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Table of Contents
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theme Installation
- 3.How to Open Site Editor?
- 4.Blocks and Pattern
- 5.How to Edit Pattern Content?
- 6.List of Blocks and Pattern
- 7.Templates in PhotoBrust
- 8.Template Parts in PhotoBrust
- 9.How to create Custom Menu?
- 10.How to add Menu?
- 11.Duplicating the designs and sections for patterns having more than one column
- 12.Hero Content
- 13.Featured Content
- 14.Default Footer
- 15.Stats four Column
- 16.How to set Homepage settings?
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theme Installation
- 3.How to Open Site Editor?
- 4.Blocks and Pattern
- 5.How to Edit Pattern Content?
- 6.List of Blocks and Pattern
- 7.Templates in PhotoBrust
- 8.Template Parts in PhotoBrust
- 9.How to create Custom Menu?
- 10.How to add Menu?
- 11.Duplicating the designs and sections for patterns having more than one column
- 12.Hero Content
- 13.Featured Content
- 14.Default Footer
- 15.Stats four Column
- 16.How to set Homepage settings?
PhotoBrust
PhotoBrust is a free photography WordPress block theme for Full Site Editing. It is ideal for photographers, photo bloggers, graphic designers, and freelancers. The theme is built in accordance with Full Site Editing features so, customize your site beautifully. The theme includes a fully responsive and unique design that helps in making your site marvelous among others. The theme comes with amazing features and functions. The theme includes clean typography and a simple design. And, the theme includes 13+ different block patterns, 10 Templates, and 5 Template Parts. Some of the block patterns are Hero Content, Featured Content, Header Media, Sidebar, 404 Header, Archive Header, Blog Header, Default Footer, Footer Three Columns, Default Header, Post Header, Post Header with img BG, Recent Blog with Sidebar, and many more. All of the blocks, block patterns, templates, and templates parts are fully responsive and highly customizable. Download PhotoBrust today and start building stunning photography sites with blocks! Official Support Forum: https://themepalace.com/support-forum/ Full Demo: https://demo.wenthemes.com/photobrust-free/
There are two approaches to installing the theme. You can either install it easily via the WordPress admin dashboard or Upload and install the theme through FTP client.
- Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
- Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
- Select Add New.
- Type “PhotoBrust” in Search themes… box
- It will show PhotoBrust and click on it and Install. Once installation is complete you can activate it.
You can use FTP client like FileZilla to connect your web server.
- Download photobrust.zip to your Desktop.
- Unzip photobrust.zip to your Desktop.
- Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of PhotoBrust Theme.
- Now, log into the WordPress Dashboard with your login details.
- Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
- You will see the theme “PhotoBrust” in the list.
- Then click Activate button.
- Now the theme will be activated and go through the following options to set up the theme step-wise.
If you are on WordPress Dashboard then go to “Appearance -> Editor” to open the Site Editor.
If you are on Site Frontend then you will see WP Admin Bar on the top of the page, click on “Edit Site” to open the Site Editor.
PhotoBrust supports 4 different custom blocks in this theme i.e. Popup Video, Header-Search, Header Social, and Slider. Also, the theme comes with 25+ different block patterns, 18 Templates, and 10 Template Parts.
There are 3 ways you can add Blocks and Patterns to your website:
Drag and Drop
- Click on the “+” sign on the top bar to display Blocks and Pattern
- If you want to add Blocks click on Blocks, Scroll down and to find “FSE Blocks”, choose the block you wish to add
- If you want to add Patterns, Click on Pattern then choose “PhotoBrust” to find all the patterns provided by PhotoBrust
- Simply Drag and Drop your block/pattern to desired site area
- Make necessary changes
- Finally, Click “SAVE” to save changes
Top Tool Bar
- Click on “+” sign on the top bar to display Blocks and Pattern
- If you want to Block Scroll down and to find “PhotoBrust Blocks”, choose the block you wish to add
- If you want to add Patterns, Click on the pattern then choose PhotoBrust to find all the patterns provided by PhotoBrust
- Click on desired pattern to add
- Make necessary changes
- Finally, Click “SAVE” to save changes
Adding Directly
- Click on “+” sign in the template or page to display patterns and blocks
- Then search for block or pattern in search bar
- Make necessary changes
- Finally, Click “SAVE” to save changes
First, click on the pattern content you wish to edit/customize
You can select the section/content in three ways
- Clicking on the section itself
- List View
- Footer Interface Bar
Once the section is selected you can edit its content or if you want to customize the section’ properties/options, click the three dots and select your desired action. Duplicate, Remove, Copy or Add the desired section before or after the current section.
Here is the list of Blocks and Patterns PhotoBrust Provides:
- Hero Content
- Featured Content
- Header Media
- Stats Four Column
- 404 Header
- Archive Header
- Blog Header
- Default Footer
- Footer Three Columns
- Default Header
- Post Header
- Post Header with img bg
Here is the list of Templates PhotoBrust Provides:
- Front Page
- 404 with header bg
- 404
- Archive
- Blank
- Home
- Index
- Page
- Search
- Single Post
Here is the list of Template Parts PhotoBrust Provides:
- Footer (With Three Columns)
- Footer
- Header Transparent
- Header
- Page Content
- Post Content
- Sidebar
You can create your own custom menu in PhotoBrust. You can go to Navigation Block on the header Or Simply go to the “Template Editor -> Template Parts” and click on Template Parts with the header to edit the header navigation.
Here are steps to create Custom Menu:
Note: To avoid confusion, click on List View to edit or select menu
You can Select a predefined menu in your header navigation block
- Go to Site Editor
- Click on Navigation from “List View”, then you will find the Navigation toolbar there you can click on “Select Menu” and select your predefined menu
- Click on Save to view changes
Duplicate section can be used if you want to add a similar section in your pattern.
For Example: If you want to add one more column in between your Featured Content Duplicate section can be used, as it will create a similar section and you can edit the content accordingly.
Duplicate section is a very easy step to add on particular sections in your pattern.
Select the column via ListView/Footer Interface, then click on three dots and select Duplicate then change the content accordingly
PhotoBrust supports the Hero Content pattern. You can add images along with text and buttons in this pattern.
Here is how you add Hero Content to your website:
- Go to Page/Post or New/Edit
- Click on “+”sign on the top bar to display Blocks and Pattern, Click on Pattern
- Scroll down to find “Hero Content” or search directly from the Search bar, Drag and Drop to add Hero Content or you can click on the “+” sign in the template or page you want to hero content
- Click on the hero content area to edit image, text, headline and so on
- For advance settings click on the top right setting button, here you can edit style, color, typography, and radius
- Finally, Click Save to save changes
PhotoBrust supports featured content patterns, Here is how you add featured content to your website:
- Go to Page/Post or New/Edit
- Click on “+”sign on the top bar to display Blocks and Pattern, Click on Pattern
- Scroll down to find “Featured Content” or search directly from the Search bar, Drag and Drop to add featured Content or you can click on the “+” sign in the template or page you want to featured content
- Edit image, text, read more button as per your requirement
- For the advance option click on the top right setting button, change layout, styles, color, typography, and so on
- Finally, Click Save to save changes
PhotoBrust allows you to add and edit the default footer. You can add social links.
Here is how you add the default footer:
- Go to Page/Post or New/Edit
- Click on “+”sign on the top bar to display Blocks and Pattern, Click on Pattern
- Scroll down to find “Default Footer” or search directly from the Search bar, Drag and Drop to add Default Footer or you can click on the “+” sign in the template or page you want to feature content
- Edit copyright information, social links as per your link
- For advance option click on top right setting button, change styles(default, logos only, pill shape, circle shape),Link setting, Color(icon color, icon background)
- Finally, Click Save to save changes
PhotoBrust supports Stats Four Columns.
Here is how you add Stats to your website:
- Click on “+”sign on the top bar to display Blocks and Pattern, Click on Pattern
- Scroll down to find “Stats Four Column” search directly from the Search bar, Drag and Drop to add stats or you can click on the “+” sign in the template or page you want to add Stats Four Column
- Edit Stats by clicking on the content itself
- Edit Stats numbers, text, title, and subtitle according to your requirement
- For the advance option click on the setting button on the top left, there you can change the style, radius, typography, color, layout, and so on
- Finally, Click Save to save changes
- Go to Settings -> Reading in the left sidebar of your site dashboard.
- Your latest posts: When you choose this option your homepage will display your latest posts. This option is used when you are creating a simple blog site. But if you want a static front page with custom sections then you need to go with the A static page (select below)” option.
- A static page (select below): When you choose this option, you will be able to select the page for your Homepage as well as the page to show your latest posts in Posts page. That is why you will get the following two options
- Homepage: Here you can select any page that you want to show on your homepage. Note: All the custom sections of homepage will only be visible on Homepage once you set a page for the Homepage Setting option.
- Posts page: Here you can select any page where you want to show all your latest posts
- Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page.