Broadnews

Familiarity with the WordPress Ecosystem

Please take the time to read through the instructions and take notice of the instructions listed here, as many support related questions can be answered simply by re-reading these instructions.

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If you are new to WordPress, please read the WordPress documentation first:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Posts (WordPress Posts)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages (WordPress Pages)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels (Administration Panels)

Theme Installation

From WordPress Dashboard

1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
2. Go to the Appearance panel, then Themes.
3. Click Add New.
4. Search theme name Broadnews
5. After Installing the theme Click Activate button

Via AF themes Site

1. Download Broadnews via, https://afthemes.com/products/chromenews
2. Go to your WordPress website dashboard
3. Go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload and select the Zip file you recently downloaded.
4. Click on Install and Activate it.

FTP Installation

1. Use your FTP software to browse to the wp-content/themes folder.
2. Extract broadnews.zip and upload the folder.
3. Once it’s uploaded, go to your WordPress Admin, and browse to Appearance > Themes.
4. Click the Activate link.

Activating Theme Broadnews

• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes > BroadNews
• Click on Activate

We already mentioned the possible methods to install the theme above.

Broadnews Recommended Plugins

All the above-listed plugins are recommended on the WordPress dashboard after activating the theme. You can simply install them from there.

Broadnews Homepage

Broadnews Pro Theme Offers Two different Homepage Options

1. Your Latest Posts
2. A Static Page

1. Your Latest Posts

The theme Default mode is Your Latest Posts where Admin posts are displayed in Grid Layout which the admin could customize from the steps below:

Appearance > Customizer > Theme Option > Archive Setting

where the admin could change the Layouts

Archive page

2. Create a Page for Home and Blog( Static Front Page )
At first, you need to create two pages, one for Home Page and another for the Blog page.

• Go to admin panel > Pages > Add New
• Give the title of the page (Example: Home Page)
• Click on Publish to publish the page.
• Create another page (for the Blog)
• 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)
• After that admin could add the widgets to the widgets section of the frontpage provided by the Theme

Or,

• Go to the Appearance then Click on the Customizer
• Click on the Homepage Setting Option
• Select A Static Page
• Create A Homepage and A Post Page
• Then, You could go to the Widgets section of the customizer where you could add the widgets at the Frontpage Area

How to add Pages?

It is easy to add a post and page in WordPress.

1. Go to Admin Panel
2. Go to Pages > Add New
3. Give the Title of the Page
4. Write the Content of the Page
5. Scroll down and see the right corner, you will find the Set Featured Image section

Broadnews Single Post

All Post could be customized either Individually or Globally from the Theme Customizer Option

Individual: Dashboard > Posts> Edit Post > Admin could get an option of editing the Content Layout and Alignment

Globally: Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer > Theme Option > Single Post (Image position for feature image with disabling option is provided for better display and the content layout can be changed.)

Note: If you are not familiar with the new WordPress editor Gutenberg, you can easily disable it and enable the classic editor.

How to Import Dummy Data?

Importing the demo data is easy in Broadnews News and Magazine Responsive WordPress theme.

1. Download AF Companion Plugin recommend by the theme
2. After installing the plugin, Click Activate button
3. Open AF Companion which appears in your Dashboard.
4. Then, Click on the Import Option of the Demo

Note: If your website has genuine content already, it is not recommended to import the dummy data. Make sure, you are building a new website

A Trip to Customizer

Well, Broadnews is fully developed based on a customizer. So, you need to check all the options available inside the customizer meticulously.

1. Site Identify

• Site title with tagline can be added with logo
• Font size could be customized

2. Header Option

• Header Setting: Where the admin could change the top header, and watch online button
  • Primary Menu Desc: The badge shown in the menu could be enabled from here.
    
  • Site Mode: The site mode button present in the menu section enable and disable the option
    
  • Top Header Section: Turning on to display Dates and Social Menu with enabling the Top header options are provided.
    
  • Time Format: The display format for time could be changed here.
    
  • Custom Menu Section: Watch Online Text and Icon with the link could be changed and the option of enabling the border below the menu option is available.

• Header Advertisement: Adding the advertisement image could be done with Url Link on the image
  
• Header Image: Header images can be placed with the image overlay transparency and size also with random header images

3. Main Banner Option

Customization of the Main banner along with Popular news and Breaking news is present here.

Banner Background: A background image can be added only for the Main Banner section 

Banner Layouts: 4 different orders could be set for the Banner

Popular Tags: Latest or Popular tags can be set above the Main Banner section 

Exclusive News: The option of enabling/disabling is provided in exclusive news with category selection

4. Frontpage Option

Options for the below section are available

Frontpage Layout: Frontpage alignment could be changed through the setting

Post Carousel: The carousel, which comes with a variety of choices, will assist you in looping the blog content.

5. Color

Broadnews Pro Theme contains lots of Color Options as required for the Theme with 2 different modes Light and Dark.

Customize > Color Option.

Also, a new button for Dark and light mode is added in the menu bar section from where you could easily change the site in any mode with just a click.

6. Theme Option

Available options are inside Appearance > Customize > Theme Option

7. Widgets

All widgets could be added to different sections of the

• Main Sidebar
• Front-page Content Section
• Front-page Sidebar Section
• Banner Ad Section
• Off-Canvas
• Footer First, Second, and Third Section

Widgets Overview

2 Column layouts and 7+ custom widgets along with WordPress default widgets are available in this theme. You can place all the available widgets in the respected widgets area.

Author Post: The bio widget can assist you in displaying author information.

Express Post Grid: The grid widget box will assist you in presenting your blog content in multiple columns.

Post-Single column: The widget, allows you to display your blog entries in a single column.

Post Grid: The grid widget box will assist you in presenting your blog content in multiple columns.

Post List: You can sort the post-collection using a list of articles with several appearance options.

Trending News: You can organize the archived posts using a carousel list of articles.

Social link: You can add a link to your social page from social media.

Note: You can add all the above-listed widgets to the Static Front Page Section Widget Area.

You can always use the support forum in case you faced any problems while installing and using the theme.