ChromeNews Pro – DOCUMENTATIONS

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

Via AF themes Site

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

FTP Installation

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

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

Chromenews Recommended Plugins

All the above-listed plugins are recommended on the WordPress dashboard after activating the theme. You can simply install them from there. See the below video to know more about installing plugins.

How to Import Dummy Data?

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

Download AF Companion Plugin recommend by the theme
After Installing the plugin, Click Activate button
Open AF Companion which appears in you Dashboard.
Then, Click on 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 from scratch before importing the dummy data.

How to add Pages?

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

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

Chromenews Pro Single Post

A single post can be managed following the process below:

All post > Edit the post > You could find a sidebar option on the right-hand side from where you could choose the layouts

Archive page

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

1. Install Theme Chromenews

Go to Admin Panel > Appearance > Themes > Add New and search theme ChromeNews
Click on Install and then Activate

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

2. Create 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)
Click on Publish to publish the page.
Create another page (for Blog).

3. Set Homepage and Blog page

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)

A Trip to Customizer

Well, Chromenews is fully developed based on 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
Color and Font size could be customized

2. Color

You can find a number of color options for each widget’s title, post title, general box, background color, and others inside 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.

You could follow the below steps to add a menu:

Step 1: Go to the customizer option of the Appearance

Step 2: Click on the menu and create a menu and select the option below of the menu

Step 3: Then click on Add item and add a custom link, page categories you want

4. Widgets

All widgets could be added to different sections of the

Main Sidebar
Front-page Content Section
Front-page Sidebar Section
Banner Ad Section
Prime News Section
Off Canvas
Above and below Main Banner Section
Below Feature Section
Footer First, Second and Third Section
Below Post Title Ad Section
Below Post Content Ad Section

5. Header Option

Header option contains 3 sections.

Header Setting: Where you could change the header layout, top header, time format and subscribe button with (icon and link option)
Header Advertisement: Where you could add the advertisement image
Header Image: Can add background image in the header

6. Main Banner Option

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

7. Frontpage Option

Options for the below section are available

Frontpage Layout
Featured Post
Youtube Video
Express Post
Post List
Post Carousel

8. Theme Option

Available options are inside Appearance > Customize

Font & Typography
Site Layout Mode
Global Setting
Single Post
Archive Setting
Sidebar Setting
Breadcrumb Option
Categories Option
View Count Option
Author & Date Setting
Minute Read Count
Excerpt Setting
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Mailchimp Subscription
Footer Option

Widgets Overview

2 Column layouts and 14+ custom widgets along with WordPress default widgets are available in this theme. You can place all the available widgets in the respected widgets area.