General Information #back to top


Thank you for purchasing our Theme! We hope you will find answers to all your questions regarding Belinni answered in this Documentation as much in details as possible. However, if you still need support, do not hesitate to contact us. We will appreciate, if you find a few seconds and rate our Theme. Many thanks!

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress. If you are new to WordPress, we highly recommend you to read through some beginner tutorials first.

Technical Requirements


To install this theme you need to have a working version of WordPress. Please refer to WordPress documentation for further instructions. You can download the latest version of WordPress here.

  • PHP 5.4 or higher
  • MySQL 5.5 or higher
  • Apache mod_rewrite module must be enabled

Besides the recommended server requirements for WordPress, make sure your PHP memory for WordPress is set to 128MB. You can read more about changing the PHP memory in WordPress codex.

This theme is tested under Mac, Windows
Compatible Browsers: IE9+, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera

Support and Feedback #back to top

If you have any feedback or suggestions please let us know via contact form or support email.

All of our items come with free support. Support is limited to questions regarding the theme’s features or problems with the theme. We are not able to provide support for code customizations or third-party plugins. If you need help with anything other than minor customizations of your theme then you should enlist the help of a developer.

Be sure to specify in the letter:
  • Include as many information as possible to explain your issue.
  • Your site URL.
  • Name of the Theme.
  • Your WordPress version.
  • If you installed extensions, specify which are these.

  • We refuse to assist in the cases below:
    • Purchase code invalid
    • Theme has been edit/changed by user. All change on main theme we will denie. So If you have any change, please do it on child theme.
    • Support time is ended.
    • Edit or install theme and plugin. Except case theme/plugins can't install by problem of theme.

    Theme Upload#back to top

    Once you've downloaded the installation file on ThemeForest, extract it and locate a file called belinni.zip. You can install the theme by using one of two installation methods:

    1. WordPress upload - This is probably the simplest way for most users. Here are the steps you need to take:
      1. Login to WordPress admin
      2. Go to admin panel > Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme
      3. Click on "Choose File" and select belinni.zip
      4. Click on "Install Now"
    2. FTP upload - If you wish to install via FTP, here are the steps you need to take:
      1. Using FTP client, login to the server where your WordPress website is hosted
      2. Using FTP client, navigate to the /wp-content/themes/ directory under your WordPress website's root directory
      3. Using FTP client, upload the Belinni directory to themes directory on remote server>

    Plugins Installation#back to top

    First of all, we would like to specify that we do not guarantee the compatibility of our theme with all the third-party plugins for WordPress . Our template is fully compatible only with the plugins that are included in our theme . You often (not always) need to customize the extension to make it work properly with your theme. It's impossible for theme author to make the theme compatible with all existing extensions. Please, take that into your consideration and treat with understanding!

    After you had activated the theme, you need to install the plugins required by the theme. This theme comes bundled with many plugins. Some are required and some are optional.



    1. Click Begin installing plugins in this message
    2. You must check all required plugins and can check recommended plugins (we recommend it to use, but theme will work without this plugins too):
    3. Select Install in dropdown Bulk Actions menu and click Apply
    4. You should get All installations have been completed message with installed Plugins table below it
    5. If you need Shop Features you can install WooCommerce plugin (go to Plugins and search for WooCommerce).

    Belinni theme has included One-click demo data import feature. This sample data contains menus, sample pages, posts and images. Your site will looks exactly as our demo site if you import sample demo data.

    Update Theme#back to top

    Manual update

    When new update will be released, the ThemeForest will notify you about that so you can download new package and install it manually. We don't recommend this approach. The more robust way is to use automatic updates.

    Automatic update

    To use automatic updates you need the Envato WordPress Toolkit plugin. If you haven't installed it yet, you can do that now via WordPress Admin › Appearance › Install Plugins panel.

    For more information about its configuration, please read the Envato WordPress Toolkit Guide For Automatic Theme Updates.

    One-Click Demo Import#back to top

    Now installing demo version is easy as never before, you can install any demo with just one click.

    Before installing demo please consider following: If you want your demo to looked exactly like selected demo and to prevent conflicts with current content, we highly recommend importing demo data on a clean installation.
    We highly recommend to create backup of your site before database reset. Please note that database reset means cleaning all content that you have in your WordPress and restore to WordPress defaults. You can use WordPress Database Reset plugin or WP-Reset plugin to reset your WordPress site and start clean installation.

    Here is how one click demo works – It took XML file with content, DAT file for Customizer and WIE file for widgets and set all them together with one session.

    Once you installed the theme and activated required and recommended plugins, go to Dashboard > Appearance > Import Demo Data and click on it. You will see below page where you will be able to choose any of predefined demos.

    Select the Demo which you decided to import and then click on “Import” button.

    Theme Customization #back to top

    Most of all changes for website’s front, you can do by customizer setup.

    Here's what you need to do:

    1. Go to Appearance > Themes
    2. On Theme Belinni, click Customize to start customizing your theme
    NOTE: Please remember to click Save & Publish button at top left after done customizing to save the changes

    Theme Translation #back to top

    There are many ways for translating themes and plugins. We recommend translating WordPress themes and plugins with Loco Translate plugin. It allows having all necessary tools right in your WordPress without switching to any other external programs.
    If you don’t want or can’t provide access to your admin panel to other editors you can use online alternative of "Loco Translate" plugin.

    Translation steps:

    1. After installing and activating go to Loco Translate section and choose in list your target theme/plugin and click on it.
    2. In opened page click "New language"
    3. Select your language (for example "German", code "de_DE") and click Start translating
      Note: To keep translations safe after future updates, always choose second location: languages/loco/themes/belinni-de_DE.po as shown in image below. All custom translations are stored in the wp-content/languages/loco/ directory so unless you reinstall the entire WordPress installation, all is safe in that folder. Without losing translations you can update the theme and any plugin. Even using the child theme is not mandatory.
      Note: this translation will be loaded only if your site language in WordPress Admin › Settings › General › Language is the same.
    4. Translate all phrases and click Save to generate all necessary translation files.

    Post management #back to top

    To start creating your first post, go to Posts > Add New from the admin panel

    You can manage the blog categories here.

    You can manage the blog tags here.

    You can manage the blog post type here.

    Page management #back to top

    To start creating your first page, go to Pages > Add New from the admin panel

    You can manage the blog page type here.

    Menu management #back to top

    To start creating your menu, go to Appearance > Menu from the admin panel.

    Widgets #back to top

    Go to Appearance > Widgets

    This theme have 11 widgets sidebars where you can add widgets:

    1. Sidebar

    2. Glide Sidebar

    3. Instagram Footer

    4. Footer Left Side

    5. Footer Center Block

    6. Footer Right Side

    7. ADS Above Header

    8. ADS Above Slider

    9. ADS Under Slider

    10. ADS Above Most Popular Posts

    11. ADS Under Most Popular Posts

    MailChimp for WordPress #back to top

    With this plugin you can subscribe your WordPress site visitors to your MailChimp lists, with ease.

    For more detailed information, please visit MailChimp for WordPress page.

    WooCommerce #back to top

    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.

    For more detailed information, please visit WooCommerce page.

    Child Theme #back to top

    Child theme is for developers willing to make changes to core functions and code. If you are not planning to dig that deep, you can easily skip this chapter.

    If you want to make changes in theme’s templates or functions, we recommend that you install child theme and make changes there. To learn more about the purpose and basis of creation of child theme, visit this page.

    In the theme pack you will see materials for the child theme. It’s located in the "belinni-child.zip" archive. You can install the child theme the same way as you install the main theme (see above in the section "Install theme")

    A few recommendations on how to use Child Theme from Belinni Theme:

    • Almost all files from the main theme can be replaced in the theme. It doesn’t concern only .php-files with templates and basic logics, but also both .js, .css files from respective folders and files with images, icons etc..
    • If you want to change some of the theme’s functions or to add new ones, you need to create file 'functions.php' in the folder "belinni-child", and add all required functions into it. If our theme contains functions with such names, they will be replaced with yours, if not – your functions will complete our theme’s logics.
    • As for other files - put out templates from the folder 'templates-parts' ( maintaining files hierarchy ), images from the folder 'images' etc. - to make changes, copy theme into the folder 'child theme' and make changes there.

    Speed Up Your Website #back to top

    Our theme created for very fast and effective work, with correct server configuration and content optimization you can get 85-90 / 100 score in Google PageSpeed Insights test.

    Site speed depends on several things in addition to theme (that already coded for extra fast work), like WordPress configuration, Server configuration and quality and Content optimization. We included simple guide how to optimize your website for extra fast work with our theme.

    Useful advices for site Speed Up:
    • Make sure that you have good hosting/server
    • Disable all third-party plugins that you does not use
    • Check this official WordPress Optimization guide article and external article links in it. Follow all guides in it (especialy image optimization, server setup and optimization)

    Sources and Credits #back to top

    Images

    Fonts

    In the theme there are used two Google Web Fonts Open Sans and Poppins by default. But you can use any font from google fonts collection from option panel.

    How to Rate #back to top

    Go to Themeforest and follow the image instructions