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• Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel.
• Click on Appearance -> Themes -> Add New
• Search for “Local News” 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.

It is hard to mix all the right elements when you try to create the perfect site. So we have created some beautiful and flexible pre-built websites that make you easier. Pre-built websites are easy and quick to install in your WordPress. Our Pre-built websites were carefully tested so you don’t have to create your site everything from scratch. Just one click and you are good to start.

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

To work on SEO / Miscs

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Global Option > SEO / Miscs
• Toggle to make website schema ready
• Choose published or modified date to show from dropdown
• choose date format applied to single and archive pages from dropdown

To work on Preloader

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Global Option > Preloader
• Toggle to enable site preloader
• Choose available preloader layouts

The layout of your website can define its success. Get the wrong design and people will be confused and destroying the user experience. To work on Website Layout

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Global Option > Website Layout
• Choose website layout to box-width or full width
• Make default theme mode to light or dark
• Toggle to enable website frame
• Customize frame width and frame color

Animation / Hover Effects can personalize your site and create delightful experiences for your visitors. When a website visitor or user hovers over an animated element like a link or button for example, it can change color, grow, rotate and more. This is enjoyable for the visitor or user and shows that your site is working. We have provided five post title hover effects and five image hover effects. To work on Animation / Hover Effects

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Global Option > Animation / Hover Effects
• Change post title hover effect from dropdown
• Change image hover effects from dropdown

Social icons will invite your web guests to company’s profiles where they could follow you and be aware of the latest offers, products and trends. Your audience gets the access to your brand in an entertaining and convenient way. Make so that they won’t forget about you. To work on Social Icons

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Global Option > Social Icons
• Select social icon link open in new tab or same tab
• Click to add new icon to add more icons
• Hold bar icon and drag vertically to re-order the icons

To work on Buttons

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Global Option > Buttons
• Change button icon and button label
• Customize button font size
• Add border  to buttons and padding

A proper sidebar can be very useful to your website as it can: Contain navigation menus to quickly guide the visitors. Highlight key information, such as ads, contact form, or recent news. To work on Sidebar Options

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Global Option > Sidebar Options
• Change sidebar layouts to content, left sidebar-right content, left content-right sidebar, left sidebar-middle content-right sidebar

Breadcrumbs are a secondary navigation aid that helps users easily understand the relation between their location on a page. It can show users how the page they are on is categorized on the site or the path the user took to find it. To work on Breadcrumb Option

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Global Option > Breadcrumb Option
• Toggle to show breadcrumb
• Choose breadcrumb type from dropdown after installing respective plugins
• Choose display breadcrumb on before main container or before inner container

• Click to Design Option
• Change breadcrumb text color, link color and background color

Adding a sticky scroll-to-top button to your website adds further ease of navigation to your website by allowing a user to scroll to the top of any given web page with the click of a button. To work on Scroll To Top

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Global Option > Scroll To Top
• Select scroll to top visibility on different devices
• Change button icon and button label
• Customize button font size
• Click to Design Option
• Add border to scroll to top
• Change border hover color
• Customize border padding
• Choose scroll to top icon text color / hover color and background color / hover color

To work on Logo & Site Icon

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize >  Site Identity > Logo & Site Icon
• Upload the logo and site icon 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.

To work on Site Title & Tagline

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize >  Site Identity > Site Title & Tagline
• Under Site title input field add your site title
• Under Site title input field add your site description
• Uncheck to hide site title under “Display site title” checkbox field
• Uncheck to hide site title under “Display site description” checkbox field
• Change site title typography
• Choose site title color and hover color
• Choose site title description color

A website header is an important aspect of a website design. This is because it is the first thing visitors see and it sets the tone for the entire website. To work on Top Header

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize >  Top Header
• Toggle to show top header
• Toggle to show menu items
• Toggle go show social icons
• Click to Design Section
• Change text color,  link color and background color

Banner ads are image-based rather than text-based and are a popular form of online advertising. The purpose of banner advertising is to promote a brand and/or to get visitors from the host website to go to the advertiser’s website. To work on Ads Banner

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Theme Header > Ads Banner
• Select ads banner visibility in different devices
• Choose to display ads content from custom, shortcode or ads banner sidebar
• Import recommended size for Ads image of 900 * 350
• Insert url in ads url text field
• Choose open ads link on same tab or in new tab

To work on Main Header

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Theme Header > Main Header
• Choose available header layouts
• Toggle to show sidebar toggle button
• Toggle to show search icon
• Click to Design Option
• Select header toggle bar color / hover color
• Select search icon color / hover color
• Select header background color

A navigation menu is an organized list of links to other web pages, usually internal pages. Navigation menus appear most commonly in page headers or sidebars across a website, allowing visitors to quickly access the most useful pages. To work on Menu Options

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Theme Header > Menu Options
• Choose menu hover effect
• Choose meu text color / hover color
• Choose active menu color
• Choose menu background color
• Choose sub menu text color / hover color
• Choose sub menu background color
• Choose mobile menu toggle color
• Click to Typography Option
• Choose border bottom style, width and color
• Customize main menu and sub menu typography

A news ticker or news feed is great for topics that are always changing like news, sports, stocks, cryptocurrency, daily deals, and any other fast-paced topic. The advantage is that any visitors that visit your website will be able to see your news feed. This may entice visitors to check out more of your content. To work on Ticker News

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Ticker News
• Choose available ticker news layouts
• Select to show ticker on different pages from dropdown
• Type ticker title on text field
• Choose orderby post from dropdown
• Select category from dropdown
• Choose number of posts to display
• Show ticker controllers from marquee setting

Your website banner is the main imagery that takes top billing on your homepage. Your homepage banner is the gatekeeper of your website, with a very important job. To work on Main Banner

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Main Banner
• Toggle to show main banner
• Choose available banner layouts
• Arrange order of posts form orderby dropdown
• Select number of posts to display
• Select category from dropdown
• Toggle to show post categories, post date and post excerpt
• Select excerpt length to display
• Enable slider item to auto slide from checkbox
• Show slider controller arrows from checkbox
• Show slider pager dots from checkbox

11.1. Banner Layout One

• Change latest tab icon and title
• Change popular tab icon and title
• Select category from dropdown
• Change comment icon and title

11.2. Banner Layout Two

• Change popular post title
• Select category from dropdown
• Enable slider item to auto slide from checkbox
• Show slider controller arrows from checkbox
• Change slider direction from horizontal to vertical and vice versa

To work on Front Section

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Front Section
• Choose any section except reorder section
• Add available layouts as much as you want
• Click to eye icon to hide layouts
• Hold bar icon to drag vertically to re-order blocks
• Click to design section
• Customize section margin and padding
• Choose content background and section background

Reorder Section

• Click to reorder section
• Hold bar icon to drag vertically to re-order sections
• Click to eye icon to hide section

• Click to setting icon
• Change block title
• Toggle to show post date, post author, post category, post comment, read more button, post excerpt
• Choose excerpt length
• Click to posts query pencil icon
• Change post orderby from dropdown
• Choose no. of posts to display
• To exclude post ids separate with commas or the enter key
• Select post category from dropdown
• Toggle to show view all icon
• Choose available grid layouts

12.1.1. Grid Layout One

12.1.2. Grid Layout Two

• Click to setting icon
• Change Block title
• Toggle to show post date, post author, post category, post comment
• Click to posts query pencil icon
• Change post orderby from dropdown
• Choose no. of posts to display
• To exclude post ids separate with commas or the enter key
• Select post category from dropdown
• Toggle to show view all icon
• Choose available carousel layouts

12.2.1. Carousel Layout One

12.2.2. Carousel Layout Two

• Click to setting icon
• Change Block title
• Toggle to show post date, post author, post category, post comment, read more button, post excerpt
• Change excerpt length to display
• Click to posts query pencil icon
• Change post orderby from dropdown
• Choose no. of posts to display
• To exclude post ids separate with commas or the enter key
• Select post category from dropdown
• Choose no. of columns to display
• Toggle to show view all icon
• Choose available list layouts

12.3.1. List Layout One

12.3.2. List Layout Two

• Click to setting icon
• Change Block title
• Toggle to show post date, post author, post category, post comment
• Click to posts query pencil icon
• Change post orderby from dropdown
• Choose no. of posts to display
• To exclude post ids separate with commas or the enter key
• Select post category from dropdown
• Toggle to show view all icon
• Choose available Filter layouts

12.4.1. List Layout One

12.4.2. List Layout Two

• Click to setting icon
• Change Block title
• Upload an advertisement image
• Choose URL to
• Choose ad link open in new tab and same tab from dropdown
• Choose link rel attribute value from dropdown

• Click to setting icon
• Past your shortcode in text field using any plugin that supports shortcode functionality

To work on Your Opinion

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Your Opinion
• Toggle to show opinions section
• Change section display on various pages
• Choose section title
• Click to add new opinion
• Hold bar icon and drag vertically to re-order the icons
• choose number of columns to display
• Click to Design Option
• Select section background and content background

To work on Theme Footer

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Theme Footer
• Toggle to enable footer section
• Choose available footer layouts
• Choose section width to full width or boxed width
• Click to Design Option
• Choose border top style, width and color
• Choose text color / hover color
• Choose footer background color

To work on Bottom Footer

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Bottom Footer
• Toggle to enable bottom footer
• Toggle to show bottom social icons
• Toggle to show bottom footer menu
• Change copyright text
• Click to Design Option
• Change test color
• Choose link color / hover color
• Change background color

To work on Blog / Archive

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Blog / Archive / Single > Blog / Archive
• Choose available Archive layouts
• Toggle to show archive title prefix
• Choose number of words in excerpt
• Choose pagination type to default, number or ajax
• Hold the elements and drag vertically to re-order the elements
• Click to eye icon to hide the elements
• Hold the meta and drag vertically to re-order meta
• Click to eye icon to hide meta

To work on Single Post

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Blog / Archive / Single > Single Post
• Hold the elements and drag vertically to re-order the elements
• Click to eye icon to hide the elements
• Hold the meta and drag vertically to re-order meta
• Click to eye icon to hide meta
• Toggle to show related news
• Choose related news post layouts
• Choose related news title
• Choose filter by categories or tags
• Choose number of post to display
• Click to show hide featured image from check box
• Click to show related post on popup
• Click to Design Option
• Change font family, font size font weight of post title, post meta and post content

To work on 404

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Pages > 404
• Upload 404 image
• Change 404 page title
• Change 404 content title
• Change 404 button label
• Choose 404 URL

To work on Search Page

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Pages > Search Page
• Change search page prefix title
• Add search page title if nothing was found
• Type search page content if nothing was found

Color is such a fundamental part of the way we perceive the world. This is why one of the most powerful tools in a designer’s arsenal is color. It can either make or break a design; it can be the determining factor in engaging viewers or sending them promptly on their way. Color Presets help you to get the variety of Shades of the selected Palette. You get the shades automatically for any new Color you modify in the Palette. To work on Colors

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize >  Colors
• Change theme color
• Set Preset solid color and gradient color

Typography design serves many purposes, from making words legible to evoking emotion to creating a consistent brand identity. A brand logo that incorporates good typographic elements can result in consumers viewing the brand positively, and visually pleasing font pairings can make presentations more dynamic. To work on Typography

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Typography

To work on Header Image

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Header Image
• Click to add new image
• Choose previously uploaded header image by clicking randomize uploaded headers

To work on Background

• Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Background
• Change theme background color
• Select background image

To work on menu

• Dashboard > Appearance > Menus

To work on Header Image

• Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
• Click to add new widgets
• Search for “Author Info” in search area
• Drag and drop the widget in sidebar
• Customize Author Info widget with available controls

To work on Carousel Posts

• Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
• Click to add new widgets
• Search for “Carousel Posts” in search area
• Drag and drop the widget in sidebar
• Customize Carousel Posts widget with available controls

To work on Category Collection

• Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
• Click to add new widgets
• Search for “Category Collection” in search area
• Drag and drop the widget in sidebar
• Customize Category Collection widget with available controls

To work on Popular Posts Slider

• Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
• Click to add new widgets
• Search for “Popular Posts Slider” in search area
• Drag and drop the widget in sidebar
• Customize Popular Posts Slider widget with available controls

To work on Post List

• Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
• Click to add new widgets
• Search for “Post List” in search area
• Drag and drop the widget in sidebar
• Customize Post List widget with available controls

To work on Social Icons

• Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
• Click to add new widgets
• Search for “Social Icons” in search area
• Drag and drop the widget in sidebar
• Customize Social Icons widget with available controls

To work on Tabbed Posts

• Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
• Click to add new widgets
• Search for “Tabbed Posts” in search area
• Drag and drop the widget in sidebar
• Customize Tabbed Posts widget with available controls

To work on Widget Title

• Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
• Click to add new widgets
• Search for “Widget Title” in search area
• Drag and drop the widget in sidebar
• Add the widget title in title field
• Change the alignment of the widget title text to left, center and right

To work on Your Opinions

• Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
• Click to add new widgets
• Search for “Your Opinions” in search area
• Drag and drop the widget in sidebar
• Customize Your Opinions widget with available controls

To work on Banner Ads

• Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
• Click to add new widgets
• Search for “Banner Ads” in search area
• Drag and drop the widget in sidebar
• Customize Banner Ads widget with available controls

To work on Homepage Settings

• Dashboard > Settings > Reading

To work on Yoast SEO Breadcrumbs

• Dashboard > Customize > Yoast SEO Breadcrumbs
• Click to checkbox to show blog page in breadcrumbs
• Change breadcrumbs separator
• Change anchor text for the homepage
• Change prefix for breadcrumbs
• Change prefix for archive pages and prefix for search result pages
• change breadcrumb for 404 pages

Please follow the following steps below to configure the basic settings for WPML plugin.

1. Install and Activate WPML Multilingual CMS Plugin.
2. Go to Dashboard » WPML » Languages.
3. Select English as Current Language and Go Next.
4. Select the other languages for your site and Go Next.
5. Leave all the section on this page as it is and Go Next.
6. Register WPML if you want to receive automatic updates OR press “Remind Me Later” button.
7. Click Finish Button, Now you will be taken to Dashboard -> WPML -> Languages page but with different interface. If not then manually go to Dashboard -> WPML »Languages Page.
8. Look for Language URL Format section and choose the url format that suites your needs. I am choosing the 1^st one with languages directories at the end. Save the changes.
9. Look for Language Switcher Options section and then look for What to include in the language switcher option. Choose to display Flag with in language switcher and save the changes. Leave all other options as it is.
10. Leave all other sections as it is.
11. Now, install and activate WPML String Translation plugin.
12. After that, go to Dashboard -> WPML -> Theme and Plugin Localization.
13. 1^st Option is “Select how to translate strings in the theme and plugins”, Choose Translate the theme and plugins using WPML’s String Translation and Save.
14. Next Option is “Select how to get translations for WordPress”, Choose the 1^st options “WPML will automatically download translations for WordPress” and save.
15. Skip the Option “Language locale Settings”.
16. Next Options is “Strings in the Theme”, Press the Scan the theme for Strings Button and Wait for results.
17. Now, Go to Dashboard -> WPML -> String Translation section and configure the following settings.
18. Basic settings are complete and you can translate a string that do not exist in post, pages and taxonomies using Dashboard -> WPML -> String Translation Section. For more information, please visit: https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/string-translation/
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Duplicate Home Page

1. Go to Pages on Dashboard side and look for Home Page
2. Open the Home page for editing and look for Language meta box in right sidebar.
3. Select Duplicate in front of your desired other language. and press Duplicate button. The page will refresh. Note: You can edit the duplicated page if you need to but we are not doing it here.
4. Now you can go to the Home page on front end ( visit the site ) and choose the translated home page’s language from language switcher in header top bar and you will see that page will refresh and URL will be changed to your newly translated homepage. Note: If you are not able to view language switcher then make sure to enable the setting in Dashboard -> Theme Options » Header section as displayed in screen shot below.
5. Do not worry about lots of un-translated things in header, footer and content area. You will learn to translate those one by one.

Duplicate News Page

1. Go to Pages on Dashboard side and look for News Page
2. Duplicate it the same way we duplicated home page. ( As explained above )
3. Edit the duplicated news page and provide it translated title. As displayed below.
4. Update the page after editing.

Update Reading Settings

After creating Translated Pages for Home and news Go to Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading and configure the translated pages as Front Page and Posts Page.

1. To setup language specific menus, Go to Dashboard -> WPML -> WPML Menus Sync
2. Click the Sync button.
3. Select the pages that you have translated + the Main Menu translation to other language. Press Apply Changes and wait for the menus to be synced.
4. Once syncing is complete, visit the home page in other language and you will see that translated menu will appear in place of English menu.

You can translate a string that does not exist in post, pages and taxonomies using Dashboard -> WPML -> String Translation section. String Translation Example

1. We will learn how to translate tagline, which is “Just another WordPress site” for this example. Go to Dashboard » WPML » String Translation section and search for “Just another WordPress site“.
2. Once found, translate it as displayed below.
3. Then search for the top header text “Welcome to Local News Theme” and translate it as displayed below.
4. Now check the front end of your website in other language and you will have the top header text “Welcome to Local News Theme” translated.
5. So, you can translate all the strings in this section according to each language.
6.