This guide will walk you through the common features in a CultivateWP theme. If this is your first time using a CultivateWP theme, we recommend watching these four videos.
Editing your homepage
How to log in, enabling the List View in the editor, using the Post Listing block, using the Quick Links block, reordering elements on the page, adding new elements, and adding full-width backgrounds to elements.
Editing a post
Common keyboard shortcuts, additional block styles available for the list block and paragraph block, numbered galleries for step-by-step photos, the Tips and Group block for highlighting content, how to use Block Areas for globally displayed content (Sidebar, After Post, After First Image…), and our Recipe First functionality.
Editing a category
How to edit your category header, specify a shorter title & image for Quick Links, and leverage our Cultivate Category Page functionality to manually curate content at the top of the category page.
Global elements
How to edit menus, the top hat, the services used for search and favorites, breadcrumb customization, affiliate disclosure, social links, and block areas for Sidebar and After Post.
Please see the articles below for more information on specific features and common requests.
Features
- Affiliate Disclosure
- As Seen In block
- Block Areas
- Cultivate Category Pages
- Post Listing block
- Quick Links block
- Recipe Key
- Save Recipe block
- Seasonal Content Block
- Social Links block
- Top Hat
- Using the Cover block
How To
- Seasonal Content block pattern
- Step by Step post pattern
- Manually control your RSS feeds
- Add a full width background section
- Setting up a Shop Page with affiliate links
- Fancy style for lists, images, and galleries
- How to include Recipe Index in breadcrumbs
- Building a Recipe Index
- How to customize your author byline link
- How to customize or hide the h1 on your homepage
- Recipe Template using a block pattern
- How to edit your 404 page
- How to build an Instagram Links page
- Customizing the WPForms Emails
- Connecting WP Forms to Your Email Provider
- Save Recipe block with ConvertKit
- Increasing font size for improved RPMs