Dulce WordPress Theme Documentation
- Created On: 7 Aug 2014
- Last Changed: 26 Aug 2024
- Current Version: 2.0.0
- Developed By: SCube Themes
- Theme Support: https://www.scube.co/support/
Introduction
Dulce is a Tumblr Style WordPress Theme. The theme supports seven post formats, offers four color variations, boasts three options for gallery posts, provides an easy to use theme options, features a custom designed audio player and more. If you’re interested in offering your readers a smart-looking, user-friendly, stylish, intuitive and creative driven blog.
Thank you for purchasing the theme. We provide support for all of our themes at https://www.scube.co/support/, but please make sure you read this documentation in it's entirely first. Thanks again!
Theme Installation
Download Theme
At first, you need to download Dulce theme from ThemeForest website.
To download the theme:
- Go to ThemeForest and login into your account.
- In the upper right corner, hover over your username and click on Downloads.
- Scroll down to Dulce and click on Download All files & Documentation .
- Extract the downloaded .zip file into a folder. These files will be needed for the next steps.
Installing The Theme
There are few methods to upload and install a theme on your WordPress website. We explain about two easy installation methods here.
Installing through WordPress
- On WordPress left menu, go to Appearance > Themes.
- Click on Add New Theme.
- Click on Upload Theme button.
- Click on Choose File button and select Dulce.zip that you have extracted from the ThemeForest downloaded file then click on Install Now button and wait for the install to complete.
- After the theme installed successfully, click on Activate button.
Uploading Through FTP
Alternatively, you can upload the theme through file transfer protocol. Keep in mind that this will only upload the theme to your website, it will not activate it.
- Use a FTP (for example Filezilla) to access your host web server.
- In the files browser navigate to /wp-content/themes.
- Extract Dulce.zip and transfer it into the directory.
Installing The Child Theme
If you plan on customizing and editing the theme’s files, it is always recommended to install a child theme. Having child theme guarantees that your changes will not be deleted on each update of the theme and they will stay intact.
Use the same process of Installing the theme to install the child theme.
Install Required Plugins
After successfully activated the child theme. Its important to install and activate the required plugins for the theme.
There are three plugins required for Dulce theme [version 2.0.0.]
- One Click Demo Import
- SoundCloud Shortcode
- Dulce Addons
Install & Activate Required Plugins
- When theme is activated, Notice to install the required plugins will appear on the WordPress backend.
- Click on the Begin installing plugins link to install and then activate the plugins.
Theme Recommended Plugins
- One Click Demo Import: This plugin is used to import the demo content. It includes pages, posts, media, menus and widgets. You need to install and activate this plugin to import the demo content (this is not mandatory).
- SoundCloud Shortcode:This plugin converts all SoundCloud Shortcodes into embeddable SoundCloud players. It works for any SoundCloud track, playlist, user, or group. Once you install this plugin, it works for any of your blog posts.
- Dulce-Addons: This plugin is used for adding additional widgets and metaboxes in post.
One Click Demo Import
When you first install Dulce, it won’t contain all the extra content that you might have seen in the live demo. Before importing the content make sure all the plugins are activated. You need to install and activate One Click Demo Import plugin to import the demo content.
Steps
- On WordPress left menu, go to Appearance > Import Demo Data.
- On the One Click Demo Import page. Click on the Import Demo Data button only once and wait, it can take a couple of minutes to import all the demo data.
- Please be patient while importing all the content.
- It will import pages, posts, media, menus and widgets.
Header
Dulce header consists of only one item: Menu
- Menu: To add header menu, Assign any menu to Main Menu Theme Location. Click here for more information.
Menu
How to Create Menu
- To create Menu, On WordPress left menu, go to Appearance > Menus and click on 'create a new menu' link.
- Enter the Menu name.
- Add pages, posts, etc from Add Menu Items.
- Finally, Click the Create Menu button to save your changes.
Header Menu
- The Header Menu is placed on the top of the header.
- They are usually presented as a horizontal bar of links at the top of every page on a website.
- Setup Header Menu: On WordPress left menu, go to Appearance > Menus
- You can create a menu or if you downloaded the demo content, It has the menu named 'Menu1'. Select the menu. On the Edit Menus tab, below the Menu Structure. It has Menu Settings, Tick the checkbox 'Main Menu'. Finally save the changes.
- Alternatively, on Manage Locations tab, Assign the Menu to Menu1 Theme Location.
- Header menu supports 2-level sub menus.
- On Menu Structure, Drag a menu item towards right under another menu item to make it as sub item.
Footer
Footer is the Bottom section of the website, in which you may add your Menus, Social networks and other functions available in WordPress widgets. It normally appears on all pages on your website.
Widgets
How to Add Widgets
- On WordPress left menu, go to Appearance > Widgets. You can see available widgets on the left and widget areas on the right.
- Choose a Widget and either drag it to the sidebar where you wish it to appear, or click the widget, (select a destination sidebar) and click the Add Widget button.
Available Widgets
- WordPress has lots of widgets available to add in widget areas. Click here to know more about WordPress widgets.
Widget Areas
Dulce provides one widget area: Sidebar Widget Area.
Pages
- To view/access all available pages on the website, on WordPress left menu, go to Pages. It will list all the available pages.
- If you downloaded the demo content, you can see demo pages.
- When hover on the available page on the list, you can see the options for each page.
How to Create a Page
- To create a page, on WordPress left menu, go to Pages > Add New.
- Dulce supports Block (Gutenburg) Editor. Click here to see how to add content using Block (Gutenburg) Editor.
- Add Page title, content, choose 'parent page' (if required) and publish it.
Blogs
Blog Single
- To view/access all available post on the website, on WordPress left menu, go to Posts. It will list all the available posts.
- If you downloaded the demo content, you can see three posts on the backend posts page.
- When hover on the available blog (post), you can see the options for each blog.
How to Create a Blog
- To create a blog, on WordPress left menu, go to Posts > Add New.
- Dulce supports Block (Gutenburg) Editor. Click here to see how to add content using Block (Gutenburg) Editor.
- Set Featured image.
- If enable stick to the top of the particular post, It shows as the first blog.
Post Format
Post format contains 8 categories. They are Gallery, Link, Image, Quote, Standard, Status, Video & Audio
- Gallery: Select the gallery from post format and use gallery in Block (Gutenburg) Editor. You can add multiple galleries in a single post. It shows as,
- Link: Select the Link from Post Format to add Link text. Once the Link has been updated the text will appear as a title.
- Image: Select the Image from post format and add featured image in the particular post. It shows as,
- Quote: Select the Quote from post format. Enter the name of the author and Quotes using Block (Gutenburg) Editor.
- Standard: Select the Standard from post format. This is a default post format. It shows as,
- Status: Select the Status from post format. A status is usually a short, Twitter like short status update. It shows as,
- Video: Select the Video from post format and use video in Block (Gutenburg) Editor. video post format usually contains a video either embedded from a third party video hosting service like YouTube or uploaded and played directly from WordPress. It shows as,
- Audio: Select the Audio from post format. This is a Soundcloud embed using the Soundcloud Shortcode plugin. It shows as,
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Changelog
Version 2.0.0 (September 2020)
- Theme bug and Wordpress bug updated.
Dulce – A Tumblr Style WordPress Theme
Dulce is a Tumblr Style WordPress Theme. The theme supports seven post formats, offers four color variations, boasts three options for gallery posts, provides an easy to use theme options, features a custom designed audio player and more. If you’re interested in offering your readers a smart-looking, user-friendly, stylish, intuitive and creative driven blog.
Thank you for purchasing the theme. We provide support for all of our themes at https://www.scube.co/support/, but please make sure you read this documentation in it's entirely first.
Thanks again!
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