Getting Started

General Information

Thank you for purchasing our theme. We are happy that you are one of our customers and we assure you that you will not be disappointed as well. We do our best to produce high quality themes with great functionality, premium designs and human readable code. Before you get started, we highly encourage you to get familiar with this documentation file. Spending half an hour reading the manual may save lots of your time and help you to avoid questions with obvious answers.

We also recommend to check our video tutorials and articles.

Please Note! Our support covers installation procedure, assistance for theme features and any issues you may encounter when using the theme. Unfortunately, we cannot provide support for customization or 3rd party plugins. If you need help with the customization of your theme, you should enlist the help of a developer.

Please be aware that we do not include theme related .PSD files in the theme package, because it might significantly increase the size of a downloadable archive and also because most of our customers often just do not request it.

In case you need these files you can always request them by contacting our support department.

Bundled Plugins

The theme package contains a number of bundled plugins. Please click here to view the list of plugins that come included into the theme.

If a new version of a bundled plugin is available, it will be included in the next theme release.

Bundled plugins are fully functional without the activation using a registration license key. In case you are willing to receive automatic updates and support from the plugin team, you will need to purchase the plugin separately. Only the direct buyers get the plugin license key.

WordPress Information

To use this theme you must have WordPress engine installed. We assume you have a working version of WordPress downloaded at WordPress.org already up and running.

How to install WordPress - A tutorial on how to install WordPress on your hosted domain.

We also encourage you to actively use the links below. These useful resources cover most of general WordPress questions you may have:

  • WordPress FAQ - Information and resources about WordPress including history, features, semantics, glossary and information to help you determine whether or not WordPress is the blogging tool for you.
  • WordPress Lessons - Great source of knowledge for WordPress beginners.
  • PHP Function References - Detailed information on WordPress PHP functions and usage examples.

Installation Information

Theme Requirements

To use this theme you must be running WordPress 5.0 or higher, PHP 5.6.20 or higher. If you use hosting with limited resources (for example GoDaddy and other lowcost shared hosting providers), you may experience issues with one-click demo data installation feature.

We recommend you to contact your web hosting service provider to make sure that your server PHP configuration limits are as follows:

  • max_execution_time 600
  • memory_limit (up to) 256M
  • post_max_size 32M
  • upload_max_filesize 32M

If you are running unmanaged dedicated server or VPS, you should check your php.ini file. Alternatively, you can edit .htaccess file in the root of your website and add the following values:

php_value max_execution_time 600
php_value memory_limit 256M
php_value post_max_size 32M
php_value upload_max_filesize 32M

Setting these values will ensure you will not get error messages during the installation. To safeguard your website, please use secure passwords and the latest version of WordPress and plugins.

IMPORTANT! To avoid any errors that might come up during the installation we recommend to have memory limit set up to 512M.

Here is the list of other recommended web hosting services:

Theme Installation

Unpacking the theme

Before installing the theme, please make sure you unpacked the archive and extracted theme files. After unzipping the archive, you will see the following files:

If you try to install the wrong files, you will get missing style.css file error. This is the most common error that means you are trying to install an incorrect package.

To install "Spiced Blog" theme, you must have WordPress installed. For information regarding WordPress platform installation, please check the WordPress Codex or check this video tutorial.

Update WordPress: To ensure a positive user experience, we highly recommend updating your WordPress to the latest stable version. This will help utilizing all of the latest features of WordPress.

If you have questions regarding theme installation, we recommend reading a detailed instruction below.

You can install the theme in two ways:

  • via FTP:
    1. Log into your web server with FTP client software.
    2. Unzip spiced-blog.zip file and ONLY use the extracted /spiced-blog theme folder.
    3. Upload the extracted /spiced-blog theme folder into /wp-content/themes folder.
    4. Activate the newly installed theme. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate it.
  • via WordPress:
    1. Login to admin panel.
    2. Go to Appearance - Themes and click on the Add New button.
    3. Choose Upload theme option. Click on Browse... (Choose file in Safari/Chrome), select "spiced-blog.zip" and click Install Now button.
    4. After the successful installation, click on Activate or go to Appearance - Themes and click on Activate to activate the newly installed theme.
    5. After the theme is activated, you will be prompted to install recommended plugins: Cooked, MailChimp for WP, Themerex Socials, Themerex Updater and WP GDPR Compliance.



      All these plugins are included into the theme archive, or can be installed from the WordPress.org repository.
      The theme can function without any of these plugins. But if you want your website look precisely as the demo page, you have to install all recommended plugins and import demo content. This is a good idea if you are building your website from scratch.
      However, if you have an existing website, you should be very careful with plugin installation and importing demo data: this may affect the website content and structure. Please read the Demo Content article for details.
    6. Attention! If you want to make changes in theme’s templates or functions, we recommend activating a child theme before demo data installation, otherwise the Theme Options will be lost. Please see the Child Theme section for more information.

Plugins Installation

In order to make the theme look exactly as the demo page, you need to install recommended plugins. Click on Begin installing plugins link.

You will be redirected to plugins installation page. Check all listed plugins, select Install option and click on Apply button. Installation may take a few minutes, please be patient and do not refresh the page.

After the installation you will get a notification informing that plugins were installed successfully.

Gutenberg Compatibility

Our theme is compatible with Gutenberg page builder. You can create new pages using this editor.

All existing demo pages are built through WPBakery Page Builder and should be customized via WPBakery Page Builder ONLY.

IMPORTANT: It is possible to switch between the page builders. Please use One page builder for creating/customizing One particular page/post.

Child Theme

Child theme is for developers willing to make changes to core functions and code. If you are not planning to dig that deep, you can just skip this chapter.

IMPORTANT: If you want to make changes in theme templates or functions, we recommend that you install the child theme and apply changes there. To learn more about the purpose and basis of creation of child theme, please visit WordPress Codex.

In the theme package you will see materials for the child theme. It’s located in "spiced-blog-child.zip" archive. You can install the child theme just like you installed the main theme (see above, in the section "Installation").

Attention! When activating a child theme or switching back to the parent theme, the theme options will be lost. We recommend activating a child theme before demo data installation.

A few recommendations on how to use a Child Theme from AxiomThemes:

  • Almost all files from the main theme can be replaced in a child theme. It doesn’t concern only .php-files with templates and basic logic, but also both .js, .css files from respective folders and files with images, icons etc.
  • If you want to change some of the theme-related functions or to add new ones, copy/add all the required functions into 'functions.php' in the "spiced-blog-child" folder. If our theme contains functions with such names, they will be replaced with yours, if not – your functions will complete our theme logics.
    IMPORTANT: If you want to replace some functions from other files (except functions.php), e.g. from _wp_utils.php or _utils.php, we do not recommend you to copy respective files into the child theme, but you should create the respective functions in functions.php in the child theme. This should be done, so that when updating the theme, new functions from these files are available for use.
    As for other files - put out the templates from the folder 'templates', images from the folder 'images' etc. - to make changes copy theme into the folder 'child theme' and make changes there.

Demo Content

Our themes have simple One click demo data import tool. It's very easy to use and you can get a precise copy of our demo website in just 1 click.

Before installing demo data, please make sure you have installed all the required plugins, please refer to Plugins installation section of this document for details.

To import demo content into a WordPress site, please follow these steps:

  1. Log in to your site as an administrator.
  2. If you see a message prompting to install required Themerex Utilities plugin, click on "Begin installing plugins" and install it on the corresponding page.
    IMPORTANT: The recommended plugins (MailChimp for WP and Instagram Widget) are not mandatory for installation of demo content but highly recommended.



  3. Go to Appearance -> Install Demo Data:



  4. On the page that showed up please set the required parameters.
    • Only pages, forms and sliders - Allows you to select the content you need to be imported for a definite page, slider, etc. It is recommended when the site is already built.



    • Whole demo-site content - Allows you to import whole demo content. It is recommended for new installations of WordPress.
      IMPORTANT: When installing whole demo-data ALL EXISTING CONTENTS of your website will be deleted and replaced with the new data! We highly recommend that you install demo data only on blank WordPress install.

  5. Click on "Install Demo Data" button.
    IMPORTANT: Please wait while demo data is being copied from our server to your site. It may take a while and depends significantly upon Internet connection speed between your website and our server. Please wait patiently and do not refresh/leave the page.

  6. After the data is successfully imported you will see the "Congratulations" message:



    In 99.9% it works fine, but if something went wrong and data was not imported, please repeat the procedure described above. The system will find the last item imported successfully and you will be able to continue the import.

    In case "Demo Data" installation stuck and you see "Error load data from the file ... " error message, you can manually install it by downloading the demo.zip archive from our server. Extract the archive to demo/ folder and upload this demo/ folder to wp-content/themes/spiced-blog directory.

    Treat the screenshot below as an example only. The list of folders inside a theme package may vary.



    If the issue persists, please contact your hosting provider to make sure that your server configuration meets the Theme Requirements. Otherwise, please contact our support team. Our tech support operators will assist you.

Theme Update

IMPORTANT: Before you go ahead with the update, please check theme changelog and make sure you backup your old theme folder. Download it to your computer locally.

It is a good practice to backup both your files and database regularly and especially before making some serious updates.

Update Option 1. Update using the ThemeREX Updater plugin
(for theme version 2.0.0 and above only!)
  1. Please make sure the ThemeREX Updater plugin is installed and activated. This plugin is provided with the theme.
  2. Navigate to Appearance > ThemeREX Updater and enter your purchase code to get the latest versions of bundled plug-ins and theme updates through the WordPress admin panel.

  3. We recommend you to check the "Create backups" option to allow the system create backups for plugins versions and the theme automatically.
  4. Proceed to WP Dashboard > Updates and check if any updates are available.

  5. Choose the options for an update (plugin, theme, etc.) and click on Update button.
  6. You can restore the backups created by the system in WP Dashboard > Updates or in Appearance > ThemeREX Updater (if the "Create backups" option was checked before the update).

Update Option 2. Update using FTP client.

  1. Log into your account and find the theme and download “Installable WordPress file”.
  2. Connect to your server using desktop client software (we recommend CyberDuck and Filezilla).
  3. Change directory to /wp-content/themes.
  4. Remove existing folder with old theme files.
  5. Unpack theme installable files downloaded from the first step and upload to the theme folder.
  6. Update the included plugins if you see a notification message letting you know the plugins have a new version.
    • Navigate to WP Dashboard > Plugins > Installed Plugins.
    • Update ThemeREX Utilities plugin. You can click on "Update" button (if available in a particular theme) or deactivate and delete this plugin. Then follow the prompt to install it again. This will load a new plugin version on the site.
    • Deactivate and delete the rest plugin(s) of old version.
    • Go to Appearance > Install Plugins and install the plugin(s) like it was described in the Plugins Installation section of this documentation.

Quick Start

After the theme activation and demo content import, we are ready to get started with basic theme settings like site title, tagline, logo, favicon etc.

To change your site title and tagline, go to Settings -> General. Please note, these parameters are important for search engines.

Another great idea may be setting custom permalinks structure to make them more SEO friendly and human-readable. Go to Settings -> Permalinks and make changes according to the example below.

"Customize" Settings

Now let's navigate to Appearance > Customize - the feature which makes theme customization extremely user-friendly and straight-forward, allowing the admin to manage the feel and look of the blog website easily from one place.

IMPORTANT: This is a "OnePage" theme. All the customizations are applied to the Home page only. Settings for the other pages and posts can be set up in "Single page" and "Single post" sections in the "Customize" menu. The rest of the posts and pages such as "Home with Sidebar", "List style", "Post Formats", "Standard" etc. are just examples (variations) of how the single page/post can look like.



We have integrated many additional options to the default WordPress "Customize" menu, which allows you to flexibly control the appearance and behavior of the whole website as well as of the individual page types.

Moreover, you can see the changes of the frontend right after the alterations - when the needed parameter is selected, without switching from admin to frontend each time. It saves much of your time and lets you customize your website just in several clicks. When you are through with the changes, you should click on "Save and Publish" button at the top. There are quite a lot of parameters here, but luckily the majority of them have default values that suit most of the users. Let's take a closer look at them:

General

In this section you can customize the general website look using the following settings.

Body Style

Body Style options allow you to choose the way the page is displayed selecting the width for the website body content:

  • Boxed - page body is located in the zone of limited screen width, and you can see the background image behind it:
  • Wide - page body occupies the entire screen width (background image is not seen behind it), and the content is placed in the area of limited width, in the center of the screen:
  • Fullwide - page body occupies the entire screen width (background image is not seen behind it), the content is stretched to the entire screen with small indents off the window edges:
Sidebar Position

You can choose whether you want to have sidebar on the right or on the left on the page.

  • Right - the sidebar is located on the right of the content.
  • Left - the sidebar is located on the left of the content.
Top User Panel

You can choose whether you want to have the top panel or not.

Responsive Layouts

Using this setting you can decide if you want to have responsive layouts, adjusted for each screen size and device or to keep the main layout for all of them.

  • Yes - To have responsive layouts. The website will be adjusted for each screen size. On the image below you can see the website layout on the mobile:
  • No - To keep the main layout intact for all screen sizes. The users will scroll the page to see the content. This is how the website will look on the same device:
Add SEO meta

By choosing "Yes" metadata (Google reach snippets, Facebook meta tags, etc.) will be added to a single post. Choose "No" if you are using any of the SEO plugins.

Responsive Menu

In this field you should fill in the window width when responsive menu will be enabled.

On the image below, this parameter is 960 px (by default), so even if you have responsive layouts set to "No", you will get responsive menu when resizing the browser window:

Text with Privacy Policy link

Specify the text for the checkbox in "Get in Touch" form (for Page style "About me"). This text will be displayed before the Privacy Policy link. Please see "About Lindsay Smith" page for more information.



In order to add/custimoze the Privacy Policy link, navigate to Settings (WP Dashboard) > Privacy and specify the page that will be used as a Privacy Policy one.



NOTICE! In case you are planning to use default forms without consent checkboxes, just leave the "Text with Privacy Policy link" option empty!
Title section background

This option allows you to set a background image for top title section. Bg image for posts and pages can be set via Customization panel. As for the Categories, bg image should be specified in the categories settings itself.

Slider

In this section you can choose the slider engine and slider position:

Slider engine

You have two options here:

  • Select slider - If this option is selected, the slider will not be shown on the website.
  • Posts Slider (Swiper) - This slider engine will display the featured images of your posts.

In case you install Revolution Slider plugin (it is not included in the package), you will see this slider engine here as well, it is fully integrated with the theme.

As soon as you select Swiper slider engine, you will see a set of additional parameters:

Slider style:

You can select the slider width using these settings:

  • Boxed - There is a space on the right and on the left of the slider (as on the image above).
  • Fullwide - The slider images are stretched to the window width:

Slides per view - This setting allows you to divide slider into several columns.



Slider height - You can enter any desired slider height here (in px).

Category - This option allows you to select the category of posts which featured images will be shown in the slider. If no category is selected, you will see images from the latest posts in the slider.

Posts - Allows you to enter the category ID, or comma-separated post IDs for the slider images.

Interval - You may customize the slides change interval (pause time) here.

Top panel position - This setting helps you to specify the top menu position. It can be Above slider or Below slider:

Socials

You can add links to social media icons here. If you leave these fields empty, icons will not be shown. Social icons will be displayed in the top right corner of the header:

In the Share section you can specify URLs to share posts in social networks (if you leave the field empty - there will be no sharing).

Logo, Title & Tagline

Settings of this group are responsible for the website logo and title display:

Site Title

The text entered into this field will be displayed as the logo (if the image logo is not uploaded) and as the website title in your browser tab.

Tagline

The text entered into this field will be displayed as the website slogan under the logo. By default, the tagline is used if no image logo is selected.

Site Icon

You can upload/remove your site icon here (must be 512x512px).

Favicon

You can upload/remove your favicon here.

Logo

Logo image is uploaded or selected from the Media Library:

Here's how you can customize your logo using just a text.

Header Image

This option allows you to add the header background image to your website top panel.

Just click on "Add new image" button and browse the image from the Media Library. Alternatively, you can upload it from your computer. See the screenshot below.

Background Color

This option allows you to apply any custom color to your website's background. Works for "Boxed" body style only.

Background Image

These settings allow you to add the background image behind the content body, when "Boxed" body style is enabled:

Just click on "Select image" button to upload the image from the Media Library or from your computer. After this step you will see a set of other parameters for background.

Color Scheme

The next section of settings allows you to manage the color scheme of your website. Let's consider these parameters.

Color Settings

Here you can select Simple or Advanced option of your color scheme customization.

Color Scheme

Select one of two predefined color schemes: Default or Dark. Check the screenshots below.

Links

Set the necessary color for your links and accented areas.

Links Hover

Set the necessary hover color for your links and accented areas.

In case the capabilities of "Simple" color scheme are not enough you can go with the "Advanced" one and completely change your website's look. Check the available settings below.

Widgets

These settings allow you to manage Sidebar and Footer widgets just as you used to do in Appearance > Widgets in WordPress admin panel:

Here you can manage standard sidebars (widget sets) included in the theme:

  • Sidebar - By default, it is displayed vertically to the left or right from the main content.
  • Footer - By default, it is displayed at the footer of the page.
  • Custom Widgets 5 - Additional sidebar.

If you expand one of these widget sets, you will be able to:

  1. Add a widget: just click on "Add a widget" button to see the available widgets, then press on the one you want to use:
  2. Reorder the position of widgets using 3 icons:
    • Move - allows you to move the widget to another sidebar.
    • Down - the widget will be moved down.
    • Up - the widget will be moved upwards.

    After you reorder the position of widgets in the sidebar, please click on "Done" button at the bottom.

You will be able to assign any of these widget sets to the sidebar of Homepage, Blog archive pages, Search results pages, Single post pages and Single pages in the corresponding menu items of Appearance > Customize.

Moreover, you get a few Custom Widget sets that can be managed in Appearance > Widgets:

On the same page you will see Available Widgets section which also includes MailChimp SignUp form. In order to add the widget to the Sidebar, just drag and drop it to the needed position, add the content and Save it.

Custom widgets
  1. ThemeREX - About Me: Displays the photo and description of the website admin:
  2. ThemeREX - Advertisement block: Used to insert advertising banners - images with links or arbitrary HTML-blocks. IMPORTANT: Be careful to use extraneous HTML-code not to disrupt the design of the page.
  3. ThemeREX - Recent Posts: Displays the most recent posts. Unlike the standard widget, it can display a post featured image, author name, comments, post counters and post category if you enable these options.
  4. ThemeREX - Most Popular & Commented Posts: Displays the most visited, most commented and most liked articles.
  5. ThemeREX - Most Popular Posts: Displays the most visited articles.
  6. ThemeREX - Socials: Shows the links to social network profiles. The widgets for social media icons are added in Appearace - Customize - Socials.
  7. ThemeREX - Calendar: A standard WP Calendar showing the current date and the days with available daily archives (posts).
  8. ThemeREX Socials Instagram Feed: This widget requires ThemeREX Socials plug-in to be active. The widget shows the latest photos from your Instagram account or demo photos in a form of a feed on your WordPress website. You can connect to your Instagram account in the Appearance (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Socials section (you need a valid Instagram Access Token).
    Demo mode means that the images will be taken from your demo folder (/wp-content/uploads/).
    Alternatively, you can use photos from Instagram without connecting to your account: by using a hashtag #... or by specifying an Instagram username (WITHOUT a hash symbol).
  9. Mailchimp SignUp form: Allows you to add subscribers to your MailChimp lists. Mailchimp for WP plugin should be installed to use this widget.

    In order to configure your Mailchimp widget, please follow these steps:

    • Navigate to MailChimp for WP - MailChimp in your WordPress admin and enter your MailChimp API key. To do that you should be registered at Mailchimp website:

    • Open MailChimp for WP - Forms and fill in Form mark-up. You can see the code for the demo form on the screenshot below:

    • Copy the shortcode you see on the same screen, and paste it to the Text widget created in Appearance > Widgets:

    • Once all these steps are done, you will get the following block in one of your sidebars, where the users can sign up for a newsletter:

  10. Footer: We have also added an Instagram widget to it.



    This is how it looks on frontend:



    By default, the demo mode is enabled and the "ThemeREX Socials Instagram Feed" displays images from your demo folder (/wp-content/uploads/). You can disable the demo mode and connect your Instagram account in Appearance (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Socials.

Homepage Settings

This option allows you to display a static page for your main frontend page and for your post pages as well.

Homepage displays
  • Your latest posts - Displays the latest posts.
  • A static page - Displays regular static page.
    • Homepage - Set the necessary page to act as homepage.
    • Posts page - Set the necessary page to act as post page.

Please be aware that these settings are also available for editing through Settings > Reading section.

Additional CSS

Settings of this group allow you to specify additional custom styles.

Homepage

Settings of this section allow you to manage homepage style and it's sidebar:

Body style:

Here you can set the necessary body style for the homepage only.

Blog style:
  • Excerpt - Posts will contain the featured image, a small excerpt from the post content and "Learn More" button.

  • Grid /2 columns/ - The first post will look the same as in the "Excerpt" style, the rest posts will be displayed in 2 columns.

Sidebar Widgets

Here you can decide whether you want to have a sidebar on the homepage and which one. Check the Widgets section for more information.


Top Sidebar Widgets

Select the sidebar to show on top of the homepage. Check the Widgets section for more information.


Blog archive

This section allows you to control the layout and style of your blog archive pages such as a blog stream page and category pages:

Body style

Select the necessary content width for your blog.

Blog style

Select the necessary post style for your blog archive pages.

Posts content

Select the way to display your posts' content.

Sidebar widgets

Select what sidebar needs to be displayed on a blog streampage. Check the Widgets section for more information.

Animation for posts

Select the necessary animation style for your posts to show up.

Pagination style

Select a proper order for your posts to appear on the page.

Search Results

You can adjust the layout and sidebar for the pages displaying Search results in this section:

Blog style

Select the necessary post style for search results.

Sidebar widgets

Select the necessary sidebar to display on search result page. Check the Widgets section for more information.

Single Post

You can adjust the sidebar for the single post pages in this section:

Sidebar widgets

Select sidebar to show on a single post. Check the Widgets section for more information.

Top title section

Displays an image and post's name.

Post navigation

Displays previous and next posts images with titles.

Single Page

You can adjust the sidebar for pages here:

Sidebar widgets

Select sidebar to show on a single page. Check the Widgets section for more information.

Top title section

Displays the top title section on a single page.

Pages

This section covers the information about Pages in your website: included page templates, how to edit existing pages, add new ones.

Page templates

Please navigate to Pages in your WordPress admin panel, click on "Add new" button to create new pages:

On the right you will see Page Attributes - Template section. It allows you to select the page style:

  1. Default - used to create a standard content page (a sidebar is added to the page in Customize - Single page):

  2. Homepage Style "Excerpt" - used to create a blog page with "Excerpt" style: a small passage of text and "Learn More" button.

  3. Homepage Style "Grid" - used to create a blog page with "Grid" style.

  4. 404 Page - to create "404 Not found" page opened if a user tries to open the page which does not exist.

  5. Page style "About me" - Using this page template you can create a personal page of the blogger, just write several words about yourself and add your photograph to "Featured image" section and you will get the page of the following design with Contact form added automatically:

In order to choose some static content page for your Homepage, please navigate to Settings > Reading and locate "Homepage displays", select Static page, and choose pages for your Homepage and Posts page. (Please do not forget to add your new Blog page to the navigation bar in Appearance > Menus). On the same page in admin you can enter the number of posts to be displayed on the blog archive pages:

After you save the changes, your frontpage (homepage) will display "About me" page and your posts will be shown on "Blog style "Excerpt" page.

Please note: It also can be done via the Customizer panel in the "Homepage Settings" section.

Post formats

The theme uses standard WordPress post formats, for you to run the blog using various visual representations of a post.

  • Standard – The default post format: you can add a featured image to the post or leave your post without it.
  • Aside – A note like post, usually styled without title.
  • Gallery – A gallery of images.
  • Link– A link to another site.
  • Image – An image or photograph.
  • Quote – A quotation.
  • Status – Twitter like short status update.
  • Video – A post containing video.
  • Audio – An audio file.
  • Chat – A chat transcript.

Plugins

In this section you can find information about additional plugins included to this theme.

MailChimp

MailChimp is a newsletter service that allows you to send out email campaigns to a list of email subscribers. MailChimp is free for lists up to 2000 subscribers, which is why it is the newsletter-service of choice for thousands of businesses.
This plugin acts as a bridge between your WordPress site and your MailChimp account, connecting the two together.
Check this link for more information.
More guides are available here.

The backend settings can be found in the WP dashboard menu > MailChimp > MailChimp tab.

[mc4wp_form id="427"]

Cooked – Recipe Plugin

This plugin allows you to create & display recipes with WordPress. The main features: SEO optimized (rich snippets), galleries, cooking timers, printable recipes and much more.

Please check the links below for more information about the plugin:

To add a recipe you should create a post in the WP Dashboard > Recipes post type menu.

Recipe post - backend:



Recipe post - frontend:



You can also use the shortcode and paste it to other posts where you want your recipe to be displayed.

[cooked-recipe id="484"]

ThemeREX Socials

This plugin helps you output Instagram feed or demo photos in a form of a feed on your WordPress website in one of the following ways: through connection to your Instagram account (you need a valid Instagram Access Token), from your demo folder (/wp-content/uploads/), by using a hashtag #... (for taking photos from Instagram) or by specifying an Instagram username.

In order to connect to you Instagram account, please navigate to the Appearance (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Socials tab and enter your Instagram Access Token. For demo mode, displaying photos using a hashtag or Instagram username no connection to your Instagram account is needed.

How to get Access Token from Instagram:

  • Log into your Instagram account with photos you want to display on your website.
  • Visit the Facebook Developer Page, click My Apps to create and set a Facebook application. Please click here to view an official tutorial.
  • Fill in the form. For "valid redirect URLs" option use the following link
    https://your_website_name/wp-json/trx_addons/v1/widget_instagram/get_access/.
  • Get your "Client ID" and "Client Secret".
  • Navigate to Appearance (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Socials section and paste "Client ID" and "Client Secret" into the corresponding fields. Click on "Get Access Token" button.
  • Approve that you want to grant the application access to your Instagram account.

Now you can proceed to Appearance (WP Dashboard) > Widgets section and locate "ThemeREX Socials: Instagram Feed" widget into any widget area available in the theme. The "Hashtag" field works for both a hashtag (starting WITH a symbol #) and your Instagram username (WITHOUT a hash symbol).

ThemeREX Updater

This is our self-made plugin that allows you to update the main theme as well as the bundled plugins through the WordPress admin panel. ThemeREX Updater plugin requires a valid purchase code that can be entered in the Appearance > ThemeREX Updater section. Once any plugins or theme updates are available for download, you will receive a corresponding notice in WP Dashboard > Updates. Please view the Theme Update chapter of this documentation file for more information.

WP GDPR Compliance

The WP GDPR Compliance plugin allows you to make your website GDPR-compliant. It currently supports Contact Form 7 (>= 4.6), Gravity Forms (>= 1.9), WooCommerce (>= 2.5.0) and WordPress Comments.

Using the WP GDPR Compliance plugin does NOT guarantee complete compliance to General Data Protection Regulation.

Check the links below for more information about this plugin:

  1. Official WordPress page.
  2. Official plugin's page.

IMPORTANT: According to General Data Protection Regulation, you need to make your forms compliant. Some prebuilt forms, that come with this theme, already have the corresponding "I agree..." checkboxes. For newly created forms, navigate to Tools (WP Dashboard) > WP GDPR Compliance, enable a GDPR form tag integration for a particular form and save the changes. You can specify and activate the Privacy Policy page in the Tools (WP Dashboard) > WP GDPR Compliance > Settings tab.

Theme Translation

We recommend using Poedit software for translation-related purposes. To translate the theme to your language, please follow these steps:

  1. Download and install Poedit software.

  2. Navigate to the theme/.../languages/ folder and locate .po file. Copy it to your desktop for editing.

  3. Open the .po file. Now select the constant text string you need to translate from the "Source text - English" field and type in the necessary translation into the "Translation" field. You can translate as much as you want, just go through the file and click on each string in Poedit and add your translation.

  4. Next, you have to save the changes to your .po file using the naming convention based on the language code (e.g. pt for Portuguese) followed by the country code (for instance _BR for Brazil).

    To do that click on the "sheet" icon (you can also use hotkeys CMD+Shift+S in OS X or Win+S in Windows) and type in the name according to the screenshot below. The first lower-case letters define the language, whereas the second upper-case letter defines the country. In most cases, the language and country are the same, like “de_DE” for Germany. However, there is a difference for languages like English or Portuguese, which are spoken in several countries natively. In this case, the difference is in the first and second letter pairs; for the UK, the code would be en_GB, whereas the en_US stands for the USA. If you are not familiar with the codes for your native language and country, then visit the GNU website.

    See Language Codes and Country Codes for the lists of codes.

    Please note, if you use the wrong naming convention WordPress can not process your translation.

  5. When saving your .po file, Poedit automatically creates a new .mo file, with the same naming convention. According to the example above, the file would be called pt_BR.mo.

  6. Upload the .po and .mo files you just created to the .../languages/ folder. Make sure these files are in the same directory as the default.po and default.mo files.
  7. OPTIONAL! Only for themes with WordPress version 4.0 or lower.

    The last step is to tell WordPress what language to display. Open your wp-config.php file in a text editor and search for: define ('WPLANG', ''); string. Edit this line according to the .mo file you should already have downloaded (e.g. for the Portuguese spoken in Brazil you need to add define ('WPLANG', 'pt_BR');).

In case you still have questions on how to use Poedit, please check the following resources:

Sources and Credits

This section discloses the sources of various files used within the theme and describes their function.

  • Fonts:
    • "Raleway", "Cardo" and other Google fonts.
    • Fontello (non standard, icons set).

All non-standard fonts are from Google Web Fonts and Fontello icons set

We have used pictures from:
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/

IMPORTANT! Please be advised that all clipart images included in this theme are the copyrighted to their respective owners and are not available for download with this theme.
Clipart images can not be used without express permission from the owner and/or need to be purchased separately.

We can provide you with the list of image ids used in the theme, just contact our support team.

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this theme. As it was said at the beginning, we'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this theme. We'll do our best to assist you. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email via our user page contact form from our Profile Page. Thank you so much!

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