Huex Frequently Asked Questions

Huex FAQ Click on a question below to jump directly to the answer of that question.

01. How do I add a photo to my users' profiles?
02. How do I add advertisements to the sidebar?
03. How Do I Add Images to the Featured Posts Section?
04. How do I change the featured video?
05. How do I change what widgets appear in the sidebar?
06. How do I determine which posts are displayed in the Featured Section on the homepage?
07. How do I replace the default advertisements?
08. How do I replace the default logo?
09. How do I set which articles appear in the featured article slideshow?
10. How do I use the 3 tabs widget?
11. What are the common image dimensions for Huex?

01How do I add a photo to my users' profiles? Sign up at http://www.gravatar.com with the email address that you've associated in your blog with your user account, and upload your image to gravatar.com. After you've done that your gravatar.com image will appear whenever you post on your own blog. This photo will also appear when you post comments on other Wordpress blogs (if you use that email address in the mail field of the comment form).
02How do I add advertisements to the sidebar? The 3 easiest ways to post advertisements into your sidebar are as follows:

WP Now Ad Widgets
Each theme has a designated Advertisement widget titled either WP Now Ad Spot or WP Now: Banners. Add this widget to the sidebar wherever you would like it to appear. In the Theme Options Panel (located under Appearance in admin),the first Ad Code field is for the sidebar Ad widget and will either be a 125x125, 250x250 or 300x250 size depending on the theme. Simply enter your code into this field.

Text Widgets
Enter any ad code into a text widget.

Non-Widget Sidebar Ads
If you wish to display advertisements in the sidebar, but not as a widget, open Sidebar.php and paste the ad code in directly above  or directly below  .
03How Do I Add Images to the Featured Posts Section? To setup the featured posts section you need to add the following to the custom fields on your post page:

Names: thumbnail and featured_thumbnail
Values: the URL to those images

You can use the WP Post Thumbnail Plugin to create the specific image sizes and insert their URL in to the Custom Fields automatically. Click here to view a tutorial on using the WP Post Thumbnail plugin. You can also insert the information manually by uploading each image size to your Media Gallery and pasting the URL into the Custom Fields. For image sizes, please see the Common Image Dimensions FAQ for your particular theme.

To Determine which Posts are Displayed in the Featured Section:
1) Create a new category titled Featured or something similar.
2) In admin, navigate to the Theme Options Panel located under Appearance. Locate the drop-down menu under Featured Category. Select "Featured".
3) Any posts you want shown in the Featured section, just assign it to the Featured category.
04How do I change the featured video? The Featured Video shown on many of our demos is simply a text widget with embed code added. Please be sure to change the video size so it fits within the sidebar.
05How do I change what widgets appear in the sidebar? In Wordpress Admin, navigate to: Appearance -> Widgets. Drag the widget titles from the lists on the left side to the "Sidebar" sections on the right side. You can also drag and drop the widgets up or down within each Sidebar to change their placement above or below other widgets.
06How do I determine which posts are displayed in the Featured Section on the homepage? 1) Create a new category titled Featured or something similar.

2) In admin, navigate to the Theme Options Panel located under Appearance. Locate the drop-down menu under Featured Category. Select "Featured".

3) Any posts you want shown in the Featured section, just assign it to the Featured category.
07How do I replace the default advertisements? Navigate to your theme's directory inside wp-content/themes/. Once there, you will notice a folder named “editable/ads”. This folder is the home to the standard advertisements. Each file has HTML comments guiding you through the process.

Please Note: In our newer themes, as well as older themes that have the theme options panel, all advertisement code is handled through the theme options panel. Just paste your code into the ad spot specified and click save.
08How do I replace the default logo? Simply overwrite the existing logo found under “wp-content/themes/YOUR THEME/img/logo-trans.png”. If you would like to find guideline dimensions, right click the current logo in your browser then select “Properties”.

Please Note: For some of our themes that have multiple colors, the logo files are placed in the color folder inside the img folder. For example, in Huex, the blue logo is located in img/blue/logo.png, etc.
09How do I set which articles appear in the featured article slideshow? Create a new category for featured articles (call it Featured, or something similar). Any articles that you would like to appear in the featured section, add them to that category.

Once you've set the featured category , navigate to your Theme Options Panel located under Appearance in admin. Find the drop-down menu labeled "Featured Category" and select the category name that you have set up.
10How do I use the 3 tabs widget? On your widgets page in your WP Admin you should notice there are 4 "sidebars", one main sidebar and 3 "tab widget" sidebars. The three tab widget sidebars is a holder for the tabs you will be using. Add 3 widgets of your choice to whichever tab sidebar you would like to use (3 are provided for convenience, you can either use all three or just one) then add the "WP Now: Tabs" widget to your main sidebar and select which tabs sidebar you used. From there everything is handled automatically when the tabs widget is processed.
11What are the common image dimensions for Huex? Featured Slideshow (custom field featured_thumbnail): 460 x 200
Thumbnails (custom field: thumbnail): 82 x 82
Logo: 240 x 101

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