Harper - Post-Installation Guide

This article is for customers who have purchased theme installation for the Harper theme.

We just installed your theme on your site – you may be wondering,  now what? Below we'll go over the common questions we get post-installation, where you need to go to update things, and more. :)

Homepage - About Section

To update the "hey friend" section on your homepage, go to Appearance > Widgets > Front Page 2. The title and text can be edited in the Custom HTML widget. The image can be changed in the Image widget.

Homepage - 3 Featured Topics

To change the images for the 3 featured topics, go to Appearance > Widgets > Front Page 6. Open the Genesis Featured Page widgets and you can select new images in the widget settings. Click here for a detailed tutorial on this!

Homepage - "Shop My Picks" Shop Widget

See this tutorial (toward the end).

Configuring Your Subscription Widgets

To set up your subscription widgets with a mailing list provider (Mailchimp, ConvertKit, FloDesk, etc), click here for instructions.

Editing your navigation menus

All navigation menus on your blog can be edited/changed/added to at Appearance > Menus.

Add, remove, or change social icons

Click here for instructions.

Sidebar photo and blurb

Click here for instructions on easily updating your sidebar photo. To edit the text below your photo, go to Appearance > Widgets > Primary Sidebar and open the first Custom HTML widget. Replace the existing text with your own text.

Adding Shop the Post widgets to your blog posts

See this tutorial.

Instagram Feed

If you did not provide your Instagram access token on your installation form, click here for instructions on linking your Instagram profile and configuring your feed as shown in the demo.

Instagram landing page

The link to your Instagram landing page is your website URL + /instagram. Example: https://yourwebsite.com/instagram

The Instagram landing page is very easy to update and change as needed. To add/change/remove menu items, go to Appearance > Menu > Instagram Menu. To edit anything else on the page (i.e. the social icons, or if you want to add text, etc), go to Appearance > Widgets > Instagram Landing Page.

Complete instructions for the Instagram landing page can be found here.

Coming Soon Page

On your installation form, you were given the option to have a coming soon page installed on your site. To remove the coming soon page and launch your site, go to your WordPress dashboard > CMP Settings. Under CMP Status, select "Disabled." Save changes. Next, go to Plugins > All Plugins and delete the "CMP - Coming Soon Page & Maintenance" plugin.

Removing the demo content

Click here for instructions on removing the demo content from your site.

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