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How To Customize the Boldy WordPress Theme (Video)

This is a review and how to of the Boldy WordPress theme.

Note: Because of the popularity of this tutorial, I’ve had a tough time keeping up with all the comments and questions. If you don’t receive a response for awhile please don’t be offended. Also, I encourage you to read through all the comments as many of the questions have been answered by other commenters. Thanks! 🙂

In this video I do a walkthrough of the Boldy WordPress theme. It’s what we use for our church website and we’ve been enjoying it.

*In the video I say that the banner size for the main page should be 970×360. They should actually be 960 x370.

Chapter sections:

1. Installing a logo: at 35 seconds

2. Editing main banner: at 2:36 minutes

3. Home page boxes: at 4:26 minutes

4. Adding a home button and dealing with menus: at 7:24 minutes

5. Getting rid of the “Site 5” footer graphic: at 9:16 minutes

6. Changing the “request quote” button: at 10:15 minutes

7. Overview of the backend: at 11:55 minutes

8. Adding a “contact us” page: at 12:53 minutes

Do you have any other comments or questions? Let me know about them in the comments below and I’ll try to help.

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Here’s two more videos I did recently from people that had questions:

About Rodlie Ortiz, D.Min.

On the pastoral team at Pioneer Memorial Church on the campus of Andrews University. Tech geek.

Comments

  1. MrCrow says

    I got the slideshow to come up, but it’s stuck on the loading dial. No images will show up. Any ideas?

  3. Ahmed says

    is there anyway of increasing the size of the bloody sidebar, you can even place a 300/250 flash ad in there, and its the same in the footer as well

    • Srinivas says

      Hi Ahmed,

      Thanks a ton for this. One entire day I was searching how to fix this and I had given up until I saw your message and it works. Thanks again.

      @Roldie,

      Thanks to you to else I would have never come across this page ever and you are doing a great work. God bless you guys.

  4. Kristin says

    I have the same problem as MrCrow:
    “I got the slideshow to come up, but it’s stuck on the loading dial. No images will show up. Any ideas?”

    I have created a new page, uploaded a couple of 960×370 images (neither featured)and published it. I went into Boldy options and selected it for the slider. Still a scrolling wheel on my home page no matter what I do. Could you please help?
    My website is http://www.kinnectivity.com.

    Thanks!!

  5. Rodney says

    Kristin,

    There seems to be something broke in jQuery and WordPress 3.3. You could downgrade to a previous version of WordPress or wait for the jQuery update.

  9. Rodney says

    How did you get the slider to work? Everyone is even talking on site5 forums about having trouble with it working because of 3.3. Please tell us how to get it working Hassan. Thanks.

  10. Hassan says

    friend no any special thing do it .
    just create slider page .and gone on boldy options. choose home page setting .and select Homepage Slider Images Page (slider)and save changes .its working ….

  16. Sean says

    Rodlie, thank you for taking the time to put this tutorial together! In the footer section, you were talking about the sentence that you had already deleted, but never mentioned what the sentence was that we should actually be looking for. Could you share that with us?

  17. Gary says

    Hey Rodlie,

    Awesome video thanks so much, I basically self taught myself off your video and some YouTubes and pieced together https://www.ianstannard.com …..

    I notice you have the All in One SEO pack installed, I am about to install this as I need to get my site onto a Google search for “Ian Stannard” …. did it work ok? Site5’s forums are full of people saying the All In One pack doesnt’ work on Boldy??

    Have you any advice on meta tags etc, ? It would be great to hear if the All in One pack works ok, as this comes recommended…..

    Thanks and amazing work on the tutorial video’s,

    Gary

    • Rodlie Ortiz says

      I honestly can’t remember to be honest. The best thing you could do, of course, for your SEO is actually to blog and continually add content. I actually don’t worry too much about SEO as long as there’s a blog associated with my site.

  18. Charlotte says

    Hey Rodlie,

    Firstly, thank you SO much for these video tutorials. They have helped me set up my Boldy WP theme massively, I would never have figured it out without them.

    I just wanted to know, in what format do I enter my Meta description and keywords. Can I literally drop them in or do they need to be prefixed with some HTML or duplicated in any of the other files elswhere in the theme?

    Thanks in advance Rodlie,

    Charlotte 🙂

    • Rodlie Ortiz says

      Hey Charlotte. So glad it was helpful for you. I’m actually not sure what you’re referring to as far as entering the meta description. Is this for SEO purposes underneath a particular post? I usually don’t mess with that stuff myself. There are plugins out there that I’ve used: All In One SEO. But for my use of the Boldy theme, I never got in to it.

  19. Anders says

    Hey Rodney
    Thank you for your great tutorials! It’s been a huge help.
    I have one question though.. I’m from Denmark and when people write to me via my online contact form I can’t receive the answers with dansih letters as æ, ø, Ã¥. Do you know if this could be modified?
    Thanks again
    /Anders

  20. Anders says

    Hey Rodlie
    Thank you for your great tutorials! It’s been a huge help.
    I have one question though.. I’m from Denmark and when people write to me via my online contact form I can’t receive the answers with dansih letters as æ, ø, Ã¥. Do you know if this could be modified?
    Thanks again
    /Anders

  23. philip says

    Am having trouble customising my footer as my footer.php is encrypted, how do i add those links in the footer? i know the css but what does your footer.php file look like? can you post a footer.php file for those of us who have an encrypted php

  24. clannad systems says

    i came to your site / blog but couldnt find the part of creating a gallery. And no one has provided instructrions for it as of my current research. so i just want to know if you could make one im still new to wp but i was able to customize my blog using boldly.

    Thanks.

    • Rodlie Ortiz says

      Hi Clannad. That’s actually one thing I never did–work on a photo gallery. So unfortunately I don’t have an experience with that.

  25. Winnie Jackson says

    Thank you so much for this information. It is so hard to find. I have been trying very hard to tweak this theme and the hardest thing is to get the size of the logo right. again thanks and keep up the good and much need work.

  26. philip says

    Hi there is a slight problem the nav bar drodown menu in IE7 browser the menu falls behind the heading homepage and dropdown doesnt work at all on the other pages. The site works fine on every other browser, and IE8 and up just ie7.

    ALSO, with the site how can i setup multiple profolio pages as i need to list different products on different pages with the pretty photo effect. Thanks yall

  27. deb says

    Hi I need help with the image slider. My images are stacked and not displaying properly. When you first log onto the site it looks great and it runs smoothly, but as soon as you click on another link and go back to the home page, the slider falls apart. I have been trying to resolving this issue for a while now.

    Any help is greatly appreciated.

  29. Carmen says

    Hello Rodlie and thanks so much for your useful tutorial.
    I am from Spain and currently I am trying to prepare a nice page with my CV to help me to find a job.
    I have two problems with this theme. First is that I am not able to change the blurb button. Your instructions are quite clear, but it doesn’t work, so I have decided to remove the button. How can I do that? Secondly, in the slidebar you can see a small squares on the top left hand. These squares are changing at the same time taht the images. How can I get ride of them?

    Really apreciate your help!
    Have a nice day…

    • Rodlie Ortiz says

      Hola Carmen!! 😉
      I don’t think you can remove the “blurb” bar, actually. The button, yes, but the section no. You have to actually remove the file from the theme. I’m not sure what you might be referring to with small squares. Perhaps if you send a link I can try to take a look.

      • Carmen says

        Hello Rodlie and thank you for your answer and your greeting in Spanish!
        Let me explain with more detail about the “misterious squares”. For example look at your own web, you can see in the top of the photos in the slidebar (on the left side, three small squares: 2 in white color and 1 in blue color. When the photo changes, the blue square changes its position too. It is like an indication about which photo is appearing at the moment.

        I would like to delete them in order tosee much better the photos of the slidebar.

        Kind regards…

        • Rodlie Ortiz says

          Ah, ok, now I see what you’re saying. Unfortunately I don’t think that’s possible. If you just have one picture, of course, there won’t be any boxes there because it will just stay on the one picture. But with multiple pictures I don’t think there’s an option to remove it. You can slow it down, though. Bendiciones, Carmen.

    • Rodlie Ortiz says

      I think that’s possible. You just wouldn’t add any widgets for the sidebar. There would still be a space there, though, if people click on one of the other pages.

  31. Nick says

    Hi,

    Im having difficulty finding the navigation sub menu rules. I have moved my navigation links up higher and when you click on a link with a sub menu, the drop menu is displayed a good 20 pixels below the nav button. Any suggestions?

  32. Jayme says

    Hi,

    You were very kind and helped me get my site set up with your great videos on setting up the boldy theme. Now I’d like to remove the slider on the home page and cannot figure out how to do that. It’s not working and I just want to remove it. Do you know how?

    many thanks,
    Jayme

  33. Alex says

    Hey.

    I’m using Boldy theme which is beautyful and simple to use. However I want to add flags for different languages on the top linking to norwegian and english version of the site.

    Any tip on how I can do that?

  34. manpreet says

    I am facing problem regarding portfolio implementation… Please help me out.its quite urgent

  35. Larry says

    Any news on the slideshow issue for the homepage? I have the same thing. It just shows the spinning blue thing and nothing loads. I was reading subs post and I checked out the link but I do not understand all the coding.

    • Rodlie Ortiz says

      You’re saying you don’t see anything on the slider of your homepage? I just looked at it and I could see two different rotating banners.

      • larry says

        Well there was nothing. I searched the web like crazy and found a fix. I had to download the WP Nivo SLider plugin and then it started to work again.

  37. Patagonier says

    Hello there Mr. Ortiz is alright if we use your tuts in our website for the Boldy theme We’ll put a link to your Site here. Also We would like to offer you a spot on our Website on our advertisement section absolutely free reason being is that we just want to populate our ad space with developers and designers its a way of use helping people promote themselves out there and having you would be great honor. Please drop us a note and let us know. Thanks.
    Kind Regards,
    Patagonier

  39. wayne says

    Hi thanx for a great tutorial, im having problems setting up the email. Im using boldy theme locally using WAMP. Could this be an issue? Please help me fix this so i know before i go live everything works great.

    Kind Regards

  40. Alexander says

    Thx for great theme. There are some small issues I would appreciate to get help with.

    1. Is it possible to add additional field on the contactform like Country, Phone number etc?

    2. I would like to put flags upper right corner for switching between languages.

    Thx.

    Alex

  43. marta says

    thanks for your videos. great help!Can you tell me where to alter the slider black caption bar? you have removed yours entirely on the church site. I might want to keep it but mke it shorter. thanks If you have already answered this, its ok to send me to your earlier post. BTW i like the way you made this site sere so clean and not so Boldy restricted. are you using a different Site 5 theme for this modernekklesia site?

  44. Saurabh says

    Hi,

    Thank you so much for your fabulous video. It greatly helped.

    However I have few doubts. If I want my header to stay constant while people scroll through my site, how do i do it?

    And

    How do Increase or decrease font size and change font in my blog posts or pages.

    one last doubt,

    Is it possible to have second page third page so on and so forth for non blog pages?

    thanks for replying in advance.

    saurabh.

  45. Tina says

    Thanks for your great tutorial, it helps me a lot!

    Although I have still some questions:

    – How do I customize the blog-template?
    I’m from Germany, and I would like to change the line “Mai 23, 2012 // by Christina // Blog // No Comments” to german language. I would also like to delete the “Blog Categories” in the sidebar.

    – Is it possible to show the latest blog-posts in one of the homeboxes?

    Thank you for your help!

  47. Alex says

    Experiencing problems with Boldly theme, if a page does not have enough content the bottom line will be placed in the middle of the screen. Can anyobe tell me the reason for that?

  50. Jane says

    Hi, can you please tell me how to adjust the timing of my slides? Also, I did put the link where you said to put it, but the slides are still not clickable :/