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How to setup Sidebar section

Sidebar section: This section is at left of blog post section. It has 5 default subsection such as ” About me ” , “Slider post”, ” Sidebar post”, “Quote” and “Social link”. Additionally other default widget from wordpress can be added from Widgets.

  1. Go to admin menu >> appearance >> customizer.
  2. Go to theme options >> sidebar section.
  3. Enable “Display Sidebar” to show it. It has 5 default subsections.
    1. Enable “Display about” to show “about me” subsection.
      1. Write title for this subsection at “Display about”
      2. Write the statement about me at “Write about”
      3. Upload the image.
    2. Enable ” Display slider at sidebar ” to show “slider post” subsection. This subsection show post in slider format with image. On hovering the image, it shows category and site title.
      1. Select one of the option from “order by” drop down list. It has 3 options available. They are as follows. Ascending chronological order of Post to display in this section is depend on the selected option.
        1. Recent published date
        2. Most commented
        3. Random – This is available in pro version only.
      2. Select one of the option from “Select the post among”. Post to display can be filtered by category or show by all.
        1. Among all category
        2. list of categories.
      3. Select one of the option from “Select the post among”. Post to display can be filtered by author or show by all. This is available in pro version only.
        1. Among all author.
        2. List of author only.
      4. Assign a number in “Number of post to show”. The number of post to display in this section is derived from here.
      5. Chose the option either to display or not from Category and  UseBlankImage display. If you chose UseBlankImage display then system will display a grey color blank image if the post you have created does not use any Feature image.
    3. Enable “Display Sidebar post” to show “Sidebar post” subsection. This subsection shows the post with image, site title and postdate.
      1. Write the title of subsection
      2. Select one of the option from “order by” drop down list. It has 3 options available. They are as follows. Ascending chronological order of Post to display in this section is depend on the selected option.
        1. Recent published date
        2. Most commented
        3. Random – This is available in pro version only.
      3. Select one of the option from “Select the post among”. Post to display can be filtered by category or show by all.
        1. Among all category
        2. list of categories.
      4. Select one of the option from “Select the post among”. Post to display can be filtered by author or show by all.
        1. Among all author.
        2. List of author only.
      5. Assign a number in “Number of post to show”. The number of post to display in this section is derived from here.
    4. Enable ” Display Quote ” to show ” Display Quote” subsection. This subsection shows the Quote. Write the title and quote content.
    5. Social link subsection is enable / disable from customizer >> theme options >> social link section. Please refer to ” how to setup social link”
  4. The width of sidebar can be changed from customizer >> theme options >> general layout section . Assign a number at “Sidebar width”. This option is available in Pro version only.
  5. The position of sidebar can be changed from Right to left from customizer >> theme options >> general layout section . Please select from list “Sidebar Position”. This is available in pro version only.
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