BlogStory WordPress Theme Documentation

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing a WordPress Theme. This documentation consists of several parts and shows you the entire process of setting up and administering a WordPress Website from scratch.

What is WordPress CMS?

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It enables you to build Websites and powerful on-line applications and requires almost no technical skills or knowledge to manage. Many aspects, including its ease of use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular Web site software available. Learn More

What is a WordPress template

A WordPress template is a skin for a website built with the WordPress CMS platform. In other words, you can easily change your WordPress Web site appearance by installing a new template in a few easy steps. With all its simplicity, a WordPress template is provided with all the necessary source files and you are free to edit or extend it the way you need.

Help and Support

Files structure

The template package you have downloaded consists of several folders. Let's see what each folder contains:

  • documentation - contains documentation files.
    • documentation.html - the main documentation file. You are right here :)
  • screenshots - contains template screenshots. Not for production.
  • theme - contains WordPress theme files.
    • theme####.zip - this folder content all the necessary files for the theme.
    • sample_data - contains files that can make your WordPress website look like our live demo.
      • sample_data.xml - contains all template sample data (posts, pages, categories, etc.).
      • various images and other media files
    • manuall_install - contains files that can make your WordPress website look like our live demo.
      • uploads - contains theme images.
      • theme#####.sql - database backup file (contains theme content).
  • license.txt - contains license details.
  • readme.txt - contain information about theme images path and font use and usage scritps.

Template installation

Template installation is very easy process. The installation process includes only two simple steps: theme installation and sample data installation.

All installation steps can be done within WordPress interface. It makes process comfortable and fast.

Step 1. Theme installation

  1. Go to the menu Appearance > Themes and click the Add New Theme button.
  2. Click the Upload link.
  3. Click the Browse button and navigate to the unzipped template package on your computer.
  4. Look for a file called blogstory-pro.zip Click on it to select, then click OK.
  5. Click the Install Now button and wait until the installation is complete.
  6. Click the Activate link to change the current layout of the site to the theme your purchased.
  7. Go to Appearance >> Theme Options >> Click on Restore Default button.
  8. Ensure Your homepage displays setting is "Your Latest Posts". Settings >> Reading.
  9. Install all the required plugins that theme needs.

Congratulations, your theme have been successfully installed!

Step 2. Sample Data Installation

To make your WordPress website look like our live demo, please follow the instructions below.

  1. Go to the Appearance Select import demo data option and browse xml file to Import Content and browse wie file to Import Widgets then click on Continue & import. See below screenshot.

How to set up homepage

Setup Header

Follow these instructions to setup header.

  • For Header Top Option: Go to Appearance >> Theme Options >> Basic Settings >> Top Header.
  • For Site Name/Logo: For changing site name go to Settings >> General >> Site Title OR if you want to uplaod logo for your site go to Appearance >> Theme Options >> Basic settings >> Logo. Please see the theme option tab in this documentation for more details.
  • For Navigation: See the Navigation tab of this documentation.

Note: You can set header from different header layout option given by theme.
Goto Appearance >> Theme Options >> Basic Settings >> Header Layouts

Introduction Section

For setting up Introduction Section Go to >> Appearance >> Theme Options >> Sections >> Section 1.

Shortcode/Content for Introduction Section.
[custom_heading title="Travel, stories and ideas." title_color="#000000" font_size="50px" font_family="Jost" align="center"] <p class="col-md-8 mx-auto">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Maecenas congue, magna a congue imperdiet, sapien enim pellentesque dolor, ac iaculis mi purus quis dolor. Quisque dolor lorem, tristique sit amet lacus eu, convallis tristique nulla. Vivamus et felis leo. Curabitur vehicula, odio quis consequat imperdiet</p>

Once you added above shortcode in the sections content area, you'r done. (Section 1.)

Featured Posts Section

For setting up Featured Posts Section Go to >> Appearance >> Theme Options >> Sections >> Section 2.

For setting up Featured Posts section first of all you need to add some posts by using Posts. Follow below instruction to add posts.

Once you added posts in the Posts type after that you just have to add post shortcode in the sections content area and you'r done. (Section 2.)

Featured Posts Shortcode:
[featured_posts show_posts="4" posts_by_ids="1990,1964,1960,1948"]

Above shortcode support 3 attributes show_posts, posts_by_ids, category_slug.

Limit posts display with show_posts="4". -1 for display all posts.

You can either display posts by post id with the help of posts_by_ids="22,24,26,28,25" OR you can display posts by category with the help of category_slug="featured".

Once you added above shortcode in the sections content area, you'r done. (Section 2.)

Hot Posts Section

For setting up Hot Posts Section Go to >> Appearance >> Theme Options >> Sections >> Section 3.

For setting up Hot Posts section first of all you need to add some posts by using Posts. Follow below instruction to add posts.

Once you added posts in the Posts type after that you just have to add post shortcode in the sections content area and you'r done. (Section 2.)

Hot Posts Shortcode:
[hot_news show_posts="5" category_slug="lifestyle"]

Above shortcode support 3 attributes show_posts, posts_by_ids, category_slug.

Limit posts display with show_posts="4". -1 for display all posts.

You can either display posts by post id with the help of posts_by_ids="22,24,26,28,25" OR you can display posts by category with the help of category_slug="featured".

Once you added above shortcode in the sections content area, you'r done. (Section 3.)

Posts with Grid Layout Section

For setting up Posts with Grid Section Go to >> Appearance >> Theme Options >> Sections >> Section 4.

For setting up Posts with Grid section first of all you need to add some posts by using Posts. Follow below instruction to add posts.

Once you added posts in the Posts type after that you just have to add post shortcode in the sections content area and you'r done. (Section 4.)

Posts with Grid Shortcode:
[posts_grid column="4" show_posts="4" category_slug="travel"]

Above shortcode support 4 attributes show_posts, column, posts_by_ids, category_slug.

Limit posts display with show_posts="4". -1 for display all posts.

Add column number with help of column="2/3/4".

You can either display posts by post id with the help of posts_by_ids="22,24,26,28,25" OR you can display posts by category with the help of category_slug="featured".

Once you added above shortcode in the sections content area, you'r done. (Section 4.)

Vlog Section

For setting up Vlog with Grid Section Go to >> Appearance >> Theme Options >> Sections >> Section 5.

For setting up Vlog with Grid section first of all you need to add some posts by using Vlog post type. Follow below instruction to add posts.

Once you added posts in the Vlog post type after that you just have to add post shortcode in the sections content area and you'r done. (Section 5.)

Vlog Shortcode:
[vlog show_posts="3" column="2/3/4" category="Add category slug"]

Once you added above shortcode in the sections content area, you'r done. (Section 5.)

Latest Posts Section

For setting up Latest Posts Section Go to >> Appearance >> Theme Options >> Sections >> Section 6.

For setting up Latest Posts section first of all you need to add some posts by using Posts. Follow below instruction to add posts.

Once you added posts in the Posts type after that you just have to add post shortcode in the sections content area and you'r done. (Section 6.)

Latest Posts Shortcode:
[recent_posts]

Once you added above shortcode in the sections content area, you'r done. (Section 6.)

About us Section

For setting up About us Go to >> Appearance >> Theme Options >> Sections >> Section 7.

Shortcode/Content for About us Section.
[introduction image="http://flydemos.net/blogstory/wp-content/themes/blogstory-pro/images/about-me.png" image_position="left" sub_title="Welcome To Blogstory Educare" title="Hello, my name is Allan. I’m blogger and content creator." btn_text="More About Me" btn_link="#"] Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Maecenas congue, magna a congue imperdiet, sapien enim pellentesque dolor, ac iaculis mi purus quis dolor. Quisque dolor lorem [/introduction]

Once you added above shortcode in the sections content area, you'r done. (Section 7.)

Page Templates and Sidebars


Page Templates

  • Default Template (the default page template with a right sidebar position)
  • Full Width Page (a page template with one column without a sidebar)
  • Left Sidebar (a page template with left sidebar position)
  • No Sidebar (a page template have space on left and right.)
  • Blog (Full Width) (a blog templates with one column without sidebar)
  • Blog (Left Sidebar) (a blog templates with left sidebar position)
  • Blog (Right Sidebar) (a blog template with right sidebar position)
  • Blog (No Sidebar) (a blog template with no sidebar position)
  • Contact (Full Width) (a contact template with add google map position)

Posts, Categories and Post Formats

Adding category

Review the following article for more information on adding categories: http://codex.wordpress.org/Manage_Categories_SubPanel

  1. Log into your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
  2. Click the Posts tab.
  3. With that done, click Categories for blog posts.
  4. Type in the name of your new category.
  5. After that, click the Add New Category button.
Click the Publish button.

Creating a Blog post

  1. Log into your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
  2. Click the Posts tab.
  3. Click the Add New tab.
  4. Type in your post content. For more information on adding posts, please check the following link http://codex.wordpress.org/Posts_Add_New_SubPanel.

Shortcodes

A shortcode is a powerful content building tool http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode. Shortcodes are easy to use. First of all, make sure that the editing mode is set to Visual.

All available shortcodes are conditionally divided into these groups:

  • Social icon - used for social icon output.
  • One half, one third, one fourth, one fifth - used for display content on columns.
  • Tabs - used for display tabs.
  • Toggle content - used for display toggle.
  • Accordion content - used for display accordion.
  • Gradient Button - used for small, medium, large, xtra large gradient button.
  • Simple Button - used for small, medium, large, xtra large simple button.
  • Round Button - used for light, dark round button.
  • Message Boxes - used for success, error, warning, info, about message boxes.
  • Search - used to display search form.
  • List style - used to display lists.
  • Blogpost - used to display blog post.

Elements


One half
[row][column col="6"]Column 1 Content goes here...[/column]
[column col="6"]Column 2 Content goes here...[/column][/row]

Description: used to display column content. You can also use col="1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12" make sure you have put right parameter.


Tabs
[tabs]
[tab title="TAB TITLE 1"]Tab Content goes here...[/tab]
[/tabs]

Description: use to display tab content.


Toggle content
[toggle_content title="Toggle Title 1"]Toggle Content goes here...[/toggle_content]

Description: use to display toggle content.


Accordion Content
[accordion]
[accordion_content title="ACCORDION TITLE 1"]Accordion Content goes here...[/accordion_content]
[/accordion]

Description: use to display accordion content.


Gradient Button
[gradient_button size="small" bg_color="#000000" color="#ffffff" text="text here"  title="title here" url="#" position="left"]

Description: use to display gradient button. you can use small, medium, large, xtra lareg sizes.


Simple Button
[simple_button size="small" bg_color="#000000" color="#ffffff" text="text here"  title="title here" url="#" position="left"]

Description: use to display simple button. you can use small, medium, large, xtra lareg sizes.


Round Button
[round_button style="light" text="text here"  title="title here" url="#" position="left"]

Description: use to display round button. you can use light or dark style.


Horizontal rule
[hr]

Description: used to display a horizontal line.


Succes Message Box
[message type="success"]This is a sample of the 'success' style message box shortcode. To use this style use the following shortcode[/message]

Description: use to display success message box. you can also use error, warning, info, about types.


Search
[searchform]

Description: use to display search form.


List Style
[unordered_list style="list-1"]<li>List style 1</li>[/unordered_list]

Custom Widgets

Theme Options

The following theme contains the Settings option. These settings allow you to change the theme’s color palette, order of items, turn items on/off and do lots of other things. In order to use these settings, please go to Appearance → Theme Options.

Basic Settings

Font Typography

Sections

Shortcode

Contact form Plugin

The following instructions are for setup Contact Form Plugin
Follow below instruction to use Contact Form Plugin.

Plugin Installation

    Follow below instructions...

  • Go to Plugins >> Add New search for plugin Contact Form 7 and install it in your wordpress dashboard.
  • After that you'll see Contact menu menu in left sidebar menu list.

Contact Form Plugin Use


Get Code for Contact page form

<div class="form-group half"><label>Your Name (required)</label> [text* your-name]</div><div class="form-group half last"><label> Your Email (required) </label>[email* your-email] </div><div class="clear"></div><div class="form-group half"><label> Phone </label>[tel tel-910]</div><div class="form-group half last"><label> Subject </label>[text your-subject] </div><div class="clear"></div><div class="form-group"><label> Your Message </label>[textarea your-message 10x5]</div><div class="form-group">[submit "Send"]</div>

Get Code for Newsletter form in sidebar

[email* email-452 placeholder "Enter Your Email"][submit "Submit"]

Inner Pages

For setting up innerpages first create pages with proper page template. We provide four basic option of page template i.e. page with right sidebar, page with left sidebar, page with no sidebar, page full width.

See below image for creating page and selecting page template.

We also provoide full screen page template which support [section][/section] shortcode. So whenever you want to use [section] shortcode use page template "Full-Screen".

For setting up blog page select page template "Blog, Blog Left Sidbar, Blog No Sidebar, Blog Full Width".

For setting up contact page select page template "Contact us".