With this theme, you get up to 3 blog styled layouts (8 for the Pro version).
Blog Layouts 1-2
Blog Layouts 3
Choose Your Blog Layout
- Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Blog Settings
- Look for the “Blog Layout” dropdown setting and make your choice.
- Click “Save & Publish“
Upload Cropped Thumbnails for Featured Images
If you want to maintain a consistent size for your post featured image, I would recommend turning on the thumbnail creation for the blog layout you choose. There are more than one thumbnail settings available, but if you do not plan to change your blog style, just choose the one for the layout you are using.
- Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Thumbnail Settings
- Look for the “Crop Blog Featured Images” setting and make your choice. For example, if your blog layout was set to “Grid Full Width“, then choose the “Crop featured images for the Grid blog Layout” choice.
- Click “Save & Publish“
Choose Excerpts for Your Blog Summaries
You get an option to choose excerpts for your blog post summaries. Excerpts will stay consistent to whatever number of words you set so that it keeps your blog home page looking nice and consistent. Please note that using excerpts, all formatting such as bold text, underline, images, etc., will all be stripped out from the blog home view, but they will show when you view the full post.
- Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Blog Settings
- Look for the “Blog Excerpts” setting and check the box.
- Look for the “Excerpt Length” setting and enter in how many words you want your excerpts to show.
- Click “Save & Publish“