Menus & widgets

ProMax and ProMax Pro share the same 3 menu locations and 10 widget areas, so menus and widgets stay put when you switch between them.

Where everything goes

Home page with outlined areas: Header Right Widget, Top Navigation, Main Navigation, Latest posts strip and Sidebar Right — Top of the page. Blue outlines are menu locations, red outlines are widget areas.

Bottom of the page with outlined areas: Before Footer Widget, Footer Columns 1 to 3 and Footer Menu — Bottom of the page.

Menu locations

Create menus in Appearance › Menus (or Customize › Menus) and tick a Display location.

Location	Where it shows	Notes
Top Navigation	Coloured bar below the header	Starts with a home icon. Social icons sit on the right. Dropdowns supported.
Main Navigation	White bar below the top bar	Ideal for categories. Dropdowns supported. Hidden when no menu is assigned.
Footer Menu	Copyright bar at the very bottom	One level only, no dropdowns.

On phones

Phone view with the top menu opened below a Menu button — Each bar becomes a button that opens its menu. Submenus open with the arrow next to an item.

Both bars collapse into toggle buttons on screens narrower than a tablet. The menus work with a keyboard (Tab, Esc), with touch (first tap opens a dropdown, second tap follows the link) and with screen readers.

Pro Change the button labels (Menu and Category) and add a search button to the main bar in Theme Options › Mobile.

Free Turn either bar off in Colors & Layout › Top navigation bar / Main navigation bar.
Pro In Theme Options › Menu Navigation: show the home icon in the top bar, the main bar or nowhere; turn either bar off; set background, hover and link colours for each bar.
Pro In Social Icons, choose what sits on the right of the top bar: social icons, a search form or nothing.
Icons in menu items: type Font Awesome 4 classes such as fa fa-camera in a menu item's CSS Classes field (turn on Screen Options › CSS Classes first). This needs the Load Font Awesome 4 icon font option, which is on by default.

Widget areas

Add blocks or widgets in Appearance › Widgets or Customize › Widgets. Empty areas take up no space.

Widget area	Where it shows	Good for
Header Right Widget	Next to the logo	A 728×90 banner (Image block or ad code in a Custom HTML block)
Below Navigation Widget	Full width, directly below the menus	Announcements, a wide ad
Sidebar Right	Next to posts, pages and archives (left side when Pro's layout is set to left)	Search, recent posts, categories, newsletter
After Single Post Content	Below the comments on single posts	Related posts, ads, newsletter sign-up
After Page Content	Below the content on pages	Calls to action, contact details
Before Footer Widget	Full width, above the footer columns	Category lists, Instagram feed, ads
Footer Column 1, 2, 3 (Footer Widget 1–3 in Pro)	Three columns in the dark footer	About text, links, recent posts
Shop Sidebar	WooCommerce pages, when Shop layout is set to Shop Sidebar	Product filters, cart, product categories. See WooCommerce.

Not widgets

The latest posts strip and the Popular Posts list at the top of the sidebar are Customizer settings, not widgets. In ProMax they're in Theme Options; in Pro, in Theme Options › Latest Post and Popular Post Sidebar. The Pro slider and news ticker are also in Theme Options.

The Popular Posts list shows the posts with the most comments, as image cards with the title on the image. Change its heading or turn it off in the theme options. Pro also sets how many posts it shows (1–12).

Latest posts strip

A row of the newest posts with small thumbnails, below the menus. ProMax shows the 5 latest posts. Pro sets the number (1–8), limits it to one category, sets the title colour and can hide it on phones and tablets.