Themes Instructions
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Newstation
After you purchase and download your theme from Theme Palace, you can choose either of the approaches given below to install your theme:
- Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
- Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
- Select Add New.
- Then, select Upload Theme.
- Click Browse. Locate newstation.zip theme in your computer.
- Select newstation.zip and click Install Now.
You can use FTP client like FileZilla to connect your web server.
- Unzip newstation.zip to your Desktop.
- Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of newstation theme.
- Now, log into the WordPress Dashboard with your login details.
- Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
- You will see the theme in the list.
- Then, click Activate button.
- Now, the theme will be activated and go through the following options to set up the theme step wise.
If you want to import the demo content manually, then here is the demo file for you. Just click on the button to download the demo file
From Customize section, go to Homepage Setting you will see two option.
- Your Latest Posts Title : This option only works if Static Front Page is set to “Your latest posts.” This option allows to set the title.
- A static page: you will be able to set a page as Front Page and you will find Post Page option as well.
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Note: All the custom sections of homepage will only be visible on Homepage setting once you set a page for the Homepage Setting option.
- Enable content : Check to display Homepage’s content. If this option is enable then the content of homepage is displayed. For Example “Home” is set as the front page then content of home is displayed at home page design after enable this option.
From Homepage : you can set any page as Homepage .
From Posts Page : you can set any page as Blog.
1. From the Customize section, go to Site Identity.
2. From Site Identity, the User will be able to incorporate different site identity options from Site Identity, such as:
- Logo( Only available in WordPress version greater than or equal to 4.5 ): This allows the users to set and modify the site’s main logo.
- Site Title: This allows the users to modify the title of the site.
- Tagline: This section allows the users to modify and set the tagline of the website.
- Display Site Title and Tagline: This option allows the users to enable and disable the display of the title and the tagline from the site.
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Site Identity Extra OptionsThis section allows the users to choose different options to display the title, logo, and tagline.
- Hide All: Users can enable this to display anything in the header.
- Show All: Users can enable this to display the logo title tagline in the header.
- Title Only: Users can enable this to display only titles in the header.
- Tagline Only: Users can enable this to display only taglines in the header.
- Logo + Title: Users can enable this to display the logo and title in the header.
- Logo + Tagline: Users can enable this to display the 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:
- Header Title Color: This changes the header text color.
- Header Tagline Color : This changes the header tagline text color.
- Background Color: This changes the background color of the site.
1. From Customize section, go to Header Image
2. From Header Image, you will have these options:
- Header Image This changes the header image.
1. From Customize section, go to Background Image.
2. From Background Image, you will see:
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Background Image: This will change the background image for the entire site.
Note: Load free theme has two menu location provided as Primary and Social.
- Menu Options :
- Primary: This setting allows user to change Primary/Main menu.
- Social: This setting allows user to change Social menu.
To create menu, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Menu .
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You need to create menu from / Customize / Menus / Create Menu .
You can create more menus in similar way. After creating 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 /.
One locations are available:
1. From Customize section, go to.
2. From Widgets, you will be able to Add and Remove widgets.
Note:
If you want to add widget area in footer then you must add widgets in Footer Widget 1, Footer Widget 2, Footer Widget 3, Footer Widget 4
Sidebar: This sidebar is default sidebar area. This sidebar area is dispaly at blog page, single blog pages, pages.
The demo of the front page can be divided into different sections as shown below.
- Hero Section
- Breaking News
- Featured News
- Top Politician
- World News
- Business News
- Sports News
- Blog
These section’s content are display when you choose a static page option on Homepage Setting.
Catch Themes Demo Import Plugins are high recommended Plugins in this theme. Catch Themes Demo Import Import is recommended for demo import of this theme. To import the dummy demo data:
Note: You need to import demo data in fresh wordpress otherwise existing posts, pages, categories, images, custom post types or any other data will be deleted or modified.
Contact Form 7 Contact Form 7 is recommended in this theme to create custom form.
You can see the divided sections in the image below :
The image below shows customizer options for the sections shown above :
To configure Hero Section section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Hero Section.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Hero Section Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Select Post: This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
After Hero Section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Breaking News section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Breaking News.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Breaking News Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Readmore Label : This setting allow user to set Readmore label
- Select Post: This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
After Breaking News is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Featured News section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Featured News.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Featured News Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
- Button Label : This setting allow user to set button label
- Select Post: This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
After Featured News is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Top Politician section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Top Politician.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Top Politician Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Top Politician Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
- Select Post: This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
- View All Button : This setting allow user to set view all button label
- View All Button Link : This setting allow user to set view all button link
After Top Politician is enabled, you will see following options
To configure World News section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / World News.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- World News Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
- Select Post: This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
After World News is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Business News section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Business News.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Business News Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
- Button Label : This setting allow user to set button label
- Button Link : This setting allow user to set button link
- Select Post: This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
- Ads Image : This setting allow user to set ads image
- Ads Url : This setting allow user to set ads image Url
After Business News is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Sports News section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Sports News.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Sports News Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
- Button Label : This setting allow user to set button label
- Button Link : This setting allow user to set button link
- Select Post: This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
After Sports News is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Latest Blog section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Latest Blog.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Slider Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Sub Title : This setting allow user to set Sub Title of the section.
- Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
- Content Type : It contains select options ( Posts, Category ) which allow user to select title from one of those.
- Posts: Selecting Posts as Content Type allows user to choose Posts from Select Post setting where title of that selected Posts is displayed.
- Button Text: This setting allows user to set the button text of that post.
- Button Link: This setting allow user to set button url.
- Select Post: This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
- Category: Selecting Category as Content Type allows user to choose Category from Select Category setting where featured image and content of that selected Category is displayed as section content.
- Button Label: This setting allow user to set button label.
- Button Link: This setting allow user to set button url.
- Select Category : This setting allows user to select category to get the featured image and content of that category.
After Latest Blog section is enabled, you will see following options
Posts Options : It contains following settings
Category Options : It contains following settings
You will see following sections under Theme Options:
- Breadcrumb
- Excerpt
- Layout
- Blog/Archive
- Single Post
- Pagination
- Footer Option
The above sections are described below.
This option is used to enable/disable Breadcrumb.
1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Breadcrumb.
3. In Breadcrumb you will see:
- Enable Breadcrumb : This enables the breadcrumb image when the page is fully not loaded.
- Seperator: This setting allow user to select the seperator.
After enable Breadcrumb You will see following option
This option is used to change the layout option of site also allows to change the Width of the body part.Available site layout is Wide& Boxed.
1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Layout.
3. In Layout Options you will see:
- Site Layout : This option is for Site Layout. You can change the layout of site
- Global Sidebar Position : This option is for Global Sidebar Position. You can choose either Right sidebar or Left Sidebar .
- Posts Sidebar Position : This option is for Posts Sidebar Position. You can choose either Right sidebar or Left Sidebar
- Pages Sidebar Position : This option is for Pages Sidebar Position. You can choose either Right sidebar or Left Sidebar
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:
- Column Layout: This option allows user to change column layout of Blog/Archive Page
1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Blog/Archive.
3. In Blog Page you will see:
- Hide Category:This option allows user to enable/disable category assigned in blog post.
- Hide Date: This option allows user to enable/disable date assigned in blog post.
1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Blog/Archive.
3. In Single post you will see:
- Hide Date:This option allows user to enable/disable date assigned in single post.
- Hide Category: This option allows user to enable/disable category assigned in single post.
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 on the site.
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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.
3. In Footer Options you will see:
- Copyright text : This changes the copyright text of Copyright content.
- Display Scroll Top Button: You can easily hide or display scroll buttons.
To configure footer widget, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / widgets / Footer widget.
You can add 5 Footer Widget fields.
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.
1. From Customize section, go to Additional CSS..
2. Additional CSS you will see:
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- You can add your own CSS here.
To update Theme though FTP, follow these basic steps:
- Download the latest version of newstation theme from your Theme Palace member My Account to your Desktop
- Unzip newstation.zip to your Desktop
- Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of newstation theme which shall replace the old files.
