--- title: Egesto Instructions description: "[Egesto is a dark WordPress theme featuring a portfolio](https://vivathemes.com/wordpress-theme/egesto/) and team members section, great for business & corporate websites. ### Theme installation Unzip file ***egesto_unzip_first.zip*** that you downloaded from us and install ***egesto.zip*** file. [Read more how to install a theme *→ *](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/how-to-install-a-wordpress-theme/) ### Making theme look…" url: "https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/egesto-instructions/" updated: "2020-09-26" category: Theme Instructions --- # Egesto Instructions [Egesto is a dark WordPress theme featuring a portfolio](https://vivathemes.com/wordpress-theme/egesto/) and team members section, great for business & corporate websites. ### Theme installation Unzip file ***egesto_unzip_first.zip*** that you downloaded from us and install ***egesto.zip*** file. [Read more how to install a theme *→ *](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/how-to-install-a-wordpress-theme/) ### Making theme look like demo Inside the package you will find a file named ***egesto.WordPress.xml*** that you can use to import the demo content. [Read more how to make theme look like the demo *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/making-theme-look-like-the-demo/) ### Activate child theme This theme enables you to create and activate a child theme with just one click, which is the recommended way to modify themes.  [Learn how to create a child theme *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/create-child-themes-in-wordpress/) ### Adding a logo image Go to *Appearance → Customize →* *Site Identity* to add a logo image or edit your site title. [Learn how to update your site identity *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/updating-site-identity/) ### Setting up the menu This theme has three menu locations, the *Primary Menu* (main menu), *Front Menu* (menu in the front page, below the slogan) and *Social* (the menu to display your social media profiles). Create menus and assign them to each of the available locations. [Learn how to setup WordPress menus *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/setting-up-wordpress-menus/) ### Social media icons This theme will automatically display links to your social media profiles as icons, using a Custom Menu. [Learn how to setup social media menu *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/setting-up-social-media-menu/) ### Header image In your *Dashboard* go to *Appearance → Customize →* *Header Images. *Add the image you want to display. You can add more than one and randomize them. The images will show at the header in the front page. ### Configuring the front page In the front page below the header image, this theme will display the latest posts by default. You can assign a static page to display in front instead of the latest posts. [Learn how to display a static page in front *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/display-a-static-page-in-the-front-of-your-website/) This way you can have the ***Home Page*** template, a default page, that is a page with a right sidebar, a full width page, team members or your portfolio display in front, instead of the latest posts. ### Home page template This theme comes with a custom made template to create an attractive and very functional home page, just like in our demo. - Create a page and assign the **Home Page** template to it.  [Learn how to change page templates *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/changing-page-templates-in-wordpress-pages/) - Add a featured image to this page, which will be resized to **2000x600px**. - Assign this page to display in the front of your website [Learn how to display a static page in front *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/display-a-static-page-in-the-front-of-your-website/) - Note that the content with the featured image of this page will display in the bottom section of the home page. - To add the call to action button as in our demo use this html code in a html block ```plain <a class="actionbutton" href="url to link to">Button Text</a> ``` At the top of the Home Page template you can feature some posts or pages to display your services or important products. - Check the box in the bottom of the right column when you edit a page or post to *Feature it in the front page*. - Add a featured image, which will be resized to **290x150px**. [Learn how to add featured images to a page or post *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/add-a-featured-image-to-a-page-or-post/) - The excerpt will be added automatically, but you can add your own custom text by using the excerpt field in the right column. ![egesto featured](https://vivathemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/blanche-featured.jpg) At the bottom of the *Home Page* template the latest three portfolio entries will be displayed. To change the title of each section and the link to your portfolio page in the *Home Page* template, in your *Dashboard* go to *Appearance → Customize →* *Theme Options*. ### Portfolio First create a page. Assign the **Portfolio** template to the newly created page. [Learn how to change page templates *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/changing-page-templates-in-wordpress-pages/) Add the page to the menu or have it display in the front page as explained above. - In your Dashboard go to *Portfolio → Add New.* - Add a featured image to each portfolio entry. The image will be resized to **300x300px***.* [Learn how to add featured images to a page or post *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/add-a-featured-image-to-a-page-or-post/) ### Team members - Create a page and assign the ***Team*** page template to it.  [Learn how to change page templates *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/changing-page-templates-in-wordpress-pages/) - Add the page to the menu. - In your *Dashboard* go to *Team Members → Add New.* - Add a featured image which will be resized to **300x340px**. - Add some content and links to each members social media accounts in the right column of the editor. ### Page templates - **Home page**: Custom page to display in front. - **Default**: Content page with right sidebar. - **Full width**: Full width page, no sidebar. - **Team page**: Page to display the team members. - **Portfolio**: Page to display portfolio entries. ### Widgets - **Right sidebar**: This location is visible in default pages, blog, single posts and single portfolio. - **Footer widgets**: Visible throughout the website, in the footer. [Learn how to add widgets *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/add-widgets-to-theme/) ### Featured Images sizes - Header image: 2000 x 600px - Blog featured images: 300 x 340px - Services images: 290 x 150px - Portfolio images: 300 x 300px - Team member images: 300 x 340px If you need more help regarding this theme, please [contact us](https://vivathemes.com/contact/).