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BEE WordPress Theme Documentation



Installation

To use a WordPress theme you must have a working version of Wordpress already installed. For information in regard to installing the WordPress platform, please refer to the WordPress Codex here

  1. Extract the package file

    2. After extract the main zip file, you'll see these folders and files:

    • bee folder - main theme folder
    • bee.zip - zipped theme
    • Documentation folder - help file
    • Log folder
    • demo-data.xml - the demo data for one click import
  2. Install theme file

    3. This template works well for WordPress 3.6, update yours if needed.
    Installing the theme can be done in two ways. You can upload the theme ZIP file using the built in WordPress theme upload, or copy the files through an FTP client.

    • Using WordPress Theme Upload:
      Be sure to extract the file "bee.zip" from the ThemeForest download before uploading. Using the ThemeForest ZIP file directly will result in a "Missing Style Sheet" error.
      • Login to your WordPress admin.
      • In the "Appearance > Themes" menu click the tab "Install Themes"
      • At the top of the page click, "Upload", then click the file input to select a file.
      • Select the zipped theme file, "bee.zip", and click "Install Now"
      • After installation you will receive a success message confirming your new install.
      • Click the link "Activate"
    • Using FTP:
      • Login to your FTP server and navigate to your WordPress themes directory.
      • Normally this would be "wp-content/themes"
      • Extract folder "bee" from the zipped theme.
      • Copy the folder "bee" to your themes directory.
      • After the files finish uploading, login to your WordPress admin.
      • In the "Appearance" menu click "Themes"
      • Click "Activate" for the theme "BEE Responsive & Retina Ready Multi-Purpose WP Theme"

Setting Up

1.Recommended Plugins

After activating the theme, you would notice the message box on the top of admin pages to ask you install/activate some plugins(Layerslider, bbPress and BM Mega Menu), you could use them for free or dismiss the messages.

2. Logo

To set up logo for your website, please go to ThemeOptions(Bee) > General Setting > Logo, here you could upload a logo image or input logo text.
Also you could upload a high dpi logo image for retina displayers. It is recommended to upload a double size logo image for retina logo. Please set the custom logo image(not the retina logo image) width if you upload the retina logo

3. Skin

You could choose a predefined color scheme for you site, go to ThemeOptions(Bee) > Styling

Click here to check out where the Theme Main Color, First Auxiliary Color and Second Auxiliary Color be used.

You could also set up de detail colors for your custom design.

4. Frontpage

To set up the frontpage, you need to create a page which you want to use it as frontpage, after that, go to ThemeOptions(Bee) > Frontpage option to select the page from dropdown menu.

5. Menu

Before building your custom menu, you need to create your pages first, then navigate to Appearance > Menus, it is recommended to create you menu from Pages or Links.

Bee supports MegaMenu developed by our team(from v1.6), to use it you need to install the BM MEGA MENU for Bee wp theme plugin. There will be a top message box on admin pages to guide you installing the needed plugins.

You could activate MegaMenu on the 1 level menu item, once it is enabled, the menu on front-end would be a wide menu supporting multi-columns. The Submenu items would be placed one by one (not more than 6 items in one row) until you let them by activating "start a new row".

If you want to UberMenu(Another mega menu wp plugin). Please deactivate the BM Mega Menu. The default skin(black and white) css is override by bee style. We suggest you use it.

6. Dummy Data

If you are new to WordPress or have problems creating posts or pages that look like the theme preview you can import dummy posts and pages here that will definitely help to understand how those tasks are done. On admin panel the left hand, click "Bee" to enter Theme Otions, you could click the "Import Demo Data" button to import Demo Data to your site.
Note:
1) If it tips "not successful!", please try to click "Import My saved Data"
2) Find the demo-data.xml in your theme fold and select it, operate step by step as tip.

6. Child Theme

If you want to add your own CSS Rules to the theme. We heavily recommend to use a so called Child Theme for that. Using a Child theme allows you to update the theme and at the same time you also make sure that you will never lose any of your modifications to a theme update.
Using a child theme is simple: Just download our demo child theme here and install it, as well as the original "Bee" Theme on your server. Instead of activating the Original Theme you activate the Child theme - "Bee Child Theme". Now if you want to add any custom css to your theme use the child themes style.css. If you want to add any custom php functions use the child themes functions.php.
Now if you update the original Theme with the latest Version, your child theme will stay in place with all your customizations.

Adding Content

1. Post

Bee provide 7 formats for your post, you could choose either of them to match your requirement when creating post. Theses formats would affect the style of your post in list and content page.

2. Team

The Team on the left hand WP menu is where you add team members.

To add a new team member, please go to Team > Add New

To show your team members on webpage, you need to:

  1. Add at least 1 team member, and set a team category for every member
  2. Create a page and insert a “Team” module to the page (via page builder)
  3. Edit the “Team” module, choose a team category you want to show in page

3. Clients

The Clients on the left hand WP menu is where you add clients information.

To add a new team member, please go to Client > Add New
Upload the client’s logo image to Featured Image.

To show your clients logo on webpage, you need to:

  1. Add several clients you want to show, and set a client category for every client
  2. Create a page and insert a “Client” module to the page (via page builder)
  3. Edit the “Client” module, choose a client category you want to show in page

4. Testimonials

The Testimonials on the left hand WP menu is where you add testimonials.

To add a new testimonial, please go to Testimonial > Add New

To show your testimonials on webpage, you need to:

  1. Add several testimonials you want to show, and set a testimonial category for every testimonial
  2. Create a page and insert a “Testimonial” module to the page (via page builder)
  3. Edit the “Testimonial” module, choose a testimonial category you want to show in page

5. Jobs

The Jobs on the left hand WP menu is where you add opening positions.

To add a new job, please go to Jobs > Add New

To show your jobs on webpage, you need to:

  1. Add several jobs you want to show, and set a job category for every job
  2. Create a page and insert a “Jobs” module to the page (via page builder)
  3. Edit the “Jobs” module, choose a job category you want to show in page

6. FAQs

The FAQs on the left hand WP menu is where you add frequently asked questions.

To add a new question, please go to FAQs > Add New

To show your FAQs on webpage, you need to:

  1. Add several questions you want to show, and set a topic for every question
  2. Create a page and insert a “FAQs” module to the page (via page builder)
  3. Edit the “FAQs” module, choose a topic you want to show in page

7. Pages

Go to Pages > Add New to add a new page. You could build a page with shortcodes or Page Builder. To use Page Builder, you need to click the button"Switch to Page Builder"

Page Option:

Page Builder

This theme provide drag & drop page builder for you pages and posts, press the button "Switch to Page Builder" to enable it. Following is a brief introduction for the page builder:

1. Wraps

The module could be placed directly or into a wrap, depending on your layout. A general wrap have the same width with page contents, yet a fullwidth wrap has serveral addtional features:

 

2. Modules
3. Save and Load templates

Once you have build a layout via the page builder, and you want to clone them to other page/posts, you could save the current layout to a template and load then in the other page/post page builder section.

Short Code

When you edit the text via a text editor, you could use Short Code to add some advanced elements to your page/post:

Please make sure you use Visula editor (not Text editor)

Following are the shortcode elements this theme support:

In some page build modules(Textblock, Icon box, Accordion/toggle and Tabs), you could use shortcode.

Translation

Bee is 100% translation and multi-language ready, it is recommend to use the popular WPML wp plugin.

To translate the static strings, if you aren't using WPML then I recommend downloading PO Edit, from http://www.poedit.net/. Once you have installed please follow the steps below:

  1. Open the /bee/languages/ folder and duplicate the default.po file(If you want to tranlate the front end page, you could use default-frontend.po), then rename it to your desired language code. For example, for German you need to rename it as de_DE.po for Spanish es_ES.po for Turkish tr_TR.po etc. You could find all the codes here
  2. Open the .po file in PO Edit, you will see all strings that need to be translated. Type the translation of a string into the "Translation" column. Do not delete or edit "Original string" part.
  3. After finish translating, save the file, an .mo file would be created in the same directory.
  4. Upload the new files into the languages folder of the theme /wp-content/themes/bee/languages/ and then follow this guide: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_in_Your_Language#Single-Site_Installations

Theme Options

On admin panel the left hand, click "Bee" to enter Theme Otions

From Theme Otions, you could:

bbPress

You could use bbPress - a light forum wordpress plugin with this theme.

To create a register page:

  1. Add new page
  2. Enter the shortcode [bbp-register] to content

Included Files

  1. Javascript files
    1. Bootstrap 2.3.1 - styles/bootstrap.js - Some js for Bootstrap layout
    2. jquery.isotope - js/main.js - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts
    3. jquery.jplayer.min.js - js/jquery.jplayer.min.js - HTML5 media player plugin
    4. jquery.lightbox.min.js - js/lightbox/jquery.lightbox.min.js - lightbox plugin
    5. Modernizr 2.6.2 - js/main.js
    6. jCarousel Lite - v1.8.5 - js/main.js - Carousel plugin
    7. comments-ajax.js js/comments-ajax.js - jQuery Ajax Comments
    8. custom.core.js - js/custom.core.js - Bee theme main js
    9. infographic.js - js/infographic.js - Info-Graphic module js
    10. jQuery Waypoints - js/waypoints.min.js - For scroll active
  2. CSS files
    1. Bootstrap 2.3.1 - styles/bootstrap.css - Bootstrap layout
    2. Bee Pagebuild css - styles/pagebuild.css - Pagebuild layout and module style
    3. jquery.lightbox.css - /js/lightbox/themes/default/jquery.lightbox.css - Ligtbox jquery plugin css
    4. style.css - style.css - Bee theme main css
  3. Plugin
    1. LayerSlider Responsive WordPress Slider Plugin: \bee\functions\plugins\layersliderwp-4.6.5.installable.zip

Wordpress Plug-ins Compatibility

We have tested the wp plugins, they work fine with Bee theme.

Note: If you use the cache plugin, you need set the Caching Off when you edit your site

Once again, thank you for purchasing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to publish your question here.

Thanks,
uiueux studio