Fondness

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

Users can use FTP clients like FileZilla to connect to your web server.

1. Unzip fondness.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 fondness.zip theme.
3. Now, log into the WordPress Dashboard with your login details.
4. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
5. Users will see the theme in the list.
6. Then, click the 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

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.

• • 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, 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 users to set and modify the site’s main logo.
• Site Title : This allows the user to modify the title of the site.
• Tagline : This section allows user to modify and set the tagline of the website.
• Display Site Title and Tagline: This option allows users to enable and disable the display of the title and the tagline from the site.



• Site Identity Extra OptionsThis section allows users to choose different options to display title, logo, and tagline.
  • Hide All: Users can enable this to display anything in the header.
  • Show All: Users can enable this to display logo title tagline in 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 logo and title in header.
  • Logo + Tagline: Users can enable this 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.

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.

There are two ways of creating a menu
Note: Fondness theme has Three menu locations provided as Primary Social and Footer.

• Menu Options :

To create a menu, users need to go to the Admin Panel / Appearance / Menu.

OR

You need to create a menu from / Customize / Menus / Create Menu.

You can similarly create more menus. After creating the 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”, “Blogs”). After creating pages you need to add those pages to the menu.




After you added the pages to the menu, set the menu location from / Customize / Menus / Menu Locations.

• Menu locations:

Three locations are available:

• Primary: This setting allows the user to change or set the Primary/Main menu.
• Social: This setting allows users to change or set social menus.
• Footer Menu: This setting allows the user to set and edit the footer menus.

1. To configure the Widget, user need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / widgets /.

2. From Widgets, the users will be able to Add and Remove widgets and sidebar.

OR

1. From the Customize section, go to 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 the default sidebar area. This sidebar area is displayed at blog pages, single blog pages, pages using block widgets.

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

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

1. Main Slider
2. Our Solution
3. CTA
4. Our Work
5. Latest Posts
6. Subscription

The demo content for this section can be displayed when user chooses a static page option on Homepage Setting.

Recommended plugins for this theme are:
Catch Themes Demo Import The “Catch themes demo import: “is recommended in this theme to import the demo pages.

First Install Catch Themes Demo Import Plugin and active this plugin.

Then go to Dashboard-> Appearance -> Import Demo Data

Then click Import demo data button.

*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.

JetPack Jet pack is recommended in this theme for better security performance and to keep the site protected.

Contact Form 7 Contact Form 7 is recommended in this theme to manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.

User can see the divided sections in the image below :

The customizer for the front-page setting options has the following sections shown below:

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

In this section the panel, it will include:

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



After enabling Slider section, user will see following options

• Slider Button Label: This setting allows the user to set the button label for the slider
• Sub Title: This setting allows the user to set the sub title for the slides.
• Select Page: This setting allows the user to select page to get featured image and content of that page.

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

In this section the panel, it will include:

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



After enabling Our Solution section, user will see following options

• Subtitle: This setting allows the user to set the Sub title for the section.
• Description: This setting allows the user to set the Description for the section.
• Our Solution Excerpt length: This setting allows the user to set the excerpt length to display on section posts/Page.
• Select Post: This setting allows the user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
• Button Label: This setting sets the label for the button.

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

In this section the panel, it will include:

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



After enabling CTA section, user will see following options

• CTA BG Image: This setting allows the user to set the background Image for the section.
• Subtitle: This setting allows the user to set the Sub title for the section.
• Select Post: This setting allows the user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
• Button Label: This setting sets the label for the button.

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

In this section the panel, it will include:

• Our Work Section Enable: This will enable /Disable the display of the Our Work section.



*After enabling the Our Work Section, user will see following options

• Subtitle: This setting allows the user to set the Sub title for the section.
• Title: This setting allows the user to set the title for the section.
• Short Description: This setting allows the user to set the Description for the section.



• Content Type: This setting allows the user to select the kind of content to choose from to display on the Our Work Section. It contains select options ( Pages, Post, and Category) which allow the user to select the title from one of those.
• Posts: Selecting posts as the content type would allow the users to select any post to display its featured image and content for the Our Work Section.

Posts Options: After selecting it as content type user needs to select the following:

• Select Post: This setting allows the user to choose a post and obtain the featured picture and content from that post for the section.



• Category: After selecting the content type as category, this would allow the users to select any category to display on the Our Work Section.

Category Options: After selecting it as content type user needs to select the following:

• Select category: This setting allows the user to choose a category and obtain the featured picture and content for the section.

To configure the Menu section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Latest Post Section.

In this section the panel, it will include:

• Latest Post Section Enable: This will enable /Disable the display of the Latest Post section.



*After enabling the Latest Post Section, section, user will see following options

• Section Sub title: This setting allows user to set the subtitle for the section.
• Section Title:This setting allows user to set the title for the section.



• Content Type: This setting allows the user to select the kind of content to choose from. It contains select options ( Pages, Post, and Category) which allow the user to select a page/post/ category to display as a Latest Post
• Posts: Selecting Posts as Content Type allows the user to choose Posts from Select Post setting where Featured image and content of that selected posts is displayed.

Posts Options: After selecting the content type as posts user needs to select the following:

• Select Post: This setting allows the user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.



• Category: After selecting the content type as category, this would allow users to select any category to display on the Latest Posts Section.

Category Options: After selecting it as content type user needs to select the following:

• Select category: This setting allows the user to choose a category and obtain the featured picture and content for the section.

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

*Note: To activate this section you need to install Jetpack Plugin and activate subscription module.

In this section the panel, it will include:

• Subscription Section Enable: This will enable /Disable the display of the Subscription section.



*After enabling the Subscription ,section, user will see following options

• Section Title: This setting allows the user to set the section title.
• Description: This setting allows the user to set the description for the section
• Button label: This Setting allows the user to set the button label

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 theme settings are explained 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.

• • 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:

• • Blog Page Excerpt Length: This option allows user to set the excerpt length.

1. From the Customize section, go to Theme Options.

2. From Theme Options, user will see Blog/Archive.

This setting will include following settings:

• Hide Banner: User can hide the banner on a blog/ archisve page.
• Blog Post Button Label: This option allows the user to set a Blog Post Button Label.

1. From the Customize section, go to Theme Options.

2. From Theme Options, user will see Blog/Archive.

The Single Post setting includes following settings:

• Hide Banner : User can hide the banner on a 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.

To configure the footer widget, user need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / widgets / Footer options.

Site Info Logo: This setting allows the user to set the site infor logo.

Copyright text : This changes the copyright text of Copyright content.

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 through FTP, follow these basic steps:

1. Download the latest version of Fondness theme to your Desktop
2. Unzip fondness.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 Fondness theme which shall replace the old files.