# Your Gridbee WP WordPress Theme

Gridbee WP / template documentation version 1.0

## Item Details

- Item Name : Gridbee WP
- Minumum Required : WordPress Version 5.5
- Author by : an-themes
- Demo url : https://anthemes.com/themes/style/gridbee/

Gridbee WP is a beautifully designed WordPress Theme that is built to be engaging, fast and most importanlty boost viral traffic with simple features that will help keep your visitors on your site, as well as easy ways for them to share your content on social media. Monetization options such as a good selection of advert locations are important too that's why we've made use of the best location adding Highest-Earning Ad Sizes, after all, you do want to get paid for your efforts! Completely responsive to look perfectly in all mobile devices, easily usable with any device as well as PCs. Responsive design optimized for tablets and smartphones (resize browser and hit refresh to check it out).

Support requests are being processed on business days Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 (GMT +2) within 24h in the order they were received:
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## Getting Started #back to top

### Need Help?

Thank you for purchasing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email me via my user page contact form. Support requests are being processed on business days Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 (GMT +2) within 24h in the order they were received.
Please Note: This support is for Theme Set-Up, Theme Usage & Bug Reports Only, I do not offer support for making or helping with, customisations to my theme’s code. If you have modified your theme code then please ensure it is not your modifications causing any issues with the theme. We cannot provide support on 3rd party plugins, and all 3rd party plugins should be disabled before contacting us for support.

### Support for my items includes:

- 1. Responding to questions or problems regarding the item and its features
- 2. Fixing bugs and reported issues
- 3. Providing updates to ensure compatibility with new software versions

### Item support does not include:

- 1. Theme Customization and installation services
- 2. Support for third party software and plug-ins
- 3. Support for 3rd party plugins and issues that may have arisen after activating this 3rd party plugin
- 4. WordPress General Support. Use the WP.org forums for general WordPress support.
- 5. Support for issues caused by user modifications in the theme’s code, styling and general function by yourselves or your developer

## How to Install WordPress #back to top

To install the theme you will need to download your purchase from Themeforest. Login to your Envato account, navigate to your downloads and find the theme. Click on the download link.

#### Download The Theme

1. Select the “All Files & Download” option to download the theme file and the sample data (the main theme file zip will be located inside the Upload folder).
2. Select the “Installable WordPress File Only” if you just want the theme.

## How to Install Theme #back to top

#### Installing Via WordPress

1. Login to WordPress Browse to Appearance > Themes
2. Click Add New
3. Click the Upload link
4. Click Browse
5. Select the zipped theme file to upload (the zip file is in the Upload folder if you chose to download all files) and click Install.
6. Now Activate the theme

#### Upload Via FTP Server

1. Login to your site via FTP
2. Browse to your folder located at wp-content/themes
3. Upload the main theme folder (the folder is located in the Upload folder if you chose to download all files)
4. Login to WordPress
5. Browse to Appearance > Themes
6. Find and activate the theme

## One Click Demo Import (Demo Content) #back to top

#### One Click Demo Import

After installing the theme you should be prompted to install and activate the included plugins. Make sure you've installed / activated the plugin "One Click Demo Import". After the installation of the plugin:

1. Go to Appearance > Import Demo Data
2. Select one of the demos and click "Import".
3. Please click "Import" button only once and wait, it can take a couple of minutes, up to 5 minutes, so please, have patience.
4. After you imported the demo, save your menu in order to be displayed. Go to Appearance > Menus.
5. After setting up your menu, scroll down to the bottom of the page and assign the menu to the "Header Navigation" Theme Locations at the bottom.
6. After that, please follow the Documentation for plugins configuration.

## Importing Sample Data (Demo Content) #back to top

#### Import WordPress XML

This theme includes a demo-content.xml file that will allow you to import the sample data to your site. This file includes most of the demo site data, which includes main theme functions to make it easier for you to see how the theme works.

1. Login to your Envato account
2. Click on the theme download link
3. Select the "All Files & Download" option
4. Open the zip file, the demo-content.xml file is in the Sample Data Folder
5. Login to WordPress
6. Double check that all recommended plugins have been installed and activated (if not, the sample data related to those plugins will not be imported)
7. Browse to Tools > Import
8. Click on the WordPress option (you will have to have the "WordPress Importer" plugin installed, you will be prompted if it's not already installed and active)
9. Click Browse and select the sample data .xml file
10. Click Upload files and import
11. Assign the posts to an existing user
12. Check the box to download and import file attachments
13. Click Submit
14. Give the import some time and do not navigate away from the page until the upload is complete
15. Go to Settings > Reading, set your from page to a Static Page, select Home from the drop down, and save
16. Go to Appearance > Menus, click on the Manage Location tab, assign the main menu, and save
17. If you'd like to change any of the widget, go to Appearance > Widgets and drag and drop widgets into the active widgetized areas
18. You should now have site content similar to the live demo for this theme!

## Install Plugins #back to top

After installing the theme you should be prompted to install and activate the included plugins. A yellow Recommended Plugins notice should be visible at the top of your screen. Installation and activation is optional but recommended since each plugin adds an additional layer of functionality to the theme.

#### #1. Gridbee Theme Options

Theme Functionality: Custom Style, Theme core, Post Views etc.

#### #2. AJAX Login and Registration

Easy to integrate modal with Login and Registration features + inline form using shortcode.

#### #3. Dave's WordPress Live Search

Adds "live search" functionality to your WordPress site. Uses the built-in search and jQuery.

#### #4. Frontend Publishing Pro

Allow your users to create, edit and delete posts directly from the WordPress frontend area.

#### #5. MailChimp for WordPress

Allowing your visitors to subscribe to your newsletter should be easy. With this plugin, it finally is.

#### #6. Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

#### #7. Nav Menu Roles

Hide custom menu items based on user roles.

#### #8. One Click Demo Import

The best feature of this plugin is, that theme authors can define import files in their themes and so all you (the user of the theme) have to do is click on the “Import Demo Data” button.

#### #9. WooCommerce

An eCommerce toolkit that helps you sell anything. Beautifully.

## Home Page Settings #back to top

## Homepage – How to build and set it

By default WordPress sets the blog page as a main page and this is not what most of us want, we need custom pages. To change WordPress default settings you have to:

1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New:
2. Name it Home or whatever and from the right on Page Attributes choose "Template - Home".
3. Now go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading and from "Front page displays" select "A static page (select below) and select the page you've created a few seconds ago.

## 1. Create a new page, go to Pages > Add New

## 2. Set the page title and select a page template.

## 3. Go to Settings > Reading and set the newly created page as a homepage.

## Pending Page Settings #back to top

1. Create a new page, go to Pages > Add New
2. Set the page title "Pending" and select a page template "Template - Home Sidebar. (Pending Posts)"
3. Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Blog Settings. Select "Yes" to display Pending Posts and add the link to the page you've created "Pending".

## Header Menu Settings #back to top

## 1. To create a new Main Menu go to:

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom menu in WordPress and how to create a menu structure.:

1. Go to your WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Menus
2. Click on the "create a new menu" link.
3. Write a name for you menu.
4. Press Create Menu button.

## 2. To customize your new Menu:

1. Start to add menu items from the left panels (Homepages, Pages, Links, Categories).
2. You can manage your menus by using the drag and drop functionality and rearrange the menu items in the desired order.
   After setting up your menu, scroll down to the bottom of the page and assign the menu to the "Header Navigation" Theme Locations at the bottom. Select Header Navigation same thing you see in the photo from the below.
3. Click the Save Menu button.

## 3. Add Icons to your new Menu:

1. To add a font ICON: select a menu that you want to edit and paste the icon code in a menu item, then save the menu. To preview all available Font Awesome icons go to https://fontawesome.com/icons.
2. Now, edit your menu and just paste the code you've copied:

## 4. Add price/text ribbon "$35" to the menu:

1. Go to Appearance > Menus
2. Open menu and go to "Navigation Label" and add:

3.     $35

   like this:

## Regenerate Thumbnails #back to top

## Thumbnails – Fix strange looking images on blocks

This problem appears when you install the theme on a site which already has content. The theme comes with it’s own thumbnails to minimize the page size and increase the page loading speed.:

1. Install and activate the Thumbnail Regenerate plugin from here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
2. Go to Tools -> Regen. Thumbnails and press the “Regenerate All Thumbnails” button:
3. Wait until the regeneration process is 100% done and check the page (your website). Refresh the browser page to see the changes, and that's it.

## MailChimp Settings #back to top

## MailChimp Configuration

This plugin helps you grow your MailChimp lists and write better newsletters through various methods. You can create good looking opt-in forms or integrate with any existing form on your site, like your comment, contact or checkout form.

1. Install the plugin and activate it.
2. Go to Dashboard > MailChimp > Form and paste this:

       <div class="subscribe-widget">
         <h4>Newsletter!</h4>
         <p>Sign up and receive the latest Themes via email.</p>
         <input type="email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your email address" required />
         <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" />
       </div>

3. Now go to Appearance > Widgets and drag the widget "MailChimp Sing-up Form" to the custom siderbar you want to use.
4. You can add your MailChimp API via Dashboard > MailChimp > MailChimp, after you've added your API key, click "Save Changes".

## Contact Form 7 Settings #back to top

## Contact Form 7 Configuration

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on:

1. Install and activate the Contact Form 7 plugin from here Contact form 7.
2. Navigate to Dashboard > Contact and click Edit your first contact form.
3. Copy / paste this code:

       [text* your-name placeholder "name*"]
       [email* your-email placeholder "e-mail*"]
       [text your-subject placeholder "subject"]
       [textarea your-message]
       [submit "Get in Touch"]

4. Now, copy the shortcode and paste it into your contact page:

## AJAX Login and Registration modal popup #back to top

## AJAX Login and Registration modal popup

1. First navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins > Click Add New
2. Search for "AJAX Login and Registration modal popup + inline form" the first plugin and click "Install Now".
3. The link of the plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-login-and-registration-modal-popup/

## Add login/register modal to your menu

1. Create a custom menu with any label, for example Login as per screenshot:
2. Make sure to add # to your text, for example #login #account #etc
3. Make sure to add the CSS Classes "lrm-login" and that's it, save your menu.

## Live Search Settings #back to top

## Live Search Configuration

Dave's WordPress Live Search is a plugin that brings live search, sometimes called "autocomplete", to your WordPress site. Many of the web's most popular destinations use this technique so customers can get right to the information or products they're after, and now you can deliver that same experience to your site's visitors. Like WordPress itself, it's designed to be simple to set up and use right away, but powerful and customizable for advanced users:

1. First you'll need to install the plugin "Dave's WordPress Live Search": https://wordpress.org/plugins/daves-wordpress-live-search/installation/
2. Go to Dashboard > Settings > Live Search > Appearance > Style and click Custom ( Customize the search results display here):
3. For Title you need to add blue color:
   Title: #3456b5
   Excerpt: #000000
   Background: #FFFFFF
   Hover Background: #FFFFFF
   Divider: #f1f1f1
   Footer Background: #fafafa
   Footer Text: #474747
   And click "Save Changes".

## Frontend Publishing Pro #back to top

## Using Frontend Publishing Pro without the demo content from the demo

In this section, you will learn how to install the plugin and create a simple frontend publishing form with it. Just follow these steps::

1. Go to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress site’s admin panel and click on the Upload link at the top of the screen. Plugin can be found via gridbee-wp/plugins.
2. Upload the plugin’s zip file. Once the file has been uploaded, activate the plugin.
3. Access the plugin control panel located at Frontend Publishing Pro > Forms.
4. To create a new form just enter a suitable name, description and post type and click ‘Create Form’. After a few seconds the newly created form should show up on the right side of the screen.
5. The form is now ready for use and can be integrated into any post or page. Just create a new page and add [wpfepp_submission_form form=”X”] in the content area. Replace X with the form ID. The form should look something like this:
6. On a different page use the shortcode [wpfepp_post_table form=”X”]. This shortcode will create a list of posts with edit and delete links. The list will contain all the posts of the post type supported by form X. It should look something like this:

## Customizing A Form

If you want to customize an existing form then here are the basic steps that you need to follow::

1. Go to Frontend Publishing Pro > Forms.
2. In the list table located at the right side of the screen you will see all your existing forms. Hovering over a form name should make the ‘Edit’ link visible. Click on this link to start modifying the appearance and behavior of the form.
3. On the next screen you will see a list of form fields. You can drag and drop these fields to rearrange them or click on a field to change its settings.
4. Once you are fully satisfied with your form save your changes and see them in action on the frontend.

## Defining Restrictions for a Field

One of the things that set Frontend Publishing Pro apart from the multitude of form plugins available on the Internet is that it allows you to define restrictions such as word range, maximum links, number of comma-separated sections and so on. A post is not created until all the requirements are met. To define restrictions for a particular form field:

1. Go to Frontend Publishing Pro > Forms and start editing the form for which you want to define restrictions.
2. On the next screen click on any field to slide open its settings. In this case, we will use the Content field as an example. This is what it looks like on the settings page:
3. Now you can drag and drop validators and sanitizers onto this field to add restrictions. For instance, you could add the Min Words validator to the field and the user will not be able to create a post until it meets the word requirement. If you do not want to define a particular restriction just leave it empty or remove it. For instance, if you don’t want to set a maximum word count limit then just leave the area empty.

## Working with Custom Fields

If you want to save a user-entered value as post meta then you should create a custom field. Here’s how you can do so:

1. Go to Frontend Publishing Pro > Forms and start editing the form for which you want to create a custom field.
2. On the right side of the page you will notice a box titled ‘Custom Fields’. Its looks like this: : Enter a label along with a valid meta key and hit the Add button. Your new custom field will show up under the default form fields. Let’s say you want to give your users the ability to submit a byline along with each post. All you have to do is create a custom field by entering a label and a valid meta key like ‘byline’ or ‘about_the_author’. After that you can get the byline for each post by using something like this:

       <?php $byline = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'byline', true ); ?>

## Gridbee is using 2 Custom Fields

If you haven’t installed the demo content with the 1 click demo install option, you’ll need to create manually the custom fields: "Article Source Link" and "Domain Link".

1. Go to Frontend Publishing Pro > Forms and start editing the form for which you want to create a custom field.
2. First, create the “Article Source Link” for the label add “Article Source Link” and for meta Key add “gridbee_source” and click add. Note: You can change the label name, but you can't change the meta key.
3. Now, create the “Domain Link” for the label add “Domain Link” and for meta Key add “gridbee_domain” and click add. Note: You can change the label name, but you can't change the meta key.
4. Configure the 2 custom Fields you've created like this:

## WooCommerce #back to top

## WooCommerce Configuration

Whether you’re launching a business, taking brick-and-mortar retail online, or developing sites for clients, use WooCommerce for a store that powerfully blends content and commerce. WooCommerce is the world’s most popular open-source eCommerce solution.

1. Install and activate the WooCommerce plugin from here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/
2. Go to Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce > Product Catalog.
3. Change "Products per row" with 3 and "Rows per page" with 2, as per screenshot and click "Publish".

## Theme Options #back to top

For Theme Optons Settings: go To WordPress Dashboard > Appearance and click "Customize" and now you'll see "Theme Options" settings:

## Updating a WordPress Theme from Themeforest #back to top

## Option 1: The Beginners Option

Here’s the most simple way of updating your WordPress theme that’s purchased from ThemeForest::

1. We need an easy way of overwriting the theme files, since WordPress doesn’t support this, we need a plugin, install this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades/
2. Go to the downloads page of your ThemeForest account here: http://themeforest.net/downloads
3. Find the theme you’re updating from the list, click the big green “download” button once, and from the drop down menu choose “installable WordPress file only”
4. Upload the downloaded zip file to your WordPress installation via “appearance” -> “themes” -> “add new”, just like you did when you first installed the theme.
5. Thanks to the plugin mentioned in step 1, you’ll now get an “upgrade existing” option after uploading your theme, without the plugin you’d just get an error.
6. There you go, you’ve updated the theme!

## Option 2: The Automatic Option

Envato offer an automatic update solution for ThemeForest themes by using “Envato Toolkit”, see the full details of this here: http://www.wpexplorer.com/envato-wordpress-toolkit-guide/

Note that this is option 2 as I had noticed a few bugs with this plugin in the past, though some swear by it!

## Option 3: The FTP Upload (Advanced Users)

Another way to update your theme is via FTP, that is, you connect to your server and manually overwrite the theme folder. To do this grab the theme files mentioned from Option 1, with these in hand, unzip the file you have, you should have a folder just called THEMENAME (being the name of your theme)

Now the next step is simple, connect to your server via FTP (if you don’t know how to do this, use option 1) navigate to /wp-content/themes/, do not just overwrite the theme folder – here’s why. In previous updates to my themes, files have been deleted or relocated, if you just overwrite the folder then these files will remain, this can cause issues (especially with WooCommerce), here’s what you should do instead: Delete the THEMENAME folder that’s on your server, and then re-upload the new THEMENAME folder, this ensures that your new theme is 100% correct.

## Translate Theme to another Language #back to top

## How do I translate my theme to another language?

Our themes are written in English, though you are of course welcome to translate them to your language. While it's possible to go through each theme file and manually translate the appropriate text elements, we highly recommend using the program Poedit to translate your theme. It's easy and will save you LOTS of time.

1. First, go to WP Dashboard > Settings > General > Site Language > Select your language > Save.
2. Then, download & install the Poedit program.
3. Open Poedit and click the "Open" button on the top-left of the program screen. Within your theme's files, find the "languages" folder and select the "Gridbee-wp.POT" file.
4. A long list of text elements you may translate will appear in the box labeled "Source Text". Please note: You may not need to translate all of these elements. Many may be WordPress notification messages or similar.
5. Select the line within the "Source Text" box that you'd like to translate. When that line is highlighted, go down to the box labeled "Translation". Here, you can type the direct translation of the "Source Text" in whatever language you'll be using. Repeat this step for all of the "Source Text" elements you wish to translate.
6. When done, go to "File" and "Save as" within your theme's "languages" folder.
   IMPORTANT! You must save this new file with a name based on a specific format: aa_AA
   The first "aa" refers to ISO 639 two-letter language code (list found HERE).
   The second "AA" refers to an ISO 3166 two-letter country code (list found HERE).
   ( Example 1 )
   If translating to Danish, we would use the Danish language code of "da" and the Danish country code of "DK". The file name must be the language code in lowercase letters, followed by an underscore character, and lastly the language code in uppercase letters. So the finished file name would then be: da_DK
   ( Example 2 )
   If translating to Brazilian Portuguese, your file name would be: pt_BR
   Note: For the French language in Canada, please use "fr_FR". "fr_CA" is not recognized by WordPress.
7. When you save the file, it will automatically create your .po format as well as an additional .mo format file of the same name.
8. Via your FTP program, upload the .po & .mo files you just created to your theme's "languages" folder.
9. You're finished!

## Support Desk #back to top

Please remember you have purchased a very affordable theme and you have not paid for a full-time web design agency, so please be patient, polite and respectful.

Support for my items includes:

- * Responding to questions or problems regarding the item and its features
- * Fixing bugs and reported issues
- * Providing updates to ensure compatibility with new software versions

Item support does not include:

- * Customization and installation services
- * Support for third party software and plug-ins

Support requests are being processed on business days Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 (GMT +2) within 24h in the order they were received:
Submit a support ticket My Portfolio

Before seeking support, please...

- * Make sure your question is a valid Theme Issue and not a customization request.
- * Make sure you have read through the documentation and any related video guides before asking support on how to accomplish a task.
- * Try disabling any active plugins to make sure there isn't a conflict with a plugin. And if there is this way you can let us know.
- * If you have customized your theme and now have an issue, back-track to make sure you didn't make a mistake or make a clean install of the theme.
- * Almost 80% of the time we find that the solution to people's issues can be solved with a simple "Google Search". You might want to try that before seeking support. You might be able to fix the issue yourself much quicker than we can respond to your request.
- * Make sure to state the name of the theme you are having issues with, when requesting support via ThemeForest.