Influential – Blazetheme Documentation

Influential Premium Theme Documentation

Getting Started
Installation
License Integration
Demo Import
Frontpage Integration
Site Logo & Title
Header Settings
Menu Colors
Category colors
Innerpages Settings
Banner Slider
Author Section
Categories Collection
Post Grid
Post List
Posts Grid Alter
Posts Carousel
Posts Featured
Footer Settings
Footer Copyright Text
Translation

Getting Started

Introduction

Influential is a modern responsive WordPress theme that lets you write blog posts and articles with ease. Focusing on user flexibility it has very easy-to-use customizer options. It has more than 25 + blog posts layouts and 4 useful widgets that make your blog website seem complete. Compatible with the latest WordPress version, it comes with dozens of amazing features like numerous colors option, typography with more than 600+ google fonts, sticky header, unlimited social icons, button layouts, page breadcrumbs, page posts archive layouts, sidebar layouts, sticky sidebar, scroll to top options, multiple header layouts, and much more to explore inside the theme. We provide free support for you and are glad to help you out with any type of theme issue.

It is fully integrated with the Woocommerce plugin and uses the best clean SEO practices. Built more than 100+ layouts with possible combinations of blocks available. Check out our beautiful pre-built demos now: All pre-built demos

Installation

Administration Panel

Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel.
Click on Appearance -> Themes -> Add New
Search for “Influential” in the search field.
You can upload the theme zip file if you have downloaded before.
Click on Install button and then Activate the theme.

Pro Version

Buy Influential premium version from the blazethemes store you will get email once your purchase is completed. Download the theme zip from the link given in the email or download the latest version of the theme from “My Account” page

Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel.
Click on Appearance -> Themes -> Add New
Upload the theme zip file that you have downloaded.
Click on Install button and then Activate the theme.

CPanel/ FTP

Download the latest version of the Influential theme from https://wordpress.org/themes/influential page.

Unzip the downloaded zip file.
Upload the unzipped file inside public_html/wp-content/themes/.
Now, activate the theme through Dashboard > Appearance -> Themes
Activate the Influential Pro and Click on “Customize” in the Appearance Menu in the Dashboard. Now you can customize or modify according to your choice.

Pro Version

Unzip the downloaded zip file.
Upload the unzipped file inside public_html/wp-content/themes/.
Now, activate the theme through Dashboard > Appearance -> Themes
Activate the Influential Pro and Click on “Customize” in the Appearance Menu in the Dashboard. Now you can customize or modify according to your choice.

License Integration

Activating License

Pro Version

You need to activate the license key in order to receive Automatic Theme Updates which includes featured updates, security updates and bug fixes. To activate the license key,

First you have to find the license key that you will get in your purchase confirmation email.
You can also find your license key in “My Account” page of blazethemes.com
Now, go through your dashboard > appearance > Influential License
Paste the license key in the input field and click “Activate License”

Demo Import

Importing Demo Content

After you activate Influential in your website. You can use demo import to make your site look like one of our available demos.

Go to Appearance > Influential Info
You can see list of all demos in this page
If you have not install/activate the Blazethemes Demo Importer plugin Click on install/activate demo importer button just above the demos listing section
Then, hover onto the demo you want to import and Click Install
It will land you to the demo importer setting page
Check the box if you want to reset your website data before demo import( Note : It will erase all of your posts, pages, media and website data )
Uncheck box if you donot want to erase your previous data. ( Note : Your site may not look exactly like demo as your previous posts, pages, categories or tags may collide with new datas )
Final Note: Always backup your website before resetting website for demo import.
Finally, your site now looks exactly like a demo. Go on and Customize further with your choice

Frontpage Integration

Enable frontpage sections

To display frontpage sections

Go through Dashboard > Customizer > Homepage Settings > Enable the option “Show frontpage sections”

Site Logo & Title

Site Logo & Site Icon

To upload and change site logo

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Site Identity
Upload the logo you want to set for your site.
Upload the logo for site icon as recommended it should be square and at least 512 * 512 pixels.
Display or hide Sit Title and Tagline from Display Sit Title and Tagline

Site Title & description

To change site title

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Site Identity
Under Site title input field add your site title
Under Site title input field add your site description
Uncheck to hide site title and tagline under “Display site title and tagline” checkbox field

Header Settings

Top Header

To work on Top Header

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Theme Header > Top Header
Show or hide top header bar
Change text color and background color

Pro Theme

Show or hide top header bar
Show or hide tags and change tags title and tags count
Show 0r hide current date and change date format
Show or hide menu
Change text color and background color

Main

To work on Main

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Theme Header > Main
Toggle to show social icons, toggle sidebar and search bar
Change header text color, background color

Menu Colors

You can change menu border color, background color

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Menu Section
Change border colors

Pro Theme

You can change menu colors, menu backgrounds, active menu colors and hover menu colors

Select background color, text color, active color, sub-menu color, border color
Scroll down and select mobile menu active color and background color

Category colors

To work on category colors

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Category Colors
Choose your Category colors

Innerpages Settings

Pro Theme

Select pagination type from dropdown
Select post content to display from dropdown
Choose word count for content
Toggle to show post date
Toggle to show post author
Toggle to show post categories
Toggle to show post tags

Single

To work on Single

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Innerpages settings > Single
Toggle to show related posts

Pro Theme

Toggle to show post date
Toggle to show post author
Toggle to show post categories
Toggle to show post tags
Toggle to show author box
Toggle to show related post
Choose the number of posts to display

Pro Theme

To work on Search

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Innerpages settings > Search
Choose search title
Choose search content
Select pagination type from dropdown

404

Pro Theme

To work on 404 Error Page

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Innerpages settings > 404
Select image
Select 404 page title
Select 404 content title

Banner Slider

To work on Banner Slider

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Banner slider
Enable banner slider section
Select category from dropdown
Choose number of posts to display
Toggle to show post excerpt
Select block layouts
Toggle to show or hide the block

Pro Theme

Toggle post title
Toggle post categories
Toggle post excerpt
Change the slider controls
Select block layouts

Author Section

To work on Author Section

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Author Section
Enable author section
Choose author image ( smaller image and bigger image )
Change author title and description

Pro Theme

Select signature image
Change title color, description color, background color

Categories Collection

To work on categories collection block

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Choose any section
Click to new block and add categories collection
choose the categories from multi-checkbox
Toggle to show categories count
Select block layouts
Toggle to show or hide the block

Pro Theme

Toggle to show categories title
Select block layouts

Post Grid

To work on post grid block

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Choose any section
Click to new block and add post grid
Change block title from Block Title
Select category from dropdown
Choose number of posts to display
Toggle to show or hide post content
Select block layouts
Toggle to show or hide the block

Pro Theme

Toggle to show or show featured image, post title, post categories, post tags, author, date, comment
Choose the length of content
Toggle to show or hide read more button
Select block layouts

Post List

To work on post list block

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Choose any section
Click to new block and add post list
Select category from dropdown
Choose number of posts to display
Toggle post date
Toggle comments number
Toggle post content
Choose block layouts
Toggle to show or hide the block

Pro Theme

Toggle to show featured image
Toggle to show post title
Toggle to show post categories
Toggle to show post tags
Toggle to show author
Choose the length of content
Toggle read more button
Select block layouts
Select block layouts

Posts Grid Alter

To work on post Grid Alter

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Choose any section
Click to new block and add post grid alter
Select category from dropdown
Choose number of posts to display
Toggle post date
Toggle comments
Choose block layouts
Toggle to show or hide the block

Pro Theme

Toggle to show featured image
Toggle to show post title
Toggle to show post categories
Toggle to show post tags
Toggle to show post author
Toggle to show post content
Choose the length of content
Toggle to show read more button
Select block layouts

Posts Carousel

To work on post Carousel

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Choose any section
Click to new block and add post carousel
Select category from dropdown
Choose number of posts to display
Toggle post date
Toggle comments
Choose block layouts
Toggle to show or hide the block

Pro Theme

Toggle to show featured image
Toggle to show post title
Toggle to show post categories
Toggle to show post tags
Toggle to show post author
Toggle to show post content
Choose the length of content
Toggle to show read more button
Select carousel controls from multi-checkbox
Select carousel speed, column and responsive column
Select block layouts

Posts Featured

To work on post Featured

Pro Theme

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Frontpage sections > Choose any section
Click to new block and add post Featured
Select category from dropdown
Toggle to show featured image
Toggle to show post title
Toggle to show post categories
Toggle to show post tags
Toggle to show post author
Toggle to show post date
Toggle to show post comment
Choose the length of content
Toggle to show read more button
Select block layouts

Footer Settings

Main

To work on Main Footer

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Theme Footer > Main
Toggle to show or hide footer section
Choose text color and background color

Pro Theme

Toggle to show or hide footer section
Choose Footer Layouts
Select background image
Select background color and text color

Bottom Footer

To work on Bottom Footer

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Theme Footer > Bottom footer
Toggle to show/hide social icons
Change background color and text color

Pro Theme

Toggle to show/hide footer site logo
Upload footer logo image
Toggle to show/hide footer menu
Change site info
Change background color and text color

Footer Copyright Text

Pro Theme

To change footer copyright string

Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Theme Footer > Bottom Footer
Under Site info editor field change the string

Translation

Translating theme

To translate Influential theme in your language.

Activate “Loco Translate” Plugin from Dashboard > Plugins > Add new > Search for Loco Translate
Install & Active the plugin.
Now go to Loco Translate in your dashboard left admin menu.
Click on active theme
Choose the language you want to translate to
Then add string of your langauge