“Creek” Documentation by “weartstudio” v1.0

“Creek”

Created: February 12, 2017
By: weartstudio
support: Support Center

Thank you for purchasing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to visit themes support center here. Thanks so much!

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Disclaimer - top

Although support is not required of ThemeForest authors, I do offer support for the theme and its core features and functionality. I cannot guarantee that this theme will function with all third-party components and plugins. Theme is presented as is.

Install the theme - top

  1. Make sure that you have the latest version of Wordpress installed.
  2. You can upload Creek to Wordpress in one of two different ways:
    • Extract the Creek.zip and upload the extracted Creek folder to the /wp-content/themes/ directory on your FTP server. Help Video
    • OR go to Appearance > Themes and click on the Add New link at the top.

      Then click Upload Theme
      and click Choose File, then select Creek.zip and click Install Now.
  3. After you upload the theme, activate it by going to Appearance > Themes and place your mouse over Creek and click the Activate button underneath.

Update the theme - top

From time to time, a theme update will be released that either fixes a bug and/or adds new features to the theme. You can update the theme in one of two ways:

  1. Remove the old version of the theme by going to Appearance > Themes and activating another theme (you may want to place your site in Maintenance mode via a plugin). Then, hover your mouse over the Creek theme image and click Theme Details. Then click delete in the lower right corner of the window that appears. Then, follow the installation instructions above to install the new version of the theme.
  2. OR you can upload the new /Creek folder from the Creek.zip file via FTP and overwrite the old files.

NOTE: Updating the theme will overwrite any changes you made to any of the core theme files (index.php, style.css, header.php, etc), but you will not lose any changes you made to the Customizer, Menus, Widgets, etc.

Setup the theme - top

The theme has no need any special setup in the first time, just the menus, and widgets. The menu on the top ( Header menu ) and the sidebar for widgets on the footer and right side.

To use the theme menu function firstly you have to define menu, than you can add menu items, and than you can make submenus.

Click here for more informations about menus.

Define menu - top

You must define a menu before you can add items to it.

  1. Login to the WordPress Dashboard.
  2. From the ‘Appearance’ menu on the left-hand side of the Dashboard, select the ‘Menus’ option to bring up the Menu Editor.
  3. Select Create a new menu at the top of the page
  4. Enter a name for your new menu in the Menu Name box
  5. Click the Create Menu button.

Add menu to the site - top

To apper the menu on the site you have to choose the position of the menu with ThemeLocations.

  1. In the top of the page click the ‘Manage locations‘ button.
  2. Select your menu with the dropdown selection in column Assigned Menu.
  3. Click save changes.

Adding items to the menu - top

You can add different link types into your menu, these are split between panes left of the menu you’re currently editing.

Your custom menu has now been saved.

Multi level menus - top

When planning the structure of your menu, it helps to think of each menu item as a heading in a formal report document. In a formal report, main section headings (Level 1 headings) are the nearest to the left of the page; sub-section headings (Level 2 headings) are indented slightly further to the right; any other subordinate headings (Level 3, 4, etc) within the same section are indented even further to the right.

The WordPress menu editor allows you to create multi-level menus using a simple ‘drag and drop’ interface. Drag menu items up or down to change their order of appearance in the menu. Drag menu items left or right in order to create sub-levels within your menu.

To make one menu item a subordinate of another, you need to position the ‘child’ underneath its ‘parent’ and then drag it slightly to the right.

  1. Position the mouse over the 'child' menu item.
  2. Whilst holding the left mouse button, drag it to the right.
  3. Release the mouse button.
  4. Repeat these steps for each sub-menu item.
  5. Click the Save Menu button in the Menu Editor to save your changes.

Social icons - top

To make a social menu with Creek just create a menu, and make a position to social menu.

  1. click the "custom links"
  2. Add url to your social profile like: https://www.facebook.com/envato/
  3. Add link text the social platform name like: facebook, twitter, or instagram... etc. See the full list a little further down.
  4. save the menu

These are the brands icons you can use:

Footer Sidebar - top

The theme has sidebar support, what is display in footer and the right side.

Sidebars play an important role in designing the layout of a WordPress website to display content other than the main articles of a website. For example, a short list of recent articles, recent comments, a list of pages, or popular articles on a website can easily be displayed across the entire site.

It can also be used to display advertisements from third-party websites. Users can drag and drop items into sidebars from Appearance » Widgets in the admin panel. Some WordPress themes come with highly configurable options to create dynamic layouts for different sections of a website, which allow users to add their own sidebars from a drag and drop interface.

This video explains how to use wordpress sidebar.

Customize the theme - top

With the WordPress Theme customizer you can personalize how the theme seems.

Open WordPress Administration panel, and navigate Appearance => Themes, roll over the Creek theme and click the Customize button. After you have done the customization just click the save, and refresh your site.

Creek template support this functions:

Theme Features and Usage - top

The theme has some opportunities to make your post and your site more interesting.

Create Post - top

Tons of oportunities to write a post. Here is a little video tutorial to show the basics:

Excerpt (important to use) - top

To create a lead text in WordPress it has two way, but this theme supports only one way, the excerpt.

In the post edit mode the top right corner click the Screen options button. And check the Ecxerpt (only once you have to do this).

Scroll down the Excerpt section and type the lead text.

Save or Publish.

Create Featured post - top

In the home you can add featured posts to the top.

Make featuerd post

The default look is the small, but if you want the large you just add the “large” tag into the post in post edit mode.

In the post edit mode scroll down the Tags section, type the “featured” word into the field and click the add button.

Lastly don’t forget Update or Publish the post.

The theme supports the Featured image function, this means you can able to display images on the home screen and the archive pages.

In the post edit mode scroll down to the “Featured image” section on the right.

To add a featured image in a WordPress post, simply click on “Set Featured Image” link inside the featured image meta box shown in the screenshot above.

This will open the WordPress Media Uploader. You can use that to upload an image from your computer or use an existing image from your media library. Once you select the image, simply click on Set Featured Image button.

The image will appear in the Featured Image meta box, like this:

Lastly don’t forget Update or Publish the post.

Responsive Video embed - top

All you need to do is paste the video URL into the content area and the theme will make the embed responsive automatically.

Make sure is that the URL is in it’s own line and not clickable (hyperlinked). For example:

Once you are on the post edit screen, you need to click on the Add Media button.

To add images to the gallery, you can either upload the images from your computer or choose existing images from your media library (images that you have previously uploaded to your site). All you have to do is select the images you want by clicking on them.

Once you have selected all the images that you want to add in your gallery, click on “Create New Gallery” button in the media uploader. Media uploader will then show your selected images in the Edit Gallery view. Here you can add captions to your images, change gallery settings, and rearrange the order of images by simply dragging and dropping them in the order you want them to appear in.

Clicking on Insert Gallery button will close the media uploader and insert the gallery code inside your WordPress post.

If you want more prettier gallery try the Jetpack plugin Gallery module.

Developer's Guide - top

If you are a developer maybe this is useful to you.

Sources and Credits - top

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this theme. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this theme. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the themes on ThemeForest, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section.

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