Ritz

Ritz is a feature-rich, well-designed blog theme for WordPress. It is a minimalist theme that allows your reader to focus on your content, build especially for bloggers who love to share their stuff, whether it’s about life, fashion, travel, beauty or just a simple personal blog. Not only its modern design is pleasing to the eyes, it packs in robust yet easy-to-use backend system all managed through WordPress Live Customizer and coded with site performance in mind.

Theme Installation

From WordPress Dashboard

Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel.
Go to the Appearance panel, then Themes.
Click Add New.
Upload the Zip file of Ritz
After Installing the theme Click Activate button

FTP Installation (alternate method)

Use your FTP software to browse to wp-content/themes folder.
Extract ritz.zip and upload the folder.
Once it’s uploaded, go to your WordPress Admin, browse to Appearance > Themes.
Click the Activate link.

Adding Content

Page

Follow the method below to create pages on your site

Go to Administration Panels
Go to Page and Click on Add New
Give the title of the page and add the content
Set the featured image for the post from right corner.
Click on Publish Button.
Add more page like the above methods.

Post

Follow the method below to create posts on your site

Go to Administration Panels
Go to Posts and Click on Add New
Give the title of the post and add the content
Set the featured image for the post from right corner.
Set that post on the Category.
Click on Publish Button.
Add more post like the above methods.

Category

Follow the method below to create category on your site

Go to Administration Panels
Go to Posts > Categories
Give the title of the category
Click on Save
The added category will appear on the Add Post Page.

Customization Options

Go to the Admin Panel > Appearance > Customize

Logo, Site Title & Tagline

Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity
Find the options for Logo, Site Title and Tagline.
Click on Save and Publish button to save the changes.

Color

Background color of the site can be changed from this option.
Go to Appearance > Customize > Colors
Change the color as your need.
Click on Save and Publish to save the changes.

Background Image

You can change the background image of the site through this option.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Background Image
Upload and assign image as per your need.
Click on Save and Publish to save the changes.

Menus

This theme comes with two menu locations. Primary Menu and Social Menu

Primary Menu

This menu will appear on Main menu for the site.
Create a menu and add the items on the menu.
Set the menu on the Primary Menu.
Save the Menu

Social Menu

Go to Appearance >> Menus.
Click on create a new menu, name it Social Menu and assign it to Social Menu.
Click on Custom Links
Add full url of social networking sites like facebook, twitter, instagram, etc to it and click on Save Menu.

Widgets

Go to Appearance > Customize > Widgets

From Widgets, go to Sidebar
Select the widgets or items to be kept on the side bar like Search, Pages, Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Categories, Archives, Text, Calendar, etc.
SAVE AND PUBLISH the sidebar items.

Added Custom Widget

There is 1 custom widget added by this theme for newsletter subscription using mailchimp plugin.

Add this widget on Newsletter Section widget area to display newsletter subscription with mailchilp form.

We have used Mailchimp for WordPress plugin which can be found here

Theme Options

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options. Each option available here are described below.

Header Options

From this section you can show or hide social icons on header area of the site.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Header Options
Check the available options on this section.
Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Posts Options

From this section you can manage lenght of excerpt in blog page, change read more button text, hide or show post meta, change related post settings and more.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Posts Options
Check the available options on this section.
Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Footer Options

This section is used to manage copyright information of site and option to show or hide social icons on footer of the site.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Footer Options
Check the available options on this section.
Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Scroll Up Options

This section is used to show or hide scroll top (go to top) when mouse scrolled to bottom of the site.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Scroll Up Options
Check the available options on this section.
Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Official Support

Hope, this will help you to setup your site as expected.

If you have any further query, use theme official support forum.