reading text

Its an important part of Personalblog theme Installation process. Select your menu for menu location. Go to Dashboard-> Theme Options -> Sidebar Profile 

  • Profile Sidebar: Enable or Disable Profile Sidebar
  • Uoload Profile small Image: Insert Profile small Image
  • Profile Name: Add Profile Name
  • Profile Designation: Add Profile Designation
  • Profile Description: Add Profile Description
  • Sidebar Social Share: Enable Sidebar Social Share for Profile
  • Facebook URL: Add Facebook URL
  • Twitter URL: Add Twitter URL
  • gplus URL: Add gplus URL
  • Linkedin URL: Add linkedin URL
  • Pinterest URL: Add Pinterest URL
  • Delicious URL: Add delicious URL
  • Tumblr URL: Add delicious URL
  • Stumbleupon URL: Add stumbleupon URL

About Me Page Settings

Its an important part of Personalblog theme Installation process. Select your menu for menu location. Go to Dashboard-> Theme Options -> About Me Page 

  • Profile Page: Toggle Profile Page.
  • Uoload Profile Large Image: Insert Profile Large Image.
  • Uoload Profile Thumb Image: Insert Profile thumb Image
  • Profile User Name: Add Profile User Name
  • Profile User Designation: Add Profile User Designation
  • Download Button: Toggle Download Button
  • Download Button Text: Download Button Text.
  • Download Button URL: Download Button URL

Coming Soon Settings

Its an important part of Personalblog theme Installation process. Select your menu for menu location. Go to Dashboard-> Theme Options -> Coming Soon 

  • Enable Coming Soon: Enable or disable coming soon mode.
  • Coming Soon date: Coming Soon Date.
  • Title: Coming Soon Title
  • Description: Coming Soon Description.

Its an important part of Personalblog theme Installation process. Select your menu for menu location. Go to Dashboard-> Theme Options -> Footer 

  • Copyright: Enable Copyright Text.
  • Copyright Text: Add Copyright Text.