Himalayas is modern style free one page parallax responsive WordPress theme. Inform your visitors all they need to know right from your home page without requiring to go to the other pages. Himalayas can be used for business, portfolio, corporate, agency, photography, freelancers and almost any kind of sites.
Installation
Upload Theme
- Go to Appearance > Themes in the WordPress Dashboard
- Click on the Add New button
- Search for the Himalayas
- Select the Himalayas theme
- Click Install Now
Upload Theme – Pro
- Go to Appearance > Themes in the WordPress Dashboard
- Click on the Add New button
- Search for the Upload link
- Select the himalayas-pro.zip file you downloaded from ThemeGrill website
- Click Install Now
Activate the theme
Hover over the theme thumbnail and press the Activate button
Menu Setup
Set up Custom Menu
- Go to Appearance > Menus in the WordPress menu
- Click on Create a new menu link
- Give a name to your menu in Menu Name and click Create Menu button
- Now choose the Custom links, enter the URL and Link Text. Enter you URL in this formate: http://demo.themegrill.com/himalayas/#about (http://your home page link/Section ID used in widgets). Now, press Add Menu.
- Check Primary Menu to display it at the header.
- Click Save Menu after adding required custom links in the menu
Theme Location for Menu settings
- Primary MenuDisplay the menu beside logo/header text.
- Footer MenuDisplay the menu on the Footer.
Slider Options
Slider Settings
- Enable the slider from In Appearance->Customize->Himalayas Slider Options-> Slider Settings
- Create the page for each slider and enter title, text and featured image. Page Title will appear as Slider Title, content as Slider Description and features image as Slider Image.
- Choose the respective pages in drop down options.
- The recommended size for the slider image is 1600 x 780 pixels. For better functioning of slider use equal size images for each slide.
If featured image is not used in the page then the page is excluded in the Slider.
Site Identity
Site Identity
Add the required logo to best suit your site from here as shown in image below:
Header Settings
Himalayas Header Options
- Header Logo Options
Upload the Logo to display it on the Header. Following Options are provided:
1. Header Logo Only: displays the header logo only
2. Header Text Only: displays the header text only
3. Show both header logo and text: displays both of the logo image and header text
4. Disable: disable both of them to be displayed
Front Page Setup
Steps
- Create 2 pages ie, Home and Blog Page. Assign Home to Himalayas Startpage Template.
- Go to Appearance-> widgets and drag/select the widgets on the Front Page Template Sidebar. Now Home Page will display all the widgets used in Front Page Template Sidebar.
- To display Home Page as front page: go to Settings-> Reading and select A static page radio option under Front page displays.
- Now, choose the Home Page in Front page.
- Also, choose Blog page in Posts page.
Widget Descriptions
TG: Service Widget
- Create pages for each Services, enter the Title, Description, set a Featured Image and select the Service Template. Enter font awesome icon class to override image in service widget.
- Drag the TG: Service Widget in the Front Page Sidebar and enter the Title, Description and enter the number of page to display.
- Select the Image or Color to display as Background.
- Background image (if used) will override the background color.
- Icon Class Box will only appear if the page is assigned to Service Template. If both, Featured image and Icon Class is used than Featured Image will display.
TG: Our Team Widget
- Create pages for each Team member, enter the Title, Description, set a Featured Image and select the Our Team Template. Enter designation to show on team widget.
- Drag the TG: Our Team Widget in the Front Page Sidebar and enter the Title, Description and enter the number of page to display.
- Select the Image or Color to display as Background.
TG: Portfolio Widget
- Create pages for each Team member, enter the Title, Description, set a Featured Image and select the Portfolio Template. Enter designation to show on team widget.
- Drag the TG: Portfolio Widget in the Front Page Sidebar and enter the Title, Description and enter the number of page to display.
- Select the Image or Color to display as Background.
TG: Featured Posts Widget
TG: Call To Action Widget
TG: About Widget
- Create a page, enter the Title, Content, set a Featured Image.
- Drag the TG: About Widget in the Front Page Sidebar and enter the Title, description and select the page to display.
- There are two button on this widget. First one leads to corresponding page while second one can be defined by user. Enter Button Text, Button Redirect Link and Font Awesome class for second button.
- Select the Image or Color to display as Background.
TG: Contact Us Widget
- This widget is for displaying your contact information and contact form. Enter the Title, Latitude and Longitude for Google Map cordinates. Our theme Supports Contact Form 7, it’s free theme available in WordPress repo. Paste the Shortcode of Contact Form 7 in the Shortcode field.
TG: Fun Facts
- This widget allow you to display fun title , description, icon and total number of fun count. To activate Fun Facts Widget , drag and drop this widget in Front Page Sidebar Widget Area and fill all neccessary details.
TG: Image Gallery Widget
- This widget allow you to display your all images in single gallery. To activate Image Gallery Widget , drag and drop this widget in Footer Sidebar Widget Area and fill the title and uploade the images.
TG: Testimonial Widget
- Create pages for each Testimonial, enter the Title, Description, set a Featured Image and select the Testimonial Template. Enter designation to show on Testimonial widget.
- Drag the TG: Testimonial Widget in the Front Page Sidebar and enter the number of page to display.
- Select the Image or Color to display as Background.
TG: Our Clients
- Drag the TG: Our Clients Widget in the Front Page Sidebar and uploade the client logo to display.
Design Options
Layout Options
- Default Layout
This layout will be reflected in whole site archives, search etc. The layout for a single post and page can be controlled from below options. - Default layout for pages only
Select default layout for pages. This layout will be reflected in all pages unless unique layout is set for specific page. To select the unique Layout for any particular page edit that page and Choose the Layout from Layout option box. - Default Layout For Single Posts Only
Select default layout for single posts. This layout will be reflected in all single posts unless unique layout is set for specific post. To select the unique Layout for any particular post edit that page and Choose the Layout from Layout option box.
Custom CSS Box
- Himalayas have Custom CSS Box which will ease your work if you need to add CSS in your site. Note: It will strip all the tags. Also, we strongly recommend not to edit the code in the theme’s file. All you changes will be lost if you update the theme. Use child theme instead.
Additional Options
Other Theme Related options
- Hide Blog post from Front Page
- Excerpt or Full Post Options.
- Excerpt Length
Excerpt Length allow user to limit the number of Words you wish to show on excerpt. Default value is 40 words.
- Read More
To change the Read more text in Posts Page: Blog, archive etc.
Read More in Posts page will not appear if you choose to show Full content in the Posts Page - Footer Copyright Editor
Edit the Copyright information in your footer. You can also use shortcodes: [the-year] for current year, [site-link] for your site link, [wp-link] for WordPress site link and [tg-link] for ThemeGrill site link.
All the blog post are displayed in home by default. If widget are placed in Front Page Sidebar than Posts will appear below the widgets. If Static page is selected in Setting-> Reading than page content will display instead of posts. Check the Box to hide the Blog post/page.
Some use wants to display the excerpt of page/post while other wants Full Content of the post on their archive pages. So, we have included this feature in our theme. Just select the appropriate option.
How to limit the excerpt text
Steps
- First Go to the service widget page or post in your dashboard.
- Just below the page editor you will see the excerpt box
- If you don’t see the excerpt box. Scroll to the top and you will see the screen options on the right hand side corner.
- Click it and check the Excerpt box. Now you should see the excerpt box below the editor.
- Fill the excerpt box with the desired amount of text that you want to show.
How to Setup Blog page?
Steps
- First go to Settings->Reading->Front Page displays->A static page (select below).
- Now from Posts page: dropdown select any page where you like to show blog post.
- Click Save Changes.
- Now go to Appearance->Menu and select the blog page you choose in step 2 as menu
- See all blog demo here Demo
Footer Setup
Setting up Footer Section
- Go to Appearance-> widgets and drag/select the widgets on the Footer Sidebar 1 to Footer Sidebar 4.
- To display the footer menu, create a menu and assign it to Footer menu. Please refer Menu Setup section to know how to create a menu
Supported Plugins
Plugins Supported
- Social Icons plugin by ThemeGrill
- Easy Social Sharing plugin by ThemeGrill
- Contact Form 7 plugin
- WP-PageNavi plugin
- Polylang plugin
- WPML plugin
Recommended Image Size
Since this theme heavily relies on the featured images of the post to be displayed the content of your site uniquely as it is best suited for the news/magazine site. So, we have created different recommended image size for this theme. Recommended image size (width*height) used in Spacious theme in px.
Image Sizes
- Recommended image size for Slider – 1350*700
- Recommended image size for Service Image – 470*280
- Recommended image size for Portfolio Image – 400*350
- Recommended image size for Team Image – 400*350
- Recommended image size for Featured Blog Post – 781*512