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Catch Mustang | Premium & Responsive WordPress Theme Instruction

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Catch Mustang is an elegant, responsive and customizable WordPress theme built on HTML5 and CSS3. It is an ideal theme for showcasing your portfolio, photo galleries, services and testimonials. This theme has a great line of features such as custom post types, custom header title, description for page, post and category, custom background, custom logo and favicons, custom meta box, advanced image / post featured slider, custom widgets, advanced theme options and is translation ready.Active community at http://catchthemes.com/support-forum/

Features in “Catch Kathmandu” Free Theme:

  1. Site Identity: Option to add/edit Logo, option to move Site Title & Description above the Header/Logo image, enable/disable Site Title, enable/disable Site Desription and Site Icon (Favicon/Web Clip Icon)
  2. Color: Options customize individual colors of various elements in the site through Color Picker options categorized in section such as Custom Background Color, Header Background Color, Footer Background Sidebar Color, Footer Background Color, Twitter Feed Background Color, Menu Background Color, Menu Hover & Active Background Color, Sub-Menu Hover Background Color, Menu Text Color, Menu hover & Active Text Color, Sub-Menu Hover Text Color
  3. Background Image: Option to select Background Image
  4. Responsive Design: Option to enable/disable Responsive Design
  5. Header Options: Option to disable Header Search only, enable/disable Header Right Sidebar and adjust Header Right Sidebar Max-Width
  6. Font Family Options: Option to change font of Default Font Family, Site Title Font Family, Site Tagline Font Family, Content Title Font Family, Content Body Font Family and Heading Tags from h1 to h5 Font Family
  7. Search Options: Option to change Default Display Text in Search
  8. Excerpt/More Tag Settings: Option to change Excerpt Length and More Tag Text
  9. Header Content Options: Option to edit Homepage/Frontpage Header Title, option to edit Homepage/Frontpage Header Description, edit Service Header Title, edit Services Header Description, edit Gallery Header Title, edit Gallery Header Description, edit Testimonila Header Title, edit Testomonial Header Description, edit Portfolio Header Title and edit Portfolio Header Description
  10. Twitter Feed Slider Options: Option to enable/disable Twitter Feed on Entire Site and Homepage/Frontpage
  11. Feed Redirect: Option to add Feedburner URL
  12. Comment Options: Option to Enable/Disable comments in Pages, disable Completely and Use WordPress Settings
  13. Edit Footer Options: Access to Footer Text and the flexibility to change it, such as “Powered By”, “Theme Acknowledgement” and so on
  14. Custom CSS: Option to add your own CSS style to change the design as per you need
  15. Menus: Option to use Primary Menu and Footer Menu
  16. Homepage Options: Option to enable/disable Home Top Sidebar, Home Left Sidebar, Home Right Sidebar, Option to enbale/disable Latest Posts on homepage and select Hompage posts categories, Option to enable/disable Slogan and Edit Homepage Slogan
  17. Featured Slider : Option to select slider type as Featured Post Slider, Featured Page Slider, Featured Category Slider and Featured Image Slider. Option to enable/disable featured content on Homepage/FrontPage or entire site , option to select Transition Effect, Transition Delay and Transition Length of slides and Select Slider Type
  18. Social Links: 26 different social icons to choose from
  19. Sidebar: 14 Sidebars registered. That is, 1. Homepage Top Sidebar, 2. Homepage Left Sidebar, 3. Homepage Right Sidebar, 4. Homepage Blog Sidebar, 5. General Sidebar, 6. Contact Page Sidebar, 7. Testimonials Sidebar, 8. Services Sidebar, 9. Portfolio Sidebar, 10. Left Footer Sidebar, 11. Middle Footer Sidebar, 12. Right Footer Sidebar, 13. Header Right Sidebar and 14. WooCommerce Sidebar
  20. E-commerce Ready: It supports WooCommerce plugin

Installation Using the WordPress Administration Panel #

You can download Themes directly to your blog by using the Add New Themes option in the Appearance sub-menu.

  1. Download Catch Adaptive Pro from your Catch Themes member My-Account to your Desktop
  2. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panel
  3. Go to “Appearance => Themes => Add New”
  4. Click on “Uploads” and Browse the downloaded file catch-everest-pro.zip from the desktop where you have it downloaded
  5. Click on “Install Now” and then “Activate” to install the Theme

Manual Installation using FTP

To add a new Theme to your WordPress installation, follow these basic steps:

  1. Download Catch Mustang from your Catch Themes member My-Account to your Desktop
  2. Unzip catch-mustang.zip to your Desktop
  3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/themes/ and make sure that you do not already have a catch-mustang folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/themes/ before uploading your copy of Catch Mustang
  4. Upload Catch Mustang to /wp-content/themes/
  5. Activate Catch Mustang through the “Appearance => Themes”, in your WordPress Dashboard

Updating Theme Using the Administration Panel

You can update Themes directly from the Administration Panel using Catch Updater plugin. Click here to read details about Catch Updater plugin.

Updating Theme Using FTP

To update Theme though FTP, follow these basic steps:

  1. Download the latest version of Catch Mustang from your Catch Themes member a href=”http://catchthemes.com/my-account/” title=”My Account” target=”_blank”>My-Account to your Desktop
  2. Unzip catch-mustang.zip to your Desktop
  3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of Catch Mustang Theme which shall replace the old files

Always Set Featured Images

This theme relies heavily on Featured Images. If your post is missing a Featured Image, the post image will not show up on the homepage or on archive pages and other pages as well. Read more about Featured Images

Image Sizes

Feature Post Slider
Width: 978px
Height: 375px

For Archive Pages
Width: 340px
Height: 193px

For Gallery Custom Post Type(Featured Image)
Width: 340px
Height: 211px

For Tabbed widget appearing in sidebar
Width: 200px
Height: 200px

For Portfolio and Gallery Images
Width: 210px
Height: 159px

How to add Featured Image in Post/Page?

  1. Open the editor of the post/page where you want to display image, and locate the Featured Image module in the bottom right corner under Page Attributes. Click on Set featured image.
  2. Then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library and click on Set Featured Image.Click to view screenshot
  3. For more detail, Click here to watch video Screencast

Regenerate Thumbnails #

If you have just changed your theme then you need to regenerate image thumbnail for post published before activating this theme. You can simply install Regenerate Thumbnails Plugin. Then Regenerate Thumbnails through “Tools => Regen. Thumbnails” in your WordPress Dashboard.

Widgets #

Catch Mustang currently has 14 widgetized areas (Sidebars) that are 1. Homepage Top Sidebar, 2. Homepage Left Sidebar, 3. Homepage Right Sidebar, 4. Homepage Blog Sidebar, 5. General Sidebar, 6. Contact Page Sidebar, 7. Testimonials Sidebar, 8. Services Sidebar, 9. Portfolio Sidebar, 10. Left Footer Sidebar, 11. Middle Footer Sidebar, 12. Right Footer Sidebar, 13. Header Right Sidebar and 14. WooCommerce Sidebar.
You can add a variety of Widgets to this Theme through “Appearance => Widgets” in WordPress. We have added 5 custom widgets: 1.CT Social Icons, 2. CT Featured Content, 3.Featured Post, 4. Ct Featured Gallery, 5. CT Featured Service, 6. CT Portfolio, 7. Testimonials. 8. CT Adspace Widget, 9. CT About Widget, 10. CT Search Form, 11. CT Custom Tag Cloud, 12. CT Featured Map Location and 13. CT Tabbled Widget that you can use in addition to WordPress default widgets.

WooCommerce Sidebars#

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How to add different widgets to WooCommerce pages?#

  1. Go to “Appearance => Widgets”
  2. Add Widgets to “WooCommerce Sidebar”
  3. Finally, click on “Save” on each added widget

This theme supports “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through the “Appearance => Menus” page in your WordPress Dashboard. Don’t forget to select your custom menu as Primary Menu to show it as the main menu. Read More

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    Select Menu Locations
    You can assign your custom menu in 2 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Menu” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Locations”
    Select your Custom Menu as Primary Menu to display it as the Main Menu, which will replace the default Page Menu
    Select your custom menu as Footer Menu to display Menu in Footer Area.

    Customizer (Theme Options) #

    You can customize this theme using cool additional features through Customizer at “Appearance => Customize” from your WordPress Dashboard.

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity
    2. You can replace the default logo by clicking on it, or click on “Change Image”
    3. Then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
    4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to add Site Icon (Favicon/Web Clip Icon)? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity => Site Icon”
    2. Click on “Select Image” and then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity”
    2. Click on “Check to move Site Title & Description”
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to disable Site Title and disable Site Description? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity”
    2. Click on “Check to Disable Site Tilte” to disable Site title
    3. Click on “Check to Disable Site Description” to disable Site description
    4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    Colors #

    In Catch Mustang you can customize individual colors of various elements in the site through Custom Background Color, Header Background Color, Footer Background Sidebar Color, Footer Background Color, Twitter Feed Background Color, Menu Background Color, Menu Hover & Active Background Color, Sub-Menu Hover Background Color, Menu Text Color, Menu hover & Active Text Color, Sub-Menu Hover Text Color.

    To change the colors, go to “Appearance => Customize => Color”, then select Color Scheme, change individual colors and then click on “Save & Publish”

    How to disable Responsive Design?#

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Responsive Design” from your WordPress Dashboard
    2. Check option, “Check to Disable Responsive Design” to disable responsive design
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    Header Options#

    Following are the features in Header Options:

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    2. Check option, “Check to Disable Header Searh Only” to disable header search
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to disable Header Right Sidebar? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    2. Check option, “Check to Disable Header Right Sidebar ” to disable header right sidebar
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to adjust Header Right Sidebar Max-Width? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    2. Under “Header Right Sidebar Max-Width” change width as per need
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to select different font for different sections? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Font Family Options”
    2. Select desired font below each given section
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to change default text in search box? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Search Options”
    2. Change the text below “Display Default Text in Search”
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to Change the Excerpt and More Tag Setting? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Excerpt / More Tag Setting”
    2. Type in the Excerpt Length as in, the number of words, and More Tag Text
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    Header Content Option #

    Title and Description that you add will appear just below the menu if you set Homepage, Testimonials, Services, Galleries and Portfolio as menu. The respective title and description will be shown for the respective menu. Similarly, if you make pages and categories as menu you can add meta title and meta description in Edit/Add page and Edit/Add category screen.

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Content Option”
    2. Edit the desired filed
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to Enable Twitter Feed? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Twitter Feed Slider Options”
    2. Check the option “Entire Site or Homepage/Frontpage”
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to Redirect Feed to Feedburner / or any other URL? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Theme Options => Feed Redirect” in your WordPress Dashboard
    2. Add in the URL to which you want to redirect your feed
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to Enable/Disable Comment? #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customizer => Theme Options => Comment Option” in your WordPress Dashboard
    2. Then select option under “Disable Comment”
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Edit Footer Options”
    2. Under “Footer Editor” Content you can add html or plain text
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    Custom CSS #

    You can add your custom CSS that will overwrite the theme CSS for further design customization through “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Custom CSS Options”, in your WordPress Dashboard.

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    • Homepage Sidebar Options #

    Catch Mustang has the ability to disable the sidebars in the homepage. You can disable all three homepage sidebar or any one from home top sidebar, home left sidebar and home right sidebar.

    1. Click on “Appearance => Customize => Homepage Options” in your WordPress Dashboard.
    2. Click on Homepage Sidebar Options. Then check to disable the sidebar you want.
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to enable latest posts in Homepage? #

    1. Click on “Appearance => Theme Options => Homepage Settings” in your WordPress Dashboard.
    2. Click on Homepage/Frontpage Settings. Then check “Click to Enable Latest Posts or Page”
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to disable Homepage Slogan and edit Slogan? #

    1. Click on “Appearance => Theme Options => Homepage Settings” in your WordPress Dashboard.
    2. Click on Homepage Slogan Options. Then check “Click to Disable Slogan”
    3. To edit slogan change under “Homepage Slogan”
    4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    Catch Mustang supports 4 featured slider types to choose from: Featured Post Slider, Featured Page Slider, Featured Category Slider and Featured Image Slider. For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options”

    How to enable Featured Slider?#

    Features page Slider Content is created to highlight your Page in the Slider Content. So, first you need to create a Page and then add Featured Image to the Page.

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    2. To enable slider, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Slider”
    3. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Page Slider, Page Slider, Category Slider or Image Slider”
    4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    Featured Post Slider

    Post slider is created to highlight your Post in the slider. So, first you need to create a Post and then add Featured Image to the Post.

    How to enable Post Slider?#

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    2. To enable slider, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Slider”
    3. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Featured Post Slider”
    4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    Note:
    When you select post, make sure your post have Featured Image. Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.

    Featured Page Slider

    Features page slider is created to highlight your Page in the slider. So, first you need to create a Page and then add Featured Image to the Page.

    How to enable Featured Page Slider?#

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    2. To enable slider, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Slider”
    3. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Page Slider”
    4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    Note:
    When you select page, make sure your page have Featured Image. Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.

    Featured Category Slider

    Category slider is created to highlight your posts from specific categories in the slider. So, first you need to create a Post, add Featured Image to the post and assign posts to specific category.

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    2. To enable slider, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Slider”
    3. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Category Slider”
    4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    Note:
    When you select categories, make sure your posts in those categories have Featured Image. Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.

    Featured Image Slider:
    Image Slider is created to highlight independent images in the slider. This slider gives you full control to upload your own independent image, with title (optional), content (optional), optional link and target. Just use the following simple steps to add in the Featured Image Slider.

    Features page Slider Content is created to highlight your Page in the Slider Content. So, first you need to create a Page and then add Featured Image to the Page.

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    2. To enable slider, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Slider”
    3. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Featured Image Slider”
    4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    Note:
    When you select page, make sure your page have Featured Image. Click here to watch our Video Screencast to add Featured Image.

    How to change Transition Effect, Transition Delay and Transition Length on Slider?#

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    2. To change Transition Effect, select option under “Transition Effect”
    3. To change Transition Delay, change number of second(s) under “Transition Delay” as per your need
    4. To change Transition Length, change number of second(s) under “Transition Length” as per your need
    5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to change number of slides and select Featured Page?#

    1. Make sure featured content is enabled
    2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    3. Under “No of Slider”, select the number slides as per your need
    4. Then, under “Featured Page #1, Featured Page #2, Featured Page #3 and Featured Page #4”, select desired page to show in slider
    5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    Social Media Icons #

    Catch Kathmandu Pro has custom social icons for various social networking sites. You can activate the social icons you want by adding in your social profile links through “Appearance => Customize => Social Links => Social Links”, in your WordPress Dashboard.

    Further, you can add your own custom social image, title, links through “Appearance => Customize => Social Links => Custom Social Links”, in your WordPress Dashboard.

    Embed Multimedia into Posts or Pages #

    For externally hosted videos (for example a YouTube or Vimeo video), you can directly paste the link of your video page into the content editor. You do not necessarily have to paste the embed code in the content. WordPress will automatically embed the video from the link.

    Webmaster Tools #

    We have moved Webmaster Tools to our plugin Catch Web Tools for better management and data access. So, just install Catch Web Tools plugin and activate “Webmaster Tools” from Catch Web Tools plugin dashboard. You can verify your site on Google, Yahoo and Bing by adding in the IDs in the respective boxes through “Catch Web Tools => Webmaster Tools” in your WordPress Dashboard. Further, you can add in the Google Analytic. Adding scripts in Header and Footer does not require you to edit codes through Webmaster Tools.

    How to Insert Site Verification IDs?

    1. Go to “Catch Web Tools => Webmaster Tools => Site Verification” in your WordPress Dashboard
    2. Enter the Site Verification ID (Google, Yahoo, Bing) wherever you wish to verify your site
    3. Click on Save Changes button

    How to Insert Analytics / Other Scripts in Header/Footer?

    1. Go to “Catch Web Tools => Webmaster Tools => Header and Footer Scripts” in your WordPress Dashboard
    2. Here you can add in various scripts like, google, facebook etc.
    3. Enter the script in upper text area, for text you want to load on Header
    4. Enter the script in lower text area, for text you want to load on Footer
    5. Click on Save Changes button

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