Your Boodo WP WordPress Theme

Boodo WP / template documentation version 1.1

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Boodo - Food and Magazine Shop WordPress Theme. Boodo WordPress Theme. Whether you’re a blogger or a company trying to share recipe books and products, you’ll need to get started with one of the best Boodo WordPress themes on the market, I present to you Boodo WP Theme.

Monetization options such as a good selection of advert locations are important too that’s why we’ve made use of the best location adding Highest-Earning Ad Sizes, after all, you do want to get paid for your efforts! Completely responsive to look perfectly in all mobile devices, easily usable with any device as well as PCs. Responsive design optimized for tablets and smartphones (resize browser and hit refresh to check it out).

Support requests are being processed on business days Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 (GMT +2) within 24h in the order they were received:

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Getting Started #back to top

Need Help?

Thank you for purchasing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email me via my user page contact form. Support requests are being processed on business days Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 (GMT +2) within 24h in the order they were received.
Please Note: This support is for Theme Set-Up, Theme Usage & Bug Reports Only, I do not offer support for making or helping with, customisations to my theme’s code. If you have modified your theme code then please ensure it is not your modifications causing any issues with the theme. We cannot provide support on 3rd party plugins, and all 3rd party plugins should be disabled before contacting us for support.

Support for my items includes:

  • 1. Responding to questions or problems regarding the item and its features
  • 2. Fixing bugs and reported issues
  • 3. Providing updates to ensure compatibility with new software versions

Item support does not include:

  • 1. Theme Customization and installation services
  • 2. Support for third party software and plug-ins
  • 3. Support for 3rd party plugins and issues that may have arisen after activating this 3rd party plugin
  • 4. WordPress General Support. Use the WP.org forums for general WordPress support.
  • 5. Support for issues caused by user modifications in the theme’s code, styling and general function by yourselves or your developer

How to Install WordPress #back to top

To install the theme you will need to download your purchase from Themeforest. Login to your Envato account, navigate to your downloads and find the theme. Click on the download link.

Download The Theme

1. Select the “All Files & Download” option to download the theme file and the sample data (the main theme file zip will be located inside the Upload folder).
2. Select the “Installable WordPress File Only” if you just want the theme.

How to Install Theme #back to top

Installing Via WordPress

  1. Login to WordPress Browse to Appearance > Themes
  2. Click Add New
  3. Click the Upload link
  4. Click Browse
  5. Select the zipped theme file to upload (the zip file is in the Upload folder if you chose to download all files) and click Install.
  6. Now Activate the theme

Upload Via FTP Server

  1. Login to your site via FTP
  2. Browse to your folder located at wp-content/themes
  3. Upload the main theme folder (the folder is located in the Upload folder if you chose to download all files)
  4. Login to WordPress
  5. Browse to Appearance > Themes
  6. Find and activate the theme


Importing Sample Data (Demo Content) #back to top

Import WordPress XML

This theme includes demo-content-food.xml and demo-content-mag.xml file that will allow you to import the sample data to your site. This file includes most of the demo site data, which includes main theme functions to make it easier for you to see how the theme works.

  1. Login to your Envato account
  2. Click on the theme download link
  3. Select the "All Files & Download" option
  4. Open the zip file, the demo-content-food.xml file or mag, up to you, is in the Sample Data Folder
  5. Login to WordPress
  6. Double check that all recommended plugins have been installed and activated (if not, the sample data related to those plugins will not be imported)
  7. Browse to Tools > Import
  8. Click on the WordPress option (you will have to have the "WordPress Importer" plugin installed, you will be prompted if it's not already installed and active)
  9. Click Browse and select the sample data .xml file
  10. Click Upload files and import
  11. Assign the posts to an existing user
  12. Check the box to download and import file attachments
  13. Click Submit
  14. Give the import some time and do not navigate away from the page until the upload is complete
  15. Go to Settings > Reading, set your from page to a Static Page, select Home from the drop down, and save
  16. Go to Appearance > Menus, click on the Manage Location tab, assign the main menu, and save
  17. If you'd like to change any of the widget, go to Appearance > Widgets and drag and drop widgets into the active widgetized areas
  18. You should now have site content similar to the live demo for this theme!


MAG (Magazine) Demo (Demo Content) #back to top

From Food to MAG

This theme includes demo-content-mag.xml file that will allow you to import the sample data to your site. This file includes most of the demo site data, which includes main theme functions to make it easier for you to see how the theme works. After you've installed the demo content, check the steps from above "Importing Sample Data":

1. Go to Theme Options > Blog Settings > Ribbon category icon, and copy paste this new icon: 

					    	<i class="fas fa-utensils"></i>

2. Go to Theme Options > Style Settings and change the default color with this color: #fcc500

3. Go to Theme Options > Style Settings > Header Pattern Image and download this image http://anthemes.com/themes/boodo2/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/mag-pattern.png and upload it via Theme Options.

4. That's it, now you have the mag demo.



Install Plugins #back to top

After installing the theme you should be prompted to install and activate the included plugins. A yellow Recommended Plugins notice should be visible at the top of your screen. Installation and activation is optional but recommended since each plugin adds an additional layer of functionality to the theme.

#1. Shortcodes

Enable shortcodes plugin to be used on this Theme. The plugin comes by default with the theme. Also, the shortcodes comes with pop-up windows for easier shortcode inserting.

#2. AccessPress Anonymous Post

AccessPress Anonymous Post - is a responsive HTML5 form to allow your website users (guests/visitors/not logged in users) to submit a Standard WordPress Post in an easy and customized way, including featured image.
More info about the plugin

#3. WP Facebook Open Graph protocol

This plugin adds well executed and accurate Facebook Open Graph Meta tag information to your site. The idea is to keep minimal settings and options as to remain out of your way and in the background while still proving a powerful Open Graph plugin for your WordPress site.
More info about the plugin


#4. Boodo WP Options

Boodo WordPress Theme Functionality: Custom Style, Theme core, etc.

#5. Meta Box

Meta Box plugin is a powerful, professional developer toolkit to create custom meta boxes and custom fields for WordPress. In order to display the Gallery / Videos, Meta Box plugin need to be installed.
More info about the plugin

#6. Daves WordPress Live Search

Dave's WordPress Live Search adds "live search" functionality to your WordPress site. As visitors type words into your WordPress site's search box, the plugin continually queries WordPress, looking for search results that match what the user has typed so far.
More info about the plugin


#7. WP-PageNavi

Adds a more advanced paging navigation interface.
More info about the plugin

#8. WP Recipe Maker

WP Recipe Maker is the easy recipe plugin that everyone can use. An easy workflow allows you to add recipes to any post or page with automatic JSON-LD metadata for your recipes. This recipe metadata will improve your SEO and get you more visitors.
More info about the plugin

Home Page Settings #back to top

Homepage – How to build and set it

By default WordPress sets the blog page as a main page and this is not what most of us want, we need custom pages. To change WordPress default settings you have to:

  1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New:
  2. Name it Home or whatever and from the right on Page Attributes choose "Template - Home" or "Template - Most Viewed Posts" or "Template - Popular Posts". For our demo we've chosen Template - Home.
  3. Now go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading and from "Front page displays" select "A static page (select below) and select the page you've created a few seconds ago.

1. Create a new page, go to Pages > Add New

2. Set the page title and select a page template.

3. Go to Settings > Reading and set the newly created page as a homepage.




Home Widgets Modules #back to top

Homepage with Drag and Drop Modules

Drag & Drop Homepage – by dragging and dropping the (Modules 1-2-3-4-5) custom widgets into the layout that gives your website the professional look and feel you are truly looking for.:

  1. Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets:
  2. Drag & Drop any Module Widget from the 5 custom ones: Module 1, Module 2, Module 3, Module 4 and Module 5.
    The last 3 Modules have been added in the latest versions, that's why in the screenshots you see only 2 modules.
  3. Drag the Modules to the the Custom Sidebar "Home Modules", as is written in the description of the sidebar: "Use only the widgets that start with the name Module".


Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets:

Header Menu Settings #back to top

1. To create a new Main Menu go to:

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom menu in WordPress and how to create a menu structure.:

  1. Go to your WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Menus
  2. Click on the "create a new menu" link.
  3. Write a name for you menu.
  4. Press Create Menu button.


2. To customize your new Menu:

  1. Start to add menu items from the left panels (Homepages, Pages, Links, Categories).
  2. You can manage your menus by using the drag and drop functionality and rearrange the menu items in the desired order.
    After setting up your menu, scroll down to the bottom of the page and assign the menu to one of the 3 Theme Locations at the bottom. Select Header Navigation same thing you see in the photo from the below.
  3. Click the Save Menu button.

3. Add Icons to your new Menu:

  1. To add a font ICON: select a menu that you want to edit and paste the icon code in a menu item, then save the menu. To preview all available Font Awesome icons go to http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/ and for IcoFont go to http://icofont.com/icons/


  2. Now, edit your menu and just paste the code you've copied:


Latest / Popular / Views / Upload #back to top

1. Crate the Pages

Featured Top Icons: Latest / Popular / Liked / Upload. You'll need to create the pages, the same you've done with the Home, but this time we choose the others templates. Go to Dashboard > Pages and click Add New:

  1. For Latest, we don't need to create a page, as the page for the latest is the home we've created, so adding our website link to Theme Options > General Settings, will display latest posts.
  2. Popular and choose "Template - Popular Posts
  3. Views and choose "Template - Most Viewed Posts
  4. Upload and choose "Default Template

    Change to Text in the editor and paste this text: paste this code: 
    Submissions automatically create a post in “pending” you can select "Publish / Pending or Draft" status so that administrators can review the item before it appears on the site.
[ap-form]

2. Configure the Icons.

Go to Theme Options > General Settings > Top Icons:

<li><a href="http://anthemes.com/themes/boodo/"><i class="icofont icofont-wall-clock"></i> <div>Latest</div></a></li>

<li><a href="http://anthemes.com/themes/boodo/popular/"><i class="icofont icofont-speech-comments"></i> <div>Popular</div></a></li>

<li><a href="http://anthemes.com/themes/boodo/views/"><i class="icofont icofont-fire-burn"></i> <div>Views</div></a></li>

<li><a href="http://anthemes.com/themes/boodo/upload/"><i class="icofont icofont-meeting-add"></i> <div>Upload</div></a></li>
As you can see from the code, the only thing we've done was to replace "#" with the links / pages we've created: Popular / Liked / Upload.


Regenerate Thumbnails #back to top

Thumbnails – Fix strange looking images on blocks

This problem appears when you install the theme on a site which already has content. The theme comes with it’s own thumbnails to minimize the page size and increase the page loading speed.:

  1. Install and activate the Thumbnail Regenerate plugin from here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
  2. Go to Tools -> Regen. Thumbnails and press the “Regenerate All Thumbnails” button:
  3. Wait until the regeneration process is 100% done and check the page (your website). Refresh the browser page to see the changes, and that's it.

Front-end Submission Settings #back to top

Front-end Submission Configuration

AccessPress Anonymous Post - is a responsive HTML5 form to allow your website users (guests/visitors/not logged in users) to submit a Standard WordPress Post in an easy and customized way, including featured image.:

  1. Install and activate the AccessPress Anonymous Post plugin from here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/accesspress-anonymous-post/
  2. Now, go to Dashboard > AccessPress Anonymous Post, and this are the settings I'm using in my demo:
  3. Form Settings:
  4. As simple as that, now click the tab "How to use" and copy this [ap-form] if you want to use the form in a different page. Create a page witht the name "Upload" or "Submit" up to you and choose "Default Template

    Change to Text in the editor and paste this text: paste this code: 
    Submissions automatically create a post in “pending” you can select "Publish / Pending or Draft" status so that administrators can review the item before it appears on the site.
[ap-form]

Meta Box #back to top

Meta Box plugin is a powerful, professional developer toolkit to create custom meta boxes and custom fields for WordPress. In order to display the Gallery / Videos, Meta Box plugin need to be installed.After you've installed the plugin, if you go WordPress Dashboard, creating or editing a new article, you'll see this:

Videos Youtube / Vimeo

To add a video, Youtube or Vimeo, is very simple, you just need to copy the code and paste the code copied in the box used for Youtube or Vimeo. For example, if you open a Vimeo or a Youtube video, in the browser at the top you'll see this link:


You just need to copy the code and add it like this:


Gallery

Click the "Add Media" button and select the images you want to use, as simple as that:

Live Search Settings #back to top

Live Search Configuration

Dave's WordPress Live Search is a plugin that brings live search, sometimes called "autocomplete", to your WordPress site. Many of the web's most popular destinations use this technique so customers can get right to the information or products they're after, and now you can deliver that same experience to your site's visitors. Like WordPress itself, it's designed to be simple to set up and use right away, but powerful and customizable for advanced users:

  1. First you'll need to install the plugin "Dave's WordPress Live Search": https://wordpress.org/plugins/daves-wordpress-live-search/installation/
  2. Go to Dashboard > Settings > Live Search > Appearance > and Select Display Post Thumbnail:
  3. Now click Custom ( Customize the search results display here):
  4. For title you can add a black color, this code: #000000 For Divider ( the line ) add a gray color, this code: #f2f2f2 - And click "Save Changes".

WP_pagenavi Pagination Settings #back to top

WP_pagenavi Pagination Configuration

Want to replace the old ← Older posts | Newer posts → links with some page links? This plugin provides the wp_pagenavi() template tag which generates fancy pagination links:

  1. Install and activate the WP-PageNavi plugin from here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pagenavi/
  2. Go to Dashboard > Plugins
  3. Add new and in the search box, write "wp_pagenavi" and click "Search Plugin", you'll have two results, click and install the first plugin "wp_pagenavi"
  4. Go to Dashboard -> Plugins and active the plugin.
  5. Go to Dashboard -> Settings -> PageNavi, and down where you have "Page Navigation Options", check "No", becouse we need to use Theme style.
  6. Click Save Changes.

WP Recipe Maker #back to top

WP Recipe Maker Configuration

WP Recipe Maker is the easy recipe plugin that everyone can use. An easy workflow allows you to add recipes to any post or page with automatic JSON-LD metadata for your recipes. This recipe metadata will improve your SEO and get you more visitors. The Settings used in the demo:

  1. After you’ve installed the plugin, go to WordPress Dashboard > WP Recipe Maker > Settings:
  2. WP Recipe Maker > Settings > Recipe Template and selected “Chic” and that’s it:

Updating a WordPress Theme from Themeforest #back to top

Option 1: The Beginners Option

Here’s the most simple way of updating your WordPress theme that’s purchased from ThemeForest::

  1. We need an easy way of overwriting the theme files, since WordPress doesn’t support this, we need a plugin, install this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades/
  2. Go to the downloads page of your ThemeForest account here: http://themeforest.net/downloads
  3. Find the theme you’re updating from the list, click the big green “download” button once, and from the drop down menu choose “installable WordPress file only”
  4. Upload the downloaded zip file to your WordPress installation via “appearance” -> “themes” -> “add new”, just like you did when you first installed the theme.
  5. Thanks to the plugin mentioned in step 1, you’ll now get an “upgrade existing” option after uploading your theme, without the plugin you’d just get an error.
  6. There you go, you’ve updated the theme!

Option 2: The Automatic Option

Envato offer an automatic update solution for ThemeForest themes by using “Envato Toolkit”, see the full details of this here: http://www.wpexplorer.com/envato-wordpress-toolkit-guide/

Note that this is option 2 as I had noticed a few bugs with this plugin in the past, though some swear by it!

Option 3: The FTP Upload (Advanced Users)

Another way to update your theme is via FTP, that is, you connect to your server and manually overwrite the theme folder. To do this grab the theme files mentioned from Option 1, with these in hand, unzip the file you have, you should have a folder just called THEMENAME (being the name of your theme)

Now the next step is simple, connect to your server via FTP (if you don’t know how to do this, use option 1) navigate to /wp-content/themes/, do not just overwrite the theme folder – here’s why. In previous updates to my themes, files have been deleted or relocated, if you just overwrite the folder then these files will remain, this can cause issues (especially with WooCommerce), here’s what you should do instead: Delete the THEMENAME folder that’s on your server, and then re-upload the new THEMENAME folder, this ensures that your new theme is 100% correct.

Translate Theme to another Language #back to top

How do I translate my theme to another language?

Our themes are written in English, though you are of course welcome to translate them to your language. While it's possible to go through each theme file and manually translate the appropriate text elements, we highly recommend using the program Poedit to translate your theme. It's easy and will save you LOTS of time.

  1. First, go to WP Dashboard > Settings > General > Site Language > Select your language > Save.
  2. Then, download & install the Poedit program.
  3. Open Poedit and click the "Open" button on the top-left of the program screen. Within your theme's files, find the "languages" folder and select the "Boodo-wp.POT" file.
  4. A long list of text elements you may translate will appear in the box labeled "Source Text". Please note: You may not need to translate all of these elements. Many may be WordPress notification messages or similar.
  5. Select the line within the "Source Text" box that you'd like to translate. When that line is highlighted, go down to the box labeled "Translation". Here, you can type the direct translation of the "Source Text" in whatever language you'll be using. Repeat this step for all of the "Source Text" elements you wish to translate.
  6. When done, go to "File" and "Save as" within your theme's "languages" folder.
    IMPORTANT! You must save this new file with a name based on a specific format: aa_AA
    The first "aa" refers to ISO 639 two-letter language code (list found HERE).
    The second "AA" refers to an ISO 3166 two-letter country code (list found HERE).

    ( Example 1 )
    If translating to Danish, we would use the Danish language code of "da" and the Danish country code of "DK". The file name must be the language code in lowercase letters, followed by an underscore character, and lastly the language code in uppercase letters. So the finished file name would then be: da_DK
    ( Example 2 )
    If translating to Brazilian Portuguese, your file name would be: pt_BR
    Note: For the French language in Canada, please use "fr_FR". "fr_CA" is not recognized by WordPress.
  7. When you save the file, it will automatically create your .po format as well as an additional .mo format file of the same name.
  8. Via your FTP program, upload the .po & .mo files you just created to your theme's "languages" folder.
  9. You're finished!

Support Desk #back to top

Please remember you have purchased a very affordable theme and you have not paid for a full-time web design agency, so please be patient, polite and respectful.

Support for my items includes:
  • * Responding to questions or problems regarding the item and its features
  • * Fixing bugs and reported issues
  • * Providing updates to ensure compatibility with new software versions
Item support does not include:
  • * Customization and installation services
  • * Support for third party software and plug-ins

Support requests are being processed on business days Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 (GMT +2) within 24h in the order they were received:

Submit a support ticket My Portfolio

Before seeking support, please...
  • * Make sure your question is a valid Theme Issue and not a customization request.
  • * Make sure you have read through the documentation and any related video guides before asking support on how to accomplish a task.
  • * Try disabling any active plugins to make sure there isn't a conflict with a plugin. And if there is this way you can let us know.
  • * If you have customized your theme and now have an issue, back-track to make sure you didn't make a mistake or make a clean install of the theme.
  • * Almost 80% of the time we find that the solution to people's issues can be solved with a simple "Google Search". You might want to try that before seeking support. You might be able to fix the issue yourself much quicker than we can respond to your request.
  • * Make sure to state the name of the theme you are having issues with, when requesting support via ThemeForest.