Multinews Theme - Documentation

# Multinews

## By Momizat

We would like to thank you for purchasing Multinews! We are very pleased you have chosen Multinews for your website, you will not be disappointed! Before you get started, please be sure to always check out these documentation files. We outline all kinds of good information, and provide you with all the details you need to use Multinews. Multinews can only be used with WordPress and we assume that you already have WordPress installed and ready to go. If you do not, please see our section on WordPress to help you get started.

If you are unable to find your answer here in our documentation, watch our Video Tutorials, and also perform a Forum Search for your answer. Chances are your question or issue have been brought up already and the answer is waiting to be found. If you are unable to find it anywhere, then please go go our forum section and post up a new topic with all the details we need. Please be sure to include your site URL as well. Thank you, we hope you enjoy using Multinews!

Video Tutorials Support Forums

### Wordpress Information

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. If you need help installing WordPress, follow the instructions in WordPress Codex or you can watch the Instructional Video created by Woo Themes. Below are all the useful links for WordPress information.

- WordPress Codex – general info about WordPress and how to install on your server
- Instructional Video – How to install WordPress awesome video created by Woo Themes
- First Steps With WordPress – general information that covers a wide variety of topics
- FAQ New To WordPress – the most popular FAQ’s regarding WordPress
- WP101 Basix Training videos – some great videos from WPTuts on WordPress

### What’s Included In Package

When you purchase our theme from Themeforest, you need to download the Multinews files from your Themeforest account. Navigate to your downloads tab on Themeforest and find Multinews. Click the download button to see the two options. The Main Files contain everything, the Installable WordPress Theme is just the installable WordPress theme file. Below is a full list of everything that is included along with a brief description of each item.

- Multinews Theme Folder – contains the Multinews.zip and Multinews-Child-Theme.zip wordpress theme.
- Dummy Content Folder – xml file for demo content.
- Doc Folder – Documentation file for theme.
- Licensing Folder – this contains the licensing files, this is not your purchase code that you need to download from Themeforest.

### Theme Requirements

To use Multinews, You must be running WordPress 3.1 or higher, PHP 5.3.1 or higher, and mysql 5 or higher. We have tested it with Mac, Windows and Linux. Below are a list of items you should ensure your host can comply with.

- Check to ensure that your web host has the minimum requirements to run WordPress.
- Always make sure they are running the latest version of WordPress
- You can download the latest release of WordPress from official WordPress website
- Always create secure passwords FTP and Database

### Theme Installation

#### - Uploading Via Ftp To Wordpress

1. Download the zipped theme pack to your local computer from themeforest and extract the ZIP file contents to a folder on your local computer.
2. In the extracted folder you will find Multinews.zip Extract this file .
3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server
4. Upload the Theme files in the extracted folder called Multinews to wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress.
5. Visit Administration > Appearance > Themes, under the Manage Themes tab, under the Available Themes, if necessary navigate to the page displaying that Theme, then click the Activate link to make the Theme, the Current Theme.

#### - Installing from the Wordpress Dashboard

1. Download the zipped theme pack to your local computer from themeforest and extract the ZIP file contents to a folder on your local computer.
2. Log into your WordPress admin panel and click on Themes in the “Appearance” tab.
3. Now click on the "Add New" Button.
4. Click on the "Upload Theme" button, "Browse" for file called Multinews.zip In the extracted folder select "Open".
5. Click the "Install Now" button.
6. Activate the theme from this page, OR "Return to Themes Page" and activate from there

##### Common Install Error: Are You Sure You Want To Do This?

If you get the “Are You Sure You Want To Do This” message when installing Multinews.zip file via WordPress, it means you have an upload file size limit. Install the theme via FTP if this happens, or call your hosting company and ask them to increase the limit.

##### WordPress Theme isn’t working ? or have a missing stylesheet error?

don’t worry it’s a common issue the fix in here

### How To Update Theme

You can update your theme via FTP or via WordPress. See the information below for each method. No matter what method you choose, you first need to download the new theme files from Themeforest.

#### - First, Download New Theme Files From Themeforest

1. Log into your Themeforest account and go find the Multinews purchase on your downloads tab.
2. Click the 'download' button next to it and choose to download the 'Installable WordPress Theme' which is just the WordPress file, or choose the 'Main Files' which is the entire package.
3. Decide if you want to install the update via FTP or via WordPress. See directions for both below.

#### - How To Update Your Theme Via FTP

1. Go to 'wp-content > themes' location and backup your Multinews theme folder by saving it to your computer, or you can choose to simply delete it. Your content will not be lost.
2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server
3. Upload and replace the Theme files in the extracted folder called Multinews to wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress.

#### - How To Update Your Theme Via WordPress

1. You need to deactivate the current Multinews theme in the 'appearance > themes' section by simply activating a different theme. Once you activate a different theme, you can delete the Multinews theme. Dont worry, your content will not be lost.
2. Then simply upload the Multinews file in the 'appearance > themes' section. Click on the 'Install Themes' tab at the top and choose to upload the zip file.
3. Once it uploads, choose to activate it. You’re done!.

### Import Sample content – Optional

In this video you will learn how to import my demo site completely into your development site, which give a great start to learn how things work

1. download the demo package from here
2. Follow this video

### Existing content

To use the theme with your existing content you must rebuild thumbnails of featured images for all posts/pages.

- Install Regenerate Thumbnails plugin – download
- Go to Tools -> Regen. Thumbnails
- Click on Regenerate All Thumbnails

### How to make the site faster

Optimization Tips:

- Compress and Combine JS and CSS Files:

  Compressing the JS and CSS will give you a good improvement in site loading time. As compressing the JS and CSS files will decrease your overall page size. Another good points to keep in mind is to combine CSS and JS files. Combining the multiple files into single file will reduce the number of HTTP request to your web server.

  You can use WordPress wp minify plugin for combining various JS and CSS files into one file.

- Caching is the Key to Success

  Caching is the most important factor for the optimize the high traffic site. WordPress has various good plugins available which serve this purpose. These plugins will generally create .html files for each post and page, and it will serve these html files instead of making the database queries every time.

  we recommend that you use W3 total cache this plugin adds page caching onto our WordPress install which helps us with Page Speed's "Leverage Browser Caching" rule. It also has features to help with other recommendations, including enabling gzip compression, setting ETags, and even CDN settings (if you have one), to further tweak your performance. (NO JAVASCIPT MINIFIER !!!).

  also DB Cache plugin which cache the database query result.

- Optimizing images

  you can also use the WP Smush.it This plugin runs every image you upload through Yahoo's Smush.it application. This will losslessly optimize every image and helps us with Page Speed.

### Translate the theme to your language

To translate the theme to your language you need Poedit app.

let’s say you want translate it into Dutch for example in this case our new language code is de_DE you can find all available languages code in the page : http://i18n.svn.wordpress.org/

1. in theme folder you will find en_US.po download this file in your PC/MAC
2. rename it to your language code in this case it will be de_DE.po
3. open it with poedit and translate all strings to your language
4. save the file it will generate de_DE.po and de_DE.mo upload this two files to “theme folder/language/”

That’s it

### APIs Authentication

This section is very important if you decide to use Social Counter widget, newsletter widget (mailchimp only) or Twitter widget, if you don’t fill this data all this widgets not works

##### Twitter

Require for : Twitter widget – Social counter (if you want display twitter followers count)

Follow this video to learn how to get Twitter API keys

##### Mailchimp

Require for : News widget -(if you select type mailchimp) follow this instruction to get mailchimp API

##### Google+

Require for : Social Counter Widget -(if you want display google+ followers count)

follow this video to learn how to get Google API keys

##### SoundCloud

Require for : Social Counter Widget -(if you want display SoundCloud followers count) To get the SoundCloud Client ID Log in and Follow this steps : - Go to : http://soundcloud.com/you/apps

##### Behance

Require for : Social Counter Widget - (if you want display behance followers count) follow this steps to learn how to get Behance API keys

- Log in with behance account
- Go to https://www.behance.net/dev/apps

##### Instagram

Require for : Social Counter Widget - (if you want display Instagram followers count) To get Instagram Access token go to this link and replace [user_id] with your id http://www.pinceladasdaweb.com.br/instagram/access-token/

### Timthumb

Chmod the following folder and files to 777

- framework/timthumb/cache
- framework/timthumb/cache/timthumb_cacheLastCleanTime.touch

If still have a problem with timthumb make sure about this :

- GD library is installed and running properly on your server
- PHP version 5.0 or better
- You have write permissions to the cache folder as explained above

### Header and Menus

In this videos you see how to customize the header and add the different mega menus, with simple introduction about advertising system

Header Video Menus Video

### Posts & Formats

In this section you will learn how to add the different kind of posts.

Video Post Audio Post Gallery Post

### Review System

Any post can be a review, to create post with review you must follow this steps :

1. Create new post
2. Under editor you will find box called “Review“
3. Set the options
4. add Criteria

The video Tutorial

### Layouts

Multinews has Various layout options, you can customize the site layout and each page or post, lets Start

##### Site Layout

1. Go to options -> General settings -> Layout
2. what you select in options will be the whole site layout

##### Page/Post Custom Layout

if you want customize any page or post layout follow this steps :

- add/edit post
- Under the editor you will find box called Page Layout
- select your custom layout
- also you can select custom sidebar(s)

### Shortcodes

Multinews Come with a tons of shortcodes, you can use it directly from wordpress editor look here :

click on any shortcode button and you will see this window, customize it and click save :

### building home page

Multinews Provide two different ways to build your home page with editor and with page builder

You can build your Home page from theme options or Creating custom page and use it as home page. Set custom page as homepage : Settings -> Reading -> Front page displays , check A static page (select below) -> Front page -> select your page

##### Single Layout Home Page

The video Tutorial

##### Multiple layout home page

The video Tutorial

### Categories

In this video you will learn how to customize your categories

The video Tutorial

### Page Templates

- Magazine
- Weather
- Media
- Timeline
- Authors
- Archive

The video Tutorial

### Sidebars & widgets

Multinews has real unlimited sidebars options, you can create unlimited number of sidebars and use it for posts, pages or categories in this instruction i will learn you how to create custom sidebars and use it in any where

To Add custom sidebars go to Appearance -> Unlimited Sidebars and click on + Add Sidebar

You can use custom sidebars for all pages or all posts or all categories from Theme options -> General Settings -> Sidebars Settings

And you can use custom sidebars for each page or post from page layout

And you can use custom sidebars for each category

### Free Forum Support

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

You need to enter your Themeforest Purchase Code to sign up in forums

Support Forums

### Thank you once again for the purchase!

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.

##### please If you like This theme, please don’t forget to rate it from here

##### Momizat Team