Cindy WordPress Theme User Manual

Thank you and congratulations for using a theme by WebMan Design!

This user manual will teach you how to set up and use the theme. In case you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this documentation, please join WebMan Design support forum. Enjoy your Cindy WordPress theme!

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WordPress

WordPress is free open source CMS software for creating websites. It can scale with your needs when you're ready to grow and is easy to learn with many free and low-cost tutorials. You can learn more about WordPress at wordpress.org.

What is a theme?

A WordPress theme changes the way your site looks and affects the style of the content displayed on it. WordPress themes are built so you can change your site's design without losing content. As you are reading a user manual for a WordPress theme and it requires WordPress to run, let's install it first.

Installing WordPress

You can run WordPress locally on your computer, or install and use it on your web hosting account (what kind of web hosting should you use?).

Securing WordPress

You can improve your WordPress installation security taking these steps:

  • Set the security keys in wp-config.php file.
  • Do not use admin as user name and set strong passwords!
  • After installation is done, remove wp-admin/install.php file.
  • Keep backups of the database and WordPress files.
  • Keep your WordPress installation, plugins and themes up to date!
  • Strengthen security further with additional specialized plugins.

Tutorials

Beginner tutorials, resources for first steps with WordPress:

Websites & Articles:

Videos:

Theme Installation

Warning: Theme requirements

Cindy requires at least WordPress 5.2 and PHP 7.0 to work properly. Please make sure to meet the requirements.

  1. (Re)download the theme package ZIP folder from the marketplace where you've purchased the theme from.
  2. Log into your WordPress admin.
  3. In WordPress admin navigate to Appearance → Themes and click the Add New button next to "Themes" page title.
  4. On "Add Themes" screen click the Upload Theme button next to page title.
  5. On the next screen choose the theme ZIP package file you've downloaded in step 1 above and click the Install Now button.
  6. After the theme is installed, activate it by clicking the "Activate" link.
  7. Now you can go to Appearance → Welcome page for information on how to set up your website (and the theme). Also, please pay special attention to your website image sizes setup.

Important: Envato Market

If you've obtained the theme from ThemeForest (Envato Market), please make sure to unpack the downloaded ZIP package on your computer first and check if you are uploading the correct theme ZIP file (or the whole theme folder).

Basically, the theme installation ZIP file or folder is named with your theme slug only, so only cindy.

Do not install a whole ZIP package that contains other files such as documentation, child theme, licencing and others. Install only the file under cindy-package/theme folder. Otherwise you might experience a common issue.

Tip: Welcome page

Don't forget to check the theme welcome page at Appearance → Welcome. It contains everything you need to start.

Tip: Get info about updates

Get fast information about new theme updates by subscribing to WebMan Design on Facebook and Twitter.

Theme Updates

You will be notified in the WordPress admin each time a new updated theme version is available. Install the update following instructions below.

Tip: Info on social networks

If there is a specific procedure required during update, this will be shared on the Facebook and Twitter pages.

Important: Back up your website

To keep things safe please consider backing up your website and database before doing any updates to your website.

Automatic Theme Update

You can get automatic theme updates with help of Envato Market plugin.
You can watch an instructional video on how to use the plugin, read about the plugin at Envato forum article or read a complete, illustrated instructions on how to use it.

Tip: Automatic update failed?

If automatic update fails for whatever reason, please update the theme manually → see below.

Manual Theme Update

Download the theme ZIP package from where you've obtained it originally. Then follow the steps below:

Updating via WordPress dashboard

A simple way of doing a manual theme update is deleting and reinstalling the theme directly via WordPress dashboard. You can read an article or watch a video on how to do this.

Updating via FTP

This is more advanced manual update procedure and you will need an FTP client (such as FileZilla) to connect to your server:

  1. (Re)download the theme ZIP file from where you've obtained it and unpack the ZIP file on your computer.
  2. Now you will need an FTP client to connect to your server.
  3. On your server navigate to WORDPRESS_FOLDER/wp-content/themes/ folder.
  4. Delete the existing cindy folder (or create a backup just in case - you can do this simply by renaming the folder name by appending .backup to its name so it becomes cindy.backup, for example).
  5. Copy the unpacked theme cindy folder from your computer (from step 1 above) into WORDPRESS_FOLDER/wp-content/themes/ folder on your server.
  6. Log into your WordPress admin area and check the version of the theme in Appearance → Themes. Your theme should be updated now. (And you can delete the cindy.backup folder from step 4 above.)

Content: Demo

The theme allows you to import a demo content, which matches theme demo website. Then you can simply change the imported demo content to your needs and build your website faster that way.

Before you import the theme demo content, please check these important notes:

Tip: Delete leftovers

Theme demo contains a lot of pages. You will certainly end up not using most of them. In that case it is strongly recommended to delete the leftover demo content you no longer need from your website. It improves your website performance and relevance.

Important: Install on fresh WordPress

It is recommended to install demo content on empty, fresh WordPress site. (If you are testing the theme on a computer and not your live website, you can always reset WordPress to a fresh state.

Warning: Images and media quality

Please understand that demo images, audio and video files are of low quality. This is to prevent any copyright infringement. You should replace them with your own, properly licensed media that fit your website project.

Warning: Page builder compatibility

If you want to use a page builder, please understand that if the theme demo content was not built with your page builder, you will not be able to edit the imported demo pages.

→ Read knowledge base article for more info.

And now, for detailed instructions about importing theme demo content please visit demo content repository at GitHub (where it is kept up to date).

Starter Content

This theme supports and contains its own WordPress starter content for easy and fast (small) website deployment.

Starter content is displayed in theme customizer on a fresh WordPress installation only. Once you save the customizer settings, the starter content will be ported into your website automatically.

If you have already created some content beforehand, the starter content will not be available for you in customizer. In that case you can consider installing a demo content (see above).

Content: Pages

Setting Up Home and Blog Page

  1. Navigate to Appearance → Customize → Homepage Settings (or you can also do this at Settings → Reading).

  2. For "Your homepage displays" option set "A static page".

  3. Select your homepage and posts page from the dropdown lists. Posts page becomes your blog page.

Tip: Take advantage of live preview

Doing this in customizer gives you a live preview of your changes.

Templates

Cindy theme supports WordPress page/post templates functionality and contains selection of predefined templates for you (see the list below).

Setting up page template in editor
Setting up page template in editor
"Content only"

Displays only page content and so it's best suited for creating landing pages. There is no site header, no page intro title section (no h1 heading tag), and no site footer on this template.

It works with every public post type.

"No intro"

Removes page intro title section and there is no h1 heading tag outputted on the page by the theme either.

It works with every public post type.

"Page builder"

This template prepares content area for use with a page builder plugin. You can specify the correct content area layout for this template in Appearance → Customize → Theme Options → Page builders, depending on what page builder plugin you use.

Using this template will remove page intro title section and there will be no h1 heading tag added by the theme onto the page.

This template work with every public post type.

Tip: Automatic selection

If you are using Beaver Builder or Elementor page builder plugin, you don't even have to select this template when editing a page with the plugin. The theme will recognize them and applies the "Page builder" template layout automatically for you.

Tip: Theme builders!

With help of Integration for Beaver Themer or Integration for Elementor Theme Builder plugin you can use a specific theme builder plugin with Cindy theme and open limitless possibilities!

Page Excerpt

The theme adds support for excerpts also to WordPress pages. This functionality basically matches post excerpt → check more info about excerpts.

Page Intro Section

Page intro is basically a main title area of the page, post or archive page. By default it displays page title, intro image and page excerpt:

Page excerpt

Page Excerpt content depends on a page you are viewing. If it is an actual WordPress Page or Post or any custom post type, you can set the "Excerpt" field.
On taxonomy archive pages it displays the taxonomy (such as post category or tag) term description which you can set for any/all taxonomy terms in WordPress.
If you want to display some description text for the custom post type archive page too, you need to use a plugin for that.

Intro Image

Intro image is taken from your website header images that can be set in Appearance → Customize → Header Media. That image can be overridden by setting up a post/page/taxonomy term featured image.

You can also set image blend mode and opacity in Appearance → Customize → Theme Options → Colors: Intro.

Content: Posts

Excerpt

Excerpt will be displayed in posts list. If no excerpt is set, a portion of post content will take its place.

If you set a custom excerpt text for a post or page, this will be also displayed in page intro section (main title area) unless you hide it with a template.

Adding/editing excerpt field
Adding/editing excerpt field

Archive Page Title

By default WordPress displays a caption in archive page titles (such as "Category:" in front of a category name). Use an Archive Title plugin to hide these labels.

Content: Block Editor

Cindy theme is compatible with WordPress block editor and supports wide alignment, color palettes, font sizes, and others. Using block editor allows you to create beautiful and performant websites with intriguing page layouts without a page builder plugin. Have a look at theme demo website for inspiration.

Additional Block Styles plugin

You can further change block appearance with suplemental block styles provided by Additional Block Styles plugin. Simply choose your preferred style from block options and you are done.

Choosing a block style
Choosing a block style

"Spacer" Block Dynamic Height

When applying a minimal height modifier CSS class on "Spacer" block, this gets labeled in block editor to notify you visually about the modification.

Indicating min height altering CSS class in use for the "Spacer" block
Indicating min height altering CSS class in use for the "Spacer" block

Menus & Navigation

Navigational menus for your website can be created at Appearance → Menus. They may contain links to pages, categories, custom links or other content. You can specify a custom menu item label, as well as other attributes.

Display menus on your website by assigning them to a predefined theme menu location. The theme defines these menu locations for you:

Primary

This is the main navigation in the header of the website.

Menu in this location can be nested and hierarchically organized (up to 4 levels deep) and you can also use a simple megamenu functionality here.

It is also mobile-ready menu and, if needed, mobile functionality can be disabled at Appearance → Customize → Theme Options → Others.

Social Links

Please read the "Social Links" documentation section below for more info.

Create a Menu

Follow the instructions in WordPress documentation for how to create a menu.

Tip: Add a post type archive link

You can add any custom post type archive link into your menu:

Adding custom post type archive link to menu.
Adding custom post type archive link to menu.

Megamenu

With built in simple megamenu functionality you can display child menu (sub-menu) items in columns.

Megamenu example preview.
Megamenu example preview.
  1. Set a megamenu class on the parent menu item (1st level menu item).

    Setting up menu item class.
    Setting up menu item class.

    Tip: Fullwidth megamenu

    Add the fullwidth CSS class (so it becomes megamenu fullwidth) to stretch the megamenu full width of the screen.

  2. Then the 2nd level menu items (first child menu items) become captions for megamenu columns.

    Tip: Disable link

    You can set disable-link CSS class on these menu items to render their link inactive. It is still recommended to set their link to a dummy URL such simple as #0 would do.

  3. Finally, the 3rd level menu items (second child menu items) become actual menu items within your megamenu columns.

Social Links

Social icons linked to your social network profiles can be displayed anywhere on the website. But beforehand you must create and set up a social links menu:

  1. Go to Appearance → Menus in the WordPress admin.
  2. Click create a new menu link.
  3. Give the menu a name, such as "Social Menu".
  4. Click Create Menu button.
  5. Click the Custom Links header on the left side of the page.
  6. Type a link (such as https://www.facebook.com/webmandesigneu/) in the URL field.
  7. Give the link a label by typing in the Link Text field. (This label text will be accessibly hidden.)
  8. Click Add to Menu.
  9. Repeat the above steps for additional social links.
  10. In the Menu Settings section at the bottom, check the "Social Links" box for Theme locations.
  11. Click Save Menu button.

Adding your social links as a custom menu allows you to sort your profiles and add as many as you want. Once you assign a social links menu this way, feel free to use a Navigation Menu widget to display it in sidebars of your website.

The theme displays icons as SVG images. For full list of supported icons please refer to assets/images/svg folder of your theme.

For links starting with mailto: an envelope icon is applied. For unrecognized links a link chain icon is used.

Social sharing buttons

If you want to add a social sharing buttons to your website to allow your visitors to share your content, please consider enabling the Sharing module of Jetpack plugin, or use different dedicated plugin.

Theme Options

Cindy seamlessly integrates its options into live preview customizer. You can set up your site's title, tagline and logo, home and blog page, manage menus and widgets, customize colors, layout, typography and others.

Customizer can be accessed at Appearance → Customize. All the changes you make in Customizer will be immediately displayed in the preview, but they will be made live only after you press the Publish button.

At Appearance → Customize → Theme Options panel you'll find theme-specific options. Check them out to get familiar with theme customization capabilities.

Localization

Every WordPress theme contains some texts that need to be translated into your language if you are building a non-English website. This theme if fully translation ready.

The theme also supports RTL languages.

To enable your language in the WordPress website, please switch WordPress into the desired language localization.

Tip: Adding languages into WordPress

Check out tutorial on how to install WordPress in your language.

How to Translate a Theme

Method 1: Using Poedit software

  1. Create a copy of the original cindy/languages/cindy.pot file.

  2. Rename the copied file now: add hyphen followed with your language code locale, and change the file extension to "po".
    (So, the British English file would be named cindy-en_GB.po.)

  3. Use Poedit to translate the file and export (save) translation in "mo" file format.

  4. Upload translated cindy-en_GB.mo file into your WordPress languages directory, into themes folder (such as /wp-content/languages/themes/cindy-en_GB.mo (if the themes folder does not exist in your WordPress languages directory, create it).

Warning: Don't lose your files!

When you update the theme, all custom translation files will be deleted from /wp-content/themes/cindy/languages folder. Do not put your custom translation files into that folder! Basically, you should never modify the actual theme files and folders.

Methos 2: Translating in WordPress admin

If you would like to translate the theme directly in your WordPress dashboard you need to use a specialized plugin. Check out Loco Translate plugin and instructions on how to use it at beginner's guide and technical overview.

Translate Plugins Too!

Your website is built with WordPress system itself, a theme and some plugins.

There is a high chance that WordPress itself is already translated into your language. So, you don't have to translate it on your own. You have also learned how to translate the theme above. But what about plugins and their texts?

If you are lucky, your plugin contains your language translations already and you don't have to do anything. But if you need to translate a plugin, the best advice is to check the plugin's documentation for the best approach.

Alternatively you can also use Loco Translate plugin (again) to translate your plugins directly in your WordPress admin area.

Help With Your Translations

If you would like to help out translating the theme, please contribute your translations at WebMan Design support forum by submitting a ZIP package of your .po and .mo translation files in a new support ticket attachment. Thank you!

Accessibility

Accessibility in web development means creating a web site that everybody can use regardless of one's hardware, software, or sensory, or physical impairment. It is about building a barrier-less web.

While creating accessible website is a complex process that includes a content strategy, Cindy theme helps you with being accessibility ready out of the box. It complies to WordPress accessibility requirements and was built to help you create a website that passes WCAG 2.1 level AA requirements.

Among other features the theme itself applies proper headings structure, uses ARIA attributes and landmarks where needed, adds informative "read more" links, makes your website navigation keyboard accessible, creates skip links for you and provides sufficient color contrast in default color scheme.

However, please understand that creating an accessible website is not just about a theme. You need to apply accessibility principles also to your website content and be cautious when using plugins. For further information please read WordPress documentation about accessibility.

And for even more information about accessibility please check:

Focus on Readability

Content area of this theme was designed carefully to provide the best reading experience for your visitors. Maximum line width is set to roughly 70 characters (can be tweaked in theme options). With proper line height and spacing around elements it is easier for visitors to digest your website content.

Headings Hierarchy

To comply with accessibility guidelines, the theme follows this headings structure:

Max one h1 on any given page

Theme outputs only one first-level heading (HTML tag <h1>) on each page. This is reserved for a page main title.

Important: Exceptions in templates

Read more about exception from this rule applied with certain templates. For example, you can remove the h1 title altogether and create your own custom one in a page content.

Site title heading

Site title (logo) is rendered as h1 only on homepage with blog display. On other pages (including the static home page) the h1 tag is reserved for the actual page main title.

Hierarchy

Theme follows the best practice by hierarchically organizing heading levels, not skipping any of them. For example, h3 headings can be found only in a section titled with level h2 (and not h1). This rule is applied also in the theme demo content and you should do the same when building your site content too.

Tip: Test it out!

In case you would like to test a page headings hierarchy, there is a great browser extension for this called HeadingsMap.

Plugins

Recommended plugins | Useful plugins

Why do you need to use plugins when you expected the theme to have all the functionality in it? Well, according to WordPress guidelines and generally the best practice: themes are meant for presentational purpose only, while plugins provide website functionality.

The reason is simple: when you decide to update your website looks you simply change a theme without loosing your website content and additional functionality such as eCommerce or portfolio.

This theme follows this WordPress philosophy and you can rest assured your site is as future-proof as possible. No lock-in effect with WebMan Design themes!

Info: Compatibility

The theme does not need any plugin to work properly. It is coded responsibly and flexibly enough so it should handle any decently coded 3rd party plugin you throw at it.

However, please understand there are thousands of plugins available for WordPress and it is not humanly possible to test them all. Feel free to use your plugin and in case of an issue contact support for help.

Recommended Plugins

Theme provides code and/or design integration for certain plugins. You will find these plugins in recommendations list below. They provide additional functionality for your website or improve your and your visitor's experience.

Please note that these are only recommended, suggested plugins, they are not required for the theme to work. Always read the plugin description before installing a plugin and install only those plugins you will use on your website.

Plugins recommendation page example: Recommended, not required
Plugins recommendation page example: Recommended, not required

Warning: Demo content required plugins

List of plugin the theme recommends may differ from plugins that are required when installing demo content. Check the demo content information for more details.

Here is a list of plugins that were successfully tested with the theme and the theme even provides additional integration layer for them:

Useful Plugins

With this theme you can use whatever plugins you like (check out compatibility info above). Here is a selection of additional useful plugins:

Archive Title
Removes archive page title labels.
Atomic Blocks
Easy to use content blocks library.
Block Visibility
Conditional visibility control for the block editor blocks.
Breadcrumbs NavXT
Create a perfect SEO friendly and flexible breadcrumbs navigation.
CoBlocks
Easy to use content blocks library.
Custom Post Type Editor
Allows you to rename any post type.
Customizer Export/Import
Perfect plugin for backing up your theme's customizer settings.
Disable Comments
Disables comments site-wide per post type.
Editor Plus
Extends block editor with additional blocks and functionality.
Extendify
A library of patterns and full page layouts for block editor.
Imsanity
Automatically downsizes huge images during upload.
Intuitive Custom Post Order
For easier posts (and other post types) order management.
iThemes Security
Enhances your website security.
My Eyes Are Up Here
Helps you control how WordPress crops thumbnails.
Nested Pages
Provides drag and drop interface for managing pages and posts.
Ninja Forms
For creating forms.
Page Links To
Allows you to redirect a post or a page to a custom URL.
Polylang
Easy to use plugin for creating multilingual websites.
Post Type Archive Descriptions
Manages description (displayed on archive pages) for any post type.
Rename Taxonomies
Allows to rename taxonomies, such as "Tags" to "Topics", for example.
Safe SVG
Allows you to upload SVG files.
WordPress Creation Kit
Consists of three tools that help you create custom post types, custom taxonomies and custom fields.
WPCode
Insert custom code snippets to your site.
WP Featherlight
Image lightbox (zooming) plugin that just works.
WPForms
For creating forms.
WooCommerce
A flexible, open-source eCommerce solution. If you decide to use this plugin with the theme, you can add additional layer of theme compatibility using Integration for WooCommerce plugin.

FAQ & Tips

  1. How to use a page builder
  2. Why are uploaded images blurry or small
  3. How to modify element appearance
  4. SEO - Search Engine Optimization
  5. How to speed up a website
  6. How to add custom CSS
  7. Breadcrumbs navigation
  1. How to use a page builder

    If you want to build your website with a page builder plugin, you most likely need to select a "Page builder" template for pages and posts where you want to use your page builder plugin. Check the template description for more info.

    Warning: Demo content compatibility

    Please understand that if the theme demo content was not built with your page builder, you will not be able to use it to edit the imported demo content.

    → Read knowledge base article for more info.

    ↑ Back to questions list

  2. Why are uploaded images blurry or small

    The theme requires certain minimal image dimensions for optimal display. Info about recommended image size setup can be found at Settings → Media.

    Tip: Regenerate images

    Once you set correct image sizes, all your newly uploaded images will get processed with new settings. But for the images already uploaded to your website you need to use additional plugin to refresh their sizes. Regenerate Thumbnails plugin (or similar) will do the trick.

    Tip: File size optimization

    It is recommended to use an image optimization plugin to keep the file size of images uploaded to your server under control.

    ↑ Back to questions list

  3. How to modify element appearance

    This theme predefines some useful modifier CSS classes for you. You can use them in block editor, in page builder, or however you find useful. These classes modify appearance of your website elements and blocks.

    For full up-to-date list of helper modifier CSS classes and instructions on how to use them refer to the theme demo website.

    Adding custom CSS class onto block
    Adding custom CSS class onto block

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  4. SEO - Search Engine Optimization

    This theme is coded semantically, with best SEO practices in mind.

    You can push your SEO performance even further with help of additional plugins such as Yoast SEO. You can also integrate support for microformats with a plugin such as Schema.

    ↑ Back to questions list

  5. How to speed up a website

    Having a performant website is a must. It makes your website more SEO friendly and most importantly pleasing for your visitors, more accessible. This theme was coded with performance in mind but we can always take things even further:

    Use a good host

    A good hosting for your website is very important choice you can make towards a speedy website. Depending on your location it is also advised to use a host that has servers in your country or at least on the same continent.

    Check out Siteground (a very good personal experience), WP Engine, Pagely or WordPress.com Business plan. You can also have a look at WordPress hosting recommendation page.

    Optimize your images, video and audio files

    You should always keep the file size of your images, video, audio and other assets on your website as low as possible. Prepare images before you upload them to your website: compress them, reduce their dimensions, maybe even crop them. Use plugins to optimize further more such as Imsanity or Smush.

    In case of video and audio files set the optimal compression and formats before uploading them to your site. Consider also using services such as Vimeo, YouTube or SoundCloud to host your files off your servers.

    Also consider using a CDN service, such as CloudFlare.

    Enable caching

    A basic browser caching and GZIP compression is a must!

    But you will get better results using a dedicated solutions such as WP Rocket or WP Super Cache or SiteGround Optimizer. Or maybe your hosting provider applies some sort of caching already? Check with them.

    Warning: Minify & combine

    Your caching solution may provide CSS and JS files minification and combination. Be cautious though: these are complex processes which may cause errors on your website. Test thoroughly!

    Tip: Measure performance

    For measuring your website performance and tips on how to improve it use services such as GTmetrix, Pingdom Tools and WebPageTest.

    ↑ Back to questions list

  6. How to add custom CSS

    Add your custom CSS code into Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS, or alternatively into your child theme's style.css file.

    ↑ Back to questions list

  7. The theme supports Breadcrumb NavXT plugin that allows very flexible set up and display of breadcrumbs navigation on your website. After you install and activate the plugin, the theme displays the breadcrumbs navigation in preset location you can tweak in Appearance → Customize → Theme Options → Layout.

    Here is some tip for setting up your breadcrumbs display:

    Settings → Breadcrumb NavXT → General → "Breadcrumbs Separator"
    Set to <span class="sep"> / </span>.
    Settings → Breadcrumb NavXT → General → "Home Template"
    Settings → Breadcrumb NavXT → General → "Home Template (Unlinked)"
    Prepend the existing text with <span class="breadcrumbs-title">You are here: </span>.

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Modifications

Use a Child Theme/Plugin

Warning: Limited support help!

Please understand that a very limited support is provided for theme modifications. Responsibility for a code lies on shoulders of the code author. If you don't feel comfortable coding consider hiring help.

If you need to make styling or functional changes to the theme or WordPress itself, use WordPress native child theming functionality (or even more flexible "child theme" plugin solution).

This way you can update the parent (original) Cindy theme without worrying about your code getting overwritten and lost. All your custom code is kept safe in your child theme/plugin.

(Read more about child themes in WordPress documentation.)

Custom CSS code

Put your custom CSS code into CHILD_THEME_FOLDER/style.css file. Alternatively use Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS for that.

Info: Unleash the power of CSS

For more information about coding CSS, HTML, or JavaScript, check out a great free online learning resources such as W3Schools.com, or MDN Web Docs.

Custom PHP code

If you want to change functionality of Cindy theme or WordPress itself, do so in CHILD_THEME_FOLDER/functions.php file. You can freely modify any theme functionality via that file by hooking onto a specific filter or action.

"Child theme" plugin

For more flexible approach that works with any type of theme ("classic" or FSE block theme), or for cases when you can't use a child theme, we have created a "Child Theme" Plugin for you.

For more information on the plugin usage and plugin download check out the GitHub repository.

Sample child theme/plugin

Download a free child theme or plugin from WebMan Design GitHub repository. Don't forget to check the information in the repository for how to set up the child theme/plugin for your needs.

Grab a free child theme or plugin from the repository now →

Tip: Theme from Envato Market?

If you've obtained the theme from Envato Market, there is a high chance that a dedicated child theme is already included in the package you've downloaded from the marketplace. Check out your files. Or download the child theme from the aforementioned repository.

Hooks: Actions and Filters

Warning: Limited support

This topic is meant for WordPress developers who would like to modify the theme and WordPress and alter or expand their functionality. Please understand that we do not provide support for custom code modifications, though.

The theme is coded following WordPress coding standards and provides action and filter hooks for you, which can alter any functionality of the theme.

Please check the theme's source code for hook references (simply search for do_action and/or apply_filters), or contact support for help.

Cindy theme uses Theme Hook Alliance hooks too. This is useful to entirely rebuild the theme structure or add your own custom sections anywhere.

Tip: Theme builder compatibility

This theme can be modified with a theme builder plugin such as Beaver Themer or Elementor Pro Theme Builder.

You will most likely need to install an additional compatibility layer plugin though (if you are not sure, please search or ask at support forum).

Tip: Display available hooks

You can display all available hooks using Simply Show Hooks plugin.