Bloguide

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 bloguide.zip theme in your computer.
6. Select bloguide.zip and click Install Now.

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

1. Unzip bloguide.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 bloguide 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.

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

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.

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

From Homepage : you can set any page as Homepage .

From Posts Page : you can set any page as Blog.

• 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.

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.



• 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:

Background Image: This will change the background image for the entire site.

• 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 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 /.
Two locations are available:

• Primary: This setting allows user to change Primary/Main menu.
• Social: This setting allows user to change social menu.

1. From Customize section, go to Widgets.

2. From Widgets, user will be able to Add and Remove widgets.

*Note:
If user wants to add widget area in footer then user must add widgets in Footer Widget 1, Footer Widget 2, Footer Widget 3 and Footer Widget 4

Sidebar: This sidebar is default sidebar area. This sidebar area is dispaly at blog page, single blog pages, pages.

Widgets: This section will add widgets to the footer section on the whole site.

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

These section’s content are display when you choose a static page option on Homepage Setting.

You can see the divided sections in the image below :

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

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.



After Hero Banner section is enabled, you will see following options

• Section Sub Title : This setting allow user to set Sub Title of the section.
• Button Text : This setting allows the user to set the button text.
• Alternate Button Text : This setting allows the user to set the alternate button text.
• Alternate Button Url : This setting allows the user to set the alternate button url.




• Content Type : It contains select options ( Pages, Post ) which allow user to select title from one of those.
• Trip: Selecting Trip as Content Type allows user to choose Trip from Select Trip setting where featured image and content of that selected Trip is displayed.

Trip Options : It contains following settings

• Select Trip : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
• Extra Text: This setting allows user to set extra text.
• Padding Top: This setting allows user to adjust top padding.
• Padding Buttom: This setting allows user to adjust buttom padding.



• 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.

Posts Options : It contains following settings

• 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.

To configure Destination section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Destination.

In this panel, you will find these options:

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



After Destination section is enabled, you will see following options

• Section Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
• Section Button Label : This setting allows the user to set the button text.




• Content Type : It contains select options ( Pages, Post ) which allow user to select title from one of those.
• Trip: Selecting Trip as Content Type allows user to choose Trip from Select Trip setting where featured image and content of that selected Trip is displayed.

Trip Options : It contains following settings

• Select Trip : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
• Extra Text: This setting allows user to set extra text.
• Padding Top: This setting allows user to adjust top padding.
• Padding Buttom: This setting allows user to adjust buttom padding.



• 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.

Posts Options : It contains following settings

• 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.

To configure Gallery section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Gallery.

In this panel, you will find these options:

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



After Gallery section is enabled, you will see following options

• Section Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
• Select Category : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.

To configure Our Services section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Our Services.

In this panel, you will find these options:

• Our Services Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.



After Our Services section is enabled, you will see following options

• Section Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
• Select Icon: This setting allows user to select icon for the respective post.
• Select page: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image that post.
• Excerpt Length: This setting allows the user to select the total number of description words to be displayed on services.

To configure Articles section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Articles.

In this panel, you will find these options:

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



After Articles section is enabled, you will see following options

• Section Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
• Read More Button Label : This setting allows the user to set the read more button text.
• Number of Posts : This setting allow user to set number of posts to show.




• Content Type : It contains select options ( Post, Recent ) 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 featured image and content of that selected posts is displayed.

Posts Options : It contains following settings

• 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.



• 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.

Recent Options : It contains following settings

• Number of Posts : This setting allow user to set number of posts to show.
• Select Exculding Category : This setting allows user to select categories that they want to exclude.
• Padding Top: This setting allows user to adjust top padding.
• Padding Buttom: This setting allows user to adjust buttom padding.

To configure Subscription section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Subscription.

In this panel, you will find these options:

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



After Subscription section is enabled, you will see following options

• Section Sub Title : This setting allow user to set Sub Title of the section.
• Section Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
• Button Text : This setting allows user to set the button text.

You will see following sections under Theme Options:

1. Breadcrumb
2. Excerpt
3. Layout
4. Blog/Archive
5. Single Post
6. Pagination
7. 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.



After enable Breadcrumb You will see following option

• Seperator: This setting allow user to select the seperator.

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:

• Column Layout:This option allows user to set column layout in blog/archive page.
• Hide Category: This option allows user to enable/disable category in blog/archive page.
• Hide Date: This option allows user to enable/disable Date in blog/archive page.
• Button: This option allows user to set button text 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 in single post.
• Hide Author: This option allows user to enable/disable author 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.
• 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:

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

You can add 4 Footer Widget fields.

• 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.

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:

1. Download the latest version of Bloguide theme from your Theme Palace member My Account to your Desktop
2. Unzip bloguide.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 Bloguide theme which shall replace the old files.