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After extract the main zip file, you'll see these folders and files:
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The standard format is similar with other WordPress themes.
Portfolio post allows user to update multiple featured images for the post. Before select images, you need to upload images to the WordPress Media Library
The featured images would be shown in following scenes:
Image post allow user sign a link for the featured image.
to add a link for the image post featured image: go to Add New Page>Image Settings>LinkAudio post allows user to upload self-hosted audios and SoundCloud audios . The audios user has uploaded would be shown in following scenes:
Video post allows user to upload vimeo and youtube videos . The video user has uploaded would be shown in following scenes:
Quote post allows user to publish quote content and display them on list pages. The quotes user has uploaded would be shown in following scenes:
Link post allows user to upload links to a post. The links user has uploaded would be shown in following scenes:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Here you could assign a sidebar for your page, to creat or edit a sidebar, go to Appearance > Widgets, on the right side
Turn off the option to hide the title bar:
This options is to hide the top spacing of the page(spacing behind Title Bar) when you want to show a slider on the page top.
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:
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:
The each tab is set for each row :
You could set up a background color for the text block, leave it empty if you don't want to show any bg color.
Icon on Left
Icon on Top
You could set a bullet icon for every item
Portfolio module is designed for you to showcase your portfolio post, on flip mouseover effect, the portfoio images could be previewed when mouse rollover.
Gallery is a image list to show a gallery form imsge post (featured image) or a set of library images, click the image it would open a beautiful lightbox or go to a particular link.
Single Image module is to enter a single image to your post/page.
This module could create 4 types of message box: Success, Warning, Error, Infomation
Accordion and Toggle has the same style in front end, you could expand only one item in Accordion mode and could expand multiple items in Toggle mode.
Horizontal Tabs
Vertical Tabs
To show a testimonial module in page, you need to create testimonials from the left hand navigation: Testimonial > Add New, and assign every testimonial post a category, then when build the module, choose the category you want to use.
There are 2 mode for your blog module, Standard List is to show only standard post, and Masonry List could show all types of your post.
a masonry blog example:
a standard blog example:
The usage is similar with Testimonial module
Devider module is to place a spacer or lines in the vertical dimension.
The usage is similar with Testimonial module
The usage is similar with Testimonial module
The usage is similar with Testimonial module, and have a same style with jobs.
Following image is the Contact Form module looks like in front end.
From Bee v1.2, the pagebuild is supported contact form 7 plugin - a pop free wordpress contact form plugin. If you intall the plugin, the option would be shown:
From Bee v1.2, the pagebuild is supported single field form too. It looks like in front end:
To enter a video to the page, you need to copy and paste the embeded code of the video, a example with Vimeo video:
Supported video:
For Vimeo and Youtube video, you could directly copy/paste the link of the video:
This section is to help viewers share your current page out via social medias, by now it support: Twiiter, Facebook and Pinterest
The Google Map module need you provide a address for your particular location, go to google map find the address, copy the url and paste it to your Google Map module edting panel.
Build your price block by Price module, by now it support not more than 4 price blocks, and it is recommended to make the module fullwidth(1/1).
To use the Layered Slider, you need to:
1. install the Layered Slider plugin(there would be a tip in top of wp-admin which prompt you to install the plugin, we have bought the liscense and you could use it for free in this theme)
2. create your slider and name it in Layered Slider panel(the left hand in admin panel navigation)
3. when using the slider module, set the first options "Slider Type" as "Layered Slider"
4. Check the Layered Slider documention
5. Layerslider Demo Data: If you want to use the layerslider in demo site, please go to LayerSlider WP / All Sliders and paste the demo code to Import sliders Box.
From Bee v1.2, the Progress Bar module is updated as Info-Graphic module. Including:
Bar
Column
Pie
Pictorial
Bog Number
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.
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.
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:
On admin panel the left hand, click "Bee" to enter Theme Otions
From Theme Otions, you could:
You could use bbPress - a light forum wordpress plugin with this theme.
To create a register page:
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