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
- Navigate to your WordPress Backend (wp-admin) and open Appearance → Themes section
- Switch to Install Themes sub-menu
- Select "Upload"
- Browse for .zip file with theme on your computer, and Install it.
- 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.
- Navigate to Appearance → Menus section
- Click on "+" to create a new menu
- Press "Save Menu" button to register your newly created menu.
- Add Pages, Categories or Custom Links to your menu
- 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.
- 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:
- When you are on editing post page, click on "Set featured image" from right sidebar
- 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.
- 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 Posts to Slider
- To add a new post in the featured slider on homepage, edit the post you want to feature and check the Feature in Homepage Slider option.
- Update or save your post.
- Go to WPZOOM -> Theme Options and from Slider Settings section you can change additional options for the slider
Good to know
- Don’t forget to upload a featured image for your featured posts. This will be used in slider.
- Recommended image size for slider is: 960×300px
To add widgets in the Sidebar, Homepage or Footer of this theme, you’d need to access Appearance -> Widgets menu, and drag widgets to your widgetized areas to activate them.
Custom WPZOOM Widgets
Widgets Structure in Demo
Theme Customization
Change Background Image/Color
- Go to Appearance -> Background menu.
- You have two options: to upload an image you want to be used as background
- 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/voyage.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?
- Go to Settings -> Reading
- Find Blog pages show at most option, and change the number of posts.
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