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!
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
Below you can see the structure of the Main Page.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
To manage Sidebar and Footer widgets, please go to Appearance Widgets
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.
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.
To manage Footer widgets, please go to Appearance Widgets
You may hide footer widgets block from Appearance Theme Options Footer Settings Hide Widget Section.
To manage Footer Copyright Text, please go to Appearance Theme Options Footer Settings Copyright Text - and add your text. By default you will see "© Created by wwwebinvader. All rights reserved."
This theme supports a multi-level dropdown menu that can be set from Appearance Menu
To create a new gallery page:
Now you can add unlimited Gallery Posts, all posts you will see on Gallery Page & Gallery by click on title of gallery 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.
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To create contact page create Map in Google Maps & Contact Form in Contact, copy their shortcodes and add in new page.
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.
Go to Appearance Widgets and use the drag and drop interface to insert widgets into the desired widget areas.
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
You will need install required plug-ings to see WordPress Popular Posts. This widget has meny options:
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.
Add title and tagline of site, it's information will be used if you not set Logo Image.
Add background color or choose Background Image in Background Image field.
You may use this options to add your background:
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.
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!
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:
Here you can:
In this section you can add Blog Settings:
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.
You can use this options here:
You can add color and other font options for all included elements:
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.
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
Resources that are used in the Elantra theme in the free source (Licensed under MIT).
Browse through the list below:
# | Name | Description | URL |
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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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