--- title: Kimbo Instructions description: "[Kimbo is a clean and elegant business WordPress theme](https://vivathemes.com/wordpress-theme/kimbo/), featuring a portfolio and a powerful home page template. ### Theme installation Unzip file ***kimbo_unzip_first.zip*** that you downloaded from us and install ***kimbo.zip*** file. [Read more how to install a theme *→ *](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/how-to-install-a-wordpress-theme/) ### Making theme look like…" url: "https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/kimbo-instructions/" updated: "2020-09-26" category: Theme Instructions --- # Kimbo Instructions [Kimbo is a clean and elegant business WordPress theme](https://vivathemes.com/wordpress-theme/kimbo/), featuring a portfolio and a powerful home page template. ### Theme installation Unzip file ***kimbo_unzip_first.zip*** that you downloaded from us and install ***kimbo.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 ***kimbo.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 two menu locations, the *Primary Menu* (main menu) 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/) ### Configuring the slider This theme has a featured content slider in the home page. You need to feature pages or post to the slider. - Create a page or post. - Add a featured image to the page you just created, that will be the image that will appear in the slider. Featured images will be resized automatically to *1200x400px*. [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/) - In the bottom of the right column of your editor, there’s a section *Custom Post Features*, check the box to Feature the post in the front page slider. - Do this process for as many slides as you need. ![kimbo slider](https://vivathemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/featured-slider.jpg) By default, the page/post title will be the slide’s caption and the slide will link to the page/post. If you want a different caption create a custom field named ***slidetitle*** and in the value area add the caption you need. If you want the slide to link to a different url create a custom field named ***slidelink ***and the value area add the url you want the slide to link when clicked upon. [Learn how to enable custom fields *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/enable-custom-fields-in-wordpress-posts-or-pages/) ### Featured content section Below the slider in the front page there is another section where you can promote your services or products by featuring some posts or pages. To feature a post or page in that area, in the bottom of the right column you will see another section as seen in the screenshot above. Just check the box to *Feature the post in the front page below the slider*. You need to add a featured image to the page you just featured which will be resized *250x250px*. The excerpt will be added automatically, but you can add your own custom text by using the excerpt field in the right column. ### Configuring the front page In the front page below the slider and the front widget and featured content, 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 a default page, that is a page with a right sidebar, a full width page or your portfolio, instead of the latest posts. ### 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 *700px wide with unlimited height.* [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/) ### Page templates - **Default**: Content page with right sidebar. - **Full width**: Full width page, no sidebar. - **Portfolio**: Page to display the portfolio. ### Widgets - **Right sidebar**: Visible in default pages, blog, single posts and portfolio entries. - **Front widget**: Visible in the front page below the slider. - **Bottom widget**s: Visible throughout the website, in the footer. [Learn how to add widgets *→*](https://vivathemes.com/knowledge-base/add-widgets-to-theme/) ### Featured Images sizes - Blog featured images: 900x450px - Portfolio images: 700px wide with unlimited height - Slider images: 1200 x 400px - Featured posts images: 250 x 250px If you need more help regarding this theme, please [contact us](https://vivathemes.com/contact/).