User GuideEssentials
Getting Started
How to install the theme, import the demo, and find what you will edit first. The theme’s readme.txt goes further.
Install and Run
You need WordPress 6.6 or later and PHP 8.1. Upload and activate the theme, then the Hugecon Blocks plugin. For the demo content, go to Appearance → Hugecon Demo and import hugecon-demo.zip, or run wp hugecon demo import with WP-CLI.
WordPress documentation : https://wordpress.org/documentation/
Node.js : https://nodejs.org
Site Settings
Settings → General holds the site title and tagline, and Settings → Hugecon the short name, the sharing image and the social links. The menus are under Appearance → Editor → Navigation, the header and footer are template parts, and each page’s copy is edited in the page itself.
Event Days and Tickets
The schedule tabs and the ticket tabs are blocks on their pages, and each speaker’s talk date and time are fields in the editor’s Hugecon panel. The theme sells nothing itself: every ticket button links where you point it, the contact page until you set it to your ticketing provider’s event page.
Forms
The newsletter, contact and sponsor forms post to the Hugecon Blocks plugin, which emails the addresses set for each form in Settings → Hugecon → Forms, or else the Administration Email Address in Settings → General. A form tells the visitor it was sent only once the message has gone; if your host cannot send email, add an SMTP plugin.
Fields and endpoints : readme.txt
Content
Speakers are their own post type (Speakers in the dashboard), and the blog is WordPress’s posts and categories. Sessions, tickets, FAQs, partners, reviews and the gallery are blocks in their pages, edited in place, and the legal pages are ordinary pages.
Content : readme.txt
Images
Every image is in the media library: select one in the editor and replace it, or set a post’s or speaker’s featured image. The demo photos and videos are licensed to the original designer: replace them before you launch.
Colors and Fonts
The design’s colors and type sizes are custom properties set on body, such as --color-style--primary for the orange: override a token once on body in Appearance → Editor → Styles → Additional CSS, and the whole site follows. Urbanist ships with the theme, in its assets/fonts/ folder.
Urbanist : https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Urbanist
Animation
Motion uses GSAP and Lenis. A block names its effect under Motion and accessibility; choose None to keep it still. Each effect keeps the same timing everywhere it is used, and smooth scrolling stays off for visitors who ask for reduced motion. Everything that loops has a pause button. Visitors whose system asks for reduced motion get the content with no animation, and the loops start paused.
GSAP documentation : https://gsap.com/docs/v3/
Before Publishing
Replace the demo images and the sample privacy policy and terms, check that the forms reach your inbox, and look through every page logged out before you launch. Delete the pages you do not need, this one included.
Launch : readme.txt
( Collect Your Ticket )