The first thing you need to do when you want to install a new WordPress theme is to login to your site admin page. Once there, go to Appearance -> Themes. Here, you will see all the themes you have currently installed in your application. To add another one, simply click on the Install Themes tab. Upload the zip package which you have downloaded from Themeforest from your local hard drive.

If you want to use the theme with all bundled features, you should upload and activate all required plugins. After the installation of the theme, you will see a message about them. Click "Begin Installing Plugins", install the plugins and activate them.

Go to Appearance->Import Demo Data and click on the Import button only once and wait, it can take a couple of minutes.

First of all, you should create a new page for your frontpage display.

Go to Settings->Reading and select in the drop-down box this page for the front page display.

To create a blog page, create a blank page.

Go to Settings->Reading and select in the drop-down box the name of the Page that will now contain your latest posts. You can also use one of the blog page templates to create a page which displays all your posts. For more information please look at Page Templates section.

You can upload your logo from Appearance->Customize->Site Identity. You can play with "Logo Height" and "Logo Padding" values.

You can create menus from Appearance->Menus page. After creating your menus, you must manage your menu location.

Custom Menu

Another way to use a WordPress menu is using custom menu widget. You can use this widget to add your menus to any widget area.

Standard Templates

"Default template" is a standard fullwidth page template.

Homepage Templates

These page templates displays a big search box in the header.

Blog Templates

The following templates display your latest posts in different layouts.

• Blog - Sidebar
• Blog - Masonry

Page - Articles

Displays all articles in the knowledge base.

Page - Main Sidebar

Displays main sidebar

Page - Knowledgebase Sidebar

Displays knowledgebase sidebar

With WordPress Customizer, you can drastically change the appearance and functionality of your website from one, manageable interface. That includes making changes to page elements including your site title, theme settings, background image, colors, menus etc.

You can find all theme settings in Appearance->Customizer->Theme Settings.

This section contains search box settings.

You can customize your site header from this section.

You can customize the header of the homepage template from this section.

You can change default primary color, font sizes, families, line-heights etc. from this section.

This section contains some general kowledge base settings. For more information about knowledge base, please look at knowledge base section.

Tessera is fully compatible with bbPress plugin. We also added some great features to the forums. You can enable/disable them from this section.

Report Topic or Replies

To use this feature you must enable it from Customizer->Theme Settings->bbPress

Private Reply

When someone marks his/her reply as private, only admins and moderators can view the reply.

Solved Topic & Best Answer

Users can create their profiles with bbPress plugin. We also added some great features to the user profiles. You can enable/disable them from this section.

User menu automatically displays bbPress user menu items. If you want, you can add additional menu items but you can not remove bbPress menu items.

This section contains the blog settings of the theme.

You can change knowledge base url slugs from this section.

Tessera is fully compatible with Woocommerce.

Footer settings are in this section.

Tessera is fully compatible with Elementor plugin. Elementor is the best WordPress Page Builder, with over 1000000 active installs. You can create a beautiful website using a simple, intuitive drag and drop Interface.

Elementor settings;

Custom Tessera Elementor widgets;

Header settings;

To use this widget, you should upload/activate Mailchimp for WordPress plugin.

Click here to download the plugin

Knowledge Base

You can add widgets to the widget fields from Appearance->Widgets page.

Main Sidebar

This field is displayed on blog pages.

Knowledge Base Sidebar

This field is displayed on knowledge base pages.

bbPress Sidebar

This field is displayed on forum pages.

Footer Widget Fields

These fields are displayed in the footer. You can change the layout from Customizer->Footer.

WooCommerce Sidebar

This field is displayed on WooCommerce pages.

If you are an unexperienced WordPress user, we suggest you to read the following article;

An excerpt in WordPress is a term used for article summary with a link to the whole entry. An excerpt can be auto generated by a WordPress theme.

Another way to create excerpts for a WordPress post is by entering the summary of an article in Excerpt field on Post Edit screen. This field is not displayed in the post edit screen by default. To enable it a user needs to click on Screen Options button on the top right corner of post edit screen and then enable it.

You can add a subtitle to your posts or pages. It is recommended for SEO.

The Featured Image (also known as post thumbnail) is a WordPress theme feature which allows you to add a representative image to the posts.

Post formats is an optional value added to posts which allows you to define visual representation of a post.

Standard: Default post format.

Gallery: For example; if you add an image gallery to a post, you can select this format.

Video: For example; if you add a video to a post, you can select this format.

Link: You can use this format to redirect post to an internal/external url.

After selecting "Link format", you should add "Redirect Post" block to the page.

"Knowledgebase" is a WordPress custom post type. You can create pages for your knowledge base articles using Gutenberg or Elementor.

To use Elementor on project pages, "Projects" post type must be enabled from Elementor->Settings.

You can use "Article Categories" and "Article Tags" to organize your articles.

To display all articles, you can use "Page - Articles" page template.

You can use Tessera KB Category, Tessera KB Tag, Tessera Masonry, Tessera List and Tessera Carousel widgets to add your articles to any page.

To add articles and article categories to your menus, make sure that you've enabled the boxes from Screen Options;

All WordPress Posts are automatically categorized by the date in which they were posted. So, you can change the "Publish Dates" for your articles in the order you wish to have them display.

You can also order items( Articles, posts, categories etc.) using a drag and drop sortable JavaScript with "Intuitive Custom Post Order" plugin. The plugin is already in the theme package.

After the activation, you should check "Articles" from the plugin settings;

Tessera is compatible with the following plugins;

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