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Catch Box

Catch Box is a simple, lightweight and box shaped responsive WordPress theme that automatically adapts to the screen’s size, ensuring that your content is always displayed beautifully no matter what device visitors are using. It’s powerful admin theme options designed to suit almost all projects. It’s also one of the most popular themes in WordPress theme directory.

Installation using the Administration Panel

You can download Themes directly to your blog by using the Add New Themes option in the Appearance sub-menu.

  1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel.
  2. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
  3. Select Install Themes.
  4. Then type in “Catch Box” in search box and then click on Search.
  5. Then it will show your the Catch Box Thumbnail and details. Then Click on “Install Now” to install the theme.

Manual Installation using FTP

To add a new Theme to your WordPress installation, follow these basic steps:

  1. Download Catch Box from WordPress Theme Directory (http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/catch-box) to your Desktop.
  2. Unzip catch-box.zip to your Desktop.
  3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/themes/ and make sure that you do not already have a catch-box folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/themes/ before uploading your copy of Catch Box.
  4. Upload Catch Box to /wp-content/themes/.
  5. Activate Catch Box through the Appearance -> Themes menu in your WordPress Dashboard

Always Set Featured Images

This theme relies heavily on Featured Images. If your post is missing a Featured Image, the post image will not show up on the homepage or on archive pages and Featured Post Slider. Read more about Featured Images

Image Sizes

Featured Post Slider
Width: 644px
Height: 320px

Regenerate Thumbnails

If you have just changed your theme then you need to regenerate image thumbnail for post published before activating this theme. You can simply install Regenerate Thumbnails Plugin. Then Regenerate Thumbnails through the Tools -> Regen. Thumbnails in your WordPress Dashboard.

Widgets

Catch Box currently have four widgetized area that are Main Sidebar, Footer Area One, Footer Area Two and Footer Area Three. You can add a variety of Widgets to this theme on the Appearance -> Widgets tab in WordPress.

Menus

This theme supports “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through the Appearance -> Menus page in your WordPress Dashboard. Don’t forget to select your custom menu as Primary Menu to show it as the main menu. It also have other two menus namely Secondary Menu and Footer Menu.Read More

Theme Options

You can customize the theme using the cool addition featured through the Appearance -> Theme Options page in your WordPress Dashboard.

Header Images

This also supports Custom Header feature, which is a great way to change the custom header image of you choice. Add yours by clicking Appearance -> Header.

Backgrounds

Custom background is another great feature of WordPress that is supported in Base. Add yours by clicking Appearance -> Background.

How to Add/Change Favicon Image?

  1. Click on Appearance -> Theme Options from your WordPress Dashboard
  2. Then Click on Add/Change Favicon button Select the file you want to load
  3. Then Click on Insert into Post and Save Changes

How to Add/Change Web Clip Icon?

  1. Click on Appearance -> Theme Options from your WordPress Dashboard
  2. Then Click on Add/Change Web Clip Icon button Select the file you want to load
  3. Then Click on Insert into Post and Save Changes

Color Scheme

Catch Box theme has 3 color scheme (Light, Dark and Blue) options that you can select through Appearance -> Theme Options -> Color Scheme.

Default Layout

Catch Box theme has 3 different default layout ( Content on Left, Content on Right, and One-column,no sidebar) that you can select through Appearance -> Theme Options -> Default Layout.

Content Layout

Catch Box theme has 2 content layout. 1) Show excerpt: which will show the featured image of the post and excerpt text and 2) Show full content: which will show the full content exactly like in the post. If you want o break the text then you can use more tag . You can select the option through Appearance -> Theme Options -> Content layout.

How to change the Excerpt Length?

  1. Click on Appearance -> Theme Options
  2. Type in the Number of Words in “Excerpt Length in Words”
  3. Click on Save button

How to Redirect feed to Feedburner / or any other URL?

  1. Click on Appearance -> Theme Options
  2. Add in your redirection URL in “Feed Redirect URL” box
  3. Click on Save button

How to Disable Search in Header?

  1. Click on Appearance -> Theme Options
  2. Then check box the Disable Search in Header
  3. Click on Save button

Custom CSS

You can add your custom CSS that will overwrite the theme CSS for further more design customization. To add custom css go to your WordPress then “Appearance -> Theme Options -> Custom CSS”

How to Add Featured Post Slider?

Currently this theme only support Posts as the Featured Slider. To add Featured Slider, follow these basic steps:

  1. Click on Appearance -> Theme Options -> Featured Post Slider
  2. Click on Add Slider Options
  3. Add in the Post ID’s in Featured Slider Post#1, #2 respectively
  4. To change the slider effects and timing click on Slider Effect Options
  5. Click on Save button

Note:
* When you add the Post Id\’s, make sure you have added in the Featured Image in your Post.
* If you are unable to find the post ID then you can install the Catch IDs Plugin to find the Post IDs

How to insert Social Icons like Facebook, Twitter, etc?

  1. Click on Appearance -> Theme Options -> Social Links
  2. Add in the your Social Profile address in the appropriate boxes
  3. Click on Save button

How to insert Site Verification IDs?

  1. Click on Appearance -> Theme Options -> Webmaster Tools
  2. Click on Site Verification
  3. Enter the Google, Yahoo, Bling Site Verification ID respectively for which you want to verify your site
  4. Click on Save button

How to insert Analytics / Other scripts?

  • Click on Appearance -> Theme Options -> Webmaster Tools
  • Click on Analytics/Header/Footer Codes
  • Here you can add in various scripts like, google, facebook etc
  • Enter the script on upper textarea which you want to load on header
  • Enter the script on lower textarea which you want to load on footer
  • Click on Save button

Embed multimedia into Posts or Pages

For externally hosted videos (for example a YouTube or Vimeo video), you can directly paste the link of your video page into the content editor. You do not have to paste the embed code. WordPress will automatically embed the video from the link.

Recommended Plugins

  1. Contact Form 7 for Contact Form
  2. WP-PageNavi or WP Page Numbers for Pagination
  3. Regenerate Thumbnails to for Regenerating Thumbnails