PhotoBook Documentation

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Theme Installation & Activate

Installing a theme through WordPress is quite easy

Upload the theme file

  1. Go to Appearance > Themes in the WordPress Dashboard
  2. Click on the Add New button
  3. Click on the Upload Theme button
  4. Click Browse and select current version of photobook.zip in your computer
  5. Click Install Now

After theme installed successfully you can activate theme by clicking Activate on link as appear in your screen.

Manually activate theme

If you wish to activate manually

  1. Go to Appearance Themes in the WordPress menu
  2. Hover over the theme thumbnail and press the Activate button

[ Find more information for theme installation at: Using Themes by WordPress ]

Go to Appearance > Menus

  1. Select Pages you wanted to be appeared in Menu
  2. Click on Add to Menu
  3. Give a suitable menu name
  4. Drag menu item left-right to make it under another menu(sub menu).
  5. Click Create Menu
  6. Click Save Menu

[ Find more information at: Menus by WordPress ]

Theme Options

1

Site Title & Identity

Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity

  1. Add Site Title
  2. Add Tagline, its like slogan that display beside logo.
  3. Site Icon (favicon), click on Select Image then Click on Image or Icon you want to use then click on Select bottom right corner, you can either crop or skip cropping.
  4. Click Save & Publish

2

Colors Setting

You can see different colors pallets already defined along with their titles. All those are pre-defined default colors, you can specify colors as your requirements by clicking on color pallets.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Colors

  1. Click on Color Pallet of each section to set color
  2. Click Save & Publish button to Save

3

Background Image

You can set a Background Image as website body background

Go to Appearance > Customize > Background Image

  1. To add new header image click on Select Image button
  2. Select a image by Clicking on any Image you wish to show as background image and hit Choose Image at bottom right corner
  3. You can set Background Repeat properties
  4. You can set Background Position properties
  5. You can set Background attachment properties
  6. You can see the changes as you updated values, now click on Save and Publish button at top left, and you are done

4

Static Front Page

By default Your latest posts is activated and show 10 posts per page at front page of your site. If you want to set a static page as a front-page then you can follow those steps.

Go to Appearance > Customize > Static Front Page

  1. click on A static page to set a static page
  2. now select a page from dropdown menu for Front Page
  3. and you can select a page for posts page where your latest posts will be shown
  4. Click on Save and Publish

5

Front Page Slider

Go to Appearance > Customize > Front Page Slider

  1. Tick check box to activate Home Page Slider
  2. Choose TypeRecent Posts: will show most recently published posts and Posts from Category: show recently published posts form a specific category
  3. Only works if you selected Posts from Category as a type in step 2
  4. Set number of slides you want to show
  5. Click on Save and Publish

  1. Go to Appearance > Widgets
  2. Drag Widget Daisy: Social Icons to Widget Position Footer Social Icons
  3. Add your Social profile links
  4. Click Save button

Need Help?

This document will guide you to install theme and setup your website quick and easily. If any issue occurs during installation, please feel free to sent us an email via the Contact Us link under this article.