Category: unBlock Tutorials

When you see the live demo for unBlock, you will notice a banner image with an overlay caption. It might look something like this: I will show you how this is created… Go to Appearance > Widgets Drag an Image Widget into the Banner sidebar position. Add an image either by uploading or getting one from […]

unBlock comes with up to 10 colour presets. So, if you are not keen on the default colour palette for this theme, you can go to the customizer and choose a different colour preset. You can also manage the theme’s default primary, secondary, and tertiary colours too! We’ve already covered the basic colour options that […]

There are people who like the new WordPress block editor and many who prefer the classic version (before the days of Gutenberg). unBlock is designed to be compatible with both, but there is one feature we added to this theme—the ability to disable block styles. Enabling this in the customizer will prevent block styles associated […]

By default, unBlock displays page titles (headings) and excerpts with large uppercase fonts. However, with unBlock premium, you can manage this with a few customizer settings by changing the style. This will primarily affect pages with the 2 elements shown in the above screenshot: Page Title Page Excerpt (intro text) You can change these to […]

There is something to be said about Black & White photography. This is something we decided to implement into unBlock Premium, where you can change your coloured images to black & white. This adds a unique design style if you focus on photos. If you have a photographic blog or write about topics that include […]

There is a create thumbnails tutorial, found in the Common Setup docs, but this one is just a wee bit different. In previous themes, you are able to check the box next to every thumbnail size that you want to create when uploading “new” images. I should note that this is a feature in the […]

Available only with unBlock Premium, anyone reading your post (article) will be able to view additional posts that are related. These are displayed near the bottom of each article: For related posts, you can hide at least a couple of elements; outlined above. Go to Appearance > Customize > Post Options Look for the Related Posts section and […]

Available with unBlock premium, you can manage your Featured and Category post labels in a couple of ways. For the Featured (Sticky post) label, you can change the text to something other than “Featured” and you can even hide the label. The Category label is a bit different where you can only hide it if […]

WordPress does not give you the option to create an introduction or at least a description like it does for categories. unBlock gives you the ability to create a custom blog home introduction (Premium version only). We do this a little differently from other themes that offer this capability by selecting a page for your […]

The unBlock theme (free) gives you 3 layout options, while the premium version gives you one more. Free Version: Classic Left Sidebar Classic Right Sidebar Centered No Sidebars The premium version will add a minimal style as your fourth option. This will be a very basic concept with only the article and comments being displayed; […]

unBlock (free) gives you 3 blog layouts: Classic Left Sidebar Classic Right Sidebar List No Sidebars For the premium version, you get the above plus an additional 3 blog layout styles: Cards (premium) Masonry(premium) Minimal (premium) By default, unBlock is installed with the Classic Right layout chosen. Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout Options Look for the […]

Depending on whether you are using the free (1 style) or premium (3 styles) version of unBlock, you can change your footer layout with unBlock premium. Free Version: Premium Version: Change Footer Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout Options Look for the Footer Style setting. Select your footer style from the dropdown list. Click the Publish button.

With unBlock, you can change the header area layout/style. This will depend on whether you are using the free (1 style) or premium (3 styles) version of unBlock. For the Free version: For the Premium version: For the premium version, you get all three styles. Change Your Heading Layout Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout […]

If you are not using a logo, or you decide to use the logo with the text-based site title, you can change the title size. Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity Look for the Site Title Font Size setting. Move the slider to increase or decrease your logo image size. Click the Publish button. To revert the site […]

You can adjust your unBlock theme’s logo size if it’s too large. To change the size, you would move the slider to your preference. Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity Look for the Site Logo Size setting. Move the slider to increase or decrease your logo image size. Click the Publish button. To revert the logo size […]

Thank you for downloading this theme. This documentation consists of several parts and covers the process of installing and setting up your theme, as well, as the premium (plugin) version. We did our best to make our tutorials as clear as possible. However, if you have any difficulties with this theme or any suggestions on […]