Yule

After you purchase and download your theme from Theme Palace, you can choose either of the approaches given below to install your theme:

1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
2. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
3. Select Add New.
4. Then, select Upload Theme.
5. Click Browse. Locate yule.zip theme in your computer.
6. Select yule.zip and click Install Now.

You can use FTP client like FileZilla to connect your web server.

1. Unzip yule.zip to your Desktop.
2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of Yule Free theme.
3. Now, log into the WordPress Dashboard with your login details.
4. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
5. You will see the theme in the list.
6. Then, click Activate button.
7. Now, the theme will be activated and go through the following options to set up the theme step wise.

Note: All the custom sections of homepage will only be visible on Homepage setting once you set a page for the Front Page option.

1. From Customize section, go to Homepage Setting.
2. From Homepage Setting, you will be able to set a page as Front Page and you will find Post Page option as well.

From Front Page : you can set any page as Homepage .

From Post Page : you can set any page as Latest Post.

1. From Customize section, go to Site Identity.
2. From Site Identity, you will be able to add various options related to site identity like:

• • Logo( Only available in WordPress version greater than or equal to 4.5 ): It changes the main logo of the site.
  • Site Title : It changes the main site title of the site.
  • Tagline : It changes the tagline (i.e:Description) of the site.Just below site title.
  • Display Site Title and Tagline: This enables/disables the site title and tagline from the site
  • Site Identity Extra Options
    • Hide All: If you don’t want to display anything in header then click this option.
    • Show All: If you want to display logo title tagline in header then click this option.
    • Title Only: If you want to display only title in header then click this option.
    • Tagline Only: If you want to display only tagline in header then click this option.
    • Logo + Title: If you want to display logo and title in header then click this option.
    • Logo + Tagline: If you want to display logo and tagline in header then click this option.
  • Site Icon : The Site Icon is used as a browser and app icon for your site.Icon must be square and at least 512px wide and tall.

1. From Customize section, go to Colors.
2. From Colors, you will have these options:

• • Background Color: This changes the background color of the site.

1. From Customize section, go to Background Image.
2. From Background Image, you will see:

Background Image:

•  This will change the background image for the entire site.

Note: Load free theme has two menu location provided as Primary, Social and Footer Menu.

• • Menu Options :

To create menu, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Menu .

OR

You need to create menu from / Customize / Menus / Create Menu .

You can create more menus in a similar way. After creating the menu, you need to add pages to that menu.

To add pages to the menu, you need to create some pages (For e.g: “About Us” , “Contact”). After creating pages you need to add that pages to the menu.
After you added the pages to the menu set the menu location from / Customize / Menus / Menu Locations /

1. From Customize section, go to Widgets. 2. From Widgets, you will be able to Add and Remove widgets.

The demo of the front page can be divided into different sections as shown below.

1. Site Title & Tagline, Navigation Menu Section
2. Popular Section
3. Latest Section
4. Footer Section
5. Copyright Section

The image below shows the entire home page :

The image below shows customizer options for the sections shown above :

To configure Popular section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front page / Popular.
In this panel, you will find these options:

• • Enable Popular: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.

After Popular section is enabled,, you will see following options

• • Content Type : It contains select options ( Pages,Product) which allow the user to select content from one of those.
    • Pages: Selecting Pages as Content Type allows the user to choose Pages from Select Page setting where feature image of that selected Pages is displayed as popular section feature image and its content.

Pages Options: It contains following settings

• • • • Select Page: This setting allows user to select the page to get the featured image and content of that page.

• • • Product: Selecting Product as Content Type allows user to choose Product from Select Product setting where feature image of that selected Product is displayed as popular section feature image and its content.
      • Seclect product post : This setting allows user to select the page to get the featured image and content on that page.

In this section latest products are displayed.This section required woocommerce plugin to display the products.When you install this plugin then postes are displayed.

To configure Latest section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Latest.
In this panel, you will find these Field:

• • • Title: This setting allows user to set title.

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Footer Options.

• • Display Scroll Top Button: This option allows you to enable/disable the Scroll Top Button.

To configure footer widget, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / widgets / Footer widget.

• You can add 4 Widget fields.

You will see following sections under Theme Options:

• • 1. Loader
    2. Layout
    3. Excerpt
    4. Blog/Archive
    5. Pagination
    6. Footer Options

The above sections are described below.

This option is used to enable/disable loader.

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Loader.
3. In Loader you will see:

• • • Enable Loader : This enables the loader image when the page is fully not loaded.

This option is used to change the layout option of site.

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Layout.
3. In Layout Options you will see:

• • • Global Sidebar Position: This option is for Site Layout. You can choose either Wide or Boxed.
    • Posts Sidebar Position: This option allows to change the width of single posts and pages.
    • Pages Sidebar Positions: First word is highlighted in all inner pages.

This option allows user to set the excerpt length on the archive, blog and search.

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Excerpt.
3. In Excerpt Options you will see:

• • • Blog Page Excerpt Length: This option allows the user to set the excerpt length.
    • Read more text: This option is for the text of the read more.

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Blog/Archive.
3. In Blog Page you will see:

• • • Title: This setting allows user to set title.

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Pagination.
3. In Pagination you will see:

• • • Pagination Enable: This option enables the pagination of the site.
    • Pagination type: You will see following options:
      • Numeric: This is for numeric pagination option.
      • Older Posts/Newer Posts: Default pagination option.

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Footer Options.

• • Display Scroll Top Button: Check to enable on the whole site otherwise Uncheck to hide.

1. From Customize section, go to Reset all settings..
2. In Reset all settings you will see:

• • • Check to reset all settings: Check the Check to reset all settings and refresh the page to reset all theme settings to default.

To update Theme though FTP, follow these basic steps:
• 1. Download the latest version of Yule Free theme from your Theme Palace member My Account to your Desktop
  2. Unzip yule.zip to your Desktop
  3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of Yule Free theme which shall replace the old files.