Introduction
Thank you for installing our WordPress Theme. The complete procedure to configure and manage a WordPress Website from the beginning is shown in this documentation in different portions.
What is WordPress CMS?
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What is a Wordpress Template?
A WordPress template acts as a skin for the websites which are created on WordPress CMS. The installation of a WordPress Template is very easy. With the help of an installed new template, you can change the look of your WordPress website very easily. All the requisite source files are provided with a WordPress template and you can freely go for editing and increasing it the way you want.
Template Installation
File Structure
The template package you have downloaded consists of several folders. Let's see what each folder contains:
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Screenshots
-contains template screenshot. Not for production.
- theme -contains wordpress theme files.
- "vw-newspaper.zip" -this folder contains all the necessary files for the theme.
- "license.txt" -contains license details.
- "readme.txt" -contain information about theme images path, font use and usage script.
Template installation is very easy process.
All installation steps can be done within WordPress interface. It makes process comfortable and fast.
The installation process can be done in two ways.
1-Install a theme using wordpress admin.
First thing you need to do is to login to your WordPress admin area. Next, click on.
1. Go to the Dashboard >> Appearance >> Themes.
2. Once you are on the themes page, click on the Add New button at the top.
3. Click on Upload Theme button.
4. Click on Browse Button then select your vw-newspaper.zip theme and click on install now button.
Congratulations!! Your theme have been successfully installed.
2-Install a Theme using FTP
Your second installation option is to upload the theme via FTP. For this method first log into your site via FTP and browse to your folder located at wp-content/themes. Unzip the theme file you downloaded and upload only the extracted Total folder to your server.
Next log into your WordPress site and navigate to Appearance >> Themes to activate Theme.
Setup Home Page Template
Follow the below steps to setup the Home page demo content:-
1. Create a new page and name it as "Home" then select the template "Custom Home".
2. Go to Settings >> Reading
Select the option of Static Page, now select the page you created to be the homepage.
Once you have done that, save the settings and now you have a custom homepage. You will now have a custom page being displayed as your front page, and a separate page being displayed as your post page.
Setup Logo
For Logo
Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >>Site Identity
You can see the logo image in the header
In this way you can setup logo Image.
Video for logo, site title & tagline setup.
Setup Header Section
In order to setup the header image, follow the below steps.
1. Go to Customizer >> Header Image >> Add New Image .
Setup Navigation Menus
- First of all create pages from go to Pages >> Add new page.
- Go to Appearance >> Menu.
- Click on Create a new menu.
- Give a name to your menu in Menu name and click save menu button.
- Once you have create menu. You need to add pages by selecting with checkboxes. After adding menu list you can arrange it by drag and drop.
- Select menu theme location from the below checkboxes.
See this screenshot for better understanding.
See this video to setup menus.
Setup Slider Section
In order to setup the Slider section, follow the below steps.
Video to setup slider in free theme.
Setup Todays Headline Section
In order to setup the Todays Headline Settings, follow the below steps.
For Category to display Todays Headline
Go to Dashboard >> Posts >> Categories.
Go to Dashboard >> Posts >> Add new posts and assign the category.
Go to Customizer >> VW Settings >> Todays Headline Settings
It will appear like this on the front end.
Setup Category Section
In order to setup the Category Section, follow the below steps.
For Category to display Category Section
Go to Dashboard >> Posts >> Categories.
Go to Dashboard >> Posts >> Add new posts and assign the category.
Go to Customizer >> VW Settings >> Category Section
It will appear like this on the front end.
Setup Blog Post Section
In order to setup the Blog Post Settings, follow the below steps.
Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customizer >> Homepage Settings >> Select Your Latest Post
Go to Customizer >> VW Settings >> Blog Post Settings
It will appear like this on the front end.
Setup Footer Section
In order to setup the footer section, follow the below steps.
Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgets
It will appear like this on the front end.
In this way you can setup Footer section.
Setup Copyright Text Section
In order to setup the footer text section, follow the below steps.
Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> VW Settings >> Footer Settings
By using scroll to top one can change the layout of scroll in right, left and center.
For Social Icons
Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgets
It will appear like this on the front end.
In this way you can setup Footer Text section.
General Settings
In order to setup the General Settings, follow the below steps.
Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> VW Settings >> General Settings >> Width Layouts
By using width layout one can change the website layout in Boxed width, Full Width and in wide width.
It will appear like this on the front end.
Theme Typography
Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Typography
In Theme Typography there are three options
1) Content Typography2) Headings Typography
3) Global Typography
In Content Typography you can change color, font style, font-size, line height, font-weight, letter-spacing of Paragraph and Anchor tags.
In Headings Typography you can change color, font style, font-size, line height, font-weight, letter-spacing of Headings.
In Global Typography one can change default color of theme completely.
Below Given Screenshot is for Global Typography .In below given example you can see that default color of theme is changed.
It will appear like this on the front end.
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