Themes Instructions
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Table of Contents
- 1.Theme Installation
- 2.Demo file
- 3.How to set Homepage setting?
- 4.How to manage Site Title, Logo, Tagline and Site Icon?
- 5.How to manage Header Image ?
- 6.How to manage Background Image?
- 7.How to create a menu?
- 8.How to create a Widget?
- 9.How to setup front page as shown in the demo?
- 10.How to manage Theme Options?
- 11.How to manage Reset all settings?
- 12.How to manage Additional CSS?
- 13.Updating Theme Using FTP
Charity Wedding
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 charity-wedding.zip theme in your computer.
- Select charity-wedding.zip and click Install Now.( Make Sure Parent Theme Raise Chairty is already installed )
You can use FTP client like FileZilla to connect your web server.
- Unzip charity-wedding.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 Charity Wedding 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: When you choose this option then you will see these options.
- 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.
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- 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 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 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:
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- This will change the background image for the entire site.
Note: Charity Wedding free theme has two menu locations provided as Primary and Social
- Menu Options :
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Header Menu Options : Check to enable on menu otherwise Uncheck to hide.
After Header Menu Options is enabled, you will see following options
- Button Label : This setting allow user to change button label of button at the end of the menu .
- Button URL : This setting allow user to set button url of button at the end of the 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 /.
Three locations are available. ie: Primary, Secondary and Social.
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
- Main Slider
- Featured Posts
- Gallery
- Services
- Events
- Latest Posts
- Contact Section
- Sponsor
- CTA
These section’s content are display when you choose a static page option on Homepage Setting.
One Click Demo Import Plugin is highly 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.
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.
To configure Slider section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Slider.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Slider Section Enable : Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Button Label : This setting allow user to set primary button label of slider.
- Select Page : This setting allows user to select page to get featured image and content of that page.
After Slider Section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Featured Posts section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Featured Posts.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Featured Posts Section Enable : Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Select Page : This setting allows user to select page to get featured image and content of that page.
After Featured Posts Section is enabled, you will see following options
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.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set title on gallery section.
- Sub Title : This setting allow user to set sub title on gallery section.
- Select Category : This setting allows user to select category to get the featured image and content of that category.
After Gallery section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Service section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Service.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Service Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set title on service section.
- Section Sub Title : This setting allow user to set sub title on service section.
- Service Image: This setting will add image on service section.
- Select Icon: This setting allows user to select icon for service section.
- Select page: This setting allows user to select page to get content of that page.
After Service section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Events section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Events.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Events Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set title on events section.
- Section SubTitle : This setting allow user to set sub title on events section.
- Select page: This setting allows user to select page to get content of that page.
After Events section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Latest Posts section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Latest Posts.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Latest Posts Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set title on latest posts section.
- Section Sub Title : This setting allow user to set sub title on latest posts section.
- Button Label : This setting allow user to set button label of posts on latest posts 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 posts setting where featured image and content of that selected Posts is displayed as section content.
- Select Posts : This setting allows user to select posts to get the 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.
- Select Category : This setting allows user to select category to get the featured image and content of that category.
After Latest Posts section is enabled, you will see following options
Posts Options : It contains following settings
Category Options : It contains following settings
To configure Contact Section section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Contact Section.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Contact Section 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.
- Contact BG Image : This setting allow user to set background image of contact section.
- Contact Form Short : This setting allow user to set contact form.
- Map Shortcode : This setting allow user to add Map Shortcode created from WP Google Maps. Plugin
- Phone Number : This setting allow user to add Phone Number on contact section.
- Email : This setting allow user to add Email on contact section.
- Address : This setting allow user to add Address on contact section.
After Contact Section section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Sponsor section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Sponsor.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Sponsor Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set title on sponsor section.
- Sub Title : This setting allow user to set sub title on sponsor section.
- Image : This setting allow user to set sponsor image / logo on sponsor section.
- Sponsor URL : : This setting allow user to set sponsor image / logo link on sponsor section.
After Sponsor section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure CTA section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / CTA.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- CTA Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image and content of that post.
- Button Label : This setting allow user to set button text in cta section.
After CTA section is enabled, you will see following options
You will see following sections under Theme Options:
- Breadcrumb
- Layout
- Excerpt
- Blog/Archive
- Single Post
- Pagination
- Footer Option
The above sections are described below.
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.
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- Enable Breadcrumb : This option enable/disable breadcrumb.
- Separator: Set the Separator symbol.
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 No Sidebar .
- Posts Sidebar Position : This option is for Posts Sidebar Position. You can choose either Right sidebar or No Sidebar Content Width.
- Pages Sidebar Position : This option is for Pages Sidebar Position. You can choose either Right sidebar or No Sidebar Content Width.
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:
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- Blog Page Excerpt Length: This option allows user to set the excerpt length.
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 post.
- Blog Post Button:This option allows user to set button 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 Author : You can hide the author image 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:
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- 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:
- Copyright text : This changes the copyright text of Copyright content.
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:
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- 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 Charity Wedding theme from your Theme Palace member My Account to your Desktop
- Unzip charity-wedding.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 Charity Wedding theme which shall replace the old files.
