How to install theme?

Go to this link

How to update theme to the latest version?

Go to this link

#How to add Demo Content?

Go to this link

#Download Demo content files?

Click on the button below to download the demo zip files which contain, customizer.dat (Customizer Settings File), demo-content.xml (Content File), and widgets.wie (Widget Settings File) files.

Download Demo Zip File

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 Logo?

Go to this link

How to enable/disable Site Title and Tagline

Go to this link

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

Go to this link

How to add Header Video?

Go to this link

How to add Header Image?

Go to this link

Menus

Catch Shop Dark offers exciting Menu Options! This theme supports and recommends using “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through “Appearance => Menus” from your WordPress Dashboard.
Go to this linkto know how to add custom menu

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 Header social left menu to display social icons

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.

Countdown

  1. Go to Cutomize => Theme Option => Countdown
  2. Enable Countdown by choosing option ubder “Enable on”, entire site or homepage/frontpage
  3. Fill up content under respective headings like background image, tagline, title, description
  4. You can change content position, text alignment
  5. For countdown you can choose “End Date” of your event and “Time”
  6. Further option to add Small Description, Button text, Button link
  7. Finally click on publish to save your changes

How to Change the Excerpt Length and Read More Text?

Go to this link

Featured Content

Catch Shop Dark supports Custom Post Type(requires Essential Content Type Plugin ). For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Content”

How to use Featured Content using Custom Post Type?

Go to this link

Featured Slider

Catch Shop Dark supports Page as featured slider. For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options =>Featured Slider”.
Go to this link

Header Right

Catch Shop Dark Pro supports header right option here you can enable disable these options

  1. My Account Icon
  2. My Account Label
  3. Search Icon
  4. Cart Icon
  5. Cart Items
  6. Cart Amount

How to Set Certain Categories to Display in Homepage/Frontpage?

Go to this link

Further options in Catch Shop Dark:

  1. Edit Tagline, Recent Posts Title, Posts Page Header Text, Recent Header Text
  2. Select categories to dispaly in frontpage

Layout Options

Catch Shop Dark has 2 Default Layout, 2 Homepage/Archive Layout, 2 WooCommerce 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 “Catch Shop Dark Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing

Homepage/ Archive Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Homepage/ Archive Layout” which will layout for homepage/archive layout

WooCommerce Layout
Select layout for your WooCommerce pages. Option to choose from 2 Layout Options: Right Sidebar(Content, Primary Sidebar) and No Sidebar:Full Width

Logo Slider

Go to this link

How to change Pagination Options?

Go to this link

Promotion Headline

Catch Shop Dark support Page as Promotion Headline

  1. Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Promotion Headline
  2. Under Page select the page you want to display as promotion headline
  3. Further option to change background image overlay, promotion headline image, description and enable disable title

How to enable/disable Scrollup feature?

Go to this link

Services

Catch Shop Dark supports Custom Post Type as Services.
Go to this link

Testimonials

Catch Shop Dark supports Custom Post Type as testimonials.
Go to this link

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

Go to this link

1.WooCommerce Featured Products

Showcase your Featured Products.

  1. Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => WooCommerce Featured Content
  2. Enable WooCommerce Featured Content by clicking on “Enable on” entire site or homepage/front page
  3. Update Tagline, Title, Description, no of products, No of Columns, Paginate, Order By, Products Filter as per your requirements
  4. Further option to add SKUs, Category, Button text and Button link
  5. Click Publish to save changes

Widget Area (Sidebar)

Catch Shop Dark currently has 4 widgetized (Sidebar) areas thay are: 1. Sidebar, 2. Footer One, 3. Footer Two and 4. Footer Three. Go to “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.

Widgets

Catch Shop Dark 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
Go to this link for more detail.

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

Go to this link for more detail

Recommended Plugins

* Catch Web Tools for Webmaster Tools, To Top, Catch IDs
* Essential Content Type
* Catch Dark Mode
* WP-PageNavi for Numeric Pagination
* Regenerate Thumbnails to for Regenerating Thumbnails
* Jetpack for Infinite Scroll, Gallery, Stats, Image CDN and many more