Vantage Theme: Setting up the Blog
On this page:
Blog page section settings
To edit your Blog, in the theme editor template picker dropdown choose Blog or alternatively navigate to your blog
By default, the 2 most recent posts within each block will be shown at the top of the page.
- Banner image
Upload a banner image that will span the full width of the browser. Be careful to not make this too tall as it will force content down the page.
We recommend an image 1800px x 400px - 500px tall for this.
- image height
Control the height of the banner image to make sure it doesn't push your content too far down the page. - Text
Displays a description for your blog that is used across all the blogs on the theme. - Posts per page
Select how many blog posts will be shown per page before pagination is shown - Image alignment
Choose to Left, Right or alternate the alignment of images and text for each post - Text alignment
Set the text from your blog post excerpts to center or left align - Show published date
Toggles visibility of each blog post published date - Show author
Toggles the visibility of the blog post author - Show author/date above title
Sets the position of the author and date to above the post title for each - Show sidebar w/tags
Toggles a sidebar that contains links to all tags used within blog posts
Content blocks
The Blog page can also include an optional Newsletter block which will show at the bottom of the page.
Simply select this option from the Content area and open it to configure it's own options:
- Heading & Subheading
Add a heading and subheading to the Newsletter section - Color, weight, and size styles
Control the color and text styles for this section
Blog post ( article ) settings
The following settings and options relate to individual blog posts which are accessed by clicking any post within a blo
- Show published date
Toggles visibility of each blog post published date - Show author
Toggles the visibility of the blog post author - Show featured post image
Toggles visibility of the featured image assigned to the blog post at the top of the page - Show post tags
Toggles the visibility of the tags added to this post. - Show social share icons
Toggles visibility of Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest sharing buttons.
Content blocks
The Blog page can also include an optional Newsletter block which will show at the bottom of the page.
Simply select this option from the Content area and open it to configure it's own options:
- Heading & Subheading
Add a heading and subheading to the Newsletter section - Color, weight, and size styles
Control the color and text styles for this section