Widgets are the blocks that perform a specific function. These are added in the widget-ready areas or the sidebars. The widget ready areas vary from theme to theme. Darlic provides you below listed areas and also you can create your own widget area.

  1. Topbar Left
  2. Topbar Right
  3. Header Banner
  4. Sidebar Left
  5. Sidebar Right
  6. Page Top Area
  7. Page Bottom Area
  8. Content Top Area
  9. Content Bottom Area
  10. Footer Column 1
  11. Footer Column 2
  12. Footer Column 3
  13. Footer Column 4
  14. Copyright Left
  15. Copyright Right

AVAILABLE WIDGETS

To activate a widget drag it to a sidebar or click on it. Clicking on the desired widget opens the list of available widget-ready areas to select and then click on the blue colored "Add Widget" button. Click on "Cancel" button to go back.

To deactivate the existing widgets in the sidebar simply drag them back or click on the downward arrow, it will expand the widget at the bottom left click on the delete link to remove the widget settings.

  1. Aione Breadcrumbs: It is a way to retrace your steps back to where you started.
  • Add the breadcrumbs name in the text box using separator.

2. Aione Designed by: It is to display the name of the company who has designed the website.

  • Company Name: Type the name of the company in the text box.
  • Company Website: Enter the company website name.
  • Tooltip: Enter the message you want to display when cursor is moved over the hyperlink.

3. Aione Slider: For continuous display of the images and the text or both, add this widget

  • Title: Enter the name that best suits your slider.
  • Select Slider: Choose the slider from the drop down menu you want to add in the widget-ready area.

4. Aione Social-Share: To encourage more social media sharing from your website.

  • Title: Enter the title.
  • Icon Size: Select the size (small, medium, large, extra-large) for icons.
  • Icon Theme: Choose the theme (Dark, Dark-Solid, Dark-Outline, Light, Light-Solid, Light-Outline) for icons from the pull-down box.
  • Icon Style: Give a style (square, rounded, circle) to the icons.
  • Icon Direction: Put the icons in either horizontal or vertical direction.
  • Show Labels: Check the box to display the labels.

Mark tick in the boxes next to the social media options to add them on the web page and save your changes to make it effective.

Aione Copyright: Add a copyright text in the footer area.

Aione Font Size: Display screen font size controller

Aione Social Icons: Displays a list of social media website icons and a link to your profile.

  • Title: Enter the title.
  • Icon Size: Select the size (small, medium, large, extra-large) for icons.
  • Icon Theme: Choose the theme (Dark, Dark-Solid, Dark-Outline, Light, Light-Solid, Light-Outline) for icons from the pull-down box.
  • Icon Style: Give a style (square, rounded, circle) to the icons.
  • Icon Direction: Put the icons in either horizontal or vertical direction.
  • Show Labels: Check the box to display the labels.

Add the link in the text box below the name of social media site to add them on the web page and save your changes to make it effective.

Archives: Bring together all your content on sidebar. You can create a monthly archive using this widget.

  • Title: Enter the text to give it a proper name.
  • Check the box if you want to chose one of the below mentioned settings:
  • Display as Drop-down
  • Show post counts.

Calendar: Choose this widget if you wish to display links to your post by date.

  • Title: Enter the name of the calendar to be displayed above the calendar in the widget-ready area.

Custom HTML: This widget allows you to add custom HTML code to the widget area.

Gallery: Create a new gallery in the widget-ready area.

  • Title: Give a title for the gallery to be displayed on the gallery section.
  • No images selected: Click on the area to choose an image from the media or upload the image from the personal computer.

Meta: Login, RSS, & WordPress.org links.

  • Title: Enter the text to be displayed on the web page.

Pages: A list of your site's Pages.

  • Title: Enter the title to be displayed on the web page.
  • Sort By: Set the order of the pages in a selected sequence from the drop-down box. You can sort the pages in one of the following manner:
  1. Page Title
  2. Page Order
  3. Page ID
  • Exclude: Use this option if you want to exclude few pages from the list. You need to put the Page IDs, separated by commas.

Recent Posts: Display the most recent posts.

  • Title: Enter the title to be displayed above the posts.
  • Number of posts to show: Enter the number in the input box to display the required number of posts.
  • Tick mark in the box if you want to display post date.

Search: Select this widget to display search box.

  • Title: Enter the title to be displayed above the search box.

Text: Display the content.

  • Title: Enter the title of the content.
  • Editor: Type in the text that is to be displayed and customize it as per your requirement.

Akismet Widget: Display the number of spam comments Akismet has caught

  • Title: Enter the title to be displayed above the widget.

Audio: Display an audio player.

  • Title: Enter the suitable title
  • Audio: Upload the audio from the personal computer or choose from the media.
  • Add Audio: Click on add audio button to save your changes.

Categories: A list or dropdown of categories.

Form: Gravity form widget.

  • Title: Enter the title to be displayed above the widget.
  • Select a form: Choose the form from the drop down box.
  • Display form title. (Check box)
  • Display form description. (Check box)

Click on the advanced options link for more settings.

  • Enable Ajax. (Check box)
  • Disable Script Output.
  • Tab Index Start: Enter the number in the input box.

If you have other forms on the page (i.e. Comments Form), specify a higher tab index start value so that your Gravity Form does not end up with the same tab indices as your other forms. To disable the tab index, enter 0 (zero).

Image: Display an image.

  • Title: Enter the title to be displayed above the image.
  • Either choose the image from the media or upload from the personal computer.
  • Add Image: Click on the add image button to confirm the changes that are made.

Navigation Menu: Add navigation menu to the widget-ready area.

  • Title: Choose a title for the menu
  • Select the type of the menu that you want to display.

Recent Comments: Add the most recent comments to the side bar.

  • Title: Enter the title you want to display above the comments.
  • Number of comments to show: Enter the number in the input box.

RSS: Entries from any RSS or Atom feed. Below specified settings are required to be made in the RSS widget.

  • Enter the RSS feed URL here. (text-box)
  • Give the feed a title. (optional text-box)
  • How many items would you like to display? (input box)
  • Display item content? (checkbox)
  • Display item author if available? (checkbox)
  • Display item date? (checkbox)

Tag Cloud: A cloud of your most used tags.

Settings required to make in the widget includes:

  • Title: Enter the title to be displayed above the Tag Cloud.
  • Taxonomy: Select one from the pull down box.
  • Show tag counts. (Checkbox)

Video: Displays a video from the media library or from YouTube, Vimeo, or another provider.

  • Title: Enter the name to be specified above the video.
  • Select the video.
  • Add Video: Click on this button save the video.

REMOVING & REUSING

In the bottom left side, there are two more options:

  1. Inactive Sidebar: Sidebars that are removed from the website but you wish to keep their settings you can drag them in this area.
  2. Inactive Widgets: Similar to sidebars, here you can keep those widgets which have been removed from the site but you want to keep their settings saved.

Clear Inactive Widgets: Use this button in case you want to remove all the inactive widgets. You will not be able to restore any customization.