Sports Club WordPress Theme Documentation

Thank you for purchasing Sports Club WordPress Theme. This documentation consists of several parts and shows you the entire process of setting up and customizing a WordPress theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please refer to the Support section. Thanks so much!

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It enables you to build Websites and powerful on-line applications and requires almost no technical skills or knowledge to manage. Many aspects, including its ease of use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular Web site software available.

Creating a website with WordPress is significantly much easier than coding it by yourself. if you are a beginner, even working with WordPress may be difficult to you. That's why, in this section we will provide some useful links and also will explain how to get oriented in the documentation and what pattern to follow when building your website with our theme. Please note that this documentation covers all the main settings for the theme, but it doesn't cover instructions about working with WordPress, as this is a very extensive topic. If you are new to WordPress, we would recommend to first get familiar with the WordPress system, so you can have at least basic knowledge about how it works and then proceed with setting the theme.



Table of Contents

  1. Theme Installation
  2. Import Demo Content
  3. Homepage Setup
  4. Header
    1. Contact info & social media
    2. Site name / logo
    3. Setting the menu
  5. Homepage Slider
  6. Inner Page Banner
  7. Homepage Section
    1. Sports Section
    2. About Sports Club
    3. Our Services
    4. Sports Club Features
    5. Latest Results
    6. Most Notable Videos
    7. Next Match
    8. Upcoming Match
    9. Our Coaches
    10. Join Us
    11. Sport News
    12. Latest Video
    13. Awards
  8. Footer
  9. Footer Menu
  10. Photo Gallery
  11. Contact Form
  12. Page Templates & Sidebars
  13. Widgets
  14. Shortcodes
  15. Multilingual
  16. Support

Free Version

  1. Homepage Setup
  2. Header Section
  3. Slider Section
  4. Sports Section
  5. About Sports Club
  6. Sports Club Features
  7. Footer

1. Theme Installation

a. Through WordPress Dashboard

  1. Go to the menu Appearance > Themes and click on Add New button.
  2. Click on Upload Theme button.
  3. Click on Browse button and navigate to the unzipped theme package on your computer.
  4. Look for a file called sports-club.zip Click on it to select, then click OK.
  5. Click on Install Now button and wait until the installation is complete.
  6. Click on Activate link to activate the theme on your WordPress site.
  7. Go to Appearance >> Theme Options >> Restore Default.
Note: Some servers have limited folder access settings applied and wouldn't allow uploading the theme trough the admin - in these case you have to upload the theme via FTP.

b. Manual Installation using FTP client

If you know the FTP login details of the server where your site is hosted and you have a FTP client installed (such as FileZilla), you might consider using this way of uploading your theme.

  1. Unzip the sports-club.zip file
  2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/themes
  3. Upload theme to /wp-content/themes/
  4. Go to Appearance -> Themes and activate theme from Dashboard.
First you have to unzip the download file, find the zip file called sports-club.zip, unzip it and upload the folder to the main WordPress installation folder » wp-content » themes. Please note that if you prefer this way of installation, you have to make sure that the main files of the theme are contained just within one folder of the themes folder.

You can activate the theme after it is uploaded on the server. In order to activate this theme you have to go to the admin panel » Appearance » Themes. In this section you should see the theme with a title Sports Club . Just click on the Activate button and your theme should get activated.



2. Import Demo Content

After activating the Sports Club theme, please import demo content using following



3. Homepage Setup

After activating the Sports Club theme, please setup homepage using following



4. The header

The header consists of three main elements:



a. Social media & Email

To customize the top header bar of contact information social media links
Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Basic Settings » Header Top Social Icons



b. Changing the site name / logo

If you don't have your logo image then you can use site name and tagline. To change site name and tagline
Go to Settings » General » Site Title

OR if you want to uplaod logo for your website go to Appearance » Theme Options » Header » Logo
You can also increase logo image height as per your requirement.



c. Setting the menu

  1. First of all create pages from Pages >> Add new page
  2. Go to Appearance >> Menu
  3. Click on Create a new menu link
  4. Give a name to your menu in Menu name and click save menu button
  5. Once you have create menu. You need to add pages by selecting with checkboxes. After adding menu list you can arrange it by drag and drop.
  6. Select menu theme locations Primary Menu from Menu Settings
  7. Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu


5. Homepage Slider

In order to add slides to homepage slider: Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Homepage Slider
For each slide there are different options that you can apply.

If you don't want to use this default image slider, you can use any image slider WordPress plugin



6. Inner Page Banner

To change inner page banner image: Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Homepage Slider » Inner Page Banner

To set different banner image for each individual page



7. Homepage Section

a. Sports Section

To manage this section



b. About Sports Club

To manage this section



c. Our Services

To manage this section



d. Sports Club Features

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 1

Change the text content and image

Shortcode: 
[row_area][featuresbox icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/feature-icon01.png" title="League Cup" description="Nam fermentum ullamcor per luctus. Integer ultricies imperdiet rutrum. " readmore="READ MORE" link="#" bgcolor="#ffffff"][featuresbox icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/feature-icon02.png" title="Championship " description="Nam fermentum ullamcor per luctus. Integer ultricies imperdiet rutrum. " readmore="READ MORE" link="#" bgcolor="#ffffff"][featuresbox icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/feature-icon03.png" title="Associations" description="Nam fermentum ullamcor per luctus. Integer ultricies imperdiet rutrum. " readmore="READ MORE" link="#" bgcolor="#ffffff"][featuresbox icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/feature-icon04.png" title="Trophies" description="Nam fermentum ullamcor per luctus. Integer ultricies imperdiet rutrum. " readmore="READ MORE" link="#" bgcolor="#ffffff"][/row_area]

To change the image icon in this section



e. Latest Results

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 2

Shortcode/Content: 
[column_content type="one_half"][latest_results matchdate="MON, OCT 21, YOUTH LEAGUE" teamicon1="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/team1.png" teamicon2="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/team2.png" teamscore1="3 Turkey" teamscore2="2 NFL" readmore="GAME DETAILS" link="#" bgcolor="#ffffff"][/column_content][column_content type="one_half_last"][latest_results matchdate="MON, OCT 21, YOUTH LEAGUE" teamicon1="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/team4.png" teamicon2="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/team3.png" teamscore1="1 NOL" teamscore2="0 NFL" readmore="GAME DETAILS" link="#" bgcolor="#ffffff"][/column_content]


f. Most Notable Videos

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 3

Shortcode/Content: 
[row_area][most_video youtubeid="VvzMQEWGW2A" image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/most-video-1.jpg" title="Rugby League" description="Nam fermentum ullamcor per luctus. Integer iet rutrum."][most_video youtubeid="FzhEJpJ-sLc" image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/most-video-2.jpg" title="IPL 2019" description="Nam fermentum ullamcor per luctus. Integer iet rutrum."][most_video youtubeid="W0nz0Pmdq8c" image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/most-video-3.jpg" title="Premier League" description="Nam fermentum ullamcor per luctus. Integer iet rutrum."][most_video youtubeid="J-BsqpR2Y30" image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/most-video-4.jpg" title="Acapulco 2019" description="Nam fermentum ullamcor per luctus. Integer iet rutrum."][most_video youtubeid="GBIbO5FwgEM" image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/most-video-5.jpg" title="Badminton Trickshots" description="Nam fermentum ullamcor per luctus. Integer iet rutrum."][most_video youtubeid="b99Tz8JVe9s" image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/most-video-6.jpg" title="NBA Highlights" description="Nam fermentum ullamcor per luctus. Integer iet rutrum."][/row_area]

To display YouTube video in this section, you need YouTube video ID and Video image



g. Next Match

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 4

Shortcode: 
[column_content type="one_half"]<div class="nextmatch"><div class="nextmatch-sep"><h6 class="next-title">NEXT MATCH</h6><h5 class="more-info"><a href="#">MORE INFO</a></h5><h5 class="location-map"><a href="#">LOCATION MAP</a></h5><div class="clear"></div><h3>TEAM 01 <span>North</span></h3><h4>VS</h4>		<h3>TEAM 02 <span>Sheffield</span></h3><div class="clear"></div></div></div>[/column_content][column_content type="one_half_last"]<h6>20:00, 25 DEC 2019</h6>[countdown count="1" year="2019" month="12" date="25" color="#ffffff"][/column_content]


h. Upcoming Match

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 5

Shortcode: 
[column_content type="one_half"][upcomingmatch month="JAN" date="27" title="WALES Vs ITALY" matchtype="Central Park" readmore="Read More" url="#" target="_self" bgcolor="#ffffff"][upcomingmatch month="FEB" date="03" title="IRELAND Vs SCOTLAND" matchtype="Northampton" readmore="Read More" url="#" target="_self" bgcolor="#ffffff"][upcomingmatch month="MAR" date="12" title="FRANCE Vs IRELAND" matchtype="Port Elizabeth" readmore="Read More" url="#" target="_self" bgcolor="#ffffff"][upcomingmatch month="AUG" date="18" title="ENGLAND Vs IRELAND" matchtype="Dublin" readmore="Read More" url="#" target="_self" bgcolor="#ffffff"][upcomingmatch month="DEC" date="10" title="FRANCE Vs SCOTLAND" matchtype="Edinburgh" readmore="Read More" url="#" target="_self" bgcolor="#ffffff"][button align="center" name="VIEW ALL" link="#" target="_self"][/column_content]


i. Our Coaches

Shortcode/Content: 
[subtitle color="#747373" size="15px" description="Nam fermentum ullamcorper luctus. Integer ultricies imperdiet rutrum. Donec vel ultrices purus. Vestibulum posuere eget magna eu blandit. Sed fermentum, est ut tincidunt luctus, urna tell"][space height="20px"][our-team show="-1"]


j. Join Us

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 7

Shortcode: 
[innertitle size="55px" color="#ffffff" fontweight="900" description="Become A Part Of Soccer"][innertitle size="55px" color="#ffffff" fontweight="900" description="Team Community"][space height="20px"][subtitle color="#ffffff" size="15px" description="Nam fermentum ullamcorper luctus. Integer ultricies imperdiet rutrum. Donec vel ultrices purus. Vestibulum posuere eget magna eu blandit. Sed fermentum, est ut tincidunt luctus, urna tell"][space height="10px"][button align="center" name="JOIN US" link="#" target="_self"][button align="center" name="VIEW PLANS" link="#" target="_self"]


k. Sport News

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 8

Shortcode: 
[subtitle color="#747373" size="15px" description="Nam fermentum ullamcorper luctus. Integer ultricies imperdiet rutrum. Donec vel ultrices purus. Vestibulum posuere eget magna eu blandit. Sed fermentum, est ut tincidunt luctus, urna tell"][latest-news showposts="4" date="show" comment="no" author="no" readmore="READ MORE" excerptlength="15"]


l. Latest Video

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 9

Shortcode: 
[subtitle color="#747373" size="15px" description="Nam fermentum ullamcorper luctus. Integer ultricies imperdiet rutrum. Donec vel ultrices purus. Vestibulum posuere eget magna eu blandit. Sed fermentum, est ut tincidunt luctus, urna tell"][custom-video youtubeid="eCI2gIXnRts" image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/video-cover1.jpg"]

To display YouTube video in this section, you need YouTube video ID and Video image



m. Awards

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 10

Shortcode: 
[subtitle color="#747373" size="15px" description="Nam fermentum ullamcorper luctus. Integer ultricies imperdiet rutrum. Donec vel ultrices purus. Vestibulum posuere eget magna eu blandit. Sed fermentum, est ut tincidunt luctus, urna tell"][awards_lists][award icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/awards1.png" title="True Sport Award" link="#"][award icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/awards2.png" title="Football West" link="#"][award icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/awards3.png" title="Innovation Award" link="#"][award icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/awards4.png" title="Excellence Award" link="#"][award icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/awards5.png" title="Netball WA" link="#"][award icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/sports-club/images/awards3.png" title="Volunteers Award" link="#"][/awards_lists]

To change images in this section



8. Footer

The Footer section consists of four main elements:

To manage footer section go to the Appearance » Theme Options » Footer



9. Setting footer menu

  1. Go to Appearance >> Menu
  2. Click on Create a new menu link to create footer menu
  3. Give a name to your menu (Footer Menu / Support Menu) in Menu name and click save menu button
  4. Add pages by selecting with checkboxes.
  5. Select Display location Footer Menu from Menu Settings
  6. Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu


10. Photo Gallery

To display Photo Gallery in any of your page



11. Contact Form

To display contact form in your website



12. Page Templates & Sidebars

When you create a new page from the Pages » Add New section, the "Default Template" is assigned to the page by default. The default page template is a standard page template that can be with a sidebar or full-width layout and can contain custom content.



13. Widgets

The WordPress widgets are used to manage sidebars:



14. Shortcodes

To view all shortcodes go to Appearance » Theme Options » Short Codes:



15. Multilingual

This theme is ready for translation - it comes with a .po file that contains all the embedded into the theme strings.
It supports multiple languages. The qTranslate X WordPress plugin offers a way to maintain dynamic multilingual content on a WordPress site.

How to make your website translate ready?

To translate Homepage sections Title, Content, Button texts, Read more texts



15. Support

If you have any questions regarding our WordPress themes, you can contact us through our support forum or you can mail us at support@gracethemes.com Our support team is always ready to help you with any problems of customization or compatibility you may encounter.

Sports Club Lite Theme Documentation

Thank you for using Sports Club Lite Free WordPress Theme. This documentation consists of several parts and shows you the entire process of setting up and customizing a free WordPress theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please refer to the Support section. Thanks so much!


1. Homepage Setup

After activating the Sports Club Lite theme, setup homepage using following

Go to Appearance » Customize » Select static front page



2. Header Section

To customize the header contact information and socal media settings
Go to Appearance » Customize » Theme Options Panel » Header contact info / Header social icons





3. Slider Section

Go to Appearance » Customize » Theme Options Panel » Header Slider Section



4. Sports Section

Go to Appearance » Customize » Theme Options Panel » Five Column Features Services



5. About Sports Club

Go to Appearance » Customize » Theme Options Panel » About Us Section



5. Sports Club Features

Go to Appearance » Customize » Theme Options Panel » Our Services Section



7. Footer