Blogbook Pro

After you purchase and download your theme, 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 blogbook-pro.zip theme in your computer.
6. Select blogbook-pro.zip and click Install Now.

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

1. Unzip blogbook-pro.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 Blogbook Pro 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.

After successfully installing the required theme, you need to activate your theme. Follow given steps to activate the theme.

1. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
2. You will see the Blogbook Pro theme on the list.
3. Click Activate button.
4. After clicking the Activate button the theme will be activated.

To manage plugins, in admin panel, go to Appearance -> Install Plugins. The theme recommends following plugins:

1. 1. Jetpack: To configure Infinite scroll on then Blog page and All Archive Pages.
   2. One Click Demo Import: To import the demo data. This plugin is highly recommended plugin to import the demo data.
   3. Featured Video Plus: For Responsive video posts

One Click Demo Import is recommended for demo import of this theme. To import the dummy demo data:

• • First Install One Click Demo Import Plugin and active this plugin.
  • Then go to Dashboard-> Appearance -> Import Demo Data

• • Then click Import demo data button.

When You import the data then automatic setup demo for this theme.

OR

• • Go to Dashboard-> Appearance -> Import Demo Data
  • Click Switch to manual import! to import manually.

• • Click Choose File of Choose a XML file for content import.
  • Then Choose our theme data file from Blogbook-Pro (Theme Name) > Demo > content.xml file.
  • Again click Choose File of Choose a WIE or JSON file for widget import
  • Then Choose our theme data file from Blogbook-Pro (Theme Name) > Demo > widgets.wie file.
  • Again click Choose File of Choose a DAT file for customizer import:
  • Then Choose our theme data file from Blogbook-Pro (Theme Name) > Demo > customizer.dat file.
  • Then Click Import 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.

From Customize section, go to Homepage > Homepage Setting you will see option.

1. 1. Choose Your latest Posts option under Your Homepage displays title.
   2. Click Save and Publish button to save changes.

You will see another option also, Static Posts
Note: If you select Your latest Posts, then all the posts will be displayed in your frontpage. If you select A static page, then your frontpage will display the content from the page you selected as Front Page. However the page you selected in Posts Page will become your blog page.

The customizer lets you add, modify, enable or hide various features of the theme.

1. 1. Header
   2. Menus
   3. Footer
   4. Advanced Setting
   5. Widgets
   6. Homepage Setting

The above sections are described below.

1. 1. Site Identity
   2. Header
   3. Featured Posts

How to manage Site Title, Logo, Tagline and Site Icon?

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 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.

From Customize section > Header > Header.

• Make Menu Sticky : This option is for menu sticky. If menu sticky is enable then the menu is fixed when user scroll.
• Show Search : This option is for Search Option. If Show Search is enable then search icon is display in heade menu.

From Customize section > Header > Featured Posts.

• Content Type:Select Sticky Post / Post / Category / Recent Posts to enable this section or Unselect Enable on front page option to disable this section.
• Select Content Type:Select the type of content you want to show.
  • Sticky posts:When Sticky is seleced as the content type of this section then Feature image and content are displayed of this stickey post. And you will see these options.
    
  • • Select Post: Select one of the post from drop-down lists of posts.Post:When Post is seleced as the content type of this section then Feature image and content are displayed of this post. And you will see these options.

    

  • • Select Category: Select one of the Category from drop-down lists.Category:When Category is seleced as the content type of this section then Feature image and content are displayed posts of selected category. And you will see these options.

    

  • Recent Posts: When Recent Posts is seleted as the content type of this section then latest posts’s Feature image and content are displayed . And you will see these options.

Note:Theme has two menu location provided as Primary and Social.

• • Menu Options :

If you already have a Menu then that’s fine otherwise follow the steps:

• • 1. Go to Menus
    2. Click Create a Menu
    3. Once, you have created the menu, you can further add items to the menu.
    4. You can choose menu location. There are 2 locations Primary Menu and Social Menu. You can choose one of them location.

• • Another method

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 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 /.
Three locations are available.

From Customize section > > Footer Section.

In Footer Section you will see:

• • Display Social Menu: Check to enable on theme option otherwise Uncheck to hide. This allows user to show footer Social menu weather on static front page or on entire-site.
  • Display Footer Text: Check to enable on theme option otherwise Uncheck to hide. This allows user to show Footer Text weather on static front page or on entire-site.
  • Copyright: This changes the copyright text of Footer Content.

You will see following sections under Advanced Settings:

1. 1. Color
   2. Background image
   3. General
   4. Global layout
   5. Archive/Blog
   6. Single Posts
   7. Single Pages
   8. Reset All
   9. Additional CSS

From Customize section, go to Advanced Setting > Colors Now, you will be able to change the color options. Once, the preview is fine you can save and publish it.
From Colors, you will have these options:

• • Background Color: This changes the background color of the site.
  • Site Title Color: This changes the site title color.
  • Site Tagline Color : This changes the site tagline text color.
  • Color scheme: You can change theme color from this color option.

1. From Customize section, go to Advanced Setting > Background Image. Now, you will be able to change the background image options. Once, the preview is fine you can save and publish it.
2. From Background Image, you will see:

Background Image:

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

From Customize section > Advanced Setting > General.

• Enable Smooth Scroll : Check the option to set Smooth Scroll in the whole site otherwise uncheck
• Enable Scroll up: Check the option to set or display Scroll up otherwise uncheck.

From Customize section > Advanced Setting > Global Layout.

• Site layout: This option works on whole site. You can choose either Boxed or Wide or Frame site layout.
• Archive Sidebar: This options works on all archive pages like: 404, search, date, category, blog and so on. You can choose either Right sidebar or Left sidebar or Both Sidebars or No Sidebar.
• Global post Sidebar: This options works only on single posts. This setting can be overridden for single post from the metabox too. You can choose either Right sidebar or Left sidebar or Both Sidebars or No Sidebar.
• Global Page Sidebar: This options works only on single page. This setting can be overridden for single page from the metabox too. You can choose either Right sidebar or Left sidebar or Both Sidebars or No Sidebar.

From Customize section > Advanced Setting > Archive / Blog .

In Blog Page you will see:

• • Select Categories To Exclude: This option allows user to Select the category to exclude from the home blog posts. This works only on blog posts.
  • Excerpt more text: Set the Excerpt more text on excerpt.
  • Excerpt length: Set the excerpt length of excerpt content.
  • Enable Date: This option allows user to enable/disable date assigned in blog post.
  • Enable Category: This option allows user to enable/disable category assigned in blog post.
  • Enable Tag: This option allows user to enable/disable tag on blog post.
  • Enable Comments Count: This option allows user to enable/disable comment count on blog post.
  • Enable Author : You can Enable the author image on blog, archive and search page.
  • Enable Feature Image: This option allows user to enable/disable feature image assigned in blog post.
  • Archive Content
    • Title : This option allows user to set the title on archive.
    • Excerpt: This option allows user to set the excerpt content.
    • Full Content: This option allows user to set the full content of blog post.
  • Pagination type : You will see following options:
    • Numeric : This is for numeric pagination option.
    • Older Posts/Newer Posts : Default pagination option.
    • Infinite Scroll : This options allow to show infinite number of posts on scroll. This option working when Jetpack plugin is active.
    • If you want Disable the pagination then choose disable option.

From Customize section > Advanced Setting > Single Posts.

In Blog Page you will see:

• Enable Date: This option allows user to enable/disable date assigned in Single post.
• Enable Category: This option allows user to enable/disable category assigned in Single post.
• Enable Tag: This option allows user to enable/disable tag on Single post.
• Enable Comments : This option allows user to enable/disable comment on Single post.
• Enable Author : You can Enable the author image on Single post.
• Enable Feature Image: This option allows user to enable/disable feature image assigned in Single post.
• Enable Pagination : This option allows user to enable/disable Pagination on Single post.

From Customize section > Advanced Setting > Single Pages.

In Blog Page you will see:

• Enable Author : You can Enable the author image on Single page.
• Enable Feature Image: This option allows user to enable/disable feature image assigned in Single Pages.
• Enable Pagination : This option allows user to enable/disable Pagination on Single Pages.
• Enable Comments : This option allows user to enable/disable comment on Single page.

1. From Customize section, go to Advanced Setting > Reset all.
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 Advanced Setting > Additional CSS..
2. Additional CSS you will see:

• • You can add your own CSS here.

Widgets are one of the most important aspects of this theme. Three special widgets are specially built for the front page so that most of your content can be categorized easily and be accommodated to feature in the front page.

• • Header Widget: This widget is used for header add image section
  • Footer Widgets: These widgets are used in footer section.
  • Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar This sidebar area is dispaly at blog page, single blog pages, pages.

To update Theme though FTP, follow these basic steps:

1. Download the latest version of Blogbook Pro theme from your Theme Palace member My Account to your Desktop
2. Unzip blogbook-pro.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 Blogbook Pro theme which shall replace the old files.