Scena Documentation

This file will help you to start working with your new WordPress Theme. First steps installing, guides to create your own pages, portfolio views or any other feature included.

Theme Installation

Download the "Installable WordPress file only" from your Themeforest account
Go to Appearance > Themes, click Add New on top of the page and then Upload Theme
Choose the downloaded file scena.zip and click Install Now
Once the file is uploaded and installed, navigate to Appearance > Themes and click Activate

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 insure 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.

Import Demo

You can import the demo content with just one click. Go to Appearance > Import Demo Data and click Import Demo Data button. The importing process can take several minutes.

Update Theme

There are 3 ways to update the theme:

Envato Plugin: Install the Envato Market Plugin in order to always get notified when a new version is available and install it with just one click.
Via Dashboard: Deactivate the current theme by activating any other theme. Once the theme is not active you can delete this theme. After deleting it install the new updated theme and activate it. Don't worry, you won't lose your settings.
FTP: Delete the current theme folder 'scena' in wp-content/themes/ and upload the new one.

Customize Theme

All the global theme options can be configured in Customizer (Appearance > Customize). The options are grouped in several sections, outlined below.

Header Settings

Typography

Hero Header

The Hero header is the first content of the page. It can contain a big image, video and page title. You can set up individual hero for each of your page/project/post. Go to your page and scroll down to the "Hero Settings".

General Settings

Each page can have a unique style. The general color scheme will be applied everywhere in the website (via Appearance > Customize > Color Scheme), but if you want a certain page to have a custom background or text color, this is the area to edit.

Contact Form

This theme requires Сontact form 7 plugin for contact form. After installing it, go to Contact > Add New (or edit current one) and in Form field paste what's below:

<div class="form-inputs">
[text* your-name placeholder "Name"]
[email* your-email placeholder "Email"]
[tel your-tel placeholder "Phone"]
[select menu-837 "Topic" "New Project" "General Queries" "Say Hello"]
</div>
[textarea your-message x6 placeholder "Message"]
[submit "Send"]

Portfolio

Before you add any Portfolio item please add a Portfolio page (if not done yet).

Go to Page > Add New and give it a name
Select Portfolio page template in Page Attributes section

Bellow editor you can find "Portfolio Settings" section. Here you can change the style, choose which categories to show and setup how many project to dipslay per page.

Adding Projects

The process of adding projects is quite similar to adding posts:

Go to Projects > Add New
Enter a title
Choose a featured image
Insert all of your remaining content in the content area
Click Publish and you're all done

Bellow editor you can find "Project Settings" section.

Adding Posts

These are the default steps that you need to do in order to add a blog post:

Go to Posts > Add New
Enter a title
Select a post category
Add some relevant tags
Choose a featured image
Insert all of your remaining content in the content area
Click Publish and you're all done