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Installing Metric Child Theme
Requirements
Before we begin, make sure you have Divi installed on WordPress before installing this child theme. We recommend doing this on a fresh WordPress installation.
The Divi theme is not included in this package. To download Divi, you must have an Elegant Themes Membership.
Some images have been replaced due to licensing.
The page links from buttons and logo are removed, so you need to relink those to the right pages.
Step 1
Download and unzip the ‘Metric_Child_Theme_UNZIP_ME.zip’ file to your computer.
Step 2
In your WordPress dashboard navigate to Appearance > Themes and click on Add New.
Locate the metric.zip file in the Metric_Child_Theme_UNZIP_ME folder on your computer and then click Install Now.
When the install is complete click on ‘Activate’, you will then see the Metric Child Theme as the active theme in your theme panel.
Step 3
Go to Divi > Theme Options. Click on the import/export options (up/down arrow).
Click on Import and upload Metric Theme Options.json.
Go to Divi > Theme Customisation. Click on the import/export options (up/down arrow).
Click on Import and upload Metric Customizer Settings.json.
Go to Divi > Divi Library. Click on the import/export options.
Click on Import and upload Metric Builder Layouts.json.
Step 4
Go to Pages > Add New. Give your page a name for example Home.
In the Divi Builder Click on Load from Library then click on Add From Library.
Here you will find all the pages from the demo. Load the Home page and publish it.
Don’t forget to add a menu and set the Home page as static.
Some images we used in the demo website are paid versions, so we have those replaced with free ones.
Assign menu to 404 and category page
You need to assign the right menu for the 404 and category page.
Go to Divi > Divi Library and open the 404 page open the Fullwidth Menu Module this is a global section. And choose your Menu.
Setup menu and social links
Right arrow for each menu item
After you added the menu item to your menu you have to add this after each navigation name.
Social icons
below a step by step guide how to add the Follow us text and the social icons.
Step 1
Create a custom link as in the image.
Step 2
Add the CSS class follow_us
If you don’t see the class field then go to the top of your screen and on the top right corner click on screen options.
Then check the CSS classes box
Step 3
For each social icon you have to create a custom link. Place these under the Follow us text
In the URL field fill in the url of your social media page.
In the navigation label you place a font awesome icon. You can find these on the font awesome page
http://fontawesome.io/icons/
Click on the icon you want to use and on the next page you copy the font awesome code.
These are the font awesome icons I used.
Each icon need to have a class.
For the first social icon you use the class social_1
For the second social icon you use the class social_2
For the third social icon you use the class social_3
For the fourth social icon you use the class social_4
For the fifth social icon you use the class social_5
Change border menu color
To modify the border menu color you go to appearance > editor.
Under CHANGE MENU COLORS you can swap the color codes.
If you don’t know which HEX colors you need, then you can use this tool https://color.adobe.com
Editing the footer
The footer is a global section, and you can edit this from any page. The edits you make are for the entire website.
Creating a blog post
To create a blog post with the same layout as Metric you do the following:
Go to Posts > Add New
Go to Load From Library > Add From Library and choose Single post.
In the right upper right corner, you find the Divi Post Settings. Make the following adjustments:
Page Layout: Full Width
Post Title: Hide
Important
Place in the excerpt box the text that you want to show on the blog page or blog grid page.
You find this box under the Divi page builder in the post page.
Create your own page
If you want to create a custom page, but you want to use the same footer. You can easily achieve this by following these steps:
Go to Pages > Add New.
Click on the Divi Page Builder button.
Click on Add From Library and load Footer.
Now you can create the other sections/rows that you want.
404 and category page
To edit the content of the 404 and category page, you go to Divi > Divi Library.
Then you open the 404 page. You can make your edits here.