Catch Flames

Catch Flames 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 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 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. Check out Support at https://catchthemes.com/support/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/catch-flames/

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

Features in “Catch Flames Free” Theme:

1. Responsive Design
2. Site Identity: Option to enable/disable header text, add/edit Custom Logo and Site Icon (Favicon/Web Clip Icon)
3. Color Options: Header Text and Background color and Light and Dark Color Scheme
4. 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
5. Menus: Option to use Fixed Header Top Menu and Primary Menu
6. Menu Options: Option to disable Default Page Menu
7. 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
8. Search Options: Option to change the search box text
9. 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
10. 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
11. Homepage Category Setting: Select option to show post from selective category
12. Excerpt Options: Option to change Excerpt Length and Read More Text
13. Scroll Up Feature: Option to enable/disable scroll up feature
14. 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
15. 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
16. Social Links: 22 different social icons to choose from and option to enable Social Icon in Footer
17. Additional CSS: Option to add your own CSS style to change the design as per you need
18. 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:

1. Responsive Design Options: Additional option to disable responsive design
2. 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
3. Fixed Header Top Options: Additional Option to disable social and search icons
4. 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
5. 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
6. Font Family Options: Option to choose Default Font Family, Site Title and Description Font Family, Headings Font Family and Content Font Family
7. Font Size Options: Option to choose Default, Site Title, Site Description, h1, h2, h3, h4, headings and content font size
8. 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
9. Feed Redirect: Option to redirect your feed to feedburner
10. Comment Options: Option to Enable/Disable comments, notes and website field
11. Footer Editor Option: Option to edit/delete footer text
12. Update Notifier: Option to Disable Update Notification
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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.
17. 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
18. E-commerce Ready: It supports WooCommerce plugin
19. Infinite Scroll: It supports Jetpack plugin infinite scroll module
20. Multi-language Translation: It supports WPML and Translate plugins

Installation Using the WordPress Administration Panel

You can install Themes directly from your WordPress Dashboard by using the Add New Themes option in the Appearance sub-menu.

1. Download Catch Flames from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/catch-flames/ to your Desktop
2. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel
3. Go to “Appearance => Themes => Add New”
4. Click on “Uploads” and Browse the downloaded file catch-flames.zip from the desktop where you have it downloaded
5. 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:

1. Download Catch Flames from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/catch-flames/ to your Desktop
2. Unzip catch-flames.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-flames folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/themes/ before uploading your copy of Catch Flames
4. Upload Catch Flames to /wp-content/themes/
5. Activate Catch Flames 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:

1. Download Catch Flames from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/catch-flames/ to your Desktop
2. Unzip catch-flames.zip to your Desktop
3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of Catch Flames 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 Page Slider. Click Here to see how to add Featured Image in your Post/Page.

Image Sizes:

Featured Page Slider
Width: 1600px
Height: 533px

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

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

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

How to add Featured Image in Post/Page?

1. 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.
2. 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
3. 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 currently has 6 widgetized (Sidebar) areas that are i. Primary Sidebar, ii. Secondary Sidebar, iii. WooCommerce Sidebar, iv. Footer Area One, v. Footer Area Two and vi. Footer Area Three. You can add a variety of Widgets to this theme from “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.

Menus #

Catch Flames 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 2 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Navigation” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Locations”
Select your Custom Menu as Fixed Header Top Menu
Select your Custom Menu as Primary Menu to display it as the Main Menu, which will replace the default Page Menu

How to Add Fixed Header Top Menu? #

1. First, you need to create custom menu from “Appearance => Menus”
2. Then go to “Appearance => Menus => Manage Locations”
3. 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”

How to Disable Default Page Menu? #

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

1. Go to “Appearance => Theme Options => Menu Options”
2. Check the box next to “Disable Default Page Menu?”
3. 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? #

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

How to enable/disable Site Title and Tagline #

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

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

1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity => Site Icon”
2. Click on “Select Image” and then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
3. 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 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? #

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

Color Options #

Catch Flames has 2 different color schemes that you can choose from.

To change the color scheme, go to “Appearance => Customize => Colors”, then select Color Scheme and then click on “Save & Publish”

How to Enable Fixed Header Top? #

1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Fixed Header Top Options” in your WordPress Dashboard
2. Check the box next to “Enable Fixed Header Top?”
3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to Add Fixed Header Logo (or in other words, add logo left to Fixed Header Top Menu)? #

1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Fixed Header Top Options” in your WordPress Dashboard
2. First,Click in “Enable Fixed Header Top”
3. Click on “Change Image” then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: You can also directly insert your logo image file url directly in “Logo in Fixed Header Top” input box.

How to change default text in search box? #

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

How to add Promotion Headline? #

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

Layout Options #

Catch Flames has 4 Sidebar Layout options and 2 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.

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:

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

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

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

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

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

How to disable Scroll Up Feature? #

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

Featured Content #

Catch Flames supports Featured Page Content. For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content”.

How to enable Featured Page Content?#

1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
2. To enable featured content, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Featured Content on”
3. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Featured Page Content”
4. 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.

1. Make sure featured content is enabled
2. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Featured Page Content”
3. Then, select Page in Featured Page 1, Featured Page 2 and so on
4. 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 Featured Content Layout?#

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

How to Move Featured Content above Footer?#

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

How to change Headline and Subheadline?#

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

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

1. Make sure featured page content is enabled
2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
3. 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)
4. Then, select your pages in “Featured Page #”
5. 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).

Display Content#

1. Make sure featured page content is enabled
2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
3. 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
4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: You can further Enable/Disable Title and Enable Date

Featured Slider #

Catch Flames supports Featured Page Slider. For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Featured Slider Options”

How to enable Featured Page Slider?#
Features page Slider Content is created to highlight your Page in the Slider Content. So, first you need to create a Page and then add Featured Image to the Page.

1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
2. To enable slider, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Slider on”
3. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Featured Page Slider”
4. Then select page under Featured Page Slider #1, Featured Page Slider #2 and so on
5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

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

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

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

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

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

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…

Social Links #

Catch Flames 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.

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?

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

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

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

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