Ceris
WordPress News & Magazine Theme .
WordPress News & Magazine Theme .
Thank you for purchasing our theme. We are happy that you are one of our customers and we assure you won't be disappointed. We do our best to produce top notch themes with great functionality, premium designs and human readable code. Before you get started we highly encourage you to get familiar with this documentation file. Spending half an hour reading the manual may save a lot of your time and avoid questions with obvious answers.
If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to send your questions to our support email: bkninja.team@gmail.com. Our support team will reply you within 12 hours.
Please Note!
Our support covers getting setup, trouble using any features, and any bug fixes that may arise.
Unfortunately, we cannot provide support for customizations or 3rd party plugins. If you need help
with customizations of the theme, then you can contact us and we will offer you our customize service.
To use this theme you must have WordPress engine installed. We assume you have a working version of WordPress already up and running. If not, you can check the follow great tutorial guiding you through the process of WordPress installation.
How to install WordPress - A tutorial on how to install WordPress on your hosted domain.
We also encourage you to actively use the links below. These useful resources cover most of general WordPress questions you may have:
To use this theme you must be running WordPress 4.0 or higher, PHP5.4 or higher. If you use hosting with limited resources (like the lowcost shared hosting providers), you may experience issues with one-click dummy data installation feature.
We recommend you to contact your web hosting service provider to make sure that your server PHP configuration limits are as follows:
If you are running unmanaged dedicated server or VPS, you should check your php.ini file. Alternatively, you can edit .htaccess file in the root of your website and add the following values:
php_value max_execution_time 600 php_value memory_limit 256M php_value post_max_size 32M php_value upload_max_filesize 32M
Setting these values will ensure you will not get error messages during the installation. To safeguard your website, please use secure passwords and the latest version of WordPress and plugins.
IMPORTANT! To avoid any errors that might come up during the installation we recommend to have memory limit set up to 512M.
Here is the list of other recommended web hosting services:
A common issue that can occur with users new to installing WordPress themes is a "Broken theme and/or stylesheets missing” error message being displayed when trying to upload or activate the theme. This error message does not mean that the theme you have purchased is broken, it simply means it has been uploaded incorrectly. Luckily, there is a very easy fix.
You can either install all the recommended plugins in bulk or individually select which ones you would like to install. We recommend installing all the recommended plugins.
Visit Appearance ▸ Install Plugins
After you've selected the plugins you want to install, click "Install" under "Bulk Actions".
Ceris supports one click demo importer, quickly get your site to look like our demo page and get started easily. You should make sure you have installed all required plugins and activate them to have Full Options of Ceris.
Here are some important tabs of the panel that you should notice
In this panel, you can easy to manage Install/Activate/Deactivate the plugins you want.
This panel shows your system configuration. Please make sure that your server PHP configuration limits are as follows
After installing all requirement plugins, you should see this panel appears. In each demo, there is an option allows you to import the attachments or not.
Once all settings are ready, please click the Import button and wait until the import process done. Then you can go back and check your website.
This Method will import posts, pages, menus only.
1. Go to Dashboard > Tools > Import and Click on WordPress and Install it.
2. Choose a content_data.xml file from your download package and then click on Upload file and Import
3. Assign Authors and start import, click on Submit
4. This process may take a while on some hosts, so please be patient. (some hosts between 5-6 minutes)
Import Theme Options.
The Theme Options file is in the demo_content folder
Import Widget / Sidebar.
If you are migration from a theme which used the native featured images functionality of WordPress, please use the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to resize all the thumbnails. Click the link above and download the free plugin, and read through the steps it contains, it has all the information you need.
The theme features a mega menu for category menu items to display latest posts in the corresponding category
The theme features a mega menu for column menu items to display your features in the columns
The Level 1 Menu Item should be the Main Menu Item, the Level 2 Items should be the Columns and the Level 3 Items should be the Column Menu Items.
Don't forget to enable Megamenu Function in the Main Menu Item Setting Panel
The theme is fully compatible with Login with ajax plugin All you need to do is install the plugin and activate it to have this feature.
To enable the Social Login, you should install "AccessPress Social Login Lite" plugin. Then go to "AccessPress Social Login Lite" Tab and setup your desired social item.
All above plugins can be found in Appearance -> Install Plugins
The theme supports a pagebuilder that you can easy build your content by drag and drop modules into the homepage sections .
You will see the Pagebuilder interface like this.
There are 2 sections:
The Full Width Section: This section supports 78 various modules that can be seen as below.
The Content Section: This section supports 19 various modules that can be seen as below.
All of your posts should have a featured image .. this image will appear in the slider , post modules , sidebar .. etc
The theme support 3 WordPress post formats: Standard, Gallery, Video.
When you select the Gallery Post Format, there is a Gallery Upload field appear that allows to upload the images to the gallery
You can select a Gallery Style to perform your Gallery on the post
When you select the Video Post Format, there is a Text field appear that allows to insert the video link
There are 18 Post Layouts that you can select for your Post. If you select the default option, then the post layout setting will be get from Theme Option panel
When you select a layout, the related post setting panel and the same category setting panel will be shown then.
These options allow to show/hide the section of the post page. If you select the default option, then the setting will be get from Theme Option panel
If you select the Layout that show with a sidebar, then the sidebar fields will be shown under this option
If you select the Layout that show with a sidebar, then the sidebar fields will be shown under this option
Top Module Spacing: This option allow you to change the spacing from the top of the module
Top Module Spacing: This option allow you to change the spacing from the bottom of the module heading
The typography of the theme can be setup here. You can edit the Font Family, Backup Font Family, Font Subsets, Letter Spacing.
It is recommended to use maximum 3 different font families for the sake of design consistency and load speed.
There are the options here that allow to setup the default setting of all module heading style and the default setting of all widget heading style.
There are 18 Header Types that you can select one for your Website.
Default background setting of the headers
There's a field that allows to upload a background image to the header
Gradients let you display smooth transitions between two specified colors. This option supports 2 fields to upload the colors and 1 direction field for the Gradient background
Supports a color field for the Header Background
Supports to change the color of the menu item on the main menu bar
Supports to change the color of text that shows on the Header
This field supports upload your logo image
Setup the width of your logo image, the height will be auto-changed corresponding to the logo width
This field supports upload your mobile logo image
This field supports upload your mobile logo image
Enable/Disable the Of-Canvas Menu
Select a specific Menu that will be the Off-Canvas Menu
Upload logo of your site that is displayed in Off-Canvas Menu
Set up social items for this section. The Social Links can be setup via the Social Media Links Tab
Enable to use the Mailchimp Subscribe Form in Off-Canvas Menu Panel
To setup the expand columns, please go to Appearance -> Widgets then you should add the widgets to the Offcanvas Expand First/Second Columns
Select a specific Menu that will be the Off-Canvas Mobile Menu
Upload logo of your site that is displayed in Off-Canvas Menu
Set up social items for this section. The Social Links can be setup via the Social Media Links Tab
Enable to use the Mailchimp Subscribe Form in Off-Canvas Menu Panel
Set up social items for the header. The Social Links can be setup via the Social Media Links Tab
Setup the Mailchimp Subscribe Popup Form for the header.
This section allow you to setup a decicated header for the following pages: Single Page, Archive Page, Category Page, Author Page and Search Page
Setup the cache time for the Post View Count, when a user view your post, the cache time will be set. If this user reload the current post, the view counter will not count up until the cache time is over
You can select a Layout among 16 Post Layouts for your posts. There're also have another setting fields like: header background, background pattern, header text, featured image or meta items that you can check under the Post Layout option
This section allows to config the infinity scrolling inside the article
If you want to use ads to display between each article, you should put the ads code to the fields from the section 2. If you put more than 1 field, then the ads will be random display
When you enable this option, you will have a progress tool that display on the top-right side of the article page
There are 3 sections: Related Section, Comment Section, Same Category Section that can be sorted by drag and drop action. You can easy manage to sort them
Select a Sidebar for the Posts
This option supports to setup the sidebar left or sidebar right
Enable/Disable Sticky Sidebar
In this section, you can setup for each social sharing item. Enable/Disable the social item you want. Moreover, there is a field in each social items that supports to write a text for the button. For example: you can leave the text "Share on Facebook" for the Facebook share
Enable/Disable Post Author Section
Enable/Disable Post Nav Section
Enable related posts below single post
Select one of 5 Layouts for this section
Under the Layout Option, there are some fields that support to setup for the Layout selected.
Select one of 5 Layouts for this section
Under the Layout Option, there are some fields that support to setup for the Layout selected.
Enable related posts below single post
Select one of 13 Layouts for this section
Under the Layout Option, there are some fields that support to setup for the Layout selected.
Select one of 13 Layouts for this section
Under the Layout Option, there are some fields that support to setup for the Layout selected.
From this option, you can setup the desire heading style for all category pages. The second option allow you to setup the typography of the heading
There are 4 Layouts can be selected in for the Feature Area. If you select "Disable", then the Feature Area will not be shown on the Categories Page
If you want to show the Feature Area on everypage of the category page, then select this option as "No", if you select "Yes", then only the first page will show the Feature Area
Setup the Heading of the Category Page
There are 15 Layouts can be selected: 9 Layouts with sidebar and 6 Full Width Layouts
Show/Hide Bookmark
Show/Hide Post Icon
The theme supports 3 kind of paginations:
Exclude the posts those are already shown on the Feature Area
Setup the sidebar for the Category Page
From this option, you can setup the desire heading style for all category pages. The second option allow you to setup the typography of the heading
There are 15 Layouts can be selected: 9 Layouts with sidebar and 6 Full Width Layouts
Show/Hide Bookmark
Show/Hide Post Icon
The theme supports 3 kind of paginations:
Setup the sidebar for the Archive Pages
From this option, you can setup the desire heading style for all category pages. The second option allow you to setup the typography of the heading
There are 15 Layouts can be selected: 9 Layouts with sidebar and 6 Full Width Layouts
Show/Hide Bookmark
Show/Hide Post Icon
The theme supports 3 kind of paginations:
Setup the sidebar for the Author Pages
Select the query to show your recommend posts to the Ajax Search Panel
Choose the tags will be shown in the Tags Section from the Ajax Search panel
You can get the data from your Google Analytic to find the most popular keyword, then type them to this section
There are 15 Layouts can be selected: 9 Layouts with sidebar and 6 Full Width Layouts
Show/Hide Bookmark
Show/Hide Post Icon
The theme supports 3 kind of paginations:
Setup the sidebar for the Author Pages
This option to setup the 404 Logo Image
This option to setup the 404 Main Image
The is a Main Text field and a Sub Text Field allow to put your Text to the 404 page
Enable/Disable Search Field on 404 Page
There are 3 background style
Default background setting of the headers
There's a field that allows to upload a background image to the header
Gradients let you display smooth transitions between two specified colors. This option supports 2 fields to upload the colors and 1 direction field for the Gradient background
Supports a color field for the Header Background
Background Blur: Enable to have the blur effect on the page background
This field supports upload your logo image
Setup the width of your logo image, the height will be auto-changed corresponding to the logo width
Insert the content to the text field
Select the social icons that display on the 404 page
Insert the expire time for the coming soon page (yyy-mm-dd)
Insert the Mailchimp Shortcode to the text field
Setup the Heading of the Page
Setup color of the page Heading
Select between Full Width layout or Has Sidebar layout
Setup the sidebar for the page
There are 15 Layouts can be selected: 9 Layouts with sidebar and 6 Full Width Layouts
Show/Hide Post Icon
The theme supports 3 kind of paginations:
Setup the sidebar for the Author Pages
There are the URL fields inside here. When you insert the URL to a field, that field will be activated on the User Icon of the page header
This is the Import and Export Tool of the theme option setting panel.
Here you can copy/download your current option settings. Keep this safe as you can use it as a backup should anything go wrong, or you can use it to restore your settings on this site (or any other site).
The theme fully supports Woocommerce plugin. So to create your own shop. First of all, you should install the Woocommerce plugin which can be download free HERE . Or you can download via the Plugin tab from your admin panel
After already install the plugin. There is a Woocommerce section appear on Theme Option panel. You can go there to setup the Heading of Woocommerce. For more detail how to use this plugin, please take a look at it Documentation Here
The theme fully supports AMP For WordPress Plugin. To use this feature, please install the AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages plugin . Or you can also install it via the Plugins tab of your WordPress admin panel
If you need more information about this plugin, please take a look at the user guild HERE
Firstly, you should install the plugin Cookie Notice for GDPR & CCPA .It allows you to elegantly inform users that your site uses cookies and helps you comply with the EU GDPR cookie law and CCPA regulations.
If you’re using Contact Form 7, you can simply add an acceptance checkbox to your forms. Just add this before your submit button: [acceptance accept-this-1] Check here to consent to this website storing my information so they can respond. [/acceptance]
We found a really great article that can help if you need more information about GDPR. You can try to take a look at it HERE
This theme may be updated periodically in order to add new features and fix bugs. When a new update be available an update message will appears on your WordPress dashboard . As a customer, you can download the most current version from your ThemeForest account.
Envato have developed the Envato Toolkit Plugin for WordPress. You can use this to receive notification of updates to themes purchased from ThemeForest and to automatically update (upon clicking) directly from within your WordPress admin area.
Ceris theme is able to be translated into any language. The process of translating the theme is a user responsibility. The following instructions are given as guidance.
You can reopen the .po file at any time and change, continue to translate, etc.
All done.
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