Below, you will find a video as well as a written tutorial about how to add advertisements to Squeeze Theme.
Adding Advertising
- On the blog portion of Squeeze theme you can easily add advertisements through the Squeeze Theme Main Options panel. So the first thing you need to do is go back to the Squeeze Theme Main Settings. To do this, click on the “Squeeze Theme” button which is the bottom most button on the left hand side of the WordPress dashboard.
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Now, near the top of the page, click on the “Advertising Options” link. It is the second link in the upper most navigation of the Main Options.
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Once you are on the “Advertising Options” page, you have the options of both “Sidebar” and “Banners.” To complete this step you must already have the ads you would like to use in the blog. If you expand the options for “Sidebar” using the “+/-” button, you will notice that you can paste the ad code into up to 6 ad block spots. If you expand “Banners” you will notice that there is one spot for a “468×60″ banner ad that will show up above the blog posts. So to ad an advertisement, you just paste the ad code into the correct spot. Just make sure that the ad you are using is the correct size for the location you are trying to paste it.
Below, you will find a video as well as a written tutorial about how to add widgets to Squeeze Theme.
Adding Widgets
- The last step in setting up the blog is adding widgets. The magazine layout for the blog uses an entirely widgetized home page. Therefore adding widgets is crucial to have the blog look correct. To do this step, you must have already completed step one through four of the “Setting Up a Blog” tutorials. If you have not completed these steps already, click HERE to go back and complete them. The first thing you need to do now, is click on the drop down arrow on the “Appearance” button on the left column of the WordPress dashboard. This should display all of the “Appearance” options.
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Now click on the “Widgets” link
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Once you are on the “Widgets” page, you can choose which widgets you would like to display and where. When you decide which one you want, simply click, hold, and drag that widget to the right either to the “homepage,” “Sidebar,” or “Footer” area. Then you can drop the widget in the desired location.
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After you have dropped a widget into the desired location, go ahead and Title it and select the given options that you want and don’t forget to click the “Save” button
Click Here to go to the tutorials page
Below, you will find a video as well as a written tutorial about how to configure the main options for Squeeze Theme.
Configuring the Main Options
- Now that you have created a blog, you can adjust the look of it by adjusting some of the Main Options. To do this, you must have already completed step one through three of the “Setting Up a Blog” tutorials. If you have not completed these steps already, click HERE to go back and complete them. The first thing you need to do is go back to the Squeeze Theme Main Settings. To do this, click on the “Squeeze Theme” button which is the bottom most button on the left hand side of the WordPress dashboard.
The first thing that I am going to show you how to do is configure the squeeze form for the blog. So now that you are in the Main Settings, click on the “+/-” button to the left of “Squeeze Form Settings” to display all of the squeeze form settings.
Now you need to decide where you would like to display the the squeeze form on your blog. You can select for it to be in the header, footer, between posts, or all three!
After you have selected where you would like it to display, scroll down and click on the “Save Settings” button.
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Now, you can set the navigation to display in either the header, footer, or both. All you have to do is go to the “Display Settings” and display the settings by clicking on the “+/-” button.
Now scroll down and highlight the pages you would like to be included in both the header and footer. You do this by holding either “Alt” or “Shift” on your keyboard and then clicking on the pages you want to display. If you don’t want any of the pages to display in one or both of the locations, then don’t select any of the pages.
As always, click on the “Save Settings” button to save your changes.
——–>>>> Click Here for Step 5: Adding Widgets
Below, you will find a video as well as a written tutorial about how to set the blog as the home page for Squeeze Theme.
Blog as the Home Page
- Now that you have created a blog post and set the featured post area, you now can choose to have your blog show up as the home page of your site. To do this, you must have already completed step one and two of the “Setting Up a Blog” tutorials. If you have not completed these steps already, click HERE to back and complete it. The first thing you need to do is click on the drop down arrow on the “Settings” button. You should see all of the “Settings” options display.
Now click on the “Reading” link under “Settings”
One you are on the “Reading Settings” page, select the radio button next to “Your Latest Posts.”This way your home page will display your blog posts.
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Then make sure you click the “Save Changes” button
At this point, you can also choose to have you blog on another page of the site.
——–>>>> Click Here for Step 4: Adjust Main Options
Below, you will find a video as well as a written tutorial about how to setup the featured post for Squeeze Theme.
Featured Post
- One of the coolest features of the blog portion of Squeeze Theme is the ability to display a featured post area. You must have already completed step one of the “Setting Up a Blog” tutorials to start this tutorial. If you have not completed step one already, click HERE to back and complete it. The first thing you need to do is create a new category called “Featured” or something similar. To do this, click on the “Add New Category” link to the right of the screen in the “Categories” widget (highlighted in orange below).
Now type in the word “Featured” in the first field that appears in the drop down (highlighted in orange below)
Then click the “Add” button (highlighted in orange below)
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Now you need to upload the image you would like to use for the featured area that will represent this post. For the featured post area, you should choose an image that is 300 x 600 pixels, so that it displays properly. Once you have saved the image you would like to use, you are going to upload it the same way we did before, by clicking on the upload button (highlighted in orange below).
This time instead of clicking the “Insert into Post” button, you are going to highlight and copy all of the “Link URL.” After copying all of the “Link URL” then close the pop up window so you can see the edit post screen.
You are going to paste the “Link URL” into the “Featured Image Link” field in the post extras (highlighted in orange below).
Now, click on the “Update Post” button on the upper right of the screen to save your changes (highlighted in orange below).
- Now that you have created a new category called “Featured” and uploaded the featured posts image, you need to select that category in the main options. So click on the “Squeeze Theme” button which is the bottom most link on the left hand side of the screen.
Once you are on the main options page, click on the “+/-” button to the left of “Display Settings.” When you do so, you should see all of the display settings drop down.
Now select the category you created from the “Featured Posts Category” drop down
Make sure you check the box next to the area(s) you want your featured posts to show up.
At this point, you can also choose between two layouts for your blog home page; either a magazine style layout or a more typical blog style layout. To do this, click on the drop down area in the “Homepage Layout” section, and choose either “Magazine” or “Blog.”
After you have selected the category and checked the box(s) where you want the featured posts to show up and chosen your layout, scroll down to the bottom of the “Display Settings” section and click on the “Save Settings” button in the lower right hand corner.
——–>>>> Click Here for Step 3: Set Blog to Home Page
Below, you will find a video as well as a written tutorial about how to integrate your email form code into Squeeze Theme. This is necessary in order for your email collection (opt-in box) to work properly. If you do not have an email management service yet, sign up for Aweber now.
Integrating Awebber
- By now you should have already completed step one through step five. If you haven’t, click HERE to go back and complete step one. The first thing you need to do is sign up for Awebber email marketing software if you haven’t already done so. Click HERE to sign up for Awebber. If you already have Aweber go ahead and open up a new tab or window and sign into your account. Once you are logged into your account, click on the “Web Forms” link in the top navigation (highlighted in orange below).
- Next, click on the “Create Web Form” button
- Then style the form how you want it to look and click the “Save Web Form” button (highlighted in orange below).
- Next, click on the “Publish” button (highlighted in orange below).
- Now, click on the “I Will Install My Form” button of the web form you just created.
The window should drop-down and you need to click on the “Raw HTML Version”
Next, highlight and copy the HTML that you see.
- Then you need to go back to the window/tab that you have Squeeze Theme in. Once you are there, click on the “+/-” link to the left of “Squeeze Form Settings”
You should see the “Squeeze Form Settings” options displayed.
- Next, paste that code that you copied from Awebber into the appropriate field.
- Then save your settings by clicking on the “Save Settings” button
Now you have successfully created a squeeze page using Squeeze Theme! Congrats!
——–>>>> Click Here to go to the tutorials page
Below, you will find a video as well as a written tutorial about how to configure the main settings of Squeeze Theme.
Configure the Main Settings
By now you should have already completed step one through step four. If you haven’t, click HERE to go back and complete step one. Now what you need to do is click on the “Squeeze Theme” link at the bottom of the furthest left column.
You should now see the Main Options panel:
Upload Your Logo
- The first thing we are going to do is upload a logo. So click on the “+/-” link to the left of the “Header Settings”
You should see the “Header Settings” displayed.
- Next, change the “Logo Type” to “Image”
- Then click on the “Browse” button and select your logo file from your computer
- Then save your settings by clicking on the “Save Settings” button
Changing the Color of Your Squeeze Page
- The next thing we are going to do is change the color of your squeeze page. So click on the “+/-” link to the left of “Appearance”
You should see the “Appearance” options displayed.
- Next, scroll to the element you would like to change the color of, for example “Header Background Color” and click on the color entry field (highlighted in orange below)
You should see a color-picker pop up
- Now, choose the color you would like and click on the button in the lower corner of the color picker (highlighted in orange below) to set that color as your selection.
- Then save your settings by clicking on the “Save Settings” button
——–>>>> Click Here for Step 6: Integrate Awebber
Below, you will find a video as well as a written tutorial about how to set your recently created Page as “home” page using Squeeze Theme.
How to Set Your Recently Created Page as “Home” Page
- By now you should have already completed step one through step three. If you haven’t click HERE to go back and complete step one first. Now, what you need to do is set your recently created page as “home” page. So cursor over and click on the drop down arrow to the right of the “Settings” link. A bunch of links should drop down.
- Now, click on the “Reading” link on the left hand side of the screen.
Then change your “front Page Displays” settings to a static page and select your recently created page.
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Then save your changes by clicking on the “Save Changes” button.
——–>>>> Click Here for Step 5: Configure Main Settings
Below, you will find a video as well as a written tutorial about how to upload media to Squeeze Theme.
Uploading Media
- By now you should have already completed step one and step two. If you haven’t click HERE to go back and complete step one first, and click HERE for step two. Now, what you need to do is upload a video and/or an ebook cover. Different layouts require different media elements to be uploaded, for example layout one requires only a video and layout two only requires an ebook cover, where as layout three requires neither and layout four requires just a video.
Now I will show you how to upload a video. You can use video sites like YouTube and Vimeo, for example, to upload a video as incentive to get visitors to opt-in on your squeeze page. Make sure to copy ALL of the “imbed code”
of the video you want to use, and then paste the code into the “Video Embed Code” field in the “Post Extras” section:
make sure you save your draft every time you make major changes by clicking on the “Save Draft” button.
- Now, to upload an ebook cover image, make sure you have your desired image saved to your computer and click on the upload button
Then click “Select Files” to choose the image from your computer
Then copy all of the “Link URL”
Then close that window
and paste the Link URL into the eBook Image Link field
- Now you are ready to publish this page. So click on the “Publish” button.
——–>>>> Click Here for Step 4: Set Your Newly Created Page as “Home” Page
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