Article Layout
Overview
Article Page has several main areas called sections that you can select in the frontend Editor to configure easily: Page Content, Article Content ( Top Features, Content, Footer), and Left and Right Sidebar.
1. Page Content
The Page Content section is a container that holds all the article elements. The Page Content has settings to control the container width and spacing.
2. Article Content
The article content is broken down into three sections: Top Features, Content, and Footer area.
Top Features
The Top Features section contains:
- Article Title
- Back Navigation
- Breadcrumbs
- Posted Date
- Updated Date
- Author
- Print Button
To Edit these features, click here.
Content
The main content of the article is controlled by your page builder: Elementor, Divi Page builder, Gutenberg Editor, Visual Composer, and others.
Footer area
The Footer section contains Last Updated date, Created date, author, Article Rating (requires add-on) and Previous/Next Navigation.
If you are missing some features, you can enable them:
- Click on the bottom Navigation button
- Go to the Deactivated Section tab and turn on the features you need.
- Click on the feature on the preview page to edit it.
3. Left and Right Sidebars
Clicking on the Left or Right sidebar will bring up their settings. From here you can change background, colors, widths and more.
You can also control the elements that appear in each sidebar.
- Navigation Menu
- Elegant Layouts Add-on Required
- Left Sidebar Only
- Table of contents (TOC)
- Widgets
- to choose what widgets are inside by go to Appearance -> Widgets
Overall Display example
Template Padding / Margin Diagram
Orange Background Color – This is the Margin area for the Article Template
Green Background Color – This is the Padding area for the Article Template
Yellow Background color – This is the Article Container, which contains all the individual containers.
A brief explanation of the Orange Boxes.
Heading / Search
This container is where the search box is located.
Left Sidebar
The left sidebar can hold Widgets container, TOC, and the Elegant Layouts Navigation
Center Content
This container holds the elements like – Article Content from your page builder, Breadcrumbs, Tags, Back navigation button.
Right Sidebar
The right sidebar can hold Widgets container, TOC
Footer
This container is not currently used but you can hook into it with custom code.
