Sorry to reply with an equally rudimentary comment …
How did you execute the theme install?
Was it through the WP dashboard?
Has the Zerif-lite theme been activated?
In the left menu of the WP dashboard, what do you see in APPEARANCE/Themes?
Hello @tuffstein,
Go to Settings > Reading and set Your Front page displays as latest posts.
I hope it will help you.
Thank You
I did both, installed it via the usual, old UNIX way (unzipped in the wp-content/themes folder) and via the web interface.
The theme is active, and what I see in appearance, themes, is Active Zerif Lite.
When I get to “customize”, I see this
http://s30.postimg.org/9ine2di5d/Screenshot_7.png
Why don’t I even see the background? Check this one out:
http://s9.postimg.org/7tzrcdtun/Screenshot_8.png
Wow, I wonder what the file structure looks like in your install.
Have you considered manually moving the theme files to your server via ftp?
Ok, I solved it…
I had already selected “latest post” to be in the front page, but just in case of I turn that option off and then on again and… tadaaan… it’s working…
I’m new to the whole wordpress world myself, and I have an honest question…maybe 2 questions…
1. The “Lite” or “Free” versions of any theme (in this case Zerif Lite) seem to have limited functionality/customization. Im assuming this is meant for those people/businesses that want a quick website solution, but not necessarily one that perfectly matches them or their business, is this correct?
2. Specific to Zerif Lite, I added a background image of my own, but the top half of it is chopped off no matter how I crop/scale/modify the image. Is there any way to fix this, or is this an example of my comment directly above?
This should actually be a new thread. Once the OP lists it as “resolved” you’re not going to get much action.
The theme has limited capabilities. This so it can be used (free) and so that the developers have a pathway to be compensated for their hard work (upgrade). For some, the basic feature set is enough. If that’s not you AND you love the theme AND it fits your needs, buy it.
As for the background image, I was told 1920×1280 but that isn’t what’s listed in the White Paper for the theme. There’s also a snippet of code that can be inserted using a custom CSS plugin. Search this forum and you’ll find it.
Hi,
1. We strongly believe that a WordPress theme should be just a template to skin your site and not a platform, this is the plugin space, we are not using any custom frameworks to make our life easier, we just code each theme from scratch using the standard WordPress structure and coding, so we are not looking to develop a theme that you can change in any way you want since this will make it over complicated .
We are doing this because in the long term I think you as our client will gain, for example any developer can get rid of latest news thumbnails section in Zerif in 5 minutes ( even somebody from fiverr at $5 ), the same goes for a particular space or color, but when a theme is really complex, you can customize it more, but however when you find something that you can’t, it will cost you $500 not $5, because the code is too complex to understand.
I know that this thing is not for everybody, 10-20% of the people won’t like that, but 80% will love it, so we are ok with refunding people that don’t like the way we are doing things, and again is not about that we don’t care about our customers, is because we care and we strongly believe that this is the best things for most of you .
2. And what’s the link to your website? 🙂
Regards,
Hardeep
I went from Zerif Lite to purchase the Zerif Pro version, and it’s working great!! I love it! I actually purchased the $99 special to get multiple themes from theme isle.
I have some learning to do with regards to customization, but I think in time I’ll get there. Things like adding an image slider in the big title section, and being able to make background images semi-transparent so you can read text in front of them.
I’ve launched my new site with my new theme at http://www.triplayacademy.com
