The Genesis Featured Posts widget is used to display one or more blog posts and can be used to show featured images and excerpts of posts from selected categories. It can be used in any widget area, such as a sidebar or a footer.

To add the widget to an area, go to Appearance > Widgets, click on the Genesis Featured Posts widget title bar, select the desired widget area, and click Add Widget.

To configure the widget, click the title bar to open it, and change the settings to the following:

1. Title: Enter the title you wish to display for this widget, such as What we’ve been up to.
2. Category: Select which category you’d like to feature.
3. Number of Posts to Show: Enter the number of posts you’d like to display in this area.
4. Number of Posts to Offset: Enter the number of posts to offset (or skip). Offset is used when you have Featured Posts appearing elsewhere and you don’t want to repeat posts in those areas. Offsetting by 1 will show the next most recent post.
5. Order by: Select the order in which the posts should be displayed.
6. Sort Order: Select whether the order should be descending or ascending.
7. Exclude Previously Displayed Posts?: Check the box to exclude posts that have already been displayed. This is useful when a post has been assigned to more than one category.
8. Exclude Sticky Posts: Check the box to prevent sticky posts from being displayed.
9. Show Author Gravatar: Check to display the post author’s gravatar.
10. Gravatar Size: Select the size of the gravatar to display.
11. Gravatar Alignment: Select the gravatar image alignment (Left, Right or None).
12. Show Featured Image: Check the box to enable the featured image.
13. Image Size: Select the desired image size for your featured image.
14. Image Alignment: Select the image alignment (Left, Right, Center or None).
15. Show Post Title: Check the box to display the featured post title under the featured image.
16. Show Post Info: Check the box to display the post info including the post date, author and comment link. You can then customize as desired.
17. Content Type: Choose whether to display the Excerpt, Content, a Content Limit or No Content.
18. Limit Content: If you choose to display a Content Limit, enter the number of characters to display.
19. More Text (if applicable): If you choose to display a Content Limit, enter the desired more text, such as [Read More…]. This text will automatically be linked to the post.
20. Title: If you would like to display an unordered list of more posts from the selected category, you may add a Title, for example More Posts from this Category.
21. Number of Posts to Show: If you would like to display an unordered list of more posts from the selected category, enter the number of posts to show.
22. Show Category Archive Link: If you have selected a single category to display in this widget, check the box to display a link to the rest of the posts in this category. Note: If you have the widget set to show All Categories, this link will not be displayed.
23. Link Text: Enter the text you’d like to display in the link, for example More Posts from this Category.

Once you have completed the widget configuration, be sure to click Save at the bottom of the widget to preserve your settings.

The Tag Cloud widget is used to display a list of all the tags or categories that have been assigned to your posts. It can be used in any widgeted area, such as a sidebar or a footer.

To add the widget to a widget area, go to Appearance > Widgets, click on the Tag Cloud widget title bar, select the desired widget area from the list, and click Add Widget.

To configure the widget, click the title bar to open it, and change the settings to the following:

1. Title: The title you wish to display, such as Tags.
2. Taxonomy: Choose whether to display Tags or Categories.

Once you have completed the widget configuration, be sure to click Save at the bottom of the widget to preserve your settings.

The Text widget is used to display information about a particular service, contact information, or a lead-in to your About page. It can be used in any widgeted area, such as a sidebar or a footer.

The theme demo uses theme-specific sample content in this text widget, but you can use your own title, and include whatever information you like.

1. Title: Your desired title. This is optional – you can just add content and leave the title blank, if you wish.
2. Content: Add your desired content to the content box.
3. Automatically add paragraphs: Check this box if you have multiple paragraph content, and wish to have paragraph tags added to format the content properly.

Once you are done entering your content, be sure to click Save at the bottom of the widget to preserve your changes.

Blog Page Template

The Blog Page Template can be used to create a page to display your posts.

To use the template, create a new page in your WordPress admin. You may call it Blog, or use a different title, such asNews.

Content entered into the page editor will not display on the page.

On the page edit screen, select the Blog template from the drop down in the Page Attributes box in the right sidebar, then click Publish.

Next, go to Genesis > Theme Settings > Blog Page Template, and configure the content you wish to display on this page.

1. You may choose to display All Categories, or a single category, using the drop down.
2. You may choose to exclude one or more categories by including the category IDs in the input field.
3. You may also choose how many posts you wish to display on this page. Note: This setting is different from the Blog pages show at most setting on Settings > Reading.

Once you have completed your configuration, make sure you click Save Settings at the bottom of the page to preserve your changes.

You may wish to add a link to this page in your navigation menu so your site visitors can find it.

Archive Page Template

The Archive Page Template is used to create a page to display a list of your site pages and your post archives by category, month, author, and recent posts.

To use the template, create a new page in your WordPress admin. You may call it Archive, or any title you wish.

Content entered into the page editor will not display on the page.

On the page edit screen, select the Archive template from the drop down in the Page Attributes box in the right sidebar, then click Publish.

You may wish to add a link to this page in your navigation menu so your site visitors can find it.

Landing Page Template

The Landing Page Template is used to create a full-width landing page with no header image or navigation.

To use the template, create a new page in your WordPress admin. You can enter any title you wish and enter your desired content into the page editor.

On the page edit screen, select the Landing template from the drop down in the Page Attributes box in the right sidebar, then click Publish.

You may wish to add a link to this page in your navigation menu so your site visitors can find it.

Page Excerpts

The Workstation Pro theme includes the optional display of excerpts at the top of pages.

The above example can be viewed here: Example Project Page 1.

 

Start by going to Pages > Add New to create a new page or Pages > View All to edit an existing page. On the page editor screen, click the Screen Options tab in the upper corner of the screen.

Check the box to enable Excerpts.

Scroll down to the Excerpt section and enter your desired page excerpt.

Be sure to click Publish or Update to preserve your settings.

Background Color for Site Header and Page Excerpt Area

The Workstation Pro theme includes optional background colors for the site header and page excerpt area.

By default, this area uses a white background:

You can change the background to orange or black by adding a custom body class.

Start by going to Pages > Add New to create a new page or Pages > View All to edit an existing page.

On the page editor screen, scroll down to the Layout Settings section and add the desired body class in the Custom Body Class field.

• To add the orange background color: type add-color
• To add the black background color: type add-black

Note: When using add-color, you can change the orange to a color of your choice in the customizer’s Color Settings. Go to Appearance > Colors and change the Accent color to your preferred color.

 

Be sure to click Publish or Update to preserve your settings.

Column Classes

The following image demonstrates how column based content can be displayed on your site.

This type of structured content may be used in posts, pages and inside text widgets to structure content often seen in a welcome message or a call to action banner.