MH Edition WordPress Theme is a flexibel, powerful and yet lightweight template for technology and news online magazines with a fully responsive and elegant design. To configure MH Edition Magazine WordPress Theme, first upload and install the theme through your WordPress dashboard and then take the necessary steps for theme configuration as you can read below.
For those of you who are new to WordPress, we would recommend you to look at some basic WordPress tutorials. That might make the installation and set-up process much more easier for you as this documentation covers the theme and not WordPress itself. We offer additional articles and tutorials in our Support Center which can help you understand WordPress and maintain your website properly. If you're now ready to go, have fun creating visually sophisticated and well-organized magazine websites with MH Edition.
How to Create a Static Front Page #
In case you like our theme demo and want to configure your website like the layout you can see in the theme demo of MH Edition, you will need to set up a static front page. Afterwards you can place the widgets on the front page as you like. To set up a static front page with the widgetized layout, simply navigate to "Pages" in your WordPress dashboard and create a new page named "Home" ("Homepage" or else) and select "Homepage" as page template:
If you have created your static front page as instructed and have selected the widgetized "Homepage" template for the page you've created, please go to "Settings => Reading" in your WordPress dashboard and set that page as your static front page as seen below:
In case you need further assistance and more detailed instructions about creating a static front page in WordPress, please read and follow this tutorial: How to set a Static Front Page in WordPress.
Available Widget Locations of MH Edition #
In total MH Edition WordPress Theme has 22 widget locations. Inside these widget locations you can place default WordPress widgets, custom widgets or add any HTML code you like by using a text widget. After you have completed the setup of your static front page (as stated above), please navigate to "Appearance => Widgets" in your WordPress dashboard to simply drag & drop widgets into your preferred widget locations or use the WordPress customizer:
- Sidebar: widget location for sidebar on posts, pages & archives
- Header 1: widget location above the header of your site (premium)
- Header 2: widget location inside the header of your site
- Home 1 - 6: widget locations on the "Homepage"
- Home 7 - 11: widget locations on the "Homepage" (premium)
- Posts 1: widget location above single post content (premium)
- Posts 2: widget location below single post content (premium)
- Pages 1: widget location above single page content (premium)
- Pages 2: widget location below single page content (premium)
- Footer 1: widget area located in the footer (premium)
- Footer 2: widget area located in the footer (premium)
- Footer 3: widget area located in the footer (premium)
- Contact Sidebar: widget location on contact page template (premium)
You can easily put widgets into the several widget locations / sidebars via drag & drop. To place widgets, please navigate to "Appearance => Widgets" in your WordPress dashboard or use the WordPress customizer. There you will find an extensive collection of default WordPress widgets and custom widgets that are included in MH Edition WordPress theme, like for example: MH Slider, MH Custom Posts, MH Facebook Page, MH Tabbed, MH Posts Grid, MH YouTube Video, MH Author Bio ,MH Authors, MH News in Pictures, MH Carousel, MH Social and a great bunch more.
How to place the Widgets like in the Theme Demo #
In case you like the layout and the way we arranged the widgets in the MH Edition theme demo, you are welcome to reproduce the demo layout on the widgetized front page. To do so, please go to "Appearance => Widgets" in your WordPress dashboard and place the widgets as stated below:
Widgets visible on all pages #
- Header 1: Default WordPress Text widget with banner
- Header 2: Default WordPress Text widget with banner
- Footer 1: Default WordPress Custom Menu widget
- Footer 2: Default WordPress Recent Posts widget
- Footer 3: MH Posts Grid widget
Widgets visible on widgetized homepage only #
- Home 1: MH Carousel widget
- Home 1: MH Slider widget
- Home 2: MH Posts List widget
- Home 2: Default WordPress Text widget with banner
- Home 2: MH Posts Grid widget
- Home 2: MH Spotlight widget
- Home 2: Default WordPress Text widget with banner
- Home 3: MH Custom Posts widget
- Home 4: MH Custom Posts widget
- Home 6: Default WordPress Text widget with banner
- Home 6: MH Custom Posts widget
- Home 6: MH Tabbed widget
- Home 6: Default WordPress Text widget with banner
- Home 6: MH Custom Posts widget
- Home 11: Default WordPress Text widget with banner
Widgets visible on posts & pages #
- Posts 1: Default WordPress Text widget with banner
- Posts 2: Default WordPress Text widget with banner
- Sidebar: Default WordPress Text widget with banner
- Sidebar: MH Facebook Page widget
- Sidebar: MH Tabbed widget
- Sidebar: MH YouTube Video widget
- Sidebar: MH Custom Posts widget
- Sidebar: MH Social widget
- Sidebar: MH Author Bio widget
Map of Widget Locations on the "Homepage" Template #
Below you can see the available locations of the widget areas on the fully widgetized "Homepage" template of MH Edition Magazine WordPress Theme:
Images in MH Edition WordPress Theme #
In general WordPress themes have defined their own image dimensions and thumbnail sizes. These thumbnails are automatically generated by WordPress when you upload an image. If you change your WordPress theme, it could happen that the thumbnail requirements of your new theme do not match the sizes of the available thumbnails in your media folder. In this case, your thumbnails will not look consistent in size. You can solve this by regenerating your thumbnails.
Image dimensions in MH Edition:
- 1120 x 476px (Thumbnails for the "MH Slider" widget)
- 737 x 415px (Thumbnails for posts and "MH Posts Large" widget)
- 355 x 200px (Thumbnails for "MH Posts List", "MH Posts Grid", etc. widget)
- 97 x 73 (Small Thumbnails for "MH Custom Posts" widget)
MH Edition Magazine WordPress Theme uses featured images for the thumbnails on archives and within the custom widgets. If you already uploaded images to your website or added images manually to your posts, it may happen that these images don’t appear as thumbnails. This can be solved easily, please read and follow this: How to use featured images in WordPress.
Logo, Header Image, Banner & Site Title #
With MH Edition you may customize your header in many different ways. To upload a logo and or a full-width header image go to "Appearance => Customize => Header Image" in your WordPress dashboard. To display/hide the site title and tagline, you can simply navigate to "Appearance => Customize => Site Identity" and make your changes.
In case you would like to place a banner inside your header, or in other widget areas on your website, we recommend you to use a default WordPress text widget and insert your preferred image/banner URL with HTML. In case of the header you can place the text widget inside the Header 2 widget area and if you would like to place a banner above the header area, place the text widget inside the Header 1 widget area.
Additional Features/Options #
After you have completed the basic theme configuration of MH Edition WordPress Theme by following our instructions above, you can now start to fill your website with awesome content, write posts, upload images etc. You also might want to have a look at the other available theme options and additional theme features. To access the theme options panel, navigate to "Appearance => Customize => Theme Options" in your WordPress dashboard, there you will find these sections:
- General
- Layout (premium)
- Typography (premium)
- News Ticker (premium)
- Tracking Code (premium)
General Options #
In the "General" options section you'll find some basic options to manage excerpts and modify the copyright notice in the footer:
- Modify custom excerpt length in words
- Change custom excerpt more-text
- Change copyright text in footer (premium)
Layout Options (premium) #
In the "Layout" options section you can easily change the look of your theme and enable/disable several elements with only a few simple clicks. In the layout options section you can find the following options below:
- Enable/Disable search box in header
- Adjust/Set sidebar position right/left
- Enable/Disable breadcrumb navigation
- Enable/Disable featured image on posts
- Enable/Disable post/attachment navigation
- Enable/Disable social sharing buttons on posts
- Enable/Disable author box below post
- Enable/Disable author box contact information
- Enable/Disable related articles below posts
- Enable/Disable comments on pages
- Enable/Disable back to top button
- Enable/Disable post meta date on posts
- Enable/Disable post meta author on posts
- Enable/Disable post meta categories on posts
- Enable/Disable post meta comment count on posts
Typography & Color Options (premium) #
To change the font of your website, you can select your favourite font from a collection of most popular Google webfonts in the theme options panel under "Typography". You may also easily change the blue color scheme of your theme with just a few simple clicks by using the included colorpickers. We have extended the basic color options of WordPress under "Appearance => Customize => Colors" in your WordPress dashboard with some new theme options to easily change the blue color of your theme with a few clicks in the customizer.
News Ticker Options (premium) #
MH Edition Magazine WordPress Theme has included a very handy and useful news ticker which is located below the header where you can display article headlines or latest news topics from any category or tag. You can manage the news ticker with the following options:
- Enable/Disable news ticker
- Change ticker title
- Set number of posts on ticker
- Filter posts by categories (use category ID)
- Filter posts by tags (use tag slug)
- Skip posts (Offset)
- Ignore sticky posts
Related Articles (premium) #
MH Edition WordPress theme includes a built-in related articles feature below the content on posts. Displaying related articles is based on tags. So if you want to use this nice feature, and show related articles, please ensure that you have tagged your posts properly. As soon as tags match, articles will automatically be recommended below your posts. Here you can find some more information: How do related posts work.
Social Icons inside Header (premium) #
In case you want to display a social icons menu inside the header, you’ll simply need to create a custom social menu with custom links to your social media channels in your WordPress dashboard under "Appearance => Menus" and assign this menu to the "Social Icons in Header" menu slot. The theme will automatically recognize the social networks based on their URLs and display the specific icons correctly. Currently the following networks are supported: Behance, Dribbble, Facebook, Flickr, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, Soundcloud, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo, Xing and YouTube.
Contact Page (premium) #
MH Edition Magazine WordPress Theme offers a "Contact" page template with an additional sidebar to display different sidebar content on your contact page than on single posts and pages. If you want to use this template for your contact page, you could for example place the "MH Facebook Page" widget and a text widget with your contact details in the "Contact Sidebar" widget location under "Appearance => Widgets". MH Edition WordPress theme also supports the popular "Contact Form 7" plugin to easily create working contact forms with only a few clicks. Please read the following to learn more: How to create a working contact page in WordPress.
Font Awesome Icons #
MH Edition WordPress Theme comes with a nice collection of over 400 awesome icons by Font Awesome. You can view these icons in detail on the Font Awesome website and use them as you like on your own website to give your content a personal or professional touch. You can easily display the icons by adding the small HTML snippet of the specific icon in the WordPress text editor (not visual), for example a cloud icon:
<i class="fa fa-cloud"></i>
Shortcodes #
If you would like to use shortcodes to easily add styled elements like tabs, columns, boxes, accordions or else to your website, we recommend the "Shortcodes Ultimate" plugin. This plugin has included tons of useful shortcodes to easily customize your website. You can find more information and the documentation on the plugin site.
In case you want to learn more about WordPress, MH Edition WordPress Theme or if you would like to read additional tutorials, please have a look at our Support Center.
