SamuraiSamurai is minimal blog theme. This responsive theme is best to use for blog, travel, informative and life style coaches. It comes with option to change color of entire site, author profile widget, social links to connect with social networking sites and more. Samurai Blog Theme Contains Related Post, Featured Section. It Support Popular Plugin WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, Easy Digital Download. ThemeInstallation FromWordPressDashboard

• LogintoWordPressadminpanel• Goto>Appearance>Themes• ClickinaddNew>UploadSamuraizipfile>InstallNow• Activatethetheme

Afterinstallingthetheme,nowyoucancustomizeyourwebsiteasperyourpreference.Whatispageandhowtocreateit?Pagesarestaticandarenotlistedbydate.Pagesdonotusetagsorcategories.AnAboutpageistheclassicexample.PagescanbedisplayedinthesidebarusingthePageswidget,andsomethemesdisplaypagesinthenavigationatthetopofthesite.-Tocreatepage

• Gotodashboard• Clickinpages>AddNew>followinstructionsasbelow

• Afteraddingallcontent,youcanpublishyourpageandcreatenecessarypagesbysamemethod.

Whatiscategoryandhowtocreateit?Categoriesprovideahelpfulwaytogrouprelatedpoststogether,andtoquicklytellreaderswhatapostisabout.Categoriesalsomakeiteasierforpeopletofindyourcontent.Categoriesaresimilarto,butbroaderthan,tags.-Howtocreatecategories

• Gotodashboard• ClickinPosts>Categories

• Youcanputyourownslugtoo,mostofthetimeitisleftblankwhichmeansnameofthecategoryitselfwillbeitsslug.

• [Foreg.yoursite.com/category/category_name]• Youcanputdescriptionifyouwant.• Nowafteraddingcategory,yourcategorywillappearinrightsideofthe

postpage.• Youcanaddmorecategoriesinsamemanner.

HowcreateMenusThisthemecomeswiththreemenulocations.Primarymenus,SocialmenusandTopmenus.

Youcancreatemenusintwoways.1. FirstisfromAppearance>Customize>Menus>CreateNewMenu

2. Second fromAppearance>Menus.Werecommendsecondoptionforcreatingmenus.

• CreateNewMenu[Youneedtocreatethreemenusinthiscase]• Givenameofthemenu[Foreg.PrimaryMenu]>CreateMenu

• Nowaddmenusfromleftside.WhetheryouwantyourpagestobemenuorCategories.YoucanalsoaddcustomURLasmenu.

• ClickinAddtoMenubutton• SelectwhetheryourmenusarePrimary,ToporSocial.• YouneedtocreatedifferentmenusforTopMenus,PrimaryMenusand

SocialMenus.• ForsocialmenusyouneedtoincludeCustomlinksofyoursocialprofilesas

bellow.

WidgetsYoucancustomizeyourblogasperthewidgetoptionsprovidedwithSamurai

• Appearance>Customize• OrYoucanaccesswidgetoptiondirectlyfromAppearance>Widgets• Samuraiprovidesyoufollowingwidgetoptions

Check every available options for the widget.

Customization optionsYoucancustomizeyoursitefromthecustomizeoptions

• Appearance>Customize

SamuraiOptionsInthisoptionyoucanchangethepositionofthesidebarinyourside.IfyouchooseNonethenyoursitewillnothaveanysidebar.Youalsochangecopyrighttextfromthisoption.SiteIdentity

Fromthisoptionyoucanchangelogoorsitetitle&tagline.Youcanalsosetsiteicon.Colors

Thisthemegivesyouonlytwocoloroptions.• HeadercolorandBackgroundcolor

HeaderImageHeaderimagecomesonthetopofyoursite.Thisimageresidesinthebackgroundofthesitetitle.

BackgroundImageFrombackgroundimageyoucansetyoubackgroundimage.Generally,thisoptionisnotused.MenusYouhavealreadycreatedmenufromtheAppearance>Menuoption.Butyoucanalsomanagethepositionofthemenusandadd/deletemenusfromthisoptions.

Youcaneditlocationsofthemenusfromtheviewalllocationsoptions.

WidgetYoucansetyourwidgetfromthisoptiontoo.ButyouhavealreadysetthewidgetfromAppearance>widgetoption.HowtoaddauthorInfoinsidebar?Youcanaddprofessionallookingauthorboxasshownbelow.

Inordertoaddanauthorbox,followfollowingsteps

• CreateapagecalledAbout.• Writedescriptionaboutyourself.• Setfeaturedimagethatyouwanttodisplayandpublishit.• Nowgoto>widget>addAuthorInfointhesidebar.• Settitleasyoulikeandchooseaboutpage.• Clickinsamebutton.

InthesamemanneryoucanaddCategories,navigationMenus,Archives,pagestoyoursidebar.HomepagesettingYouhavetwooptionshere.Ifyouwantyourhomepagetobestatic(Samealways)thenyoucanchooseAstaticpageotherwise,youcanchooseYourlatestpostsoption.Inordertosetastaticpage,youneedtocreateastaticpagefromthepagesection.CreatingapostNowafterallset,youcanstartwritingyourpost.Followthesesteps• Gotodashboard>Posts>AddNew

• Finally,clickinpublishButton.Youcanpreviewyourpostbeforeactuallypublishitjustmakesureeverythingisok.Ifyouhavenotcompletedwritingyourpostthenyoucansaveitasdraft.