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.
- Fixing Stretched Images
- For more details, check Troubleshooting Image Display Issues
Widgets
To add widgets in the Sidebar of this theme, you’d need to access Appearance -> Widgets menu, and drag widgets to your Sidebar to activate them.
This theme includes 2 Custom Widgets which are ready to use:
- WPZOOM: Gallery
- WPZOOM: Social Connections
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