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### “Aruna” Documentation by “TeoThemes” v1.0

# “Aruna - Image Sharing, Gag, Meme theme”

Created: 01/12/2013
By: TeoThemes
Email: support@teothemes.com Latest version: here

Thank you for purchasing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email via my user page contact form here. Please also check the FAQ before asking something. Thanks so much!

## Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. Setting up the homepage
3. Theme options panel
4. Translating the theme
5. FAQ
6. Sources and credits

### A) Installation - top

In order to use this theme, you must run a stand-alone installation of wordpress and not have a free subdomain at wordpress.com.

Once you have the zip archive ready, you need to go to your dashboard, which is http://yourwebsite.com/wp-admin and go to Appearance > Themes > Install Themes and, in the top menu, select Upload. Now, select the zip archive and just install it normally.

If the above solution fails due to any reason, upload the theme manually via FTP and then go to Appearance > Themes to enable it manually. If you don't know how to upload the theme via FTP, check Uploading themes via FTP

For further help, you can also read Using themes

After you install the theme, I'd suggest installing NextEnd Facebook Connect and WP PageNavi.

### B) Setting up the homepage - top

#### Default homepage

The default homepage is the page with the left sidebar, the latest articles and the right sidebar. The left sidebar can show either the built-in sticky sidebar from the theme OR widgets, from Appearance > Widgets. You can configure it in the Functionality tab of the Options menu link on the left. The right sidebar can be configured with widgets in Appearance > Widgets.

Finally, the section that is in our interest, the area with the latest posts, is managed by the theme. You don't have to do anything to set it up, the latest posts will show up automatically. You just need to make sure you configure the posts properly in the meta boxes! :)

For the footer widgets you'll need to go to Appearance > Widgets and add your own widgets to the Footer sidebar. And for the copyright info, you can edit it directly in footer.php. While it's not needed to keep the linkback to TeoThemes, I'd really appreciate it if you wouldn't remove it, it doesn't hurt your website at all!

### C) Working with different posts formats - top

Aruna supports the following post formats: image, video, quote and slider. The interface is very intuitive and easy to use, it takes like seconds to post something! :)

If you want any of the other available layouts, they're created as page templates and you can choose a page template as your homepage in Settings > Reading.

### D) Page Templates - top

Aruna comes with some pre-built page templates with some homepage variations, they don't need any configuration at all, you can just choose that page template and publish it, the theme will do the rest!

### E) Theme options panel - top

The theme options panel is a very powerful tool you can use to customize your website. The theme options panel sections are:

1. Header
2. Post functionality
3. General Functionality
4. Styling options
5. Import / Export
6. Theme information

The Header section configures the logo / favicon and the url's to the social icons on the right

The Post functionality section is used to enable / disable functionality related to individual posts, like enable / disable reposting, managing the bookmarking system, enabling / disabling some of the social sharing websites.

The General Functionality section covers functionality as well, but not related to the post. It offers you lots of options to enable / disable lots of functions, like the keyboard navigation, the back to top button, the sticky left sidebar.

The Styling options section lets you change the theme's color and fonts.

Use the Import / Export section to export your settings if you want to migrate the theme elsewhere.

The below screenshots are just some samples of the options you'll find in the panel

### F) Translating the theme - top

Aruna is translate-ready and has the .po and .mo language files in the /languages/ folder.

To translate the theme in your own language, you need to first go to the wp-config.php file that's located in the root wordpress folder and change the language here:

    			define('WPLANG', '');

Use the prefix for your own language, like for example ro_RO for romanian. After you change it, you need to create the language mo and po files. You can copy/paste the english files and rename them to the same prefix you used in wp-config.php like ro-RO.po and ro-RO.mo. After that, download PoEdit and open the .po file with it. Click on "Update"

After that, you can start translating it. Once you're done, click Save and upload the language files to your host and that's all, you're done

The theme should also work fine with qTranslate and WPML

### H) FAQ - top

1) How do I get the Facebook connect functionality?

You'll need to install and setup this plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/nextend-facebook-connect/. You'll need to get a developer account and create an application on Facebook https://developers.facebook.com/

2) When I install the theme via dashboard it says the stylesheet file is broken!

You're probably installing the theme using the wrong zip file, if you're installing it using the zip file you got from envato, you need to first unzip it.

3) Is there any plugin required to run this theme

Not really, but on the demo I use WP PageNavi. Also I recommend some basic ones like Akismet(for SPAM) and a caching plugin.

4) My website crashed / was hacked / doesn't work fine anymore. What should I do?

First, don't panic. Waiting for an answer from me may take several hours, if you didn't modify much of the theme files, simply redownload the theme and reinstall it. That should fix it.

5) How do I customize the theme in the most effective way?

Use a Child Theme. With a child theme you can update your theme whenever I release an update, while keeping your customization intact. All the details here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

### I) Sources and credits - top

The following files and images were used in this theme, thanks to everyone!

- jQuery
- Bootstrap 3 + Bootstrap select
- jQuery SelectBoxIt
- mCustomScrollBar
- flexSlider
- Isotope
- Modernizr
- LazyLoad
- Retina.js
- Redux Theme Options Framework

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this theme. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this theme. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the themes on ThemeForest, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section.

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