Blog

Fluxus provides two layouts for showing up your blog posts: horizontal and vertical. To setup a blog page, create a new page and select either Horizontal Blog or Vertical Blog template. The page you have created will list all your blog posts.

Fluxus blog supports and recommends using featured images for your posts. Landscape orientation ratio works best for featured images.

The excerpt is displayed on the blog index page and is limited to 50 words.

Post Formats

Fluxus theme offers 5 post formats: standard, aside, link, quote and video. To change post format open the post settings sidebar and locate the Format option. Changing the post format reveals additional options that are associated with chosen post format.

Post Format: Standard

Standard post format has no options except for featured image. Setting featured image will get it displayed in blog index and on the post page itself. Make sure you use image that has 16:9 aspect ratio.

Post Format: Aside

Aside post format is used when you need to make a short note. No title will be displayed, only the contents of a post. The excerpt of aside post in blog index page is increased to 100 words.

Post Format: Link

Link post format shows a link in the featured image area.

Link Post Options

• Link URL - website address of the link button
• Title - link button title
• Description - short text displayed under the button

Post Format: Quote

Quote post format displays a quote in the featured image area. If you set the featured image, then the quote will be overlaid on top of the image.

Quote Post Format Options

• Quote - the quote
• Text Color - the color of the quote text. If you are using featured image, then make sure it stays readable.
• Quote Author - quote author displayed under the quote in smaller font.

Video

Video post format allows you to embed video from video service websites such as YouTube and Vimeo. Other websites should also work, but have not been tested. To embed a video simply paste the video embed code into video post format Embed Code area. Embedded videos will be visible in place of featured images on blog index page and on the post page. The player will be automatically resized to fit the available space.

YouTube embedding

Go to youtube.com and find the video you want to embed. Locate the Share button, click it and choose Embed. Then you will be provided with embed code which looks like this:

<iframe
  width="560"
  height="315"
  src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-rvlaTg3vPg"
  frameborder="0"
  allowfullscreen>
</iframe>

Copy the code and paste it into video post Embed Code area.

Vimeo Embedding

Note

YouTube and Vimeo websites are constantly changing so these instructions might go out of date.

Go to vimeo.com and find any video you wish to embed. Hover the video player and you should see Share button on the right. Click it and paste the provided embed into video post Embed Code area.