How To Setup Smart News Blogger Template

Smart News Blogger Template is nicely designed premium quality theme with fully responsive design. It includes many professional widgets which lets you build professional looking blogs through its layout. Smart News is equipped with various of widgets which will help you to publish your blog more professionally. To make it easy for you we have published this detailed documentation, so that you can setup your blog correctly.
You have made a good decision by choosing our template. You can check the live demo or download the template through the button below and also Please Read this documentation carefully in order to set up your blog and please note that there’s no support for free users.

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Basic Setup

1. Template Installation
2. Logo Setup
3. Template Setting
4. Shortcodes & Markups
5. Create Sitemap

Video Documentation

You can check this below video to understand the setup process much more easily, just click the below image to watch the video directly on YouTube, or click this link - How To Setup Smart News Blogger Template - SoraTemplates

Top Nav Widget

Access your blog Layout > click Edit link on Topnav widget.

it automatically picks pages and page links but in case it doesn't pick, please see the above image to add one, you can also add external links(Links from somewhere else).

Setting up the menu

• To Edit Main Menu in this theme you can follow this step:

1. On Blogger Dashbord Click Template
2. Click Edit HTML
3. Scroll down and Find this Code :

 <ul class='menu' id='menu-main' itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement'>

<li class='green'><a class='home' expr:href='data:blog.homepageUrl'>Home</a></li>

<li class='red'><a href='#'>Features</a>

<ul class='sub-menu'>

 <li itemprop='name'><a href='#' itemprop='url'>Multi DropDown</a>

<ul class='sub-menu'>

 <li itemprop='name'><a href='#' itemprop='url'>DropDown 1</a></li>

 <li itemprop='name'><a href='#' itemprop='url'>DropDown 2</a></li>

 <li itemprop='name'><a href='#' itemprop='url'>DropDown 3</a></li>

 <li itemprop='name'><a href='#' itemprop='url'>DropDown 4</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

 <li itemprop='name'><a href='http://hot-magazine-soratemplates.blogspot.in/p/post-format-and-page-markup.html' itemprop='url'>ShortCodes</a></li>

 <li itemprop='name'><a href='http://www.sorabloggingtips.com/2017/01/how-to-add-sitemap-widget-in-blogspot-blogs.html' itemprop='url'>SiteMap</a></li>

 <li itemprop='name'><a href='http://hot-magazine-soratemplates.blogspot.in/soratemplates' itemprop='url'>Error Page</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class='yellow' itemprop='name'><a href='#' itemprop='url'>Documentation</a>

    <ul class='sub-menu'>

 <li itemprop='name'><a href='http://www.sorabloggingtips.com/2016/11/how-to-setup-hotmagazine-blogger.html' itemprop='url'>Web Doc</a></li>

 <li itemprop='name'><a href='#' itemprop='url'>Video Doc</a></li>

</ul>

    </li>

<li class='orange' itemprop='name'><a href='http://www.soratemplates.com/2014/05/smart-news-blogger-templates.html' itemprop='url'>Download This Template</a></li>       

     </ul>  

Change The # with url of your's.

To setup News Ticker 

It works automatically, but if it did't then follow below tutorial.

Solved!! Recent Post, Featured Post, Slider, Random Post, Related Post Not Working

Social Widget

You Can See there is a social widget beside ticker widget. To Edit this widget in this theme you can follow this step:

1. On Blogger Dashbord Click Template
2. Click Edit HTML
3. Scroll down and Find this Code :

<!--Social Icons Started -->

<div id='social'>

<a class='facebook' href='http://www.facebook.com/'/>

<a class='twitter' href='https://twitter.com/'/>

<a class='flickr' href='http://www.flickr.com/'/>

<a class='pinterest' href='http://pinterest.com/'/>

<a class='vimeo' href='http://vimeo.com/'/>

<a class='youtube' href='http://www.youtube.com/'/>

<a class='mail' href='mailto:info@themeflames.com'/>

</div>

<!--Social Icons End-->

Change The social url's with url of your's.

Featured Slider

Access your blog Layout > click Edit link on sliderse  widget, you will see below code, just edit the values according to your need.

<div id="slider">

<script style="text/javascript">

 var numposts_gal = 3;

 var numchars_gal = 150;

 var random_posts = false; // random posts

</script>

<script src="/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=showgalleryposts&max-results=99"></script>

</div>

Change the above details with your own.

1.  var numposts_gal = 3; (This Controls The number of posts)
2.  var numchars_gal = 150; (This Controls The number of characters in the snippet)
3.  var random_posts = false; // random posts (False for recent posts and true for random posts)

Work with home design 

Smart News supported you build your own home design. In you blog Layout admin, you will see a mystyle section.

To customize Styles Layout Widgets follow these steps:

1. Go To Blogger >> Layout

2. Then choose the style widget which you want to Customize Then Click On Edit Button.

Then You will See a Popup Window Like Image Given Below. Then Enter your label or category name here. Then Press Save Button.

Facebook like box

To make your Facebook like box Responsive Follow Use this:

Place your code Between this code

<div class="facebook-box">
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5";
  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>

<center>
<div class="fb-page" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/soratemplates" data-width="360" data-small-header="false" data-adapt-container-width="true" data-hide-cover="false" data-show-facepile="true"><div class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/soratemplates"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/soratemplates">Soratemplates</a></blockquote></div></div>
</center>
</div>

EXAMPLE :

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