Iknow

Theme Installation

Since it is the same procedure for every theme, this tutorial does not explain how to install the theme. If you need help with the theme installation, please see the Install WordPress themes tutorial.

Settings

The theme has some settings that you can set. To customize the theme, go to the page ‘Customize’ and then go to the panel ‘Theme Settings’. All theme customization options are there.

WP Theme Iknow - Settings
  1. Go to the ‘Customize’ page in the site dashboard
  2. Go to the panel ‘Theme Settings’

Create Home page with categories

Follow a few easy steps to customize the home page with categories.

  1. Add the new page
  2. Enter content for the home page if necessary
  3. Choose a template ‘Iknow Home’ for the page
  4. Go to ‘Settings’->Reading, select the option ‘A static page’  – > ‘Your Home Page’, which you create with the template ‘Iknow Home’
  5. Go to the main page of the site

Manage categories on homepage

Settings of categories on the home page

Home page settings
  1. Go to the ‘Customize’ page
  2. Select panel ‘Theme Settings’ -> ‘Home page’
  3. You can manage categories on the homepage: sorting, exclude and include

Add search form to navigation menu

How to add the search form to the main navigation menu

  1. Go to the page ‘Customize’
  2. Go to the panel ‘Theme Settings’
  3. Go to the panel ‘Navigation Menu’
  4. Select option ‘Add search form to navigation menu’
  5. Click button ‘Publish’

Add voting to posts and comments

For adding voting to posts and comments, you have to install the WordPress plugin ‘Iknow Extra‘.

Add voting to posts and comments
  1. Install and Activate the plugin ‘Iknow Extra’
  2. Well Done

Create button in menu

  1. Go to the menu settings
  2. Add class to the link as ‘button is-primary has-background-primary ‘. All button classes you can find on the site https://bulma.io/

Add a full description to the category

To add a full description to the category, you have to install the WordPress plugin ‘Iknow Extra‘.

Add category description

The plugin ‘Iknow Extra‘ must be installed.

  1. Go to editor of the category
  2. Enter a full description in textarea ‘Full Description’
  3. Click button ‘Update’

Add Icon to Category

For adding the icon to category, you have to install the WordPress plugin ‘Iknow Extra‘.

Add icon to category

The plugin ‘Iknow Extra‘ must be installed

  1. Go to ‘Customize’ page -> panel ‘Them Settings’ -> ‘Icons’
  2. Select the “Enable Font Awesome” or ‘Enable Dashicons’
  3. Click ‘Publish’
  4. Go to the editor of the category
  5. Enter the icon class in the field ‘Category Icon’
  6. Click button ‘Update’

Create contact form

For creating a contact form for WordPress theme Iknow, you can install the plugin ‘Contact Form 7’

  1. Install and activate the free plugin ‘Contact Form 7
  2. Create the necessary form
  3. For design, you can use the HTML elements from the site https://bulma.io/
  4. Insert the form shortcode on the page

The code uses in demo page ‘Contact’:

<div class="field is-grouped">
  <div class="control is-expanded">
    [text* your-name class:input placeholder "Name"]
  </div>
  <div class="control is-expanded">
    [email* your-email class:input placeholder "Email"]
  </div>
</div>
<div class="field">
  <div class="control">
    [text* your-subject class:input placeholder "Subject"]
  </div>
</div>
<div class="field mb-6">
  <div class="control">
    [textarea* your-message class:textarea placeholder "Write something..."]
  </div>
</div>
<div class="field my-5">
  <div class="control has-text-centered">
    [submit class:button class:is-primary "Submit"]
  </div>
</div>