Catch Flames Pro

Catch Flames Pro is a Simple, Clean, Lightweight, Box Shaped Full-Width 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. Catch Flames Pro is wider, bigger and looks luxuriously spacious. It uses Three Columns Layout as it’s default layout and can be changed to Two Columns or One Column as per your need. This theme can be consider as the successor of our popular Catch Box Pro theme as this theme is well crafted after numerous feedback from our existing users. It is based in HTML5, CSS3 and very own Catch Themes easy to use Theme Options panel, which make this theme highly customizable and flexible. Make your beautiful yet professional website in no time. This theme is translation ready.

Launched on Catch Themes’ second anniversary, the theme is compiled keeping well in mind two years of feedback. It wouldn’t be off the mark to say that this theme comes with Catch Themes Team’s experience and better judgment.

Note: If you are familiar with Catch Box Pro, you will easily be able to access the back-end modules of Catch Flames Pro and be able comfortably use its features.

Features in “Catch Flames” Free Theme:

Responsive Design
Site Identity: Option to enable/disable header text, add/edit Custom Logo and Site Icon (Favicon/Web Clip Icon)
Color Options: Header Text and Background color and Light and Dark Color Scheme
Header Image: Option to add Custom Header Image, enable/disable featured header image, add alt, title and link/URL, open link in new windows/tab and select Post/Page Featured image size
Menus: Option to use Fixed Header Top Menu and Primary Menu
Menu Options: Option to disable Default Page Menu
Fixed Header Top Options: Option enable/disable Fixed Header Top, enable/disable Logo in Fixed Header and Change or Remove Logo in Fixed Header Top
Search Options: Option to change the search box text
Promotion Headline Options: Option to disable/enable Promotion Headline on Homepage/Frontpage or Entire site, edit Promotion Headline text, edit Promotion SubHeadline text, edit Promotion Headline Button Text, add/edit Promotion Headline Link, open link in new tab and adjust Promotion Headline Left Section
Layout Options:
1. Sidebar Layout Options: Option to choose from i. Rigjt Sidebar, ii. Left Sidebar iii. No Sidebar and iv. Three Columns
2. Archive Content Layout: Option to choose from Excerpt/Blog Display and Full Content Display
Homepage Category Setting: Select option to show post from selective category
Excerpt Options: Option to change Excerpt Length and Read More Text
Scroll Up Feature: Option to enable/disable scroll up feature
Featured Content: Option to disable/enable featured content on Homepage/Frontpage or entire site, option to select Featured Content layout from 2 columns, 3 columns and 4 columns, option to highlight your Featured pages as Featured Content and option to move featured content position above footer
Featured Slider: Option to enable/disable featured page slider on Homepage/FrontPage or entire site, option to select Transition Effect, Transition Delay and Transition Length of slides and option to highlight your featured pages in slider
Additional CSS: Option to add your own CSS style to change the design as per you need
Social Links: 22 different social icons to choose from and option to enable Social Icon in Footer
Widget Areas: 5 widget area. That is, i. Primary Sidebar, ii. Secondary Sidebar, iii. Footer Area One, iv. Footer Area Two and v. Footer Area Three

Additional Features in “Catch Flames Pro” Premium Theme:

Responsive Design Options: Additional option to disable responsive design
Color Options: Additional option to use color picker to change various site color options. Basic Color Options, Site Color Options,Header Color Options, Slider Color Option, Content Color Options, Promotion Headline Color Options, Comment Color Options, Scrollup Color Options, Sidebar Color Options, Footer Color Options, Primary Menu Color Options, Secondary Menu Color Options, Footer Menu Color Options, Header Top Menu Color Options, Header Right Menu Color Options, Mobile Menu Color Options
Fixed Header Top Options: Additional Option to disable social and search icons
Header Options: Additional option to disable header, disable header content, disable site title, disable site description (Tagline), move site title and tagline, separate logo and site details and change the header top and bottom margins
Header Right Options: New header right sidebar widget area. Where you can add widget to replace default right sidebar content or add more widgets to header right sidebar. Also have option to disable header right section and disable search in header right
Font Family Options: Option to choose Default Font Family, Site Title and Description Font Family, Headings Font Family and Content Font Family
Font Size Options: Option to choose Default, Site Title, Site Description, h1, h2, h3, h4, headings and content font size
Layout Options:
- Default Layout Options: Additional 4 default layouts, which makes a total of 8 Default Layout Options: 1. Three Columns, 2. Three Columns Sidebar, 3. Three Column Equal, 4. Right Sidebar, 5. Left Sidebar, One Column, 6. No Sidebar, One Columns, 7. No Sidebar,Full Width and 8. No Sidebar
- Single Post/Page Sidebar Layout: Additional 8 Single Post/Page Sidebar Layout: 1. Three Columns, 2. Three Columns Sidebar, 3. Three Column Equal, 4. Right Sidebar, 5. Left Sidebar, One Column, 6. No Sidebar, One Columns, 7. No Sidebar,Full Width and 8. No Sidebar
- Archive Content Layout: Additional 5 content layouts, which makes a total of 7 Content layouts: 1. Excerpt/Blog Display ( Style 1 – Featured Image Size ), 2. Excerpt/Blog Display ( Style 2 – Featured Image Size ), 3. Excerpt/Blog Display ( Full Image Size ), 4. Excerpt/Blog Display ( Featured Image Small ), 5. Excerpt/Blog Display ( Featured Image Square ), 6. Excerpt/Blog Display ( Featured Image Tall ) and 7. Full Content Display
Feed Redirect: Option to redirect your feed to feedburner
Comment Options: Option to Enable/Disable comments, notes and website field
Footer Editor Option: Option to edit/delete footer text
Update Notifier: Option to Disable Update Notification
Featured Content Options: Additional 4 featured content types, which makes a total of 5 featured content types: i. Featured Widget Content, ii. Featured Post Content, iii. Featured Page Content, iv. Featured Category Content and v.Featured Image Content
Featured Slider: Option to choose from Featured Post Slider, Featured Page Slider, Featured Category Slider and Featured Image Slider. Further, option to make the slider Normal Width
Menu Options: Additional 3 menus, which totals to 5 Custom Menus: 1. Fixed Header Top Menu, Header Right Sidebar Menu, Primary Menu, Secondary Menu and Footer Menu
Webmaster Tools: Option to verify Google, Yahoo and Bing site verification and add your own Header Scripts and Footer Scripts like Google Analytics Code, tracking code and other verification codes.
Widget Areas : Additional 11 widget areas they are 1. Footer Area Four, 2. Header Right Sidebar, 3. Header Top Sidebar, 4. Homepage Sidebar, 5. Archive Sidebar, 6. Page Sidebar, 7. Post Sidebar, 8. Optional Sidebar One, 9. Optional Sidebar Two, 10. Optional Sidebar Three and 11. WooCommerce Sidebar
E-commerce Ready: It supports WooCommerce plugin
Infinite Scroll: It supports Jetpack plugin infinite scroll module
Multi-language Translation: It supports WPML and Translate plugins

Installation Using the WordPress Administration Panel

Download Catch Flames Pro from your Catch Themes member My-Account to your Desktop
Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel
Go to “Appearance => Themes => Add New”
Click on “Uploads” and Browse the downloaded file catch-flames-pro.zip from the desktop where you have it downloaded
Click on “Install Now” and then “Activate” to install the Theme

Manual Installation using FTP

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

Download Catch Flames Pro from your Catch Themes member My-Account to your Desktop
Unzip catch-flames-pro.zip to your Desktop
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-flames-pro folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/themes/ before uploading your copy of Catch Flames Pro
Upload Catch Flames Pro to /wp-content/themes/
Activate Catch Flames Pro through “Appearance => Themes”, in your WordPress Dashboard

Updating Theme Using the Administration Panel #

You can update Themes directly from the Administration Panel using Catch Updater plugin. Click here to read details about Catch Updater plugin.

Updating Theme Using FTP

To update Theme though FTP, follow these basic steps:

Download the latest version of Catch Flames Pro from your Catch Themes member My-Account to your Desktop
Unzip catch-flames-pro.zip to your Desktop
Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of Catch Flames Pro Theme which shall replace the old files

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 homepage, on archived pages and on Featured Post Slider. Click Here to see how to add Featured Image in your Post/Page.

Image Sizes:

Featured Post/Page/Category Slider Full Width
Width: 1600px
Height: 533px

Featured Post/Page/Category Slider Normal Width
Width: 1170px
Height: 533px

Featured Image: One/Two Columns
Width: 750px
Height: 470px

Featured Image: Three Columns
Width: 640px
Height: 401px

Featured Image: Small Thumbnail Left
Width: 300px
Height: 188px

Featured Image: Small Thumbnail Left
Width: 200px
Height: 319px

Featured Image: Square Thumbnail Left
Width: 200px
Height: 200px

Custom Header Image for Logo
Width: Flexible (recommended width 1600px)
Height : Flexible (recommended height 400px)

How to add Featured Image in Post/Page?

Open the editor of the post/page where you want to display image, and locate the Featured Image module in the bottom right corner under Page Attributes. Click on Choose a Featured Image.
Then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library and click on Set Featured Image.Click to view screenshot
For more detail, click here to watch video Screencast

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 “Tools => Regen. Thumbnails” in your WordPress Dashboard.

Widgets #

Catch Flames Pro currently has 16 widgetized (Sidebar) areas that are 1. Primary Sidebar, 2. Secondary Sidebar, 3. Footer Area One, 4. Footer Area Two, 5. Footer Area Three, 6. Footer Area Four, 7. Header Right Sidebar, 8. Header Top Sidebar, 9. Homepage Sidebar, 10. Archive Sidebar, 11. Page Sidebar, 12. Post Sidebar, 13. Optional Sidebar One, 14. Optional Sidebar Two, 15. Optional Sidebar Three and 16. WooCommerce Sidebar. You can add a variety of Widgets to this theme from “Appearance => Widgets” in WordPress. We have added additional custom Catch Flames Adspace Widget to display advertisements and Catch Flames Social Widget to display social icons on your sidebar.

Menus #

Catch Flames Pro offers exciting Menu Options! This theme supports and recommends using “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through “Appearance => Menus” from your WordPress Dashboard.

For more detail, Click here to watch video Screencast

Select Menu Locations
You can assign your custom menu in 5 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Menus => Manage Locations” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Locations”
Select your Custom Menu as Fixed Header Top Menu
Select your custom menu as Header Right Menu to display Menu in Header Right Sidebar Area
Select your Custom Menu as Primary Menu to display it as the Main Menu, which will replace the default Page Menu
Select your custom menu as Secondary Menu to display Menu below Primary Menu
Select your custom menu as Footer Menu to display Menu in Footer Area

First, you need to create custom menu from “Appearance => Menus”
Then go to “Appearance => Menus => Manage Locations”
Choose your Custom Menu, next to “Fixed Header Top Menu” and “Save Changes”

Note: This Fixed Header Top Menu will display on the Fixed Header Top. But first, you need to enable Fixed Header Top from “Appearance => Theme Options => Fixed Header Top Options

Probably, you might want to disable default page Menu. You can do that through Menu Options.

Go to “Appearance => Theme Options => Menu Options”
Check the box next to “Disable Default Page Menu?”
Click on “Save Changes”

Customizer (Theme Options) #

You can customize this theme using cool additional features through Customizer at “Appearance => Customize” from your WordPress Dashboard

How to add Logo? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity
You can replace the default logo by clicking on it, or click on “Change Image”
Then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to enable/disable Site Title and Tagline #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity”
Uncheck “Display Site Title and Tagline” and it will display Site Title and Tagline
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to add Site Icon (Favicon/Web Clip Icon)? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity => Site Icon”
Click on “Select Image” and then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Header Image #

Custom Header Image is different from site logo. It’s a large global image in the header to obtain a much more personalized look and feel. To add header image, you need to go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Image”. Here, you can add/change/hide Header Image, select option to Enable Featured Header Image on, Position, Size and add in links and alt tag as per your website need.

Options to Enable Header Featured Image

When you are in “Appearance => Customize =>; Header Image”, you will see option “Enable Featured Header Image on”. There are 6 options, which gives you flexibility to add Header Image as per your website need.

Option 1: Homepage/Frontpage
This option will show header image in Homepage/Frontpage only.

Option 2: Excluding Homepage
This option will show header image throughout the site, excluding Homepage.

Option 3: Entire Site
This option will show header image throughout the site.

Option 4: Entire Site, Page/Post Featured Image
This option will show header image throughout the site. But in Page/Post, your header image will be replaced by Featured Image.

Option 5: Page and Post
This option will show Header Image in Page and Post only. But in Page/Post, your header image will be replaced by Featured Image.

Option 6: Disable
This option will disable Header Image completely.

How to Change and Enable Custom Header Image? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Image”
Now, select enable options in “Enable Featured Header Image on”
Click on “Add New Image” to add new header image
Then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
Click on “Select and Crop” and you can either crop image or skip cropping
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: If you want to move header Image Position, choose the position of header below “Featured Header Image Position”

How to disable Responsive Style? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Responsive Options”
Check option “Check to disable responsive style”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Fixed Header Top Options”
Check option “Check to disable Social” and Check option Check to Disable Search
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Header Option #

How to disable Header ? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Options”
Check option “Check to disable Header”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to disable Header Content? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Options”
Check option “Check to Disable Header Content”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to disable Site Title? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Options”
Check option “Check to Disable Site Title”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to disable site Title Description(Tagline)? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Options”
Check option “Check to Disable Site Description(Tagline)”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to Move Site Title and Tagline ? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Options”
Check option “Check to Move Site Title and Tagline”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to change Header Top Margin and Header Bottom Margin? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Options”
Under “Header Top Margin” and “Header Bottom Margin” change margin as needed
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to change Disable Header Right Section and Header Right Sidebar? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Right Options”
Check on “Check to Disable Search at Header Right” to disable search at Header Right
Check on “Check to Disable Right Sidebar” to disable Header Right Sidebar
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to change default text in search box? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Search Options”
Change the text below “Display Default Text in Search”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to add Promotion Headline? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Promotion Headeline Options”
To enable it, you need to select option from “Enable Headline on”
Then, you can change the defult text as needed or delete it to remove any fields
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to select different font for different sections? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Font Family Options”
Select desired font below each given section
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to select different font size for different sections? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Font Size Options”
Select desired font size below each given section
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Layout Options #

Catch Flames Pro has 8 Default Layout options, 8 Single Post/Page Sidebar Layout and 7 Archive Content Layout options “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options”

Default Layout Options
Once you are in Layout Options, you can select from the options in “Default Layout Options” which will set our site layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Catch Flames Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.

Single Post/Page Sidebar Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can select from the options in “Single Post/Page Sidebar Layout” which will set our site single post/page layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Catch Flames Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.

Archive Content Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Archive Content Layout” which will set our site archive layout.

How to select Sidebar Layout Options for individual Page/Posts?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:

Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
There you can find Catch Flames Options
Then under Sidebar Layout Options you can make the required changes by clicking on options under “Sidebar Layout Options”
Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

How to select optional sidebar for individual Page/Post?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:

1. Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
2. There you can find Catch Flames Options
3. Then under Select Sidebar

you can make the required changes by clicking on options under “Select Sidebar”

Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

How to enable/disable Header Featured Image for individual Page/Post?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:

Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
There you can find Catch Flames Options
Then under Header Featured Image Options you can select option “Enable or Disbale”
Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

How to Set Certain Categories to Display in Homepage/Frontpage? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Homepage/Frontpage Options”
Then select the category you want, and you may select multiple categories by holding down the CTRL key(windows)/Command Key(Mac)
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to Change the Excerpt Length and More Tag Text? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Excerpt Options”
Type in the Excerpt Length as in, the number of words, and More Tag Text
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Feed Redirect #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Feed Redirect”
Add Feed link below “Feed Redirect”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: If you custom feed(s) are not handled by Feedblitz or Feedburner, do not use Redirect Options.

Comment Options #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Comment Options”
Under “Comment Option” select desired option from Use WordPress setting, Disable in Pages and Disable Completely
To disable note below comments box, check option “Check to Disable Notes”
To disable website field, check option “Check to Disable Website Field”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Footer Editor Options”
Under Footer Left Content you can add html or plain text
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to disable Scroll Up Feature? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Scroll Up”
Click on “Check to Disable Scroll Up”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to disable Theme Update Notifications? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Update Notifier Options”
Check option “Check to disable update notifications”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Additional CSS #

You can add your custom CSS that will overwrite the theme CSS for further design customization through “Appearance => Customize => Additional CSS”, in your WordPress Dashboard.

Note: If you are doing heavy customization and adding lot of additional css then we recommended to build Child Theme and add it in your child theme style.css file. Read More about child theme…

Featured Content #

Catch Flames Pro supports 5 featured content types: Featured Widget Content, Featured Post Content, Featured Page Content, Featured Category Content and Featured Image Content. For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content”.

How to enable Featured Content?#

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
To enable featured content, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Featured Content on”
Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Featured Widget Content, Featured Post Content, Featured Page Content, Featured Category Content or Featured Image Content” as per your need
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Featured Page Content:

Featured page content is created to highlight your Page in the featured content. So, first you need to create a Page and then add Featured Image to the Page.

How to enable Featured Page Content?#

Make sure featured content is enabled
Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Featured Page Content”
Then, select Page in Featured Page Content #1, Featured Page Content #2 and so on
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:
When you select page, make sure your Page have Featured Image. Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.

Featured Category Content

Featured category content is created to highlight your posts from specific categories in the featured content. So, first you need to create a Post, add Featured Image to the post and assign posts to specific category.

How to enable Featured Category Content?#

Make sure featured content is enabled
Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Featured Category Content”
Then, Select Catgories
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:
When you select categories, make sure your Posts in those categories have Featured ImageClick here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.

Featured Image Content:

Featured Image Content is created to highlight independent images in the featured content. This option gives you full control to upload your own independent image, with title (optional), content (optional), optional link and target. Just use the following simple steps to add in the Featured Image Content.

How to enable Featured Image Content?#

Make sure featured content is enabled
Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Featured Image Content”
Then, under Featured Content #1, Featured Content#2 upload Image, add in link, title, content as per your need
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Featured Widget Content:

Featured Widget Content is different from above Featured Contents. It is created to give you more control in this placeholder called “Featured Widget Content”. You can add widgets like as advertisement, recent posts, text, images and so on per your need in this Featured Widget content.

How to enable Featured Widget Content and add widgets to Featured Widget Content?#

Make sure featured content is enabled
Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Featured Widget Content”
Click on “Save & Publish”
Then go to “Appearance => Widget => Featured Widget Content”, add desired wigets in Featured Widget Content by draging the widget
Make the required changes and “Save” the widget

How to change Featured Content Layout?#

Catch Flames Pro currently supports two layouts: 2 columns, 3 columns and 4 columns
Make sure featured content is enabled
Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
Under “Select Featured Content Layout”, you can select your desired layout from “2 columns, 3 columns” or “4 columns”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to Move Featured Content above Footer?#

Make sure featured content is enabled
Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
Check option, “Check to Move above Footer”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to change Headline and Subheadline?#

Make sure featured content is enabled
Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
Under “Headline for Featured Content”, you can change the text as needed or Leave field empty if you want to remove Headline
Under “Sub-headline for Featured Content”, you can change the text as needed or Leave field empty if you want to remove Sub-headline
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:Make sure the number of sliders are greater than the Featured Content Layout(greater than 3 for 3 columns and greater than 4 for 4 columns) for Sliding Effect to be enabled even after checking “Check to Enable Sliding Effect” option.

How to change number of Featured Content? and select Featured Page/Post?#

Make sure featured content is enabled
Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
Under “No of Featured Content” set number of Featured Content as required(You need to save and refresh the page after changing number of Featured Content)
Then, select your pages in “Featured Page #” or select your post in “Featured Post #”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:For best results, it is recommended to set number of featured content to be multiple of Featured Content Layout (E.g. for 3 columns layout, 3, 6, 9 etc. will yield best results).

How to Display/Hide Content?#

Make sure featured content is enabled
Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
Under Display Content, you can select “Show Excerpt, Show Full Content or Hide Content” to display excerpt as content, whole content as content or not display content respectively, as per you need
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Featured Slider #

Catch Flames Pro supports 4 featured slider types to choose from: 1. Featured Post Slider, 2. Featured Page Slider, 3. Featured Category Slider and 4. Featured Image Slider. For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options”

How to enable Featured Slider?#

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
To enable slider, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Slider on”
Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Featured Page Slider, Featured Page Slider, Featured Category Slider or Featured Image Slider”
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Featured Page Slider

Features page slider is created to highlight your Page in the slider. So, first you need to create a Page and then add Featured Image to the Page.

How to enable Featured Page Slider?#

Make sure featured slider is enabled
Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Featured Page Slider”
Then select page under Featured Page Slider #1, Featured Page Slider #2 and so on
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:
When you select page, make sure your page have Featured Image. Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.

Featured Category Slider

Features category slider is created to highlight your posts from specific categories in the slider. So, first you need to create a Post, add Featured Image to the post and assign posts to specific category.

How to enable Featured Category Slider?#

Make sure featured slider is enabled
Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Featured Category Slider”
Then, Select Categories
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:
When you select categories, make sure your posts in those categories have Featured Image. Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.

Featured Image Slider:

Featured Image Slider is created to highlight independent images in the slider. This slider gives you full control to upload your own independent image, with title (optional), content (optional), optional link and target. Just use the following simple steps to add in the Featured Image Slider.

How to enable Featured Image Slider?#

Make sure featured slider is enabled
Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Featured Image Slider”
Then, under Featured Slide #1, Featured Slide #2 and so on add “Image”, “Link”, “Title” and “Content” as per your need
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:
When you select page, make sure your page have Featured Image. Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.

How to change Transition Effect, Transition Delay and Transition Length on Slider?#

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
To change Transition Effect, select option under “Transition Effect”
To change Transition Delay, change number of second(s) under “Transition Delay” as per your need
To change Transition Length, change number of second(s) under “Transition Length” as per your need
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to change number of slides and select Featured Page?#

Make sure featured slider is enabled
Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
Under “No of Slider”, select the number slides as per your need
Then, under “Featured Page #1, Featured Page #2, Featured Page #3 and Featured Page #4”, select desired page to show in slider
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Catch Flames Pro has custom social icons for various social networking sites. You can activate the social icons you want by adding in your social profile links through “Appearance => Customize => Social Links => Social Links”, in your WordPress Dashboard.

Further, you can add your own custom social image, title, links through “Appearance => Customize => Social Links => Custom Social Links”, in your WordPress Dashboard.

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 necessarily have to paste the embed code in the content. WordPress will automatically embed the video from the link.

Webmaster Tools #

We have moved Webmaster Tools to our plugin Catch Web Tools for better management and data access. So, just install Catch Web Tools plugin and activate “Webmaster Tools” from Catch Web Tools plugin dashboard. You can verify your site on Google, Yahoo and Bing by adding in the IDs in the respective boxes through “Catch Web Tools => Webmaster Tools” in your WordPress Dashboard. Further, you can add in the Google Analytic. Adding scripts in Header and Footer does not require you to edit codes through Webmaster Tools.

How to Insert Site Verification IDs?

Go to “Catch Web Tools => Webmaster Tools => Site Verification” in your WordPress Dashboard
Enter the Site Verification ID (Google, Yahoo, Bing) wherever you wish to verify your site
Click on Save Changes button

How to Insert Analytics / Other Scripts in Header/Footer?

Go to “Catch Web Tools => Webmaster Tools => Header and Footer Scripts” in your WordPress Dashboard
Here you can add in various scripts like, google, facebook etc.
Enter the script in upper text area, for text you want to load on Header
Enter the script in lower text area, for text you want to load on Footer
Click on Save Changes button

Translating Your Theme with WPML#

Basic Setup
Catch Flames Pro is WPML-compatible, that means all the text in this theme can be translated to the language of your choice. To begin, be sure you have the WPML Plugin installed and activated, along with WPML String Translation plugin.

For First Time Setup
To set up WPML for the first time, follow their Getting Started Guide.
To begin translating, select WPML (in the Dashboard menu) => String Translation. You should see a list of the strings in the theme, with blue translation links to the right. Click these links to reveal the list of languages you use on your blog and the associated translations. Go to this link for more details.

Translating your content
To translate your posts, pages and custom data types, go to this link

Recommended Plugins
* Catch Web Tools for Webmaster Tools, To Top, Catch IDs
* Essential Content Type
* Contact Form 7 for Contact Form
* WooCommerce for E-commerce
* WPML for multi-language
* WP-PageNavi for Numeric Pagination
* Regenerate Thumbnails to for Regenerating Thumbnails
* Jetpack for Infinite Scroll, Gallery, Stats, Image CDN and many more