Help Documentation
Tessera Wordpress Theme
Thank you for purchasing our theme ! Please take the time to read through the following sections before asking for support. As many support related questions can be answered simply by re-reading the documentation.
First Steps
Installation - First Steps
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.




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

Creating Front Page & Blog Page - First Steps
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.

Adding Logo - First Steps
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.
For more information about WordPress menus, please read the WordPress menu guide


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.

Page Templates - First Steps

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
Customizer
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.


General - Customizer
This section contains search box settings.
Header - Customizer
You can customize your site header from this section.
Homepage - Customizer
You can customize the header of the homepage template from this section.
Typography & Colors - Customizer
You can change default primary color, font sizes, families, line-heights etc. from this section.
Knowledge Base - Customizer
This section contains some general kowledge base settings. For more information about knowledge base, please look at knowledge base section.
bbPress - Customizer
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
To select a topic as solved, click edit link on the first reply of the topic;


To select a reply as best answer, click edit link of the reply;


To allow your users to edit their post to mark as solved/unsolved any time they like, you may want to change the following default bbPress setting;

User Profiles - Customizer
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 - Customizer
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.

Blog - Customizer
This section contains the blog settings of the theme.
Slugs - Customizer
You can change knowledge base url slugs from this section.

Woocommerce - Customizer
Tessera is fully compatible with Woocommerce.
Footer - Theme Settings
Footer settings are in this section.

Elementor Page Builder
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;

Mailchimp Sign-up Form
To use this widget, you should upload/activate Mailchimp for WordPress plugin.
Posts
If you are an unexperienced WordPress user, we suggest you to read the following article;
How to Add a New Post in WordPress and Utilize all the Features
Excerpts
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.
Subtitle
You can add a subtitle to your posts or pages. It is recommended for SEO.
Featured Image
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

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.

Knowledge Base

"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;

How to change the order of the articles
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.
Intuitive Custom Post OrderAfter the activation, you should check "Articles" from the plugin settings;

Compatibility
Tessera is compatible with the following plugins;
Elementor - Compatibility
It’s about time for a live page builder, with no limits of design. A page builder that delivers high-end page designs and advanced capabilities, never before seen on WordPress.
bbPress - Compatibility
bbPress is forum software, made the WordPress way.
Woocommerce - Compatibility
WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, WooCommerce is the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives both store owners and developers complete control.
TM Elementor Addons - Compatibility
Super Charge Your Elementor Page Builder With Premium Elements, Beautiful Elementor Templates, Icons, Extentions and much more...
Awesome Support - Compatibility
Awesome Support is the most versatile and feature-rich helpdesk & support ticketing plugin.
Contact Form 7 - Compatibility
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Intuitive Custom Post Order - Compatibility
Intuitively, order items( Posts, Pages, ,Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies, Sites ) using a drag and drop sortable JavaScript.
Mailchimp for WordPress - Compatibility
MailChimp for WordPress, the absolute best. Subscribe your WordPress site visitors to your MailChimp lists, with ease.
Autoptimize - Compatibility
Autoptimize speeds up your website and helps you save bandwidth by aggregating and minimizing JS, CSS and HTML.
Support
Beginner's Guide to WordPress
If you are not an experienced WordPress user, I suggest you to start from this free course. After taking this free course you'll be completely comfortable with installing WordPress, adding new content, customising WordPress themes, using WordPress plugins, and managing existing blogs or websites.
Help Documentation
Many support queries and technical questions will already be answered in this documentation. So please take the time to read through all the sections.
Knowledge Base
Your question may already be answered in the knowledge base...
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