Your Qenews WordPress Theme

Qenews / template documentation version 1.0

Item Details

Item Name : Qenews
Minumum Required : WordPress Version 5.5
Author by : An-themes
Demo url : https://anthemes.com/themes/qenews/

Qenews is a beautifully designed WordPress Theme that is built to be engaging, fast and most importanlty boost viral traffic with simple features that will help keep your visitors on your site, as well as easy ways for them to share your content on social media. Monetization options such as a good selection of advert locations are important too that's why we've made use of the best location adding Highest-Earning Ad Sizes, after all, you do want to get paid for your efforts! Completely responsive to look perfectly in all mobile devices, easily usable with any device as well as PCs. Responsive design optimized for tablets and smartphones (resize browser and hit refresh to check it out).

Support requests are being processed on business days Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 (GMT +2) within 24h in the order they were received:

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Getting Started #back to top

Need Help?

Thank you for purchasing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email me via my user page contact form. Support requests are being processed on business days Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 (GMT +2) within 24h in the order they were received.
Please Note: This support is for Theme Set-Up, Theme Usage & Bug Reports Only, I do not offer support for making or helping with, customisations to my theme’s code. If you have modified your theme code then please ensure it is not your modifications causing any issues with the theme. We cannot provide support on 3rd party plugins, and all 3rd party plugins should be disabled before contacting us for support.

Support for my items includes:

1. Responding to questions or problems regarding the item and its features
2. Fixing bugs and reported issues
3. Providing updates to ensure compatibility with new software versions

Item support does not include:

1. Theme Customization and installation services
2. Support for third party software and plug-ins
3. Support for 3rd party plugins and issues that may have arisen after activating this 3rd party plugin
4. WordPress General Support. Use the WP.org forums for general WordPress support.
5. Support for issues caused by user modifications in the theme’s code, styling and general function by yourselves or your developer

How to Install WordPress #back to top

To install the theme you will need to download your purchase from Themeforest. Login to your Envato account, navigate to your downloads and find the theme. Click on the download link.

Download The Theme

1. Select the “All Files & Download” option to download the theme file and the sample data (the main theme file zip will be located inside the Upload folder).
2. Select the “Installable WordPress File Only” if you just want the theme.

How to Install Theme #back to top

Installing Via WordPress

Login to WordPress Browse to Appearance > Themes
Click Add New
Click the Upload link
Click Browse
Select the zipped theme file to upload (the zip file is in the Upload folder if you chose to download all files) and click Install.
Now Activate the theme

Upload Via FTP Server

Login to your site via FTP
Browse to your folder located at wp-content/themes
Upload the main theme folder (the folder is located in the Upload folder if you chose to download all files)
Login to WordPress
Browse to Appearance > Themes
Find and activate the theme

One Click Demo Import (Demo Content) #back to top

One Click Demo Import

After installing the theme you should be prompted to install and activate the included plugins. Make sure you've installed / activated the plugin "One Click Demo Import". After the installation of the plugin:

Go to Appearance > Import Demo Data
Select one of the demos and click "Import".
Please click "Import" button only once and wait, it can take a couple of minutes, up to 5 minutes, so please, have patience.
After you imported the demo, save your menu in order to be displayed. Go to Appearance > Menus.
After setting up your menu, scroll down to the bottom of the page and assign the menu to the "Header Navigation" Theme Locations at the bottom.
After that, please follow the Documentation for plugins configuration.

Importing Sample Data (Demo Content) #back to top

Import WordPress XML

This theme includes a demo-content.xml file that will allow you to import the sample data to your site. This file includes most of the demo site data, which includes main theme functions to make it easier for you to see how the theme works.

Login to your Envato account
Click on the theme download link
Select the "All Files & Download" option
Open the zip file, the demo-content.xml file is in the Sample Data Folder
Login to WordPress
Double check that all recommended plugins have been installed and activated (if not, the sample data related to those plugins will not be imported)
Browse to Tools > Import
Click on the WordPress option (you will have to have the "WordPress Importer" plugin installed, you will be prompted if it's not already installed and active)
Click Browse and select the sample data .xml file
Click Upload files and import
Assign the posts to an existing user
Check the box to download and import file attachments
Click Submit
Give the import some time and do not navigate away from the page until the upload is complete
Go to Settings > Reading, set your from page to a Static Page, select Home from the drop down, and save
Go to Appearance > Menus, click on the Manage Location tab, assign the main menu, and save
If you'd like to change any of the widget, go to Appearance > Widgets and drag and drop widgets into the active widgetized areas
You should now have site content similar to the live demo for this theme!

Install Plugins #back to top

After installing the theme you should be prompted to install and activate the included plugins. A yellow Recommended Plugins notice should be visible at the top of your screen. Installation and activation is optional but recommended since each plugin adds an additional layer of functionality to the theme.

#1. Qenews Theme Options

Theme Functionality: Custom Style, Theme core, Post Views etc.

#2. Multi Rating

A powerful post rating / review system plugin for WordPress with a niche of doing multi ratings better than anyone else.

#3. SearchWP Live Ajax Search

Adds "live search" functionality to your WordPress site. Uses the built-in search and jQuery.

#4. AccessPress Anonymous Post

Anonymous posting(guest posting / front end posting / posting without login) – is made easy with AccessPress Anonymous Post.

#5. MailChimp for WordPress

Allowing your visitors to subscribe to your newsletter should be easy. With this plugin, it finally is.

#6. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

#7. One Click Demo Import

The best feature of this plugin is, that theme authors can define import files in their themes and so all you (the user of the theme) have to do is click on the “Import Demo Data” button.

Home Page Settings #back to top

Homepage – How to build and set it

By default WordPress sets the blog page as a main page and this is not what most of us want, we need custom pages. To change WordPress default settings you have to:

Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New:
Name it Home or whatever and from the right on Page Attributes choose "Template - Home".
Now go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading and from "Front page displays" select "A static page (select below) and select the page you've created a few seconds ago.

1. Create a new page, go to Pages > Add New

2. Set the page title and select a page template.

3. Go to Settings > Reading and set the newly created page as a homepage.

Header Menu Settings #back to top

1. To create a new Main Menu go to:

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom menu in WordPress and how to create a menu structure.:

Go to your WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Menus
Click on the "create a new menu" link.
Write a name for you menu.
Press Create Menu button.

2. To customize your new Menu:

Start to add menu items from the left panels (Homepages, Pages, Links, Categories).
You can manage your menus by using the drag and drop functionality and rearrange the menu items in the desired order.
After setting up your menu, scroll down to the bottom of the page and assign the menu to the "Header Navigation" Theme Locations at the bottom. Select Header Navigation same thing you see in the photo from the below.
Click the Save Menu button.

3. Add Icons to your new Menu:

To add a font ICON: select a menu that you want to edit and paste the icon code in a menu item, then save the menu. To preview all available Font Awesome icons go to https://fontawesome.com/icons.

Now, edit your menu and just paste the code you've copied:

4. Header button / Social icons / Header Text:

For Theme Optons Settings: go To WordPress Dashboard > Appearance and click “Customize” and now you’ll see “Theme Options” settings.

Social Icons: - Theme Options > (Header) Settings > Display Social Icons Header / Footer. Select "Yes" and add your links.
Button, Buy now: - Theme Options > (Header) Settings > Display Button (Header). Select "Yes" and add your link / text.
Header Text: - Theme Options > (Header) Settings > Display Header Text. Select "Yes", and add your text.

Big Search / Carousel. #back to top

Big Search

For Theme Optons Settings: go To WordPress Dashboard > Appearance and click “Customize” and now you’ll see “Theme Options” settings.

1. Theme Options > (Home) Subheader Settings > Display Big Search. Select "Yes".
2. Add a Background Image.
3. Select The Background position.
4. Change the Search Title.
5. Click "Published" and that's it.

Carousel: Featured Posts

1. Theme Options > (Home) Subheader Settings > Carousel: Display Featured Posts. Select "Yes".
2. Select a Category.
5. Click "Published" and that's it.

Big Search - Categories (icons). #back to top

Categories Settings (icons)

For Theme Optons Settings: go To WordPress Dashboard > Appearance and click “Customize” and now you’ll see “Theme Options” settings.

Categories Settings, small images that are displayed below the big search section. Image can have any size. But procure to make it as small as possible. The ones added in the demo have the size of 48x48px.

Finding the ID of a Category

In order to add an image to a category, we need to know the ID of the category. You can view your WordPress category ID by editing it. Simply open a category to edit, and you'll see the category ID in the browser's address bar. It is the same URL which appeared when there was mouse hover on your category title.

1. Go to Posts > Categories.
2. Choose the category you want to find the category ID.
3. Hover on the category's edit link and you will see the URL at the bottom with the category ID.

Add ID and Image to the Category

1. Theme Options > Categories List Settings.
2. Now that you know the Category ID for the first category displayed below the search, add the number of the ID.
3. Add Category Image
5. Click "Published" and that's it.

Ads Settings / Number of Posts #back to top

For Theme Optons Settings: go To WordPress Dashboard > Appearance and click “Customize” and now you’ll see “Theme Options” settings.

Ads Settings Header

Theme Options > (Home) Ads Settings > Home Header: Display AD? Select "Yes" and add your Ad code and click "Published".

Ads Settings Posts

Theme Options > (Home) Ads Settings > Home: Display 1st AD. Select "Yes" and add your Ad code and click "Published".

Number of Posts

WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most. And change the number 10 (added by default by WordPress) with any number.

Home Widgets Modules #back to top

Homepage with Drag and Drop Modules

Drag & Drop Homepage – by dragging and dropping the (Modules 1-2-3-4-5) custom widgets into the layout that gives your website the professional look and feel you are truly looking for:

Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets:
Drag & Drop any Module Widget from the 5 custom ones: Module 1, Module 2, Module 3, Module 4 and Module 5
Drag the Modules to the the Custom Sidebar “Home Modules“, as is written in the description of the sidebar: “Use only the widgets that start with the name Module”.
Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets:
For easy use, you can install the "Classic Widgets" by installing this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/

Footer Settings #back to top

For Theme Optons Settings: go To WordPress Dashboard > Appearance and click “Customize” and now you’ll see “Theme Options” settings.

Footer AD

Theme Options > (Footer) Settings > Footer: Display AD? Select "Yes" and add your Ad code and click "Published".

Footer Widgets

1. Theme Options > (Footer) Settings > Display: Footer Widgets. Select "Yes" and click "Published".
2. Now go to Appearance > Widgets and add your widgets to the "Footer Sidebar 1/2/3/4".

Multi Rating (Plugin Settings) #back to top

Multi Rating Install

First navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins > Click Add New
Search for "Multi Rating" By Daniel Powney.
The link of the plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/multi-rating/

Multi Rating Settings

1. Go to Multi Rating > Settings > General Settings, and add the same settings as per the screenshot and click "Save Changes":

2. Go to Multi Rating > Settings > Auto Placement Settings, and add the same settings as per the screenshot and click "Save Changes":

3. Go to Multi Rating > Settings > Custom Text Settings, and add the same settings as per the screenshot and click "Save Changes":

4. Go to Multi Rating > Settings > Style Settings, and add the same settings as per the screenshot and click "Save Changes":

Regenerate Thumbnails #back to top

Thumbnails – Fix strange looking images on blocks

This problem appears when you install the theme on a site which already has content. The theme comes with it’s own thumbnails to minimize the page size and increase the page loading speed.:

Install and activate the Thumbnail Regenerate plugin from here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
Go to Tools -> Regen. Thumbnails and press the “Regenerate All Thumbnails” button:
Wait until the regeneration process is 100% done and check the page (your website). Refresh the browser page to see the changes, and that's it.

MailChimp Settings #back to top

MailChimp Configuration

This plugin helps you grow your MailChimp lists and write better newsletters through various methods. You can create good looking opt-in forms or integrate with any existing form on your site, like your comment, contact or checkout form.

Install the plugin and activate it.

Go to Dashboard > MailChimp > Form and paste this:

<div class="subscribe-widget">
  <h4>Newsletter!</h4>
  <p>Sign up and receive the latest Themes via email.</p>
  <input type="email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your email address" required />
  <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" />
</div>

Now go to Appearance > Widgets and drag the widget "MailChimp Sing-up Form" to the custom siderbar you want to use.
You can add your MailChimp API via Dashboard > MailChimp > MailChimp, after you've added your API key, click "Save Changes".

Contact Form 7 Settings #back to top

Contact Form 7 Configuration

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on:

Install and activate the Contact Form 7 plugin from here Contact form 7.
Navigate to Dashboard > Contact and click Edit your first contact form.

Copy / paste this code:

[text* your-name placeholder "name*"] 
[email* your-email placeholder "e-mail*"] 
[text your-subject placeholder "subject"] 
[textarea your-message]
[submit "Get in Touch"]

Now, copy the shortcode and paste it into your contact page:

Theme Options #back to top

For Theme Optons Settings: go To WordPress Dashboard > Appearance and click "Customize" and now you'll see "Theme Options" settings:

Updating a WordPress Theme from Themeforest #back to top

Option 1: The Beginners Option

Here’s the most simple way of updating your WordPress theme that’s purchased from ThemeForest::

We need an easy way of overwriting the theme files, since WordPress doesn’t support this, we need a plugin, install this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades/
Go to the downloads page of your ThemeForest account here: http://themeforest.net/downloads
Find the theme you’re updating from the list, click the big green “download” button once, and from the drop down menu choose “installable WordPress file only”
Upload the downloaded zip file to your WordPress installation via “appearance” -> “themes” -> “add new”, just like you did when you first installed the theme.
Thanks to the plugin mentioned in step 1, you’ll now get an “upgrade existing” option after uploading your theme, without the plugin you’d just get an error.
There you go, you’ve updated the theme!

Option 2: The Automatic Option

Envato offer an automatic update solution for ThemeForest themes by using “Envato Toolkit”, see the full details of this here: http://www.wpexplorer.com/envato-wordpress-toolkit-guide/

Note that this is option 2 as I had noticed a few bugs with this plugin in the past, though some swear by it!

Option 3: The FTP Upload (Advanced Users)

Another way to update your theme is via FTP, that is, you connect to your server and manually overwrite the theme folder. To do this grab the theme files mentioned from Option 1, with these in hand, unzip the file you have, you should have a folder just called THEMENAME (being the name of your theme)

Now the next step is simple, connect to your server via FTP (if you don’t know how to do this, use option 1) navigate to /wp-content/themes/, do not just overwrite the theme folder – here’s why. In previous updates to my themes, files have been deleted or relocated, if you just overwrite the folder then these files will remain, this can cause issues (especially with WooCommerce), here’s what you should do instead: Delete the THEMENAME folder that’s on your server, and then re-upload the new THEMENAME folder, this ensures that your new theme is 100% correct.

Translate Theme to another Language #back to top

How do I translate my theme to another language?

Our themes are written in English, though you are of course welcome to translate them to your language. While it's possible to go through each theme file and manually translate the appropriate text elements, we highly recommend using the program Poedit to translate your theme. It's easy and will save you LOTS of time.

First, go to WP Dashboard > Settings > General > Site Language > Select your language > Save.
Then, download & install the Poedit program.
Open Poedit and click the "Open" button on the top-left of the program screen. Within your theme's files, find the "languages" folder and select the "Qenews-wp.POT" file.
A long list of text elements you may translate will appear in the box labeled "Source Text". Please note: You may not need to translate all of these elements. Many may be WordPress notification messages or similar.
Select the line within the "Source Text" box that you'd like to translate. When that line is highlighted, go down to the box labeled "Translation". Here, you can type the direct translation of the "Source Text" in whatever language you'll be using. Repeat this step for all of the "Source Text" elements you wish to translate.
When done, go to "File" and "Save as" within your theme's "languages" folder.
IMPORTANT! You must save this new file with a name based on a specific format: aa_AA
The first "aa" refers to ISO 639 two-letter language code (list found HERE).
The second "AA" refers to an ISO 3166 two-letter country code (list found HERE).

( Example 1 )
If translating to Danish, we would use the Danish language code of "da" and the Danish country code of "DK". The file name must be the language code in lowercase letters, followed by an underscore character, and lastly the language code in uppercase letters. So the finished file name would then be: da_DK
( Example 2 )
If translating to Brazilian Portuguese, your file name would be: pt_BR
Note: For the French language in Canada, please use "fr_FR". "fr_CA" is not recognized by WordPress.
When you save the file, it will automatically create your .po format as well as an additional .mo format file of the same name.
Via your FTP program, upload the .po & .mo files you just created to your theme's "languages" folder.
You're finished!

Support Desk #back to top

Please remember you have purchased a very affordable theme and you have not paid for a full-time web design agency, so please be patient, polite and respectful.

Support for my items includes:

* Responding to questions or problems regarding the item and its features
* Fixing bugs and reported issues
* Providing updates to ensure compatibility with new software versions

Item support does not include:

* Customization and installation services
* Support for third party software and plug-ins

Support requests are being processed on business days Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 (GMT +2) within 24h in the order they were received:

Submit a support ticket My Portfolio

Before seeking support, please...

* Make sure your question is a valid Theme Issue and not a customization request.
* Make sure you have read through the documentation and any related video guides before asking support on how to accomplish a task.
* Try disabling any active plugins to make sure there isn't a conflict with a plugin. And if there is this way you can let us know.
* If you have customized your theme and now have an issue, back-track to make sure you didn't make a mistake or make a clean install of the theme.
* Almost 80% of the time we find that the solution to people's issues can be solved with a simple "Google Search". You might want to try that before seeking support. You might be able to fix the issue yourself much quicker than we can respond to your request.
* Make sure to state the name of the theme you are having issues with, when requesting support via ThemeForest.