1.Theme Introduction

Luanda Magazine is a light and multi-functional WordPress theme with a lot of useful features to assist you in building a magazine, newspaper website or a blog. This documentaion will guide you through each step on how to set up your theme.

2.Theme Installation

Download and extract the luandamagazine-package.zip file on your computer.
Go to Appearance > Themes > Add New in the WordPress Dashboard.

Theme Dashboard

Locate luanda-magazine.zip and luanda-magazine-child.zip on your computer.
Upload and install the .zip files one by one.

Upload theme

Upload child theme

Once you upload and install Luanda Magazine and Luanda Magazine child theme, activate the child theme.

General WordPress settings can be found in your dashboard under Appearance.

3. Front Page and Blog Page Setup

This setup applies when the Front Page Template and Posts Page are both active

Front Page

Go to Pages > Add New in the WordPress Dashboard.
Create a new page called “Home” (You can choose another name, e.g. “Magazine”).

Create Home page

Go to Page Attributes and select the Front Page Template. Save your changes.

Blog Page

Go to Pages > Add New in the WordPress Dashboard.
Create another new page called “Blog” (You can choose another name, e.g. “News”).

Create blog page

Once the front page and blog page are set up, go to Settings > Reading in the WordPress Dashboard and select “A Static Page”.

For “Homepage” select the page you want your front page to appear on (e.g. “Home”, “Magazine”). The Front Page Template has its own widget area and widgets.

Home page settings

For “Posts page” select the page you want your posts to appear on (e.g. “Blog”, “News”).

Blog page settings

The blog page displays all your posts. Featured images dimensions: at least width: 780px and height: 520px.

4. Luanda Magazine Widget Areas

Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets.

Luanda Magazine theme comes with the following widget area and sidebars:

Luanda Magazine Widget Area and Sidebar

5. Luanda Magazine Widgets

Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets and add widgets to widget areas.

Luanda Magazine theme comes with the following widgets:

Luanda Magazine Widgets

News Block 1 – News Block 7 appear on “Magazine Homepage”. “Author Widget”, “Sidebar Latest Entries” and “Popular Posts, Tags, Comments” appear on the “Magazine Sidebar”.

Luanda Magazine Widgets

To activate a widget drag it to a sidebar or click on it. To deactivate a widget and delete its settings, drag it back.

6. Create Custom Menus

Go to Appearance > Menus > “create a new menu”.

Main and Footer Menu

Create custom menu

Once you create your custom menu, go to “Menu Settings” and choose the menu location.

Menu Location

Repeat the same steps to create a footer menu.

Social Menu

Go to Appearance > Menus > “create a new menu”.

Create social menu

Under “Add menu items”, go to “Custom Links” and add URL + Link Text, hit “Add to Menu”.

Once you create your custom menu, go to “Menu Settings” and choose the menu location “Header Social Menu”.

7. Luanda Magazine Customizer Options

Go to Appearance > Customize > “Luanda Magazine Options”,

Customize and style your theme with the following features:

Logo

Go to Customize > “Site Identity” and upload your logo and add a site icon that appears in browser tabs.

Advertising Image

Go to Customize > Luanda Magazine Options > “Header Ad Image” and upload an ad with the dimensions (w)781px x (h)100px.

Header Image

Go to Customize > Header Image and upload the image you want to show on your theme’s header.
Add an internal/external link to your header image or leave blank, which links back to your website.

Top News Block

Got to Customize > Luanda Magazine Options > “Top News Settings” and display three featured posts.
Featured Content

Featured Slider

This feature appears only on the Front Page Template.
Go to Customize > Luanda Magazine Options > Slider Settings and choose the category you wish to display.

Featured Slider

8. Styling Tips

Advertising Images between Sections

Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets and add “Image widget” to “Magazine Homepage”. Image dimensions: height: 100px and width: 781px

9.Supported Plugins

Luanda Magazine supports multiple WordPress plugins and works well with the following plugins listed below:

10.How to update your Theme

Via WordPress Dashboard

  1. Download the latest theme version from the purchase download link you once received.
  2. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes and switch to another theme.
  3. Activate one of the WordPress default themes, e.g. Twenty Nineteen or Twenty Twenty.
  4. Delete the current version of your theme (NOT the child theme, just the parent theme!)
  5. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme
  6. Click the Choose File button, locate your theme’s zip file on your computer and upload it.
  7. Next, click Install Now and wait for the theme to install.
  8. Clear site and browser cache to prevent errors

Manual Updates Via FTP/SFTP

  1. Download the latest theme version from the purchase download link you once received.
  2. Log into your server via FTP or SFTP and go to wp-content/themes/
  3. Delete the current version of your theme (the parent theme, not the child theme) and override your parent theme folder files with the latest ones downloaded.
  4. Clear site and browser cache to prevent errors