Installation

Installing Hooray From the WordPress Dashboard

Download the zipped theme pack to your local computer from themeforest and extract the ZIP file contents to a folder on your local computer.

Step 1 – Navigate to Appearance > Themes.

Step 2 – Click Install Themes and hit the upload button.

Step 3 – Navigate to find the “hooray.zip” file on your computer and click “Install Now”

Step 4 – Once uploaded, activate the theme. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate it.


Uploading Hooray via FTP to Wordpress

Download the zipped theme pack to your local computer from themeforest and extract the ZIP file contents to a folder on your local computer.

Step 1 – Log into your hosting space via an FTP software

Step 2 – Unzip the hooray.zip file and ONLY use the extracted hooray theme folder

Step 3 – Upload the extracted hooray theme folder into wp-content > themes folder

Step 4 – Activate the newly installed theme. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate it.

Updating Theme

Updating Automatically

Envato have developed the Envato Toolkit Plugin for WordPress. You can use this to receive notification of updates to themes purchased from ThemeForest and to automatically update (upon clicking) directly from within your WordPress admin area.


Download the plugin zip file to your computer.

Step 1 – Unzip the package and locate hooray.zip in the theme folder.

Step 2 – Go to Appearance > Themes and activate another theme such as the default WordPress theme.

Step 3 – Delete the hooray theme which is now inactive.

Step 4 – Go to Install Themes > Upload then install and activate hooray.zip from the new package.

Updating Manually

Download the zipped theme pack to your local computer from themeforest and extract the ZIP file contents to a folder on your local computer.

Step 1 – Unzip the package and locate hooray.zip in the theme folder.

Step 2 – Go to Appearance > Themes and activate another theme such as the default WordPress theme.

Step 3 – Delete the hooray theme which is now inactive.

Step 4 – Go to Install Themes > Upload then install and activate hooray.zip from the new package.

Import All Demo Content

How to Use the XML File to Import the Demo Site’s Content

Step 0 – Log into your site as an administrator.

Step 1 – Make sure you activated your new theme before proceeding.

Step 3 – Go to Tools → Import

Step 4 – Choose “WordPress” from the list.

Step 5 – Upload the demo content .xml using the form provided on that page.

Step 6 – You will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.

Step 7 – You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the “Download and import file attachments” box.

Step 8 – Please be patient while WordPress imports all the content. Posts, Pages, Projects, and Menus are imported. You will need assign the menu a theme location & you’ll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress’ import system.

Language Translations

How to Use the XML File to Import the Demo Site’s Content

WordPress v4.0 and above

Change the language in the admin settings screen. Settings > general > Site Language.

Step 0 – Open wp-config.php and replace this: define ('WPLANG', ''); with this (subsitute the language string (bg_BG) with your own!): define ('WPLANG', 'ar_EG');

Step 1 – Download and install POEDIT

Step 2 – Connect to your site -> open your theme/languages directory

Step 3 – Download the default.po file and open it with POEDIT.

Step 4 – Translate file and save it as ar_EG ( the file name must match with the string you inserted into wp-config.php )

Step 5 – Two files will be generated after save. ar_EG.po and ar_EG.mo

Step 6 – Upload the .mo and .po files into wp-content/themes/your-theme/languages folder


How to activate the RTL Version

You just need to install the theme on RTL wordpress blog and it will adjust automatically .. check this page for more informations .

Custom Menus

To create a custom navigation menu

Step 0 – Go to Appearance > Menu

Step 1 – Click on "create a new menu" to create a new menu (eg. Main Menu).

Step 2 – Add the menu items from the left panels

Step 3 – To create dropdown menu: drag the menu item toward the right (the item(s) will be indented)

Step 4 – When you are done adding the menu items, click "Save Menu"


To assign menu locations

Step 0 – Scroll down to the bottom where it says "Theme locations" and tick the menu location checkbox

Step 1 – Navigation Menu = main menu in the header

Step 2 – Top menu = top menu in the header

Step 3 – Footer menu = footer menu in the footer (note: some themes might not have Footer Navigation)

Tips: the custom menu can also be used with the widget ( GO to Appearance > Widgets and drop in the Custom Menu widget ). You may create additional menus by clicking the "create a new menu" link.


Custom Link Buttons

The "Custom Links" panel allows you to add menu link to external URL. For example you can create a link to Bdayh by entering:

Step 0 – URL = http://bdayh.com

Step 1 – Label = Bdayh

Mega Menus


MegaMenu with sub-categories

Step 0 – Go to Appearance > Menu

Step 1 – Add a category in your menu and select a Category menu from here




MegaMenu with Lists

Step 0 – Go to Appearance > Menu

Step 1 – Check From here



How to select icon

Go to Appearance > Menu > Custom Link > Select icon

AND Choose Icon Display (Just Icon - Lable And Icon - Just Lable)

Menu Icons are available in Primary Menu only.


Setting your Homepage

Step 0 – Go to (WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Reading)

Step 1 – Under "Static Front Page" you will have two options:




Step 2 – "Your latest posts" use this option in case you want to show a list of your recent posts in a blog large view.

Step 3"A static page" we recommmend creating a new page called "Home" in WordPress, so you can assign this page as your static front page and you will be able to customize it using Page Template, or chose any other page as your static front page.

Post Review



Featured images

All of your posts must have a featured images .. these images will appears in the slider , homepage , sidebar .. etc

The recommended size for the Featured images is 1170px x 658px .
Theme cropped all uploaded images to fit its places in the theme .. if you have any problems with the size of old images which uploaded before install the theme you need to use Force Regenerate Thumbnails Plugin or AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild Plugin to regenerate thumbnails with suitable sizes .

Full Width Page/Post

Page Speed Guide

Minify HTML,CSS and JavaScript

Minification refers to the process of removing unnecessary or redundant data without affecting how the resource is processed by the browser - e.g. code comments and formatting, removing unused code, using shorter variable and function names, and so on

Use plugins :



Optimize Images

Optimizing your images will helps your WordPress site load faster.

Download and activate WP Smush.it This plugin will optimize every image you upload and you can use the Bulk Smush.it feature to smush all of your uploaded images.

Alternatives to WP Smush.it include EWWW Image Optimizer, CW Image Optimizer, Imsanity and Hammy. Many WordPress users prefer using these plugins as they do not rely on an external server to process your images.

WooCommerce

One of great features of Hooray is that you can make an online shop with it.

Hooray is fully compatible with latest version of Woocommerce Plugin. We added required stylings to fit the design, and all required confiq codes to make it seamless with Hooray. If you dont need Woocommerce simply dont install it and all the features, codes and anything required for woocommerce will not be loaded and interfered. Vice versa, if you need to set up woocommerce just install woocommerce like you do for other plugins and thats all about it. you dont need to do anything else.


Woocommerce Documentation