Access the widget page under  Appearance → Widgets

On the Widget page you will see a number of panels that you can expand on the right.

• Slider
• Home Page
• Sidebar
• Footer

Each widget area specific to your theme has been color coded to make setup easy. Simply drag the widgets you need into the corresponding panels. At the top of the page you will find a yellow ribbon containing a handy “Click Here” link, which will display the recommended widget setup in case you get lost.

Below is an explanation of each widget and how to configure it.

Slider Panel

This panel accomodates the blue Obox Slider widget.

(Obox) Slider

The Slider is a category driven widget, designed to be located at the top of your home page, and is recommended to either display slider posts or portfolio images from a specific category.

1. Select a post type from the Display menu and click Save
2. Select a Filter type and click Save
3. Select a Category or leave All selected and click Save
4. Select whether to show Post Thumbnails or Videos in the Thumbnails menu.
   • When your content contains a mixture of oEmbed videos, posts with featured images and normal video posts, choose Post Feature Image. Videos will appear automatically if no image is found in the post.
   • oEmbed posts will show a 640px wide thumbnail automatically if you choose Post Feature Image.
5. Select the number of slides from the Post Count menu
6. Click Save

Home Page Widgets

The Home Page Widget area accomodates any full-width or Obox (orange ) widgets.

(Obox) Portfolio Widget

Displays featured images from your portfolios in a four-column layout.

1. Select a Category or leave All selected to show the latest Portfolio posts.
2. Select the number of posts  from the Post Count menu
3. Check Show Excerpts if you would like an excerpt of text from the post shown below the thumbnail (first 55 words of your content or the entire text from your Excerpt field)
4. Click Save

(Obox) Two Column Widgets

This widget will display your videos or post thumbnails in a 2 -column style.

1. Enter a Title, to be displayed above the post blocks
2. Select the number of posts  from the Post Count menu
3. Select a Category
4. Select whether to show Post Thumbnails or Videos in the Thumbnails menu.
   • When your content contains a mixture of oEmbed videos, posts with featured images and normal video posts, choose Post Feature Image. Videos will appear automatically if no image is found in the post.
   • oEmbed posts will show a thumbnail automatically if you choose Post Feature Image.
5. Check Show Images / Videos to display thumbnails. If left unchecked, only the title will show.
6. Check Show Excerpts if you would like an excerpt of text from the post shown below the thumbnail.
7. Enter a Content Length if you want your excerpts to be longer or shorter than the WordPress default. If left blank, the excerpt will be the first 55 words of your content or excerpt field.
8. Check Show Post Dates to show the published date.
9. Click Save

(Obox) Four Column Widgets

This widget will display your videos or post thumbnails in a 4 -column style.

1. Select a post type from the Display menu and click Save
2. Select a Category or leave All selected and click Save
3. Select the number of slides from the Post Count menu
4. Select whether to show Post Thumbnails or Videos in the Thumbnails menu.
   • When your content contains a mixture of oEmbed videos, posts with featured images and normal video posts, choose Post Feature Image. Videos will appear automatically if no image is found in the post.
   • oEmbed posts will show a thumbnail automatically if you choose Post Feature Image.
5. Check Show Images/Video to display images. If unchecked, only the title and excerpt will appear.
6. Check Show Excerpts to display a post excerpt and enter a Content Length (between 90 and 220 characters is recommended)
7. Click Save

(Obox) Blog Posts

Display a blog list on your home page. This widget only shows a selected number of posts and will not paginate – if you need paginated posts on the home page, use the Blog style Home Layout.

1. Enter a Title, such as “From the Blog…”
2. Select a Category
3. Select the number of posts to show
4. Click Save

 

Sidebar & Footer

The sidebar and footer panels accept any single-column Obox (purple) widgets  or standard WordPress (gray) widgets. Below are details on configuring Obox widgets. For help with default widgets, visit the WordPress Codex

(Obox) Twitter Stream

Display a simple feed of your latest Tweets.

1. Enter a title such as “Follow Me on Twitter”. This title will link to your profile.
2. Enter your Twitter ID without the @
3. Select the number of Tweets to show.
4. Select whether to display Replies/ Retweets
5. Click Save

(Obox) Comments

Display the latest comments with a short excerpt and link to the post. This differs from the default WordPress widget in how it displays the information.

(Obox) Popular Posts

Display a list of links to your most popular posts based on the number of comments they have received. This widget draws from regular Posts only.

(Obox) Social Links

Displays icons linking to your social profiles. Enter the full URLs to your social profiles here.  For the email field, enter your email address. For RSS, enter your RSS Feed Url or Feedburner URL.

(Obox) Flickr Widget

Displays thumbnails from your flickr feed in a mini-two-column style. For best results, choose multiples of 2 for the number to show. To get your ID, click the IDGettr link. For example “39349777@N02”

(Obox) Search

Provides a styled search field.

(Obox) 125 x 125 Adverts

Displays any small adverts added using the Advert Manager

(Obox) 300px Adverts

Displays any large adverts added using the Advert Manager