You can access Theme Options by going to WPlook Panel → Theme Options from the WordPress toolbar, or Appearance → Theme Options from the main menu.

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In order to access the general settings go to Settings → General.

Site title

Enter the name of your site (or blog) here. Most themes will display this title, at the top of every page, and in the reader’s browser titlebar. WordPress also uses this title as the identifying name for your syndication feeds (RSS).

Tagline

In a few words, explain what your site is about. Your sites’s slogan, or tagline, might be entered here. A tagline is short phrase, or sentence, used to convey the essence of the site and is often funny or eye-catching.

WordPress Address (URL)

Enter the full URL of the directory containing your WordPress core application files (e.g., wp-config.php, wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes). For example, if you installed WordPress into a directory called blog, then the WordPress address would be http://example.net/blog (where example.net is your domain). If you installed WordPress into your web root, this address will be the root URL http://example.net. WordPress will trim a slash (/) from the end.

Site Address (URL)

Enter the address you want people to type in their browser to reach your WordPress site. This is the directory where WordPress’s main index.php file is installed. The Site address (URL) is identical to the WordPress address (URL) (above) unless you are giving WordPress its own directory. WordPress will trim a slash (/) from the end.

E-mail Address

Enter the e-mail address to which you want WordPress to send messages regarding the administration and maintenance of your WordPress site.

For example, if you allow new users to register as a member of your site (see Membership below), then a notification will be sent through e-mail to this address. In addition, if the option, An administrator must always approve the comment, is set in Administration → Settings → Discussion, this e-mail address will receive notification that the comment is being held for moderation.

Please note this is different than the address you supplied for the admin user account; the admin account e-mail address is sent an e-mail only when someone submits a comment to a post by admin. The address you enter here will never be displayed on the site. You can send messages to multiple admins by using an email address which forwards email to multiple recipients.

Membership

Check the Anyone can register checkbox if you want anyone to be able to register an account on your site.

New User Default Role

This pull-down box allows you to select the default Role that is assigned to new users. This Default Role will be assigned to newly registered members or users added via the administration panel.

Timezone

From the pulldown box, choose a city in the same timezone as you. For example, under America, select New York if you reside in the Eastern Timezone of the United States that honors daylight savings times. If you can’t identify a city in your timezone, select one of the Manual Offsets that represents the number of hours by which your time differs from Greenwich Mean Time. Click the Save Changes button and the UTC time and “Local time” will display to confirm the correct Timezone was selected.

Date Format

The format in which to display dates on your site. This setting controls the format the theme displays dates in, but does not control how the date is displayed in the administrative panel. Select one of the proposed formats or see Formatting Date and Time in the WordPress documentation for more available formats.

Time Format

The format in which to display times on your site. This setting controls the format the theme displays times in, but does not control how the time is displayed in the administrative panel. Select one of the proposed formats or see Formatting Date and Time in the WordPress documentation for more available formats.

Week Starts On

Select your preferred start date for WordPress calendars from the drop-down box. Monday is the default setting for this drop-down, meaning a monthly calendar will show Monday in the first column. If you want your calendar to show Sunday as the first column, then select Sunday from the drop-down.

Site Language

The language for the WordPress administration panel as well as the front-end of the site. Read Configuring Site Language for information on how languages in WordPress work and how to translate the theme into your own language.

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Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual pages and blog posts, as well as your category and tag archives. A permalink is the web address used to link to your content. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence the name permalink.

The Settings → Permalinks screen allows you to choose your default permalink structure. You can choose from common settings or create custom URL structures. You must click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen for new settings to take effect.

By default, WordPress uses web URLs which have day and name in them; however, WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives. This can improve the aesthetics, usability, and forward-compatibility of your links.

Common settings

Check one of the radio buttons corresponding to the correct Permalink Structure for your blog.

• Default: An example of the default structure is http://www.sample.com/?p=123, where the number represents the post ID.
• Day and name: An example of the day and name based structure is http://www.sample.com/2008/03/31/sample-post/.
• Month and name: An example of the month and name based structure is http://www.sample.com/2008/03/sample-post/.
• Numeric: An example of the numeric structure is http://www.sample.com/archives/123.
• Post name: An example of the post name structure is http://www.sample.com/sample-post.
• Custom structure: In the box specify the custom structure you desire to use. One example is /archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/.

While it’s most likely one of the default structures will be sufficient for your site, you can read about custom structures in the Structure Tags section of the WordPress documentation.

Optional

You may enter custom bases for your category and tag URLs here. For example, using /topics/ as your category base would make your category links like http://example.org/topics/uncategorized/. If you leave these blank the defaults will be used.

• Category base: Enter a custom prefix for your category URLs here.
• Tag base: Enter a custom prefix for your tag URLs here.

Saving your changes

Click the Save Changes button to ensure any changes you have made to your Settings are saved to your database. Once you click the button, a confirmation text box will appear at the top of the page telling you your settings have been saved. After you’ve clicked this button, you should receive one of two messages depending on whether your .htaccess file is writeable. For information on how to make .htaccess writeable, see Changing File Permissions.

If .htaccess is writeable, you will get a message that says “Permalink structure updated.” You’re all set; WordPress has been able to do everything for you automatically.

If .htaccess is not writeable, you will see a message at the top of the screen that says “You should update your .htaccess now.”.

Near the bottom of the screen you will see “If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.” This means you’ll have to do one extra step yourself. In the text box at the bottom of the Screen, WordPress displays several lines of rewrite rules associated with the Permalink Structure you designated above. You need to manually copy everything in this text box into your .htaccess file to make your new Permalinks work.

Visiting the Permalinks screen triggers a flush of rewrite rules. There is no need to save just to flush the rewrite rules.

If you’re writing your .htaccess file on your own local computer, remember, some operating systems do not allow the creation of a file named “.htaccess” because of the initial dot (“.”). You can always name the file without the initial dot or with a standard extension (e.g. “htaccess.txt”). Once the file is uploaded to your weblog’s directory, rename it with your FTP software. Most FTP Clients should provide you a way to rename files this.

Files that begin with a dot (“.”) like “.htaccess” are hidden on most servers by default. Consult the userguide or FAQ of the FTP software you use to find out how to have the software display these hidden files, and also how to use the software to change file permissions, rename files, etc.

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Contact forms in WPlook Studio themes are managed using the Contact Form 7 plugin. It’s a well established plugin, with support for many languages as well as other features which make it the chosen plugin to include in our themes, such as Google reCAPTCHA support for preventing spam. Follow the instructions in Required Plugins to install the plugin.

Most shared hosting accounts on which WordPress will run won’t have any problems sending emails – but if you do experience issues, check the Setting Up Mail article.

Adding Contact Forms

Individual contact forms in Contact Form 7 are managed in the Contact screen found in the navigation sidebar in the WordPress Administration Panel. This screen lists all available contact forms.

From here you can click Add New at the top of the screen to add a new form. You will be taken to the Edit Contact Form screen.

This screen is similar to WordPress’ standard Edit Post screen, however, it allows for editing forms rather than standard post content. To get started, give your new contact form a title.

Form

To add a new field to your form, enter the following at the point in the form text where you’d like the field to appear.

<label> Field Name </label>

Put the cursor just before the </label> tag, and click one of the buttons above the text area to add that type of field. The following field types are accepted:

• text: A standard, one line text input.
• email: An email field. Mobile users are given e-mail suggestions and a keyboard with e-mail specific characters and autocorrect is disabled.
• URL: A link field. Mobile users are shown a keyboard with URL specific characters and autocorrect is disabled.
• tel: A telephone number field. Mobile users are shown a number-only keyboard and phone number suggestions.
• number: A generic number field. Mobile users are shown a number-only keyboard.
• date: A date field. Both mobile and desktop users are shown a date picker.
• text area: A bigger input area for generic, longer text.
• drop-down menu: A dropdown menu with a selection of options, from which the user must pick one.
• checkboxes: A list of checkable boxes, of which the user can select multiple. Must be placed outside of the <label> tag.
• radio buttons: A list of checkable boxes, of which the user can select one. Must be placed outside of the <label> tag.
• acceptance: A checkbox for making the user accept terms and conditions.
• quiz: A single way of checking if the form submission is generated by a human or is spam. Displays an obvious question with a simple answer to it, to make sure the user is real.
• reCAPTCHA: A reliable way of checking if the submission is real or spam. Requires a Google account to create API keys for it.
• file: A file upload field.
• submit: A button for completing the form submission.

The pop-up window displayed after clicking on a button gives more options, such as whether the field will be required or not, as well as information about more specific field settings. For example, this is the window displayed when inserting a text field:

Most of the fields share common options, including the following:

• Field type: Check the box to mark this field as required.
• Name: The name of the field, used to refer to it in the email template.
• Default value: The default value of the input field. Check the Use this text as the placeholder of the field checkbox to have the text disappear once the user clicks the field.
• Id attribute: The ID of the field, used for customising the look of the field with CSS code.
• Class attribute: Space separated CSS classes of the field, used for customising the look of the field with CSS code.

Mail

The Mail section is where the settings for this form are stored. All of these fields accept the tags which are listed at the top of the section – these come from the names of the field you entered in the Form section.

• To: The recipient of the emails generated by the form. This is usually your own e-mail address.
• From: The sender of the email form, usually in the format [your-name] <wordpress@wordpress.dev>, where [your-name] is the tag used in the Form section for the user’s name, and <wordpress@wordpress.dev> is an e-mail address on your server. Using an e-mail address in the same domain as your WordPress installation helps prevent sent e-mails being detected as spam.
• Subject: The subject of the message sent.
• Additional Headers: Additional mail headers, for advanced purposes. A useful line to include here is Reply-To: [your-email], where [your-email] is the field containing the sender’s email. This makes your email client default to responding to the sender when you reply to a message sent from this contact form.
• Message Body: The content of the message. This is the place to include tags for fields set up in the Form section.
• File Attachments: A list of attachments included with this email. If you used a file field in your form, this is the place to include the tag with its’ name.

Messages

The Messages section contains strings for every possible response to the contact form – such as failures and successes. By default, they’re displayed in the language your site is set to, but you can customize them here.

Additional Settings

The area for additional code snippets used for customisation. Find out more in the Additional Settings article on the Contact Form 7 website.

Tips For Authoring Contact Forms

The default Contact Form 7 form largely does the job for most contact forms. However, here’s a few tips to keep in mind.

Make sure that unless you’re using multiple control elements, such as [checkbox], both the label and element tag are placed inside the <label></label> tags, as this aids accessibility. Doing this is demonstrated in Contact Form 7’s default form.

Also make sure to use either the [quiz] or [reCAPTCHA] elements, as these prevent your forms from being targeted by spam bots. ReCAPTCHA is the more reliable form of spam prevention, but it requires getting API keys from Google. Find out how to do this in the reCAPTCHA article on Contact Form 7’s website.

Displaying Contact Forms

To display a contact form, copy the shortcode with the blue background under the form title and paste it onto any of your posts or pages, for example, a page titled Contact.

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If the language you want to use for your site is not available, you can create the translation yourself. To do this, download the Poedit software for free from the Poedit website. They also offer a paid version specifically for WordPress, but you only need to download the free version from their homepage.

If you translated the theme in your language and want to share the translation with the community, just submit a ticket and we will include it in the next update. Thank you so much for your contribution!

The Translation Process

1. Once you’ve downloaded and installed PoEdit, launch it and click Create new translation.

2. Open the .pot file found in your theme’s languages/ directory.

3. Select the language of your translation.

4. Go to File → Save As… and save the file in the theme’s languages/ directory using a filename taken from the WP Locale column of the Translate WordPress page. For example, if your site is set to French, use fr_FR.po as your filename, or if your site is set to a more specific language, like English (UK), use en_GB.po.

5. Translate each of the strings in the top window by typing it’s translation into the text area at the bottom of the window.

• You might encounter some strings which contain things like %d, %s, or %1$s. These are simply placeholders for non-static items, such as dates or numbers. Strings may also occasionally contain HTML. Copy these exactly into the translated phrase in the appropriate place.

• Some strings, usually those including placeholders, include context, so you know what the placeholders represent and you can translate it so it makes sense in your language. This is displayed above the Source text textbox.

• You might also encounter strings which include singular and plural versions. Click the Singular or Plural tabs in Poedit to edit the respective versions of this string.

6. Once you’ve finished your translation, export your translation as a .mo file. To do this, go to File → Compile to MO…. Save this alongside your original translation file, using the same language code, resulting in a name such as fr_FR.mo.

7. To enable your translation in WordPress, follow the steps in Configuring Site Language.

Updating Translations

If you’ve done a translation for a previous version of the theme, you will need to update it when theme updates are released. Nearly every theme update adds new strings or removes obsolete strings. To do this, open your existing .po file and go to Catalogue → Update from POT File… and select the .pot file from the latest version of the theme.

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WordPress uses a single setting to control the language of the administration panel, plugins and themes. If the files for your chosen language exist in the theme, WordPress will automatically use them.

The theme supports English and French out of the box. It’s easy to add your own languages — see how to do this on the How To Add a New Language page.

You can set the site language of your WordPress installation in Settings → General.

WordPress Administration Panel → Settings → General

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If your site needs to be available in multiple languages, you can set up a WordPress multisite installation, with each site running the theme, to make your site appear multilingual. This method is completely free, allows every language to work independently of other languages, but on the other hand, it requires more configuration, as the settings of every site are independent of the other sites.

Setting Up a Multisite Installation

1. Follow the Create A Network guide from the WordPress Codex. It is recommended to set up the network using subdirectories rather than domains.
2. Once you’ve set up the network, add a site for every language you want by selecting My Sites → Network Admin → Sites from the WordPress admin bar at the top of the administration panel, and selecting Add New. Use common language codes, such as es and fr to keep your URLs short. You do not need to add a site for the default version of your site, only the alternative languages you are going to add.

3. For every site created, set up theme as you would normally. Remember to follow the Configuring Site Language instructions for every site you add, so the theme as well as your content are translated.
4. For every site, build a language menu. Head to Appearance → Menus from the WordPress administration panel and build a menu linking to every other language site you have built. Make sure to tick Language Menu under Theme locations so the list of languages is displayed in the site header.

Using Plugins

If creating a new site from scratch for every language doesn’t suit you, a plugin which allows you to add different language versions of each post might be more suitable. Read more about them in the Adding New Languages section of the WordPress Codex.

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The Architect a unique and fully Responsive WordPress Theme designed for Architects & Design Agencies that want to publish projects, updates and news.

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To run WordPress we recommend your host supports:

• PHP version 5.6 or greater, (Preferable 7.0.0+ )
• MySQL version 5.6 or greater

That’s really it. We recommend Apache or Nginx as the most robust and featureful server for running WordPress, but any server that supports PHP and MySQL will do.

Ask for it

Here’s a letter you can send to your host; copy and paste!

I’m interested in running the open-source WordPress web software and I was wondering if my account supported the following:

• PHP 5.6 or greater
• MySQL 5.6 or greater
• The mod_rewrite Apache module

Thanks!

To run our theme we recommend:

• WordPress 4.4 or higher
• PHP version 5.6 or greater, (Preferable 7.0.0+ )
• MySQL version 5.6 or greater

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Upload the Theme

Using FTP

To add a new theme to your WordPress installation you must follow these basic steps:

1. Download the theme archive and extract the files it contains.
2. Use a FTP client (we recommend FileZilla) to access your host web server and upload the extracted folder, named thearchitect-wpl, to the wp-content/themes/ directory.
3. Follow the below instructions to activate the theme.

Using the Administration Panel

1. Download the theme archive and extract the files it contains.
2. Log into the WordPress Administration Panel.
3. Select the Appearance → Themes from the main menu.
4. Click on Add New at the top of the page.
5. Click on Upload Theme at the top of the page.
6. Click Upload, select the theme archive you’ve downloaded in step 1, named thearchitect-wpl.zip and click Install Now.
7. Follow the below instructions to activate the theme.

Activate the Theme

1. Log into the WordPress Administration Panel.

2. Select the Appearance → Themes from the main menu.

3. Hover over TheArchitect WPL and click on Activate to enable the theme.

Update the theme

1. Make a Backup.
2. Log into the WordPress Administration Panel.
3. Select the Appearance → Themes from the main menu.
4. Activate another theme, like the WordPress’ default, Twenty Sixteen.
5. Delete the theme (TheArchitect WPL).
6. Upload the thearchitect-wpl.zip file as described above.
7. Activate the theme you used before the update.

If you are also using the TheArchitect Child Theme, never update or delete it, and update the parent theme, TheArchitect WPL instead. Updating the child theme will cause you to lose custom modifications to your site.

Troubleshooting

Missing Stylesheet

A common issue that can occur with users new to installing WordPress themes is a “Stylesheet is missing” error message being displayed when trying to upload or activate the theme.

This error message does not mean that the theme is not working, it simply means it has been uploaded incorrectly. Luckily, there is a very easy fix.

If you have uploaded the theme though the WordPress Administration Panel, try deleting the theme from your site and uploading the thearchitect-wpl.zip file again.

If you uploaded the theme using FTP, navigate to the theme directory (wp-content/themes/thearchitect-wpl/) and try uploading the style.css file again.

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