Catch Evolution

Catch Evolution is a beautifully sleek creation of Catch Themes. It exudes a clean and a super sharp look. It comes with a whole set of interesting, rich features and flexible theme options. Built on HTML5, CSS3, it has a responsive design which lets the content automatically adapt to the screen’s size on different devices.

Catch Evolution looks striking in a bigger screen. While the rest of our themes till now were confined to 1000 pixels width limit, this one expands to 1190 pixels! In other words, the layout is wider, bigger and looks luxuriously spacious.

Launched on Catch Themes’ first anniversary, the theme is compiled keeping well in mind a year of feedback. It wouldn’t be off the mark to say that this theme comes with Catch Themes Team’s experience and better judgment.

Note: If you are familiar with Catch Box Pro, you will easily be able to access the back-end modules of Catch Evolution and be able comfortably use its features.

Features in “Catch Evolution” Free Theme:

  1. Responsive Design
  2. Site Identity: Option to edit/delete logo, enable/disable Site Title and Tagline and Option to add Site Icon (favicon/webclip icon)
  3. Color: Option to change Header Text Color and Background Color, Two color scheme to choose from Light and Dark
  4. Header Image: Option to add Custom Header Image
  5. Menu: Fixed Header Top Menu, Primary, Secondary, and Footer Menus
  6. Menu Options: Option to enable/diable Primary and Secondary Menu
  7. Header Options: Option to enable/disable Header, enable/disable Site Title, Mobe site title and tagline before logo and Seperate Logo and Site Details
  8. Search Text Settings: Option to change the search box text
  9. Layout Options:
    1. Sidebar Layout Options (Default Layout): Option to choose from i. Rigjt Sidebar, ii. Left Sidebar iii. No Sidebar and iv. Three Columns
    2. Full Content Display (Content Layout): Option to choose from i. Excerpt/Blog Display and ii. Full Content Display
  10. Homepage Category Setting: Select option to show post from selective category
  11. Excerpt/More Tag Setting: Option to change More Tag Text and Excerpt Length
  12. Featured Post Slider: Option to enable/disable featured post slider on Homepage/FrontPage or entire site , option to select Transition Effect, Transition Delay and Transition Length of slides Option to highlight your featured posts in Slider
  13. Additional CSS: Option to add your own CSS style to change the design as per you need
  14. Social Links: 23 different social icons
  15. Widget Areas: 6 widget areas registered. That is, 1. Main Sidebar, 2. Third Column Sidebar, 3. Header Right Sidebar, 4. Footer Area One, 5. Footer Area Two and 6. Footer Area Three
  16. Widgets: 3 widgets to choose from They are: i. CT: Adspace Widget, ii. CT:Social-Search Widget and iii. CT:Social Widget

Additional Features in “Catch Evolution Pro” Premium Theme:

  1. Responsive Design: Additional option to disable responsive design and enable secondary & footer menu in mobile devices
  2. Header Options: Option to change the header top and bottom margins
  3. Menu Options: Option to add Menu in Fixed Header Top Menu
  4. Color Options: Additional Blue and Green Color Scheme. Further, you have more than 25 color pickers to pick the color and background for various elements.
  5. Header Image: Additional option to edit Page/Post Featured Image Size, edit Featured Header Image Position, edit Featured Header Image Alt/Title Tag, add Featured Header Image Link URL, option to open link in New Window and reset header featured image option
  6. Font Family Options: Default Font Family, Site Title and Description Font Family, Headings Font Family and Content Font Family
  7. Font Size Options: Default Font Size, Default Line Height, Site Title Line Height, Site Description Font Size, Site Description Line Height, h1, h2, h3, h4, headings line height, content font size, content line height
  8. Layout Options:
    1. Default Layout (Sidebar Layout Options): 3 additional default layouts which make a total of 7 Sidebar Layout Options: 1. Right Sidebar, 2. Left Sidebar, 3. No Sidebar, 4. No Sidebar, Full Width, 5. No Sidebar, One Column, 6. Three Columns and 7. Three Columns Sidebar
    2. Content Layout (Full Content Display) : Additional 1 content layout which makes total of 3 Content Layouts: 1. Full Content Sidebar, 2. Full Content with Featured Image and 3. Excerpt/Blog Display
  9. Feed Redirect: Option to redirect your feed to feedburner
  10. Footer Editor Option: Option to edit/delete footer text
  11. Update Notifier: Option to disable update notifications
  12. Featured Slider: Option to choose from Post Slider, Page Slider, Category Slider and Image Slider. Further, option to make the slider Full Width
  13. Widget Area: Additional 9 widget area, which totals to 15 Sidebars registered.That is, 1. Main Sidebar, 2. Third Column Sidebar, 3. Header Top Sidebar, 4. Header Right Sidebar, 5. Homepage Sidebar, 6. Archive Sidebar, 7. Page Sidebar, 8. Post Sidebar, 9. Optional Sidebar One, 10. Optional Sidebar Two, 11. Optional Sidebar Three, 12. WooCommerce Sidebar 13.Footer Area One, 14. Footer Area Two and 15. Footer Area Three
  14. E-commerce Ready: It supports WooCommerce plugin
  15. Infinite Scroll: It supports Jetpack plugin infinite scroll module
  16. WPML Ready for multi-language

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 Evolution from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/catch-evolution/ 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-evolution.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 Evolution from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/catch-evolution/ to your Desktop
  2. Unzip catch-evolution.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-evolution folder installed. If you do, then back it up and remove it from /wp-content/themes/ before uploading your copy of Catch evolution
  4. Upload Catch Evolution to /wp-content/themes/
  5. Activate Catch Evolution 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 Catch evolution from your Catch Themes site at https://catchthemes.com/themes/catch-evolution/ to your Desktop
  2. Unzip catch-evolution.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 evolution 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 Slider. Click Here to see how to add Featured Image in your Post/Page.

Image Sizes:

Featured Post Slider/ Featured Image
Width: 754px
Height: 400px

Custom Header Image for Logo
Width: Flexible (recommended width 1600px)
Height : Flexible (recommended height 400px)

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 thSet Featured Image 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 Evolution currently has 6 widgetized areas that are 1. Main Sidebar, 2. Third Column Sidebar, 3. Header Right Sidebar, 4. Footer Area One, 5. Footer Area Two and 6. Footer Area Three. You can add a variety of Widgets to this theme from “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.

Catch Evolution offers exciting Menu Options! This theme supports and recommends using “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through “Appearance => Menus” from your WordPress Dashboard. Don’t forget to select your Custom Menu as Primary Menu to display it as the main menu.

  • For more detail, Click here to watch video Screencast

    • Select Menu Locations
    You can assign your custom menu in 4 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Navigation” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Locations”
    Fixed Header Top Menu as Custom Menu to display in header
    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 Secondary Menu to display Menu below Primary Menu
    Select your custom menu as Footer Menu to display Menu in Footer Area

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Menu Options”
    2. Check option “Check to Disable Primary & Secondary Menu”
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    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 “Select Logo”
    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 enable/disable Site Title and Tagline #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Site Identity”
    2. Uncheck “Display Site Title and Tagline” and it will display Site Title and Tagline
    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”

    Color Options #

    Catch Evolution has 2 different color schemes that you can choose from.

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

    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”

    Header Options #

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options =>Header Options”
    2. Check on “Check to Disable Header” to disable header
    3. Check on “Check to Disable Site Title” to disable Site Title
    4. Check on “Check to Move Site Title and Tagline before the logo” to move site title and tagline before logo
    5. Check on “Check to Separate Logo and Site Details” to separate logo and site details
    6. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to change default text in search box? #

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

    Layout Options #

    Catch Evolution has 4 Sidebar Layout Options, 2 Full Content Display options to choose from.
    Go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options”

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

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

    How to select Sidebar Layout Options for individual Page/Posts?
    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 Catch Evolution Options
    3. Then under Sidebar Layout Options you can make the required changes by clicking on options under “Sidebar Layout Options”
    4. Finally Click on “Publish/Update”

    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(windows)/Command Key(Mac)
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to Change the Excerpt Length and More Tag Settings? #

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

    Catch Evolution supports Featured Post Slider. For Featured Post Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Post Slider => Slider Options”.

    How to enable Featured Post Slider?#
    Featured 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.

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Post Content => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    2. To enable slider, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable Slider”
    3. Then add Post ID under Feauted Post Slider #1, Featured Post Slider #2 and so on
    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.

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

    1. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Post 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?#

    1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
    2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Post Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    3. Under “Number of Slides”, select the number slides as per your need
    4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How exclude Slider post from Homepage posts?#

    1. Make sure featured slider is enabled
    2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Featured Post Slider => Slider Options” from your WordPress Dashboard
    3. Check option, “Check to exclude Slider post from Homepage posts”
    4. 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”, 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…

    Social Links #

    Catch Evolution 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.

    Widgets #

    Catch Evolution has 3 Widgets to choose from. They are: i. CT: Adspace Widget, ii. CT:Social-Search Widget and iii. CT:Social Widget. You can add widget in widget area as per your need.

    How to add Widgets in widget area? #

    You can add widgets to your widget area from two location
    1. Go to “Appearance => Widget”, then drag the widget to the widget area or you can click in the widget then list of widget area will appear, now you can choose desired widget area and click on “Add Widget”.

    2. Go to “Appearance => Customize => Widgets”, then you can find list of widget area. Click on the any widget area and you will see “Add a Widget” option by click on it you can find list of Widget which you can add to respected widget area.

    How to add “Adspace Widget” in widget area(CT:Adspace Widget)? #

    This widget is used to add any type of Advertisement as a Widget.

    1. Add CT:Adspace Widget to desired widget area. More Info
    2. Add “Title”, change “Ad Code” and “Image Url” and “Link Url” under respective fields
    3. Then under “Alt Text” texy
    4. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    This widget is used to add social icons from Social Icons Settings and Search as a Widget.

    1. Add CT:Social Widget to desired widget area. More Info
    2. Add “Title” under the respective field.
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    How to add “Social Widget” in widget area(CT:Social-Search Widget)? #

    This widget is used to add social icons from Social Icons Settings and Search as a Widget.

    1. Add CT:Social Widget to desired widget area. More Info
    2. Add “Title” under the respective field.
    3. Finally, click on “Save & Publish”

    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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