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Blogmax News
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 blogmax-news.zip theme in your computer.
- Select blogmax-news.zip and click Install Now.
You can use FTP client like FileZilla to connect your web server.
- Unzip blogmax-news.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 blogmax-news 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: Blogmax News free theme has three menu location provided as Primary, Secondary and Social.
- Menu Options :
- Primary: This setting allows user to change Primary/Main menu.
- Secondary: This setting allows user to change Secondary/Main menu.
- Social: This setting allows user to change Social/Main menu.
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Header Menu:
- Ads Image : This option allows user to insert ad banner image
- Ads Image Url : This option allows user to insert ads image url
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.
- Topbar
- Highlighted Post
- About Us
- Three Column
- Trending Posts
- Advertisement
- Most Viewed Post
- Popular Posts
- Sports
- Tow Column Posts
- Latest Post
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 Topbar section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Topbar.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Topbar Section Enable : Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Social Menu Enable : This setting allow user to show and hide social menu on topbar.
After Topbar Section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Hightlighted Posts section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Hightlighted Posts.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Highlighted Post Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Select post: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image that post.
After Hightlighted Posts section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure About Us section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / About Us.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- About Us Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Sub Title : This setting allow user to set sub title on about us section.
- Excerpt Length : This setting allow user to set excerpt length of about us section post.
- Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image and content of that page.
- Button Text : This setting allow user to set button label of about us section post.
After About Us section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Three Column section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Three Column.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Three Column Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set sub title on three column section.
- Select post: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image that post.
After Three Column section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Trending Posts section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Trending Posts.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Trending Posts Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set sub title on trending posts section.
- Select post: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image that post.
After Trending Posts section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Recent Posts section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Recent Posts.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Recent Posts Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set sub title on recent posts section.
- Select post: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image that post.
After Recent Posts section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Advertisement section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Advertisement.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Advertisement Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Ads Image : This option allows user to insert ad banner image
- Ads Url : This option allows user to insert ads image url
After Advertisement section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Most Viewed Posts section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Most Viewed Posts.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Most Viewed Posts Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set sub title on most viewed posts section.
- Select post: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image that post.
After Most Viewed Posts section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Sports section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Sports.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Sports Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set sub title on sports section.
- Select post: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image that post.
After Sports section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Two Column Posts section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Two Column Posts.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Two Column Posts Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set sub title on two column posts section.
- Select post: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image that post.
After Two Column Posts section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Latest Post section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Latest Post.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Latest Post Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set sub title on latest post section.
- Number of post : This setting allow user to set the number of post to display on latest post section.
- Select Excluding Categories : This setting allows user to select multiple categories to exclude featured image and content of that categories posts.
- Column Layout : This setting allow user to set the column layout on latest post section.
After Latest Post section is enabled, you will see following options
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 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 user to set the excerpt length.
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
1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Blog/Archive.
3. In Blog Page you will see:
- Column Layout:This option allows user to post 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 Single post you will see:
- Hide Date: This option allows user to enable/disable date assigned in single post.
- Hide Author : You can hide the author image on single post.
- Hide Category : You can hide the category on single post.
- Hide Tag : You can hide the tag on 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 4 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 Blogmax News theme from your Theme Palace member My Account to your Desktop
- Unzip blogmax-news.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 Blogmax News theme which shall replace the old files.
