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SuperNews : News, Magazine and Blog WordPress Themes.
We believe this documentation help you to install, setup and customize your site using our theme ‘SuperNews’.

Theme Installation

• Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
• Go to the Appearance panel, then Themes.
• Click Add New.
• In Search themes… type ‘SuperNews’.
• When ‘SuperNews’ appears click Install button
• After Installing the theme Click Activate button

How to make the image size as on demo?

First, go to Settings > Media
Set thumbnail size : 500 * 280
Set Medium size : 600 * 365
Set Large size : 840 * 480
Click on Save Changes to save the change.

We recommend you to use plugin named Acme Fix Image 
to crop the actual size of the images.

DummyData

Before importing the demo content. It is required that you install necessary plugins. They are:
1. Acme Demo Setup
2. Advanced Import

Then you can follow the path below:

• Dashboard > Appearance > Demo Import 
• Click on Get Started and a page will appear with a thumbnail image of the demo design.(There can be more than 1 demo design in some themes)
• Hover over the image and click on Import
• Then in few minutes the demo will be imported in your site and you can visit your site now.

How to make your site as our Demo ?

You want to make your site as same as our demo? Here i am going to present you how to make home page as demo. Please just follow the below procedure to make it. It’s simple to create home page.

1. Install Theme SuperNews

• Go to Admin Panel > Appearance > Themes > Add New and search theme SuperNews
• or Download theme from Here.
• Click on Install and then Activate

2. Setting Image Size

• The main thing for making your site as our demo is with setting up image size. Please follow this steps:
• Go to Settings > Media
• Set Thumbnail Size 500 * 280
• Medium Size 660 * 365
• Large Size 840 * 480
• Click on Save Changes to save the above data.

3. Fixed Images Size
After completion the 2nd step, please install and activate plugin named Acme Fix Images.

• Go to Appearance > Acme Fix Images(After Installation plugin Acme Fix Images, this sub menu will appear under Appearance)
• Click on Fix All Images
• Wait until all the images fixed.

4. Create Page for Home and Blog
You need at most two pages, one for Home and another for Blog, to make like demo. Please follow this below steps to
set home page.

• Go to admin panel > Pages > Add New
• Give the title of page(Example: Home Page)
• Click on Publish to publish page.
• Create another page(for Blog), follow the above page creation method.

5. Set Home page and Blog page
Please set home page and blog page with following procedure.

• Go to admin panel > Settings > Reading
• Click on “A static page (select below)”
• Set Front page: (Home Page recently created above)
• Posts page:(Blog you recently created)

6. Preview front page
View the front page, the featured section will appear. To change the featured section content,

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Featured Section Options > Category Selection For Featured Section
• Select the category from the dropdown.
• If not enabled, Checked on Enable Featured Section.

7. Section below the featured section
Are you wondering how to add the section below the featured section? It’s simple, please follow the below process:

• Go to Appearance > Widget
• Add the available widget (Example AT Posts Column) on “Home Main Content Area”
• Use the available options of the Widgets
• View the home page, you will find the about section there.

8. More section on Home Page
If you need more section on home page, just add the available widget there on “Home Main Content Area”

Start Adding-Editing Contents in your site

Now you can start adding/editing content in you site

Add Categories and Posts.

You know how to add Categories and post? Please follow the below instruction to add categories and post.

• Go to admin panel > Posts > Categories
• Add the name and slug of categories
• Click on Add New Category

Category will automatically listed on the right side of categories list. Please see the below screenshot to know more easier.

Are you wondering about how to add post on WordPress? It’s simple. Please follow the below steps and see screenshot.

• Go to admin panel > Posts > Add New
• Give the title of the post
• Write the content
• Set the featured image
• Click on publish to save the changes.

See the below screenshot to know more details.

Add different Pages.

You can add pages as similar with adding post. Please follow the below steps.

• Go to admin panel > Pages > Add New
• Give the title of the Page
• Write the content
• Set the featured image
• Click on publish to save the changes.

How to make Home Page as demo?

You want to make your own site as our demo? If so, you need to follow the proper instruction listed below.

Please follow the below listed steps:

• Go to Setting > Reading
• Choose a Static Page for front page(Example: Home Page) and
• Go to Appearance > Widgets and add the available widgets on “Home Main Content Area“
• Example: Add “At Post Column” Widget and use the available parameters for managing that section.
• Add others available widgets similarly.

The below screenshot shows you how to choose a static page for front page.

We already show you how to add pages, so please add two pages first. One page for front page and another for blog page and have a look on the below screenshot for details.

After Setting the Front page, please follow the below steps to add widgets on front page. After adding widget on Home Main Content area, preview your site from front end. You will feel the changes.

Using Theme Customization Options

• ‘SuperNews‘ comes with advanced Theme Customization options.
• Go to the Appearance, then Customize.
• Now you can customize you site with great theme customization options.
• Please see the below screenshot for using customizer.

Manage Site Title, Tagline and Site Icon

• From Customize, go to Site Identity
• You will see options for Site Title, Tagline, Site Icon
• After adding/editing them, don’t forget to click ‘Save & Publish‘ button at the top

Creating Menus

• From Customize, go to Menus
• You can setup everything related to menus there

Setting up Front page and Blog ( Posts ) page

• From Customize, go to Static Front Page
• Choose a A static page
• Now select Front page and Posts page from the dropdown
• Note: if you don’t have added pages for this, first add pages from WordPress Admin panel => Pages

How to setup features sections

Featured sections includes five post from a category ( 5 block sections )

Featured Slider ( Category Slider )

• From Customize, go to ‘Featured Section Options‘ then ‘Select Category for Featured Section‘
• Select one of the category for Featured Posts.

Enable/Disable Feature Section

• From Customize, go to Featured Section Options then Enable Feature Section
• You can enable or disable this section

Managing widgets in sidebar

• From Customize, go to Widgets
• You will see 5( five ), Sidebar ( Widgets ) Areas, By name you will know what they are for
• ‘Home Main Content Area‘ is for Home Page
• ‘Main Sidebar Area‘ is for Main Sidebar
• ‘Footer Column One‘
• ‘Footer Column Two‘
• ‘Footer Column Three‘ are for Footer Sections

How to manage Home Page contents

• From Customize, go to Widgets then Home Main Content Area
• Now click Add a Widget, then click on- AT Posts Column
• This is very advanced widgets, now you can mange content from here
• Again for adding Advertisement,click Add a Widget, then click on AT Advertisement
• It is another advanced widgets for managing Advertisement
• Note : You can add any available Widgets

How to manage Main Sidebar Area

• From Customize, go to Widgets then Main Sidebar Area
• Follow same process to add widgets in that area

How to manage Footer Sections

• From Customize, go to Widgets
• From Footer Column One, Footer Column Two and Footer Column Three, you can manage Footer Section Area with widgets

Header Options

• From the Header options, you can customize your site header
• From Customize, go to Header Options

How to setup site logo and its options

• From Customize, go to Header Options then Logo Options
• You will find advanced Logo Options

How to enable-disable Date in header section

• From Customize, go to Header Options then Enable Date
• You can show/hide date

How to setup Breaking News Options

• From Customize, go to Header Options then Breaking News Options
• You will find options for Breaking News

How to setup Social Links

• From Customize, go to Header Options then Social Options
• You will find options for Social Links and other

How to Enable/Disable Search on Header

• From Customize, go to Header Options then Search Options
• Checked on Show Search On Header to enable it

How to add Header Advertisement

• From Customize, go to Header Options then Header Advertisement
• You can add Advertisement image and link from there
• Recommended image size of 730*90

Footer options: How to change footer copyright

• From Customize, go to Footer Option
• You will able to change Copyright Text from there

Layout/Design Option

Very flexible options for changing you site layout, design and colors

How to setup Sidebar Layout

• From Customize, go to Layout/Design Option then Default Sidebar Layout
• From the dropdown Choose Right Sidebar, Left Sidebar or No Sidebar
• Note : This will be global for all all pages

How to change featured image option in Blog page and Archive pages

• From Customize, go to Layout/Design Option then Default Blog/Archive Layout
• From the dropdown Choose Left Image or No Image

How to change my site primary colors

Probably you are searching for this options 🙂

• From Customize, go to Layout/Design Option then Colors
• You can change Background Color and Primary Color

How to add custom CSS

If you know the css knowledge, you can customize you site with css

• From Customize, go to Layout/Design Option then Custom CSS
• Now add custom CSS

Single Post Options

How to Show/Hide related posts

• From Customize, go to Single Post Options
• You can show/hide Related Posts in Single post there

Theme Options

Extra option for your site

How to add Breadcrumb

• From Customize, go to Theme Options then Breadcrumb Options
• Now Enable/Disable Breadcrumb

How to change Search Placeholder

• From Customize, go to Theme Options then Search
• Enter Search Placeholder

Reset Options

• From Customize, go to Reset Options
• You can Reset Colors or Whole theme setting from there
• Caution: Reset theme settings according to the given options. Refresh the page after saving to view the effects.

SuperNewsPro

Many more added features are coming soon in SuperNewsPro Theme a pro version of SuperNews