Clean Business is a responsive and incredibly resourceful Free Business WordPress theme that can adapt to any business and blog niche and provides users with an accessible interface. This clean and minimalistic corporate and blog WordPress theme is deeply customizable through its theme customizer. Any user can tailor their experience, and create a website that stays true to their vision. Its responsiveness and cross-browser compatibility allows your website to adjust to any device and web browser. This not only expands your target demographic, but it allows you to update your content on the move. It is jam-packed with different features like featured content, featured sliders, promotion headlines, breadcrumbs, navigation, pagination, color options, custom widgets and header image options, each designed to enhance online business sites of any size. All this amounts for a flexible and versatile website. Finally, built using CSS3 and HTML5, Clean Business powered websites ensure your business will look current and tech-savvy for years to come. This theme is translation ready.
Check out Support Forum at https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/forum/clean-business/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/clean-business/
Features in “Clean Business” Free Theme:
- Responsive Design
- Site Identity: Option to add Logo, move Site Title and Tagline before logo, enable/disable Site Title and Tagline and hide Site Description/Tagline
- Color Options: Option to choose Light and Dark Color Scheme, edit Header Text Color and Background Color
- Header Image: Option to set Custom header image/logo, add alternative text, title and link/URL, open link in new window/tab and select Post/Page Featured image size
- Background Image: Option to change Background Image
- Menus: Option to use Primary Menu
- Breadcrumb Options: Option to disable/enable Breadcrumb on Homepage/Frontpage or Entire site and Option to change separator
- Excerpt Options: Option to change Excerpt Length and Read More Text
- Homepage/Frontpage Options: Select option to show post from selective category
- Layout Options:
- Default Layout: Option to choose from i. Content, Primary ii. Primary Sidebar, Content and iii. No Sidebar (Content Width)
- Archive Content Layout: Option to choose from Excerpt Image Left, Excerpt Image Right, Excerpt Image Top and Show Full Content (No Featured Image)
- Single Page/Post Image Layout: Option to disable/enable Single Page/Post Image Layout or Select various options
- Pagination Options: Option to choose Pagination type from Default (Older Posts/Newer Posts), Numeric, Infinite Scroll (Click), Infinite Scroll (Scroll)
- 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 and open link in new tab
- Scroll Up Options: Option to enable/diable scroll up
- Search Options: Option to change the search box text
- Additional CSS: Option to add your own CSS style to change the design as per your need
- Social Links: 31 different social icons to choose from
- Featured Content Options: Option to choose Featured Page Content, enable/disable Featured Content on Entire Site, Homepage/FrontPage, select Featured Content Layout, move above Footer, Headline for Featured Content, Sub-headline for Featured Content, choose No of Featured Content and further option to select/add Background Image
- Featured Slider Options: Option to choose Featured Page Slider, enable/disable slider on Homepage/Frontpage, Entire Site, change Transition Effect, change speed of slideshow cycling and No of Slides
- Widget Areas: Total of 4 widget areas. That is, i. Primary Sidebar, ii. Footer Area One, iii. Footer Area Two and iv. Footer Area Three
- Widgets: Options to choose 3 widgets. They are: 1. CT: Featured Posts, CT: Social Icons and CT:Tag Cloud. You can add widget in sidebar as per your need.
Additional features in “Clean Business” Pro Theme:
- Color Options: Additional options to choose from Basic Color Options, Header Color, Content Color, Sidebar Color, Pagination Color, Promotion Headline Color, Slider Color, Featured Content Color, Footer Color and Scrollup Color
- Layout Options:
- WooCommerce Layout: Select layout for your WooCommerce pages. Option to choose from 4 Layout Options: i. Primary Sidebar, Content, ii. Content, Primary Sidebar, iii. No Sidebar (Content Width), iv. No Sidebar (Full Width)
- Single Post Navigation: Option to enable/disable Single Post Navigation
- Social Links: Option to add up to 10 custom social icons and links
- Comment Options: Option to enable/disable comments, notes and website field
- Feed Redirect: Option to redirect your feed to feedburner
- Font Family Options: Option to choose Site Title Font Family, Default Font Family, Site Title and Tagline (Description) Font Family, Content Title Font Family, Content Body Font Family and Headings Tags from h1 to h6 Font Family
- Update Notifier: Option to enable/disable Theme Update notifications
- Featured Content Options: Additional 3 Featured Content to choose from which makes total of 4 featured content types: i. Featured Post Content, ii. Featured Page Content, iii. Featured Category Content and iv. Featured Image Content
- Featured Slider Options: Additional 3 Featured Slider to choose from which makes total of 4 options to choose 4 featured slider types: i. Featured Post Slider, ii. Featured Page Slider, iii. Featured Category Slider and iv. Featured Image Slider
- Widget Areas: Additional 16 widget areas which makes total of 20 widget areas. That is, i. Primary Sidebar, ii. Footer Area One, iii. Footer Area Two, iv. Footer Area Three, v. Footer Area Four, vi. Before Content, vii. After Content, viii. Header Right, ix. Featured Widget Content, x. Promotion Headline Widget Left, xi. Promotion Headline Right, xii. 404 Page Not Found Content, xiii. WooCommerce Primary Sidebar, xiv. Optional Homepage Sidebar, xv. Optional Archive Sidebar, xvi. Optional Page Sidebar, xvii. Optional Post Sidebar, xviii. Optional Sidebar One, xix. Optional Sidebar Two and xx. Optional Sidebar Three
- Widgets: Additional 10 Widgets options to choose from which make total of 14 widgets. They are: 1. CT:About, 2.CT:Advertisement Codes, 3. CT:Advertisement Images, 4.CT:Featured Embeds,5. CT:Featured Images, 6. CT:Featured Pages, 7. CT:Featured Posts, 8.CT:Gallery Images, 9. CT:Galley Pages, 10. CT:Galley Posts, 11.CT:Instagram, 12.CT:Newsletter, 13. CT: Social Icons and 14. CT: Tag Cloud. You can add widget in sidebar as per your need.
- E-commerce Ready: It supports WooCommerce plugin
- 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.
- Download Clean Business from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/clean-business/ to your Desktop
- Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel
- Go to “Appearance => Themes => Add New”
- Click on “Uploads” and Browse the downloaded file clean-business.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 Clean Business from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/clean-business/ to your Desktop
- Unzip clean-business.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 clean-business folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/themes/ before uploading your copy of Clean Business
- Upload Clean Business to /wp-content/themes/
- Activate Clean Business 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 Clean Business from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/clean-business/ to your Desktop
- Unzip clean-business.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 Clean Business 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:
Post Thumbnail
Widget: 400
Height: 300
Slider
Width: 1920px
Height: 1280px
Featured Content
Width: 350px
Height: 197px
Square
Width: 250px
Height: 250px
Custom Header Image
Width: Flexible (recommended width 1920px)
Height : Flexible (recommended height 600px)
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 Set 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.
Widget Areas #
Clean Business currently has 20 widget areas that are i. Primary Sidebar, ii. Footer Area One, iii. Footer Area Two, iv. Footer Area Three, v. Footer Area Four, vi. Before Content, vii. After Content, viii. Header Right, ix. Featured Widget Content, x. Promotion Headline Widget Left, xi. Promotion Headline Right, xii. 404 Page Not Found Content, xiii. WooCommerce Primary Sidebar, xiv. Optional Homepage Sidebar, xv. Optional Archive Sidebar, xvi. Optional Page Sidebar, xvii. Optional Post Sidebar, xviii. Optional Sidebar One, xix. Optional Sidebar Two and xx. Optional Sidebar Three. “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.
Menus #
Clean Business offers exciting Menu Options! This theme supports and recommends using “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through “Appearance => Menus” from your WordPress Dashboard.
Select Menu Locations
You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Menus => Manage Location” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Location”
Select your Custom Menu as Primary Menu to display it as the Main Menu, which will replace the default Page Menu
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 “Select Logo”
- 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 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.
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”
How to enable Breadcrumb and change separator? #
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Breadcrumb Options”
- Check option “Check to enable Breadcrumb” to enable Breadcrumb
- To enable Breadcrumb on Homepage, check option “Check to enable Breadcrumb on Homepage”
- To change the separator between Breadcrumbs, use desired separator below “Separator between Breadcrumbs”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
How to Change the Excerpt Length and Read More Text? #
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Excerpt Options”
- Type in the Excerpt Length as in, the number of words, and Read More Text
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
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”
Layout Options #
Clean Business has 11 Default Layout options, 6 Archive Content Layout options and 5 page/post image layout to choose from “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options”
Default Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can check the box below “Default Layout Options” which will set our site layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Clean Business 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.
Single Page/Post Image Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can check the box 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 “Clean Business 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:
- Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
- There you can find Clean Business Options
- Then click on Layout Options
- You select required option under “Default”
- 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 Clean Business Options
- Then click on Header Featured Image Options
- You can select option “Enable or Disbale”
- 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:
- Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
- There you can find Clean Business Options
- Then click on Single Page/Post Image Layout
- You can select option “Featured Image, Slider Image, Full Image or Disable Image”
- Finally Click on “Publish/Update”
How to change Pagination Options? #
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Pagination Options”
- Under Pagination Type, select desired option
- 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 default text as needed or delete it to remove any fields
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
How to disable Scrollup feature? #
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Scrollup Options”
- Check option “Check to disable Scroll Up”
- 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 disable Theme Update Notifications? #
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Update Notifier”
- 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 Options”, in your WordPress Dashboard.
Note: If you are doing heavy customization and adding lot of custom css then we recommended to build Child Theme and add it in your child theme style.css file. Read More about child theme…
Color Options #
Clean Business has 2 different color schemes that you can choose from, further option to change Head Text Color and Background Color
To change the colors, go to “Appearance => Customize => Color Options”, then select Color Scheme, change individual colors and then click on “Save & Publish”
Featured Content #
Clean Business supports Featured Page Content. For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options”.
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?#
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
- Enable featured content by selecting “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Featured Content on”
- 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 Page Content”
- 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?#
- Make sure featured content is enabled
- Clean Business currently supports four layouts: 1 columns, 2 columns, 3 columns and 4 columns
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
- Under “Select Featured Content Layout”, you can select your desired layout
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
How to Move Featured Content above Footer?#
- Make sure featured content is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” 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 => Featured Content Options” 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?#
- Make sure featured content is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” 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)
- 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 select/add Background Image in Featured Content?#
- Make sure featured content is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Background Settings” from your WordPress Dashboard
- Then, under Select/Add Background Image add/select desired image
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Featured Slider #
Clean Business supports Featured Page Slider. For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider Options”.
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?#
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider” 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”
- Then select Featured Page #1, Featured Page #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.
How to change Transition Effect and Speed of the slideshow cycling?#
- Make sure featured slider is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
- To change Transition Effect, select option under “Transition Effect”
- To change Speed of the slideshow, change number of second(s) under “Speed of the slideshow cycling” as per your need
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
How to change number of slides?#
- Make sure featured slider is enabled
- Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
- Under “No of Slides”, select the number slides as per your need
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Social Media Icons #
Clean Business 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.
Widgets #
Clean Business has 14 Widgets to choose from. They are: 1. CT:Featured Posts, 2. CT: Social Icons and 3. CT: Tag Cloud. You can add widget in widget area as per your need.
How to add Widgets in widget area? #
You can add widgets to your widget area from two location
1. Go to “Appearance => Widget”, then drag the widget to the widget area or you can click in the widget then list of widget area will appear, now you can choose desired widget area and click on “Add Widget”.
2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Widgets”, then you can find list of widget area. Click on the any widget area and you will see “Add a Widget” option by click on it you can find list of Widget which you can add to respected widget area.
How to add “Featured Posts” in widget area(CT:Featured Posts)? #
This widget is used add Featured Posts with thumbnails.
- Add CT:Featured Posts to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, change “Select Post From”, “No of Post”, “Order By”, “Order”, “Layout”, “Image Alignment” and “Image Size “under respective fields
- You can further change “Post Meta Info”
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
How to add “Social Icon” in widget area(CT:Social Icon)? #
This widget is used to add social icons as a widget.
- Add CT:Instagram to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title” under the respective field.
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
How to add “Tag Cloud” in widget area(CT:Tag Cloud)? #
This widget is used to displays Custom Tag Cloud with selected layout .
- Add CT:Tag Cloud to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title”, “No. of Items”, “Skins(Theme)”, “Sequence”, “Taxonomies to be used”, “Custom Taxnomy” and “Additional Options” under the respective field.
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
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
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