Category: Empt Tutorials

WordPress’s default style for viewing archive pages is to have a prefix label. For example, categories have a prefix Category: in front of the category name. With a Prefix Label Without a Prefix Label If you decide to show the prefix, we’ve added a colour setting to change the prefix to what you want. However, […]

This tutorial will show you how to make a contact page when using the Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress. Basic knowledge of WordPress administration is required when doing this, but this tutorial is for the demo site’s contact page: Install the Contact Form 7 Plugin NOTE: Although this plugin is optional, this tutorial is for anyone who […]

With the Empt theme, you get a page loader, which is an animated counter when a page is loading. It counts from 0 to 100% and then your content will show up. I will make this a short tutorial since the loader example is set to repeat in a loop here, and to try not to […]

We took the default WordPress Recent Comments widget and made a couple of modifications to it. Instead of a basic list of comments, we added more style, including the avatar of the person commenting. Go to Appearance > Widgets Drag an Empt Recent Comments widget into a sidebar position Click the Save button

We’ve included a nice widget for you that displays the most recent posts with thumbnails. The thumbnails are automatically generated from the featured image you upload for the post(s). You can publish this in the left or right sidebars, or the bottom, or the footer. Go to Appearance > Widgets Drag the Recent Posts with Thumbnails widget into […]

With the Empt (Pro version) theme, you get an About Me widget that gives you the option to upload a portrait photo and to write a brief introduction of yourself. You also have optional settings to choose what to display to your visitors. Go to Appearance > Widgets Drag the Empt About Me widget into the sidebar position you […]

We have incorporated the Colorbox lightbox feature for viewing images from the WordPress Gallery Shortcode (even the block gallery). You can now view your photos in a popup overlay viewer. NOTE: We are planning to remove the lightbox in the next update because it does not work with actual image captions correctly (not compatible). We will be offering […]

With the Empt theme, you can change some of the labels such as Read More link. But we’ve also included an additional setting for the default blog home page. When you first install WordPress, your blog is the front page and you will notice there is no title or introduction for it, so we’ve included one. Note: The […]

Similar to how you select your blog layout, the full post has options to choose from. Currently, you have up to 5 styled layouts for your full post. Post with Right Sidebar Post with Left Sidebar Very Minimal Layout – No Sidebar Wide Featured Image with Title Above – No Sidebar Wide Featured Image – […]

This tutorial will show you how to change your blog summaries to use excerpts instead. IMPORTANT: When using excerpts, WordPress, by default, will strip all formatting and images from the part that is used as the excerpt. However, everything will come back in the full post view. Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > […]

The Empt (pro version) theme gives you up to 9 blog styled layouts: Classic Right Sidebar Classic Left Sidebar Grid Masonry Wide List Gallery Minimal — No featured images; text-based post summaries in a grid layout. Details To change the blog layout, follow these steps: Go to Appearance > Customize > Blog Options Find the Blog Layout drop-down setting and select […]

Empt gives you the option to create a custom blog title and introduction. When enabled, this will show only on your blog’s home page. Go to the Appearance > Customize > Label Options. Look for the Blog Title setting and type your blog heading Type out a Blog Intro (Description). Click the Publish button.

This is more of a WordPress feature, but we wanted to give you a quick introduction to what you can do with this option. Generally, this feature in WordPress lets you upload a background image or graphic that gets displayed as a background to your page (every page actually). Here are a few ideas on […]

Typography generally has a learning curve for most people, even developers. We normally do not include extensive font options in our themes because of that. We usually refer customers to seek out a font plugin—and we still do because they are more comprehensive. Then there is the fact that a theme has way too many […]

Since Gutenberg has been part of WordPress, not everyone wants to use the block editor that is now the default editor in WordPress. Many are using the Classic Editor instead, so we added a setting to disable the block styles. Go to Appearance > Customize > Other Options Look for the Disable Gutenberg Styles setting and toggle it […]

We originally incorporated the Colorbox lightbox feature for viewing images from the WordPress Gallery Shortcode (even the block gallery). You can view your photos in a popup overlay viewer. NOTE: We are planning to remove the lightbox in the next update because it does not work with actual image captions correctly (not compatible). We will be offering an […]