You can change look of your site in two clicks by applying one of predefined skins. Simply go to “WP-admin > Theme Options > Skins”, select desired skin and hit the “Save” button.
Theme will apply all necessary settings and styles automatically. Your logos, favicon, widget areas, social links and contact information will be preserved. But the rest of options will be reset, so you may want to back them up.
Fig. 1. Skins.
On a Blog page, each post is represented by its “Excerpt” – short post introduction. The full post content is displayed after a click on the “Details” button below.
Please refer to this article for details: https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/
By default the Excerpt length is set to 55 words. But you can “cut of” post manually. All you need is to use the “Read more” tag. Put the cursor in required place and click the appropriate button (fig. 1).
Fig. 1. “Read more” tag.
Alternatively, you can add hand crafted excerpts to the “Excerpt” box. If you cannot see it, please do following:
Fig. 2. Excerpt.
Note : If you are using WPBakery Page Builder in posts, its necessary to fill the excerpt filed in order to display the excerpt in the post listing.
Comments are enabled on WordPress posts and pages by default. You can change the default for new posts or pages, as well as enable/disable comments on posts or pages you’ve already published.
You can change the defaults for new posts or pages on the Settings -> Discussion screen.
To hide comments on the specific page go to “WP-admin > Pages” and click the “quick edit” link. You will see the “Allow Comments” checkbox (fig. 1):
Fig. 1. Disable comments via “quick edit.
You can do the same in the Page/Post Adding/Editing interface. Simply check the “Discussion” checkbox in Screen Option – corresponding “Discussion” box will appear (fig. 2):
Fig. 2. Disable comments from “Discussion” box.
The7 theme allows you to display multiple menus through Dashboard > Appearance > Menus (fig. 1):
Fig. 1. Menu locations.
Fig. 2.1. Primary menu.
Fig. 2.2. Split menu.
Fig. 2.3. Header microwidgets 1 and 2.
Fig. 2.4. Bottom menu.
You can also set up a specific menu for mobile layout:
Fig. 2.5. Mobile menu.
Note that menus can be also displayed via widgets. Custom menu can be created/managed in a usual way. More detail are available here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
The7 theme supports Mega Menu functionality. Details on it can be found here.
Also you can select position of menu in top and bottom bars from Theme Options.
Fig. 1. Make page a homepage.
You can find Theme Options menu in the top panel in WP Dashboard (fig. 1):
Fig. 1. Theme Options menu.
You can also enable side Theme Options menu in Dashboard -> The7 -> My The7 -> Settings -> Legacy Features -> Show theme options in sidebar.
There are two modes of Theme Options editing: front-end editor and back-end editor.
This mode (fig. 2.1) has real-time site preview and is enabled by default.
Fig.2.1. Front-end editor
It also allows to (fig. 2.2):
Fig. 2.2. Front-end editor tools.
This mode does not display site preview, but allows to display theme settings interface in more comfortable full-width way (fig.3.1).
Fig. 3.1. Back-end theme options mode.
You can switch to back-end editor by clicking appropriate button (fig. 3.2) in the bottom of Theme Options list.
Fig. 3.2. Switch to back-end editor.
Read more about specific Theme Options tools below:
1. Install WordPress
Download and Install the newest version of WordPress.
2. Upload Theme
Before proceeding, please make sure that following plugins are not installed or deactivated:
– WP-pagenavi;
– WP-less;
– Options Framework;
– any plugin that uses tgmpa (TGM Plugin Activation) and lessc (lessPHP) classes.
If you’ve downloaded the whole theme package (see fig. 1.1), unzip it. Inside you will find the theme installation file (called “dt-the7_v.zip”), quick start guide, license folder, folder with PSD files, etc.
Fig. 1.1. Theme Package.
Alternatively you can simply download the installable WordPress file (see fig. 1.2).
Fig. 1.2. Installable file.
To install the theme, in your WordPress Admin Panel (wp-admin) go to “Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme > Browse” (see fig. 2) and choose the theme installation file.
Fig. 2. Choose theme to install.
If any error appears, most probably, your hosting has file size limit. You can contact your hosting provider and ask to ease this restrictions (e.g 32MB will do).
Otherwise you can install theme via FTP. Simply unzip the installable file and upload the theme folder via FTP into “your_site/wp-content/themes/”.
If above steps did not yield any results, please don’t hesitate to address this issue directly to your hosting company. Since this is most likely a server-related problem, we will not be able to help you!
3. Activate Theme
In “Appearance > Themes “ activate the Theme by hitting the correspondent “Activate” link.
Fig. 3. Theme activation.
4. Theme registration
After theme activation you will see a “The7” menu (fig.4.1). Please enter your Item Purchase Code into the appropriate Dashboard field in order to register the theme and get access to pre-made websites, premium plugins, one-click updates and more:
Fig. 4.1. The7 menu.
Note that in case you want to use your purchase code on other domain name (e.g. when you are moving a site from one domain to another) you’ll need to deregister the theme first (fig. 4.2):
Fig. 4.2. Deregister the theme.
Also note that running multiple websites on a single license is a copyright violation. In other words it is a serious legal offence and is strictly prohibited. Remember 1 site = 1 purchased license.
Now you can start installing plugins (fig.4.3):
Fig. 4.3. Install bundled plugins.
Please refer to these articles for details on:
5. Import Pre-made Websites
You can import pre-made websites (also called “demo websites”, “demo content” or just “demos”) via The7 > Pre-made Websites interface (fig. 5):
Fig. 5. Website import options.
Please refer to these articles for details: Import demo content.
6. Update Theme
You can update the theme in a usual WP way through Appearance -> Themes (fig.6).
Fig. 6. Theme update.
Then go to Dashboard -> The7 -> Plugins and update plugins.
Finally, update database (if popup message show up) – see fig. 7.
Fig. 7. Update database.
The7 is compatible with the WordPress version 4.9 and later (PHP v.5.6.20 or greater; MySQL v.5.0.15 or greater).
Most JavaScript enabled browsers will make The7 work with no issues. It is designed and optimized for desktops, tablets and smartphones.
Currently we are testing The7 in: