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Chicago theme is beautifully crafted for Blogger with flexible and customizable WordPress theme customizer. It is based on responsive design where each element has been carefully configured for perfect display on all devices and platforms. It comes with a wide variety of options so you can modify layout, styling, colors, featured content, promotion headline, featured slider, pagination, icons, menus, breadcrumb, widgets and much more, directly from theme customizer. This theme is translation ready. Check out Theme Instructions at https://catchthemes.com/theme-instructions/chicago/, Support at https://catchthemes.com/support/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/chicago/

Features in “Chicago” Free Theme :

  1. Responsive Design
  2. Site Identity: Option to enable/disable header text, add/edit Logo, Site Icon(Favicon/Web Clip Icon, and add/edit logo image alt text
  3. Color Options: Option to choose from Pink, Light and Dark Color Scheme, Change WordPress Header Text Color and Custom Background Color
  4. Header Image: Option to set Custom header image/logo, Option to enable/disable featured header image(on HomePage/ FrontPage, Excluding HomePage, Excluding HomePage but enabled on Page/Post Featured Image, Entire Site, Entire Site including Page/Post Featured Image and Only on Pages and Posts), add Alt/Title tag and link URL, open link in new windows/tab and select Post/Page Featured image size
  5. Custom Background: Support for core WordPress Custom Background
  6. Menus: Option to use Primary Menu and Social Menu(23 different social icons to choose from)
  7. Breadcrumb Options: Option to enable/disable Breadcrumb on Homepage/Frontpage or Entire site and Option to change separator
  8. Additional CSS: Option to add your own CSS style to change the design as per you need
  9. Excerpt Options: Option to change Excerpt Length and Read More Text
  10. Homepage/Frontpage Options: Select option to show post from selective category on HomePage/FrontPage
  11. Layout Options:
    1. Default Layout: Option to choose from i. Primary Sidebar/Content ii. Content,Primary Sidebar Content and iii. No Sidebar(Content Width)
    2. Archive Content Layout: Option to choose from Show Excerpt and Show Full Content (No Featured Image)
    3. Single Page/Post Image Layout: Option to enable/disable Single Page/Post Image Layout and select Featured Image, Slider or Full Size as Single Page/Post Image
  12. Promotion Headline Options: Option to enable/disable 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 and open link in new tab
  13. Search Options: Option to change the search box text
  14. Scroll Up Feature
  15. Featured Content: Option to enable/disable featured content on Homepage/Frontpage or entire site, option to select Featured Content layout from 3 columns and 4 columns, option to highlight your featured pages as Featured Content and option to move featured content position above footer
  16. Featured Slider: Option to enable/disable featured content on Homepage/FrontPage or entire site , option to select Transition Effect, Transition Delay, Transition Length, Image Loader(True: Fixes the height overlap issue. Slideshow will start as soon as two slider are available. Slide may display in random, as image is fetch. Wait: Fixes the height overlap issue. Slideshow will start only after all images are available) of slides and option to highlight your featured pages in slider
  17. Widget Areas: 4 widget areas registered. That is, i. Sidebar, ii. Footer Area One, iii. Footer Area Two and iv. Footer Area Three

Additional Features in “Chicago Pro” Premium Theme:

  1. Menu Options :
    1. Additional option to enable/disable Primary Menu, enable/disable search box in Primary Menu and make Menus full width
    2. Footer Menu
  2. Comment Options: Option to enable/disable comments and website field
  3. Feed Redirect: Option to redirect your feed to feedblitz or feedburner
  4. Font Family Options: Option to choose DSite Title Font Family, Default Font Family, Site Tagline Font Family, Content Title Font Family, Content Body Font Family and Headings Tags from h1 to h6 Font Family
  5. Footer Editor Option: Option to edit/delete footer text
  6. Layout Options:
    1. Default Layout Options: Additional 2 options i. No Sidebar(One Column), No Sidebar(Full Width)
    2. Woocommerce Layout: Select layout for your woocommerce pages. Option to choose from 5 Layout Options: i. Primary Sidebar,Content, ii. Content,Primary Sidebar, iii. No Sidebar(Content Width), iv. No Sidebar(One Column) and v. No Sidebar(Full Width)
    3. Archive Content Layout: Additional 2 content layouts, which makes a total of 4 Content layouts: i. Excerpt Image Left, ii. Excerpt Image Right, iii. Excerpt Image Top and iv. Show Full Content(No Featured Image)
  7. Promotion Headline Options: Additional option to set width of Promotion Headline Left Section
  8. Scroll Up: Option to enable/disable scroll up
  9. Update Notifier: Option to enable/disable Theme Update notifications
  10. Color Options: Additional option to use color picker to change various Basic Color Options, Header Color Options, Content Color Options, Social Color Options, Sidebar Color Options, Pagination Color Options, Footer Color Options, Promotion Headline Color Options, Scrollup Color Options, Slider Color Options, Featured Content Color Options, Primary Menu Color Options and Footer Menu Color Options
  11. Featured Content: 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
  12. Featured Slider Options: Additional 3 featured slider types, which makes a total of 4 featured slider types: i. Featured Post Slider, Featured Page Slider, Featured Category Slider and Featured Image Slider
  13. Widget Areas: Additional 14 widget areas registered which makes a total of 18 Sidebars registered. That is, 1. Sidebar, 2. Header Right, 3. Featured Widget Content, 4. Promotion Headline Left, 5. Promotion Headline Right, 6. WooCommerce Primary Sidebar, 7. Optional Homepage Sidebar, 8. Optional Archive Sidebar, 9. Optional Page Sidebar, 10. Optional Post Sidebar, 11. Optional Sidebar One, 12. Optional Sidebar Two, 13. Optional Sidebar Three, 14. 404 Page Not Found Content, 15.Footer Area One, 16. Footer Area Two, 17. Footer Area Three and 18. Footer Area Four
  14. Widgets: “CT: Advertisement Widget”, “CT: Featured Page Widget”, “CT: Featured Post Widget” and “CT: Social Icon Widget”
  15. E-commerce Ready: It supports WooCommerce plugin
  16. Multi-language Ready: It supports WPML plugin

Installation Using the WordPress Administration Panel #

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

  1. Download Chicago from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/chicago/ 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 chicago.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 Chicago from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/chicago/ to your Desktop
  2. Unzip chicago.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 chicago folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/themes/ before uploading your copy of Chicago
  4. Upload Chicago to /wp-content/themes/
  5. Activate Chicago 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 Chicago from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/chicago/ to your Desktop
  2. Unzip chicago.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 Chicago Theme which shall replace the old files

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:

Single
Width: 690px
Height: 388px

Slider
Width: 1680px
Height: 720px

Logo
Width: 300px
Height: 150px

Thumbnail
Width: 300px
Height: 169px

Custom Header Image
Width: Flexible (recommended width 1920px)
Height: Flexible (recommended height 500px)

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 Set 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 #

Chicago currently has 4 widgetized (Sidebar) areas that are i. Sidebar, ii. Footer Area One, iii. Footer Area Two and iv. Footer Area Three. You can add a variety of Widgets to this theme from “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.

Chicago 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 Primary Menu to display it as the Main Menu, which will replace the default Page Menu
    Select your custom menu as Social Menu to display social icons

    Chicago allows you display links to your social media profiles, like Twitter and Facebook, with icons.

    1. Create a new Custom Menu, by going to “Appearance => Menus => create a new menu” and assign it to the Social Menu location
    2. Add links to each of your social services using the “Custom Links” panel
    3. Icons for your social links will automatically appear if it’s available

    Available icons: (Linking to any of the following sites will automatically display its icon in your social menu).

    * Codepen
    * Digg
    * Dribbble
    * Dropbox
    * Facebook
    * Flickr
    * Foursquare
    * GitHub
    * Google+
    * Instagram
    * LinkedIn
    * Email (mailto: links)
    * Pinterest
    * Pocket
    * PollDaddy
    * Reddit
    * RSS Feed (URLs with /feed/)
    * Spotify
    * StumbleUpon
    * Tumblr
    * Twitch
    * Twitter
    * Vimeo
    * WordPress
    * YouTube

    Customizer (Theme Options) #

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

    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 disable Site Title and Tagline? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Title & Tagline”
    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 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 7 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: Excluding Homepage, Page/Post Featured Image
    This option will show header image throughout the site excluding Homepage. But in Page/Post, your header image will be replaced by Featured Image.

    Option 4: Entire Site
    This option will show header image throughout the site.

    Option 5: 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 6: 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 7: Disable
    This option will disable Header Image completely.

    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”

    How to enable Breadcrumb and change separator? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Breadcrumb Options”
    2. Check option “Check to enable Breadcrumb” to enable Breadcrumb
    3. To enable Breadcrumb on Homepage, check option “Check to enable Breadcrumb on Homepage”
    4. To change the separator between Breadcrumbs, use desired separator below “Separator between Breadcrumbs”
    5. 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…

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

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

    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”

    Layout Options #

    Chicago has 3 Default Layout options, 2 Archive Content Layout options and 3 Single Page/Post image layout to choose from “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options”

    Default Layout Options
    Once you are in Layout Options, you can select desired option below “Default Layout” which will set our site layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Chicago 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 select desired option below “Archive Content Layout” which will set our site archive layout.

    Single Page/Post Image Layout
    Once you are in Layout Options, you can select desired option below “Single Page/Post Image Layout” which will set our posts/page image layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting Single Page/Post Image Layout for individual pages and posts through “Chicago Options => Single Page/Post Image Layout”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.

    How to edit individual posts/pages layout?
    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 Chicago Options
    3. Then click onLayout Options
    4. You select required option under”Default”
    5. 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:

    1. Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
    2. There you can find Chicago Options
    3. Then click on Header Featured Image Options
    4. You can select option “Enable or Disbale”
    5. Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

    How to select Single Page/Post Image Layout 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 Chicago Options
    3. Then click on Single Page/Post Image Layout
    4. You can select option “Featured Image, Slider, Full Image or Disable Image”
    5. Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

    How to add Promotion Headline? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Promotion Headline Options”
    2. To enable Promotion Headline, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Headline on”
    3. Then, you can change the default text as needed or delete it to remove any fields
    4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    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”

    Featured Content #

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

    How to enable Featured Page Content?#

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” 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”

    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. Chicago Pro currently supports two layouts: 3 columns and 4 columns
    2. Make sure featured page content is enabled
    3. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” 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 page content is enabled
    2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” 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 page content is enabled
    2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” 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 => Featured Content Options” 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 => Featured Content Options” 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”

    Chicago 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.
    Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Page Slider.

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Featured 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. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

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

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

    Image Loader #

    1. Make sure featured page slider is enabled
    2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Featured Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    3. Under “Image Loader”, select “True, False or Wait” as per your need
    4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    Note:
    True: Fixes the height overlap issue. Slideshow will start as soon as two slider are available. Slide may display in random, as image is fetch.
    Wait: Fixes the height overlap issue. Slideshow will start only after all images are available.

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

    1. Make sure featured page slider is enabled
    2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Featured Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    3. Under “No of Slider”, select the number slides as per your need
    4. Then, under “Feauted Page #1, Feauted Page #2, Feauted Page #3 and Feauted Page #4”, select desired page to show in slider
    5. 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.

    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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