FAQ

Getting Started with Flothemes

The following article explains what is required when getting started with Flothemes. You need the following elements, hosting, a domain and WordPress.org.

Flothemes Image Sizes

What are the best size images for your Flothemes? When uploading images to the web there are a number of things to take into consideration, such as what is the image being used for, how large should the file be, and what type of image should be used for different items on your site. Remember […]

Full Screen Images for Web and Where You've Went Wrong

A common daily question we receive is about full screen image sizes. The following article aims to cover some details on “full screen” image sizing, why full screen is not correct for the web, and how using standard ratio images won’t work for Full Size slideshows. Before we get started, this is general guidelines, we can’t […]

How to Update Themes

You have your new theme, and now you want to update it, the following tutorial explains how to update your Flothemes site. NOTE! You’ll see a message that warns you that you’ll loose the customizations made to the theme. Only customizations/changes made to the theme files will be lost, if you are going to customize the […]

Number of posts per page

Very often you’ll want to change how many posts are showing on your Blog page or any other archive page.  In this case you’ll have to go to WP dashboard and check Settings->Reading and edit ‘Blog pages show at most’ option:

Page Templates

With Flothemes you get the possibility to create unique pages with our page building system. You can get an overview of how that works for the new themes below. To learn more about the specific page types per theme, refer to the individual themes documentation.

Recommended Plug-ins

In the following article we share some recommended plugins for different uses on your site.

Translate Theme

Each theme contains a ‘languages’ or ‘lang’ folder where you’ll find a .po file. That file contains the strings that can be translated. Firstly you’ll need a tool allowing you to translate .po file into your language. You can use Poedit app, or CodeStyling Localization WordPress Plugin. http://www.poedit.net/ http://www.code-styling.de/english/development/wordpress-plugin-codestyling-localization-en And here is a video that […]

Remove Footer Copyright

We are often asked how the Flothemes footer copyright can be removed from the themes. None of the themes allow to do that. But there is a plugin that will help you to remove it. All you have to do is to get the Flo Footer Credits plugin and install it. After the plugin is […]

Title decoration icons

Some of our themes have an option to add decoration icons for the titles. For example you can check how it works for Rebecca theme. For the themes which have this option and our demos are featuring it, we provide those icons. They can be downloaded from My account page.

Common PHP WordPress Errors and how to solve them

PHP errors tend to be a common issue for users that are on older servers, this tends to be an issue with lower quality hosting providers. The following errors may occur when activating your new theme, adding plugins or uploading content to WordPress. The following tutorial covers the most common PHP WordPress errors and how […]

Flo Forms Issues

The following article reviews email issues that may occur when using the Flo Forms plugin and how to solve them. There are a number of reasons why you may not receive emails: Your hosting server mail function may not be configured Your email is sent to spam Your email is blocked due to using the senders email […]

Optimizing your WordPress Site

There are a number of reasons why a site may be slow. The main factors are usually low-cost servers which are often slow, inefficient code as well as large images. These three are the main troublemakers when it comes to your website’s poor performance. In most of the other cases, you can solve the problem […]