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Setting up Homepage for Website

You can quickly build a home page using King Composer for WordPress that is drag and drop frontend and backend page builder plugin that will save you tons of time working on the site content. You will be able to take full control over your WordPress site, build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required.

From your Dashboard admin Navigate to Pages.

- Select All Pages to see all page then click edit one page you want.

- Select Add New to create new page.One page always include a lot of parts like Header , Main Page, Widget Sidebar and Footer. In that section we guide you create Main page by using King Composer.

A. How to use King Composer

Have you ever used King Composer ? Please follow that guide first : King Composer guide.

Official Plugin Documentation For More information about the King Composer check the official documentation.

Watch video about King Composer.

1. Classic Mode.

You can insert code on table then Home page will be created automatically.

2. Backend Editor Mode

Drag and drop elements you need to build your page layout.

How to use Back End Mode

a. Add and modify Row Layout

Step 1 - go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element.

Step 2 - Select the Elements you want to use.

Step 3 - Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon) to Edit the Row element ( in our example we use row with 3 columns filled with text block ).

Step 4 - To change the Row layout ( number of columns ) you only select a layout or custom to make your own.

b. Edit Element

Pencil Icon - To Edit Row, Column or Element you need to click the Pencil icon.

c. Duplicate Element

Pages Icon - To Duplicate Row or Element you need to click the Pages icon.

d. Remove Element

Trash Box Icon - To Remove Row, Column or Element you need to click the Trash Box icon.

e. Copy Element

Copy Icon - To Copy Row, Element you need to click the Copy icon.

g. About Row / Column / Custom heading / Text Block Design options.

Design Options - When you edit row / column / custom heading / text block Element, you can edit the design options.

Row / Custom Heading / Text Block element have a default Bottom Margin of 30 pixel, you may want to set it to 0 if you don't want to have bottom space.

It is good to add bottom Padding to your Column, so they will looks good on mobile

Left and Right Margin should NEVER be modified, please left blank.

For Row Element the Left and Right Padding should also NEVER be modified, please left blank

Specially, In Delux used to Funtion of King Composer is Sections Manager to create element quickly and make homepage easily.

To create it, please do it step by step bellow:

Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard) Step 2 - Click the 'King Composer' tab. Step 3 - Click the 'Sections Manager' sub-tab. Step 4 - Click the 'Add New' sub-tab.

Step 5 - Start filling in the blanks: enter your section title in the upper field, and enter your section body content by use element of KC. Step 6 - As needed, select a category, featured if you want to use. Step 7 - Click button "Publish".

Section Manager will display like :

To Add this section in homepage, please go to homepage and you will see button to choose :

Next click choose section that you want to use:

3. Page Options

a. Page Attributes

You can select page attributes on right sidebar of page admin layout. Each Page templates have each styles.

b. Page configure default template

For each page you can change the page layout style, header skin, footer skin and much more! Check the screenshot and read the documentation to see how it works.

  • Enable Fullwidth Layout - Select if you want the page to have a Fullwidth layout.

  • Header Layout - Select skin specific for Header on page or use Global.

  • Footer Layout - Select skin specific for Footer on page or use Globalsidebar.

  • Disable Breadcrumbs - Select if you want to disable the subtitle and breadcrumbs.

  • Breadcrumbs Text Color - Select color for text of breadcrumbs.

  • Breadcrumbs Background Color - Select color background for breadcrumbs.

  • Breadcrumbs Background - Select image to set background.

  • Layout Style - Select style for page to have a Auto, Left-Main Sidebar or Main-Right Sidebar or Left-Main-Right Sidebar.

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