Novo
Theme Installation

Appearance > Themes
Next, click on the Add New

Click "Upload Theme"

And look for the file with the theme on your PC

If the topic is not activated then go Appearance > Themes
And click active

Theme Installation Errors

During installation you can have some errors. Here the most popular errors you can get:

  • Error "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ]"
    Solution: you need to change the PHP version on your hosting. Minimal version 5.4. You can change it in the PHP settings of your hosting.

  • The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet
    Solution: you've forgotten to unzip the main archive. It consist: theme, license, offline documentation and demo content.

  • «Are You Sure You Want to Do This?»
    Solution: you need to increase your PHP parameter upload_max_filesize to 256M. You can change it in the PHP settings of your hosting.

  • "Error Execution Failed"
    Solution: you need to increase the PHP parameter: max_execution_time to 400-600 sec. You can change in the PHP settings of your hosting.

Theme Wizard Installation

When you first install the theme you'll see the Wizard guide installation.It will help you to install theme easy.Please follow these steps:

Theme License Activation

If you skip the Wizard setup or after the demo content installation your theme is deactivated - you need to activate your theme license.
Please go to the Novo Dashboard and insert your purchase code in the field and click "Activate". Your purchase code you can find HERE

Problems with the Theme License Activation

In some reasons you can have problems with the Novo Theme activation:
1) "Purchase code is wrong" - check that you activate the main theme (not the child). After go Theme Options->License, insert you purchase code (check that it hasn't spaces after (you can mistake copy it with)), click "Save" and wait 5-7 sec. After that, click "Register the code". Some servers have delay and waiting 5-7 sec. solve this problem.
2) "Something wrong, please try later" - you need to try to activate it later. If it won't help - the problem in incoming and outcoming queries from your hosting. The firewall on your hosting blocks it and our license system can't check your purchase code and send the status. In this situation you need to contact your hosting support to allow incoming and outcoming queries from the domain promo-theme.com.

Demo Content Installation

Notice: YOU NEED TO ACTIVATE YOUR THEME BEFORE THE DEMO CONTENT INSTALLATION

Go to Tools->Demo Content Install


NOTICE: After the demo content installation you need to reactivate your Theme license because it can be rewritten by the demo content.

Generate Thumbnails

After installing the demo content, you need to generate thumbnail images

Initial Theme Setup

Ok, so far we have installed the theme, we have installed the plugins and imported the demo data, whats next?

The final step in getting your new theme setup and ready for you to edit as you wish is to setup your home page and menu. To begin, head to Settings > Reading, here you will need to set your Front Page.

By default WP is set to show your latest posts, however to make your theme just like our demo you should select a static front page from the pages provided in the demo data.

Home One Page Settings

Here are some Home One Page settings:

Social icons on the left side:

Social icons in the footer:

Category and About buttons on the right side:

Theme doesn't Load after changes

Sometimes after Categories or Portfolio items deleting you can get this error (White Screen or "Formatting error")

This error says about NULL link which is stayed in the "Banner" shortcode after Categories or Portfolio items deleting.

Solution: go to the Front page, click on the banner shortcode and click "Save"

Add new post

To create a new post, navigate to Posts > Add New from your WordPress admin panel.

In the text field, near the top of the screen, enter a title of your post. Also, you can add a short description in the end of the title.

On the right side of the screen you will see a section named Categories. Here you can select the categories that you would like to add this post to. If you would like to create a new category, click on the + Add New Category link. A text field will appear in which you can enter a category name, and then click Add New Category.

On the right side of the screen you will see a section named Post settings. where you can enter your video URL (YouTube, Vimeo, your own .mp4), and section named Featured Image, where you can set featured image for your post.

Add new post category

To creat a new category, navigate to Posts > Categories from your WordPress admin panel. Here you can add name, slug, parent category, description and image of your category and then click Add New Category in the end of the title.

Add new portfolio item

To create a new portfolio item you should navigate to Portfolio > Add new from your WordPress admin panel.

Enter a title for your portfolio item in the text field near the top of the page.
On the right side of the screen you will see a section named Portfolio Categories. Here you can select the categories that you would like to add this portfolio item to or you can create a new category, click on the + Add New Category link.

Under the Portfolio Categories section are the Project settings, Gallery and Project Cover Image sections.

In the Project settings section you can choose the style of your portfolio. It can be:

  • Default - Select this template if you would like to create a standard page with your content inside the grid.
  • Grid - Set a predefined size for the space between the content layout and the sidebar layout for this page.
  • Slider - if you wish to have a slider on the top of your page, copy and paste the slider shortcode here.
  • Masonry - Select this template to display a list of your blog posts on the page. The blog list will be displayed in a Masonry type grid.
  • Horizontal - Select this template to display a list of your blog posts on this page. The blog list will be displayed in the Standard layout (post info text located underneath the featured image).

Also, in the Project settings section you can choose a type of your Project Image, which can be Default, Full or Adaptive, and you can enter your video URL (YouTube, Vimeo, your own .mp4) in Video url section.

In the Gallery section you can set gallery images in two ways. The first is to upload files by simply dragging or selecting files. The second is choosing images from media library.
Then click the Add to gallery button.

In the Project Cover Image section, you can set an image to be displayed for this item on portfolio lists the same way like you did in Gallery section.

Add portfolio categories

To creat a new category, navigate to Portfolio > Categories from your WordPress admin panel. Here you can add name, slug, parent category, description and image of your category and then click Add New Category in the end of the title.

Portfolio settings

To change settings of your portfolio, navigate to Pages > All pages from your WordPress admin panel.

On the right side of the screen you will see a section named Portfolio. Here you can select different settings if it is necessary.

General

In this section you can choose:

  • Count items
  • Type

grid

masonry

flow

horizontal

  • Colums

Choose a number of columns for the page, each column in the list can be scrolled through individually and assigned a specific category.

  • Hover animation

Choose an animated effect for hovered items.

  • Filter buttons

Set this option to "On to enable a category filter above the portfolio list.

  • Filter button align
    • Left
    • Center
    • Right
  • Navigation

You can enter a navigation for this menu item. It can be: none

  • Load more
  • Pagination
  • Popup mode

When this option is on, your animations are opened above the page:

When this option is off, your animations are opened in project page.

Fields

  • Heading
  • Description

When heading and description are on

When heading and description are off

Sorting

  • Order by

Choose how you would like to order your portfolio items.

  • Order

Choose between ascending and descending order.

Page settings

Page Attributes

When creating a new page, one of the first things you will probably want to do is to choose an appropriate template for your page. To this, create a new page by going to Pages > Add new, and locate the Page Attributes section on the right side of the screen. It comes with a variety of page templates to choose from: Landing Page, Coming soon Page, Default Template.

  • Landing Page - Select this template to create a page with a single focused objective.
  • Coming Soon Page - Choose this template to create a page with no header or footer.
  • Default Template - Select this template if you would like to create a standard page with your content inside the grid.

To start adding elements to your page, you can click on the Add Element button.

Finally, click the Publish button in the upper right section of the page. (If you made some changes on an already published page, you will see an Update button instead).

Page Settings

  • Site color mode

Set the base color of your theme for certain page. It can be default / light / dark.

  • Header color mode

Here you can choose a header style to be applied to the header on this page. The "Light" header style displays white navigation text and the "Light" logo version, while the "Dark" header style displays black navigation text and the "Dark" logo version, "Default" If you wish to use the default colors and logo.

  • Header style

Choose a header type to use on this certain page. It can be default /side / logo left / logo centered.

  • Navigation type

Choose a header type to use on this certain page. It can be: default

Disabled

Hidden menu

Visible menu

Full screen menu

  • Navigation item hover style

Choose a navigation item hover style to use on this certain page.

  • Header container

Choose a header container to use on this certain page. It can be default / center container / full witdh.

  • Header space

You can on / off this option.

  • Footer

There are three types of this setting: show (when your footer open above the page) / hide ( when your footer open in project page) and default.

  • Social buttons in footer

default show hide

  • Featured Image

Here you can set a featured image which will be displayed for this post on blog list pages.

General

  • External indent

This applies to portfolio lists. If you wish to take viewers to an external site once they click on this portfolio item, enter its full URL here. If you enter a URL in this field, when you click on this portfolio item in the portfolio list, instead of opening the portfolio item it will open the URL you entered.

  • Carousel navigation

on

off

  • Infinite loop

Restart the slider automatically as it passes the last slide.

  • Transition speed

Speed at which next slide comes between pages on your website.

  • Autoplay slides

Set this option to "On" if you would like the slider changes slides automatically.

  • Autoplay speed

Choose the speed for changing slides automatically.

  • Extra class

If you wish to style a particular content element differently, you can use this field to add an extra class name to that element.

  • Adaptive height / height

You can choose an adaptive height or set your own one.

  • About block
  • Social buttons / Social buttons color
  • Show categories
  • Default color

Navigation

  • Navigation arrows / Arrow color

Set this option to "On" to display navigation arrows on the slider and set the arrow color.

  • Arrow position

You can change the arrow position from left to right botton here.

  • Pagination position / Pagination color

If the pagination option is on, you can choose the pagination position, which can be left or right botton and set the pfgination color.

  • Pause on hover

Slider pause on mouse hover.

Social links

Here you can add social links and social icons.

About block

  • Button label

Enter a label for the button.

  • Type

Choose the type. It can be «content» or «custom link».

If the type is «content», you can add:

URL
about image
heading / text

If the type is «custom link» you can select

Categories

  • Button label

Enter a label for the button.

  • Categories source

Choose the categories source whether you would like to use.

  • Categories

Choose the categorise.

General

  • Background image

Set a background image for the banner.

  • Background video url

You can enter your video URL (YouTube, Vimeo, your own .mp4).

  • Heading
  • Text
  • Link button

If this option is on, you can:

  • Select URL
  • Add your own link text.

And then you can set another options in Button customize section.

Design

  • Inner shadow

Set this option to "On" to enable a shadow effect on the banner.

  • color overlay

Select a color for the image hover overlay.

  • text color

You can choose white or custom color here.

  • heading size

Choose a heading size for the banner item.

  • heading style

Choose a heading style, which can be with serial number or decor line, for the banner item.

  • text align

Choose a text alignment, which can be right, left or centered, for the banner item.

  • text vertical align

Choose a text vertical alignment, which can be top, middle or bottom, for the banner item.

Theme Options

This section of the User Guide provides a comprehenisve overview of all the settings available in the Theme Options section of your WordPress admin panel. The settings found here are applied globally and will affect all pages on your website.

General

  • Site color mode - set the base color of your theme for all pages
  • Copyright text - write your own copyright text here
  • Main Color - choose the main color of the theme
  • Image download link on popup - there are two types of this setting: show (when your images open above the page) / hide ( when your images open in project page)
  • Right click disable - is one of the methods you can use to deter casual theft and write your message, which will use in this way
  • Protected Page Message - write your own protect message for your site

Preloader

You can on/off this option. If this option is on, at first, choose Preloader type (words or image).
Then write static word and dinamic words for words type and choose a default logo image to display for image type.

Logo

  • Logo text - Set this option to "Yes" to hide the logo from your website.
  • Logo Image - Normal - Upload a default logo for your website.
  • Logo Image - Light - Upload a logo to be displayed on the "Light" header skin.
  • Logo Image - Dark - Upload a logo to be displayed on the "Dark" header skin.
  • Logo max width - Install logo max width.

Header Style

  • Header style - Select the default header you would like to use
  • Header container - Choose the type of header container: center container or full witdh
  • Header color mode - Choose the type of header: dark or light
  • Header Background Color - Set a background color for the vertical area
  • Header Text Color - Set a header text color
  • Cart / Search - You can on/ off this options if it is necessary

Navigation

  • Navigation type

Disabled

Hidden menu

Visible menu

Full screen menu

  • Navigation item hover style

Typography

Set typography styles for the menu items.

Social Buttons

Social buttons in footer - You can on / off this option
If this option is on, you can:

Add social button and fill out the title with Social icon and Link

Footer

  • Footer - there are two types of this setting: show (when your footer open above the page) / hide ( when your footer open in project page)
  • Logo max width - Set a max size for the logo
  • Footer Background color - Set a background color for the footer top
  • Footer Text Color - Set a color for the footer
  • Footer col - 1,2,3

404 Page

Upload a background image, text color, heading color, heading, desc for the 404 page

Coming soon page

Upload a background image, text color, heading color, heading, subscribe form desc for the coming soon page.

Portfolio Post

  • Style project page

Choose a default type for portfolio single pages.

Slider

Masonry

Grid

Horizontal

  • Portfolio image

Set proportions for your featured images on portfolio archive pages.

  • Show date

Set this option to "Show" if you would like to display the publication dates of your posts.

  • Show like

Set this option to "Yes" to display the number of likes in the post info section

Blog Post

  • Blog feature image

Set this option to "Show" to display your portfolio featured images.

  • Show date

Set this option to "Show" if you would like to display the publication dates of your posts.

  • Show like

Set this option to "Show" to display the number of likes in the post info section.

Import / Export

You can use this panel to export and import your theme options. Please note that if you import theme options, your current options will be rewriten.

  • Export - Copy the code from this field and save it to a textual file to export your options. Save that textual file somewhere so you can later use it to import options if necessary.
  • Import - To import options, just paste the code you previously saved from the "Export" field into this field, and then click the "Import" button.

Google Maps API

Insert your Google Maps API key here. You can find instructions on how to create a Google Maps API key here.

Potrfolio style

  • Portfolio style
  • Cols count
Customize theme / Child theme

To make any changes to the theme files use a child theme, or when you update your changes to the theme files may be lost

Child Theme is included in the main archive

Child Themes documentation in WP codex