Placid
Placid is free WordPress theme for your blog and magazine site. Placid comes with author and advertisement widget as well as social widget. You can place the available custom widget anywhere in the widget area. Placid is SEO friendly theme with cross browser compatible. It is translation ready, child theme compatible and light weight theme. Meta options, sidebar options as well as copyright options are the added options on the theme.
Theme Installation
Via WordPress
- Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
- Go to the Appearance panel, then Themes.
- Click Add New.
- In Search themes… type ‘Placid’.
- When ‘Placid’ appears click Install button
- After Installing the theme Click Activate button.
Via FTP
- Use your FTP software to browse to wp-content/themes folder.
- Extract placid.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 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 right corner.
- Set that post on the Category.
- Click on Publish Button.
- Add more post like the above methods.
Pages
To create 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 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 appeared on the Add Post Page.
Widgets
Placid comes with Added Custom Widget for Advertisement, Author and Social link.
You can use PT Author widget for Advertisement also and PT social for social link on the sidebars.
You have custom widgets area for the different widgets to place on your theme.
PT Author:
Add this available widget on any of the added widget area.
- 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.
PT Social:
This widget is useful to show the social link on the sidebar. You can add the required social link with the help of this widget. You have Social Menu on Appearance > Menus and that menus will be displayed by this widget. See the Social Menu below to know how to make the social menu.
Advertisement:
If you want to put image advertisement on your sidebars, you can use Image Widget.
Check this blog post to know how to use Image Widget for advertisement.
Social Menu
- Social Menu will appeared on Left Side of the header(As in Demo) You can use PT Social widget to display on sidebar.
- 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 preview is fine, Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.
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 front end.
- If 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 background.
- If 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 appeared on 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 appeared 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 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 Layout/Design Options, Copyright Text and Hide Meta Tag Option.
- Check the every available options to manage your site.
- If preview is fine, click on save and publish the changes.
Layout/Design Options
- You can change the sidebar layout of of your site easily to Right, Left and No Sidebar.
- Whole site pages will have this layout.
- If preview is fine, click on Save & Publish to save the changes.
Meta Tag Options:
- If you want to hide the meta tag like data, author you can use this option.
- Click on Save & Publish button to save the changes.
Sticky Sidebar Options
- If you want to make the sidebar sticky, use this options.
- Click on Save & Publish button to save 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.
If you need any additional support, use support forum.
