Setting Up The Blog

To setup your Blog page, create a new page and name it anything that you want. Make sure the page Template is set to Blog Template in the Page Attributes Box on the right side of the page editor. Doing that will automatically apply the sidebar to your blog page. Splendor has 6 different blog layout design:

• Large Style With Rigth SideBar
• Large Style With Left SideBar
• Large Style Without SideBar
• Medium Style With Rigth SideBar
• Medium Style With Left SideBar
• Medium Style Without SideBar

Blog paginations

You can set up how many posts you want to show per page. Follow the steps below:

• Navigate to Settings -> Reading
• Set up “Blog pages show at most”

How to select blog page layout?

• Navigate to Appearance -> Theme Options and click on the Blog Options Tab
• At the top you can select the three different Blog Layout designs and SideBar Position. Select one then hit save

Custom Blog page style

• Navigate to Appearance -> Theme Options and click on the Blog Options Tab
• Now you can add custom style to you blog

After your Blog page is made, you have to create posts to show up on the blog page. Follow the steps below to create a blog post.

Blog Posts

• All of your blog posts are made in the Posts section of your wordpress admin. Click on Posts to open the section.
• At the top of the posts page, click on Add New to make a new post. Create a title and insert your post content in the editing field (You can also use Visual Composer)
• On the right hand side of the post page is the Categories box. To make a new Category, click + Add New Category and give it a name. You can have as many as you want. To apply a Category to a post, simply check the box next to the Category name.
• You can also apply Tags to a post. The Tag box is below the Category box. Simply insert your tags, separate multiple tags with commas
• To set a Featured Image. Click the Featured Image box and select an image from the media window and click Use As Featured Image
• Once you have everything you want selected, click Publish and your post will show up on your blog page

Post Formats

Splendor Theme have 6 posts formats, see them below

• Standard – Simple text post
• Gallery – Post with image gallery
• Link – Post with link
• Quote – Post with quote
• Video – Post with video
• Audio – Post With audio

Splitting Content

You can truncate your blog entries so that only the first part of certain posts is displayed on the home and archive pages. When you do this, a link will be placed directly after your excerpt, pointing the reader to the full post.

You can find the More Tag button in the first row of the visual editor toolbar or by pressing Alt+Shift+T:

Using the More tag

• Go to Posts -> Add New in your dashboard to create a new blog entry.Begin writing your post. When you decide that you want to cut it off, insert the More tag to split the post (mark where the excerpt officially ends). You will see the More Tag as such in the visual editor.
• Finish writing your post.
• Publish the post and view the front page of your blog. You should see your post effectively split using the More Tag.