Pashmina Documentation
In this article:
- Install & Activate
- Menu Setup
- Theme Options
- Theme Options: Sticky Menu
- Theme Options: Logo & Site Identity
- Theme Options: Colors Setting
- Theme Options: Header Image
- Theme Options: Background Image
- Theme Options: Static Front Page
- Theme Options: Featured Posts Slider
- Theme Options: Related Posts
- Sidebar
- Advertisement Widgets
- About Me Widgets
- Recent Posts Widgets
- Social Icons Widgets
- Footer Widgets
- Need Help?
Theme Installation & Activate
Installing a theme through WordPress is quite easy
Upload the theme file
- Go to Appearance > Themes in the WordPress Dashboard
- Click on the Add New button
- Click on the Upload Theme button
- Click Browse and select current version of pashmina.zip in your computer
- 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
- Go to Appearance Themes in the WordPress menu
- Hover over the theme thumbnail and press the Activate button
[ Find more information for theme installation at: Using Themes by WordPress ]
Menu Setup
Go to Appearance > Menus
- Select Pages you wanted to be appeared in Menu
- Click on Add to Menu
- Give a suitable menu name
- Drag menu item left-right to make it under another menu(sub menu).
- Click Create Menu
- Click Save Menu
[ Find more information at: Menus by WordPress ]
Theme Options
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Sticky Menu
You can set Menu as Sticky, when you scroll them menu will stick at top of screen.
Go to Appearance > Customize > Sticky Menu
- click on check box to tick
- Click on Save and Publish
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Logo & Site Identity
Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity
- Click on Select logo Choose your Logo, Click on Logo Image you want to use then click on Select bottom right corner, you can either crop or skip cropping, its up to your requirements.
- Add Site Title, if you wish to show Title instead of Logo.
- Add Tagline, its like slogan that display beside logo.
- 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.
- Click Save & Publish
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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
- Click on Color Pallet of each section to set color
- Click Save & Publish button to Save
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Header Image
You can set a Header Image, its a wide banner images which is displayed just above menus bar.
Go to Appearance > Customize > Header Image
- To add new header image click on Add new image button
- Select a image by Clicking on any Image you wish to show as header image
- click on Select and Crop button at bottom right corner
- You can Drag marked area as your requirement and hit Crop Image button, bottom right corner
- You can see the changes and header images, now click on Save and Publish button at top left, and you are done
You can add multiple Header Images of your choice. You can publish all the added images by clicking on Randomize uploaded headers, by doing this all of the added images will be shown as header image randomly one image at a time as you reload pages.
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Background Image
You can set a Background Image as website body background
Go to Appearance > Customize > Background Image
- To add new header image click on Select Image button
- Select a image by Clicking on any Image you wish to show as background image and hit Choose Image at bottom right corner
- You can set Background Repeat properties
- You can set Background Position properties
- You can set Background attachment properties
- You can see the changes as you updated values, now click on Save and Publish button at top left, and you are done
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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
- click on A static page to set a static page
- now select a page from dropdown menu for Front Page
- and you can select a page for posts page where your latest posts will be shown
- Click on Save and Publish
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Featured Posts Slider
Go to Appearance > Customize
- Click on Featured Posts Slider
- click on check box to tick
- Choose Category
- Specify Number of Posts to be displayed
- Click on Save and Publish
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Related Posts
Related posts can be sown in single page with same category. Sample of related posts is shown in figure below.
Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout and Content
- Click on Related Posts
- click on check box to tick
- Click on Save and Publish
Sidebar
- Go to Appearance > Widgets
- Drag required Widgets widget to Sidebar position
- Set up each widgets
- Click Save
Advertisement Widgets
- Go to Appearance > Widgets
- Drag Daisy: Banner Advertisement widget to Sidebar position.
- Set up each Advertisement's title, link, banner image and link type
- Click Save
About Me Widgets
- Go to Appearance > Widgets
- Drag Daisy: about Me widget to Sidebar position.
- Choose a page
- Click Save
Recent Posts Widgets
- Go to Appearance > Widgets
- Drag Daisy: Recent Posts widget to Sidebar position.
- Add Title and Number of Posts
- Click Save
Social Icons Widgets
- Go to Appearance > Widgets
- Drag Daisy: Social Icons widget to Sidebar position.
- Add Title and Number of Posts
- Click Save
Footer Widgets
Currently Theme have 4 footer widgets positions
- Go to Appearance > Widgets
- Drag Widget to each Widget Position as your needs
- Click Save
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.