HC Blog

1.2.4

A responsive WordPress blogging theme with a clean, elegant and modern design. It is specially designed for personal blogs, but with its multiple layout options it can perfectly fit your company blog, journal or news website. Let your readers focus on the content without any distractions!

Last update 4 months ago
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Full Feature List

Besides their elegance, our themes have incredibly rich features and options.
Here you can find a full list of things this theme can do.
  • micro-sites

    Advanced Page Options

    Customize any individual page on your website and transform it to a Microsite. Assign a different logo, menu or any other item, and you’ll get a completely new look and purpose for your particular product, service or anything that is of great importance to you.

  • responsive-retina-ready

    100% Responsive & Retina Ready

    Completely optimized for any screen size. Retina ready so everything looks amazingly sharp and crisp on high resolution screens. Your website will look awesome on any device.

  • slider

    HC Slider

    A powerful HC Slider with unlimited combinations of styles & effects! No more different sliders, one does it all. The HC Slider features tons of different transition effects, an unlimited number of layers, different styles for every slide and layer, and much more!

  • shortcodes

    HC Shortcodes

    Build your posts and pages quickly and easily by using all the various shortcodes. Our visual shortcode generator makes creating elements on your pages a real piece of cake.

  • advanced-gallery

    Advanced Gallery

    With our extended WordPress gallery you get to choose from several types of galleries, so you can present your work, portfolio, product, etc. in the best possible way.

  • multiple-layouts

    Multiple Layouts

    Pick your favorite layout for any post, category or term. You have a huge selection of layouts to choose from, and in combination with layout options give your website that unique look and feel.

  • icons

    2000+ Icons

    We’ve included some of the best icon webfonts available for you to use with over 2000 glyphs. Some of the sets are Font Awesome, Entypo, Typicons, Elusive…

  • post-types

    Post Type Builder

    Our custom Post Type builder allows you the creation of a wide variety of content for easier management. You could create books, reviews, products and so on…

  • social-ready

    Social Ready

    You don’t have to worry about social integration, we’ve done it for you! Various social buttons, Facebook Open Graph or meta-tags for Twitter Cards, they are all implemented and ready to go.

  • seo-ready

    Clean & Seo Ready Code

    This theme has been developed with a carefully planned search engine optimized content strategy. We are also using the latest semantic HTML5 markup, allowing search engines better indexing.

  • backup

    Backup Options

    You can backup your current options, and then restore it back at a later time. This is useful if you want to experiment on the options, but would like to keep the old settings in case you need it back.

  • demo-content

    Demo Content

    We’ve provided you with our Importer plugin, so you can import all our demo content with a click of a button.

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  1. Hi there,

    I hope you’re doing well. Just wanted to reach out to you to see if you had a need for additional contributors to your blog? If so, I’d love to send over some post ideas.

    Thanks very much for your time and consideration.

    Brenda

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  2. Hi,

    I have a problem which is new for me.
    Under Sliders there is already a slider called “Start”. I can’t remove it. Clicking on a button doesn’t do anything.
    If I try to add another slider the following error occurs: “Maximum allowed undefined items!”
    I do not know what I did wrong, after that error I installed a fresh wordpress blog and installed the theme and it happened again. I deleted the theme and installed an old version (1.1.5), same error.
    Please help!

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    1. HC Themes

      Hi Chris, do you get this error on the existing database, or you get it on the fresh (clean) one?

      In another words, have you ever had slider working or have things got messed up with the theme update?

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  3. Hi, just downloaded your awesome (PREMIUM QUALITY) theme.

    Where are the standard WP widgets (usually under appearance)?

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    1. HC Themes

      Hi Ambo,

      unfortunately we don’t have them supported in our theme yet. But we are planning to implement them at some point in the future.

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      1. Thank you for your reply. Please do so, widgets are an essential part of any WP theme. Lack of widgets might stop your GREAT theme from spreading!
        Please try to implement it as soon as possible.

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  4. Hi!
    I’ve just downloaded and installed HC-Blog. Unfortunately the MCE visual editor does not work when the theme is activated and the theme also doesn’t save some of the settings.
    All plugins are deactivated, browser and WordPress cache are all cleared. I’m running WordPress 4.4.2.

    Anyone has similar issues or knows how to fix this? I really want to use the theme but like this it is not usable for me.

    Thanks for any suggestions!

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    1. What I could find out is that files like “hc-custom-fields.css” refer to “http://www.domain.com/wp-content/themes/hc-blog/hc-wp/plugins/hc-custom-fields/hc-custom-fields.css?ver=1.0”. However, the wordpress installation is in a subdirectory, like “http://www.domain.com/subdirectory/”, which is why the files cannot be found.
      All other themes work fine, it’s just HC-Blog that is causing this issue.

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    2. Sorry, I don’t want to flood this here, but maybe it’s of use to someone.
      I could confirm that HC-Blog is not working properly when WordPress is in a subdirectory, meaning that the Site URL and WordPress URL are different. HC-Blog then searches for its files in the root directory instead of the subdirectory. That is why the visual editor is not working.

      And either way, it doesn’t save some settings, for example turning off the titlebar in “Front Page Settings” or turning off stuff like breadcrumbs, etc. But if the Front Page is set to a static page, the settings work.
      Also, the color pickers in the Settings don’t work for me, the field is blank.

      I hope that is some helpful feedback as I really want to use your theme!

      Chers!

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    3. HC Themes

      Hi Thok, we’re looking into these issues. Thanks for letting us know!

      Reply

  5. i am unable to download it. it doesnot sent download link.

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  6. Hi,

    first of all: Thanks for that great theme :)

    But I have one question: Is there a possibiltiy to Change the language? I have the problem, that some things are in german (those things which are controlled by wordpress-settings) and some things like “Continue reading” is in english. So, where can I find the php-file where I can change this.

    Thanks

    EmBee

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    1. Ok, I found it in “functions.php”…

      Now, there is another problem: The date of my post from 2 days ago shows “46 years ago”…any suggestions?

      Thanks EmBee

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      1. HC Themes

        Do you have it online so we can check what’s happening? Thanks.

        About the translations, you shouldn’t edit files directly cause they will be overwritten on updates. We should make the theme translation ready, and we’ll certainly do that in one of the next updates.

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        1. Thanks for the answer :) So, I’ll wait for the translation…but until I’ll fix it at the few places ;)

          On this link you’ll see the problem:

          http://office-alarm.de/?p=216

          What I did: Changed the time format, but now every post is 2 oder 5 or 7 HOURS ago. I expected to find the date of creating this post.

          Thanks for help :)

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          1. HC Themes

            We made the time format human readable. Is that fine by you, or would you like to see the regular date?

          2. Wouldn’t be a problem, if it is correct: The Post was written on Jan 15 and not 2 hours ago. Or do you have another date in your browser? In my Google Chrome it always shows something between 2 and 7 hours ago.

          3. HC Themes

            Oh that’s the case. Can you tell us what are the Date and Time formats you’ve set in your General settings?

          4. The Date format is: “d.m.j” –> 18.01.2016 (set as customized) and time format is: “G:i” –> 17:33 (first possibility)

            Thx :)

          5. HC Themes

            You didn’t write that correctly. Your desired date format should be: “d.m.Y”.

            You’ve put “j” instead of “Y”, that’s why your dates are not showing correctly. :)

          6. Thanks, this works fine :)

            Great Support :)

          7. HC Themes

            We’re happy we can help :)

  7. I have problems with the layout settings in your example Category “Load More Button”.
    I choose a background image in the TITLE BAR, set the background color to white and the text color to blue and set fixed background. Then I got the following problems.
    The background image is only half visible because it slides down (whereas it is fully visible when the background is not fixed).
    The title stays at its place but the text color was not adopted.

    Reply
    1. HC Themes

      It should be fixed in the update we released today. Thank you for letting us know.

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  8. Hi, great theme! But how do I turn off the lightbox?

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    1. HC Themes

      If you are referring to images inside the posts, when inserting them under the ATTACHMENT DISPLAY SETTINGS set Link To: None

      If you want your gallery images not to open in lightbox, under the GALLERY SETTINGS set Link To: None

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      1. No, I wanted to just “switch it off”. Since there is no option to do that and every time an image is linked the lightbox pops up I just renamed the jquery.magnific-popup.js file. I have another plugin for handling galleries. If there could be an option to just disable the popup, that would be great :)

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        1. HC Themes

          We’ll see what we can do about this, and let you know :)

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    1. HC Themes

      Thank you for making these bug reports to us, we appreciate it. You can report them wherever it is easier for you.

      This will be fixed in the next update.

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    1. HC Themes

      Archive index page is a good idea. We could actually make it for the HC Blog. Give us some time to work on it, and we’ll let you know once we are done.

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  11. Where can i get the Demo-Content? Thanks.

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    1. HC Themes

      You can find the link to demo content in the email you received when claiming your theme.

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  12. FYI when I click on + Add New Slider I get an error message saying “Fieldset name is missing”

    Any suggestions?

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  13. How can I make featured/hero images on post have a darker overlay by default?

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    1. Hi Wayne, can you be a little more specific, I’m not sure I understand what you mean. Thanks.

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      1. Hi, the top featured image on a single post that has the blog title text over it. I would like that image to be darker and would like to add a dark overlay via css

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        1. HC Themes

          We’ve added subtle overlay by default in our latest update.

          But if you still want to change it, you can do by adding this custom css (change the color as you wish):

          .featured-image-layout-single-hero-title::after {
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .5);
}
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          1. Thanks!

            Speaking of updates. Do you keep a change log? If not can you add one to this page?

  14. How can I set a fixed/sticky header?

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    1. HC Themes

      We’ll make that option available in the next update.

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      1. I appreciate your fast implementation of the “fixed header” button. There is only the problem that when I activate it the header content is shifted up and there is also a gap between the header line and the content beneath.

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          1. Thank you! I found the bug. It’s the preview in wordpress what makes the difference – only there you see the problems I explained.
            If you view it on the browser only it works without any shiftings an gaps.

          2. HC Themes

            Thank you for letting us know. It will be fixed in the next update.

  15. Is it possible to make a single page website?

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    1. HC Themes

      WordPress by default has the ability to be set as one page website.

      So technically yes it’s possible, although this theme’s layout is not designed to be used in that manner.

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  16. Do you have any documentation to go along with the theme? trying to figure out the Shortcodes

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    1. HC Themes

      Yes we have http://hcthemes.com/docs/hc-blog/

      But we didn’t put the shortcodes in there, cause you have our Visual Shortcode Generator that allows you to easily insert/edit shortcodes. Be sure to click on Toolbar Toggle in your Visual Editor to enable the second row of editing icons.

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  17. I made an article for your theme, and one of my readers who installed it, had nothing but problems, the screen was black, and he cpuld not check anything
    Here what he wrote
    I have tested the theme and the black home menu appears, but I could not on check the boxes or anything because of a graphics bug. In addition when I activated the theme it didn’t displays images of my articles, so that it remains only ugly text. Frankly that theme is not finalized because of bugs.
    Hope you can resolve these problems

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