General Information

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:

• Wordpress FAQ - Information and resources about WordPress including history, features, semantics, glossary, and information to help you determine whether or not WordPress is the blogging tool for you.
• Wordpress Lessons - Great source of knowledge for WordPress beginners
• PHP Function References - Detailed information on WordPress PHP functions and usage examples

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:

max_execution_time 600

memory_limit 256M or 512M for creating custom color schemes with LESS CSS compiler

post_max_size 32M

upload_max_filesize 32M

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:

• Hostgator
• Bluehost
• Mediatemple
• Siteground
• WPengine

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.

Installing From the WordPress Dashboard

• Download the zipped theme pack to your local computer from themeforest and extract the ZIP file contents to a folder on your local computer.
• Log into your WordPress admin panel and click on the “Appearance” tab.
• Now click on the "Add New" button.
• Click on the "Upload" tab, click "Choose File" and select ceris.zip in the extracted folder then click "Open".
• Click the "Install Now" button.
• Activate the theme from this page by clicking "Activate", or "Return to Themes Page" and activate from there

Uploading via FTP

• Download the zipped theme pack to your computer from themeforest and extract the ZIP file to a folder on your computer.
• In the extracted folder you will find 'ceris.zip'. Extract this file .
• Using an FTP client to access your host web server
• Upload the Theme files in the extracted folder called 'Ceris' to wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress.
• Visit Admin panel -> Appearance -> Themes, look for the Ceris theme thumbnail, then click the Activate button to activate the theme.

Bulk Install Required and Recommended Plugins (recommended)

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".

  

One Click IMPORT DEMO Content

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

1. Plugins Panel

   In this panel, you can easy to manage Install/Activate/Deactivate the plugins you want.

   
   

   




2. System Status Panel

   This panel shows your system configuration. Please make sure that your server PHP configuration limits are as follows

   • max_execution_time 600
   • memory_limit 256M or 512M
   • post_max_size 32M
   • upload_max_filesize 32M
   
   

   




3. Demo Panel

   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.

   
   

   

   
   

Manually Upload XML File

• Go to Admin panel -> Tools -> Import -> WordPress
• Install the plugin.
• Use it to upload the demo content XML file in the theme package.

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)

The Theme Options file is in the demo_content folder

• Go to Admin panel -> Theme Options -> Import / Export -> WordPress

  

• Click Import File button
• Copy the content of the theme_options.json, then paste it to the field

  

• Install and Activate the plugin "Widget Importer and Exporter"
• Go to Tool -> Widget Importer and Exporter and import the Widget.wie which can be found in the demo_content folder

  

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.

Setup A New Menu

1. Navigate to Apperance -> Menus page
2. Click the "create a new menu" link to make a new menu. Enter the name then hit Create Menu
3. To add a menu item, you can easily select one of your already made pages on the left hand side and click Add to Menu. You can also add menu items by entering a custom name and custom link into the Links box. To create a megamenu, see Categories Mega Menus.
4. You can manage your menus using the drag and drop functionality. To create a dropdown menu, simply drag a menu item below and slightly to the right of another menu item and it will lock into place and create a dropdown section.
5. After setting up your menu, select menu location in the Menu Settings (Top Menu for navigation in top bar and Main Menu for main navigation below header)
6. Once its all done, make sure you click the Save button.
7. You can change menus locations at any time from Manage Locations tab .

Categories Mega Menus

The theme features a mega menu for category menu items to display latest posts in the corresponding category

• Add the Category you want to the menu.
• In the setting panel of category menu item there will be a checkbox called BK Megamenu.
• Check it if you want to make that category menu item a megamenu or uncheck to make it a normal menu item.
• The Megamenu Option allows to select a Megamenu Style.
• Don't forget to set the menu location to Main Menu by clicking checkbox Main Menu in Theme locations section of Menu Settings.
• Click Save Menu to finish.

Column Menu Settings

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 Paid Memberships Pro All you need to do is install the plugin for free and activate it to enable the Paywall feature.

The plugin's documentation can be found at the plugin website

The theme supports a pagebuilder that you can easy build your content by drag and drop modules into the homepage sections .

Drag and Drop Homepage Builder

1. Go to Admin panel -> Pages -> Add new to create a new page.
2. Enter title for your homepage, example: Home Page. In the Page Attributes box, select Page Builder in Template option.
3. Click Update

You will see the Pagebuilder interface like this.

There are 2 sections:

1. Fullwidth Section
2. Content Section

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.

Setup front page

1. Once you finish building the homepage content, go to Settings -> Reading to set up your homepage.
2. In Front page displays option, choose A static page. In Frontpage option below, choose the page that you have just created in the steps above, example: Home Page. Click Save changes.
3. Go to your site home url to check if your homepage has been set.

1. Navigate to Appearance -> Customize .
2. Select Site Identity.
3. Click Select Image then upload your Favicon image.
4. Once uploaded click Save changes button to save your site Favicon.

Featured images for the posts

All of your posts should have a featured image .. this image will appear in the slider , post modules , sidebar .. etc

Post format

The theme support 3 WordPress post formats: Standard, Gallery, Video.

Gallery Format

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

Video Format

When you select the Video Post Format, there is a Text field appear that allows to insert the video link

Author Review

1. From the BK Review System box in the post edit page .
2. Tick the checkbox Enable Review On the Author Review Section. Then the review field will be shown
• Review Box Position: The default option is under the post content, the other option is above the post content
• Product Image: Click "Add Media" button to upload the product image
• Product name/Description: Enter the Product Name/Description to the text fields
• Review Score: Setup the Review Score by using the slider bar
• Summary: Enter the Summary to the text field
• Pros and Cons: If you would like to enable Pros and Cons, you can tick to this option to enable it, then you can continue to setup the Pros and Cons

PERFORMANCE AND USER REVIEW

1. From the BK Review System box in the post edit page .
2. Tick the checkbox Enable Review on the performance and user review section. Then the review field will be shown
• Firstly, you should add your Criterias that will be show to the post content
• If you would like to allow reader can be leave there review, then please just enable it via the check box "Reader review form"

Post Layouts

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.

Related Post Setting Panel

1. Heading Style: setup a heading style for this section, there are 10 heading styles supported
2. Related Posts: select the condition of the related posts
• Same Categories and Tags
• Same Tags
• Same categories
• Same Author
3. Number of Related Posts: Setup number of posts should be shown in this section
4. Layout: Select a layout for this section. If you select the default option, then this section layout setting will be get from Theme Option panel
5. Post Icon: Enable/Disable the Post Icon in each post

Same Category Setting Panel

1. Category: Select a category of the posts shoule be shown in this section
2. Heading Style: setup a heading style for this section, there are 10 heading styles supported
3. Layout: Select a layout for this section. If you select the default option, then this section layout setting will be get from Theme Option panel
4. Number of Posts: Setup number of posts should be shown in this section
5. More Link: Enable/Disable the category link that you selected in the Category option

Sidebar

1. Choose a sidebar for this post
2. Sidebar Position: Setup the Sidebar Postition (Left/Right). If you select the default option, then the sidebar position setting will be get from Theme Option panel
3. Layout: Select a layout for this section. If you select the default option, then this section layout setting will be get from Theme Option panel
4. Sidebar Sticky: Enable/Disable Sidebar Sticky

Single Sections Show/Hide

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

1. Feature Area: Select a Layout for the Feature Area, If you select the default option, then the Feature Area Layout setting will be get from Theme Option panel. If you would like to disable the Feature Area, please select Disable Option
2. Feature Area Post Option: Select to show the Featured Posts or Latest Posts
3. Show Feature Area only on 1st page: If you would like to show the Featured Area on only 1st page, please select yes. If you select the default option, then this setting will be get from Theme Option panel.
4. Page Heading: Select a Page Heading Style for the current category page
5. Content Layouts: Select a Layout for the Posts of the current category page. If you select the default option, then this 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

• Choose a sidebar for this page
• Sidebar Position -- Left/Right: Select Sidebar Left or Sidebar Right for this page
• Sticky Sidebar: Enable/Disable Sticky Sidebar
6. Pagination: Select the Pagination Type to load the next posts of the category page
7. [Content Section] Exclude Posts: Exclude Posts those are shown on the Featued Area
8. Category Color: Select a color for the category
9. Featured Image: Upload an image for this category

1. Name: Name of the tag
2. Description: Description of the tag
3. Page Heading: Select a Page Heading Style for the current tag page
4. Content Layouts: Select a Layout for the Posts of the current tag page. If you select the default option, then this 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

• Choose a sidebar for this page
• Sidebar Position -- Left/Right: Select Sidebar Left or Sidebar Right for this page
• Sticky Sidebar: Enable/Disable Sticky Sidebar
5. Pagination: Select the Pagination Type to load the next posts of the tag page
6. Featured Image: Upload an image for this tag

1. General Settings

   

   • Primary Color: Edit the main color of the theme
   • HTML Font Size: when you change this font size, then almost of text elements from the site will be increased or decreased. Just give a try to see how this option perfom

2. Spacing Settings

   • 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

     

3. Typography

   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.

   

4. Module Heading Style

   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.

   

5. Header Settings

   

   1. Header Type

      There are 18 Header Types that you can select one for your Website.

      Header Background Style

      There are 3 header background style

      • Default Background

        Default background setting of the headers

      • Background Image

        There's a field that allows to upload a background image to the header

      • Background Gradient

        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

      • Background Color

        Supports a color field for the Header Background

      • Main Menu Bar Text

        Supports to change the color of the menu item on the main menu bar

      • Header Text

        Supports to change the color of text that shows on the Header

   2. Site Logo

      • Site Logo

        This field supports upload your logo image

      • Site Logo Width

        Setup the width of your logo image, the height will be auto-changed corresponding to the logo width

   3. Mobile Header

      • Mobile Logo

        This field supports upload your mobile logo image

      • Mobile Menu Background: Supports Gradient background and single color background options.
      • Mobile Menu Text: Can be set as White or Black in case you are using the Dark Color or Light Color menu

   4. Sticky Header

      • Sticky Menu Enable/Disable: Enable or Disable if you want to show/hide the Sticky Menu

      • Sticky Header Logo

        This field supports upload your mobile logo image

      • Sticky Menu Background: Supports Gradient background and single color background options.
      • Sticky Text: Can be set as White or Black in case you are using the Dark Color or Light Color menu

   5. Off-Canvas Menu - Desktop

      • Offcanvas Switch

        Enable/Disable the Of-Canvas Menu

      • Menu Select

        Select a specific Menu that will be the Off-Canvas Menu

      • Off-Canvas Logo

        Upload logo of your site that is displayed in Off-Canvas Menu

      • Off-Canvas Social Media

        Set up social items for this section. The Social Links can be setup via the Social Media Links Tab

      • Off-Canvas Menu Subscribe Switch

        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

   6. Off-canvas Menu - Mobile

      • Menu Select

        Select a specific Menu that will be the Off-Canvas Mobile Menu

      • Off-Canvas Logo

        Upload logo of your site that is displayed in Off-Canvas Menu

      • Off-Canvas Social Media

        Set up social items for this section. The Social Links can be setup via the Social Media Links Tab

      • Off-Canvas Menu Subscribe Switch

        Enable to use the Mailchimp Subscribe Form in Off-Canvas Menu Panel

   7. Header Social Items

      Set up social items for the header. The Social Links can be setup via the Social Media Links Tab

   8. Header Subscribe Form

      Setup the Mailchimp Subscribe Popup Form for the header.

6. Dedicated 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

7. Social Media Links

   

   Insert your social links to the correct fields

8. Single Page (The Global Settings)

   

   All Settings in this section are the Global settings, the global settings will be overwritten by the specific setup in each post setting

   1. Post View Cache Time (in second)

      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

   2. Post Layout

      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

   3. Infinity Scrolling

      

      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

   4. Scrolling Percent

      

      When you enable this option, you will have a progress tool that display on the top-right side of the article page

   5. Sections Sorter

      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

   6. Sidebar

      • Single Page Sidebar

        Select a Sidebar for the Posts

      • Sidebar Position

        This option supports to setup the sidebar left or sidebar right

      • Sticky Sidebar

        Enable/Disable Sticky Sidebar

   7. Social Share

      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

   8. Post Author Section Setting

      Enable/Disable Post Author Section

   9. Post Nav Section Setting

      Enable/Disable Post Nav Section

9. Advance Single Page - With Sidebar (The Global Settings)

   

   1. Related Posts Section Settings Section

      • Enable related posts

        Enable related posts below single post

      • Layout

        Select one of 5 Layouts for this section

      • Layout Settings

        Under the Layout Option, there are some fields that support to setup for the Layout selected.

   2. More From Category Section Setting

      • Enable More From Category Section

      • Layout

        Select one of 5 Layouts for this section

      • Layout Settings

        Under the Layout Option, there are some fields that support to setup for the Layout selected.

10. Advance Single Page - Full Width (The Global Settings)

    

    1. Related Posts Section Settings Section

       • Enable related posts

         Enable related posts below single post

       • Layout

         Select one of 13 Layouts for this section

       • Layout Settings

         Under the Layout Option, there are some fields that support to setup for the Layout selected.

    2. More From Category Section Setting

       • Enable More From Category Section

       • Layout

         Select one of 13 Layouts for this section

       • Layout Settings

         Under the Layout Option, there are some fields that support to setup for the Layout selected.

11. Category Pages (The Global Settings)

    

    1. Heading

       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

    2. Feature Area Layout

       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

    3. Show Feature Area on only first 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

    4. Page Heading

       Setup the Heading of the Category Page

    5. Content Layout

       There are 15 Layouts can be selected: 9 Layouts with sidebar and 6 Full Width Layouts

    6. Bookmark

       Show/Hide Bookmark

    7. Post Icon

       Show/Hide Post Icon

    8. Pagination

       The theme supports 3 kind of paginations:

       • Default Pagination: display the pagination buttons
       • Ajax Pagination: display the pagination buttons and load the pages without reload a whole page
       • Ajax Load More

    9. [Content Section] Exclude Posts

       Exclude the posts those are already shown on the Feature Area

    10. Sidebar

        Setup the sidebar for the Category Page

12. Archive Pages (Use for Tag / Archive Pages)

    

    1. Heading

       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

    2. Content Layout

       There are 15 Layouts can be selected: 9 Layouts with sidebar and 6 Full Width Layouts

    3. Bookmark

       Show/Hide Bookmark

    4. Post Icon

       Show/Hide Post Icon

    5. Pagination

       The theme supports 3 kind of paginations:

       • Default Pagination: display the pagination buttons
       • Ajax Pagination: display the pagination buttons and load the pages without reload a whole page
       • Ajax Load More

    6. Sidebar

       Setup the sidebar for the Archive Pages

13. Author Pages

    

    1. Content Layout

       There are 15 Layouts can be selected: 8 Layouts with sidebar and 6 Full Width Layouts

    2. Bookmark

       Show/Hide Bookmark

    3. Post Icon

       Show/Hide Post Icon

    4. Pagination

       The theme supports 3 kind of paginations:

       • Default Pagination: display the pagination buttons
       • Ajax Pagination: display the pagination buttons and load the pages without reload a whole page
       • Ajax Load More

    5. Sidebar

       Setup the sidebar for the Author Pages

14. Search Page

    

    1. Heading

       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

    2. Content Layout

       There are 15 Layouts can be selected: 9 Layouts with sidebar and 6 Full Width Layouts

    3. Bookmark

       Show/Hide Bookmark

    4. Post Icon

       Show/Hide Post Icon

    5. Pagination

       The theme supports 3 kind of paginations:

       • Default Pagination: display the pagination buttons
       • Ajax Pagination: display the pagination buttons and load the pages without reload a whole page
       • Ajax Load More

    6. Author Search Results

       • Show Author Result: Option Show/Hide Author Result
       • Number of Author results per page
       • Pagination

    7. Sidebar

       Setup the sidebar for the Author Pages

15. Ajax Search panel

    

    1. Recommend Posts

       Select the query to show your recommend posts to the Ajax Search Panel

    2. Tag Section

       Choose the tags will be shown in the Tags Section from the Ajax Search panel

    3. Popular Search

       You can get the data from your Google Analytic to find the most popular keyword, then type them to this section

16. Blog Page

    

    1. Content Layout

       There are 15 Layouts can be selected: 9 Layouts with sidebar and 6 Full Width Layouts

    2. Bookmark

       Show/Hide Bookmark

    3. Post Icon

       Show/Hide Post Icon

    4. Pagination

       The theme supports 3 kind of paginations:

       • Default Pagination: display the pagination buttons
       • Ajax Pagination: display the pagination buttons and load the pages without reload a whole page
       • Ajax Load More

    5. Author Search Results

       • Show Author Result: Option Show/Hide Author Result
       • Number of Author results per page
       • Pagination

    6. Sidebar

       Setup the sidebar for the Author Pages

17. 404 Page (Error Page)

    1. 404 Logo

       This option to setup the 404 Logo Image

    2. 404 Main Image

       This option to setup the 404 Main Image

    3. 404 Text

       The is a Main Text field and a Sub Text Field allow to put your Text to the 404 page

    4. Search Field

       Enable/Disable Search Field on 404 Page

18. Coming Soon Page

    1. Coming Soon Background

       There are 3 background style

       • Default Background

         Default background setting of the headers

       • Background Image

         There's a field that allows to upload a background image to the header

       • Background Image + Gradient Overlay

         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

       • Background Color

         Supports a color field for the Header Background

       Background Blur: Enable to have the blur effect on the page background

    2. Coming Soon Logo

       • Logo

         This field supports upload your logo image

       • Logo Width

         Setup the width of your logo image, the height will be auto-changed corresponding to the logo width

    3. Coming Soon Introduction

       Insert the content to the text field

    4. Coming Soon Social

       Select the social icons that display on the 404 page

    5. Coming Soon Date

       Insert the expire time for the coming soon page (yyy-mm-dd)

    6. Mailchimp Form

       Insert the Mailchimp Shortcode to the text field

19. Default Page Template

    1. Page Heading

       Setup the Heading of the Page

    2. Heading Color

       Setup color of the page Heading

    3. Feature Image Show/Hide

    4. Layout

       Select between Full Width layout or Has Sidebar layout

    5. Sidebar

       Setup the sidebar for the page

20. Author List Page Template

    To set up this page. You should create a new page -> Select the page template as Author List Page then save change

    1. Page Heading

       Setup the Heading of the Page

    2. Heading Color

       Setup color of the page Heading

    3. Author List Page Layout: The theme supports 2 layouts for this page (Listing List and Listing Grid).

    4. Sidebar

       Setup the sidebar for the page

21. Bookmark

    

    There are 15 Layouts can be selected: 9 Layouts with sidebar and 6 Full Width Layouts

    1. Post Icon

       Show/Hide Post Icon

    2. Pagination

       The theme supports 3 kind of paginations:

       • Default Pagination: display the pagination buttons
       • Ajax Pagination: display the pagination buttons and load the pages without reload a whole page
       • Ajax Load More

    3. Author Search Results

       • Show Author Result: Option Show/Hide Author Result
       • Number of Author results per page
       • Pagination

    4. Sidebar

       Setup the sidebar for the Author Pages

    
    
    

    Bookmark Dropdown

    

    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

    • Show Latest News: Firstly, please create the latest news page
      1. Create a new page
      2. Name it, then select the Page template as the Blog Template then publish it
      3. You will have its URL, please insert this URL to the field
    • Show User Bookmark Articles: Similar the latest link above, but the page template here will be the bookmark template
    • Show User Dismiss Articles: Similar the latest link above, but the page template here will be the Dismiss Article template

22. Footer

    1. Footer Layout

       There are 4 Layouts can be selected

    2. Footer Background

       Setup the Footer Background of the website

    3. Mailchimp Subscribe Form Setting

       This option is available when the Footer 1, Footer 3 or Footer 5 is selected

    4. Footer Logo

       This option is available when the Footer 2, Footer 4 or Footer 6 is selected

    5. Footer Column Width

       This option is available when the Footer 7 or Footer 8 is selected

    6. Footer Bottom

       Setup the Footer Bottom of the website like: Footer Social, Footer Copyright Text, or Footer Menu, etc.

23. Import/Export

    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).

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.

Updating Automatically

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.

• Download the plugin zip file to your computer.
• In your WordPress admin area, go to Plugins -> Add New then click Upload.
• Click Choose File, select the plugin zip file you downloaded and click Install Now.
• After installation, click Activate.
• Click the new Envato Toolkit link in the menu and follow the instructions to configure the plugin.

Updating Manually

• Download the most current version from ThemeForest in the "Downloads" area of your account.
• Unzip the package and locate ceris.zip in the theme folder.
• Go to Appearance -> Themes and activate another theme such as the default WordPress theme.
• Delete Ceris theme which is now inactive.
• Go to Install Themes -> Upload then install and activate ceris.zip from the new package.

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.

1. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that the theme has the appropriate language file. The default language files and eventually, the bonus ones are located in the theme's directory in the /languages/ directory. They are .po and .mo files.
2. If you don't find the appropriate language file for your target language then you must copy the default.po file and rename the copy accordingly to your desired language. The language files names must have this format "ll_CC", where "ll" is an ISO 639 two-letter language code (lower case) and "CC" is an ISO 3166 two-letter country code (upper case). The country code specification is not redundant: Some languages have dialects in different countries. For example, ‘de_AT’ is used for Austria and ‘pt_BR’ for Brazil. The country code serves to distinguish the dialects. See Language Codes and Country Codes for the lists of codes.
3. So let's say you want to translate to Brazilian Portuguese and you have copied default.po to pt_BR.po. Now you have to edit it using the world's favorite free .po editor, PoEdit (http://www.poedit.net/download.php).

   

4. Once you open the file you will be presented with the list of all the English strings on the left side and their translation (if present on the right). To translate simply click on a line and on the bottom of the window, you can enter your translation. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poedit
5. Once you are done simply hit save in PoEdit and this will automatically save the .po file and generate/regenerate the .mo file (a binary file).
6. Now all you have to do is change the language of your WordPress installation. To do this you need to go to Settings -> General -> Site Language and choose your appropriate language.

You can reopen the .po file at any time and change, continue to translate, etc.

All done.

If you have any problem with the theme, you can post your question on ThemeForest comment section or email us at bkninja.team@gmail.com. We will try to answer as fast as possible. Our timezone is GMT +7.

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