General
Go to Admin -> Appearance -> Theme options.
Theme options are split into tabs on the left: General, Style, Social links, Page, Breadcrumb, Logo, Facebook Integration, Blog and Cookie Consent. Each tab has its own fields; click Save Changes at the top or the bottom of the page when you are done. Every field can be translated when the site has more than one language (see Translate).
General
Tab General.
| Field | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Copyright | Copyright text on the left of the last footer line. |
| Designed by | Credit text placed after the copyright in the footer. |
| Allow user login? | Turns the member sign in and sign up on. It shows the Login link in the top bar and, once a member is signed in, the Account menu. See Members. |
| Address, Phone | Shown by the About me widget (see Widgets). |
| The contact email shown on the 404 page ("Contact us" link). | |
| Enable Facebook chat? | Loads the Facebook Messenger chat plugin for the Facebook page ID of the Facebook Integration tab. Meta has been retiring this plugin, so check on your site that the bubble still appears before you rely on it. |
| Enable Comment in post detail page? | No, Via Facebook (the Facebook comment box) or Via built-in comments (the Comments plugin, see Comments). |
| Enable Preloader? | Shows a loading animation while a page loads. |
| Enable Recently viewed posts? | Shows a "Recently Viewed Posts" block under each post, with the posts the visitor read before. See Short code. |
| Site title, Show site name after page title, SEO title separator | The site name and how it is added to the browser title. |
| SEO Title, SEO Description, SEO Index, SEO default Open Graph image | Default meta tags of the site, used when a page or post has no SEO meta of its own. |
| Terms and Privacy Policy URL | Link used by the "I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy" checkbox of the forms. |
The header style and the homepage are in the Page tab, the post layouts are in the Blog tab, and the logos are in the Logo tab.
Logo & favicon
Tab Logo.
- Logo mobile: the logo of phones (below 768 px wide).
- Logo tablet: the logo of tablets (768 to 991 px wide).
- Image Loading: the placeholder picture shown while the post pictures are loading.
- Favicon and Favicon Type: the small icon in the browser tab.
- Logo (at the bottom of the tab): the logo of desktop screens. It is used by every header style.
Upload a picture from the Media library with Choose image, or paste an address with Add from URL, then click Save Changes.
Font & color
Tab Style.
| Field | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Font heading | The Google font of the headings. |
| Font body | The Google font of the body text. |
| Primary color | Buttons, links and highlights. |
| Secondary, Success, Danger, Warning, Info colors | The accent colors used by labels, tags and buttons. |
| Light color, Dark color, White color | The light and dark surfaces of the site. |
| Link color | The color of the text links. |
The fonts are loaded from Google Fonts and the colors are applied to the whole front end as soon as you save. For anything else, use Custom CSS.
Social links
Tab Social links.
Add one row per network with four fields: Name, Icon, URL and Total follow. The icon is the lowercase name of the network (for example facebook or twitter). The links are shown in the top bar and in the mobile menu. The Socials widget shows them as colored buttons with the Total follow number (a value above 1000 is shown as 12 K). See Widgets.
Homepage and header
Tab Page.
- Header style: Style 1, Style 2 or Style 3. See Header.
- Your homepage displays: the page used as the homepage. The demo has Homepage, Home 2 and Home 3. See Pages and homepage.
- Galleries page: the page that lists your galleries (the Gallery plugin).
Breadcrumb
Tab Breadcrumb.
Enable breadcrumb? shows or hides the breadcrumb under the title of the pages.
Blog
Tab Blog.
| Field | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Single Layout | The default layout of the post detail page: Default, Top full or Inline. A post can override it in its own Layout box. See Post detail layouts. |
| Post list Layout | The layout of the post lists (category, tag, author and search pages): List, Grid or Metro. |
| Post date format, Post date short format | The format of the dates on posts and galleries (the long one on post pages, the short one on small cards). |
| Show author description in post detail | Shows the author box under a post. |
| Blog page | The page that lists all posts. |
| Number of posts per page in a category / in a tag | How many posts a category or tag page shows before pagination. |
Post detail layouts
The post page has three layouts. Choose the default in Single Layout, or set one post apart in the Layout box (Addition Information) of the post editor in Admin -> Blog -> Posts.
A post that has a video always uses the Default layout. See Insert video.
Default: the title, the author and the counters, then the picture, with the sidebar on the right.
Top full: the picture and the title side by side across the whole page width, then the content and the sidebar.
Inline: the same picture-and-title block, kept inside the width of the content.
Facebook Integration
Tab Facebook Integration.
- Facebook page ID: the ID of your Facebook page, needed by the Facebook chat.
- Facebook App ID and Facebook Admins: added to the page as the
fb:app_idandfb:adminsmeta tags. - The switch Enable Facebook comment in post detail page? of this tab is not read by UltraNews. Choose Via Facebook in Enable Comment in post detail page? of the General tab to show Facebook comments.
Cookie consent
Tab Cookie Consent.
The cookie banner asks visitors to accept cookies. You can turn it on or off, choose its style, edit the title, the message and the buttons, link to the Cookie Policy page, set colors and width, and show a reject button and a customize preferences button.
