Blog Posts

Posts are the entries that are displayed in reverse chronological order on your homepage. In contrast to pages, posts usually have comment fields beneath them and are included in your site’s RSS feed.

Homepage Blog Post Unit

Blog posts can be displayed in Homepage Blog Posts Unit. Number of Blog Post units is unlimited, for example, you can create a number of Blog Post units and display different post categories in each single unit.

Step 1

Navigate to Dashboard → Posts → Add New in your WordPress dashboard panel.

Do not use any of the words Team, Testimonials, Works on their own in a post URL. Use them only in a combination with other words; for example, team-member.

Step 2

Start filling in the blanks. Select a category, add tags, and make other selections from the sections below the post, if necessary.

Step 4

Add Excerpt to your post. It will be used as short intro of your post when post displayed in a list using one of 5 Blog Templates.

Excerpt can be activated by modifying Reading settings: Dashboard → Settings → Reading. Option “For each article in a feed, show” should be set to “Summary”.

Step 5

Using Choose Sidebar panel, activate Custom Sidebar for your blog post if needed. Select Custom sidebar from dropdown and set sidebar alignment.

Custom Sidebar can be created using Dashboard → Appearance → CuckooLove → Sidebars tab. Content of the sidebar can be modified using Dashboard → Appearance → Widgets tab.

Step 7

Add a Featured Image to your post and it will be used as post thumbnail.

Step 8

Click Publish, when you are ready.

Using Background Settings panel, you can add custom background to any page or post. Two background options are available – Image and Video. By entering video URL, you can add any YouTube or Vimeo video as the background of your page/post. If you want to use image background option, you can add Default and Parallax style background. Moreover, using Background Settings panel, you can add an unlimited number of image background layers and create awesome multi-layered parallax background effect.

Global background settings can be managed using Color Settings tab of theme framework. Here you can also choose parallax style background or default background for specific page and posts groups.

Image Background

1. Choose Custom as your page/post background source;
2. Choose background type of your page/post.

3. Expand Layer #1* and start editing Image background settings;
4. Choose background type of Layer #1;
5. Edit other background settings.

* Using Add Layer button you can add unlimited number of background layers.

Using Super Footer panel you can add custom Super Footer to any page/post. Super Footer displays any page content that is created using Default page template. Global Super footer settings can be managed using Header & Footer tab of theme framework.

The awesome thing is that Super Footer supports Full Width content. The usual width of a single pages/post content area is limited to 960 pixels. Using Super Footer you can add full width videos, sliders, maps and other full width stuff to your page above your site’s footer.

1. Choose Custom as your page/post Super Footer source;
2. Select Page Source from pages dropdown;
3. Edit Super Footer top and bottom padding.

Using Header Display Settings panel you can choose custom header appearance and functionality settings for a specific page or post.

It’s very useful when different pages display different style content in page header. For example, page displays full screen video or slider. In this case, it is recommended to use Option 5 style header. Header logo and top navigation menu will be hidden until user scrolls to the bottom of the slider.