Morenews Pro

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 with 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 Morenews Pro via, https://afthemes.com/products/morenews-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 morenews-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 if you faced any problem while installing the theme.

Morenews 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 Morenews 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

Morenews Single 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 Morenews

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

We already mentioned the possible methods to install 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 Page)
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, Morenews is fully developed based on customizer. So, you need to check all the options available inside 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 number of color options inside Customize>Color panel

3. Menu

You could follow the below steps to add 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 custom link ,page categories you want

4. Widgets

All widgets could be add in different section of the

Content page
Sidebar
Off-canvas
Footer First, Second and Third Section
Above and Below Main Banner Section
Below Feature Section.
Banner Ad Section

5. Header Option

Header option contain 3 section.

Header Setting: Where you could change the header layout, top header and watch online button
Header Advertisement: Where you could add the advertisement image
Header Image: Can add background image in the header

6. Main Banner Option

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

7. Frontpage Option

Options for the below section are availablehttps://www.youtube.com/embed/r3j7PDxCCPw?feature=oembed

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

8. Theme Option

Available options are inside Appearance > Customizehttps://www.youtube.com/embed/ta1q2U_nHnw?feature=oembed

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 on the respected widgets area.