Getting Started

Atena is a modern and clean WordPress theme for modern content-based blogs and magazines. Make it follow your personal brand and let your web presence stand out.

If you like this template, do not forget to give 5 star rating and give your valuable feedback for better update. We love to hear your feedback – if you find any bugs or have suggestions for improvements please get in touch. Nearly all of the time we follow your advice and issue a rapid update for Atena.

WordPress Information

To install this theme you must have a working last version of WordPress already installed. For information on installing the WordPress platform, please see the WordPress Codex.

WordPress is software designed for everyone, emphasizing accessibility, performance, security, and ease of use. We believe great software should work with minimum set up, so you can focus on sharing your story, product, or services freely. The basic WordPress software is simple and predictable so you can easily get started. It also offers powerful features for growth and success.

Since WordPress is constantly being updated information about how to install WordPress may become out of date, so you always can read official guide here.

How to Install

You can install the theme in two ways: through 1.WordPress, or via 2.FTP Upload. If you have trouble installing the theme via WordPress, please proceed with installing it via FTP and you will be able to get around the issue.


1. WordPress Upload

From your WordPress Administration area, head to Appearance > Themes and click Add New. The Add New theme screen has a new option, Upload Theme. The theme upload form is now open, click Choose File, select the theme zip file on your computer and click Install Now. The theme is now ready to be activated from your admin. Once the theme is fully uploaded and installed, click Activate to activate the WordPress theme.

When uploading your theme with the installer, please ensure you are uploading the theme .zip file, not the entire package you downloaded. In this case, you will be uploading atena-1.0.zip.

Follow the steps below to install via WordPress.

  • Navigate to Appearance > Themes .
  • Navigate to find the atena-1.0.zip file on your computer and click Install Now button.
  • The theme will be uploaded and installed.
  • Activate the newly installed theme. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate the installed theme.

2. FTP Upload

If you have a WordPress theme on your local computer, it’s possible to install it using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). By using this method there is a risk of deleting or modifying files, which could bring your site offline. For this reason, we advise that only advanced users install themes this way.

Follow the steps below to install via FTP.

  • Log into your hosting space via an FTP software
  • Unzip the Atena.zip file and ONLY use the extracted Atena theme folder (atena-1.0.zip).
  • Upload the extracted Atena theme folder into /wp-content/themes/ in your WordPress installation. (atena-1.0.zip)
  • Activate the newly installed theme. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate the installed theme.

3. FileZilla

If you have a WordPress theme on your local computer, it’s possible to install it using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). By using this method there is a risk of deleting or modifying files, which could bring your site offline. For this reason, we advise that only advanced users install themes this way.

To use the FTP to add new themes manually, follow these steps.

To begin, you must have an FTP hostname, username and password, and an FTP client. We’ve used FTP client Filezilla to show the steps in this tutorial.

  • Launch Filezilla, enter your login details and click Quickconnect.
  • The following window contains Remote Site and a root directory (the root directory is your site's name). Select /rootdirectory/web/content/wp-content/themes.
  • In the Local Site window, select the folder containing your saved theme, right click for more options and hit Upload.
  • You've now successfully uploaded your theme to WordPress. To finalize, log in to your control panel, head to Appearance > Themes and hover your mouse over the new theme. Now click Activate.
  • You've now successfully uploaded your theme to WordPress. To finalize, login to your control panel, head to Appearance > Themes and hover your mouse over the new theme. Now click Activate.
  • All that’s left is to check out your new theme and see how you like your new site design.

How to Update

You can update the theme in following ways:


1. Using Theme Uploader
  • Download the latest version of the Atena theme.
  • Unzip the package and locate atena-1.0.zip in the themes folder.
  • Go to Appearance > Themes and simply upload theme. From WordPress 5.5 version you don’t need to activate another theme. So, simply upload zip file and accept prompt to replace the existing theme.

2. Using FTP Clients

Follow the following steps to upload your theme using FTP clients:

  • Use an FTP such as FileZilla and go to your WordPress installation director.
  • Navigate to /wp-content/themes/ folder and upload the theme folder there.
  • Log in to your WP Admin Dashboard and open the 'Appearance / Themes' menu.
  • You will now see Atena Theme listed among the other themes. Click on activate and you’re done!.

Updating child themes

All child themes have inner update system, it’s automatic, you will see notice that you need update theme in Appearance – Themes. Just update them as any wordpress theme. But, before updating child theme, always update main theme.

How to Edit


How to edit Site Title and Favicon?

To change your Site title and Favicon login to wp-admin and navigate to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Site Identity and follow the following steps:

  • Go to your WordPress dashboard.
  • Go to Appearance on your left sidebar and click on Customize.
  • Go to Site Identity, change or edit your title.
  • Click Publish or Save Changes.

How to change Global Colors?

To change all global colors login to wp-admin and navigate to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > General > Color Options and follow the following steps:

  • Go to your WordPress dashboard.
  • Go to Appearance on your left sidebar and click on Customize.
  • Go to General options and click on Color Options, change primary and primary-hover colors.
  • Click Publish or Save Changes.

How to change Logo?

To change the site logo login to your wp-admin and navigate to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Header > Logo and follow the following steps:

  • Go to your WordPress dashboard.
  • Go to Appearance on your left sidebar and click on Customize.
  • Go to Header options, change or update site logo and edit logo height size.
  • Click Publish or Save Changes.

How to change Typography?

To change the typography of your site navigate to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Typography and follow the following steps:

  • Go to your WordPress dashboard.
  • Go to Appearance on your left sidebar and click on Customize.
  • Go to Typography options, change or update site typography options. You Add/Update typography options:
    • General Fonts
    • Text Typography Options
    • Heading Typography Options
    • Buttons Typography Options
    • Blockquote Typography Options
  • Click Publish or Save Changes.

How to set Home and Blog Page?

To set the default Home and Blog page please login to wp-admin and navigate to Dashboard > Settings > Reading

  • Click on Settings >> Reading in your admin dashboard.
  • Set Your homepage displays to 'A static page'
  • Select the page you want to set as the Homepage from the dropdown.
  • Click the Save button to save your changes.

How to Customize Menu?

To customize the menu and megamenu please login to wp-admin and navigate to Appearance > Menus and follow the following steps:

  • Go to Dashboard > Appearance.
  • Click “Menus”
  • Name Your Menu.
  • Click “Create Menu”
  • Click the Save button to save your changes.

Theme Support

If you have a problem with the theme or found a bug, please let us know. We take pride in our customer support and we will do what we can to assist you. If you are experiencing a theme issue, please first turn off all third party plugins to see if the problem persists.

Required Plugins

Once your theme is installed, you will notice a message at the top of your dashboard prompting you to install certain plugins. To ensure that your site has all of the same functionality that you see in the demo, it’s important that you install and activate these plugins.

  1. Check the message about required plugins for the template and start installing all the listed plugins from the list.

  2. After getting the Atena installed and activated under Appearance > Themes , you will see the message about required plugins for the template. Just simply click Begin installing plugins to start their installation:

  3. A list of required and recommended plugins will appear. Click to Install to start installing and activating them.

Kirki Customizer

Kirki allows theme developers to build themes quicker & more easily.

With over 30 custom controls ranging from simple sliders to complex typography controls with Google-Fonts integration and features like automatic CSS & postMessage script generation, Kirki makes theme development a breeze.

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

You can find docs, FAQ and more detailed information about Contact Form 7 on contactform7.com. When you can’t find the answer to your question on the FAQ or in any of the documentation, check the support forum on WordPress.org. If you can’t locate any topics that pertain to your particular issue, post a new topic for it.

Elementor

Introducing a WordPress website builder, with no limits of design. A website builder that delivers high-end page designs and advanced capabilities, never before seen on WordPress.

Advanced Custom Fields

Advanced Custom Fields turns WordPress sites into a fully-fledged content management system by giving you all the tools to do more with your data.

One Click Demo Import

The best feature of this plugin is, that theme authors can define import files in their themes and so all you (the user of the theme) have to do is click on the “Import Demo Data” button.

Atena Helper Plugin

Atena Helper Plugin. Adds new elementor widgets, post types and much more.

Demo Content

What is demo content?

When a user activates a theme, they have an expectation of seeing their photos, theirs shop, their contributors and all of their content with a new style or twist. Themes provide this ability to showcase user content in different ways. How a theme gets that content is what we look for.

Check these PHP config variables before demo import:

  • post_max_size 512M
  • upload_max_filesize 512M
  • max_input_vars 5000
  • max_execution_time 300
  • max_input_time 300
  • memory_limit 512M

Please note that Afracode is not responsible for content loss, database errors and such, which may happen to your WordPress install upon an incorrectly applied theme update.

One Click Demo Import

One click demo import is one of the most useful features that a WordPress theme can have. This plugin will create a submenu page under Appearance with the title Import demo data.

  1. Go to Appearance → One Click Demo Import

  2. Click Import Demo Data button

Manually Demo Import

  1. Go to Tool → Import → WordPress

  2. Click on Choose file and select the demo-content.xml (Which locate in Demo Content folder)

  3. Check the box Download and import file attachments. This will download attachments for images included in the Live Preview demo

  4. Click Upload file and import

Theme Updates

Keep in mind that we provide lifetime updates and dedicated support in order to have no problems with the new versions of WordPress Besides that, Atena offers new features in every new release. So please, stay updated.

FTP

  1. Download the Atena.zip from TemplateMonster and unzip it

  2. Access your server via FTP or SFTP

  3. Browse to wp-content/themes/

  4. Delete and override the un-zipped Atena folder

Front Page

Your front page is the home page of your WordPress site. By default, it displays your blog posts, starting with the most recent entries. WordPress enables you to set the number of posts displayed and even include teasers for other posts.

  1. Go to Appearance → Customize → Homepage Settings

  2. Under Your homepage displays choose A static page

  3. Click on the Homepage dropdown list and select the Home page you created as your static homepage

Simply go to Appearance » Widgets and add the ‘Navigation Menu’ widget to your sidebar. Next, add a title for the widget and choose the correct menu from the ‘Select Menu’ drop down list.

  1. Go to Appearance → Menus

  2. Give your menu a name and click to Create Menu button

  3. Add few simple links from Links tab and Save your menu

  4. Navigate to Manage Locations tab

  5. Choose your new menu as Main Navigation and save

Templates

Page templates are a specific type of template file that can be applied to a specific page or groups of pages.

Atena has the following page templates built into the theme and can be applied by creating a page in WordPress.

  1. Default Template

  2. Full Page (Full page template)

  3. Custom Page (Page without title)

Typography

  1. Go to Appearance → Customize → Typography

  2. You can change the fonts and their style according this list

    • General Fonts

    • General Text Options

    • Heading Options

    • Button Options

    • Blockquote Options

Child Theme

A WordPress child theme is a WordPress theme that inherits its functionality from another WordPress theme, the parent theme. Child themes are often used when you want to customize or tweak an existing WordPress theme without losing the ability to upgrade that theme. In the past, there was no easy way of updating WordPress themes without losing all the custom styling and changes that you had made. This becomes chaos when all the sudden you find out a widely used script in popular themes has a major exploit, and you need to update your themes ASAP. It becomes a tough choice because on one hand, you would lose all the custom styles if you update. On the other hand, you risk your site getting hacked if you don’t update fast enough.

A child theme allows you to change small aspects of your site’s appearance yet still preserve your theme’s look and functionality. To understand how child themes work it is first important to understand the relationship between parent and child themes.