Upscale comes with 4 different post formats: standard, video, gallery, and audio. To create a blog post, from your WordPress dashboard go to Posts > Add New. You need to choose what format your post is from the ‘Format’ box on the right side then insert the necessary info.
Once you’ve decided your desired post format, enter your title, add your content where you can use any shortcode or HTML in the editing field, and remember to assign at least one category to your post. In the Dahz Setting at the bottom you can set the sidebar layout for post page, add a subtitle, and add an affiliate widget. Do not forget to assign a featured image to the post.
After you’ve finished preparing your post, you can click Preview to see how your post will look once it is published onto your site. Click Publish to have it appear on your site, or click Save Draft to save your post as it is, though it is not published yet.
Assign Blog Post Featured Image
Setting up a featured image to your posts is very important, as the featured image is what the theme and other web functions use to visually represent the post in various situations. Featured image is a WordPress theme feature which supports the use of a representative image for posts, pages, related post areas, recent post widgets, featured area sliders, etc.
To assign a featured image to existing posts, navigate to your post’s create or edit screen and look to the bottom-right of the screen. You’ll see a box titled ‘Featured Image’ where you can add your desired image. Be sure to click Update button when you’re finished.
NOTE: Use landscape photos with 16:9 aspect ratio for the best result.
Customize Blog Post Page
To customize the appearance of a single post page, navigate to Appearance > Customize > Blog > Single Post. You can choose the layout to display feature image and enable elements in a single post.