2. Settings

The Boombox WP Theme comes with several settings.

Each of these will be explained below.

All settings can be found under the Appearance menu.

Under the Carousel setting you can choose a post category for the carousel on the default home page.

There is an All option to display posts from all published categories.

Page backgrounds

Under the Page Backgrounds setting you can upload and use different backgrounds on the pages for your WordPress website.

These include:

  • About Page Template

  • Blog Page Template

  • Portfolio Page Template

  • General Pages (any page that doesn’t use any of the templates above)

To change these backgrounds click on Select or upload image

This will bring up the Media Library dialog where you can upload an image to your Media Library or select one that has already been uploaded.

After selecting an image click Use this image

The Preview will update with the selected image, click Save image to save the setting

Social media

Under the Social Media setting you can set several social media account links which will appear in your header (below is an example).

You can also set your Twitter username as well as a social share image.

These are used for your Open Graph tags on your website.

Once you have set your social media account links click Save settings

Example

Portfolio

Under the Portfolio setting you choose the post category for all your portfolio posts.

This setting is used on the Portfolio Page Template.

Contact form

Under the Contact Form setting you can set the email address all form submissions will go to as well as the Google reCAPTCHA keys.

The form will not work unless you have set the reCAPTCHA keys.

To find out where to get your keys go to https://www.google.com/recaptcha

Once these settings have been set the contact form will be displayed below the recent posts section as shown below.

Example

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