Carraway

Carraway Homepage Setup

by Angie, in category Carraway
 FireShot Capture 35 - CARRAWAY I wordpress theme - http___angiemakes.com_themes-demo_carraway_

STEP  ONE:

Go to appearance / customize. Go to your blog flyout tab.

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By default your Carraway blog is showing the “Large Image Excerpts” blog post style. You can chose various blog layouts.

 

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Choose to showing your categories,  control your excerpt length, display the full content of your first post, or change your image sizes.

 

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Save any changes you choose to make to your blog post layout options.

 

STEP 2

Now is time to insert the slider at the top of the homepage.

Scroll to the very bottom of your dashboard and create a new slideshow under the Meta Slider Tab. If you don’t see this tab, make sure you have the recommended plugins installed. You can drag your slides up / down to order them. Copy the settings we used on the right. Save your slideshow.

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Now navigate to appearance / widgets in your WordPress dashboard. Look for the box marked “Front Page Slider” on the right. Drag your meta slider widget into this box.

 

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Now, choose the slideshow you just created. Hit Save.

 

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Step 3

Make sure you have your blog sidebar set to display on the left or right. Go to appearance / customize. Select the Sidebar flyout menu option.

 

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You can choose what pages to display your sidebar on. You can also choose to display your sidebar on the right or left of your site.

 

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Step 4

Set up your homepage footer widgets.