Clean Box Pro

Clean Box Pro is an advanced version of Clean Box free theme. Clean Box Pro is a Simple, Clean, Grid Base Responsive WordPress Theme which automatically adapts to the screen’s size, ensuring that your content is always displayed beautifully no matter what device visitors are using. It is based in HTML5, CSS3 and WordPress Theme Customizer for real time customization. This theme is translation ready. Check out Support Forum at http://catchthemes.com/support-forum/forum/clean-box-pro-premium/ and Demo at http://catchthemes.com/demo/catch-box/

Features in “Clean Box” Free Theme:

  1. Responsive Design
  2. Site Identity: Option to enable/disable Site Title and Tagline, add/edit Logo and Site Icon(Favicon/Web Clip Icon
  3. Fixed Header Options: Option to Select/Add Logo Icon
  4. Color Options: Light and Dark Color Scheme, Header Text and Background color
  5. Header Image: Option to enable/disable custom header image, add alt, title and link/URL, open link in new windows/tab and Select Post/Page Featured Header image size
  6. Background Image: Option to Select/Remove Background Image
  7. Menus: Option to use Primary and Secondary Menu
  8. Breadcrumb Options: Option to enable/disable Breadcrumb on Homepage/Frontpage or Entire site and Option to change separator
  9. Additional CSS: Option to add your own CSS style to change the design as per you need
  10. Excerpt Options: Option to change Excerpt Length and Read More Text
  11. Homepage/Frontpage Options: Select option to show post from selective category
  12. Layout Options:
    1. Default Layout: Option to choose from i. Primary Sidebar,content (Right Sidebar), ii. Content, Primary Content (Left Sidebar) and iii. No Sidebar (Content Width)
    2. Archive Content Layout: Option to choose from Show Excerpt (Image Top) and Show Full Content (No Featured Image)
    3. Single Page/Post Image Layout: Option to enable/disable Single Page/Post Image Layout or Select Featured or Full Size as Single Page/Post Image
  13. Pagination type: Option to choose Pagination type from Default(Older Posts/Newer Posts), Numeric (Requires WP-PageNavi Plugin), Infinite Scroll(Click and Scroll: Requires JetPack Plugin with Infinite Scroll module enabled)
  14. Search Options: Option to change Default Text in Search
  15. Scroll Up Feature
  16. Featured Content: Option to disable/enable featured content on Homepage/Frontpage or entire site, option to select Featured Content layout from 3 columns and 4 columns, option to highlight your Featured pages as Featured Content and option to move featured content position above footer
  17. Featured Grid Content: Option to enable/disable featured grid content on Homepage/FrontPage or entire site and option to highlight your featured pages in grid content
  18. Featured Slider: Option to disable/enable featured content on Homepage/FrontPage or entire site , option to select Transition Effect, Transition Delay and Transition Length of slides and option to highlight your featured pages in slider
  19. Social Links: 28 different social icons to choose from
  20. Widget Areas: 4 widget areas registered. That is, i. Primary Sidebar, ii. Footer Area One, iii. Footer Area Two and iv. Footer Area Three

Additional Features in “Clean Box Pro” Premium Theme:

  1. Header Image: Additional option to select featured header image position
  2. Menus:
    1. Additional 2 Menus which totals to 4 custom menus: Primary Mobile Menu Label, Secondary Mobile Menu Label, Header Right Mobile Menu Label and Footer Mobile Menu Label
  3. Comment Options: Option to enable/disable comments, notes and website field
  4. Feed Redirect: Option to redirect your feed to feedburner
  5. Font Family Options: Option to choose Default Font Family, Site Title Font Family, Site Tagline FontFamily, Content Title Font Family, Content Body Font Family and Heading Tags from h1 to h6 Font Family
  6. Footer Editor Option: Option to edit/delete Footer Left Content and Footer Right Content
  7. Header Right Sidebar Options: New header right sidebar widget area. Where you can add widget to replace default right sidebar content or add more widgets to header right sidebar. Also have option to disable header right section
  8. Layout Options:
    1. Default Layout Options: Additional 2 Layout, which makes total of 5 Default Layout: from i. Primary Sidebar,Content, ii. Content,Primary Sidebar,iii. No Sidebar(Content Width), iv. No Sidebar(One Column) and No Sidebar (Full Width).
    2. Woocommerce Layout: Select layout for your woocommerce pages. Option to choose from 5 Layout Options: i. Primary Sidebar,Content, ii. Content,Primary Sidebar, iii. No Sidebar(Content Width), iv. No Sidebar(One Column) and v. No Sidebar(Full Width)
    3. Archive Content Layout: Option to choose from Show Excerpt(Image Left), Show Excerpt(Image Right), Show Excerpt(Image Top and Show Full Content (No Featured Image)
  9. Scroll Up: Option to disable/enable scroll up
  10. Update Notifier: Option to enable/disable Theme Update notifications
  11. Color Options: Additional option to use color picker to change various Basic Color Options, Header Color Options, Content Color Options, Sidebar Color Options, Pagination Color Options, Footer Color Options, Promotion Headline Color Options, Scrollup Color Options, Featured Grid Content Color Options, Featured Content Color Options, Primary Menu Color Options, Secondary Menu Color Options, Header Right Color Options and Footer Menu Color Options
  12. Featured Content Options: Additional 3 featured content types, which makes a total of 4 featured content types: i. Featured Post Content, Featured Page Content, Featured Category Content and Featured Image Content
  13. Featured Grid Content Options: Additional 3 featured grid content types, which makes a total of 4 featured grid content types: i. Featured Post Grid Content, Featured Page Grid Content, Featured Category Grid Content and Featured Image Grid Content
  14. Social Links: Additional option to add upto 10 custom social icons and links
  15. Widget Areas: Total Sidebar are, 1.Primary Sidebar, 2. Optional Homepage Sidebar, 3. Optional Archive Sidebar, 4. Optional Page Sidebar, 5. Optional Post Sidebar, 6. Optional Sidebar One, 7. Optional Sidebar Two, 8. Optional Sidebar Three, 9. 404 Page Not Found Content, 10. Footer Area One, 11. Footer Area Two and 12. Footer Area Three, 13. Footer Area Four, 14. Header Toggle, 15. Header Right and 16. Header Bottom

Installation Using the WordPress Administration Panel #

  1. Download Clean Box 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 clean-box-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 Clean Box Pro from your Catch Themes member My-Account to your Desktop
  2. Unzip clean-box-pro.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 clean-box-pro folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/themes/ before uploading your copy of Clean Box Pro
  4. Upload Clean Box Pro to /wp-content/themes/
  5. Activate Clean Box Pro through “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 Clean Box Pro from your Catch Themes member My-Account to your Desktop
  2. Unzip clean-box-pro.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 Clean Box Pro Theme which shall replace the old files

This theme relies heavily on Featured Images. If your post is missing a Featured Image, the post image will not show up on homepage, on archived pages and on Featured Page Grid Content. Click Here to see how to add Featured Image in your Post/Page.

Image Sizes:

Featured Image
Width: 778px
Height: 438px

Featured Grid Content
Width: 800px
Height: 600px

Featured Content
Width: 400px
Height: 300px

Featured Header Image
Width: 1200px
Height: 514px

Featured Slider
Width: 1680px
Height: 720px

Custom Header Image
Width: 1200px (Flexible)
Height: 514px (Flexible)

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 Choose a 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 #

Clean Box Pro currently has 16 widgetized (Sidebar) areas that are 1.Primary Sidebar, 2. Optional Homepage Sidebar, 3. Optional Archive Sidebar, 4. Optional Page Sidebar, 5. Optional Post Sidebar, 6. Optional Sidebar One, 7. Optional Sidebar Two, 8. Optional Sidebar Three, 9. 404 Page Not Found Content, 10. Footer Area One, 11. Footer Area Two and 12. Footer Area Three, 13. Footer Area Four, 14. Header Toggle, 15. Header Right and 16. Header Bottom. You can add a variety of Widgets to this theme from “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.

Clean Box Pro offers exciting Menus! This theme supports and recommends using “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through “Appearance => Menus” from your WordPress Dashboard.

Select Menu Locations
You can assign your custom menu in 4 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Menus” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Locations”
Select your Custom Menu as Primary Menu to display it as the Main Menu in Fixed Header, which will replace the default Page Menu
Select your custom menu as Secondary Menu to display Menu in Left Side below Site Header
Select your custom menu as Header Right Menu to display Menu in Right Side below Site Header
Select your custom menu as Footer Menu to display Menu in Footer Area

Note:Header Right Menu will move to Left Side if there is no Secondary Menu in Mobile View.

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 hide/display Site Title and Tagline? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity
  2. Uncheck “Display Site Title and Tagline” and it will not display header text
  3. 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”

How to select/add Logo Icon? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Fixed Header Options”
  2. Click on “Select Image ” below “Select/Add Logo Icon”
  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”

Header Image #

Custom Header Image is different from site logo. It’s a large global image in the header to obtain a much more personalized look and feel. To add header image, you need to go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Image”. Here, you can add/change/hide Header Image, select option to Enable Featured Header Image on, Position, Size and add in links and alt tag as per your website need.

Options to Enable Header Featured Image

When you are in “Appearance => Customize =>; Header Image”, you will see option “Enable Featured Header Image on”. There are 7 options, which gives you flexibility to add Header Image as per your website need.

Option 1: Homepage/Frontpage
This option will show header image in Homepage/Frontpage only.

Option 2: Excluding Homepage
This option will show header image throughout the site, excluding Homepage.

Option 3: Excluding Homepage, Page/Post Featured Image
This option will show header image throughout the site excluding Homepage. But in Page/Post, your header image will be replaced by Featured Image.

Option 4: Entire Site
This option will show header image throughout the site.

Option 5: Entire Site, Page/Post Featured Image
This option will show header image throughout the site. But in Page/Post, your header image will be replaced by Featured Image.

Option 6: Page and Post
This option will show Header Image in Page and Post only. But in Page/Post, your header image will be replaced by Featured Image.

Option 7: Disable
This option will disable Header Image completely.

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Header Image”
  2. Now, select enable options in “Enable Featured Header Image on”
  3. Click on “Add New Image” to add new header image
  4. Then you can either upload the image from your computer or select the existing image from your media library
  5. Click on “Select and Crop” and you can either crop image or skip cropping
  6. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: If you want to move header Image Position, choose the position of header below “Featured Header Image Position”

How to enable Breadcrumb and change separator? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Breadcrumb Options”
  2. Check option “Check to enable Breadcrumb” to enable Breadcrumb
  3. To enable Breadcrumb on Homepage, check option “Check to enable Breadcrumb on Homepage”
  4. To change the separator between Breadcrumbs, use desired separator below “Separator between Breadcrumbs”
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Comment Options #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Comment Options”
  2. Under “Comment Option” select desired option from Use WordPress setting, Disable in Pages and Disable Completely
  3. To disable note below comments box, check option “Check to Disable Notes”
  4. To disable website field, check option “Check to Disable Website Field”
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Additional CSS #

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

Note: If you are doing heavy customization and adding lot of additional css then we recommended to build Child Theme and add it in your child theme style.css file. Read More about child theme…

How to Change the Excerpt Length and Read More Text? #

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

Feed Redirect #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Feed Redirect”
  2. Add Feed link below “Feed Redirect”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note: If you custom feed(s) are not handled by Feedblitz or Feedburner, do not use Redirect Options.

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”
  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Footer Editor Options”
  2. Under Footer Left Content you can add html or plain text
  3. Then under Footer Right Content you can add further html or plain text for Right section
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How disable Header Right Sidebar? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Header Right Sidebar Options”
  2. Check option,”Check to disable Header Right Sidebar”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to Set Certain Categories to Display in Homepage/Frontpage? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Homepage/Frontpage Options”
  2. Then select the category you want, and you may select multiple categories by holding down the CTRL key
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Layout Options #

Clean Box Pro has 5 Default Layout options, 4 Archive Content Layout options and 3 page/post image layout to choose from “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options”

Default Layout Options
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Default Layout Options” which will set our site layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Clean Box Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.

Woocommerce Layout
Select layout for your woocommerce pages. Option to choose from 5 Layout Options: i.Primary Sidebar, Content, ii.Content, Primary Sidebar, iii.No Sidebar (Content Width), iv.No Sidebar(One Column) and v.No Sidebar (Full Width). Archive Content Layout Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Archive Content Layout” which will set our site archive layout.

Archive Content Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Archive Content Layout” which will set our site archive layout.

Single Page/Post Image Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Single Page/Post Image Layout” which will set our posts/page image layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting Single Page/Post Image Layout for individual pages and posts through “Clean Box Options => Single Page/Post Image Layout”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.

How to edit individual posts/pages layout?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:

  1. Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
  2. There you can find Clean Box Pro Options
  3. Then click on Layout Options
  4. You select required option under “Default”
  5. Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

How to select optional sidebar for individual Page/Post?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:

  1. Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
  2. There you can find Clean Box Pro Options
  3. Then click on Select Sidebar
  4. You can make the required changes by clicking on options under “Select Sidebar”
  5. Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

How to enable/disable Header Featured Image for individual Page/Post?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:

  1. Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
  2. There you can find Clean Box Pro Options
  3. Then click on Header Featured Image Options
  4. You can select option “Enable or Disbale”
  5. Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

How to select Single Page/Post Image Layout for individual Page/Post?
This can be achieved through custom meta box by following the steps below:

  1. Go to Add/Edit option of Page/Post
  2. There you can find Clean Box Pro Options
  3. Then click on Single Page/Post Image Layout
  4. You can select option “Featured, Slider, Full Size or Disable Image”
  5. Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

How to change Pagination Options? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Pagination Options”
  2. Under Pagination Type, select desired option
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to add Promotion Headline? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Promotion Headeline Options”
  2. To enable it, you need to select option from “Enable Headline on”
  3. Then, you can change the default text as needed or delete it to remove any fields
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to disable Scrollup feature? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Scrollup Options”
  2. Check option “Check to disable Scroll Up”
  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 disable Theme Update Notifications? #

  1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Update Notifier Options”
  2. Check option “Check to disable update notifications”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Color Options #

Clean Box Pro has 2 different color schemes that you can choose from, and further you can customize individual colors of various elements in the site through Color Picker options categorized in section such as Basic Color Options, Header Color Options, Content Color Options, Sidebar Color Options, Pagination Color Options, Footer Color Options, Promotion Headline Color Options, Scrollup Color Options, Featured Grid Content Color Options, Featured Content Color Options, Primary Menu Color Options, Secondary Menu Color Options, Header Right Color Options and Footer Menu Color Options.

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

Featured Content #

Clean Box Pro supports 4 featured content types to choose from: Featured Post Content, Featured Page Content, Featured Category Content and Featured Image Content. For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content Options”.

How to enable Featured Content?#

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

Featured Post Content:

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

How to enable Featured Post Content?#

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Featured Post Content”
  3. 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 Content:

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

How to enable Featured Page Content?#

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Featured Page Content”
  3. 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 Content

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

How to enable Featured Category Content?#
Featured category content is created to highlight your posts from specific categories in the featured content. So, first you need to create a Post, add Featured Image to the post and assign posts to specific category.

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Featured Category Content”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

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

Featured Image Content:

Featured Image Content is created to highlight independent images in the featured content. This option 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 Content.

How to enable Featured Image Content?#
Featured page content is created to highlight your Page in the featured content. So, first you need to create a Page and then add Featured Image to the Page.

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Content Type”, you need to select “Featured Image Content”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to change Featured Content Layout?#

  1. Adaptive currently supports two layouts: 3 columns and 4 columns
  2. Make sure featured content is enabled
  3. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
  4. Under “Select Featured Content Layout”, you can select your desired layout from “3 columns” or “4 columns”
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to Move Featured Content above Footer?#

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Check option, “Check to Move above Footer”
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

How to change Headline and Subheadline?#

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “Headline for Featured Content”, you can change the text as needed or Leave field empty if you want to remove Headline
  4. Under “Sub-headline for Featured Content”, you can change the text as needed or Leave field empty if you want to remove Sub-headline
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:Make sure the number of grids are greater than the Featured Content Layout(greater than 3 for 3 columns and greater than 4 for 4 columns) for Sliding Effect to be enabled even after checking “Check to Enable Sliding Effect” option.

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

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “No of Featured Content” set number of Featured Content as required(You need to save and refresh the page after changing number of Featured Content)
  4. Then, select your pages in “Featured Page #”
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:For best results, it is recommended to set number of featured content to be multiple of Featured Content Layout (E.g. for 3 columns layout, 3, 6, 9 etc. will yield best results).

How to Display/Hide Content?#

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Content => Featured Content Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under Display Content, you can select “Show Excerpt, Show Full Content or Hide Content” to display excerpt as content, whole content as content or not display content respectively, as per you need
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Featured Grid Content #

Clean Box Pro supports 4 featured grid content options types to choose from: 1.Featured Post Grid Content, 2.Featured Page Grid Content, 3.Featured Category Grid Content and 4.Featured Image Grid Content. For Featured Grid Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Grid”.

How to enable Featured Grid Content?#

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

Featured Post Grid Content

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

How to enable Featured Post Grid?#

  1. Make sure featured grid content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Grid Content Type”, Select Grid Type as “Featured Post Grid Content”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Featured Page Grid Content

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

How to enable Featured Page Grid Content?#

  1. Make sure featured grid content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Grid Content Type”, Select Grid Type as “Featured Page Grid Content”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Featured Category Grid Content

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

How to enable Featured Category Grid Content?#

  1. Make sure featured grid content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Grid Type”, Select Grid Type as “Featured Category Grid Content”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Featured Image Grid Content:

Featured image grid content is created to highlight independent images in the grid. This option gives you full control to upload your own independent image. Just use the following simple steps to add in the Featured Image Grid Content.

  1. Make sure featured grid content is enabled
  2. Under “Select Grid Content Type”, Select Grid Type as “Featured Image Grid Content”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

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

  1. Make sure featured grid content is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Grid” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “No of Grid Content”, select the number grids 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 grid
  5. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Clean Box Pro has 4 featured slider types to choose from: 1.Featured Post Slider, 2.Featured Page Slider, 3.Featured Category Slider and 4.Featured Image Slider. For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider.”

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” from your WordPress Dashboard
  2. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Featured Page Slider, Featured Page Slider, Featured Category Slider or Featured Image Slider”
  3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Featured Post Slider

Features 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 Featured Post Slider?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Featured Post Slider”
  3. 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. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Featured Page Slider”
  3. 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

Features 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.

How to enable Featured Category Slider?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Featured Category Slider”
  3. 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:

Featured 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.

How to enable Featured Image Slider?#

  1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
  2. Under “Select Slider Type”, Select Slider Type as “Featured Image Slider”
  3. 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” 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”

Image Loader#

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Under “Image Loader”, select “True, False or Wait” as per your need
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Note:
True: Fixes the height overlap issue. Slideshow will start as soon as two slider are available. Slide may display in random, as image is fetch.
Wait: Fixes the height overlap issue. Slideshow will start only after all images are available.

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

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider” 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”

How exclude Slider post from Homepage posts?#

  1. Make sure featured content is enabled
  2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Slider” from your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Check option, “Check to exclude Slider post from Homepage posts”
  4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

Social Media Icons #

Clean Box 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

Translating Your Theme with WPML#

Basic Setup
Clean Box Pro is WPML-compatible, that means all the text in this theme can be translated to the language of your choice. To begin, be sure you have the WPML Plugin installed and activated, along with WPML String Translation plugin.

For First Time Setup
To set up WPML for the first time, follow their Getting Started Guide.
To begin translating, select WPML (in the Dashboard menu) => String Translation. You should see a list of the strings in the theme, with blue translation links to the right. Click these links to reveal the list of languages you use on your blog and the associated translations. Go to this link for more details.

Translating your content
To translate your posts, pages and custom data types, go to this link

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* Catch Web Tools for Webmaster Tools, To Top, Catch IDs
* Essential Content Type
* Contact Form 7 for Contact Form
* WooCommerce for E-commerce
* WPML for multi-language
* WP-PageNavi for Numeric Pagination
* Regenerate Thumbnails to for Regenerating Thumbnails
* Jetpack for Infinite Scroll, Responsive Video, Gallery, Stats, Image CDN and many more