Thank you for purchasing Frida.

Frida is a sweet and classic WordPress blog theme. It perfectly meets the requirements for not only personal usage, but also commercial. This document includes the necessary information about using it.

Extract the zipped package that you downloaded from ThemeForest. You'll find a file named "frida.zip" in "Theme" folder. Now there are 2 ways to start using it:

1) Extract the "frida.zip" file and upload the extracted folder to the ".../wp-content/themes/" folder on your server.

2) On WordPress admin panel, go to "Appearance > Themes" and click the "Add New" button at the top of the page. Then click "Upload Theme" button. Pick "frida.zip" file and click "Install Now" button.

After uploading the theme, you need to activate it. Go to "Appearence > Themes" page and click Frida's "Activate" button. And you're done.

If you face any problem, please visit ThemeForest Knowledgebase to learn how to install a WordPress theme.

Frida has one location for a menu: Primary Menu.

For menu setup, go to "Appearance > Menus" page. Choose your items you want to show in menu from the left side. Don't forget to check "Primary Menu" box to see your menu in correct place. And finally click "Save Menu" button to get it done.

To read more about WordPress Menus: WordPress Menu User Guide

Frida comes with "1 Column + Sidebar" layout option. If you don't see the sidebar, ensure that you have active widgets on "Appearance > Widgets" page. If not, you can add widgets by drag & drop function to your sidebar.

Frida has a very well organized customizer which almost is a user guide itself. It uses the native customizer of WordPress. So navigate to "Appearance > Customize" and start to personalize your theme!

Here is a full list of setting sections:

1. General Settings
2. Site Background
3. Site Colors
4. Header
5. Social Accounts
6. Layout Options
7. Post Format: Standard
8. Post Format: Gallery
9. Post Format: Video
10. Post Format: Aside
11. Post Format: Link
12. Show/Hide Elements
13. Related Posts & Post Comments
14. Footer
15. Translation
16. Custom CSS
17. Google Maps
18. Slider Settings

Frida has 5 layout options:

• 1 Column
• 1 Column + Sidebar
• 2 Columns
• 2 Columns + Sidebar
• 3 Colums

And the fullwidth versions of them. They're really fullwidth. We mean it!

You can set archive pages layout separately. By the way, you can also decide if the post pages or single pages will have a sidebar or not.

Ah, you want to hide sidebar for gallery posts only? It's just as far as one little tiny click too.

Frida supports 5 post formats: Standard, Gallery, Video, Aside and Link.

On "Posts > Add New" page, choose your post format from the right side of the panel and then place your content naturally.

By the way, no worries about formatting the content. Frida is compatible with WordPress native content window and will do everything automatically. For example, if you want to add a gallery, just do it by "Add Media > Create Gallery" in classic way. Then when you have a look at your site, you'll see that the gallery you just added is shaped very well in a slider!

One more note, don't forget that you can stylize your post formats separately. Sometimes you want to see your gallery posts in a different background color, right? No problem for Frida.

One of the most powerful features of Frida is letting you to set up the "Featured Image" dimensions. By default, all of the images are resized to 1080 px width and not cropped from height. Change these settings as you wish.

We recommend you to increase the width value if you prefer to use "Fullwidth" layout option to enjoy the high-res images.

Note that these settings will be applied to newly added images only!

Frida has 7 custom widgets.

Image Widget: Go ahead and place a nice image with header in your sidebar. You can link it to anywhere too.
Popular Posts Widget: Some posts are crowded ha? This widget will find and display them.
Recent Posts Widget: Display a couple or two of your latest posts.
Category/Tag Posts Widget: Display the posts belong to a specific category or tag.
Recent Comments Widget: Display the latest comments your visitors have dropped.
Find us on Facebook Widget: Show your Facebook page's lovers.
Empty Space Widget: Just place an empty space between your widgets in sidebar if you wish. It's very handy!

Frida has its own slider plugin since v.1.6. Follow the steps below to start using it!

Firstly, you need to install the Frida Slider plugin. You'll already realize the "This theme requires the following plugin: Burnhambox - Frida Slider." notice when you activate Frida theme.

1. Click "Begin installing plugin".
2. Click "Install" under the "Burnhambox - Frida Slider" title.
   The "Install" button will appear when you rollover the title.
3. When you see the "Return to Required Plugins Installer" link appeared, it means you're done!
   You'll realize that a button named "Frida Slider" is placed on your admin panel menu now. If you can't see it, just click to "Dashboard" or somewhere else to refresh the view.

Now, let's create our first slide:

1. Click "Frida Slider > Add New".
2. Type/Edit title, caption, button text etc. All of these fields are optional.
3. For "Frida-Slider-Target" box, the options are "_self" and "_blank". This will set if a new window will be opened or not on button click.
4. For "Frida-Slider-URL" box, if you don't type an URL address, the button will not be shown.
5. Choose a featured image like you always do while adding a post. It's the same procedure.
6. Finally, set a "Slider Location" for your slide. You'll use this word (tag) with your slider shortcode on theme customizer.
7. By the way, you can use the "Attributes > Order" section to arrange your slide's order.
8. Click "Publish" and your slide is ready!

You can repeat the steps above to create all the slides you want. Now it's time to place our slider to the site:

1. Navigate to "Appearance > Customize > 18. Slider Settings".
2. Place this code to the "18.1. Shortcode" box: [fridaslider location="your_location"]
   Don't forget to replace the your_location part with your own location word (tag).

That's all!

Ensure "Custom Fields" is checked on "Screen Options" panel to see all the inputs belong to slider!

Translation is extremely easy with Frida. Just go to "Appearance > Customize" on WordPress admin panel, find "15. Translation" section and start to translate!

All the material used in our demo site belong to their creators/owners listed below:

• Barbara Nowak
• Richard Gaston
• Joanna Kitchener
• Lukasz Wierzbowski
• Devantelle
• Stefany Alves