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Blogood Pro
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 blogood-pro.zip theme in your computer.
- Select blogood-pro.zip and click Install Now.
You can use FTP client like FileZilla to connect your web server.
- Unzip blogood-pro.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 Blogood Pro 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.
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 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
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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:
- 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.
- Theme Version: This changes the theme version of the site.
- Color Scheme: This changes the theme 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.
- Menu Options :
- Primary: This setting allows user to change Primary/Main menu.
- Social: This setting allows user to change social menu.
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Header Menu:
- Make Menu Sticky : This option is for menu sticky. If menu sticky is enable then the menu is fixed when user scroll.
- Show Search Menu:This option is for search icon. If the search icon is enable then the search icon will get added to the header menu.
- Social Menu Enabel:This option is for Social Menu. If social menu is enable social menu will get displayed on header.
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 a similar way. After creating a 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 /.
Two 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 displayed on blog pages, single blog pages, and pages.
Blog post left sidbar: This sidebar is for blog post left sidebar. This sidebar area is displayed on the blog post’s left sidebar.
Blog post right sidbar: This sidebar is for blog post right sidebar. This sidebar area is displayed at blog post right sidebar.
The demo of the front page can be divided into different sections as shown below.
- Home Page Layout
- Hero Banner
- Hero Posts
- Creative Posts
- Advertisement
- Latest Fashion
- Customer Stories
- Shop
- Recently Added
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.
JetPack Jet pack is recommended in this theme for better security performance and to keep the site protected.
WooCommerce WooCommerce is recommended in this theme.
You can see the divided sections in the image below :
The image below shows customizer options for the sections shown above :
To configure Home Page Layout section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Home Page Layout.
In this panel, you will find:
- Select Homepage layout: This setting allows user to changes the home page layout.
- Sortable Homepage: This setting allows user to sort sections in home page layout.
To configure Hero Banner section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Hero Banner.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Hero Banner Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Sub Title : This setting allow user to set Sub Title of the section.
- Social Links: This settings allows user to set social links.
- Content Type : It contains select options ( Pages, Post, Category ) which allow user to select title from one of those.
- Pages: Selecting Pages as Content Type allows user to choose Pages from Select Page setting where title of that selected Pages is displayed.
- Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image and content of that page.
- Posts: Selecting Posts as Content Type allows user to choose Posts from Select Post setting where featured image and content of that selected posts is displayed.
- 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 of that selected Category is displayed as section content.
- Select Category : This setting allows user to select category to get the featured image and content of post within that category.
After the Hero Banner section is enabled, you will see the following options
Pages Options : It contains following settings
Posts Options : It contains following settings
Category Options : It contains following settings
To configure Hero Posts section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Hero Posts.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Hero Posts Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Sub Title : This setting allow user to set Sub Title of the section.
- Button Text: This setting allows user to set the button text.
- Excerpt Length: This setting allows the user to select the total number of description words to be displayed on posts
- Content Type : It contains select options ( Pages, Post, Category, Custom ) which allow user to select title from one of those.
- Pages: Selecting Pages as Content Type allows user to choose Pages from Select Page setting where title of that selected Pages is displayed.
- Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image and content of that page.
- Posts: Selecting Posts as Content Type allows user to choose Posts from Select Post setting where featured image and content of that selected posts is displayed.
- 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 of that selected Category is displayed as section content.
- Select Category : This setting allows user to select category to get the featured image and content of post within that category.
- Custom: Selecting Custom as Content Type allows user to choose Custom from Select Custom setting where featured image and content of that selected Custom is displayed as section content.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set custom title of the section.
- Section Description : This setting allow user to set the custom content of the section.
- Image : This setting allow user to set the custom image of the section.
After the Hero Posts section is enabled, you will see the following options
Pages Options : It contains following settings
Posts Options : It contains following settings
Category Options : It contains following settings
Custom Options : It contains following settings
To configure Creative Posts section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Creative Posts.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Creative Posts Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
- Number of Post : This setting allow user to set number of Creative Post to shown.
- View All Button Text: This setting allows user to set the View All button text.
- View All Button Url: This setting allows user to set the View All Button Url.
- Content Type : It contains select options ( Pages, Post, Category, Recent ) which allow user to select title from one of those.
- Pages: Selecting Pages as Content Type allows user to choose Pages from Select Page setting where title of that selected Pages is displayed.
- Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image and content of that page.
- Posts: Selecting Posts as Content Type allows user to choose Posts from Select Post setting where featured image and content of that selected posts is displayed.
- 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 of that selected Category is displayed as section content.
- Select Category : This setting allows user to select category to get the featured image and content of post within that category.
- Recent: Selecting Recent as Content Type allows user to choose Recent from Select Recent setting where featured image of that selected Recent is displayed as section content.
- Exculding : This setting allows user to select categories that they want to exclude.
After Creative Posts section is enabled, you will see following options
Pages Options : It contains following settings
Posts Options : It contains following settings
Category Options : It contains following settings
Recent Options : It contains following settings
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.
- Content Type : It contains select options ( Pages, Post, Category ) which allow user to select title from one of those.
- Pages: Selecting Pages as Content Type allows user to choose Pages from Select Page setting where title of that selected Pages is displayed.
- Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image and content of that page.
- Button Text: This setting allows user to set the button text.
- Posts: Selecting Posts as Content Type allows user to choose Posts from Select Post setting where featured image and content of that selected posts is displayed.
- Select Post : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
- Button Text: This setting allows user to set the button text.
- Category: Selecting Category as Content Type allows user to choose Category from Select category setting where featured image of that selected Category is displayed as section content.
- Select Category : This setting allows user to select category to get the featured image and content of post within that category.
- Button Text: This setting allows user to set the button text.
After Advertisement section is enabled, you will see following options
Pages Options : It contains following settings
Posts Options : It contains following settings
Category Options : It contains following settings
To configure Latest Fashion section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Latest Fashion.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Latest Fashion Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
- Number of Post : This setting allow user to set number of Creative Post to shown.
- View All Button Text: This setting allows user to set the View All button text.
- View All Button Url: This setting allows user to set the View All Button Url.
- Content Type : It contains select options ( Pages, Post, Category ) which allow user to select title from one of those.
- Pages: Selecting Pages as Content Type allows user to choose Pages from Select Page setting where title of that selected Pages is displayed.
- Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image and content of that page.
- Button Text: This setting allows user to set the button text.
- Posts: Selecting Posts as Content Type allows user to choose Posts from Select Post setting where featured image and content of that selected posts is displayed.
- Select Post : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
- Button Text: This setting allows user to set the button text.
- Category: Selecting Category as Content Type allows user to choose Category from Select category setting where featured image of that selected Category is displayed as section content.
- Select Category : This setting allows user to select category to get the featured image and content of post within that category.
- Button Text: This setting allows user to set the button text.
After the Latest Fashion section is enabled, you will see the following options
Pages Options : It contains following settings
Posts Options : It contains following settings
Category Options : It contains following settings
To configure Customer Stories section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Customer Stories.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Customer Stories Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
- Section Sub Title : This setting allow user to set Sub Title of the section.
- Number of Post : This setting allow user to set number of Creative Post to shown.
- Button Label: This setting allows user to set the View All button text.
- Content Type : It contains select options ( Pages, Post, Category ) which allow user to select title from one of those.
- Pages: Selecting Pages as Content Type allows user to choose Pages from Select Page setting where title of that selected Pages is displayed.
- Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image and content of that page.
- Number of Post : This setting allow user to set number of Customer Stories to shown.
- Posts: Selecting Posts as Content Type allows user to choose Posts from Select Post setting where featured image and content of that selected posts is displayed.
- Select Post : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
- Number of Post : This setting allow user to set number of Customer Stories to shown.
- Category: Selecting Category as Content Type allows user to choose Category from Select category setting where featured image of that selected Category is displayed as section content.
- Select Category : This setting allows user to select category to get the featured image and content of post within that category.
- Number of Post : This setting allow user to set number of Customer Stories to shown.
After Customer Stories section is enabled, you will see following options
Pages Options : It contains following settings
Posts Options : It contains following settings
Category Options : It contains following settings
To configure Shop section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Shop.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Shop Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
- Button Label: This setting allows user to set the button text.
- View All Button Text: This setting allows user to set the View All button text.
- View All Button Url: This setting allows user to set the View All Button Url.
- Content Type : It contains select options ( Product, Product Category ) which allow user to select title from one of those.
- Products: Selecting Products as Content Type allows user to choose Products from Select Post setting where featured image and content of that selected Products is displayed.
- Select Product : This setting allows user to select Product to get featured image and content of that Product
- Number of product : This setting allow user to set number of product to be shown.
- Product Category: Selecting Product Category as Content Type allows user to choose Product Category from Select Post setting where featured image and content of that selected Product Category is displayed.
- Select Product Categories : This setting allows user to select product category to get featured image and content of that product category’s products.
- Number of product : This setting allow user to set number of product to be shown.
After Shop section is enabled, you will see following options
Products Options : It contains following settings
Product Category Options : It contains following settings
To configure Recently Added section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Recently Added.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Recently Added Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
- Number of Post : This setting allow user to set number of recently added posts to shown.
- Excerpt Length: This setting allows the user to select the total number of description words to be displayed on posts
- Content Type : It contains select options ( Pages, Post, Category, Recent ) which allow user to select title from one of those.
- Pages: Selecting Pages as Content Type allows user to choose Pages from Select Page setting where title of that selected Pages is displayed.
- Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image and content of that page.
- Number of Post : This setting allow user to set number of Recently Added to shown.
- Posts: Selecting Posts as Content Type allows user to choose Posts from Select Post setting where featured image and content of that selected posts is displayed.
- Select Post : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
- Number of Post : This setting allow user to set number of Recently Added to shown.
- Category: Selecting Category as Content Type allows user to choose Category from Select category setting where featured image of that selected Category is displayed as section content.
- Select Category : This setting allows user to select category to get the featured image and content of post within that category.
- Number of Post : This setting allow user to set number of Recently Added to shown.
- Recent: Selecting Recent as Content Type allows user to choose Recent from Select Recent setting where featured image of that selected Recent is displayed as section content.
- Exculding : This setting allows user to select categories that they want to exclude.
After Recently Added section is enabled, you will see following options
Pages Options : It contains following settings
Posts Options : It contains following settings
Category Options : It contains following settings
Recent Options : It contains following settings
You will see following sections under Theme Options:
- Loader
- Breadcrumb
- Excerpt
- Layout
- Blog/Archive
- Single Post
- Pagination
- Typography
- Footer Option
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.
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After enable Loader You will see following option
- Icon: This setting allow user to select loading icon.
- Icon: This setting allow user to select loading icon.
This option allows user to enable/disable breadcrumb on the home-page.
1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Breadcrumb.
3. Click on Breadcrumb you will see.
- Enable Breadcrumb : This option enable/disable breadcrumb.
- Separator: Set the Separator symbol.
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 or No Sidebar .
- Posts Sidebar Position : This option is for Posts Sidebar Position. You can choose either Right sidebar or Left sidebar or No Sidebar or No Sidebar Content Width.
- Pages Sidebar Position : This option is for Pages Sidebar Position. You can choose either Right sidebar or Left sidebar or No Sidebar or No Sidebar Content Width.
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 set column layout in blog/archive page.
- Button Text:This option allows user to set Read More button text in blog/archive page.
- Hide Category:This option allows user to enable/disable category assigned in blog/archive page.
- Hide Date: This option allows user to enable/disable date assigned in 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 : This option allows user to enable/disable author assigned in single post.
- Hide Category: This option allows user to enable/disable category assigned in single post.
- Hide Tag: This option allows user to enable/disable views of tag in single post.
- Hide Pagination:This option allows user to enable/disable pagination 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.
- Infinite Scroll : This options allow to show infinite number of posts on scroll.
1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Typography.
3. In Typography you will see:
- Choose Site Title Typography : Here you can easily choose different types of typography for every section’s Site Title.
- Choose Site Description Typography : Here you can easily choose different types of typography for Site’s Description.
- Choose Menu Typography : Here you can easily choose different types of typography for every section’s Menu.
- Choose Heading Typography : Here you can easily choose different types of typography for every section’s Header/Title.
- Choose Body Typography : Here you can easily choose different types of typography for every section’s body text.
- Choose Button Label Typography : Here you can easily choose different types of typography for every section’s Button Label.
1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Footer Options.
3. In Footer Options you will see:
- Social Menu Enable : This setting allows user to display social menu on footer
- 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:
- You can add your own CSS here.
To update Theme though FTP, follow these basic steps:
- Download the latest version of Blogood Pro theme from your Theme Palace member My Account to your Desktop
- Unzip blogood-pro.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 Blogood Pro theme which shall replace the old files.
