Setting Up Élan Navigation and Dropdown Menus
Build Élan’s main menu in Blogger Layout, including multi-level dropdowns using the theme’s built-in hyphen hierarchy.
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Configuring the Élan Homepage Slider
Choose which posts appear in Élan’s homepage slider, control the post count and date display, and understand the image requirement.
Editing the Élan Homepage Image Boxes
Replace the three homepage featured-link cards with your own images, titles, captions and destinations.
Setting Up the Élan Homepage About Section
Customize the homepage About card with your image, introduction and About-page link while keeping Élan’s built-in layout.
Customizing Élan in Blogger Theme Designer
A map of the design controls Élan exposes in Blogger Theme Designer, including colors, layout, slider, sidebar, posts and dark mode.
Showing or Hiding the Sidebar in Élan
Control the Élan sidebar separately for the homepage, blog, posts, pages, categories, search, archives and error pages.
Setting Up Social Links and Icons in Élan
Update the navigation and footer social links and let Élan automatically select the matching social-media icons.
Translating Élan
Use Élan’s built-in language packs or manual translation mode for fixed theme text without editing the template XML.
Customizing the Élan Footer
Update Élan’s footer About text, Explore links, social profiles, bottom links and footer styling from Blogger Layout and Theme Designer.