Setup theme from Scratch

Step 1. Create Basic Pages

You need to create basic pages like: Home, Portfolio, About, Blog, Contact. We will start with Homepage. Go to Pages > Add New, enter Home as a title. Repeat the process for each page that you need to create.

Step 2. Create Site Menu

Go to Appearance > Menus and give the name to your menu.

Select pages that you want to be in the menu from left sidebar and click on Add to Menu. You can reorder the menu links with simple drag and drop gesture. Then you need to select the location of this menu in Menu Settings, check Main menu checkbox. Finally you need to save all this changes.

If you use header layout with logo in the middle and links on the left and right, you will need to create two separate menus, one for the left side and another one for the right side. For the left side check Main menu, for the left side check Second menu.

For the footer menu use the same principle, if you need two columns create two separate menus, primary and secondary. Then select the location of the menus in Menu Settings section.

Step 3. Setup Homepage

Go to Settings > Reading select A static page, from drop down menu choose your Homepage and click on Save Changes button.

In this sense, once you will activate the theme you will see a notice in the top part where the plugin assistant ask you for installing the included plugins, to proceed click the link Begin activating plugins.

Step 4. Add Social Media Profiles

Go to WPHUNTERS > Theme Options > Social, add your social media profiles and click on Update button.

Step 5. Add footer

Go to left menu, find Appearance > Widgets, drag and drop Widgets that you need from left section “Available Widgets” to “Footer sidebar”. For more information please read section 3.1 Footer Sidebar.

Step 6. Setup Permalinks

Go to Settings > Permalinks and change the Permalinks Settings to Post name and click on Save Changes button.

Step 7. Add content

The foundation is created, now we need to make all pages to look like our demo with the help of Page Templates. I will explain how to make this for homepage and you will make other pages with the same process. Go to Pages > All Pages and click on Edit with Elementor.

Click on Add Template button.

Select My Templates tab and click on Insert button on the template you would like to use.

That’s it, your homepage is ready.