Installing Neu Theme

There are two ways to install Neu theme on your WordPress:

1. Installing via WordPress Dashboard

1. Navigate to your WordPress Admin Menu and open Appearance → Themes section
2. Switch to Install Themes tab
3. Select Upload
4. Browse for .zip file on your computer and install it
5. Activate theme

2. Installing via FTP

1. Open your FTP Client Application (example: FileZilla)
2. Fill the login details (host, username and password) then press Quickconnect
3. Go to ‘wp-content’ folder
4. Go to ‘themes’ folder
5. Extract the neu.zip file into your local drive, search the current location and upload the neu folder

Got an error during installation process? Try the following:

• If you are upgrading the Neu theme via WordPress Admin menu open your ‘Neu.zip’ and rename the ‘Neu’ folder before uploading. Eg: neu2. Then press Enter
• Make sure you are using the latest version of WordPress
• Make sure your hosting is running the latest version of PHP and MySQL
  Try to upload manually via FTP (FileZilla)

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Neu Overview

Neu is a magazine WordPress theme that is designed for a news site with a huge amount of content

Neu Frontpage

Theme Panel

Neu is using a new version of our theme panel. This new panel will provide you to the more impressive experience to explore our themes.

There are 4 sub menus inside of it:

• Dashboard

Dashboard panel contains a lot of settings to customize Neu theme. Within this panel you can configure the theme, customize its layout and optimize your website’s SEO. Just drag and drop the option from the left column into the right column to show all sub-options inside of it.

• Update Framework

You will be informed the version and the latest update of the theme panel framework that you are currenty using.

• Theme Info

Contains general information about Neu theme, such as product version, framework vesion, license type, and links to product support.

• Import Export Settings

Provides a feature for you to import or export your theme settings into a text file.

Page Template

Neu provides 3 page templates available:

Default Template

Contact Form Template

Sitemap Template

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Theme Options

There are many available options to customize the theme, social networking, thumbnail images and also contact settings.

General Settings

Go to Neu → Dashboard → Theme Options → General Settings. This provides general settings for your website:

1. Custom logo: Upload an image or enter an external image URL to set your website’s logo
2. Text Title: Enable text based logo on your website within this option. Set your website title and desctiption in Settings → General. If this option is enabled, there are 2 additional options:
   • Site Title: Specify how the site title looks like. Set the font type, size, style and color
   • Site Description: Specify how the site description looks like. Set the font type, size, style and color
3. Custom Favicon: Set your website’s favicon. Upload a 16x16px .ico image. Click here to generate your favicon
4. Pagination Style: Choose which style of pagination you would like to use on your site
5. Display Breadcrumbs: Show/hide dynamic breadcrumb on each page of your site
6. Display Excerpt Length: Specify the number of words you would like to show as an excerpt in the slider section
7. Presstrends tracking: Presstrends tracking is our feature to know how our customer use our theme, we use this feature for the next upgrade of theme you use. Your privacy will be safe because nothing of your information will be leaked

Frontpage Settings

Go to Neu → Dashboard → Theme Options → Frontpage Settings. This provides setting to specify how many post you would like to show in the featured section of your frontpage.

Layout Settings

Go to Neu → Dashboard → Theme Options → Layout Settings. This provides settings to specify your website layout. There are 5 options included:

1. Frontpage Featured Post Layout: Choose layout you prefer to use as your frontpage layout
2. Default Featured Post Layout: Choose layout you prefer to use as your page layout (except the frontpage)
3. Featured Category: Choose any category you would like to use as the featured category
4. Show/Hide Excerpt on Latest Post: Show or hide excerpt on the latest post section in your frontpage
5. Default Content Layout: Choose any layout for the default content layout

Single Post Settings

Go to Neu → Dashboard → Theme Options → Single Post Settings. This provides settings to configure the single post page. There are 4 options included:

1. Post/Page Comments: Choose which section on your site you would like to enable comment system
2. Enable Post Author Box: Enable or disable the author box below the post section
3. Show Embed/Image: Choose between embed code or image code you would like to show on the single post page
4. Single Image Dimensions: Specify a size for the image in the single post page

Thumbnail Settings

Go to Neu → Dashboard → Theme Options → Thumbnail Settings. Provide settings to configure how the theme will generate the thumbnail images and its size:

1. WordPress Featured Image:Enable this feature if you prefer to use this feature to generate thumbnail images on your website. If you enable this, there are two additional options:
   • Dynamic Resize: If this options is enabled, the thumbnail in each post will be resized dynamically using WordPress native function
   • Hard Crop: The original image will be cropped to match the target aspect ratio
2. Timthumb Image Resizer: If you enable this feature, the script will dynamically re-size images added through post custom field
3. Automatic Thumbnail: Enable this feature to allow the theme generates post thumbnail automatically from the first image in post
4. Thumbnail Images in RSS Feed: Enable this feature to allow the theme generates post thumbnail in RSS feed article
5. Thumbnail Image Dimennsions: You can specify the thumbnail image size that you are going to use on your website

Analytics ID, RSS Feed

Go to Neu → Dashboard → Theme Options → Analytics ID, RSS Feed. In this section, you can:

1. Put your google analytics code in your website
2. Put your GoSquared token
3. Specify your feedburner URL
4. Specify the feedburner comments URL

Social Networking

Go to Neu → Dashboard → Theme Options → Social Networking. Specify your social networking accounts that you are going to integrate to your website. There are Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, LinkedIn, Vimeo and Google+ account available. Also you can enable/disable Social Share Button you would like to display on the single post and pages. There are Facebook Like Button, Twitter Share Button and Google +1 Button available.

Footer Settings

Go to Neu → Dashboard → Theme Options → Footer Settings. In this section, you can configure how your website footer looks like. There are 5 settings included:

1. Enable/Disable Footer Logo: Enable or disable logo on the footer section
2. Footer Logo: Upload an image or enter an external image URL to set your website’s footer logo
3. Footer Menu: Enable or disable menu on the footer section
4. Enable/Disable Custom Credit (Right): Enable this feature to add custom credit on the footer section
5. Footer Credit: Specify a text to be displayed as a custom credit on the footer section

Top Header Ad

Go to Neu → Dashboard → Theme Options → Top Header Ad. Specify the settings of the top ad on your website. There are many options available:

1. Enable Ad: Enable or disable Top Ad on your website
2. Adsense Code: Specify your adsense code or another network code
3. Image Location: Upload an image or enter an external image URL to be displayed as a top banner on your website
4. Destination URL: Specify a URL as a destination where the top ad points to

Contact Form

Go to Neu → Dashboard → Theme Options → Contact to specify your email address which will be used in the contact form at your website.

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SEO Settings

This panel provides settings to maximize your website with Search Engine Optimization.

Page Title

Go to Neu → Dashboard → SEO Settings → Page Title. In this section, there are options to set how the title of every page at your website that will be displayed.

1. Blog Title: Specify a text you want to display as a blog title
2. Blog Description: Specify a sentence you want to display as a blog description
3. Separator: Specify a character you would like to use as a separator in page title
4. Custom Page Titles: Enable or disable this feature on your website. If you enable this option, there are available additional options. They are:
   • Homepage Title Layout: You can define the order of the elements on your homepage
   • Single Title Layout: You can define the order of the elements on the single title layout
   • Page Title Layout: You can define the order of the elements on the page title layout
   • Archive Title Layout: You can define the order of the elements on the archive title layout
   • Page Number: You can specify a text that precedes page number in page titles
   • Page Number Position: You can define the position you want to display the page number on your website

Description Meta

Go to Neu → Dashboard → SEO Settings → Description Meta. In this section, there are options to set meta description of your website. They are:

1. Homepage Description: There are 3 available options to choose. Each option describes the source where the home page meta description is populated
2. Custom Homepage Description: Specify a decription of your homepage
3. Single Page/Post Description: There are 3 available options you can choose the source where the single page/post meta description is populated
4. Global Post/Page Description: Enable or disable custom meta description on your posts and pages

Keyword Meta

Go to Neu → Dashboard → SEO Settings → Keyword Meta. In this section, there are options to set keyword meta of your website. They are:

1. Homepage Keywords: There are 2 available options to choose. Each option describes the source where the homepage meta keywords is populated
2. Custom Homepage Keywords: Specify a custom homepage keywords of your website. Separate each keyword using comma
3. Single Page/Post Keywords: There are 3 available options you can choose the source where the single page/post meta keywords is populated
4. Global Post/Page Keywords: Enable or disable custom meta keywords on your posts and pages

Indexing Options

Go to Neu → Dashboard → SEO Settings → Indexing options. There are options available:

1. Archive Pages to Index: Select which archive page to be indexed
2. Add Follow Meta to Posts and Pages: Enable or disable a feature to add follow meta in all of your posts and pages

Advanced Options

Go to Neu → Dashboard → SEO Settings → Advanced options. There is an available option to enable or disable 3rd party plugin data and also there is an option to hide ColorLabs SEO Settings box from the post and page editing screens.

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