Setup Senses Lite

Welcome to the setup tutorials for the free WordPress theme named Senses Lite. Please note that any support you may need while setting up this theme is available to you by going to the theme’s download page at wordpress.org and click on the “View Support Forum” button.

Disable the demo banner and caption box

When you first install Senses Lite, you may notice you have a banner showing on the front of your site with a caption box in the middle of it. You are probably wondering how to edit or remove it, so this tutorial will help you through that.

Create a Contact form like the Senses Lite demo

This tutorial will be quite easy because to make the contact form shown on the live demo site for Senses Lite, you simply need to copy some code.

An introduction to the Quote Post Format for Senses Lite

This theme includes a few Post Formats for your blog. This tutorial will give you an introduction to the “Quote Post Format” and how it works for the Senses Lite theme. There are many styles for post formats with different themes — basically no real standard, so many theme authors create their own styles and methods. For Senses, I do mine in a unique way that capitalizes on the “Featured Image” for your posts in addition to the default colour background that is normally displayed.

An introduction to Image Post Format for Senses Lite

This theme includes a few Post Formats for your blog. This tutorial will give you an introduction to the “Image Post Format” and how it works for the Senses theme. There are many styles for post formats with different themes — basically no real standard, so many theme authors create their own styles and methods. For Senses, I do mine in a unique way that capitalizes on the “Featured Image” for your posts. When published, this is how it will look:

Customize your Error 404 page

This theme offers you a nice custom designed Error 404 page that you can change the various elements within it. To give you a quick peek at the error page, here is a screenshot:

Create buttons and customize the colour

This will be a simple tutorial to help you make any text link as a button, including adding styling attributes such as colour and size.

Create a Banner Caption Box like the Demo

When you see the live demo site for Senses Lite, you will notice I have a banner image showing on the front page. This tutorial will help you to add one to your page like I did. Although there are a few ways you can do this, I will help you based on my method. There are plugins that lets you install an image or banner widget, allowing you to upload and set an image, but we are adding a caption box so this will require a text widget because we need to add some HTML code.

Choose your blog style and layout

Changing your blog style is not just for layout, but also for what style of featured image you want.

WordPress Custom Headers for Senses Lite

Originally, the WordPress Custom Header feature was used to change the background header of themes, usually with a solid colour or image. Many themes now use it as another form of adding a banner image setup, but with Senses Lite, I decided to go back to what it was really meant to be used for, customizing your header background. Senses Lite gives you seveal options to consider:

Boxed layout outer shadow settings

With Senses Lite, you can choose the boxed layout of your choice or go for the full width layout (default). Because the default layout is set to full width, there is no reason to have the outer shadow (glow) surrounding your page content, but when you choose to use a boxed layout, you can enable an outer shadow.