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Mai Reach Theme Tutorials

These Mai Reach theme tutorials are an introduction for small business owners. Who want to build their own professional website on a tight budget.
 
You will learn how to add background images to the page header section of Mai Reach theme. How to change text colors, heading colors and button colors.
 
You’ll also discover the Mai Post Grid block. This enables you to build great looking post grids in just a few seconds.
 
Based on the Genesis Framework which is one of the most respected WordPress themes. Mai Reach theme gives you a great foundation for your website, and can act as a good springboard for your business too.
Who should use these Mai Reach Theme Tutorials?
These tutorials are for small business owners who know they need a good quality WordPress theme in order to look professional and rank well in Google. They also want to have a bit more control of how their site looks than they get with a basic off the peg theme.
Do you need to be a professional web designer to use these Mai Reach theme tutorials?
No. I wrote these tutorials specifically for WordPress users who have some experience, but are not WordPress or web design professionals. If you are completely new to WordPress I highly recommend you try the WP101 training courses.
What other special features are included in these Mai Reach theme tutorials?
I show you how to use many useful components of Mai Reach. The Mai shape divider block and the Mai icon block are just two of the many useful skills you’ll learn.

Mai Theme 2 Extra Tips

7 January 2021 by PhilG

Mai Theme Version 2 Tips If you haven’t seen the training videos, start there first. Start with a group block When building page sections always start with a group or cover block then put other blocks inside it. Start with a group block or cover block Place headings, paragraphs, column block and post grid blocks …

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Mai Theme Version 2 videos

Mai Theme 2 Videos

3 January 2021 by PhilG

Mai Theme 2 training videos… Mai Theme version two is significantly different to the original version of Mai Theme Engine. This is a set of short videos made by Mai Theme that gives you a good overview of all the main points you need to know to get started building great looking websites. Beneath each …

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Template Parts in Mai Reach Theme

16 July 2020 by PhilG

Think of Mai Reach template parts as the new widget areas for block based themes. If you go to… Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets You might be used to finding things like… Before Header Widget Area Before Footer Widget Area Footer Widget Area Footer Credits Widget Area After Entry Widget Area And many more. At …

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The page header in Mai Reach theme.

Site Header

14 July 2020 by PhilG

The Mai Reach site header covers the logo and header right area, at the top of your site. The site header can be transparent or white. Be careful, the site header is easy to confuse with the page header. If you go to… Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Theme Settings > Site Header You’ll …

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Typography for headings and pararaphs.

Typography

14 July 2020 by PhilG

Mai Reach theme has font family settings for the body text and headline text. Go to… Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Theme Settings > Typography From the drop down lists choose a font family and a font variant (font weight) for body and heading text. Open Sans font makes your web pages easy to …

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Mai Reach theme site layouts.

Content width and sidebars

13 July 2020 by PhilG

You can toggle sidebars on or off. If you have a no sidebar layout you can set the content area to be wide or narrow. This is a long post, you can jump straight to the settings. Do your site visitors use a laptop or large PC monitor to view your website? Are you thinking …

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Mai Divider block

12 July 2020 by PhilG

Caveats and restrictions To use the divider block you need to understand it’s restrictions. When I wrote this post: 13/07/2020… The color section and white section, in the point shape and round shape divider blocks, can NOT be flipped. So you get this… Or you get this… I wanted to put an arrow a the …

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Mai Post Grid block

12 July 2020 by PhilG

What does the Mai Post Grid block do? It displays a list or grid of selected blog posts from your site. The reader clicks on any post in the list to read the full version of that post. When you write new content in WordPress you should use posts, not pages, wherever possible. Because posts …

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Mai Reach theme has full width and boxed page layouts.

Full width or boxed site layout

10 July 2020 by PhilG

The website header and footer background color can span the full browser width or be contained in a boxed layout. A full width layout can have extra wide blocks You might expect the full width layout to have a much wider content area than the boxed layout. It doesn’t. But you can make some blocks …

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Page headers featured image.

Mai Reach Page Headers

10 July 2020 by PhilG

You can use page headers site wide or page by page You can enable and disable page headers on different sections, or even specific posts and pages of your site. So if the post or page you’re writing would benefit from having a plain text heading, without the header background image, toggle off the page …

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Mai Reach Tutorials

Mai Reach is one of the new generation of themes by BizBudding. They’re the people behind Mai Lifestyle, one of the most popular themes on StudioPress.

Mai Reach Tutorials

Template Parts

Template parts replace many of the widget areas in this block based theme.

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Template Parts

Genesis Framework

Mai Reach is built on the Genesis framework. Genesis is a good solid foundation for your website.

If you’d like to know more about Genesis read this.

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