First page is like the face of your site, so do remember, that many visitors evaluate exactly first page or front page of your site and decide whether take their time to read more pages/posts or just go away.  That’s why be careful, while choosing front page of your site - it should be pretty-look, relevant to your site content page, that will be able to briefly introduce site to the new visitors or can be simply interesting for them.

To set front page follow next steps:

• Go to admin panel in WordPress > Settings > Reading
• Choose Front page displays - Your latest posts (e.g. you want to keep visitors attention on your posts) or select “A static page” option, which give you an opportunity to set any early created page as a front page.

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If you want to change your front page, just go to WordPress > Settings > Reading and select Your latest posts or any page from a dropdown menu in “A static page” option.

To create new page or post, go to WordPress Admin Panel > Pages(Posts) and click on “Add new”. Then enter title and text to specified fields.

WordPress provides default features you will be able to set, such as:

Publish options:

• Save page/post as a draft
• See page/post preview (keep in mind, that this option show changes, but doesn’t save - them)
• To publish for the first time or to save changes for next times, click on Publish/ Update
• Adjust Status, Visibility and date/time you want to publish page/post
• If you want to delete page/post, please click on “Move to trash “
• Display or hide different features for each page/post via Screen Options.

We upgraded some features and add new ones, see the list below:

• Sidebar
• Custom fields - set page structure by using simple rules (right/yes, yes/no, the name of header skin you want to display)

Use Screen Options in the right top corner to show all features you can adjust. To display option in the post settings, please select checkbox left to this option:

• Excerpts - short description
• Trackbacks Option - automatic notification to blog you link to
• Post/Page format (Link format, Quote format, Video format, Audio format)
• Custom Fields - add new custom field
• Discussion -  comments settings
• Comments - add new comment
• Slug
• Author
• Categories
• Tags - add new or use most
• Option Sidebar - enable/disable sidebar and sidebar settings
• Featured Image - header image of your post

Go to section: “Appearance > Menus”.

This option allows you to work with different types of existing Menus or create new ones.

You have an option to add / set navigation label / delete Menu sections as well as rename/delete Menus directly.

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For adding a new section to an existing Menu you need to follow next steps:

• (1) Select Menu you want to work with
• (2) Choose any type of items (pages, links, articles etc.)
• (3) Mark particular items or (4) Select All and then click on “Add to Menu”

You can always change Menu sections by clicking each item to reveal additional configuration option in the Menu Structure box (5).

When finished, please make sure you save all changes by clicking on Save Menu (6).

Note that you can change items list displayed in the left area by clicking on Screen Option on the right top corner.

Interrelations of Theme Menu Location and Assigned Menu is shown in Manage location tab. Here you can edit or select Assigned Menu and create new one to use it at Assigned Menu. Don’t forget to Save your customizations!

WP admin panel gives you a possibility to work with comments for all or for specific pages.

Disable comments for all pages in admin panel as default settings.

Please, navigate to: “Settings > Discussions” and click “Allow people to post comments on new articles”.

So you will disallow to add new comments for new posts published after this changes.

Disable comments for specific pages

First you need to open Screen Option at the right top corner of the edit page of post. And then click on the right option to allow or to disallow comments on this post.

If you want to disable comment for all or separated pages/posts from desired section, please do the following:

Go to section where you want to disallow comment. Then mark all pages and select Edit Option, click on “Apply”.

Alphabet Theme is more flexible due to our custom settings, which you can find in Theme Options section (Appearance > Theme Options).

General - Some general options to set.

Preloading Page - This option allows you to customize Preloading Page view.

Blog - These options help to set default blog post view and blog posts list displaying in the categories. You can set individual blog post view also.

Fonts - General font settings. In other words is a global font settings for all texts, titles (H1, H2, H3).

Logo -  These options allows to upload site logo for displaying it in the different site areas.

Menu - Enable/disable menu at the posts or pages. Customize menu colors for 1 level menu and for submenu level menu.

Social links - These options allow you to place your social accounts links to the website.

Social sharing - Specify social networks to share your content through them.

Top Bar - Change top bar view via admin panel.

Header - You will be able to adapt header appearance to your wishes through these options.

Footer - These options allow to define general footer settings values.

Contacts -  Fill your contact info and let website visitors get in touch with you.

Help - Find answers to the hottest “How to?” about our theme. And yeah, you’re here now:)

Coming Soon Page - This option allows you to customize Coming Soon Page view.  

Demo Content  - download demo content just in one click.

Go to Primary Slider section in the Admin Panel. Here you can create new Slider and Add new slides to slider. Place your background, fill your text and set you ‘call-to-action’ button. With the help of shortcode at the top of the slide edit page, you can display slider at any page or post you need.

Using Portfolio section, you will be able to present your projects. Add portfolio items, create new portfolio categories or tabs and place portfolio list at the page via specify shortcode.

To share you team use Company Team section of WordPress admin panel. Add team members and display them by using [team_ac][/team_ac] shortcode.

Build the page using ready-to-use shortcodes. Just place specific shortcodes to the page in the order you want them to be displayed at the page; fill text inside shortcodes to specify their title and description. Here is the list of shotcodes you could use and adjust:

Slider [primary_slider_abc][/top_slider_abc] - use Primary Slider section in the WordPress admin panel to create sliders and place it to the page/post via shortcodes.

Google Map [map_abc][/map_abc]  - help your customers/visitors find you or some important place you want to show

Team [team_abc][/team_abc] - present your awesome team

Info table [info_table_abc] [/info-table_abc]- add info to the table

Icon box [icon_box_abc][/icon-box_abc] - add info to the icon box

Testimonials [testimonials_abc][/testimonials_abc] - display testimonials

Portfolio [portfolio_abc][/portfolio_abc] - view portfolio items list

Contact us [contact_us_abc][/contact_us_abc] - create new page “Contact us” and place this shortcode to display contact us info. Add your text or widget inside the shortcode.

Blog [blog_abc][/blog_abc] - create new page “Blog” and place this shortcode to display blog posts here.

Items’ carousel slider  or slides container [slide_container_abc][/slide_container_abc] - place your items to slide carousel. Use this shortcode as a container for adding slider items inside.

Carousel slider item [slide_item_abc][/slide_item_abc] - one item of carousel slider. You can put almost any shortcode here (e.g. add icon box). Put as many carousel slider item to [slider_class_ac] as you want to display in carousel slider.

Use carousel slider item shotcode in the next manner:

[slider_class_abc] [slider_item_abc][/slider_item_abc] [/slider_class_abc]

At the same time, you can use Visual Editor to see the page architecture as it is. Just go to Visual editor and select shortcode at  Alphabet Theme tools panel(1)*.

Note: use Carousel Slider for better items displaying!

Click on Carousel Slider(2):

Set options in the pop-up window:

You will get something like this:

Text in containers is fully customizable, so make changes if you need and be careful with code.

Now you can place any elements from the Alphabet Theme tools panel into the blue container i.e. 1 shortcode=1slide. In the example, we created 3 blue containers (slides) and add Icon box container to each of them (1):

In the front-end it looks like this:

Use hot key combination of “Shift+Enter” to move to a new row and add new Slide in the same Slides Container.

To delete any shortcode use “Del”.

So, control is very similar to any text editor one.

To add Google Map [map_abc][/map_abc], Portfolio [portfolio_abc][/portfolio_abc], Team [team_abc][/team_abc], Slider [primary_slider_abc][/top_slider_abc] before or above the Slide Container just place the cursor into the corresponding text area of WordPress visual editor. Create spacing between paragraphs by clicking on the “Enter” key.