Front (Home) Page

Lumina and Flat Blocks are designed to work great whether your front (home) page is your “blog” or a “static page”. The themes have a Template Part called “Content Home Page Top” that displays either way and you can change it to include whatever you want. When the blog is the front page, it displays only on the first page of posts.

To check your settings for blog or static page, go to Settings -> Reading in the WordPress Admin Dashboard.

Note that if you have the blog set on the home page, it uses the Template called Index (“index.html”). If you have the home page set to a page, it will use that page and the blog page uses the Home template (“home.html”).

Select Menus

The first thing you’ll want to do is go into the Site Editor and select the navigation menus you want for the header and the footer. Once you do, your old menus will be copied into the header and footer templates and stored there.

Note that if you are running the Gutenberg and have menus named “header” and “footer”, they will be defaulted already. WordPress v6.0 core doesn’t have this functionality so the menus must be selected manually.

Header, Footer, and Blog Layouts

One of the cool things about our themes is that we provide numerous header, footer, and blog layouts (Query Loops). While you are in the Site Editor, check them out. Just be sure to replace the “Header Default” block not the main Header block. The same thing applies to the “Footer Default”. For blog layouts, change the “Query Loop” block instead of the Query block.

Note that the themes are setup this way so that you can change the header, footer, and query layout across the entire site. If you change the actual Header wrapper or Footer wrapper, you’d only be changing them on the Home Page that you are editing by default in the Site Editor.

Page and Block Patterns

Our themes provide TONS of Block Patterns that you can insert into your pages and posts to quickly build out content. It also includes full Page Patterns that will pull in a whole series of Block Patterns to easily build a Home, About, Services, or Portfolio page.

Note that Block and Page Patterns are copied into your page or post and unlike Block Templates above, edits you make to Block Patterns are stored only on that page or post.

Check out Lumina Theme Styles, Lumina Block Patterns, Flat Block Theme Styles and/or Flat Block Theme Patterns.

Creating a Child Theme

If you are going to be making significant changes to the Lumina or Flat Blocks theme through the Site Editor, you may want to consider first creating a Child Theme. By far the easiest way to create one is using the Create Block Theme plugin. This plugin is developed by the WordPress core team and is very easy to use and powerful.

1. Install Lumina, Flat Blocks, or Flat Blocks Classic child theme
2. Install the Create Child Theme plugin
3. Use the Full Site Editor to adjust any global styles, templates, template parts, etc. to your liking.
4. Use the plugin to export a new child theme of the current theme

This plugin even lets you add Google fonts to the child theme as a nice bonus.