NOISE

Welcome! First of all, we want to thank you for purchasing our Noise WordPress Theme.

In the following sections, we will explain how to set up and use Noise theme the easiest way possible. Although there is a lot of information in this documentation, the theme itself is not hard to use. You can go to the Theme Options page and explore the ease of using yourself. This file is more of a step by step reference if you do not know what to do, or if you are not familiar with WordPress.

#Files Included

The download package (.zip) that you get from ThemeForest contains the following files and folder:

• noise-wp.zip: main theme file that needs to be uploaded to your host to install the Noise theme
• demo-content.xml: demo content file, which contains all pages and posts from live preview website. It will help you to have a first look at how we use Noise theme
• theme-options.txt: theme option backup file. You’ll need this to restore the default theme options that setup for demo website.
• docs.html: theme documentation (this file)
• PSD.zip: zip file of all PSDs of Noise. You might want to use it to change the design

#Installation

#Install theme

We have written a very detailed guide on how to download and install a WordPress theme from ThemeForest, please follow the instruction in that article.

#Install demo content

If you are new to WordPress and have problems with setting up the theme, it is because you will need to import the demo content file that comes with the theme. The following actions will import some dummy posts and pages from the live preview:

• Go to Tools > Import
• Select WordPress from the list
• If you haven’t installed the WordPress import plugin, a popup window will appear and ask you to install it. Just click Install Now. When the installation progress is completed, click Activate Plugin & Run Importer. If you have installed this plugin, skip to the next step.
• Click Browse and select demo-content.xml file from the download package
• Click Upload file and import
• When you are asked to import author, you can create new author or import to existing author. You also should check the checkbox Download and import file attachments.

After completing all above steps, go to Track, Artist, Album to see imported data.

Important: Due to the license of images (http://www.shutterstock.com/), we have had to remove images in the distributed demo content and replace them with placeholders instead. You should get a demo site looks like this http://themes.fitwp.com/noise-demo/

#Setup homepage and blog page

After installing demo content, you’ll see a page Onepage. This page will be used as the homepage of the website. To set it as homepage, please go to Settings \ Reading, under Front page displays, please chose A static page (select below) and select Onepage for Front page and Blog page for Posts page.

#Restore Theme Options

To make your website looks exactly like the demo website, you need to import theme options.

The download package contains a file called theme-options.txt. Please open it with a text editor (like Notepad in Windows) and copy the content.

Then go to Appearance \ Theme Options \ Backup and Restore, you’ll see this:

Paste the content of theme-options.txt that you’ve just copied into the textarea (1), then click button (2) to import the theme options.

That’s all!

#Setup menu

Because we haven’t created a menu for primary location, the theme will display WordPress pages by default, which is not correct.

The following steps will guide you in assigning a menu:

• Go to Appearance > Menus
• Select an existing to edit, or click create a new menu. Note: when you import theme data, WordPress automatically create a menu Main for you, so select it if you want to have same menu as in live preview.
• Select items in Noise Sections from the left meta box and click Add to Menu.
• On the right, feel free to drag and drop menu items to organize them.
• When you’re done moving menu items, check Primary Menu for theme locations at the bottom of the page
• Click Save Menu

Note 1: This only changes the order of menu items, not the order of sections. To change the order of sections, please go to Theme Options.

Note 2: If you use the imported menu (e.g. the Main menu which is automatically created), you have to change the URL of menu item. It is currently pointed to the demo website, and you will have to change the URL to view your website creation.

#Setup widget areas

The Noise theme has only 1 widget area (sidebar) for Blog page. By default, Noise works perfectly with all widgets, so you just need to drag and drop widgets from the left to the sidebar area. That’s all.

To see options for each widgets, please read the Widgets section.

That is all! Now you have the website up with all basic elements needed for your build!

#Theme Options

The Noise theme comes with a unique, creative and easy-to-use Theme Options page. This allows you to change all theme options in one place!

With Noise’s advanced theme options panel, you can customize just about any part of your site quickly and easily. You can change options for each section on the site. Upload your own custom favicon, input custom CSS. Change title, subtitle for each section. Upload background for parallax effect, etc.

All options have full descriptions to guide you along. Just click and save!
Let’s go through each section.

Let’s go through each section.

#General

This sections contains:

• (1): under construction mode. If you active this, your website will be put into construction mode. Note that, if you enable construction mode, you have to create a page using the “Under Construction” template to make this mode work correctly.- (2): autoplay, initiates (starts up) the automatic music player when the website is loaded
• (3): enable autoplay of a track when website is loaded. To use this option also enable autoplay option.
• (4): select which track plays when website is loaded.
• (5): tick the box to show “Download” button on track
• (6): number days that user can’t vote a track twice times in this range / Number of days to restrict multi-voting on tracks.
• (7): favicon upload, allows you to upload favicon for you website
• (8): touch icon, allows you to upload icon for mobile devices and tablets

After changing settings, click Save Changes.

#Favicon Upload

Favicon (short for Favorite icon), also known as a shortcut icon, Web site icon, tab icon or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more small icons, most commonly 16×16 pixels, associated with a particular Web site or Web page. Browsers that provide favicon support typically display a page’s favicon in the browser’s address bar (sometimes in the history as well) and next to the page’s name in a list of bookmarks. Browsers that support a tabbed document interface typically show a page’s favicon next to the page’s title on the tab, and site-specific browsers use the favicon as a desktop icon.

This is how favicon appears:

Noise lets you upload favicon or enter favicon URL in the input box:

• If you have a favicon uploaded, or you store the favicon somewhere out of the Media Library, you can just put the URL of the favicon into the input box, or
• If you want to upload favicon for your website, click the upload button (the green one near input box) and upload it to Media Library as a normal image, then click Select.

The favicon should be in one of the following format: .ico, .png, .gif. Usually we should use .ico.

When you’re done, you can click Save Changes button to save your data.

#Touch Icon

Touch icons are the favicons of mobile devices and tablets. Each mobile devices and tablets has its own standards for displaying the touch icon (read this article to have a better understanding about touch icon and supported devices) and requires various icon sizes. But for best compatibility and simplicity, an image with size 152×152 is enough.

To specify a touch icon for you website, just do the same as for favicon: you can either put the URL of the touch icon into the input box or upload the icon to Media Library.

Note: The icon must be an PNG image

When you’re done, you can click Save Changes button to save your data.

#Design

This sections contains:

• Color Scheme: allows you to change color scheme of whole website
• Background: allows you to select background pattern or image, and change how it appear
• Custom CSS: allows you to add your custom CSS

#Color Scheme

Noise theme has 7 predefined color schemes to choose from: black, red, blue, orange, violet, Blue sky deep and sapphire. When you change color scheme of the theme, all links, icon boxes, button background and other elements will change their color or background accordingly.

The default color scheme is black, but you can select any from 7 colors here. After selecting, click Save Changes button to save your data. Now go to the frontend and check the colors of links, buttons, etc.

When you select Color Scheme section, you’ll see the following options:

(1): select a built-in color scheme. These are 7 predefined color scheme. When you select one of them, your website elements will change color accordingly.

(2): enable/disable custom color scheme. This option allows you create a custom color scheme, and you can build unlimited color schemes variations here! Just enable this and you’ll see options below.

(3): primary color. This is the primary color for your custom color scheme.

(4): secondary color. This is the color used in the border and the element’s background color

(5): Here are some examples of using custom colors to built your own color scheme. These are real example which are used to build 7 predefined color schemes. You should start with these values and adjust them

#Background

This section helps you to select background pattern or image and change how it appears.

(1): background color.

(2): background image. You can paste image URL here or upload the image to Media Library by clicking the upload button (the green one).

(3): background position X, can be Left, Center or Right.

(4): background position Y, can be Top, Center or Bottom.

(5): background repeat, can be Repeat, Repeat Horizontally, Repeat Vertically or No Repeat

(6): background attachment, can be scrolled (will scroll when you scroll the content) or Fixed (will stay fixed when you scroll the content)

(7): parallax pattern. This is used as a overlay of the background image. It’s for better eye catching effect. You can leave it empty if you don’t like the effect.

After it’s done, click Save Changes button to save your data. Now go to the frontend and check the background.

#Custom CSS

This section allows entering custom CSS that will be output in the </head>. This will overwrite CSS of theme, so please be careful!

Custom CSS is useful when you want to adjust small things for your website. If you have to adjust a lot of things in the website, please use Child Themes.

#Header

This sections contains:

(1): logo upload, allows you to upload a logo for your website. You can either put the URL of the logo into the input box or upload the logo to the Media Library. The live preview of the logo will appear below the inputs.

(2): logo size. Specify logo size in px here. It will help you resize the logo to the correct dimensions. By default, the best size is 200×40.

(3): header scripts. Enter scripts or code you would like output to <head>. It can be:

• <link> tag for custom font (from Google Fonts maybe)
• Any meta tag: to show the designer, copyright, etc. in meta tag
• Google Analytics code
• Any Javascript code that needs to be executed in the <head> script.
• Anything else

#Sections

This menu will let you reorder sections of Noise, as well as configure each section. Let’s go to each submenu to see how it works.

#Order Sections

Here you can look at all sections available for Noise. You can also drag and drop each section to reorder them as you want.

Note that you cannot disable sections here. Only reorder. Enable/disable sections will be different options in each section settings.

#Opener

Opener is the screen you see when the preloader has finished (100%). It mimics the “Slide to Unlock” effect on iOS. This part allows you to configure the opener with the following options:

• (1): enable/disable opener. If you don’t like the opener at all, you can disable it here. Note the opener is shown only once when users first go to website, e.g. they don’t have to “unlock” when they go through all pages on the website.
• (2): opener logo. This option allows you to select a logo for the opener page. You can paste image URL here or upload it by clicking the green button.
• (3): unlock text. Put the text “Slide to Unlock” here.
• (4): background image. You can paste image URL here or upload it by clicking the green button.

#Top Slider

This is the configuration for the top slider. From version 2.2.1 theme sliders have three types for you are: Static Background, Slider Background, and Video Background

This section has the following options:

• (1): enable/disable slider. If you don’t like the slider at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): types of the slider that you can use. with any types of slider you have other settings as following:
  

  #Static Background

This option helps you can set a background image for Top Slider and captions appearing on it.

• (1): background image. You can paste image URL here or upload it by clicking the green button.
• (2): captions will be showed above the slider, you can move to next caption by clicking the arrow next or prev on the slider.
  

  #Slider Background

This option helps you can set a slider as background for Top Slider and captions appearing on it.

• (1): captions will be showed above the slider, you can move to next caption by click arrow next or prev on the slider.
• (2): images will be showed in the slider. You can paste image URL here or upload it by clicking the green button.
  

  #Video Background

This option helps you can set a video as background for Top Slider and captions appearing on it.

• (1): your video Url, you can copy link on youtube then paste into this field.
• (2): captions will be showed above video, you can move to next caption by click arrow next or prev on slider.

#Latest Tracks

This section allows you to display all tracks of your website in a vertical slider.In the frontend you can scroll vertically to see all tracks. The configuration of this section is very simple:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like the latest tracks section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): section title.
• (3): title suffix. This is a small letter after the section title. It’s used for a better eye-catching effect.
• (4): subtitle.
• (5): number of tracks you want to display on website. Please note that the larger number of tracks, the slower website!

#Like & Follow

This section displays beautiful Facebook like and Twitter follow buttons in the frontend. It has the following options:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like this section to be shown, you can disable it here.
• (2): background image. You can paste image URL here or upload it by clicking the green button.
• (3): message. This is the text that tells people to like/follow you. You can put text in multiple lines, which will be displayed the same in the frontend.
• (4): text displays on Facebook button.
• (5): Facebook fan page URL.
• (6): text displays on Twitter button.
• (7): Twitter username. Twitter is more easier than Facebook, you just need to put your Twitter username here.

Note: Since version 1.1.1, NOISE does not use Facebook App ID, instead of that – Facebook Fan page URL. It’ll make you easier to setup the theme (don’t need to create Facebook App)

#Popular

This section displays popular tracks (based on votes) in the latest week and in the latest month. The options for this section is very simple:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like to display this section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): section title.
• (3): title suffix. This is a small letter after the section title. It’s used for a better eye-catching effect.
• (4): subtitle.
• (5): number of tracks to display.

Please see the screenshot in Latest Tracks section to know where these texts are displayed.

#Quotes

This section allows you to display a maximum of 5 quotes in the frontend. It has the following options:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like to display this section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): enable/disable sliding quotes automatically.
• (3): background image. You can paste image URL here or upload it by clicking the green button.
• (4): author name
• (5): quote content

The (4) and (5) is repeated the same for all testimonials.

#Media

This section displays photo and video galleries in the latest month. The options for this section is very simple:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like to display this section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): section title.
• (3): title suffix. This is a small letter after the section title. It’s used for a better eye-catching effect.
• (4): subtitle.
• (5): number of photo galleries to display.
• (6): number of video galleries to display

Please see the screenshot in Latest Tracks section to know where these texts (2), (3), (4) are displayed.

#Latest Tweets

This section displays latest tweets in the frontend. It has the following options:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like the latest tracks section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): background image. You can paste image URL here or upload it by clicking the green button.
• (3): API keys from Twitter App. Please read below to know it.
• (4): Twitter username
• (5): number of tweets to displayed
• (6): cache time (in seconds). Twitter limits number of requests to retrieve tweets in short time. To make sure we always get tweets, Noise has a feature that store tweets in local cache, which will reduce the chance of blocking by Twitter and also improve web performance.

Before you use the Tweets section, you have to create a Twitter app. Following these steps:

• Go to https://dev.twitter.com/apps and click Create a new application button.

• Fill in all information needed for the app. The name and description can be anything, it does not have to be a certain name. You can leave the Callback URL field empty.
• After creating the app, click Create My Access Token button to generate the necessary codes.
• Now go to app Dashboard and select API Keys tab and copy the following fields:
  • Consumer key
  • Consumer secret
  • Access token
  • Access token secret

These are needed fields in theme options we’ve just talked about.

#Releases

This section displays latest releases (album) in the latest month. The options for this section is very simple:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like the latest tracks section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): section title.
• (3): title suffix. This is a small letter after the section title. It’s used for a better eye-catching effect.
• (4): subtitle.
• (5): number of releases (albums) to be displayed. Enter -1 to show all.

Please see the screenshot in Latest Tracks section to know where these texts (2), (3), (4) are displayed.

#Subscribe

This section displays a subscribe to newsletter form. The form itself is created by another plugin. We recommended Send Poet (formerly WYSIJA) plugin, which you should have installed in the beginning of this documentation. But you can use any other plugin which supports shortcode like Gravity Forms.

This section has the following options:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like the latest tracks section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): background image. You can paste image URL here or upload it by clicking the green button.
• (3): form shortcode. Just paste the shortcode from the plugin here.
• (4): form title.
• (5): form description.

#Events

This section displays upcoming and past events in the frontend. The options for this section is very simple:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like to display this section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): section title.
• (3): title suffix. This is a small letter after the section title. It’s used for a better eye-catching effect.
• (4): subtitle.
• (5): number of events to be displayed. Enter -1 to show all.

Please see the screenshot in Latest Tracks section to know where these texts (2), (3), (4) are displayed.

#Special Event

This section displays an important event with countdown style in the frontend. It has the following options:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like the latest tracks section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): types of background that you can use. with any type of setting, you have other settings as the description below.
• (3): event title.
• (4): event description.
• (5): event time. You have to enter correct format of the date time: yyyy-mm-dd h:i:s
  

  #Image option

  

  This option will show an image as background in section.

• (1): background image. You can paste image URL here or upload it by clicking the green button.
  

  #Video option

  

  This option will play a video as background in section.

• (1): background video. You can paste video URL on youtube here.

#Artists

This section displays all artists in a vertical slider in the frontend. The options for this section is very simple:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like the latest tracks section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): section title.
• (3): title suffix. This is a small letter after the section title. It’s used for a better eye-catching effect.
• (4): subtitle.
• (5): choose which artists will be displayed.

Please see the screenshot in Latest Tracks section to know where these texts (2), (3), (4) are displayed.

#Blog Parallax

This section displays information to introduce your blog. It has options following:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like the latest tracks section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): background image. You can paste image URL here or upload it by clicking the green button.
• (3): blog’s description.
• (4): URL to your blog.
• (5): text displays for the link to your blog.

#Latest News

This section displays three latest posts with image and excerpt. The options for this section is very simple:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like the latest tracks section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): section title.
• (3): title suffix. This is a small letter after the section title. It’s used for a better eye-catching effect.
• (4): subtitle.
• (5): change “Read more” text on a post that to show all post’s description.

#Shop Section

This section displays information to introduce your shop page in the frontend. It has the following options:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like this section to be shown, you can disable it here.
• (2): background image. You can paste image URL here or upload it by clicking the green button.
• (3): title. This is the text header.
• (4): description. This is the text content.
• (5): shop URL. Link to shop page.
• (6): the content of button.

#Products

This section allows you to display products of your website in a vertical slider. In the frontend you can scroll vertically to see all products. The configuration of this section is very simple:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like the products section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): section title and title suffix. This is a small letter after the section title. It’s used for a better eye-catching effect.
• (4): you can choose kind of products to show.
• (5): number of products you want to display on website.

Woocommerce Setting: WooCommerce plugin almost works after activated, you just have to edit settings about image size to make sure products are displayed correctly with Noise.

Here we will show you where to edit these settings.

You can import products sample of WooCommerce. To assist you, follow these steps here

#Connect

This section displays a Google Maps and links to your social profiles in the frontend. It has the following options:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like to display this section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): contact section title.
• (3): contact information. You can put address, phone, fax, … in this textarea box. Put each info in one line to display them beautifully.
• (4): contact email.
• (5): address. Used for Google Maps.
• (6): zoom level for Google Maps.
• (7): list of links to your social profiles

#Custom Content

This section displays custom content in your onepage page. Custom content can be HTML and you can also use shortcodes here. This is useful if you want to show “About” text on your homepage.

It has the following options:

• (1): enable/disable the section. If you don’t like the latest tracks section at all, you can disable it here.
• (2): section title.
• (3): title suffix. This is a small letter after the section title. It’s used for a better eye-catching effect.
• (4): subtitle.
• (5): custom content. You can enter any shortcodes here.

#Blog

This part will show you all options for your blog. Although Noise is a “one-page” theme, you still can create multi-page for your website. The blog is one of the “multi-page” features.

This section has following options:

• (1): blog layout. Noise supports 2 layout: left sidebar and right sidebar
• (2): enable/disable blog header. Blog header here is similar to the Top Slider, it will have same background, but only 1 caption text. By choosing enable, you’ll show the blog header in Blog page, disable – hide blog header.
• (3): blog header caption.
• (4): except length for blog posts.
• (5): show/hide read more text.
• (6): the read more text
• (7): pagination style. Noise supports 3 pagination style: Ajax load (click on the button in the bottom of Blog page will load more posts via ajax), Next/Prev (go to next/prev pages), Numeric Buttons (display pages 1, 2, 3, …)

#Footer

This is the configuration part for the footer. It has only 3 options:

(1): footer logo. You can paste URL of the logo image in the text box, or click the green button to upload/select an image from the Media Library.

(2): copyright text. You can enter text, HTML and shortcodes here. To make you easier to display copyright text, Noise has default shortcodes that you can enter here:

• [year]: display current year
• [site_link]: display link to your website with text is the website title. For example, if you have a website at http://example.com and title Example, this will display a link like this:

<a href="http://example.com">Example</a>

• [bloginfo]: display blog information. This is the wrapper of bloginfo() function. Default it will display blog name (e.g. website title), but you can use it with parameter name to display more information, for example:
  • [bloginfo name="name"]: display blog name (default)
  • [bloginfo name="description"]: display blog description (tagline)
  • [bloginfo name="version"]: display WordPress version
  • [bloginfo name="rss2_url"]: display RSS2 feed link
  • [bloginfo name="home"]: display home link
  • For more value of name, please see bloginfo() function

The default value for copyright text is Copyright ©[year] [site_link]. All rights reserved..

(3): footer scripts. Enter scripts or code you would like output before </body>. It can be Google Analytics code or any Javascript code.

#Backup – Restore

Noise allows you to backup Noise options and restores them later. You can also transfer the saved options data between different installs.

To backup theme options, just copy the text inside the text box and save it into a file on your computer. To import data, replace the data in the text box with the one from the saved file and click Import Options button.

After clicking Import Options, Noise will automatically setup all options and refresh the current theme options page, so you can see the options immediately.

#Add/Edit Album

Noise has some custom post types, one of them is “Album”. When you add or edit an album, you need to fill in some required information to make it display correctly.

Look at the 2 meta boxes generated:

• Album Information: album main information
• Featured Image: album featured image

Let’s go through each items:

• (1): album released date. When click on that field, you’ll see a popup that show date picker, just pick one date.
• (2): composer name.
• (3): album genre.
• (4): iTunes link of the album, in case you want to sell it on iTunes. Leave empty if you don’t want people to go to iTunes and buy it.
• (5): Amazon link of the album, in case you want to sell it on Amazon. Leave empty if you don’t want people to go to Amazon and buy it.
• (6): Spotify link of the album, in case you want to sell it on Spotify. Leave empty if you don’t want people to go to Spotify and buy it.
• (7): album review. Maybe a short review of the album, how is it, etc.
• (8): album featured image (cover image). Simply select featured image for the album as a normal post. This image will be used to display as album thumbnail.

#Add/Edit Artist

Another post type that Noise has is “Artist”. When you add or edit an artist, you need to fill in some required information to make it display correctly.Look at the 2 meta boxes generated:

• Artist Information: artist main information
• Featured Image: artist featured image

Let’s go through each items:

• (1): artist’s full name.
• (2): artist’s nickname.
• (3): date of birth. Just click on the text box, a date picker will be shown and you just need to select a date.
• (4): place of birth
• (5): occupation, like: singler, musician, etc.
• (6): what’s the artist best known for? You should put a paragraph here that highlights artist’s career.
• (7): synopsis. A paragraph for short introduction to artist.
• (8)-(12): link to artist’s social profiles.
• (13): artist’s images (gallery). You just need to click the button Select or Upload Images, a modal window will display. There you can upload artist’s images or choose images from the Media Library. When uploaded, you can drag images to reorder them. These images will be display in a lightbox window in the frontend.
• (14): artist’s featured image. Simply select featured image for the artist as a normal post. This image will be used to display as a thumbnail in the frontend.

#Add/Edit Track

“Track” is the main post type in Noise. When you add or edit a track, you will need to fill in some required information to make it display correctly. Look at the 2 meta boxes generated for an idea of the layout:

• Track Information: track main information
• Featured Image: track featured image

Let’s go through each of the items:

• (1): track description.
• (2): track album. You only need to select album from the dropdown list. Note that you have to create albums first.
• (3): artist. Same here, you just need to select artist from the dropdown. Note that you have to create artists first.
• (4): composer.
• (5): track release date. Simply click on the text box, a date picker will be shown. You just need to select a date.
• (6): track genre.
• (7): track length.
• (8): track upload. This is the hotlink (direct link) to the track. You can enter the URL of the track here or click on the button to upload the track to the Media Library. Note: you must provide a direct link to the track for the player to play it in the frontend.
• (9): SoundCloud URL of the track. If you upload the track to SoundCloud, you can enter its URL here so people can play the song on SoundCloud through your website using the SoundCloud player.
• (10): track lyrics.
• (11): track images (gallery). You just need to click the button Select or Upload Images, a modal window will display. There you can upload track images or choose images from the Media Library. When uploaded, you can drag images to reorder them. These images will be displayed in a lightbox window in the frontend.
• (12): track videos. If the track has videos (like live show videos, etc.), you can put video URLs here. Videos can be Youtube videos, Vimeo videos or self-hosted videos. For self-hosted videos, please click the “Upload” button to upload videos to Media Library. You can also add as many videos as you want by clicking the “+” button.
• (13): track cover image (optional). This image will be used in the extended player. If you don’t set any image here, the first image in the gallery will be used.
• (14): track featured image. Simply select featured image for the track as a normal post. This image will be used to display as a thumbnail in the frontend.

#Add/Edit Gallery

Noise allows you to show your photo gallery or video gallery. When you add or edit a gallery, you’ll see the following options:

• (1): gallery type: ‘Photos’ or ‘Videos’. If you choose ‘Photos’, then you have to uploads images, otherwise, you have to upload videos.
• (2): gallery images. Click the button Select or Upload Images, a modal window will display. There you can upload images or choose images from the Media Library. Note: you only to do this if you choose gallery type ‘Photos’.
• (3): gallery videos. If you choose gallery type ‘Video’, you can put video URLs here. Videos can be Youtube videos, Vimeo videos or self-hosted videos. For self-hosted videos, please click the “Upload” button to upload videos to Media Library. You can also add as many videos as you want by simply clicking the “+” button.
• (4): gallery featured image. Simply select featured image for the gallery as a normal post. This image will be used to display as a thumbnail in the frontend.

#Add/Edit Event

Noise allows artists/singles to put their events on the website so fans can see and buy tickets. When you add or edit an event, please fill in the information below:

• (1): event date/time. Simply click on the text box, a date/time picker will popup and you just need to select correct date and time.
• (2): event information (description).
• (3): place of the event.
• (4): event status. This can be “Cancel”, “Sold Out”, “Buy” and often used for tickets.
• (5): buy link. If you choose event status “Buy”, please enter the link to buy page here.
• (6): event images. Click the button Select or Upload Images, a modal window will display. There you can upload images or choose images from the Media Library.
• (7): event videos. You can put video URLs here. Videos can be Youtube videos, Vimeo videos or self-hosted videos. For self-hosted videos, please click the “Upload” button to upload videos to Media Library. You can also add as many videos as you want by simply clicking the “+” button.

#Post Formats

Post Formats is theme feature which is a piece of meta information that can be used by a theme to customize its presentation of a post.

In short, with a theme that supports Post Formats, a blogger can change how each post looks by choosing a Post Format from a radio-button list.

Noise theme supports the following post formats:

• gallery – A gallery of images, which will be displayed in a responsive image slider, powered by Flexslider.
• link – A link to another site.
• image – A single image, which will be shown above post title.
• quote – A quotation.
• video – A single video, which can be any video from Youtube, Video or other video websites. Support URL or embed code. The video will be displayed above post title.
• audio – An audio file, which can be any video from Youtube, Video or other video websites. The video will be displayed using a powerful HTML5 audio player – MediaElements.

Each post format will have an icon near the post title which will tell you what post format is. Using the post format in Noise lets you differentiate posts from each other and make the blog page / single page look more beautiful.

See blog page to see how post formats can look.

#Setting up Post Formats

When you edit a post, select a format you want to apply to that post in the Format meta box on the right:

When you choose a format, a corresponding meta box will appear below the content editor, here is the list of them:

All you need to do is just enter all required information in the fields in these meta boxes. This information will be used to decorate the post.

#Page Templates

Noise has 4 page templates:

• Onepage: displays one-page layout (same as demo)
• Blog: displays blog posts.
• Under Construction: display under construction page.
• Full Width Page: build pages with full width.

When you edit a page, look at on the right, find Page Attributes meta box and select a template from the dropdown Template:

View the page to see the result!

Note: if you want to make the under construction page work (e.g. your site is under construction mode), after creating a page with the page template Under Construction, please go to General tab in theme option and enable the Under Construction Mode.

For the Under Construction page template, you’ll see this box below the main editor:

This page template requires the following information:

• (1): page heading, this will show a big notice to users.
• (2): description, text to describe the construction mode.
• (3): end date, i.e. when the website is done.
• (4): background image. This allows you to upload or select any image in Media Library as background for construction page.

For Full Width Template page template, you can combine with WR PageBuilder to create many kinds of different pages.

Here we will show you how to use WP PageBuilder to build a page.

Open page builder

When you add or edit pages, you will see 2 tabs Classic Editor and Page Builder right below page title, click on Page Builder to open the page builder screen and add start adding your content.

Note: Before adding elements to the page, you should know that WR PageBuilder organizes content in a grid using rows and columns. Each row can contain some columns and each column can contain some elements.

Now let’s see how to add rows, columns, and elements to page content.

* Add Row *

(1): Click the Add Row button to add a new row.

(2): You can drag and drop a row in the vertical direction to change its order.

(3): You can delete a row by clicking the recycle icon on the right side of the row. If that row contains elements, an alert box will appear and ask you to confirm that you want to delete that row and all elements inside it.

(4): Edit row. When you click the Edit Row icon (above delete row icon), a modal box will appear with options to edit row, let’s see what it is:

• Width: select the width of row, boxed or full width. By default it is boxed.
• Background: select background type of row: none, solid color, gradient, pattern or image, then set it up.
• Border: specify row border. It contains a border with, border type and border color.
• Padding: edit padding of row in px. By default all values are set to 10px
• CSS Class: add css class to row. It is useful when you want to add special styles to a row by using Custom CSS feature in Theme Options.
• ID: Set css id to row. The same purpose as CSS Class, you can add style to a row by adding an ID to it.

* Add Columns *

There is 2 way to add columns into a row: add them manually or with the user pre-defined layout.

(1): add columns manually by clicking the Add Column button on the right side of the row. You can add maximum 12 columns.

(2): you can resize a column by clicking the 3 dots icon between columns and dragging it to left or right side.

(3): add a column by using the pre-defined layout. When you hover your mouse over the Add Row button, a list of pre-defined layouts will appear, just click on a layout and you have a new row with columns inside.

* Add Elements *

Inside each row, you will see Add Element buttons at the bottom, just click on it and a modal box will appear,which contains all available elements that are supported by IG Pagebuilder plugin.

Select the element you want to add by clicking on it, a new modal box will appear. It allows you to setup the element with many options. After you are done, click the Save button to add the configured element into the column.

Note: To know in detail how to setup/configure each element, please use the online documentation here.

#Widgets

Noise works very well with default WordPress widgets. Besides which the theme has some additional widgets that might be useful for you:

#Noise – Featured Tracks

This widget allows you to display featured tracks in your sidebar. Featured tracks can be latest tracks or highest rated tracks.

This widget has the following options:

• Title: widget title
• Number Of Tracks: how many tracks do you want to display
• Show Order Number: this option shows order number before track icon (ie 1, 2, 3, …)
• Show Thumbnail: whether or not display track thumbnails
• Show Track Artist: do you want to show artist name.
• Show Rating: show how many votes tracks have
• Order By: order tracks (descending) by date (ie show latest tracks) or rating (show highest rated tracks)

#Noise – Tweets

Before you use the Tweets widget, you have to fill in all information for your Twitter app in Theme Options \ Section Latest Tweets.

After that, go to Appearance > Widgets, drag and drop Noise – Tweets widget into a sidebar that you want it to show in. The widget has the following options:

• Title: widget title
• Number of Tweets: how many tweets you want to display

After filling all information, just click Save.

#Noise – Recent Posts

This widget replaces default WordPress recent posts widget. It displays recent posts in the much more beautiful way and gives you more control over to what will be shown.

The widget has the following options:

• Title: widget title
• Number Of Posts: how many posts do you want to display
• Category: you can choose to display posts from all categories, or a specific category or multiple categories
• Show Comment Number: whether or not show comment number
• Show Thumbnail: whether or not show thumbnail
• Default Thumbnail: if the post doesn’t have a thumbnail, this default thumbnail will be used
• Show Date: whether or not to show post date
• Date Format: date format. See this link for a full list of supported date formats
• Show Excerpt: whether or not to show post excerpt
• Excerpt Length: the number of words of the post content to be displayed
• Show Readmore Text: whether or not to show read more text
• Readmore Text: Read more text

#Noise – Tabs

This widget displays popular posts, recent posts and recent comments in a tabbed widget. Each tab has its own options. For popular posts and recent posts, the options are similar to the Recent Posts widget above.

Note that popular posts are counted based on a number of comments.

#Custom image sizes

• (1):Track Thumbnail (70×70): This type is used in section : Popular track

• (2):Track Preview (530×250)
• (3):Album Thumbnail (1150×430): this type used in the section: Latest releases

• (4):Album Preview (525×200): this type is used in the section: Latest releases. When showing an album’s information

• (5):Player Expanded (240×280): this type used when showing the player expanded

• (6):Artist Thumbnail (350×450): this type used in the section : Artists

• (7):Blog Thumbnail (690×330): this type is used in the blog page

• (8):Widget Thumb (60×60): this type is used in the widgets from noise for Noise-Artists, Noise-Recent Posts.