For Marketers

Trending
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Free One Page Wordpress Theme: Shapely (With Videos Tutorials)


The design of your site helps to attract the attention of your readers and adds value to your work.

Wordpress gives us the ability to customize our site to give it a nice look and then  enhance the user experience. However, finding a good theme isn’t an easy deal !

But, don‘t worry !

In todays post, I will share with you one of the best and powerful Wordpress themes !

Introduction To Shapely - Advanced One Page Wordpress Theme :

Shapely is a powerful one page wordpress theme with pixel perfect design and some advanced functionality.

This wonderful thème contains various homepage widgets that allows you to create :
  • Portfolio
  • Testimonials
  • Parallax
  • Call To actions
  • Sections
  • Product or service information
And much more…

Shapely support most popular plugings to add value to your Wordpress site such as :
  • Yoast SEO
  • Google Analytics by Yoast
  • WooCommerce
  • Jetpack
  • Gravity Forms
  • Contact Form 7
Shapely Wordpress theme is responsive and mobile freindly, soi t can be used in any device (Android, iPhone, iPad, Computer…)

This theme is perfect for :
  • Business
  • Landing pages
  • Portfolio
  • Ecommerce
  • Store
  • local business
  • personal websites
  • Blog
  • Magazine
Shapely one page portfolio Wordpress theme is SEO freindly which means that it helps you getting the best results in the search engines.

Theme Features:

Responsive  Design :

  • Developed using Bootstrap 3 frontend framework which makes it fully responsive and optimized for all mobile devices (iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phones).
  • It executes “Mobile First” approach.


Retina Ready:

  • Razor sharp text
  • vibrant colors
  • stunning graphics
  • sharp images
  • premium feel  and beautiful vectorized icons on HiDPI (Retina) displays.


WordPress Customizer Support :

  • Comes with dozens of options for additional customization.
  • You can edit footer copyright information
  • change element color
  • add hero image
  • tweak sections
and much more…

Hero Image :

  • Fullscreen hero image will make your most important content to stand out.
  • Great to call to actions.


Awesome Support :

  • We have an outstanding support team and we will help you resolving all your issues as soon as possible.
  • Some additional services and website development services are also included.

Feel FREE to ask your questions in the comment section below !

One Page :

Shapely theme features a sleek one page layout which is well suited for business and landing page style websites.

Plugin Support :

This theme supports most if not all free and premium WordPress plugins. We did extra optimization for most popular plugins such as :
  • Contact Form 7
  • WordPress SEO Plugin
  • Jetpack
  • W3 Total Cache
  • iThemes Security
  • Easy Bootstrap Shortcodes

And much more !

WooCommerce:

WooCommerce is no longer a premium theme feature and you can get it now for free. Set up your own eCommerce website/store today !

Translation Ready :

This theme is translation and multilingual ready.

Font Awesome Icons :

This theme has a built in Font Awesome support. These are vector based icons that can be used in any color and size anywhere in the website.

Unlimited Color Options:

Shapely Wordpress theme comes with unlimited color options. There are several one-click color pickers to change colors for each and every theme element.

Theme Documentation :

Let's discover together how we can install Shapely Wordpress theme on our website!


How To Install Shapely Theme On Wordpress?

Shapely is a free one page Wordpress Theme that you can download by clicking the following link:
Once the theme is downloaded to your local computer, follow these steps:
  1. Go to your Wordpress dashboard
  2. Click Appearance
  3. Click "themes"then "Add New"
  4. Upload the Shapely.zip 
Once the install completed, click "Activate" to activate your Wordpress theme.

The video below will teach you how to do it the right way!


How To Import a Demo Content And Widgets Content:

One of the things that makes wordpress very powerful is the possibility of uploading a demo content to your Wordpress website. You can also import widgets content.

Here's a short tutorial to show you how to upload a demo content and a widgets content to your Wordpress site:

Importing the Demo Content:

First of all, download Shapely demo content using the link below:
Once the demo content downloaded, unzip it and you'Il find two files (shapely-demo.xml and shapely-widgets.wie) then follow these steps:
  1. Go to your Wordpress dashboard > Tools > Import > Wordpress and upload your demo content file (shapely-demo.xml)
  2. Change your website from blog layout to static website. to do that go to Wordpress dashboard > Setting > Reading > Front Page Displays > A Static Page(Select below).

Installing The Wordpress Widgets Content:

You need a plugin called "Widget Importer & Exporter". You can find it as follow: 
  1. Go to your Wordpress dashboard > Plugins > Add New
  2. Once the plugin installed go to your Wordpress dashboard > Tools > Widget Importer and Exporter then import the "shapely-widgets.wie" file download earlier.
Here's a video tutorial that shows you step-by-step how to import your demo content and widgets content to your own Wordpress site:



How To Set up The Front/Home Page Manually:

If you don't want to import a demo content to your Wordpress website, in the next steps I will show you how to do it manually:
  1. Go to Wordpress dashboard > Pages > Add New to create a new page called "Front Page".
  2. Go To "Page Attributes" (on the right side of your post editor) to change the template of your front page. Choose "Home Page" From the template downtown. Click "Update" to save changes.
  3. Once this page is ready to use, all you have to do is to set it as a Home Page. Go to Wordpress dashboard > Setting > Reading > Front page displays > A Static page(you must select below) then select the newly page created previously.
Here's a short tutorial that shows you how to create your Wordpress front page manually:


If you didn't upload the demo content to your Wordpress site, you'Il see only a black page instead of content, therefore if you won't your home page to look as mentionned previously so we will explain in the next steps how to do it step-by-step withoud the need of uploading a demo content.

How To Set Up A Portfolio Section:

I have mentionned previously in this guide that you need a Jetpack Wordpress plugin. if you didn't already install it, please go to: your Wordpress dashboard > Plugins > Add New and type "Jetpack" into the search box then hit enter!
Once you make sure that the plugin is well installed and activated, follow these steps:
  1. Go to Jetpack > Setting > enable the Custom Content Types then click "Configure".
  2. Your Wordpress site is ready to add portfolio items, to do it go to your Wordpress dashboard > Portfolio > Add New.
  3. Set the portfolio widget to be displayed in the front page. to do that go to your Wordpress dashboard > Appearrance > Customize > Widgets > Homepage then select [Shapely] Portfolio Home Widget.
The video below will show you exactly how to create your Wordpress portfolio widget step-by-step:



How To Set Up Parallax and aligned images Sections:


Shapely Wordpress theme allows you to create parallax and aligned image sections on your Wordpress site.

There is two kind of parallax:
  • Small; With small background
  • Full Screen: With full screen background
It's simple to add parallax to your Wordpress site: Go to your Wordpress dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Widgets > Homepage > Add Parallax widget.

There are 4 options for image alignment: left, right, top and bottom.
You can change the position on your "Parallax Widget".

Here's a short video tutorial to show you exaxctly how to install parallax and image alignment on your Wordpress site:



How To Add Testimonials section on your Wordpress Site:

Adding testimonials to your site in Wordpress can give more value to your content. 

You can simply add new testimonials by going to your Wordpress dashboard > Testimonials > Add New

Final Words:

Blogging through Wordpress is a wonderful experience that allows you to share your opinions and knowledge with the world! 

If you don't have already a web hosting provider, I suggest that you try Hostgator Web Hosting. It's an awesome web hosting provider that can help your Wordpress site to grow easily!

Hostgator allows to create your first Wordpress site using the One Click Wordpress Install technology so you can start your site within the next 3 minutes. 

Speacial Offer!

The One Penny Coupon Code Provided By BloggingMMO.online: 
ONEPENNYBLOGGINGMMO

You May Also Like:




HostGator Web Hosting
Free One Page Wordpress Theme: Shapely (With Videos Tutorials) Reviewed by Unknown on 4:03 PM Rating: 5 The design of your site helps to attract the attention of your readers and adds value to your work. Wordpress gives us the ability...
Next
This is the most recent post
Older Post

1 comment:

  1. Great article! by the way I recommend hostgator web hosting as mentionned earlier in this article!

    ReplyDelete