Overview
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Overview
In this tutorial, we go over the first steps of building a WordPress website using Layers WP theme & Elementor. Layers has recently been acquired by Elementor, and all Layers themes have been made fully compatible with Elementor, and available for FREE.
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hi-oh ziv from elemental here today I’ll
show you how you can easily use the
layers theme with elemental layers and
elements will seamlessly integrate with
each other
enabling a smooth and quick workflow to
start off let’s download the layers
theme so go to the layers website layers
WP comm and download the theme it’s free
next we want to install the theme on our
site so go to appearance themes and add
new theme click to upload a theme and
choose the zip file you’ve just
downloaded from the laser’s website once
it’s done uploading click to activate
the theme now you see the welcome screen
so click to get started and fill in the
fields with your details click next step
here you can choose if you want to
create a starter blog page
here you can choose a logo but don’t
worry you can do this letter as well
now click on install Elementor
and activate if you want to go ahead and
start creating your pages click add new
page and check out the tutorial in the
description on how to create a new page
with Elemental let’s go over the
WordPress customizer and explore the
options that come built-in with the
layers theme and to be more precise I’m
referring to the header and footer
customizer options as well as the blog
so and the appearance click customize
and go ahead and click on header and
styling as you can see you have
different header layouts logo left right
center
and more here you can choose if your
header is boxed or full-width you can
set your header to be sticky and add a
transparent overlay if you wish there
are a few more options to play with and
make sure you do but for now let’s move
on to the menu styling settings here you
can choose your header text color text
transform spacing have a styling and
more so play around with the settings
until you get something you like moving
on to the footer styling
again you can choose between boxed and
full width
divide your footer up to four areas
change the copyright text and more
and a blog you’ll find three tabs
styling archive and posting pages in
styling you can change the blog colors
and under archive you can change many
settings such as displaying your
featured image date author categories
tags and more and under posts and pages
you can set the post matter such as
featured image date author categories
and tags combining the power of layers
themes and elemental gives you better
control over your website from headers
and footers to your home page and more
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