Create

sweta

10 years ago

Make a remarkable first impression on your website visitors with a large headline & full-page background. How do you do it best? Do it through Create, our new WordPress Theme! Create is super easy to use and has unconventional out-of-the-box features. It is great for your personal, business or even organizational web portals. Create is based on HTML5, CSS3 and designed with a mobile-first approach in mind. Your content display will always be clean, smooth and perfect regardless of whether your visitors reach you through smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer. Create a beautiful, yet professional WordPress site in no time! Check out Support Forum at https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/forum/create-free/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/create/

Features in “Create” Free Theme:

Responsive Design
Site Identity: Option to add/edit Logo, Option to enable/disable Site Title and Tagline and add/edit Site Icon(Favicon/Web Clip Icon)
Color: Option to select Background Color
Header Image: Option to add Cusotm Header Image
Background Image: Option to select Background Image
Menus: Option to use Primary Menu and Social Menu
Additional CSS: Option to add your own CSS style to change the design as per you need
Excerpt Options: Option to change Excerpt Length and Read More Text
Homepage/Frontpage Options: Select option to show post from selective category
Layout Options:
1. Frontpage Posts Layout: Option to choose from i. Primary Sidebar,Content and ii. No Sidebar (Full Width)
2. Default Layout: Option to choose from i. Primary Sidebar,Content and ii. No Sidebar (Full Width)
3. Archive Content Layout: Option to Show Excerpt(Image Top) and Show Full Content(No Featured Image)
4. Single Page/Post Image Layout: Option to choose from i. Large, ii. Full Sized and iii. Featured Image
Pagination Options: Option to choose Pagination type from Default, Numeric (Requires WP-PageNavi Plugin), Infinite Scroll(Click and Scroll: Requires JetPack Plugin with Infinite Scroll module enabled)
Scrollup Options: Option to enable/disable Scroll Up
Search Options: Option to change default display text in Search
Social Menu : 23 different social icons to choose from
Widget Areas: 2 widget areas registered: Sidebar and Into Widget
Featured Slider: Option to enable/disable featured content 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 Features in “Create Pro” Premium Theme:

Header Image: Option to disable/enable featured header image, add alt, title, link/URL, open link in new windows/tab and select Post/Page Featured image size
Menus: Additional 1 Menu which totals to 3 custom menus: Primary Menu, Secondary Menu and Social Menu
Comment Options: Option to enable/disable comments and website field
Excerpt Options: Option to change Excerpt Length and Read More Text
Feed Redirect: Option to redirect your feed to feedburner
Font Family Options: Option to choose Default Font Family, Site Title and Tagline (Description) Font Family, Content Title Font Family, Headings Font Family, Content Body Font Family and Forms &
Navigation Font Family
Footer Editor Option: Option to edit/delete footer text
Intro Widget Options: Additional option to enable/disable Intro Widget Section on Homepage/Frontpage, Excluding Homepage or Entire Site
Layout Options:
1. Frontpage Posts Layout Options: 3 frontpage posts layouts: i. Primary Sidebar, Content (Left Sidebar) and iii.No Sidebar(Full Width)
2. Default Layout Options: Additional 2 default layouts, which makes a total of 3 Default Layout Options: i. Primary Sidebar, Content (Left Sidebar) and iii.No Sidebar (Full Width)
3. Archive Content Layout: 2 archive content layouts: i. Show Excerpt and ii. Show Full Content (No Featured Image)
Pagination Options: Option to choose Pagination type from Default, Numeric, Infinite Scroll(Requires JetPack Plugin with Infinite Scroll module enabled)
Scroll Up: Option to disable/enable scroll up
Update Notifier: Option to disable/enable Theme Update notifications
WooCommerce Options: Option to enable/disable Zoom, Lightbox and Slider effects for WooCommerce Product Gallery
Color Options: Additional option to use color picker to change
various Header Color Options, Content Color Options, Social Color
Options, Sidebar Color Options, Footer Sidebar Color Options and Footer
Color Options
Widget Areas: Additional 11 widget areas registered which makes a total of 13 Sidebars registered. That is, 1. Primary Sidebar, 2. Intro Widget Sidebar, 3. Optional Homepage Sidebar, 4. Optional Archive Sidebar, 5.
Optional Page Sidebar, 6. Optional Post Sidebar, 7. Optional Sidebar One, 8. Optional Sidebar Two, 9. Optional Sidebar Three, 10. 404 Page Not Found Content Sidebar, 11. Footer Area One, 12. Footer Area Two and 13. Footer Area Three.

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.

Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel
Click on “Appearance => Themes => Add New”
Type “Create” in the search box and click on Search
It will show the Create Theme Thumbnail and details
Click on “Install” 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 Create from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/Create/ to your Desktop
Unzip Create.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 Create folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/themes/ before uploading your copy of Create
Upload Create to /wp-content/themes/
Activate Create 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 Create from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/Create/ to your Desktop
Unzip Create.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 Create 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 Content. Click Here to see how to add Featured Image in your Post/Page.

Image Sizes:

Post Thumbnail
Width: 650px
Height: 490px

Homepage/Archive Post Thumbnail:
Width: 240px
Height: 180px

Jetpack Logo:
Width: 300px (Recommended)
Height: Flexible

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.

Widgets #

Create currently has 2 widgetized (Sidebar) areas that are Sidebar and Inro Widget. You can add a variety of Widgets to this theme from “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.

Menus #

Create 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 => Menus” 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 Menu below Primary Menu

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

Create a new Custom Menu, and assign it to the Social Links Menu location
Add links to each of your social services using the Links panel
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
Social networks that aren’t currently supported will be indicated by a generic share icon.

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
Uncheck “Check to disable logo” and it will display default logo
You can replace the default logo by clicking on it or clicking 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 add Site Icon? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity”
Click on “Select File” under Site Icon
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 add Custom Header Image? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Image”
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
Click on “Select and Crop” and you can either crop image or skip cropping
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? #

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) and Command Key(Mac)
Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Layout Options #

Create has 2 Frontpage Posts Layout, 2 Default Layout, 2 Archive Content Layout and 4 Single Page/Post Image Layout”Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options”

Frontpage Posts Layout:
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Frontpage Posts Options” which will set our site layout

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 “Create 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 “Create 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 change Pagination Options? #

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Pagination Options”
Under Pagination Type, select desired option
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”

Featured Slider #

Create 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.

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

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

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Featured 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”

Image Loader#

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Featured Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
Under “Image Loader”, select “True, False or Wait” as per your need
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?#

Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Featured 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”

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.

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/script you want to load on Header
Enter the script in lower text area, for text/script you want to load on Footer
Click on Save Changes button