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Metz is an editorial WordPress blog/magazine theme. Combined listing styles completes its stylish aura and give you hundreds of choice for displaying your content. This document includes the necessary information about using it.

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Extract the zipped package that you downloaded from ThemeForest. You'll find a file named "metz.zip" in "Theme" folder. Now there are 2 ways to start using it:

1) Extract the "metz.zip" file and upload the extracted folder to the ".../wp-content/themes/" folder on your server.

2) On WordPress admin panel, go to "Appearance > Themes" and click the "Add New" button at the top of the page. Then click "Upload Theme" button. Pick "metz.zip" file and click "Install Now" button.

After uploading the theme, you need to activate it. Go to "Appearence > Themes" page and click Metz's "Activate" button. And you're done.

If you face any problem, please visit ThemeForest Knowledgebase to learn how to install a WordPress theme.

Metz has 3 locations for a menu: Primary Menu, Header Menu and Footer Menu.

For menu setup, go to "Appearance > Menus" page. Choose your items you want to show in menu from the left side. Don't forget to check "Primary Menu", "Header Menu" or "Footer Menu" box to see your menu in correct place. And finally click "Save Menu" button to get it done.

To read more about WordPress Menus: WordPress Menu User Guide

Metz comes with "2 Columns + Sidebar" layout option. If you don't see the sidebar, ensure that you have active widgets on "Appearance > Widgets" page. If not, you can add widgets by drag & drop function to your sidebar.

Metz has a very well organized customizer which almost is a user guide itself. It uses the native customizer of WordPress. So navigate to "Appearance > Customize" and start to personalize your theme!

Here is a full list of setting sections:

1. General Settings
2. Site Background
3. Header
4. Slider Settings
5. Sidebar & Home Widgets
6. Layout Options
7. Post & Page Colors
8. Post Format: Standard
9. Post Format: Gallery
10. Post Format: Video
11. Related Posts
12. Post & Page Comments
13. Footer
14. Footer Widgets
15. Show/Hide Elements
16. Social Accounts
17. Google Maps
18. Translation
19. Custom CSS
20. Banner Management

Metz has 7 layout options:

• 1 Column
• 1 Column + Sidebar
• 2 Columns
• 2 Columns + Sidebar
• (1 + 2) Columns + Sidebar
• 3 Colums
• (2 + 3) Colums

And the fullwidth versions of them. They're really fullwidth. We mean it!

You can set archive pages layout separately. By the way, you can also decide if the post pages or single pages will have a sidebar or not.

Ah, you want to hide sidebar for gallery posts only? It's just as far as one little tiny click too.

You can combine different listing styles with Metz. It's possible to do it in indexed views (Home, Archives etc.) and widgets both. You'll find an example below regarding the usage of listing styles.

Let's say you have 8 blog posts per page on your site. On customizer, under "6. Layout Options > 6.4. Listing Style Options", the default view is this:



This means all your posts will be shown in default listing style. Now, when we set the numbers like below:



This means 2 of our posts will be shown in Style A, and 4 of them in Style B. The remaining 2 posts will have the default style. And the ordering will be like that:

2 Default Style + 2 Style A + 4 Style B = 8 posts total.

Of course, you can set the numbers only for Style A or only for Style B. It's up to you!

A final note: If the sum of Style A and Style B is bigger than total post count, then your settings will be ignored and all the posts will be shown in default style.

Metz supports 5 post formats: Standard, Gallery, Video, Aside and Link.

On "Posts > Add New" page, choose your post format from the right side of the panel and then place your content naturally.

By the way, no worries about formatting the content. Metz is compatible with WordPress native content window and will do everything automatically. For example, if you want to add a gallery, just do it by "Add Media > Create Gallery" in classic way. Then when you have a look at your site, you'll see that the gallery you just added is shaped very well in a slider!*

*Ensure "Instead of Featured Image" or "Both" option is selected under "9.2. Gallery Position" on customizer.

One of the most powerful features of Metz is letting you to set up the "Featured Image" dimensions. By default, all of the images are resized to 1080 px width and not cropped from height. Change these settings as you wish.

We recommend you to increase the width value if you prefer to use "Fullwidth" layout option to enjoy the high-res images.

Note that these settings will be applied to newly added images only!

Metz has 14 custom widgets and 7 widget areas: Sidebar, Sidebar - Archive, Sidebar - Page, Sidebar - Post, Upper Widgets, Home Widgets and Footer Widgets. You can place any of your widgets in anywhere you want.

Popular Posts Widget: Some posts are crowded ha? This widget will find and display them.
Recent Posts Widget: Display a couple or two of your latest posts.
Selected Posts Widget: Display the posts you've selected. Very useful for the posts you want to put forward.
Category/Tag Posts Widget: Display the posts belong to a specific category or tag.
Post Widget: Maybe you want some special attention for one of your posts. Use this!
Recent Comments Widget: Display the latest comments your visitors have dropped.
Image Widget: Go ahead and place a nice image with a header, button, caption and text. You can link it to anywhere too.
Tags/Categories Widget: A well styled list of your tags or categories.
Woo Product Widget: Display a single WooCommerce product in a widget area.
Search Widget: You can search for anything on your site. Can you believe it? :)
Social Widget: Place your social account icons in a sleek list.
Find us on Facebook Widget: Show your Facebook page's lovers.
Ads Widget: A widget for your Ads. Just place your code and you're done.
Empty Space Widget: Just place an empty space between your widgets if you wish. It's very handy!

Metz has its own slider plugin. Follow the steps below to start using it!

Firstly, you need to install the "New Metz Slider" plugin. You'll already realize the "This theme recommends the following plugin: New Metz Slider." notice when you activate Metz theme.

1. Click "Begin installing plugin".
2. Click "Install" under the "New Metz Slider" title. The "Install" button will appear when you rollover the title.
3. When you see the "Return to Required Plugins Installer" link appeared, it means you're done! But don't forget to activate the plugin.

You'll realize that a button named "New Metz Slider" is placed on your admin panel menu now. If you can't see it, just click to "Dashboard" or somewhere else to refresh the view.

After installing & activating the slider plugin, just navigate to "Appearance > Customize > 4. Slider Settings" and check "Show Blog Posts in Slider" to see it. OR, you can create your own slides.

Now, let's create our first slide:

1. Click "New Metz Slider > Add New Slide".
2. If you wish, you can directly insert a post into your slider by selecting it from the "Post Direction" drop down. After selecting it, you can override its properties (Title, Slide Image etc.) too.
3. To create a brand new slide, just do not select a post and fill in the other fields (Title, URL etc.).
4. Don't forget that you should use the same group name for the slides/posts you want to see in the same slider. (It's the same procedure with tagging a blog post.)
5. Click "Publish" and your slide is ready!

You can repeat the steps above to create all the slides you want. Now it's time to place our slider to the site:

1. Navigate to "Appearance > Customize > 4. Slider Settings".
2. Place this code to the "4.1. Slider Shortcode" box: [new_metzslider group="your_group"]
   Don't forget to replace the your_group part with your own group name.

That's all!

All of the Google Fonts are included in Metz.

Navigate to "Appearance > Customize > 1. General Settings > 1.6. Primary Font" and "1.7. Content Font" and choose the ones you wish.

Translation is extremely easy with Metz. Just go to "Appearance > Customize" on WordPress admin panel, find "18. Translation" section and start to translate!

All the images/photographs used in our demo site and all the rights of them belong to their creators/owners.