3. Theme is missing the style.css stylesheet error
4. 5 - Create reCAPTCHA
5. How do I set up Breena's Instagram footer widget?
6. How to Include Custom CSS?
7. 7 - Language
8. WordPress Theme Installation (Incl. Demo Content and plugins)
9. How to create a static homepage & separate blog page?
10. How do I translate my Elletta's Theme to another language?
11. 0 - SUMMARY
12. How to Include Google Analytics Tracking Code?
13. Changelog
14. How do I set up my header?
15. 3.2 - Settings
16. How to change the background color of the comment section?
17. How To Import XML Files?
18. 1 - INSTALLATION
19. Breena Child Theme
20. 3.4 - Containers
21. 2 - UPDATE COOL COMMENT
22. Creating additional WordPress Users
23. Changelog - Elletta
24. Add a newsletter sign-up form to Breena
25. Elletta Child Theme
26. Beginning Basics: Getting Started with Breena
27. Beginning Basics: Getting Started with Elleta
28. 3.1 - Dashboard
29. Images
30. 4 - Login Facebook
31. 3.3 - Comments
32. 6 - PHPMailer
33. How can I customize the background to the body?
34. How do I add a Featured Image?
35. How do I set up my navigation menu?
36. How to Paginate a Post?
37. Setting up your Newletter Widget
38. How do I translate my Breena's Theme to another language?
39. Video demo
40. Add a newsletter sign-up form to Elletta and Ronda Theme
41. How do I create a Contact page?
1. 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
2. 3 - ADMINISTRATION
To access the Administration you must go to the path where you installed the plugin.
For example: http://www.your-domain/directory path/admin-coolComment/
In the administration, you have sections diferents:
Dashboard This is the homepage, when you enter in the aplicattion, after you write your login and password, you see is page.
In the page have three elements, there are Settings, Comments and Containers.
In the setting, you configure the count of administrator, you have custom settings and you can design the options of comments.
In the Comments you can to see the comments of user and you can to configure options of comments.
In the containers. you can to create and to see containers.
Settings - You can set a username for entry in your administration - You can set a new password - Receive alerts for each new comment - Activate antispam measures - Comment monitoring - Change language - Change the style of comment management - Activate Facebook login - Configure email
Comments You can to see all comments, the comments approved. The comments pending and the comments spam. You can delete the comments.
You can active the comments.
Containers You can see the containers that you have created. Also, you have the option to create a new container for other website. 1 - Here, you select the link "New" 2 - You will view a new window 3 - In this window, you write the name of container and press the insert button 4 - You copy of the section code 5 - Press the "Copy code" button 6 - Finally, you must paste the code on the web where you want to show the comments
3. 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.
reCAPTCHA is a free service that protects your site from spam and abuse. It uses advanced risk analysis techniques to tell humans and bots apart. With the new API, a significant number of your valid human users will pass the reCAPTCHA challenge without having to solve a CAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA comes in the form of a widget that you can easily add to your blog, forum, registration form, etc
We just have to follow the steps and paste our site key in the adminsitracion, in the "Key reCAPTCHA" field
5. How do I set up Breena's Instagram footer widget?
SETTING UP BREENA'S INSTAGRAM FOOTER
1 -. Ensure you have installed & activated the plugin called "WP Instagram Widget"
Once you activate the Breena theme, there will be a notification banner across the top recommending you install & activate particular plugins for the theme. One of which is the WP Instagram Widget plugin we've included stylings for in the theme. Be sure to install & activate this plugin.
2 -. Navigate to WP Dashboard >Appearance > Widgets
3 -. Drag the Instagram widget into the "Instagram Footer" widget area on the right.
4 -. Customize your Instagram Footer widget.
We recommend setting the "Number of photos" to be "6".
And choosing "Large" for the "Photo size".
IMPORTANT ITEMS TO NOTE:
Ensure your Instagram profile is set to "public". The images will not show if your profile is "private".
If changes to the widget settings are not appearing on the homepage, please ensure you've cleared any caching tool you may have operating.
6. 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!
7. 7 - Language
Cool comment's plugin is written in English, though you are of course welcome to translate them to your language. To do the translation in your language you have to do it in two ways, with Poedit and with jquery-i18n
Using Poedit
Inside the Cool comment files you will find cool_comment.po and cool_comment.mo files in /assets/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES. This .po file is basically a list of all the text strings used in the plugins files in English language, and .mo file is just the compiled export from .po file. Unfortunately, you need to translate the files manually, and then you need to save each file in the appropriate path, taking into account the language code
We will create a new translation with poedit. Open poedit. File - > New front POT/PO file...
When you are done translating all needed strings save each file in the appropriate path, taking into account the language code for example france: /assets/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/cool_comment.po
Now in the administrator you must choose the language that you have created.
Using jquery-i18n
It is also possible to translate other texts that are not available from Poedit, to translate these text you just have to go to the folder of the file that you have created and copy the file "Messages.properties" of the language en_GB and open it with a text editor.
8. WordPress Theme Installation (Incl. Demo Content and plugins)
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Installation of Breena WordPress Theme.
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Customization of your Theme as the demo website.
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9. How to create a static homepage & separate blog page?
By default, your homepage will also display your post feed, listing all of your latest posts for visitors to see. If you would like to instead have your homepage be a static page and your post feed display on a separate page, you can follow these instructions.
First, create your new homepage and blog pages within WP Dashboard > Pages > Add New.
For this tutorial, we will be naming our static homepage "Home" and our post feed page "Blog".
Next, navigate to Settings > Reading. At the top of this screen, you'll see a section titled "Front page displays". Click the little bubble next to the "A static page" option. From this option's "Front page" drop-down menu, select your newly created "Home" page. From the "Post page" drop-down menu, select your newly created "Blog" page.
Be sure to save changes when you're finished.
The last step involves adding your "Home" and "Blog" pages to your navigation menu.
To do so, go to Appearance > Menus. Click the "Pages" drop-down menu on the left, check the boxes next to your "Home" and "Blog" pages, and add them to the menu. Drag and drop them to wherever you'd like them to be positioned in your menu. Be sure to save when finished.
Now, when you refresh your site, your homepage will display your newly created "Home" page and your "Blog" page will now display your post feed.
10. How do I translate my Elletta'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.
11. 0 - SUMMARY
Please, read you this section carefully.
In this section, you learn how to install and to use the application in your web.
For to install, you have all information about the installation in the section INSTALLATION
For to insert the form for the comments in your website, you go to /admin-coolComment/containers/index.php
Here, you select the link "New"
You will view a new window
In this window, you write the name of container and press the insert button
You copy of the section code
Press the "Copy code" button
Finally, you must paste the code on the web and create a div with the id "coolCommentDiv" (<div id="coolCommentDiv"></div>) and place it where you want the plugin to appear
Remember: when you do a new installation the options of "Active Comments", "Facebook" and "Notifications" are disabled.
12. 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!
13. Changelog
Version 1.3 – 18 March 2021:
CSS updated
Add Plugin Instagram, New
WP 5.7.x compatibility
Gutembert compatibility
Version 1.2.1 – 18 April 2018:
Style sheet update
Updated language file
Solved problem with https in social networks
Version 1.2 – 6 March 2018:
Style sheet update
Version 1.1 – 16 January 2018:
Style sheet update
Update Child Theme
Support WordPress 4.9.x
Version 1.0.9 – 15 October 2017:
Style sheet update
Version 1.0.8 – 3 August 2017:
Support WordPress 4.8.x
Style sheet update
Version 1.0.7 – 23 March 2017:
Fix Widget Featured Image in Last Post
Change the order of buttons: Nest Post and Previews Pots
Style sheet update
Version 1.0.6 – 16 February 2017:
Update Social Media. Add Github.
Version 1.0.5.1 – 25 December 2016:
Fix error languge. The modified: inc/theme-functions.php.
Version 1.0.5 – 7 December 2016:
Integration plugin: DW Reactions.
DW Reactions is a new handy feature for Facebook that allows people to express many more feelings on each blog post than just “Like” button. This plugin will help you do the same thing over on your WordPress site.
Add options to change comment area/category title background color
Add options to change newsletter footer area background color
Fix: style.css
Version 1.0 – 22 August 2016:
Initinial release
Support WordPress 4.6
14. How do I set up my header?
The header is probably one of the first things you will want to setup. The header consists of pretty much everything above and including the menu. There are many different elements to the header and many ways to customize it including colors, content, design and more. All of this is done via Apparence -> Customize -> Header Section.
You have four different header
15. 3.2 - Settings
This section is divided into 5 tabs. In each of them you can modify the options of this plugin.
General - Your email: The administrator's email, where all the plugin emails arrive - Password: The password to enter the administrator can be changed by pressing the "Change password" button Options - Alert email: Send email for new comment - Url user: Users can add their url - Response notification: Alert user for response - Active comments: Disable comments no approve - Show user image: Show the user's picture in the comments reCAPTCHA - Active reCAPTCHA - Key reCAPTCHA Create reCAPTCHA
Language - Language: Choose the language of Cool Comment - Language datatables: Choose the language of DataTables - Timezone: Choose the time frame of the Cool Comment Bad words - Filter bad words: Disable filter bad words - Censored word: String to replace the word bad - Bad words: List of bad words
Style: Change the styles of the administration and the comment page - Layout Cool Comment (admin): Choose between boxed or fluid - Theme Cool Comment (admin): Choose theme Cool Comment - Header Fixed - Footer Fixed Colors - Main button color - Color hover main button - Color line - Color background - Color background comment - Color background comment 1nd child - Color background comment 2nd child - Color text - Color text button - Color inside comment Colors mobile - Color background comment - Color background comment 1nd child - Color background comment 2nd child Image comment - Change icon
Social login Gravatar - Active Gravatar What is gravatar Facebook - Active facebook - Facebook App ID - Facebook Callback URL Create App Facebook
Email - Send email with: Set the sender's email - Alias email: Set the name of the sender Email template - Image of the email header - Text footer email template Config PHPMailer: For more information about PHPMailer: https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer - Active PHPMailer: If it is disabled, will use the function mail() of PHP by default - Email template coding - Hostname of the mail server - Username to use for SMTP authentication - Password to use for SMTP authentication - Set the SMTP port number: Likely to be 25, 465 or 587 - Set the encryption system to use: ssl (deprecated) or tls - Enable SMTP debugging - Whether to use SMTP authentication - Opportunistic TLS
16. How to change the background color of the comment section?
In the Dasboard -> Apparence -> Customize -> Custom CSS
Add the following code (replacing XXXXXX by the code of the color you want):
.post-comments {background-color:#XXXXXX;}
17. How To Import XML Files?
In the Tools tab in your admin sidebar, click Import.
On the Import page, select WordPress from the list and install the WordPress Importer Plugin.
Click Choose File, then choose the breena-dummy-content.xml file from your desired "Dummy Content".
Once you’ve chosen the correct file, click the Upload File and Import button.
Select admin in the dropdown list, and don’t forget to check the ‘Download and Import File Attachments’ checkbox.
Wait until WordPress is finished importing, then click the Have Fun link to return to your dashboard.
18. 1 - INSTALLATION
Unzip folder
Rename the admin-coolComment/assets/config/example_config.php file to config.php
Open config.php and set your database configuration. Use the following code to connect the database in config.php
$config = array(
//type installation demo or production
"installation" => "production",
//data from the database
//with this error Warning: mysqli_connect(): (HY000/2002): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
//test with host "127.0.0.1"
"db_host" => "localhost",
//here, you have to write your name of user of your database
"db_username" => "coolComments",
//here, you have to write the password of your database
"db_password" => "********",
//here, you have to write the name of your database
"db_database" => "coolComments",
// server url and base path, usually you don't need to change this
"base_url" => $urlBase,
"base_path" => __DIR__,
);
On this page you must insert an email and a password to perform the installation
Finally, you have finished the installlation
19. Breena Child Theme
WordPress child theme allows you to apply custom code changes to your site. Using a child theme ensures that all your customizations will not be overwritten even when you update the parent theme. Continue reading below to learn how to setup your own child theme.
What Is A Child Theme?
A child theme is a theme that has all the functionality and styling of another theme called the parent theme, which in our case, is Breena. Child themes are the recommended way of modifying the code of an existing theme because a child theme preserves all custom code changes and modifications even after a theme update. If you modify code directly from a parent theme, then update the parent theme, your changes will be lost. Always use a child theme if you are modifying core code. Child themes can also be used for a number of things, such as custom CSS applications, template file modifications, and custom PHP functions and/or hooks. There are a couple of methods to modify a child theme. Child themes don’t guarantee that an update of custom code on the parent theme will not require further maintenance. This is especially true if you copy files from the parent theme to your child theme.
Useful Documentation On Child Themes
If you’d like to learn and read even more about child themes, please follow the links below.
You can see the containers that you have created. Also, you have the option to create a new container for other website.
1 - Here, you select the link "New" 2 - You will view a new window 3 - In this window, you write the name of container and press the insert button 4 - You copy of the section code 5 - Press the "Copy code" button 6 - Finally, you must paste the code on the web where you want to show the comments
21. 2 - UPDATE COOL COMMENT
If you have an old version of "Cool comments ajax system", you must follow the steps of the INSTALLATIONsection, the update will be done automatically.
The only configuration that will not be saved will be the data of the PHP Mailer, this data should be rewritten in the administration in the "Email" section
22. Creating additional WordPress Users
You may find that you'd like to create additional WordPress Users which can log into your WordPress Dashboard for a variety of reasons. For example, to contribute in writing posts or to troubleshoot technical issues you're experiencing.
Creating a new WP User and adjusting their permissions (or "Role") can allow you to not only ensure your own personal login details are kept safe, but help control what sort of changes the secondary user can make within your dashboard.
CREATING A NEW USER
1 ) Navigate to WP Dashboard > Users
2 ) To create a new user, click the "Add New" button at the top of the page.
3 ) Enter the new Username and Email Address (required).
4 ) Fill in the user's personal details like Name and Website, if wanted (not required).
5 ) Click the "Show Password" button.
This will automatically generate a random password.
If you are creating a password for a colleague, you can change it to whatever you wish.
If you are creating a new WP User for a technical support representative to log in and troubleshoot an issue, it's fine to leave the temporary password as-is.
6 ) Choose if you'd like to email this person a notification (not required).
7 ) Select the user's Role.
There are 5 different WordPress User roles to choose from.
Each role will affect what areas of the dashboard this person can access or control.
SUBSCRIBER: Someone with very basic access, like editing their personal profile.
CONTRIBUTOR: Someone who can create and edit their own posts, but who cannot publish the post themselves.
AUTHOR: Someone who can create, edit, and publish their own posts.
EDITOR: Someone who can create, manage, and publish posts for themselves and other users.
ADMINISTRATOR: Someone with full access and permissions.
If you are creating a new WP User for a technical support representative, you will want to provide them with an "Administrator" role.
8 ) When finished, click the "Add New User" button.
EDIT USER
You can always navigate back to the WP Dashboard > Users screen and select the user you would like to manage. Here, you can change a variety of personal details about the user, including their name, adding biographical author text, social media usernames, change passwords, and more.
23. Changelog - Elletta
Version 1.2 – 2021-March-15:
CSS updated
Updated language file
Update Plugins: Popup Plugin For WordPress – ConvertPlug
Add Plugin Instagram
WP 5.7.x compatibility
Gutembert compatibility
Version 1.1.3 – 2018-April-18:
CSS updated
Updated language file
Solved problem with https in social networks
Update Plugins: Popup Plugin For WordPress – ConvertPlug
Version 1.1.2 – 2018-March-6:
Update Plugins: Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress and Popup Plugin For WordPress – ConvertPlug
Version 1.1.1 – 2018-Frebruary-16:
Update Plugins: Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress and Popup Plugin For WordPress – ConvertPlug
Version 1.1 – 2018-January-17:
Update Plugins: Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress and Popup Plugin For WordPress – ConvertPlug
WordPress 4.9.x compatible
Update Child Theme
Update CSS
Version 1.0.11 – 2017-10-30:
Style sheet update
Update Plugins: Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress and Popup Plugin For WordPress – ConvertPlug
Woocommerce 3.2.x compatible
Version 1.0.10 – 2017-08-03:
WordPress 4.8.x compatible
Woocommerce 3.1.x compatible
Style sheet update
Update Plugins: Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress and Popup Plugin For WordPress – ConvertPlug
Version 1.0.9 – 2017-05-26:
Woocommerce 3.0.x compatible
Style sheet update
Update Plugins: Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress and Popup Plugin For WordPress – ConvertPlug
Version 1.0.8 – 2017-03-23:
Fix Widget Featured Image in Last Post
Change the order of buttons: Nest Post and Previews Pots
Style sheet update
Update Plugins: Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress and Popup Plugin For WordPress – ConvertPlug
Now you can add events to the Slider
You can hide the Featured image inside the post
Version 1.0.7 – 2017-01-25:
Added the option to change the colors of the menu for mobile
Version 1.0.6 – 2017-01-12:
Update CSS
Version 1.0.5 – 2016-12-14:
Add new sidebar for page
Add Sticky Logo
Version 1.0.4 – 2016-12-07:
Fix widget calendar
Fix list CSS
Version 1.0.3 – 2016-11-30:
Update css style
Update plugins:
Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress and
Popup Plugin For WordPress – ConvertPlug
Add microformats
Fix: font menu header
Version 1.0.0 – 2016-11-14
Initial Release.
24. Add a newsletter sign-up form to Breena
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!
25. Elletta Child Theme
WordPress child theme allows you to apply custom code changes to your site. Using a child theme ensures that all your customizations will not be overwritten even when you update the parent theme. Continue reading below to learn how to setup your own child theme.
What Is A Child Theme?
A child theme is a theme that has all the functionality and styling of another theme called the parent theme, which in our case, is Breena. Child themes are the recommended way of modifying the code of an existing theme because a child theme preserves all custom code changes and modifications even after a theme update. If you modify code directly from a parent theme, then update the parent theme, your changes will be lost. Always use a child theme if you are modifying core code. Child themes can also be used for a number of things, such as custom CSS applications, template file modifications, and custom PHP functions and/or hooks. There are a couple of methods to modify a child theme. Child themes don’t guarantee that an update of custom code on the parent theme will not require further maintenance. This is especially true if you copy files from the parent theme to your child theme.
Useful Documentation On Child Themes
If you’d like to learn and read even more about child themes, please follow the links below.
Whether you're brand new to WordPress or would just like a quick lesson on basic Breena theme features, you're in the right place! Below, we'll go through a number of how-tos regarding standard theme functions, from installing the theme to setting up your sidebar, recipe card, and more.
To skip directly to a specific section in the article, please use this index:
Whether you're brand new to WordPress or would just like a quick lesson on basic Elletta theme features, you're in the right place! Below, we'll go through a number of how-tos regarding standard theme functions, from installing the theme to setting up your sidebar, recipe card, and more.
To skip directly to a specific section in the article, please use this index:
When you purchase a Elletta license from Creative Market download the theme package, you will receive a zipped folder.
Unzip this first folder.
Within the unzipped theme package, you will find a number of folders such as demo content, documentation, logo image files, etc. There is also 1 additional zipped folder within, titled "elletta.zip".
Important: DO NOT unzip this "elletta.zip" folder! This particular .zip folder should remain zipped.
"elletta.zip" is the main theme.
Within your WordPress Dashboard, navigate to Appearance > Themes. Click the "Add New" button at the top-left of the page > Click the "Upload Theme" button at the top. Click "Choose File" > find your zipped "elletta.zip" file > Click the "Install Now" button.
Once the theme is successfully installed on your WordPress, you can "Activate" it via the installation page or via Appearance > Themes to switch over and begin using your Elletta theme!
Please note: If you try installing the entire zipped theme package or another incorrect file, you'll likely receive this error message:
"The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet. Theme install failed."
If you receive this error message, please be sure that you're installing the ZIPPED file titled "elletta.zip".
In order to activate these post options, you'll first want to ensure you've installed & activated the required Meta Box plugin. This plugin comes included with the theme. When you first activate Elletta, you should notice a banner notification across the top of your dashboard advising you to install specific required & recommended plugins.
Install & activate the Meta Box plugin by clicking the "Begin installing plugins" link. Check the boxes next to the plugins > select "Install" from the drop-down menu > and click "Apply".
After, follow the same steps yet select "Activate" from the drop-down menu (plugins need to be both installed AND activated to function).
To create a new post, go to WordPress Dashboard > Posts > Add New.
Above your content box & toolbar, you'll see a series of tabs titled Standard, Gallery, Video, and Audio. Select whichever tab you'd like your post format to be in. Each tab will give you different input boxes depending on the content you'd like to add.
Standard Post
A standard post is the default post type. You can add text and images to your post using the tools and content box. Example of a standard post: http://elletta.tuweb4.com/bay-come-on-home/
Gallery Post
A gallery post allows you to create a slideshow-type gallery at the top of your post. After clicking the "Gallery" tab to choose this post format option, click the "Pick Images" button within the "Gallery Images" box that has appeared. Select whatever images you'd like from your WordPress Media Library. Example of a gallery post: http://elletta.tuweb4.com/coffee-table-jazz/
Video Post
A video post displays a video at the top of your post. You can share videos from nearly all video hosting sites, such as Vimeo or Youtube. Simply copy & paste the video's URL, oembed code, or embed code into the special input box. When you preview or publish your post, the video will appear. Example of a video post: http://elletta.tuweb4.com/heal-tomorrow/
Music Post, audio post, Could post
An audio post allows you to share a music or audio track and displays it at the top of the post. Like the video post, simply copy & paste the track's URL, oembed code, or embed code into the special audio input box. When you preview or publish the post, the track will appear. Example of an audio post: http://elletta.tuweb4.com/panda-desiigner/ - http://elletta.tuweb4.com/fade-to-black/
Once you've determined your desired post format, entered your title, and added your content, remember to assign at least 1 category to your post. Additionally, also ensure you assign a featured image to the post.
Once you're finished preparing your post, you can click "Preview" to preview how your post will look once published onto your site, click "Publish" to have it appear on your site, or click "Save Draft" to save your post as it is, though not publish it yet.
A standard, static page is similar to creating a post in many ways, and is ideal for creating an About Me or Contact section to your website.
You can create any number of pages with content. Elletta includes several options to choose from, and you will need to choose the page template that suits your needs. All of this is done in the pages section of your WordPress Admin.
Follow These Steps Below To Create A New Page
Navigate to Pages and clickAdd New
Input a new name for your page, then find the Page Attributes box on right side
Set your Parent page; it’s usually set to No Parent
Set your template from the dropdown list. See list of page templates below
Select page options in the Page Configuration box. See the Page Options section of this document
Content for your page goes in the editing field, use the Visual or Text editor.
To change the settings pages go to Apperance – > Customize -> Pages Settings.
Once you've published your new page, it will not automatically appear in your main menu. For a tutorial on adding items to your main menu, please check out this FAQ article: How do I set up my navigation menu?
A category page is a dynamic page that pulls in all of your posts assigned with a particular category. You do not create a category page like you would a standard page (described above). A category page is generated by WordPress after you add a category to your main menu.
First, ensure you've assigned the category to at least 1 published post. Then, navigate to WP Dashboard >Appearance > Menus and click the drop-down box heading titled "Categories" on the left of the page. Below, your categories will be listed. Check the box next to your desired category and click "Add to Menu". Be sure to save. When you click on the newly-created menu item, it will take you to that category's page.
Category Pages which display all posts related to a particular category, Tag Pages which display all posts related to a particular tag, Author Pages which display all posts related to a particular author, etc., are called "Archive Pages".
To change the page layout of your archive pages, head to Appearance > Customize > Page Settings > and choose from the layout options within the "Layout Page" section.
Here, you can also enable or disable the sidebar from displaying on Archive pages.
Your homepage is the first page visitors will see when they arrive at your website. By default, the homepage will be the page that also displays all of your posts, beginning with the most recent. We call this feature the "post feed".
To customize how your homepage looks, including its layout, colors, enabling/disabling the sidebar, etc., navigate to WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Customize
Under the various drop-down tabs on the left of this screen, you'll find loads of ways to customize your homepage & website in general.
For example, within the "Home Settings" tab, you can choose your homepage's post layout, enable/disable the sidebar and Home Layout
Be sure to explore the various options within this Customizer section. The live preview on the right will show you a preview of how each adjustment will visually affect your site.
It is very easy to create the Sliders on the Home page, let’s look at three steps how to configure and create the Slider.
Step 1
Firstly, you ave to go to Apperance > Customize > Home sliders Setting where you can ckeck the appearance that it has in the next image:
Step 2
Following the image order, we chose whether we want to show or nor the slider at home page, if you want it in Box format and if finally you want to show ii for mobile devices
Show Slider
Boxed Slider
Hide Slider in mobile
After it you have Slider Transition, which I list below
Slider effect
Fade Effect
Cube Effect
Coverflow Effect
The rest of availabe options, as autoplay, shown autor, categories, date and size of the title source
Autoplay Slider
Show Author
Show Categories
Show Date
Title Slider Font Size
As far we have indicated how visitors will see the slider in the web, now we need to indicate the information to show, which will be the third step
Step 3
Finally we indicate the infomation that the slider will show, we will see the Post Sliders
Your latest posts: last published post
Select Category: select a categoty, the post of this category will be shown in the sider
Select Posts: you can choose the post you want of all written
Number posts: number of posts if you select Latest posts or Category
Setting up Elletta's main menu is quite simple! For a walk-through on how to go about it as well as more specific how-to tutorials, please check out: How do I set up my navigation menu?
Assigning a featured image to your posts is very important, as the featured image is what the theme & other web functions use to visually represent the post in various situations.
Navigate to Appearance > Customize > Social Media Settings.
Here, you will see a list of social networks followed by a text input box. If you'd like to have a social icon for a particular social network, you can type in your username for that particular network.
Please note that you do not need to insert your profile's full URL into this box unless prompted to do so. Only your related username is required. The username you enter will be added into a pre-set URL for the network.
Once you enter your username into a particular social network's text box, its icon will appear in your top-bar & footer social icon areas. If you leave a social network's box blank, the social icon will not appear in the top-bar or footer areas.
SOCIAL ICON WIDGET:
To add the social icon widget to your sidebar, navigate to WP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets.
Drag the widget titled "elletta - Social Media Icons" into your Sidebar's widget area. Check the box for the social networks you'd like to display in the widget.
Please be sure you've also entered your related social networks' usernames within Appearance > Customize > Social Media Settings, otherwise the social widget's icons won't know where to link.
Elletta includes custom stylings for the "MailChimp for WordPress" plugin which allows you to display a beautiful newsletter sign-up form. You can insert this form within the Sidebar area, in a special widget area beneath the Featured Area element, or in a special widget area beneath a Post on its singular post page.
A sidebar is a vertical content area that displays to the right of your main content/post area. You customize your sidebar by stacking up different widgets that display a variety of things.
ENABLING/DISABLING THE SIDEBAR:
To enable/disable the sidebar on your homepage and/or your archive pages (category pages, tag pages, etc.) navigate to
WP Dashboard >Appearance > Customize > Home Settings. Here, you can check or un-check the boxes next to "Configure Home Sidebar" WP Dashboard >Appearance > Customize > Page Settings. Here, you can check or un-check the boxes next to "Configure Page Sidebar" WP Dashboard >Appearance > Customize > Post Settings. Here, you can check or un-check the boxes next to "Configure Post Sidebar"
ADDING WIDGETS TO YOUR SIDEBAR:
To add, remove, or edit your sidebar widgets, navigate to WP Dashboard >Appearance > Widgets. On the left, you will see a list of the available widgets to choose from. On the right, you will see a few different widget areas in the theme.
To add a widget to your sidebar, simply drag & drop a widget on the left into the widget area titled "Sidebar".
EDIT WIDGETS IN YOUR SIDEBAR:
Once you've dropped a widget into the Sidebar widget area, click on its heading. A drop-down will appear and you can make any necessary adjustments to the widget's settings. From this widget setting drop-down, you can also delete the widget.
To position widgets within the sidebar, drag and drop them above or below each other.
The header is probably one of the first things you will want to setup. The header consists of pretty much everything above and including the menu. There are many different elements to the header and many ways to customize it including colors, content, design and more. All of this is done via Apparence -> Customize -> Header Section. The following sections will cover several different sections of the header that are listed below:
Header Style: 4 header available
Upload a Background Image
Configuration Primary Menu
Configuration Secondary Menu
Show/Hide Searchbox
Show/Hide Social Icons
SETTING UP THE FOOTER AREA
The footer area is the lower portion of the theme that will appear on all pages of your site. It can include:
Newsletter in Home page
Instagram footer area
Footer layout
Copyright text area
NEWSLETTER MAILCHIMP:
Elletta includes custom stylings for the "MailChimp for WordPress" plugin which allows you to display a beautiful newsletter sign-up form. You can insert this form within the Sidebar area, in a special widget area beneath the Featured Area element, or in a special widget area beneath a Post on its singular post page.
INSTAGRAM FOOTER AREA: Similar to the section above regarding "Setting up your Sidebar", the footer has a widget area titled "Instagram Footer" where you can add in a widget to display your Instagram images in a full-width section. The widget is simply called "Instagram" and is made available after installing & activating the plugin called WP Instagram Widget.
To add the Instagram widget, navigate to WP Dashboard >Appearance > Widgets. On the right, you'll see the theme's different widget areas. One of which is the widget area titled "Instagram Footer".
Drag the "Instagram" widget from the left of this screen into the "Instagram Footer" widget area. To edit the widget's settings, click on the widget's heading once it's been placed in a widget area. A drop-down area will appear.
To have your Instagram footer display like the Elletta demo site's, set the "Number of photos" option to be "6". Set the "Photo Size" to "Large" and give the widget a "Title" if you'd like the white text box overlay to appear on top of the images.
COPYRIGHT TEXT AREA: At the very bottom of the theme is a bar which features a text area to include copyright or disclaimer text. You are not required to include a copyright or disclaimer statement. In fact, you can type whatever you'd like in this area!
To edit the two footer text areas, look within WP Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Footer Settings.
For help troubleshooting issues in Elletta or to see some fun customization tutorials, check out all of Elletta's FAQ Articles here! Elletta Articles
And, as always, if you have any theme-related questions you can't find the solution to in our FAQ article database, you're always welcome to open up a new support ticket.
This is the homepage, when you enter in the aplicattion, after you write your login and password, you see is page.
In the page have three elements, there are Settings, Comments and Containers.
In the setting, you configure the count of administrator, you have custom settings and you can design the options of comments.
In the Comments you can to see the comments of user and you can to configure options of comments.
In the containers. you can to create and to see containers.
29. 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.
Configure the options as they come in the image, in the field of "URI of valid OAuth redirection", paste the value that you have in the Admin in the section Setting-> Social login "Facebook Callback URL"
31. 3.3 - Comments
You can to see all comments, the comments approved. The comments pending and the comments spam.
You can delete the comments.
You can active the comments.
You can see the information of each comment, such as the date, if someone has answered this comment, the user.
32. 6 - PHPMailer
PHPMailer is a code library to send (transport) emails safely and easily via PHP code from a web server (MUA to the MSA server).
Sending emails directly by PHP code requires a high-level familiarity to SMTP standard protocol (RFC 821, RFC 2821 and RFC 5321) and related issues (such as Carriage return) and vulnerabilities about Email injection for spamming. From 2001 PHPMailer is one of the popular solutions for these matters on PHP.
body {
background-image: url('url-image');
background-repeat: repeat;
}
34. 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.
35. How do I set up my navigation menu?
Our Theme uses wordpress built-in menus feature which can be found in your wordpress Dashboard > Appearance > Menus. To setup a new menu, please follow the steps below. Its best to already have your pages created, even if they are blank pages.
Navigate to Apperance > Menus page
Click the "create a new menu" link to make a new menu. Enter the name then hit Create Menu
To add a menu item, you can easily select one of your already made pages on the left hand side and click Add to Menu
You can also add menu items by entering a custom name and custom link into the Links box.
You can manage your menus using the drag and drop functionality. To create a dropdown menu, simply drag a menu item below and slightly to the right of another menu item and it will lock into place and create a dropdown section.
After setting up your menu, select the menu you just created as the Primary Navigation in the Menu Settings and Create a new menu and select it as the Top Menu Navigation in the Menu Settings
Once its all done, make sure you click the Save button.
You can change menus locations in any time from Manage Locations tab .
You can show more boxes like "Posts", "Categories" and "Tags" by clicking on "Screen Options"
For more information on menus in WordPress, check out:
In order to paginate your blog post, in the Write panel in your WordPress admin, switch to the TEXT view (if you are using the Visual view) and then enter the following code to wherever you want to break the post up into a new page:
<!--nextpage-->
37. Setting up your Newletter Widget
Breena includes custom stylings for the "MailChimp for WordPress" plugin which allows you to display a beautiful newsletter sign-up form. You can insert this form within the Sidebar area, in a special widget area beneath the Featured Area element, or in a special widget area beneath a Post on its singular post page.
38. 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.
39. Video demo
40. 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!
41. How do I create a Contact page?
First, please be sure that you have installed and activated the Contact Form 7plugin.
Creating the form
On your WordPress Dashboard, navigate to Contact > Add New
If you would like your contact form to display in English simply click "Add New", otherwise, select your desired language
Along the top of the contact form's settings box, there are 4 tabs: Form, Mail, Messages, and AdditionalSettings.
"Form" tab: you can choose how your contact form will display with some simple HTML code. "Mail" tab: you can set up who your messages are sent to and how they will be displayed.
IMPORTANT! Please be sure to navigate to the "Mail" tab and insert your own email address within the "To:" form.
"Messages" tab: Adjust default messages visitors will receive in various situations.
"Additional Settings" tab: Option to add custom code snippets if desired.
Once finished setting up your form, click the "Save" button.
A bit of code snippet will be generated at the top of the page, highlighted in blue. Copy this code snippet as we will then paste it into a WordPress page.
Creating the page
Create a new "Contact" page (via WP Dashboard > Pages > Add New) and add it to your navigation menu if you have not already done so. ( If you're not sure how to add it to your menu, please see this FAQ article: How do I set up my navigation menu? )
Copy & paste the generated contact form short code into the text box on the create/edit page screen
And, your new contact form will appear when the page is published.
