Frontpage Templates

UrbanNews provides some Frontpage templates to configure special Frontpage (or Home).

  1. Go to Pages > Add New and enter title name for Page, for example: Homepage.
  2. Choose “Front Page” in Template. The corresponding metadata will be displayed in the box Page Settings in the left and configure the settings.

Page Layout

  • Sidebar: Select Sidebar. Choose “Default” to use setting in Theme Options or Front Page full-width.

post_sidebar

  • Page Background: Choose background for this page.
  • Background Link: Hyperlink to background image that will override default setting in Theme Options.

Page Content

  • Content: there are two options
    • This Page Content: Use shortcode to buil page
    • Blog (Latest Post): Use this page as blog page and include parameters as follows.
      • Blog Title: Enter Heading Title for blog page blog_title_page
      • Title Link: Enter link to create link from page title
      • Blog Title Color: Choose Blog Title Color (Default is #333)
      • Blog Title Background: Choose Blog Title Background (Default is Main Color)
      • Blog Layout: Choose default Blog Layout for this page.t_blog_post
      • Post Categories: Enter categories IDs or slugs to get posts from, separated by a comma.
      • Post Tags: Enter tags to get posts from, separated by a comma.
      • Post Ids: Enter post IDs, separated by a comma.If this param is used, other params are ignored.
      • Order By: Arrange posts order by Post date or Random.
      • Post Count: Number of posts per page. Default value is 10.

Page Slider

header slider

  • Slider Settings: Choose Slider Settings for your page including
    • None: There is not Slider on Header content
    • Smart Post Slider: Use Slider on Header Content with the following configurations below
      • Slider padding: Enter padding-top, padding-right, padding-left, padding-bottom for slider.
      • Post Shortcode: Choose post shortcode for slider including
        • Default: Select “Default” to use settings in Theme Options 
        • Post Carousel: Display Slider as shortcode Post carousel
        • Post Slider: Display Slider as shortcode Post Slider
        • Post Grid: Display Slider as shortcode Post Grid with options to display such as style 1, style 2, style 3 in Post Grid Layou
      • Slider Style: Select Style for Sliders including:
        • Full-width Style full_width
        • Boxed Style box_style
      • Condition: Condition to query items.
      • Order: Designates the ascending or descending order.
      • Categories: List of categories (ID) to query items from, separated by a comma.
      • Tags: List of tags to query items from, separated by a comma. For example: tag-1, tag-2, tag-3.
      • IDs:  List of post IDs to query, separated by a comma. If this value is not empty, cats, tags and featured are omitted.
      • Featured: Get featured posts or not.
      • Autoplay: Autoplay or not.
      • Speed: The number of (milliseconds) – speed of animation effect in milliseconds. Leave empty or 0 if autoplay is disabled.
      • Visible: The number of visible items (items per slide)
      • Count: The number of items to query.
    • Custom: Create Slider by using shortcodes