Decree

Decree is a simple yet power packed WordPress theme for lawyers. Unlike other WordPress themes, Decree may not look exquisite at the first glance but it is a completely need-based WordPress theme for lawyers. Decree comes with strong and bold design, advanced functionality and customization options. It’s packed with optimizations and features made especially to bring more clients to your page. The theme is very suitable to present your strong professional personality in a unique way. Decree is fully responsive, optimized and offers utilitarian features as Header Top Section where you can add or remove quick links, Header Right Sidebar where you can display your contact number, custom menu and widget areas and many more. Decree offers some cleverly arranged content blocks that will help you market your services better and it makes sure that no important information has been left out. Decree gives you the perfect online niche that is dynamic, multifunctional and upfront. To top it all, Decree is translation-ready.

Check out Support Forum at https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/forum/decree-free/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/decree/

Features in “Decree” Free Theme:

  1. Responsive Design
  2. Site Identity: Option to add/edit Custom Logo, option to enable/disable logo and option to move Site Tittle and Tagline before logo
  3. Colors: Option to change Header Text Color and Background Color
  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. Background Image: Option to Select Background Image
  6. Menus: Option to use Primary Menu and Footer Menu
  7. Breadcrumb Options: Option to enable/disable Breadcrumb, Enable/Disable Breadcrumb on Homepage and Change Seperator Between Breadcrumbs
  8. Excerpt Options: Option to change Excerpt Length and Read More Text
  9. Featured Content: Option to choose Page as featured content, Option to enable/disable 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, change Headline and Subheadline, change background image
  10. Featured Slider: Option to choose Page as 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
  11. Header Right Options: Option to add Call text, Call Number, Button Text and Button Link
  12. Header Top Options: Option to enable/disable date
  13. Hero Content: Option to enable/diasble Hero Content on entire site or homepage/frontpage, select hero content type as Page, change number of hero content, enable/disable title and change display content
  14. Homepage/Frontpage Options: Option to enable/disable Homepage/Frontpage Content, edit latest post title and description and select categories for homepage/frontpage(only shown in Static Front Page => Your latest posts)
  15. Layout Options:
    1. Default Layout: Option to choose from i. Content,Primary Sidebar and ii. No Sidebar(Full Width)
    2. Home/Archive Page Layout: Option to choose from: i. Content,Primary Sidebar and ii. No Sidebar(Full Width)
    3. Archive Content Layout: Option to choose from i. Excerpt and ii. Show Full Content (No Featured Image)
    4. Single Page/Post Image Layout: Option to enable/disable Single Page/Post Image Layout, choose layout as Featured, Featured Full Width and Original
  16. Logo Slider: Option to choose Page in logo slider, edit title, description, number of items, change background image and number of visible items
  17. Pagination Options: Option to choose Pagination type from Default(Older Posts/Newer Posts), Numeric and Infinite Scroll
  18. Portfolio: Option to choose Page as portfolio content type, option to change headline and sub-headline, number of portfolio, select featured content layout, edit display content
  19. Promotion Headline: Option to choose Page as promotion headline type, edit display content
  20. Scroll Up Option: Option to enable/disable Scroll Up feature
  21. Search Option: Option to change default display text in search
  22. Social Links: Option to choose upto 33 social link
  23. Team: Option to enable/disable team in entire site or homepage/frontpage, select type as Page, select layout as 2columns, 3columns and 4columns, change headline and subheadline, number of items and change display content
  24. Testimonials: Option to choose testimonial type as Page, select layout as 1 column and 2 columns, option to move testimonial above footer, enable/disable slider, change headline and subheadline, number of testimonial and edit display content
  25. Additional CSS: Option to add your own CSS style to change the design as per you need
  26. Widget Areas: 4 widgetized (Sidebar) areas that are 1. Primary Sidebar, 2. Footer Area One, 3. Footer Area Two, 4. Footer Area Three, 5. Footer Area Four
  27. Widgets: 2 widgets to choose from. They are: 1. CT:Recent Posts and CT: Social Icon. You can add widget in sidebar as per your need

Additional features in “Decree” Premium Theme:

  1. Menus: Additional 3 menu to choose from which makes total of 5 menus they are i. Primary Menu, ii. Secondary Menu, iii. Header Top Menu, iv. Header Right Menu and v. Footer Menu
  2. Menu Options: Option to enable/disable Primary Menu and enable/ disable search box in Primary Menu
  3. Comment Options: Option to enable/disable comments, notes and website field
  4. Consultation Form: Option to enable/disable consultation form, change background image, select content type and select pages
  5. Footer Contact Info: Option toe enable/disable contact information, add address, phone, fax, email, social icon heading, further option to choose background as image or embed code
  6. Excerpt Options: Option to change Excerpt Length and Read More Text
  7. Featured Content: Additional 3 featured content type to choose from which makes total of 4 different featured content types to choose from: i. Post, ii. Page, iii. Category and iv. Image
  8. Featured Slider: Option to choose 4 different featured slider types: i. Post , ii. Page, iii. Category and iv. Image
  9. Feed Redirect: Option to redirect your feed to feedburner
  10. Font Family Options: Option to choose Site Title Font Family, Default Font Family, Site Tagline Font Family, Menu Font Family, Content Title Font Family, Content Body Font Family and Headings Tags from h1 to h6 Font Family. Finally, reset fonts to default
  11. Footer Editor Options: Option to add html or plain text and reset Footer Content
  12. Header Top Options: Option to fix the position of header top and enable/disable social icons in header top
  13. Hero Content: Option to select hero content type as i. Post, ii. Page, iii. Image and iv. Content
  14. Layout Options:
    1. Default Layout: Option to choose from i. Primary Sidebar,Content, ii. Content,Primary Sidebar, iii. No Sidebar(Content Width), iv. No Sidebar(One Column) and v. No Sidebar(Full Width)
    2. Home/Archive Page Layout: Option to choose from: 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. Woocommerce Layout: Option to choose from i. Primary Sidebar,Content, ii. Content,Primary Sidebar, iii. No Sidebar(Content Width), iv. No Sidebar(One Column) and v. No Sidebar(Full Width)
    4. Archive Content Layout: Option to choose from i. Excerpt and ii. Show Full Content (No Featured Image)
    5. Single Page/Post Image Layout: Option to enable/disable Single Page/Post Image Layout, choose layout as Featured, Featured Full Width and Original
  15. Logo Slider: Option to choose 4 different logo slider types: i. Post , ii. Page, iii. Category and iv. Image
  16. Portfolio: Option to choose 6 different portfolio types: i. Post, ii. Custom Post Type, iii. Page, iv. Category, v. Image and vi. Embed
  17. Promotion Headline: Option to choose 4 different promotion headline types: i. Page, ii. Post, iii. Category and iv Custom
  18. Single Post Navigation: Option to enable/disable Single Post Navigation
  19. Social Links: Option to change social icon size
  20. Team: Option to choose select type as: i. Page, ii. Post, iii. Category and iv. Image
  21. Testimonials: Option to choose testimonial type as: i. Post, ii. Custom Post Type, iii. Page, iv. Category and v. Image
  22. Update Notifier: Option to enable/disable update notifications
  23. WooCommerce Options: Option to enable/disable Zoom, Lightbox and Slider effects for WooCommerce Product Gallery
  24. Color Options: Option to choose colors from Basic Colors, Footer Contact Info Colors, Contact Page Colors, Content Colors, Featured Content Colors, Footer Colors, Footer Menu Color, Header Colors, Header Right Menu Colors, Header Top Menu Colors, Hero Content Colors, Primary Menu Colors, Pagination Colors, Header Highlight Colors, Promotion Headline Colors, Scrollup Colors, Secondary Menu Colors, Sidebar Colors, Featured Slider Colors and Testimonial Slider Colors
  25. Widget Areas: Additional 17 widgetized area which makes total of 21 widgetized (Sidebar) areas that are 1. Primary Sidebar, 2. Footer Area One, 3. Footer Area Two, 4. Footer Area Three, 5. Footer Area Four, 6. Header Right, 7. Header Bottom, 8. Before Content, 9. After Content, 10. Before Posts/Pages, 11. After Posts/Pages, 12. Featured Widget Content, 13. 404 Page Not Found Content, 14. WooCommerce Primary Sidebar, 15. Optional Homepage Sidebar, 16. Optional Archive Sidebar, 17. Optional Page Sidebar, 18. Optional Post Sidebar, 19. Optional Sidebar One, 20. Optional Sidebar Two and 21. Optional Sidebar Three
  26. Widgets: Additional 12 widgets to choose from which makes 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 (with content text type) and 14. CT: Tag Cloud. You can add widget in sidebar as per your need.
  27. E-commerce Ready: It supports WooCommerce plugin
  28. 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 Decree from Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/Decree/ 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 decree-pro.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 Decree from Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/Decree/ to your Desktop
  2. Unzip decree.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 Decree folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/themes/ before uploading your copy of Decree
  4. Upload Decree to /wp-content/themes/
  5. Activate Decree 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 Decree from Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/Decree/ to your Desktop
  2. Unzip decree.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 Decree 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:

Post Thumbnail
Width: 480px
Height: 480px

Slider
Width: 1920px
Height: 823px

Hero Content
Width: 635px
Height: 476px

Thumbnail Size
Width: 80px
Height: 80px

Featured
Width: 910px
Height: 683px

Featured Full
Width: 1280px
Height: 549px

Custom Header Image
Width: Flexible (recommended width 1920px)
Height : Flexible (recommended height 823px)

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.

Widget Area (Sidebar)#

Decree free currently has 4 widgetized (Sidebar) areas they are: 1. Primary Sidebar, 2. Footer Area One, 3. Footer Area Two and 4. Footer Area Three. Go to “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.

Decree 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 can assign your custom menu in 5 different 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
Select your custom menu as Footer Menu to display Menu in Footer Area

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 clicking 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 Identity
  2. Uncheck “Disable Site Title and Tagline” and it will not dispaly 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
  5. Click on “Select and Crop” and you can either crop image or skip cropping
  6. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

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

How to 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 seperator between Breadcrumbs, use desired separator below “Seperator between Breadcrumbs”
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Comment Options #

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

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”

Featured Content #

Decree supports Featured Page Content. For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured 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?#

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
  2. To enable featured content, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable on”
  3. Then select desired page under “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 Background Image for Featured Content?#

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “Background Image”, click on “Change Image” and 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 change Featured Content Layout?#

  1. Decree currently supports two layouts: 2 columns, 3 columns and 4 columns
  2. Make sure featured content is enabled
  3. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
  4. Under “Select Featured Content Layout”, you can select your desired layout from “2 columns, 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 => Theme Options => 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 => Theme Options => 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”

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? #

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => 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. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

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

How to Display/Hide Content?#

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => 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”

Decree support page as featured slider. Features 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.
Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Page Slider.

How to enable Featured Slider?#

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  2. To enable slider, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable on”
  3. Then, select desired page under “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 Transition Effect, Transition Delay and Transition Length on Slider?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Slider” 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. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  2. Under “Image Loader”, select “True, False or Wait” as per your need
  3. 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 in featured slider?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “No of Slides”, select the number slides as per your need
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: To see changes in No of Slides please refresh the customizer page.

How exclude Slider post from Homepage posts?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Check option, “Check to exclude Slider post from Homepage posts”
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Header Right Sidebar Options #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Right Sidebar Options”
  2. Click on “Check to disable Header Right Sidebar”
  3. Further you can add “Call Text”, “Call Number”, “Button Text” and “Button Link” options
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to enable/disable date Fixed Header? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Top Options”
  2. Click on “Check to disable date” to disable date
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Hero Content #

Decree supports Page as Hero Content. For Hero Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Hero Content”.

How to enable Hero Content? #

  1. Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Hero Content
  2. To enable Hero Content, select option Entire Site or Homepage/Frontpage under “Enable Hero Content on”
  3. Under “Page #1, Page #2, Page #3 and so on”, select desired page to show in slider
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: Page is determined according to Number of Hero Content.

How to change number of hero content?#

  1. Make sure hero content is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Hero Content” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “No of Hero Content”, select the number hero content as per your need
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: To see changes in No of Hero Content please refresh the customizer page.

How to Display/Hide Content in Hero Content?#

  1. Make sure hero content is enabled
  2. 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
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: Check option “Check to Enable Title” to enable title of Hero content

Layout Options #

Decree has 2 Default Layout options, 2 Home/Archive Page 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
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 “Decree 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 “Decree 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 Decree Options
  3. Then click on Layout Options
  4. You select required option under “Default”
  5. Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

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

  1. Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
  2. There you can find Decree Options
  3. Then click on Select Sidebar
  4. You can make the required changes by clicking on options under “Select Sidebar”
  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 Decree 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 Decree Options
  3. Then click on Single Page/Post Image Layout
  4. You can select various size options under Single Page/Post Option
  5. Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

Logo Slider

Logo Slider is used to add various Logos as slider. You can highlight your partners or affiliates through this section.
First you need to enable Logo Slider. Decree supports Page as logo slider.

How to enable Logo Slider? #

  1. Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Logo Slider
  2. To enable Logo Slider, select option Entire Site or Homepage/Frontpage under “Enable Logo Slider on”
  3. Under “Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 and so on”, select desired page to show
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: For best effect, make sure all the images are of same size on logo slider.
Note: Page is determined according to Number of Logo Slider.

How to change number of logo slider items?#

  1. Make sure logo slider is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Logo Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “No of Items”, select the number items you wish to add in slider
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to change number of visible items in logo?#

  1. Make sure logo slider is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Logo Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “No of visible items”, select the number items you wish to visible in slider
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to change Background Image for Logo Slider?#

  1. Make sure logo slider is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Logo Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “Background Image”, click on “Change Image” and 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 change Transition Delay and Transition Length on Logo Slider?#

  1. Make sure logo slider is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Logo Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  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 Pagination Options? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Pagination Options”
  2. Under Pagination Type, select desired option
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to enable Infinite Scroll using JetPack Plugin #

  1. Infinite Scroll Option requires Jetpack Plugin so first you need to download and activate Jetpack
  2. Then go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Pagination Options”
  3. Select “Infinite Scroll” under Pagination type and click on “Save & Publish”
  4. Click on link “Infinite Scroll Settings can be found here”
  5. You will see Jetpack’s setting page click on “Writing” tab, you can find “Theme enhancements” option
  6. Under “Theme enhancements” you will find options for Infinite Scroll, choose option as per you need and click on “SAVE SETTINGS”

Portfolio

Portfolio option in Decree is used to highlight Page in your website as Portfolio.

How to enable Portfolio? #

  1. Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Portfolio
  2. To enable Portfolio, select option Entire Site or Homepage/Frontpage under “Enable Portfolio on”
  3. Under “Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 and so on”, select desired page to show
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: Page Portfolio is determined according to Number of Portfolio.

How to select portfolio layout?#

  1. Make sure Portfolio is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Portfolio” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “Select Portfolio Layout”, select portfolio layout as “2 columns or 3 columns or 4 columns”
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to edit or remove Headline and Sub-headline for Portfolio?#

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

How to change number of portfolio?#

  1. Make sure portfolio is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options =>Portfolio” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “No of Portfolio”, select the number portfolio as per your need
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: To see changes in No of Portfolio please refresh the customizer page.

How to add Promotion Headline? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Promotion Headline”
  2. To enable Promotion Headline, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable on”
  3. Then, under “Select Page” choose desired page
  4. Under “Background Image”, click on “Change Image” and then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to enable/disable content in Homepage/Frontpage? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Homepage/Frontpage Options”
  2. To disable Homepage/Frontpage Content check option “Check to disable Homepage/Frontpage Content”
  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. Edit Latest Post Title and Description as per your need
  3. Then select the category you want, and you may select multiple categories by holding down the CTRL key(windows)/Command Key(Mac)
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to disable Scrollup feature? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Scrollup Options”
  2. Check option “Check to disable Scroll Up”
  3. 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”

Social Links #

Decree 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 => Theme Options => Social Links”, in your WordPress Dashboard.

How to add Team? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Team”
  2. To enable Team, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable on”
  3. Then select page under “Featured Page 1”, “Featured Page 2”, “Featured Page 3” and so on
  4. Further you can change “Headline” and “Sub-headline”, “Number of items” to be displayed and “Display Content” under respective headings
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to enable Testimonial? #
Decree supports Page as testimonial.

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Testimonial”
  2. Under “Enable Testimonial on” select Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site
  3. Then select desired page under “Page 1”, “Page 2”, “Page 3” and soon
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to select layout for testimonial? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Testimonial”
  2. Make sure Testimonial option is enabled
  3. Then under “Select Testimonial Layout” select the desired columns you want to display in testimonial “1 column or 2 columns”
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to change Headline and Sub-headline for Testimonial?#

  1. Make sure testimonial option is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Testimonial” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “Headline for Testimonial”, you can add desired text or leave it empty if you don’t want to disable fields”
  4. Under “Sub-headline for Testimonial”, you can add desired text or leave it empty if you don’t want to disable fields”
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to select number of Testimonial?#

  1. Make sure Testimonial is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Testimonial” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “No of Testimonial”, select number of testimonial you want to display
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: To see changes in No of Testimonial please save and refresh the page.

Note: To move testimoial above footer check option “Check to Move above Footer” and to enable slider in courses check option “Check to Enable Slider”

How to disable Theme Update Notifications? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Update Notifier Options”
  2. Check option “Check to disable update notifications”
  3. 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 custom 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 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 default text as needed or delete it to remove any fields
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Widgets #

Decree has 2 Widgets. They are: 1. CT:About and 2. CT: Social Icons. 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 “Recent Posts” in widget area(CT:Recent Posts)? #

This widget is used to add About Information

  1. Add CT:Recent Posts Widget to desired widget area. More Info
  2. Then add “Title”, “No of Posts”, “Image Alignment”, “Image Size”, “Content Type” and so on under respective fields
  3. Finally, click on “Save”

How to add “Social Icon” in widget area(CT:Social Icon)? #

This widget is used to add social icons as a widget.

  1. Add CT:Social Icon to desired widget area. More Info
  2. Add “Title” under the respective field.
  3. Finally, click on “Save”

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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