Trendy Blog – Blazetheme Documentation

Trendy Blog Premium Theme Documentation

Getting Started
Installation
License Integration
Demo Import
Frontpage Integration
Site Logo & Title
Site Title Colors & Typography
Menu Colors & Typography
Category colors
Banner Slider
About Author Section
Post Grid
Post List
Categories Collection
Posts Masonry
Posts Filter Tab
Woo Products Block
Footer Three Column Section
Footer Options
Footer Copyright Text
Translation

Getting Started

Introduction

Trendy Blog is a modern responsive WordPress theme that lets you write blog posts and articles with ease. Focusing on user flexibility it has very easy-to-use customizer options. It has more than 25 + blog posts layouts and 4 useful widgets that make your blog website seem complete. Compatible with the latest WordPress version, it comes with dozens of amazing features like numerous colors option, typography with more than 600+ google fonts, sticky header, unlimited social icons, button layouts, page breadcrumbs, page posts archive layouts, sidebar layouts, sticky sidebar, scroll to top options, multiple header layouts, and much more to explore inside the theme. We provide free support for you and are glad to help you out with any type of theme issue.

It is fully integrated with the Woocommerce plugin and uses the best clean SEO practices. Built more than 100+ layouts with possible combinations of blocks available. Check out our beautiful pre-built demos now: All pre-built demos

Installation

Administration Panel

Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel.
Click on Appearance -> Themes -> Add New
Search for “trendy blog” in the search field.
You can upload the theme zip file if you have downloaded before.
Click on Install button and then Activate the theme.

Pro Version

Buy trendy blog premium version from the blazethemes store you will get email once your purchase is completed. Download the theme zip from the link given in the email or download the latest version of the theme from “My Account” page

Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel.
Click on Appearance -> Themes -> Add New
Upload the theme zip file that you have downloaded.
Click on Install button and then Activate the theme.

CPanel/ FTP

Download the latest version of the trendy blog theme from https://wordpress.org/themes/trendy-blog page.

Unzip the downloaded zip file.
Upload the unzipped file inside public_html/wp-content/themes/.
Now, activate the theme through Dashboard > Appearance -> Themes
Activate the Trendy Blog Pro and Click on “Customize” in the Appearance Menu in the Dashboard. Now you can customize or modify according to your choice.

Pro Version

Unzip the downloaded zip file.
Upload the unzipped file inside public_html/wp-content/themes/.
Now, activate the theme through Dashboard > Appearance -> Themes
Activate the Trendy Blog Pro and Click on “Customize” in the Appearance Menu in the Dashboard. Now you can customize or modify according to your choice.

License Integration

Activating License

Pro Version

You need to activate the license key in order to receive Automatic Theme Updates which includes featured updates, security updates and bug fixes. To activate the license key,

First you have to find the license key that you will get in your purchase confirmation email.
You can also find your license key in “My Account” page of blazethemes.com
Now, go through your dashboard > appearance > Trendy Blog License
Paste the license key in the input field and click “Activate License”

Demo Import

Importing Demo Content

After you activate Trendy Blog in your website. You can use demo import to make your site look like one of our available demos.

Go to Appearance > Trendy Blog Info
You can see list of all demos in this page
If you have not install/activate the Blazethemes Demo Importer plugin Click on install/activate demo importer button just above the demos listing section

Then, hover onto the demo you want to import and Click Install

It will land you to the demo importer setting page
Check the box if you want to reset your website data before demo import( Note : It will erase all of your posts, pages, media and website data )
Uncheck box if you donot want to erase your previous data. ( Note : Your site may not look exactly like demo as your previous posts, pages, categories or tags may collide with new datas )
Final Note: Always backup your website before resetting website for demo import.
Finally, your site now looks exactly like a demo. Go on and Customize further with your choice

Frontpage Integration

Enable frontpage sections

To display frontpage sections

Go through Dashboard > Customizer > Homepage Settings > Enable the option “Show frontpage sections”

Site Logo & Title

Site Logo & Site Icon

To upload and change site logo

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Site Identity > Logo & Site Icon
Upload the logo you want to set for your site.
Upload the logo for site icon as recommended it should be square and at least 512 * 512 pixels.

Site Title & description

To change site title

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Site Identity > Site title & Tagline
Under Site title input field add your site title
Uncheck to hide site title under “Display site title” checkbox field
Under Site title input field add your site description
Uncheck to hide site title under “Display site description” checkbox field

Site Title Colors & Typography

Site Title Colors

To change site title

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Site Identity > Site title & Tagline
Scroll to style section
Choose the site title color
Choose the site title hover color

Site Title Typography

To change site title

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Site Identity > Site title & Tagline
Scroll to typography section
Choose font family, font weight, font style, font size and line height

Menu Colors & Typography

Menu Colors

You can change menu colors, menu backgrounds, active menu colors and hover menu colors

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Header Options > Menu Options
Select border colors, menu colors, active menu colors
Click on “Mobile” tab to change the mobile menu toggle button color and background color

Pro Theme

Select sub menu colors, hover colors
Click on “Mobile” tab to change the mobile menu toggle button color and background color

Menu Typography

To change menu font family, font size, font style, line height

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Header Options > Menu Options
Scroll to typography section
Choose font family, font weight, font style, font size and line height

Category colors

To work on category color

Pro Theme

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Category Color
Choose your Category color

Banner Slider

Banner slider

To work on banner slider block

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Frontpage Top full Width
Select category from dropdown
Choose number of posts to display
Toggle post date
Toggle comments number
Toggle to show or hide the block

Pro Theme

Toggle post title
Toggle post categories
Change the slider controls
Select block layouts

About Author Section

Content Settings

To work on about author section

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > About Author Section
Select page from dropdown
Edit author title
Upload image for author signature
Toggle to show or hide the block

Pro theme

Upload images of author

Style Settings

To change styling of about author section

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > About Author Section
Under style tab select color and secondary color

Pro theme

Under style tab select background color

Post Grid

To work on post grid block

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Frontpage Middle Left Content
Select category from dropdown
Choose number of posts to display
Toggle post date
Toggle comments number
Toggle button option
Toggle to show or hide the block

Pro theme

Toggle to show post title
Toggle to show post categories
Toggle to show post thumbnail
Change button label
Select block layouts

Post List

To work on post list block

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Frontpage Middle Left Content
Select category from dropdown
Choose number of posts to display
Toggle post date
Toggle comments number
Toggle button option
Toggle to show or hide the block

Pro theme

Toggle to show post title
Toggle to show post categories
Toggle to show post thumbnail
Change button label
Select block layouts

Categories Collection

To work on categories collection block

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Frontpage Middle Left Content
choose the categories from multicheckbox
Toggle to show categories title
Toggle to show categories count
Toggle to show or hide the block

Pro theme

Select block layouts

Posts Masonry

Pro theme

To work on posts masonry block

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Frontpage Middle Left Content
Select category from dropdown
Choose number of posts to display
Toggle post date
Toggle comments number
Toggle button option
Toggle to show post title
Toggle to show post categories
Toggle to show post thumbnail
Change button label
Select block layouts
Toggle to show or hide the block

Posts Filter Tab

Pro theme

To work on posts filter tab block

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Frontpage Middle Left Content
Choose categories from multicheckbox
Choose number of posts to display
Toggle post date
Toggle comments number
Toggle button option
Toggle to show post title
Toggle to show post categories
Toggle to show post thumbnail
Change button label
Select block layouts
Toggle to show or hide the block

Woo Products Block

To work on woocommerce products block. Activate “Woocommerce” plugin from Dashboard > Appearance > Plugins

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Frontpage Bottom Full Width Woocommerce Section
Choose categories from multi-checkbox field
Select type of products to display
Choose number of products to display
Toggle to show or hide the block

Pro theme

Toggle to show products ratings
Toggle to show products price tags
Toggle to show add to cart button
Select block layouts

Footer Three Column Section

To work on footer three column section.

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Footer Three Column
Hold and drag vertically to re-order the columns
Choose column to customize
Select category from dropdown

Pro theme

Choose number of posts to show
Toggle to show post categories
Toggle to show post title
Toggle to show post date
Under Style section
Select section width
Select pages to show section on
Customize the padding values for the section
Select color from color field
Select background color from color field

Footer Options

Widget settings

To change footer widgets content

Go through Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Footer Options > Content
Toggle to show footer widgets column section
Click on the label and edit content of particular widgets

Pro Theme

Select footer layouts

Style Settings

To change footer layouts and colors

Go through Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Footer Options > Style
Select footer width from dropdown
Select font color and hover color from color field
Select background color from color field

Pro Theme

Upload or select the footer background image

Footer Copyright Text

Pro Theme

To change footer copyright string

Go through Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Footer Options > Bottom Footer
Under Site information editor field change the string

Translation

Translating theme

To translate trendy blog theme in your language.

Activate “Loco Translate” Plugin from Dashboard > Plugins > Add new > Search for Loco Translate
Install & Active the plugin.
Now go to Loco Translate in your dashboard left admin menu.
Click on active theme
Choose the language you want to translate to
Then add string of your langauge