Help Documentation
Eskimo Wordpress Theme

Thank you for purchasing our theme ! Please take the time to read through the following sections before asking for support. As many support related questions can be answered simply by re-reading the documentation.

The first thing you need to do when you want to install a new WordPress theme is to login to your site admin page. Once there, go to Appearance -> Themes. Here, you will see all the themes you have currently installed in your application. To add another one, simply click on the Install Themes tab. Upload the zip package which you have downloaded from Themeforest from your local hard drive.

If you want to use the theme with all bundled features, you should upload and activate all required plugins. After the installation of the theme, you will see a message about them. Click "Begin Installing Plugins", install the plugins and activate them.

You should upload & activate all required plugins before importing the demo content.

Go to Appearance->Import Demo Data and click on the Import button only once and wait, it can take a couple of minutes.

First of all, you should create a new page for your frontpage display.

Go to Settings->Reading and select in the drop-down box this page for the front page display.

To create a blog page, create a blank page.

Go to Settings->Reading and select in the drop-down box the name of the Page that will now contain your latest posts. You can also use one of the blog page templates to create a page which displays all your posts. For more information please look at Page Templates section.

You can upload your logo from Appearance->Customize->Site Identity.

You can create menus from Appearance->Menus page. After creating your menus, you must manage your menu location.

Eskimo main menu doesn't support multilevel dropdown menus.

For more information about WordPress menus, please read the WordPress menu guide

Custom Menu

Another way to use a WordPress menu is using custom menu widget. You can use this widget to add your menus to any widget area.

To add social media icons to the menu, just fill the required fields and click "Add Another Icon" to add a new icon or click "Save".

You can also use SiteOrigin Social Media Buttons widget to add social icons to any widget area. To use this widget, you should upload/activate SiteOrigin Widget Bundle plugin.

Standard Templates

"Default template" is a standard fullwidth page template.

The only difference between default template and woocommerce template is sidebar. Woocommerce page template displays Woocommerce sidebar and search box.


Blog Templates

The following templates display your latest posts in different layouts.

  • Blog - Two Column
  • Blog - Three Column
  • Blog - Fullwidth
Enable Reading Position Indicator
Reading position indicator is a vertical progress bar to show how scroll progress of current page.
Enable Full Screen Search
If you enable it, you will see a new search icon at the top right side of your website.
Sliding Panel Width
Maximum width of the sliding panel.

You can find all available color settings in this section.

Masonry Thumbnail Size
You can change the default size of your images in masonry layouts.
Author page layout
This is the default layout of the WordPress author pages.
Archive page layout
This is the default layout of WordPress category, archive and search pages.
Exclude pages from blog search results
As default wordpress displays pages in search results. If you want to display only posts in search results, enable this.
Blog 2 column page template
Maximum number of the posts in "Blog - 2 Column" page template.
Blog 3 column page template
Maximum number of the posts in "Blog - 3 Column" page template.
Use featured images for only post thumbnails
You can remove featured images from single post pages.
Social media sharing buttons
You can add social media sharing buttons to the bottom of the posts.
Next-Previous Post Navigation
You can disable next-previous post navigation.
Related Posts
You can enable related posts carousel which is at the bottom of the page.
Maximum number of the related posts
Maximum number of the related posts to display in the carousel.
Display related posts by
You can display related posts by categories or tags.
Default Browser Font Size
You can use this option to change the all font sizes easily.
Body
The default stylings of all standard texts.
Headings
The default stylings of all headings (h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6).
Menus, Buttons, Subtitles etc.
The font family of some other elements.

Eskimo is fully compatible with Woocommerce.

If you haven't used Woocommerce before, please visit Woocommerce DOCS.
Product layout
Default page layout of Woocommerce pages. If you want to select hree or four columns, we suggest you to remove sidebar.
Product Thumbnail Size
Default size of the product thumbnail images.
Single Product Image Size
Default size of the single product images (slider images).
Single Product Image Column Size
The width of the image container in percents.
Placeholder Image
If a product has no image, this placeholder image will displayed.
Related Products
To enable related products from single product pages, switch on.
Number of related products
Maximum number of related products.
Social Sharing Buttons
You can add social media sharing buttons to the bottom of the products.
Shop page show at most
Maximum number of the products on Woocommerce pages (Shop,archive etc.).

You can add a copyright message to the footer from this section. You can use some basic html tags like a, strong etc.


If you are an unexperienced WordPress user, we suggest you to read the following article;

How to Add a New Post in WordPress and Utilize all the Features

An excerpt in WordPress is a term used for article summary with a link to the whole entry. An excerpt can be auto generated by a WordPress theme.

Another way to create excerpts for a WordPress post is by entering the summary of an article in Excerpt field on Post Edit screen. This field is not displayed in the post edit screen by default. To enable it a user needs to click on Screen Options button on the top right corner of post edit screen and then enable it.

You can add a subtitle to your posts or pages. It is recommended for SEO.

The Featured Image (also known as post thumbnail) is a WordPress theme feature which allows you to add a representative image to the posts.

You can use shortcode menu which is on the editor to add shortcodes to your posts/pages.

URL: Destination url

Button text: The text of the button

Open in a new tab: yes or no

Outline: yes or no

Size: normal, large or small

Style: Available button styles are primary, secondary, success, info, warning and danger.

Dismissible: Display a close alert icon or not

Style: Available button styles are primary, secondary, success, info, warning and danger.

Text: You add alert content between mpalert shortcodes.

Value: You must add a value between 0 and 100.

Style: Available button styles are primary, secondary, success, info, warning and danger.

Striped: You can add stripes to the background of the progress bar.

Animated: Stripes can be animated.

Label: You can add an additinal text into the proggress bar.


You should install/activate following plugins to use the page builder and all available widgets to build your pages;

Eskimo Features (It is in "plugins" folder)

Siteorigin Page Builder

Siteorigin Widgets Bundle

Siteorigin Page Builder

Page Builder by SiteOrigin is the most popular page creation plugin for WordPress. It makes it easy to create responsive column based content, using the widgets you know and love. Your content will accurately adapt to all mobile devices, ensuring your site is mobile-ready.

Please read the Page Builder Documentation


This widget displays posts, pages, products or any custom post type in a grid layout.

This widget displays posts, pages, products or any custom post type in a carousel.

This widget displays posts, pages, products in an image slider.

This widget displays posts, pages, products or any custom post type as a list.

You can use this widget to create a author profile box.

Displays an accordion.

Displays a tabs.

Displays a horizontal line. It may be useful for adding space between rows or widgets.

There are a lot of widget in Siteorigin Widgets Bundle plugin. For more information, please visit the plugin documentation page;

Go to the documentation page

A Google Maps API key is required for your maps widget to function correctly. For more information about Google Maps Widget, please read the documentation.

Google Maps Widget Documentation

To use this widget, you should upload/activate Mailchimp for WordPress plugin.

Click here to download the plugin

Knowledge Base


You can use Envira Gallery plugin to create image galleries. You can add these galleries to any post or page easily.

For more information about Envira Gallery, please visit the plugin's documentation page;

Envira Gallery Docs


Eskimo is compatible with the following plugins;

Linear page layouts are limiting when you’re trying to express a detailed idea. With SiteOrigin’s Page Builder, you can create columized page layouts populated with the widgets and themes you know and love. Its drag and drop interface is so easy to learn, that you'll be up and running in no time.

Download SiteOrigin Page Builder

Please read the Documentation


The SiteOrigin widget bundle gives you a collection of widgets that you can use and customize. All the widgets are built on our powerful framework, giving you advanced forms, unlimited colours and 1500+ icons.

Download SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle

Please read the Documentation


WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, WooCommerce is the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives both store owners and developers complete control.

Download Woocommerce

Please read the Documentation


Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

Download Contact Form 7

Please read the Documentation


MailChimp for WordPress, the absolute best. Subscribe your WordPress site visitors to your MailChimp lists, with ease.

Download Mailchimp for WordPress

Knowledge Base


Autoptimize speeds up your website and helps you save bandwidth by aggregating and minimizing JS, CSS and HTML.

Download Autoptimize


Effective image compression and optimization during the upload process. Automatic and without loss of quality.

Download Optimus


As it’s name, it will fix Leverage Browser Caching issues in your WordPress website. Also it improves page speed score in website testing tools like: Pingdom, GTmetrix, PageSpeed, Google PageSpeed Insights and YSlow.

Download the plugin


This plugin will remove query strings from static resources like CSS & JS files inside the HTML element to improve your speed scores in services like Pingdom, GTmetrix, PageSpeed and YSlow.

Download the plugin


Beginner's Guide to WordPress

If you are not an experienced WordPress user, I suggest you to start from this free course. After taking this free course you'll be completely comfortable with installing WordPress, adding new content, customising WordPress themes, using WordPress plugins, and managing existing blogs or websites.

Help Documentation

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Knowledge Base

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