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Installing a WPZOOM Theme

There are two ways to install a WPZOOM Theme on your WordPress Website:

1. Installation via the WordPress backend theme installer

  1. Navigate to your WordPress Backend (wp-admin) and open Appearance → Themes section
  2. Switch to Install Themes sub-menu
  3. Select "Upload"
  4. Browse for .zip file with theme on your computer, and Install it.
  5. Activate theme

2. Installation via FTP

In this video we will show you how to install a WPZOOM theme via a FTP client, like FileZilla.

Got an error during installation process? Try following:

  • deactivate all your plugins and install again theme
  • make sure that you are running on latest release of WordPress
  • try to upload manually theme using a FTP Client (like FileZilla, in the following folder yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/

Theme Overview

Menu Configuration

All our themes have support for Custom Navigation Menu, and here are quick instructions on how you can create a custom menu for your theme.
  1. Navigate to Appearance → Menus section
  2. Click on "+" to create a new menu
  3. Press "Save Menu" button to register your newly created menu.
  4. Add Pages, Categories or Custom Links to your menu
  5. Drag and drop item from your menu to put them in the order you want or to create sub-menus. Don't forget to save your modifications.
  6. Assign your menu to a theme location, or create a new custom menu if your theme has more than one navigation.

Thumbnails

Using "Featured Image" feature you can easily assign a thumbnail image for your posts. To do this you'll need to follow these steps:

  1. When you are on editing post page, click on "Set featured image" from right sidebar
  2. On the next screen you'll be asked to upload a picture from your computer. After uploading your image, click on the "Use as featured image" link and your image will be used for thumbnails.
  3. If you won't assign a featured image to a post, then theme will automatically pull the first image from post content to be used as thumbnail.

Known Image Issues

  • Ensure that the name of the images contain only letters and numbers (without any special characters).
  • Check that the images file sizes are not larger than 2.5Mb.
  • For more details, check Troubleshooting Image Display Issues

Adding a new Listing


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Important installation note

  • If you get a 404 Error when trying to view a page with a listing, you need to navigate to Settings > Permalinks in your WordPress Dashboard, and click on the “Save Changes” button, even if you haven’t made any changes. This is to register the custom post types used in the Domestica theme.

Setting up the Agents page

  1. To create a page with all your agents, as in demo, navigate to WordPress Dashboard -> Pages -> Add New
  2. Look for the Page Attributes box in the right side, and select Agents from the Template drop-down.
  3. Publish or save your new page.

IDX Integration

Domestica theme fully supports IDX/MLS functionality thanks to IDXPress Plugin developed by Diverse Solutions, and all you need is to download the plugin & activate it.
Here you can see an example of a MLS search results page and an individual MLS listing

  1. Navigate to Plugins -> Add New menu in your WordPress Dashboard, and search for “idxpress” to install IDXPress Plugin.
  2. From plugin options page you can select templates for IDX listings.

Widgets

To add widgets in the Sidebar or Footer of this theme, you need to access Appearance -> Widgets menu, and drag widgets to your widgetized areas to activate them.

Widgets Structure in Demo

If you want to set up your widgets quickly as in Demo, navigate to Theme Options -> Import/Export -> Widgets, and click the “Load default widget settings” button.

Theme Customization

Change Background Image/Color

  1. Go to Appearance -> Background menu.
  2. You have two options: to upload an image you want to be used as background
  3. or select a solid color using a color picker

Modify Logo image

  • You can download logo.psd (Photoshop layered file) of the logo on following link: http://www.wpzoom.com/downloads/logo/domestica.zip
  • You’ll need to open logo.psd file from downloaded .zip file with Adobe Photoshop, and edit the text using Text (press T) tool.

FAQ

How do I change summary content (Excerpt) for a post?

On editing page of a post, look for a field called Excerpt. You can add here summaries for your posts each time you want to adjust manually the length of text which appears in Slider, Recent Articles, Post Archives or when you simply want to have a different text than the automatically picked excerpt.

How can I control the number of posts listed on homepage?

  1. Go to Settings -> Reading
  2. Find Blog pages show at most option, and change the number of posts.

How do I add a Contact Form to my website similar to the one from Demo?

You’d need to install and activate Easy Contact plugin, and then place shortcode [easy-contact] anywhere you want on your website.

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