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Snowflakes Pro

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Snowflakes Pro is a modern Christmassy photography WordPress theme that provides high-quality features with minimal design. It is the child theme of our popular photography WordPress theme, Fotografie Pro. The theme is simple, clean and gives your website a warm and welcoming look of Christmas with its vibrant color palette. Snowflakes Pro is a visually charming and impressive, graphically polished and seamless, engaging and dynamic, deeply creative and very easily customizable seasonal WordPress theme. The theme comes with basic features that are extremely crucial for your photography website, such as header media options, hero content, color scheme, featured content, featured slider, and more. All the power-packed features in Snowflakes Pro will definitely live up to your expectations from a creative Christmassy photography WordPress theme. So, give your photography website a warm festive look this Christmas with our new seasonal photography WordPress theme. The theme is extremely responsive and functions beautifully across all devices. To top it all, the theme is translation ready.

You need to have Fotografie parent theme in your WordPress installed themes to use this theme. Here is the link for the parent theme: https://catchthemes.com/themes/fotografie/

Check out Support Forum at https://catchthemes.com/support-forum/forum/Snowflakes-pro-premium/ and Demo at https://catchthemes.com/demo/Snowflakes/

Features in Snowflakes Free

  1. Responsive Design
  2. Site Identity: Option to add/edit Custom Logo, option to enable/disable logo
  3. Colors: Option to change Header Text Color and Background Color
  4. Header Media: Option to add Custom Header Video or embed video from Youtube, display/hide Header Image, add Header Media Title, Header Media Text, Header Media Link Text and Header Media Link URL
  5. Background Image: Option to change Background Image
  6. Menu: Option to use Header and Social Menu
  7. Breadcrumb: Option to enable/disable Breadcrumb option
  8. Excerpt Options: Option to change Excerpt Length and Read More Text
  9. Hero Content Options: Option to select they are: Page as Hero Content
  10. Homepage Settings: Select option to show post from selective category on HomePage/FrontPage
  11. Layout Options:
    1. Site Layout: Option to choose from 1. Fluid and 2. Boxed
    2. Singular Content Layout: This layout is for Singular Post Types like Post, Page Option to choose from, they are: 1. Left Sidebar (Primary Sidebar, Content) and 2. No Sidebar
  12. Pagination Options: Option to choose Pagination type from Default(Older Posts/Newer Posts), Numeric, Infinite Scroll (Click), Infinite Scroll (Scroll)
  13. Scrollup Options: Option to enable/disable scroll up
  14. 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 or 4 columns, edit Featured Content Title and Sub Title
  15. Reset all settings: Option to reset all the setting to default
  16. Widget Areas: 4 widgetized (Sidebar) to choose from, they are 1. Sidebar, 2. Footer One, 3. Footer Two and 4. Footer Three
  17. Widgets:2 Widgets to choose from, they are: 1. CT:Recent Posts and 2. CT: Social Icons
  18. Essential Content Type: You can get following option if you use Essential Content Type plugin
    1. Custom Content Type
      1. Portfolio
      2. Featured Content

Additional Features in Snowflakes Pro

  1. Colors: Option to choose different color scheme like: Light, Dark, Gray, Red and Yellow, further option to choose different color for sections like: Background Color, Page Background Color, Link Color, Main Text Color, Secondary Text Color and Secondary Background Color
  2. Comment Options: Option to use WordPress Setting, disable in Pages and disable compeletly, option to enable/disable Website Field
  3. Featured Slider: Option to chohose 4 different featured slider types: i. Post, ii. Page, iii. Category and iv. Image, 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
  4. Font Family Options: Additional option to choose for different section such as: 1.Default Font Family, 2. Site Title Font Family, 3. Site Tagline Font Family, 4. Headings Tags from h1 to h6 Font Family, 5. Content Title Font Family, 6. Content Body Font Family
  5. Footer Editor Options: Option to edit Footer content
  6. Hero Content Options: Option to select Post, Category or Image as Hero Content
  7. Homepage/Frontpage Options: Select option to show post from selective category on HomePage/FrontPage
  8. Layout Options:
    1. Singular Content Layout: This layout is for Singular Post Types like Post, Page Option to choose from, additional 2 option which makes total of 4 options, they are: 1. Left Sidebar (Primary Sidebar, Content), 2. No Sidebar, 3. No Sidebar:Full Width, 4. No Sidebar: Full Content Width and 5. Right Sidebar(Content, Primary Sidebar)
    2. WooCommerce Layout: This layout is for WooCommerce Pages, option to choose from 1. Left Sidebar (Primary Sidebar, Content), 2. No Sidebar, 3. No Sidebar:Full Width, 4. No Sidebar: Full Content Width and 5. Right Sidebar(Content, Primary Sidebar)
  9. Pagination Options: Option to choose Pagination type from Default(Older Posts/Newer Posts), Numeric, Infinite Scroll (Click), Infinite Scroll (Scroll)
  10. Update Notifier: Option to enable/disable update notifications
  11. WooCommerce Options: Option to enable/disable Zoom, Lightbox and Slider effects for WooCommerce Product Gallery
  12. Featured Content: Option to choose 4 different featured content types: i. Post, ii. Page, iii. Category and iv. Image, Option to enable/disable featured content on Homepage/Frontpage or entire site, option to select Featured Content layout from 2 columns,3 columns or 4 columns, edit Featured Content Title and Sub Title
  13. Reset all settings: Option to reset all the setting to default
  14. Widget Areas: Additional 8 widget areas which makes total of 12 widgetized (Sidebar), they are 1. Sidebar, 2. Footer One, 3. Footer Two, 4. Footer Three, 5. Footer Four, 6. WooCommerce Sidebar, 7. 404 Page Not Found Content, 8. Optional Page Sidebar, 9. Optional Post Sidebar, 10. Optional Sidebar One, 11. Optional Sidebar Two and 12. Optional Sidebar Three
  15. E-commerce Ready: It supports WooCommerce plugin
  16. Multi-language Ready: It supports WPML plugin

Installation Using the WordPress Administration Panel #

  1. Download Snowflakes Pro from your Catch Themes member My-Account 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 Snowflakes.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 Snowflakes Pro from your Catch Themes member My-Account to your Desktop
  2. Unzip Snowflakes-pro.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 Snowflakes folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/themes/ before uploading your copy of Snowflakes
  4. Upload Snowflakes to /wp-content/themes/
  5. Activate Snowflakes 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.

For more detail, click here to watch video for Catch Updater Plugin

Updating Theme Using FTP

To update Theme though FTP, follow these basic steps:

  1. Download Snowflakes Pro from your Catch Themes member My-Account to your Desktop
  2. Unzip Snowflakes-pro.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 Snowflakes Theme which shall replace the old files

Image Sizes:

Post Thumbnail
Width: 1148px
Height: 574px

Featured Image:
Width: 533px
Height: 533px

Hero Image:
Width: 720px
Height: 720px

Slider Image:
Width: 1920px
Height: 1080px

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)#

Snowflakes Pro currently has 12 widgetized (Sidebar) areas there are:1. Sidebar, 2. Footer One, 3. Footer Two, 4. Footer Three, 5. Footer Four, 6. WooCommerce Sidebar, 7. 404 Page Not Found Content, 8. Optional Page Sidebar, 9. Optional Post Sidebar, 10. Optional Sidebar One, 11. Optional Sidebar Two and 12. Optional Sidebar Three. Go to “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.

Snowflakes 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 2 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Menus => Manage Location” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Location”
Select your Custom Menu as Header Menu to display it as the Main Menu, which will replace the default Page Menu
Select your custom menu as Social Menu

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 Media

How to add Header Video? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Media”
  2. To upload your video, click on “Select Video” option, then you can either upload the video from your computer or select the existing video from your media library, video must be less than 8mb
  3. To embed video from Youtube, you can enter YouTube URL
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to add Header Image? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Media”
  2. To upload header image click on “Add New Image” or existing Header Image, 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”

Color Option#

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Colors”
  2. Under Base Color Scheme choose desired colored scheme and choose different colors for respective section as per your need
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Breadcrumb”
  2. Check option, “Check to enable Breadcrumb” to enable and uncheck to disable
  3. 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 website field, check option “Check to Disable Website Field”
  4. 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 #

Snowflakes Pro supports 4 featured content types to choose from: 1. Post, 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Image. For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content”.

How to enable Featured Content?#

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

Post (Featured Content):

Featured Post Content is created to highlight your Post in the featured content. So, first you need to create a Post and then add Featured Image to the Post.

How to enable Featured Post Content?#

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Post”
  3. Then add Post ID under Post 1, Post 2 and so on
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

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

Page (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. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Page”
  3. Then select page under Page 1, 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.

Category (Featured Content)

Featured category content is created to highlight your posts from specific categories in the featured content. So, first you need to create a Post, add Featured Image to the post and assign posts to specific category.

How to enable Featured Category Content?#

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Category”
  3. Then, Select Categories
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

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

Image (Featured Content):

Featured Image Content is created to highlight independent images in the featured content. This option gives you full control to upload your own independent image, with title (optional), content (optional), optional link and target. Just use the following simple steps to add in the Featured Image Content.

How to enable Featured Image Content?#

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Image”
  3. Then, under Featured Content #1, Featured Content #2 and so on add “Image”, “Link”, “Title” and “Content” as per your need
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Snowflakes Pro supports 4 featured slider types they are: 1. Post , 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Image. For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured 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. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Page , Page , Category or Image”
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: To move slider above header, check option “Move Slider Above Header”

Post (Featured Slider)

Features Post slider is created to highlight your Post in the slider. So, first you need to create a Post and then add Featured Image to the Post.

How to enable Featured Post Slider?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Post”
  3. Then, select “Post # 1”, “Post # 2” and so on
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

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

Page (Featured 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?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Page”
  3. Then, select “Page # 1”, “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.

Category (Featured Slider)

Features category slider is created to highlight your posts from specific categories in the slider. So, first you need to create a Post, add Featured Image to the post and assign posts to specific category.

How to enable Featured Category Slider?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Category”
  3. Then, select desired category under “Select Categories”
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: Hold down the Ctrl (windows) / Command (Mac) button to select multiple options.

Image (Featured Slider):

Features Image Slider Content is created to highlight selected Images in the Slider Content.

How to enable Featured Image Slider?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Image”
  3. Then under “Image” select desired image add, title, content as per requied
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

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.

Note: If you custom feed(s) are not handled by Feedblitz or Feedburner, do not use Redirect Options.

How to select different font for different sections? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Font Family Options”
  2. Select desired font below each given section
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Footer Editor Options”
  2. Under Footer Left Content you can add html or plain text
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: To reset footer content, check option “Check to reset Footer Content”

How to choose Hero Content Option? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Hero Content Option”
  2. Choose Type as “Post,Page,Category or Image”
  3. Then, select desired option under “Post” if you select Type as Post, “Page” if you select Type as Page and so on
  4. 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 #

Snowflakes Pro has 2 Site Layout, 4 Singular Content Layout options and 4 Woocommerce Layout options image layout to choose from “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options”

Site Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the option below “Site Layout” which will set our site layout.

Singular Content Layout
Singular content layout is for singular post types like Post,Pages. There are option to choose from: i. Left Sidebar(Primary Sidebar,Content), ii. No Sidebar, iii. No Sidebar:Full Width, iv. No Sidebar: Full Content Width and v. Right Sidebar(Content,Primary Sidebar)

WooCommerce Layout
Select layout for your WooCommerce pages. Option to choose from 5 Layout Options: i. Left Sidebar(Primary Sidebar,Content), ii. No Sidebar, iii. No Sidebar:Full Width, iv. No Sidebar: Full Content Width and v. Right Sidebar(Content,Primary Sidebar)

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/disable Scrollup feature? #

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

How to enable/disable update notifications? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Update Notifier”
  2. Check option “Check to disable update notifications” to disable and uncheck to enable
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to enable/disable Zoom, Lightbox and Slider effects for WooCommerce Product Gallery? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => WooCommerce Options”
  2. Check option “Check to disable Product Gallery Zoom”, to disable Product Gallery Zoom
  3. Check option “Check to disable Product Gallery Lightbox”, to disable Product Gallery Lightbox
  4. Check option “Check to disable Product Gallery Slider”, to disable Product Gallery Slider
  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 custom css then we recommended to build Child Theme and add it in your child theme style.css file. Read More about child theme…

Essential Content Type #

You can install our free plugin Essential Content Type from this link and follow the steps provided by the link.

How to add Portfolio in Homepage/Frontpage using Essential Content Type?#

Follow these steps to showcase projects on your site:

  1. First you need to install Essential Content Type
  2. After that you can find Essential Content Type option in your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Click on “Essential Content Type”, there you can see “Portfolio/Projects” option then you need to click on the button of Portfolio/Projects option(This option is enabled by default)
  4. Then go to “Customize => Portfolio” and choose number of items to show in frontpage
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: To edit Portfolio Archive Title, Archive Content and Archive Featured Image, go to Customize => Portfolio”

How to select different font for different sections? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Font Family Options”
  2. Select desired font below each given section
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Widgets #

Snowflakes Pro has 14 Widgets to choose from. They are: 1. CT: 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 “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 & Publish”

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* WP-PageNavi for Numeric Pagination
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* Jetpack for Infinite Scroll, Gallery, Stats, Image CDN and many more

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