Elantra 2015 Look Book - Elegant Personal/Multipurpose Blogging Theme.

Elantra WordPress theme build especially fans of blogs, bloggers who love to share their stuff, all about fashion, looks, live, travel, own hobby and more. You can use this theme for any purpose you want or just like a simple personal blog. Theme has large functionality and great number of features.

Theme has all kinds of post types to quickly and easy add SoundCloud songs, Vimeo/YouTube video, audio and video by WordPress Hosting Url, Quotes & Links posts, or Mosaic/Slider Gallery post.

Easy to Customize theme by Theme Options (based on OptionTree - included) & WordPress Customizer Options.

Unlimited Colors and more than 600+ Google Web Fonts to create your special blog style. From Options you may choose slider/carousel option, enable sticky header, smooth scroll, Masonry (2/3 columns) or Simple Blog Layout, and this is not all features of this theme, for example you may choose 1/7 pre-loader animation styles (for music blog or simple elegant girls/men's blog). Also Theme include Simple Gallery with Filter and full page of gallery.

All posts images/flick widgets images opens in Magnific Popup Window.

Social Icons has 4 styles - own social color on bg / main color on bg / main color for icon / monochrome

So if you goal is travel, hobby, cooking, fashion, style, mens, girls, elegant, creative, personal blog - you make the right choice if you will choose this New 2015 Elantra WordPress Theme!

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WP Theme Installation

WordPress Install

Hey there!
If you have not yet installed wordpress download it from the link below by clicking on "Download Wordpress".
Installing WordPress Link - * Instruction is located the same link!

Famous five minute WordPress installation will bring you positive feedback on this CMS

If you have installed, or was installed WP, go to the next step.

Theme Install

This is the first and easiest way to install the theme.

Go to Appearance Themes.
Click on Add New at the top.
Click on Upload Theme at the top.
Upload "elantra.zip" archive file via web interface
Upload "elantra-child.zip" archive file via web interface too, if you want customize your theme safely.
Activate newly main installed theme

Theme Install via FTP

This is the second way to install the theme.

Unzip "elantra.zip" on your Desktop. You should get folder called "elantra"
If you want customize your theme safely unzip "elantra-child.zip" on your Desktop too. You should get folder called "elantra-child"
Sign in to your hosting using your favorite FTP client.
Navigate to /wp-content/themes/ and upload "elantra" and "elantra-child" folder.
Open WordPress Dashboard and go to Appearance Themes and activate Elantra main theme from there.

Theme Required Plugins

Post-installation issues.

After installing the theme you will see window with a message about installing the required plug-ins. Don't ignore it, Begin installing plugins and Activate all of them

Theme Structure

Below you can see the structure of the Main Page.

Header Links Menu

This is special block with menu for the links that are needed but are less important, or that would tell users more about you and your blog. Menu has dropdown menu all levels.

Social Icons

You must fill all fields of the selected social networks in Appearance Theme Options Social Options . If some fields are not filled - icon of this social network be disabled. All popular social network icons allowed.

Icons what you choose has 4 styles and activated only in Theme Options. It easy, bacause social widget allready include all info about your social profiles, and you must only add widget in footer or sidebar, and activate it in footer or in header content.

Main Logo

Main Logo easy to add from Appearance Theme Options Header Settings - you can upload image or add logo text, and choose Font Style of Logo Text in Appearance Theme Options Font Settings Header Logo Text

Main Menu

Manage menu is very simple, just using Drag & Drop, you can create submenu from items ( pages/links/categories ).
For more information about creating & managing menu, you can view the following link: WordPress Menu User Guide - By default you will see notice.

Slider/Carousel

To manage slider, please go to Appearance Theme Options Blog Settings Choose Slider - you may choose carousel with 3 posts,simple slider with 1 post, and choose without slider.

About Me Section

To manage this section, please go to Appearance Theme Options General Settings About Me Section on Main Page - you may check it to show this section on main page, also you must add other settings. fit About Me Social Share Icons, About Section Background, Fixed Background on Scroll, About Section Avatar, About Section Title, About Section Text.

Sidebar

To manage Sidebar and Footer widgets, please go to Appearance Widgets

Most Commented Block

You can enable/disable Most Commented Block in footer area, it easy and great way for users traffic. Go to Appearance Theme Options Footer Settings - you can add own title/disable title, choose number of posts for preview, or disable this block.

Instagram Photos Block

You can enable/disable Instagram Photos in footer area, it easy and great way for users traffic. Go to Appearance Theme Options Footer Settings - you can add own title and must add your instagram username in Instagram Username field.

Footer Widget Area

To manage Footer widgets, please go to Appearance Widgets

You may hide footer widgets block from Appearance Theme Options Footer Settings Hide Widget Section.

Footer Copyright Text

Main Menu

This theme supports a multi-level dropdown menu that can be set from Appearance Menu

Create your own multilebel menu using this guide WordPress_Menu_User_Guide
Save your menu.
Go to Appearance Menus Manage Locations
Select your created menu from list
Save changes in Manage Locations

How to Create Gallery Page

To create a new gallery page:

Go to Pages Add New
Enter your page title
Choose Template Gallery Template
Publish/Update this page
Create new Galleries:
- Go to Gallery Add New
- Enter your gallery title
- Click on Add Media button
- In opened modal window choose Create Gallery
- Upload or Choose Images you want
- Apply seting in right sidebar after you choose images
- Click on Insert Gallety button - After insert you may delete or edit your gallery
- After set featured image and choose category - Filter in Gallery works by categories.
- Publish/Update this post

Now you can add unlimited Gallery Posts, all posts you will see on Gallery Page & Gallery by click on title of gallery post.

How to set Featured Slider Post

To set post in slider check yhis options when you will be create/update post. At the bottom of post editor you can see Meta Box called "Featured Post?" - Click on this options to add post in slider and save it.

How to Create Standart Post

To create a new post:

Go to Posts Add New
Enter your post title.
Enter your post content.
Choose post Format: Standard
Choose categories or add a new category.
Add tags, separated by commas.
Set a featured image. Click on "Set featured image" link, a normal upload box will now appear, upload your image and click "Use as featured image".
When you are done, click "Publish" button to save the post.

How to Create Gallery (Slider/Mosaic) Post

To create a new post:

Go to Posts Add New
Enter your post title.
Enter your post content.
Choose post Format: Gallery
Choose categories or add a new category.
Add tags, separated by commas.
Set all featured images or more then one.
Set Gallery Style - Slider/Mosaic on the bottom (Meta Box Called "Gallery Style" )
When you are done, click "Publish" button to save the post.

How to Create Video Post

To create a new post:

Go to Posts Add New
Enter your post title.
Enter your post content.
Choose post Format: Video
Choose categories or add a new category.
Add tags, separated by commas.
Set featured image.
Set Video Link in Menta Box - YouTube/Vimeo/Custom Video Url
When you are done, click "Publish" button to save the post.

How to Create Audio Post

To create a new post:

Go to Posts Add New
Enter your post title.
Enter your post content.
Choose post Format: Audio
Choose categories or add a new category.
Add tags, separated by commas.
Set featured image.
Set Audio Link in Menta Box - SoundCloud/Custom Url:
When you are done, click "Publish" button to save the post.

How to Create Quote Post

To create a new post:

Go to Posts Add New
Enter your post title.
Enter your post content.
Choose post Format: Quote
Choose categories or add a new category.
Add tags, separated by commas.
Set featured image.
When you are done, click "Publish" button to save the post.

How to Create Link Post

To create a new post:

Go to Posts Add New
Enter your post title.
Enter your link in post content.
Choose post Format: Link
Choose categories or add a new category.
Add tags, separated by commas.
Set featured image.
When you are done, click "Publish" button to save the post.

How to Create Contact Page

To create contact page create Map in Google Maps & Contact Form in Contact, copy their shortcodes and add in new page.

Widgets Structure

All standart widgets work perfect too, so you can use categories and others widgets so easy.

Theme has 11 Built-in Custom Widgets + 1 Plugin Wordpress Popular Posts Widget each widget has many settings and style variants.

* - Read more below.

Custom Widgets

Go to Appearance Widgets and use the drag and drop interface to insert widgets into the desired widget areas.

01 Facebook Like

Facebook widget allows you to show a facebook likebox, all settings like on original facebook widget.
New design function is Overlay Block, you can check it or if you want - use simple facebook widget.

02 Flickr

Flickr widget allows you to add recent images uploaded to your flickr account. You can customize your Flickr ID, number of photos to show and the display order (latest/random) from the widget settings. To find your Flickr ID, use http://idgettr.com

03 Dribbble

Add username, number of images and enjoy your Dribbble feed.

04 Instagram

Add username, number of posts in slider and enjoy your Instagram feed.

05 Twitter

Add Twiiter Api Settings in Appearance Theme Options Social Options and add this widget in sidebar. Users see you latest tweets.

06 Advertisement Widget

Add link, title and image of your Ad - Motivate users to visit your product/offer or something else.

07 Own Info Widget

You may easy add information about you or your company and add image to attract users attention.

08 Tag Cloud

It's custom tag cload with own creat and simple style.

09 Socials

Social widget allows you to show social links with icons, fill fields by required data next to the name of social network in Appearance Theme Options Social Options. ! - If fields empty social network not appear.
Also you may choose socials icon style (Social Icons Color Scheme).

10 Recent Posts

Recent Posts Widget include title and number of posts to show.

11 Tabs Widget

This widget hasn't any settings. Tabs used Posts, Tags and Comments in one block.

WordPress Popular Posts

You will need install required plug-ings to see WordPress Popular Posts. This widget has meny options:

Title
Number of Posts to show
Sort posts by criteria:
- Time Range
- Post type(s)
- Post(s) ID(s) to exclude
- Category(ies) ID(s)
- Author(s) ID(s
Posts settings:
- Shorten title
- Display post excerpt
- Display post thumbnail
Stats Tag settings:
- Display comment count
- Display views
- Display author
- Display date
- Display category
HTML Markup settings

Theme Customizer

Settings of Colors, Background and else can be set from the WP Theme Customizer.
Go to Appearance Customize
! - When you are done making your changes, press the "Save" button in the top of the theme customizer.

Site Title & Tagline

Add title and tagline of site, it's information will be used if you not set Logo Image.

Colors

Add background color or choose Background Image in Background Image field.

Background Image

You may use this options to add your background:

Background Image
Background Repeat
Background Position
Background Attachment

Main Colors

Choose your site Main color and Dark Color of site (contrast black or soft black). It's very simple way to create your own style.

Theme Options

More options for your new Elantra theme you may find in Theme Options. Theme Options based on framework - OptionTree
Go to Appearance Theme Options
* - Don't forget save your progress.

All setting extremely intuitive!

General Settings

In General Settings tab you can set Favicon, Enable Smooth Scroll, Set 1/7 Loader Styles and add your own CSS code and Activate About Me Section.
* - CSS code you can add in style.css, because all Theme CSS Code included in main.css file.

You can choose 1/7 pre-loader anomations:

Header Settings

Here you can:

Enable/Disable Small Header
Enable/Disable Social in Small Header
Enable/Disable Fixed Header
Upload your Logo or Add Logo Text

Blog Settings

In this section you can add Blog Settings:

Blog Style: Masonry or Classic
Masonry Columns: 2/3
Choose Slider: 1 or 3 images, or without slider.
Sidebar Position
Blog Excerpt or Full text
Excerpt Length
Activate Pagination - buttons
Read More Text
Comment Title

Social Options

In this section you must add Twitter API info, and fill fields next from name of social network to activate icon of this social network in header/footer/sidebar widget area/footer widget area.
! - If fields empty social network not appear.

Footer Settings

You can use this options here:

Enable/Disable Instagram Block
Add Instagram Username
Add own Instagram Block Title
Enable/Disable Most Commented Block
The number of Displayed Posts in Most Commented Block
Hide Most Commented Block Title
Add Most Commented Block Title Text
Hide Widget Section
Show Social Section
Show Copyright Section
Add Copyright Text

Font Settings

You can add color and other font options for all included elements:

Body Typography
H1 Typography
H2 Typography
H3 Typography
H4 Typography
H5 Typography
H6 Typography
Header Logo Text
Header Link
Footer Title
Footer Content
Footer Copyright
Sidebar Title

You can create great Blog/Magazine website, this all settings easy to use and change, I am sure you will enjoy the simplicity and number of settings that presented in this theme.

* - Don't forget save your progress.

Child Theme

This theme has Child Theme support to customize theme without any losses from the main theme.

If you want to make modifications on this theme, it is recommended to use a child theme.
This theme comes with a blank child theme that you can use. In the theme package you can find "elantra-child" folder.
Upload this folder to your wp-content/themes folder, and activate it from the Appearance Themes. Once activated, you can start editing inside this "elantra-child" folder.

This child theme includes 2 files that you can use to override parent theme's style (style.css) and function (functions.php). By using child theme, you will leave the parent theme unmodified, so when a theme update is available, you can simply replace the parent theme without worry about your modified code. For more info about using child themes, please visit this link: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Sources & Credits

Resources that are used in the Elantra theme in the free source (Licensed under MIT).
Browse through the list below:

Sources & Credits Table

#	Name	Description	URL
1	Bootstrap	Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.	http://getbootstrap.com
2	FontAwesome	Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS.	http://fontawesome.io
3	WordPress-Post-Like-System	A simple and efficient post like system for WordPress.	https://github.com/JonMasterson/WordPress-Post-Like-System
4	FlexSlider	FlexSlider was built to serve up the best responsive jQuery slider around.	http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/
5	jQuery, jQuery Easing	jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers. With a combination of versatility and extensibility, jQuery has changed the way that millions of people write JavaScript.	http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/ http://jquery.com/
6	Masonry	Masonry is a JavaScript grid layout library. It works by placing elements in optimal position based on available vertical space, sort of like a mason fitting stones in a wall. You’ve probably seen it in use all over the Internet.	http://masonry.desandro.com/
7	TGM Plugin Activation	TGM Plugin Activation is a PHP library that allows you to easily require or recommend plugins for your WordPress themes (and plugins).	http://tgmpluginactivation.com/
8	Easy Bootstrap Shortcodes	Easy Bootstrap Shortcode enable you to add bootstrap 3.0.3 styles in your pages, post and custom post in simplest manner.	https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-bootstrap-shortcodes/
9	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.	https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
10	Google Maps Builder	Google Maps Builder isn't just another Google Maps plugin. It's built from the ground up to be the easiest, most intuitive and fastest Google Maps plugin for WordPress.	https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-maps-builder/
11	Multiple Post Thumbnails	Adds multiple post thumbnails to a post type. If you've ever wanted more than one Featured Image on a post, this plugin is for you.	https://wordpress.org/plugins/multiple-post-thumbnails/
12	Twitter Feeds	Twitter feeds plugin provides facility to display twitter tweets on your website using Twitter 1.1 API with authentication.	https://wordpress.org/plugins/twitter-feeds/
13	WordPress Popular Posts	WordPress Popular Posts is a highly customizable widget that displays the most popular posts on your blog.	https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/
14	Easy Bootstrap Shortcodes	Easy Bootstrap Shortcode enable you to add bootstrap 3.0.3 styles in your pages, post and custom post in simplest manner.	https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-bootstrap-shortcodes/
15	Images	All images for preview purpose only.	http://thestocks.im/

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