How to install theme?

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How to update theme to the latest version?

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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.

How to add Featured Image in Post/Page?

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Regenerate Thumbnails

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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?

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How to enable/disable Site Title and Tagline

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How to add Site Icon (Favicon/Web Clip Icon)?

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Color

Blakely Pro have base color scheme and different options to choose from for each content.
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How to add Header Video?

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How to add Header Image?

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Menus

Blakely Pro offers exciting Menu Options! This theme supports and recommends using “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through “Appearance => Menus” from your WordPress Dashboard.
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Select Menu Locations

You can assign your custom menu in 4 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Menus => Manage Location” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Location”
Select your menu as Primary Menu
Select menu as Floating social menu
Select menu as Footer Social Menu
Social Footer Menu

Menu Option

Blakely Pro has 2 different primary menu type to choose from.

  1. Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Menus Options”
  2. Under “Menu Type” chosse menu design as Modern or Classic as per your choice
  3. Click Publish to save changes

Album

Blakely Pro supports Page, Post, Category or Custom as Album.

  1. Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Album, enable Album on entire site or Homepage/Frontpage
  2. Under Type select Page, Post, Category or Custom
  3. If you select “Post” as type select the post you want to display as Album
  4. If you select “Page” as type select the page you want to display as Album
  5. If you select “Category” as type select the category you want to display as Album
  6. If you select “Custom” as type add Image, Link, title under respective header
  7. Further option to edit background image overlay, add background image, text alignment, edit headline, number of items
  8. Make changes as per your requirements and Click Publish to save changes

App Section

Blakely Pro supports App Section you can choose Page, Post, Customa and Image as App section here is how you add App Section to you website

  1. Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => App Section, enable app section on entire site or Homepage/Frontpage
  2. Under Type select Page, Post, Category or Custom
  3. If you select “Post” as type select the post you want to display in App Section
  4. If you select “Page” as type select the page you want to display in App Section
  5. If you select “Category” as type select the category you want to display in App Section
  6. If you select “Custom” as type select “App Link type” from Image or button and “App Link Layout” from layout two or layout one, then select “App Image First”, “App Image First link” edit Title, Content and background image as per you need
  7. Further option to edit background image overlay, content position and text alignment
  8. Make changes as per your requirements and Click Publish to save changes

Comment Options

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Contact

Blakely Pro supports Contact Form here is how you add contact in your website

  1. Go to Apperance => Customize => Theme Options => Contact
  2. Under “Contact Form” enable Contact form in entire site or homepage/frontpage
  3. Under “Type” select type as “Post”, “Page” or “Custom”
  4. If you select type as “Post” select post you want to display as contact
  5. If you select type as “Page” select page you want to display as contact
  6. If you select custom as contact then add custom shortcodes under “Custom Content”
  7. Further option to add “Contact Map” section select type as Image or Custom Code
  8. If you select Type as “Image” then add image and link under the repective header
  9. If you select Type as “Custom Code” then add Google iframe maps code in it
  10. Finally click publish to save changes

Contact Details

Blakely Pro support Contact Details which allow you to add contact widget in you website.
Here is how you do add it

  1. Go to Apperance => Customize => Theme Options => Contact Details
  2. Enable contact details either on Homepage/frontpage or Entire site
  3. Add Headline and subheadline, to add contact details widget click on the given link and add widgets as per you requirements
  4. Finally, click “Publish” to save changes

Events

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Further option to enable disable display title, display event date and display location icon

How to Change the Excerpt Length and Read More Text?

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Featured Video

Blakely Pro supports featured video, here is how you add featured videos to your website

  1. Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Video
  2. Enable Featured Video under “Enable on”, entire site or homepage/frontpage
  3. Under No of Featured add number of video you want to display (max 20 featured videos)
  4. Under Video Url 1 add video link, video title, video sub title and so on
  5. Select Style as Style 1 or Style 2 as per your requirements
  6. Further option to enable/disable lightbox option, section tagline, section title and section description
  7. Click Publish to save changes

Featured Content

Blakely Pro supports 5 featured content types, 1. Post, 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Custom. 5.Custom Post Type(requires Essential Content Type Plugin ).
For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Content”
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Featured Slider

Blakely Pro supports 4 featured slider including, 1. Post , 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Custom. For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options =>Featured Slider”.
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Additional option is Blakely pro to add logo in each slider image which will display above title

How to select different font for different sections?

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How to edit Footer Content?

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

How to add Gallery in theme?

Blakely Pro supports Page, Post and Category as Gallery.To add galley you need to add our free plugin catch gallery
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Hero Content

Blakely Pro supports 4 Hero Content types to choose from, 1. Post , 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Custom. For Hero Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Hero Content Options”.
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How to Set Certain Categories to Display in Homepage/Frontpage?

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Further options in Blakely Pro

  1. Enable/disable Recent Posts/Content on homepage
  2. Edit Tagline, Recent Posts Title, Posts Page Header Text, Recent Header Text
  3. Enable/Disable Recent Posts on Static Page

Layout Options

Blakely Pro has 2 Site Layout, 4 Default Layout, 4 Homepage/Archive Layout, 4 Archive Content Layout and 2 Single Page/Post Image 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 your site layout.

Default Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the option 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 “Blakely Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing

Homepag/Archive Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the option below “Homepage/Archive Layout Options” which will set our blog/archive layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Blakely 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 option below “Archive Content Layout” which will set our layout for Archive Page. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Blakely Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing

Single Page/Post Image Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the option below “Single Page/Post Image Layout” which will set our posts/page image layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting Single Page/Post Image Layout for individual pages and posts through “Blakely 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?

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Promotion Headline

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Note: Further option to change Content Position, Text Alignment, Background Image Overlay, Promotion Headline Image

How to enable/disable Scrollup feature?

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How to change default text in search box?

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Portfolio

Blakely Pro support Page, Post, Category, Custom, Custom Post Type and CPT- Project Types as Portfolio
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Blakely Pro have new option CPT- Project Types as Portfolio, you can choose option under “Select Project Type” to display as portfolio.

Note: Further option to change Content Position, Text Alignment, Background Image Overlay, Promotion Headline Image

How to add Portfolio using custom post types?

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Playlist

Blakely Pro support Page, Post and Category as Playlist.
Here is how you add playlist to your website.

  1. Go to “Customize => Theme Options => Playlist”
  2. Under “Type” choose Page, Post or Category as per you need
  3. If you choose “Page” as type then under “Page” choose the page you want to display as playlist
  4. If you choose “Post” as type then under “Post” choose the post you want to display as playlist
  5. If you choose “Category” as type then under “Category” choose the categories you want to display as playlist
  6. To add playlist, open the edit page of post,page or category you have selected, on the left hand side you will find “Add Media” button click on that
    Inside “Add Media” you will find Create Audio Playlist option, from there you can choose you audio to add in playlist
  7. Finally, “Save & Publish”

Pop Up Video

Pop up video is new option in Blalely Pro, pop up vidoe shows up in header area.

  1. Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme options => Pop Up Video
  2. Under “Video Url” add link for video you want to display
  3. Add Video Thumbnail Image, Video Subtitle, Video Title, Description and Video Style as Scroll or Fixed
  4. Finally, click “Publish” to save changes

Services

Blakely Pro supports 5 services types including, 1. Post, 2. Page, 3. Category, 4. Custom and 5. Custom Post Types. For Services, go to “Appearance => Customize => Services”.
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Stats

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Further option to add numbers to each items under “Number of Item1″,”Number for Item2” and so on for each section

Sticky Playlist

Blakely Pro supports Page, Post and Category as Sticky Playlist. Follow the following steps to add Sticky Playlist to your theme:

  1. Go to “Customize => Theme Options => Sticky Playlist”
  2. Under Page choose the page you want to display as playlist
  3. To add sticky playlist, open the edit page of post, page or category you have selected, on the left hand side you will find “Add Media” button click on that Inside “Add Media” you will find Create Audio Playlist option, from there you can choose you audio to add in sticky playlist
  4. Finally, “Save & Publish”

Testimonials

Blakely Pro supports 5 Testimonial types to choose from: 1. Post , 2. Page, 3. Image, 4. Category and 5. Custom Post Type.
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How to add Team in theme?

Blakely Pro Supports team as Post, Page, Category, Image and Custom Post Types.
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How to enable/disable Zoom, Lightbox and Slider effects for WooCommerce Product Gallery? “>

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Content Types

If you want content type option in your theme you can use our free plugin Essential Content Type. The details are listed below:

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 use Featured Content using Custom Post Type?

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

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How to add Services using custom post types?

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Widget Area (Sidebar)

Blakely Pro currently has 15 widgetized (Sidebar) areas thay are: 1. Sidebar, 2. Footer One, 3. Footer Two, 4. Footer Three, 5. Footer Four, 6. WooCommerce Sidebar, 7. Content Bottom1, 8. Content Bottom2, 9. 404 Page Not Found Content, 10. Optional Homepage Sidebar, 11. Optional Archive Sidebar, 12. Optional Page Sidebar, 13. Optional Post Sidebar, 14. Optional Sidebar One, 15. Optional Sidebar Two and 16. Optional Sidebar Three. Go to “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.

Widgets

Blakely Pro supports 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
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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”

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…

Webmaster Tools

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Translating Your Theme with WPML

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* Catch Web Tools for Webmaster Tools
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* WooCommerce for E-commerce
* WPML for multi-language
* WP-PageNavi for Numeric Pagination
* Regenerate Thumbnails to for Regenerating Thumbnails
* Jetpack for Infinite Scroll, Gallery, Stats, Titled Gallery, Image CDN and many more