Adding Content To The Page

WordPress roles required: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor

For the content on the landing page, we are going to create 3 columns that have images, a short description, and a call-to-action link inside each section.

Click on the red + button to create a new section that has only 1 column. Once we have created and configured the first column, we will duplicate it so we have 3 identical columns.
  • Go to the ‘Edit Section’ panel and click on Layout
  • Layout:
    • Content width: Boxed
    • Width = 1000 pixels 
  •  Style:
    • Background
      • Background Type: Click on the paintbrush, then the color palette, and choose a color. For this background we used #F7F7F7
  • Advanced:
    • Margin: Top, Right, Bottom and Left = 0
    • Padding:
      • Top: 35
      • Right: 0
      • Bottom: 30
      • Left: 0

Column Settings

  • Click on the ‘Handle’ in the top left corner of the first column
  • Go to the ‘Edit Column’ panel and click on Style
  • Style:
    • Background
      • Background Type = click on the paintbrush, then the color palette and choose white for the column background color
    • Border
      • Border Type: Solid
      • Width: Top, Right, Bottom and Left = 1
      • Color: Choose a light grey
  • Advanced
    • Advanced
      • Margin
        • Top: 0
        • Right: 0 (this will provide space between each column)
        • Bottom: 0
        • Left: 0
      • Padding: Top, Right, Bottom and Left = 0

Inserting An Image Into A Column

Click on the 9 little dots on the top right of the editing panel to open up the widget panel. Find the ‘Image’ widget and drag this into the column you were just editing.

  • Go to the ‘Edit Image‘ panel.
  • Content:
    • Image
      • Image: Choose an image for this column
  • Advanced:
    • Advanced
      • Margin: Top, Right, Bottom, and Left = 0
      • Padding: Top, Right, Bottom, and Left = 0

Adding the Column Header

Click on the 9 little dots on the top right of the editing panel to open up the widget panel. Find the ‘Heading‘ widget and drag it in the column under the image you just inserted.

  • Now go to the ‘Edit Heading‘ panel.
  • Content:
    • Title: Add the text for the header here
    • Alignment: Left
  • Style:
    • Title
      • Text Color: Choose a color of the header
      • Typography
        • Family: Choose a type face
        • Size: 20
        • Weight: Normal
  • Advanced:
    • Advanced
      • Margin: Top, Right, Bottom and Left = 0
      • Padding
        • Top = 0
        • Right = 10
        • Bottom = 0
        • left to = 10

Adding Text

Click on the 9 little dots on the top right of the editing panel to open up the widget panel. Find the ‘Text Editor‘ widget and drag it in the column under the column header.

Now go to the ‘Edit Column‘ editing panel.

  • Content:
    • Text Editor
      • Add the text for the column here
  • Style:
    • Alignment: Left
    • Text color: Choose a color for the text
    • Typography
      • Family: Choose a typeface
      • Size: 14
      • Weight: Normal
  • Advanced:
    • Advanced
      • Margin: Top, Right, Bottom, and Left = 0
      • Padding
        • Top: 0
        • Right: 10
        • Bottom: 0
        • Left: 10

Duplicating Elements

Now that we have built the first column, we will need to duplicate this column twice, so we have 3 identical columns in total. Duplicating the columns will save time configuring the other 2 manually.
  • Hover in the top left-hand corner of the column to reveal the column handle
  • Right-click and click ‘Duplicate
    • Repeat this one more time so you have 3 identical columns
  • You can now click on to images in the other columns to replace them
  • Hover in the right-hand corner of the image and click on the pencil icon
  • Go to the ‘Edit Image‘ panel
  • Content:
    • Image: Replace image
      • Repeat this step for the image in the 3rd column
  •  
  • To edit the header and text
    • Click on the header or text in each column
    • Go to Content in the text edit panel and replace text

The content section for the landing page should look something like this: 

You have now completed the step-by-step guides to create a header and footer template with navigation menus, a hero section, and the first part of the page content. All that is left now is the last section for this landing page.

Are you able to create this on your own? Take everything you have learned in this landing page guide to recreate this last section by yourself. 

Before you go ahead and create this section, save all changes made first.