How To Setup Helvetica Blogger Template

 

Helvetica is a professional responsive blogger template. Its simple design can be fully customized with the blogger's own standard tools. Helvetica is also optimized and very lightweight, which makes it deliver better results than the vast majority of the modern blogger templates currently available.

Helvetica can also be very important when talking about making money from Adsense. By having several strategic areas for ads, such as native in-feed ads for the blogger himself, and also having ads that can be added within the post via shortcodes.

Where can Niche use Helvetica? In every niche! That's right. Because it is fully customizable you can change colors, fonts, backgrounds. In other words, you can create various designs that fit into any content in your blog.

Maybe this can help you!

• Tutorial: How To Install a Blogger Template?
• Video: Helvetica - Blogger Template (Full Installation)
• Tutorial: How To Setup Templateify Post Shortcodes

Setup Helvetica

Check out below, all steps to setup this template.

Main Logo

Access your blog Layout > and click on the Edit Icon > in the Main Logo gadget.

Widget Settings:

Main Menu

Access your blog Layout > and click on the Edit Icon > in the Main Menu gadget.

DropDown Options:

Normal Link Ex: Features
Sub Link Level 1 Ex: _Level 1 "Before the Title add 1 underscore"
Sub Link Level 2 Ex: __Level 2 "Before the Title add 2 underscore"

ALERT: Level 2 Links must be between or below level 1 links.

MegaMenu Options:

Shortcode Structure: [getMega label="Your Label" type="msimple"]
Shortcode Label: label or recent.

What are Label?

Shortcode Ex: [getMega label="Economy" type="msimple"]

Widget Settings 01:

Widget Settings 02:

TO SAVE: After adding all the desired links and organizing them in the correct position, click on the Save Button.

Social Icons

Access your blog Layout > and click on the Edit Icon > in the Social Icons gadget.

Supported Icons: blogger, facebook, facebook-f, twitter, rss, youtube, skype, stumbleupon, tumblr, vk, stack-overflow, github, linkedin, dribbble, soundcloud, behance, digg, instagram, pinterest, pinterest-p, twitch, delicious, codepen, flipboard, reddit, whatsapp, messenger, snapchat, email

Widget Settings:

Header Ads

Access your blog Layout > and click on the Add a Gadget > HTML/JavaScript, Image or AdSense > in the section Header Ads.

Main Posts

Access your blog Layout > and click on the Edit Icon > in the Main Posts/Blog Posts gadget.

Widget Settings:

Post Layouts and Contact Form

Full Width: full-width
Left Sidebar: left-sidebar
Right Sidebar: right-sidebar
Contact Form: contact-form

Example:

ADS Inside Post on "Post Page"

Access your blog Layout > and click on the Add a Gadget > HTML/JavaScript, Image or AdSense > in the sections ADS 1 ( before content ) or ADS 2 ( after content ).

HTML/JavaScript Ex:

Move ADS 1 and ADS 2 to inside the post content:

Sortcode ADS 1: [ads id="ads1"]
Sortcode ADS 2: [ads id="ads2"]

Example:

IMPORTANT: The ad will only appear if you have inserted in the section, if you want to hide just remove check to not display or remove the gadget. 

Author Box

The widget receives the blogger profile informations automatically, As long as your profile is marked as public. The icons are displayed if there are links in the description.

Supported Icons: blogger, facebook, facebook-f, twitter, rss, youtube, skype, stumbleupon, tumblr, vk, stack-overflow, github, linkedin, dribbble, soundcloud, behance, digg, instagram, pinterest, pinterest-p, twitch, delicious, codepen, flipboard, reddit, whatsapp, messenger, snapchat, email

Blogger Settings: Go to https://www.blogger.com/edit-profile.g

Find for Additional Information > Introduction > and add your description with HTML links.

HTML Link Structure: <a href="Your Link Here">Icon Name</a>
HTML Link Example: <a href="https://facebook.com/templateify">facebook</a>

Post List Widgets

Access your blog Layout > and click on the Add a Gadget > HTML/JavaScript > in the Sidebar or Footer sections.

Shortcode Structure: [getWidget results="Number of Results" label="Your Label" type="list"]

Shortcode Label:  label, recent or comments.
Shortcode Results:  You must add the desired number of results.
Shortcode Example: [getWidget results="3" label="Bitcoin" type="list"]

Widget Settings:

Facebook Page Plugin

Access your blog Layout > and click on the Add a Gadget > HTML/JavaScript > in the Sidebar or Footer sections.

NOTE: To add the Page Plugin, you will need to install the facebook SDK on your blog, how to install it by clicking here.

Add This Code:

<div class="fb-page" data-href="YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE URL" data-width="500" data-small-header="false" data-adapt-container-width="true" data-hide-cover="false" data-show-facepile="true"></div>

INFO: Replace "data-href" content with your facebook page address, and click save

Footer Ads

Access your blog Layout > and click on the Add a Gadget > HTML/JavaScript, Image or AdSense > in the section Footer Ads.

Theme Options

1.1 - Facebook SDK

The Page Plugin as well as facebook comments only work if you have the Facebook SDK installed on your theme. See below for the steps to acquire and install the Facebook SDK.

Get SDK:

Step 01: Go to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/page-plugin/ and click on Get Code button and copy the SDK Script.

Copying SDK:

SDK en_US:

<script async="async" defer="defer" crossorigin="anonymous" src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2"></script>

Installing SDK:

Access your blog Layout > and click on the Edit Icon > in the Advanced Options > Facebook SDK gadget.

Widget Settings:

1.2 - Boxed Version

Access your blog Layout > and click on the Edit Icon > in the Advanced Options > Boxed Version gadget.

Options: true or false, default is false.

Widget Settings:

1.3 - Default Variables

Access your blog Layout > and click on the Edit Icon > in the Advanced Options > Default Variables gadget.

Options: monthFormat, fixedMenu, fixedSidebar, relatedPostsNum, followByEmailText, commentsSystem, disqusShortname.

monthFormat: default is "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December".
fixedMenu: true or false, default is true.
fixedSidebar: true or false, default is true.
relatedPostsNum: 3 or 6, default is 3.
followByEmailText: default is Get all latest content delivered straight to your inbox.
commentsSystem: blogger, facebook, disqus or hide, default is blogger.
disqusShortname: If you add the disqus form, you will then have to add the username of your form, default is templateify-theme.

NOTE: To add the Facebook Comments, you will need to install the facebook SDK on your blog, how to install it by clicking here.

Widget Settings:

Site Feed

Access your blog Settings > and click on the Other.

Site Feed Settings:

IMPORTANT: For posts widgets, Mega Menu, Related Posts and others load normally, you must configure the site feed to "Full".

How to Customize This Theme?

Access your blog Theme > and click on the Customize button >  and find Background and Advanced options.

Available for customization: Background, Widths, Colors, Fonts and much more.

Example Background:

Example Advanced:

Video Tutorial