General Settings
The following article covers the relevant options in the General settings area and an overview of what they are used for.
Style Kits
The style kits area allows you to select from 2 style kit options with Como. Como dark and light. Selecting a style kit option will change various items on the site, including background colors, fonts, spacing and other options enabled in the site. Its a great way to give your site a quick update:
Backgrounds
The backgrounds section allows you the opportunity to add background colors to several elements on your site, including the site background.
The other options have the gold ? icon, that will show exactly where they are using, including the footer background color.
Colors
The colors section allows your to edit the relevant colors on your site, including menu, link, general font and title colors. You can see more details on each color by clicking the gold ? icon to the right (below is only a small snippet of the options):
Titles and Links
The titles and links section allows you to edit the custom taxonomy for various post types and page, including the blog page, search page titles.
Blog Page Title – this is only relevant if setting up the blog page using Settings > Reading which is not the preferred option.
Search Title – the label for any search results pages:
Read More Label – this is the option for the “read more” label option for galleries and posts:
Open to Discover Label – this is the option for the galleries and blogs listing pages that use the card views with slider options, after the user has scrolled through the initial images they are prompted to open the post:
Back to Home Label – this is the option for allowing the user to click back to home in the mobile menu:
Gallery Link URL – this is the custom taxonomy for your gallery posts. When a user goes to a single gallery post, it will have the following structure /gallery/name-of-gallery
Gallery Categories URL – Again this is similar, but will be in the structure /gallery-category name
Gallery Tags URL – Again this is similar to gallery categories, but will be in the structure /gallery-tag name
Its not recommended to change these unless you require custom permalinks for the post type.
Spacing and Width
In the spacing and width area, you can set the distance between post images:
Analytics
In the following section you can add any tracking codes for your site, including Google analytics.
Just copy and paste any of your codes into this section and it will be added to your site.
Favicon
The favicon is the icon in the browser tab like our Flothemes icon:
Users can upload a .ico file to use on your site.
Admin Bar
Turning on the admin bar option will allow logged in admins to see the following bar at the top of your site:
Its a great tool for allowing you to quickly edit, pages and posts. Only admin users can see the tool bar.
Import Export
The import and export area allows 3 things.
- Importing Demo content – NOTE! Only do this if you are starting a new site.
- Import – import of a Flothemes export file. This will apply all Flothemes settings from another site, or an old version of your site. Great for using as a simple settings backup.
- Export – exporting of your Flothemes settings, to be used as a backup. This is not a database back up, just a settings backup. Its also great if creating multiple sites that are using the same theme and settings.
Social Media
With Flothemes we make it easy to link your social media accounts.
Go to Flothemes > General Settings > Social Media:
Add Social Network
To add new, Click on Add Social Networks:
When setting up each social profile icon it is necessary to add the following information:
After all the social profile icons are added, you can sort them by using drag and drop.
Sharing Options
Below the social networks you will see that we have added options allowing you to select social sharing options.
NOTE! Social sharing options are not links to your account, they are the most common sharing platforms for users, facebook, twitter, etc. It will generate a link to the specific post for this platform.
Turn on and off the options as required.