2. Add a newsletter sign-up form to Elletta and Ronda Theme
3. How do I import the demo content?
4. How to Include Custom CSS?
5. How to Include Google Analytics Tracking Code?
6. How do I translate my Breena's Theme to another language?
7. Images
8. Theme is missing the style.css stylesheet error
1. How do I add a Featured Image?
What is a Featured Image?
A Featured Image is a representative picture for your post which is used in a number of areas & functions, like on the homepage, post page, related post areas, recent post widgets, featured area sliders, etc..
How do I assign a Featured Image?
To assign a Featured Image to a post, navigate to your post's create/edit screen and look to the bottom-right. Here, you'll see a box titled "Featured Image" where you can add your desired image. Be sure to update your post when you're finished.
2. Add a newsletter sign-up form to Elletta and Ronda Theme
By default, Elletta doesn't have a newsletter sign-up form included in the theme, however it is possible to add this functionality with the help of the Mailchimp for WordPress plugin.
In order to add a MailChimp newsletter sign-up form widget to your sidebar, you can follow the instructions below. We'll need to create a MailChimp Account, install the necessary plugin, and then set up your newsletter widget.
1 -. SIGN-UP FOR MAILCHIMP
First, please ensure you have signed up and created an account with MailChimp. Once you have done so, your account will be given a unique "API Key" number. This API Key is used to link your MailChimp account to your WordPress.
To find your MailChimp API Key: Log into your MailChimp account > Your Account Page > Extras > API Keys > Create a key.
Installing the Mailchimp for WordPress plugin: Log into your WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Add New > Search for term "MailChimp for WordPress" > Install Now > Activate Plugin.
Once installed, navigate to the plugin's Settings page. Here, you'll want to copy and paste your MailChimp account's API Key into the form and click "Save changes".
3 -. SETTING UP THE NEWSLETTER WIDGET
To customize your newsletter form, you can navigate to WP Dashboard > MailChimp for WP > Forms. On this screen, you can determine just how your newsletter form displays.
Copy and paste the following HTML code into the box on this page:
<p>
<label>Subscribe to my Newsletter</label> /* this line is optional */
<input type="email" id="mc4wp_email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your email address" required="">
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe">
</p>
This will have your widget display a heading of "Subscribe to my Newsletter", an email input field, and a submit button. Save changes when finished.
4 -. INSERT THE WIDGET
Lastly, navigate to WP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets.
A new widget titled "MailChimp Sign-Up Form" will have appeared. Drag and drop this widget into your Sidebar or Footer area.
If you'd like help changing the colors or styling of the newsletter widget, feel free to open up a new support ticket and let us know!
3. How do I import the demo content?
A theme's demo content XML file can be found in the theme package you downloaded from ThemeForest or Creative Market. It will be in a folder titled "Dummy Content".
On your WordPress dashboard in the left-hand menu, select Tools > Import.
Select the "WordPress" option. If you haven't used the WP Importer before, you may need to first install it and activate it (it will give you this option on the spot if required).
You will be redirected to this screen, where you can upload the demo xml to start the import process
In the new screen you can assign user(s) from your site to “receive” the demo content from us.
IMPORTANT: you need to click the “Download and import file attachments” option to import all the images from our demo.
click on Submit Button
Wait until you get this “All done. Have Fun” notice
4. How to Include Custom CSS?
Go to WordPress > Appearance > Customize > Custom CSS > look towards for Header Code box.
Paste your Custom CSS.
Click Save Changes. That’s it!
5. How to Include Google Analytics Tracking Code?
Copy the code given to you by Google Analytics
Go to WordPress > Appearance > Customize > Custom Javascript > look towards for Header Code box.
Paste your Google Analytics (or other) tracking code here. This code will automatically be inserted into the head of your theme on every page.
Click Save Changes. That’s it!
6. How do I translate my Breena's Theme to another language?
Applique’s theme is written in English, though you are of course welcome to translate them to your language. It’s possible to go through each theme file and manually the appropriate text elements using the program Poedit, or using WPML.
Using Poedit
Inside the Applique main theme files you will find default.po and default.mo files. This .po file is basically a list of all the text strings used in the theme files in English language, and .mo file is just the compiled export from .po file and is used by WordPress to translate the theme. Unfortunately, you need to translate the files manually, and then you need to save the translation file with your language code,
For example: fr_FR.po or nl_NL.po
You can find the right naming on this page, just search for your language and then lookup the WordPress Locale column.
So this is the full steps of translating the theme using Poedit:
We will create a new translation with poedit. Open poedit. File - > New front POT/PO file...
Go to your theme files installation and navigate to wp-content > themes > breena > languages. Open default.pot.
Then, you choose your language you want to translate and then check the lower part of the Poedit window where you will find a text area to add the correct translation. In this example in French.
When you are done translating all needed strings save the file with your language code, for example france: fr_FR.po. The corresponding fr_FR.mo file will be auto created. Make you save the file in the previous ‘languages’ folder.
Updating The Translations Catalogue
You will need to do this when new strings included after theme’s update. By doing this the Poedit will register new strings to your previously translated .po file, so you don’t need to do it again from scratch.
After you updated the theme on the new version, go to your theme files installation and navigate to Wp-Content > Themes > Breena > Languages. Open your file default.po (example fr_FR.po) using Poedit. Find update button on the top of the software windows and save your file after you translated the new strings.
Using WPML
We’ve worked directly with the WPML team to make Applique compatible with the popular WPML plugin. Below you will find documentation their team created for using WPML plugin with our theme. If you’ve purchased WPML and have any questions or issues, please check the links below.
To translate a page/posts you need to go to your WordPress Admin Panel –> Pages/Posts and in the list you will see columns for each active language, with a pencil icon (for ‘edit translation’) or a ‘+’ icon (for ‘add translation’) next to each page. Go ahead and edit or add the translated page for one of your page. if you want to use your existing page settings in the translated one you can duplicate the page by following this guide
WPML can synchronize menus for you. This means that if some entries, for example some pages, posts or categories, are in the English menu, WPML can generate and keep in synch menus for other languages pointing to the translated versions of these pages, posts or categories.
From WordPress Appearance->Menus you can see your existing menus and add menu translations and synchronize menus across translations.
7. Images
IMPORTANT! It is possible that after theme activation are images wrongly cropped and look ugly!
In this case use this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/ to regenerate old thumbnails from previous theme.
After plugin installation start regeneration in Tools > Regen. Thumbnails This process can take a while and you cannot close tab/window until regeneration is done.
Images and thumbnails are generated automatically.
To display thumbnails correctly upload images via WP interface using "Set featured image" button.
After image upload set featured image.
8. Theme is missing the style.css stylesheet error
A common issue that can occur when installing a WordPress themes is “The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.” error message being displayed when uploading or activating the theme.
