WNT Documentation

Welcome to Walker News Template

Walker News Template is a versatile WordPress theme built for bloggers, news sites, and magazines. Whether you’re an individual or an agency, with its customizable full-site editing, 20+ free patterns, 30+ premium patterns (altogether 50+ patterns), 10 global styles, and 12+ beautiful fonts there is no limit to what kind of blog you want to make.

Our goal with this guide is to help you set up the theme easily and get to know its cool features. It’s a good idea to read through this guide before you start or keep it handy if you need help later.

And if you ever have questions or need assistance, our support team is here to help you out.

Get ready to make your website awesome with Walker News Template!

Installing and Activating Walker News Template

There are 2 ways to install Walker News Template:

Installing using ZIP file:

Download the Walker News Template installation file from here by clicking the Download button.
Login to your WordPress website and go to Appearance > Themes
Click on the Add New button and then click on the Upload Theme button
Chose the .zip file you downloaded (walker-news-template.zip)
Click on the Install Now button
After the theme is installed, click on the Activate button.

2. Installing using WordPress Theme Directory

Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes
Click on Add New button. In the search field, type Walker News Template and hit the Enter key.
Now, click on the Install button and then the Activate button to install and activate the theme.

Recommended Plugins

You must install and activate the following plugins to get the best out of the theme.

WalkerCore: Walker Core is the companion plugin for WalkerWP themes, which provides custom widgets like social media icons, Recent Posts, Popular Posts, Categories Wide latest post widgets, and an Address box so that you can place those widgets anywhere in a sidebars/footer as your requirement.
Contact Form 7: WalkerMag recommends “Contact Form 7” plugins to add forms to the site. You can deactivate or delete the plugin if you don’t need any forms.
Advanced Import (To import demos): It is a powerful data importer plugin. It has several features which make it more manageable and convenient for WordPress user to import their WordPress site data from another website. You can uninstall this plugin after you have successfully imported the demo.

Importing Demo

After you install and activate the theme and the plugins, follow the steps below to import demo content:

Go to Appearance > Demo Import
Click on the “Import” button of the demo you want to import
Read the confirmation message and click on “Yes, Import Demo!”
You may need to wait a while because it may take some time.
That’s all, your demo will successfully be imported and you can start editing your content.

Customizing Header

Log in to your WordPress Dashboard.
Click “Edit Site” at the top.

Under areas, click on the header section to customize it.
Save your changes.
OR
Go to “Appearance” in the Dashboard.
Click “Editor.”
Choose the “Patterns” tab.
Under template parts, select “Header” to customize it.
Save your changes.

Customizing Footer

Log in to your WordPress Dashboard.
Click “Edit Site” at the top.

Under areas, click on the footer section to customize it.
Save your changes.

Go to “Appearance” in the Dashboard.
Click “Editor.”
Choose the “Patterns” tab.
Under template parts, select “Footer” to customize it.
Save your changes.

Typography Setup

To customize the typography:

Log in to the WordPress admin Panel.
Go to Appearance > Editor
Click on the styles icon at the top right

You will see an option for typography, click on it.
You can now edit the typography from this section.

Add Custom/Change Colors

To change the theme’s colors or to add your own custom colors,

Log in to the WordPress admin Panel.
Go to Appearance > Editor
Click on the styles icon at the top right

Now, click on the colors tab and go to the palettes section.
You can now choose whichever color you like or even add your own custom colors.

Global Style Switching

To switch the global styles of the theme,

Log in to the WordPress admin Panel.
Go to Appearance > Editor
Click on the styles icon at the top right

You will see an option to browse styles, click on it.
Choose whichever global style you feel suits your website.

Add/Edit Site Logo

You can add/edit the site logo of your website by following these steps:

Log in to the WordPress admin Panel.
Go to Appearance > Editor
Click on the template part where you want to add/edit your logo
Click on the blue ‘+’ symbol on the top left
Search for ‘site logo’ and add it

Now, upload your site logo

You can edit the logo from the dashboard on your right.

Add/Edit Site Icon/ Favicon

To add/edit Site icon/favicon, follow these simple steps:

Log in to the WordPress admin Panel.
Go to Appearance > Editor
You can also choose your site logo to be your site icon by clicking on the site logo and enabling the ‘Use as site icon’ option.

If you want to use a different favicon than your site icon then click on ‘Site icon settings

This will redirect you to a new tab where you can add your site icon/favicon

Add/Edit Navigation

Log in to the WordPress admin Panel.
Go to Appearance > Editor
Go to Navigation and select the navigation you would like to edit

You can add, remove or update your navigation from this dashboard.

Customizing Templates

Log in to the WordPress admin Panel.
Go to Appearance > Editor
Go to Templates and select the template you would like to edit and start customizing

Filtering Block with Category

To filter a block with a category, follow these easy steps,

Log in to the WordPress admin Panel.
Go to Appearance > Editor
Click on the block which you would like to filter
Click on the list view or Shift + Alt + O

Now, select query loop, and on your right side of the dashboard, navigate to filters and select ‘taxonomies’.
Now, under the filters in the category section, you can write and choose the category to filter the block.