How to Manage Header—Site Identity (Title, Logo, Tagline, and Site Icon)
In this section, you can customize, and upload the website’s logo, title, and icon. You can freely customize the header in this theme option’s settings. You will also be able to upload your company logo.
Navigate to the Customize section and go to Site Identity to integrate Site Identity’s multiple identity options such as:
- Logo: Upload the website’s logo, which will be visible in both light and dark modes. The recommended image dimensions are 250 by 250 pixels.
- Adjust Logo Size: This setting allows the user to adjust the size of the logo according to their preferences. The default size of the logo is 250px.
- Site Title: Set the title of the site in this section, for it to appear in the top left corner.
- Tagline: Set the tagline for the site.
- Site Title Size: This setting allows the user to adjust the size of the site title according to their preferences.
- Display Site Title and Tagline: This option allows users to enable and disable the display of the title and tagline on the site.
- Site Icon: Upload the Site Icon for the browser icon and app icon for your site. The icon must be square and at least 512px wide and tall.
Colors
In this section, you can customize and change the colors of your site.
You can change the color of the website from the Customize section color to modify the color of the site: on the color setting section, there will be the following options such as:
- Primary Color: This setting allows the user to set the site’s primary color.
- Header Text Color: This setting customizes the Header text color of the site.
- Background Color: This setting allows the user to change the site’s background color.
- Navigation Background Color: This setting allows the user to set the header navigation background color.
- Navigation Text Color: This setting allows the user to set the header navigation text color.
Header Image
From this section, you can add or remove the header image. Click “Add new image” to upload an image from your computer. The theme works best with an image with a header size of 1000 × 250 pixels — you’ll be able to crop your image once you upload it for a perfect fit.
1. From the Customize section, go to Header Image
2. From the Header Image, the user will have these options:
- Header Image: This option allows you to add/modify a header image, and then set a new header image.
Background Image
In this section. You can add/modify the background image for your site. You can change and set the image position as desired.
- From the Customize section, go to Background Image.
- From Background Image, you can change the background image for the entire site and can adjust the background image size.
Menus
In this section, you can create new menus- and set the menu location. There are two ways of creating a menu:
- To create a menu, users need to go to the Admin Panel > Appearance > Menu.
OR
- You need to create a menu from > Customize > Menus > Create Menu.
You can similarly create as many menus as needed. After creating the menu, you need to add pages, posts, categories, and custom links to that menu. To add such first you need to create some pages, posts, categories, or custom links for the menu.
* You can add a description to the menu. Go to Admin Panel > Appearance > Menu, then click on the “site option” at the top of the dashboard — you can click on the checkbox for description in order to display the description on the menu.
After creating the new menus, you can set the different menu locations, from > Customize > Menus > Menu Locations. The menu will be displayed in the selected location.
Note: The Link News Pro theme has three menu locations: Primary, secondary, and social.
In this theme, you can set the Menu in three different menu locations:
- Primary Menu
- Secondary Menu
- Social Menu
*You can also set the menu location through the dashboard.
Widgets
From this section, you can set up and edit the sidebars and widgets for your site. You can set the widgets using the following ways:
- To configure the Widget, users need to go to Admin Panel > Appearance > Widgets.
- From Widgets, users will be able to add and remove widgets and sidebars.
OR
- From the Customize section, go to Widgets.
*Note: If the user wants to add a widget area in the footer then the user must add widgets in Footer Widget 1, Footer Widget 2, Footer Widget 3, and Footer Widget 4
- Sidebar: This sidebar is the default sidebar area. This sidebar area is displayed on blog pages, single blog pages, and pages. You can add/ modify/edit/ remove any section from this section. In this widget, you can add the ascendoor widgets.
- Widgets: This section will add/modify widgets to the footer section on the whole site.
- Offcanvas Widgets Area: You can add widgets in this widget to display them in the off-canvas widget area.
- Below Banner Widgets Area: In this widget section, you can add widgets that you want to display just below the banner section and above the other sections added from the front page customizer options.
- Primary Widgets Section: In this widget section, you can add widgets that you want to display beside the secondary widget. *Note: This section will be displayed after frontpage section. In case no sections are added from the frontpage then this section will be displayed below the “Below Banner Widgets”.
- Secondary Widgets Section: In this widget, you can add widgets that you want to display as a sidebar on the frontpage. *Note: This section will be displayed beside the primary widgets section.
- Above Footer Widgets Section: In this widget area, you can add widgets that you want to display at the bottom of the page, right above the footer section.
- Footer Widgets: You can add widgets to this footer widget area. If you add widgets in this area, they will be displayed in the footer area just above the footer copyright text. There are four header widget areas available: Footer Widget 1, Footer Widget 2, Footer Widget 3, and Footer Widget 4.
*You can add and edit widgets and sidebars from the dashboard as well.
*Note: Click on Publish to save the changes.