Placid Plus
Placid Plus is clean with modern and minimal design personal blog theme well suited for any types of blogs and magazines. This is the premium version of Placid.
Theme Installation
Via Admin Panel
- Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels. www.siteurl.com/wp-admin
- Go to the Appearance panel, then Themes.
- Click Add New.
- Upload the zip file of the theme, placid-plus.zip
- After Installing the theme Click Activate button.
Via FTP
- Use your FTP software to browse to wp-content/themes folder.
- Extract placid-plus.zip and upload the folder.
- Once it’s uploaded, go to your WordPress Admin, browse to Appearance > Themes.
- Click the Activate link.
Adding Contents
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 a right corner.
- Set that post on 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 like 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
Placid Plus Comes with Added Custom Widget for Advertisement and Author Descriptions. In this theme, you will have an advertisement, author widget as well as custom widget for a recent post.
You have lots of custom widgets area for the different widgets to place on your theme.
Author and Ads Widget
Add this available widget on any of the added widget areas.
- Widget Title: Title for the Widget
- Descriptions: Add the descriptions for the Author or Ads. You can use Adsense Code here.
- Image: Select the Image for Author or Ads Image.
Recent Post Widget
This widget will help to show the recent post on the sidebar with small image icons there.
Theme Customization Options
You will get every option for theme customization on Appearance > Customize. Use the available options for managing the site.
Site Title, Tagline & Logo
- Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity
- Click on Select Logo
- Select the logo. (Recommended Size 290*70)
- 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.
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 two menu locations. Primary Menu and Social Menu
Primary Menu
- This menu will appear on the Main menu for the site below the logo section.
- Create a menu and add the items on the menu.
- Set the menu on the Primary Menu.
- Save the Menu
Social Menu
- Social Menu will appear on Right Side of the Logo(As in Demo)
- Add the link for social Menu(Use Custom Link to create this menu)
- In custom link, add link for 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.
Theme Options
In this section, you will have various options to manage the site with the available options.
- Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options
- You will get header options, layout options, search placeholder, slider options, footer options, blog options etc.
- Check the every available option to manage your site.
- If the preview is fine, click on save and publish the changes.
Copyright Text
- Write your own copyright text on your site.
- Go to Appearance > Customize > theme options > footer options
- Write your own text there.
- Manage the Go to Top and widgets on footer also.
- Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.
Font Family
This theme has unlimited options for google fonts. Use the google fonts as your required section.
Color Options
This theme has unlimited numbers of color as well. Not only the primary colors, you can use the different color on the every place as you need.
Change author social links
If you want to change the total information of Users info like descriptions, social links, image etc, please check on Users section of the admin panel. Users > All Users > Edit Users.
Extra Options
This theme has lots of extra options for managing every section of the theme. Check all the available options on Appearance > Customize.
For more supports and query, use theme official support forum.
