Blog Layout

This section has a ton useful options to manage your blog - here you can change blog layout type, define default layout for posts, assign blog page and more.

Blog Title

Enter title for Blog Page here (not required for corporate website).

Blog Home Layout

You can select from a huge varity of blog layout options. If you want to display post image correctly in the layout then do not forget to set your featured image when editing your posts.

Pagination Mode

Here you may specify pagination type between automatic (ajax) or manual for your blog posts and custom posts index.

Exclude categories

You can choose certain categories to exclude from your blog page by choosing from a list of categories.

Comments & trackbacks

Comments allow your website's visitors to have a discussion with you and each other. You have an option to separate in tabs, or bundle comments and trackbacks, just choose Display in Separate Tabs or Display Together in a List.

Disable About Author

If you don't want to share information about the author of the blog - just choose Disable the About Author Module.

You can also disable following meta (see below):

  • Read More Buttons
  • Social Bookmarks
  • Post Navigation

Display full blog posts

If you would like to display the full content of your post - choose Display Full Blog Posts on Blog Index Page option. By default blog posts will be displayed as excerpts.

Animation

Here you can turn on CSS3 transitions for elements outside screen. You may specify animation effect from a list:

  • none
  • Fade in
  • Scale up
  • From right to left
  • From left to right
  • From left to right
  • From bottom to top
  • From top to bottom

URL shortening

You can choose to have certain links automatically use the bit.ly URL shortening service.

For example the social icons on each post will use bit.ly URLs when this is checked.

Disable meta options

In the Meta option you have a choice of sections to disable:

Disable Date Meta
Disable Date "Posted" Label
Disable Comments Meta
Disable Categories Meta
Disable Tags Meta