‫Welcome back, my dear students.
‫And finally, in this lecture of the course, I will be sharing with you the theme that I recommend
‫you should be installing on a blog website.
‫And it is really very amazing.
‫Now don't get me wrong, you can also use the ocean WP.
‫You can also use the Astra, or you can also use any other theme.
‫But the main and the most important thing that I think these are not good for the blogging purposes,
‫is that they do not have so much of the things in their free version.
‫Like.
‫Let's suppose that if I want to show the destination right over here in the card, then I cannot show
‫that, and if I want to show it, then I have to purchase the pro version of the Astra.
‫Or maybe, um, something else to add these type of functionalities.
‫So why not use a theme if there is any of the free theme that offers these kind of extra customization
‫and their free plan, why not go with that rather than purchasing, um, a most popular theme.
‫So the theme that I actually recommend is Blocksy theme.
‫And we're going to be installing this.
‫I'm going to be sharing with you how it's going to let us customize, and then we're going to be fully
‫designing the website based on that.
‫Let's just go ahead and let's get started.
‫First of all, what you need to do is to head over to your themes.
‫And once you are in the themes, you have to click on the Add New and you will see that particular theme
‫in the most popular tab, because this theme is also now getting more and more popularity.
‫So this is actually the theme block.
‫See, if you do not see it, you can just go ahead and you can search for it.
‫So I'll be going ahead and I'll be installing this theme.
‫Now once you click on install it's going to be installed.
‫And after that you can hit on activate.
‫This theme is going to be activated.
‫And after that you should see this.
‫Thanks for installing block.
‫See you have to install the block see companion.
‫So if you want to use this theme I would suggest use this theme on a blog website or maybe build your
‫full website using the block C and you will love it.
‫So what you need to do is to click on install and also install this plugin.
‫And then you will see a block C over here.
‫Now let's just go ahead.
‫Let's click on visit site.
‫Let's take a look at the website.
‫And this is how the website is.
‫So it's a really plain basic website.
‫But there is a lot of things that you can do with your website.
‫So let's just go ahead and let's head over to the customize and let's see how is a website.
‫But before doing that, first of all, make sure that you go into the menus.
‫And once you are in the menus, make sure you go down and select this to be the header menu one.
‫After that you can click on save menu.
‫Now when you will visit the website, you will see that the menu is going to be here and this is how
‫it is.
‫Now let's click on customize.
‫And now once you are actually in the customizer, you will see that there are.
‫Theme customizer is a little bit different than the previous themes that we have been using so far.
‫And this is kind of like similar to a page builder, because this is going to allow us to add a different
‫type of things.
‫Like once we are actually in the customizer and I bring my mouse to these cards, you can see that it
‫shows me edit over here, and I can click on edit, and it's going to take me to that particular editor
‫to directly from there.
‫Not only that, there are a lot of things you can do.
‫Like we've got the header and they have also got the header builder, which is you can see right here.
‫And you can also style it as well.
‫So this is actually the main row.
‫And if I want to style it then I can bring my mouse to this.
‫I can click on the settings.
‫It's going to take me there where I can go into the design tab and I can design change the background,
‫add a border if I want, add a shadow.
‫If I want these type of customizations I can actually do on this theme.
‫Not only that, if I just go ahead and I click on go Back, then I've got the blog post.
‫All right.
‫So here you can see that I've got the categories as well and the blog post as well.
‫This means that the home page or where there is going to be the post being shown, this is going to
‫edit that the categories is basically the categories pages or the custom taxonomy that you will be adding
‫on the website.
‫Those will be shown as well.
‫So if I just go into the categories and now I let's suppose I go into the Middle East and I select Qatar.
‫So this is actually the destination Qatar.
‫And you can see that we have got these right here.
‫And I can go ahead and I can change particularly anything.
‫Now the meaning, the most important thing that I wanted to show you, like let's suppose that on the
‫home page, uh, there is no destination over here, but we want to show our users on which destination
‫this hotel was in or anything, because we have added it in the title.
‫But let's suppose that we haven't added the destination in the title, and we want to show the destination
‫right after this.
‫Then how can we do that?
‫You have also the option for that.
‫You can go into the card options.
‫Now you do not have to get confused.
‫We're going to be diving deeper into this theme.
‫We're going to be going from the start.
‫We're going to be designing the header and everything.
‫So this is just what I'm showing you for the time being right now.
‫Once you are in here.
‫Then you can see that I have got the post meta.
‫I'm going to click on here.
‫I've got the taxonomies.
‫I'm going to duplicate this taxonomies.
‫I've got another taxonomy and I'm going to drag click on here.
‫And I'm going to show that I want to show the destination.
‫And you can see that now the destination is also being shown.
‫So this is how you can go ahead and you can do much more customization with the free version of this
‫Blocksy theme.
‫And it's really very amazing.
‫Now there are a lot of things that you can do.
‫This is a theme that I recommend.
‫Now, what I'll be doing is that I'll be clicking on cross.
‫I'm not going to be saving any of the changes.
‫And now from now onwards, we're going to be using this theme.
‫We're going to be going from the top to the bottom, and then we're going to be designing our full website.
‫Once everything is done, once our archive pages, the dynamic pages are actually done, then we will
‫be moving forward.
‫And we're we're going to be designing the home page and the about page.
‫And our blog website is going to be completed now if you want, if you want to go with any other theme,
‫it's up to you.
‫You want to go with the Astra, you want to go with the ocean WP, or you want to go with any of the
‫paid themes that are available as well.
‫You can go and you can use the theme customizer.
‫However, I believe the best value to money theme is this Blocksy theme, and we're not going to be
‫using any of the paid thing inside this particular blog website, and we're going to be building it
‫for completely free.
‫All right.
‫And I'm going to show you how everything is going to be done from the start till the bottom.
‫So from the next lecture of the course, we're going to be working up with this theme.