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For all of our pro themes, we have added license keys to make the process of upgrading and getting support easier for both our customers and our team. THis resource will explain how you can view, retrieve, and use your license key(s) on Slocum Themes. Getting the license key When you first purchase your theme, upon confirmation of purchase, you will be presented with an invoice, detailing the purchase. This invoice will include the License Key (or keys, if you bought more than one theme) associated with your purchase. If you have left the page with all of this invoice …

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Welcome to Content Layouts for our WordPress themes. Find out how to easily set the look and feel of your website using our powerful new feature. Content Layouts from Slocum Themes Content layouts enable the user to change the look and feel of different, specific pages on their website Putting a left sidebar on your home page but a right sidebar on a single blog post, for example, has never been easier than with this feature built in to some of our themes. Our layout editor is also responsive, so when people view your home page on a smartphone or …

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By default, our WordPress themes come with a standard copyright section that display the name of the website and the fact that the theme was created by ourselves (our signature). How to remove the copyright from our themes With our premium themes, it is super easy to modify or remove the copyright section altogether. All you need to do is navigate to the expansive Theme Options section of our themes in the WordPress dashboard. This can be found by navigating to Appearance > Theme Options while a pro theme is the active theme on the website. From there, you can …

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Do you know that image that is the main component of most posts and pages on a WordPress website? It is called the featured image. Many people want to adjust the size of said image after purchasing our themes. Here is how you can go about doing that. Change Default size of featured images using our WordPress themes We have implemented technology into our WordPress themes to make it very easy to modify the default featured image size. Navigate to the Appearance > Theme Options pane and then going to the General tab There you will see a dropdown to …

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Before we begin, it is important to understand what a site tagline is. The site tagline is the text usually found below the main title of the site on a WordPress website. Below is an image example of the site tagline: The good thing about the tagline is that it is by default an H2 tag, which is good for SEO if you have optimized it. But for many people, physically displaying the tagline is unnecessary with the logo or site title directly above providing most of that information. How to show or hide tagline in WordPress using our themes …

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A common request from our users involves putting a big call to action or slider image on the front of our websites, like in many of our demo sites. We make it very easy to add these images using widget areas. Putting a Slider on the Home Page Navigate to the “Front Page Slider” Widget Area, found under the Appearance > Widgets section of the WordPress dashboard. This is the area where you can put large image sliders or other images. Simply drag the appropriate widget into this space to display it at the top of your home page, just …

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Built right into the functionality of our clean and elegant themes in the theme options panel is a section to create a one-click child theme that is easy to manage. It’s very important to setup a child theme if you plan on making ANY edits to your core Modern Business Theme. Why would you make a child theme? Edit syle.css to change colors or font sizes Modify hooks and action filters via functions.php Create new page template files Other stuff we haven’t thought of! If you make these changes to your theme directly (the parent theme) and we release a …

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Thank you for choosing Slocum Themes as your WordPress theme shop of choice. Installing our themes is done in the same fashion as the typical install of any other theme. Once you have purchased your theme, we will email you a purchase receipt with the theme download code inside. Here is an image of what this will look like in your inbox: Open your email, you will get a message with a link to download the file. Can’t find the email? Check your “Spam” folder to see if the email found its way there. Additionally, you can log in on slocumthemes.com …

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You are reading this because you have either purchased a pro theme after using one of our free themes or inquiring about the process to upgrade from free to pro. In either case, thank you for choosing Slocum Themes! Before Upgrading Here are a couple of common questions we get from customers before upgrading: I modified the code on the free version, what do I do? There are a couple of different ways that you could have modified the code on the free theme. You could have made changes to the CSS on a stylesheet or edited one of the …

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