Deft – Clean and Minimal WordPress Theme For blog and Magazine


A simple and minimal WordPress theme Deft is perfect for Bloggers. You can use this theme on any type of blogs like technology, food and drinks, travel, biography and many more. You can use this theme for magazine and news site as well.

Theme Installation

Via WordPress

Via FTP

Import Dummy Data

Adding Contents

Posts

To create the 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 the 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 the 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 Posts > Categories
  • Give the title of the category
  • Click on Save
  • The added category will appear on the Add Post Page.

Widgets

Deft comes with Added Custom Widget for Author Information. You can put the available widget on the sidebar. You have custom sidebar named Sidebar and Off-Canvas Sidebar.

  • Go to Appearance > Customize > Widgets > Sidebar > And Add Deft Author Widget
  • Check all the available options.
  • Click on Save & Publish button to save the changes.

Deft Author:

Add this available widget on any of the added areas.

  • Widget Title: Title of the Widget
  • Descriptions: Add the descriptions of the Author or Ads. You can use Adsense Code here.
  • Image: Select the Image for Author or Ads Image.
  • Put the complete link of required social links in the link section.

Site Title, Tagline & Logo

  • Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity
  • Click on Select Logo
  • Select the logo.
  • After logo selected, your site title and tagline will hide on the front end.
  • If the preview is fine, click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Colors

  • Go to Appearance > Customize > Colors
  • Select the required color for the background.
  • Click on Save & Publish to save the changes. More color options are in Premium Version.

Background Image

  • Go to Appearance > Customize > Background 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 primary menu locations,

Primary Menu

  • This menu will appear on the Main menu for the site along with the logo section.
  • Create a menu and add the items to the menu.
  • Set the menu on the Primary Menu.
  • Save the Menu

Theme Options

In this section, you will have various options to manage the site with the available options.

  • Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options
  • Check all the available theme options there.

Slider Selection

  • This section is used to show the slider.
  • Select the post category for the slider.
  • Set the number of sliders to display.
  • You have the option to Hide Tag and Category also.
  • Change Read More text to your own Text.

Sidebar and Sticky Sidebar Options

  • Options to choose the sidebar for the theme.
  • You can use Right Sidebar, Left Sidebar, Middle Column and No Sidebar.
  • This sidebar will appear on all pages.
  • If you want to make the sidebar sticky, you can enable the sticky sidebar.

Social Links and Icons

  • Social icons on this theme will display in the footer section.
  • Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Social Icons
  • Put the Social Icons name and Link
  • Social Icons Name: Font awesome icon name must be needed there. Example fa fa-facebook, fa fa-wechat, fa fa-instagram, fa fa-vk, fa fa-linkedIn, fa fa-youtube You can check more icons name here.
  • Social Link URL: Put the complete link of the social icons.
  • If Preview is fine, click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Extra/Breadcrumb Options

  • Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Extra Options
  • Enable/Disable the breadcrumb.

Footer Options

  • Footer Option is for managing copyright Option.
  • You can manage Go to Top from the footer section.

Blog Page Options

These options help you to manage every entity of blog page.

  • Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Blog Page Options
  • Change Default Read More Text for the blog page.
  • Hide Meta Fields like category, tags, date, author etc.
  • Show or Hide Featured Image on Blog/Archive Page.
  • Make Image Size Larger in the Blog page.
  • Excerpt Lenght in Blog Page.

If you need any additional support, use support forum. 

You can get more features on the premium version.

Documentation Prepared By WPEntire