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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 Colors?
- 6.How to manage Header Image ?
- 7.How to manage Background Image?
- 8.How to create a menu?
- 9.How to create a Widget?
- 10.How to setup front page as shown in the demo?
- 11.How to manage Theme Options?
- 12.How to manage Reset all settings?
- 13.How to manage Additional CSS?
- 14.Updating Theme Using FTP
Villa Estate
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 villa-estate.zip theme in your computer.
- Select villa-estate.zip and click Install Now.
You can use FTP client like FileZilla to connect your web server.
- Unzip villa-estate.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 Villa Estate 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 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.
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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:
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- 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.
There are two ways of creating a menu
Note: CorpoBlog free theme has two menu location provided as Primary and Social.
- Menu Options :
- Primary: This setting allows user to change or set Primary/Main menu.
- Social: This setting allows user to change or set 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.
- Enable Button: Check to enable Extra Button on Top bar Uncheck to disable.
- Button Label : This setting allow user to set button label.
- Button URL : This setting allow user to set button url.
To create menu, user need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Menu .
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You need to create menu from / Customize / Menus / Create Menu .
Users can create more menus in similar way. After creating menu, 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 .
Menu locations:
Two locations are available:
Ater Button is enable you will see the following options.
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.
- Top Bar
- Search Property Us
- Services
- Property Villa
- Promotion
- Teams
- Counter
- 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.
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 / Tobbar.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Topbar Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Select Icon: : This setting allow user to set icon for the topbar text.
- Topbar Text : This setting allow user to set extra information on the topbar.
- Social Menu Enable : Check to enable social menu otherwise Uncheck to disable.
After Topbar section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Search Property Us section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Search Property Us.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Search Property Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Title : This setting allow user to set section title of Search Property section.
- Description : This setting allow user to set sub title of Search Property section.
- Image : This setting allow user to set background image of Search Property section.
After Search Property section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Services section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Services.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Services Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Sub Title : This setting allow user to set sub title of Services section.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set section title of Services section.
- Flaticon Image : This setting allow user to set image of selected post. You can get Flaticon image form Here
- Select Post : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
After Services section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Property Villa section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Property Villa.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Property Villa Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Sub Title : This setting allow user to set sub title of this section.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set Title of the section.
- Content Type : It contains select options ( Post, Property) 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.
- Select Post : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
- Property: Selecting Property as Content Type allows user to choose Property from Select Property setting where featured image and content of that selected Property is displayed.
- Select Property : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that Property.
- Read More Button Label : This setting allow user to set button label of the section.
- Button URL : This setting allow user to set url of the button Label.
After Property Villa section is enabled, you will see following options
Posts Options : It contains following settings
Property Options : It contains following settings
To configure Promotion, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Promotion.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Promotion Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Background Image : This setting allow user to set background image.
- Select Post : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.
- Promotion Button : This setting allow user to set button label.
After Promotion section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Teams section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Teams.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Team Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Section Title : This setting allow user to set title of team section.
- Section Sub Title : This setting allow user to set sub title of team section.
- Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get featured image and content of that page.
- Position: This setting allows user to set position of particular team member.
- Social Links : This setting allows user to add social site link.
After Teams section is enabled, you will see following options
To configure Counter, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Counter.
In this panel, you will find these options:
- Counter Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.
- Background Image : This setting allow user to set background image of a counter section.
- Select Icon: : This setting allow user to set counter icon.
- Counter Title : This setting allow user to set title of each counter.
- Counter Value : This setting allow user to set value for counter.
After Counter 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 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.
- Content Type : It contains select options ( Post, Category) 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.
- 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 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 Post section is enabled, you will see following options
Posts Options : It contains following settings
Category Options : It contains following settings
You will see following sections under Theme Options:
- Breadcrumb
- Excerpt
- Layout
- Blog/Archive
- Single Post
- Pagination
- 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.
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- 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:
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- 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 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.
1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Blog/Archive.
3. In Blog Page you will see:
- Hide Date: This option allows user to enable/disable date assigned in blog post.
- Column Layout : This setting allow user to set column layout of 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.
- Display Scroll Top Button Enable : Enable shows the scroll top button icon to scroll to the top of the site.
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 Villa Estate theme from your Theme Palace member My Account to your Desktop
- Unzip villa-estate.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 Villa Estate theme which shall replace the old files.
