Orbital Theme® Documentation

To install the theme, first, you have to download the .zip file that we give you with the purchase confirmation email.
You do not have to unzip it, as the plugins and themes are uploaded to WordPress in .zip format.

Once you are logged into your WordPress account with your contracted hosting, go to Appearance > Themes and click on the ‘Add New’ button at the top of the page.

If your theme has been uploaded successfully, continue with the next steps, if you get a message saying ‘upload_max_filesize in php.ini.’ it means that you have space problems on your server and you should contact your hosting provider’s support to solve it or upgrade your hosting plan.

You will receive another email with your email address and activation licence.
(if your license has not arrived in a reasonable period of time and is not in spam, send us an email to support@orbitalthemes.net and we will provide it as soon as possible).

You have to enter this information after installing your theme, in Appearance > Orbital License.
Once you enter your email and the license, in that same page you will see a notice announcing that the license status is active.

When you download and install the theme, you will have a base version of Orbital Theme, so once you have installed it, the next step, after placing and activating your license, is to update your theme.

To do that just go to Desktop > Updates.
There you can check all the themes and plugins that currently have an update.

Once you have activated your license and updated your theme, you can start working properly with Orbital.

If you still notice a missing feature, make sure you have cleared your cache, as this may be the problem.

If the licence is not activated there are several reasons why this may happen:

· You have already used the licence on another domain and have not requested the migration mentioned above. If you need to update the theme on several domains, you need more than one licence.

· You are entering the wrong license or the wrong email associated with it. Check that there are no spaces before or after the licence or the email.

· Your server is not receiving external requests correctly (your theme may not be updated even though it is active for this reason). In this case, we recommend that you contact your hosting provider so that they can solve this problem.

Yes, no problem, but when you launch your website with its definitive domain, you will have to request the migration, as if you had used it on a different domain, from this link.

Clusters are the elements that will constitute the SILO structure of our site, thus favouring SEO.
These clusters can be made with combinations of pages, posts, categories… We can sort them by name, creation date, modification date, in ascending or descending order…
We can differentiate between two different types of clusters:

The first type is the normal cluster, where the featured image of the post + title will appear.
The second is the highlighted cluster, the cluster that has a blue shading when you pass the cursor over it and the title of the post appears integrated.

This last cluster is created automatically in the first three posts when our home page is composed of the latest posts or categories. However, we can also create them ourselves, by adding a value, in this case the number of posts we want to appear in the featured clusters, in the ‘featured’ marker.
You can find it in the right column of the editor of a post or page when you select a cluster.

You are differentiating between featured and non-featured clusters. Featured clusters are the longest clusters that have the image and text inside. To get this type of cluster you have to include a value in ‘featured’ in the cluster generator.

Yes, Orbital includes the option to add a text extract to clusters, except for custom links.

Go to the post you’ve made the cluster of and in the right column you’ll see the ‘Excerpt’ dropdown. There you can write your custom description.

To make sure it is activated, go to Appearance > Customise > Listing options and check that you have activated descriptions.

Since Gutenberg is the default editor in WordPress, excerpts are not added automatically, so the ‘Read more’ functions and the number of characters marking in Listing Options are deprecated right now and will be removed in a future update.
This operation can be done from plugins such as Yoast SEO.

In the file home.php and index.php you have to modify this part:

<div class="flex flex-fluid">
 <?php
 	$featured = 0;
 	while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
 		if($featured == 3) do_action('orbital_after_featured_home');
 			if($featured < 3)
 				get_template_part( 'template-parts/loops/loop', 'featured' );
 			else
 				get_template_part( 'template-parts/loops/loop', 'grid' );
 				$featured++;
 	endwhile;
 ?>
</div>

For this:

<div class="flex flex-fluid">
 <?php
 	$featured = 0;
 	while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
 		get_template_part( 'template-parts/loops/loop', 'grid' );
 	endwhile;
 ?>
</div>

The images must have a predetermined size to fit well in the cluster.
These measures will be a minimum of 450×350 and always in that aspect ratio, because if we put an image that is taller than wide in a cluster that is wider than tall, the image will not be displayed correctly.

These images will always be the ones we have chosen as featured image. If we have not chosen a featured image in our post, the cluster that corresponds to it will be without an image.
This does not mean that this image must appear at the top of our post. If we do not want this to happen and keep the featured image only as the cover image of the cluster, we can deactivate it under the text editor, within each post, by unchecking the ‘Featured image’ box.

As for the header images of your site, they must have a size of 1920 x 400px, as indicated by the theme.

Check the desired size of the clusters in Appearance > Customise > List Options.
Then, install the free Regenerate Thumbnails plugin and run it from Tools.
Remember that images can become pixelated and WordPress may not work well with them if they are too small. The minimum recommended size is approximately 450 x 350.

Try to make sure you are using the recommended sizes on your featured image.
Also, this is an error that can occur because your theme is not updated to the latest version.
Go to Desktop > Updates, and there you can check all the plugins / themes you need to update.

There are few plugins that can present incompatibilities with the theme, but even so, there are some that, because of the way they act, cause some problems if used with Orbital.

The worst enemy are visual editors such as Elementor, Visual Composer / WPBakery Page Builder, TinyMCE, Divi… These are plugins that abruptly modify the css of the theme and get results far from those desired in the template.
On the other hand, we contraindicate them, since, in addition to causing technical conflicts, they are not exactly the best friend of SEO, since they create an unnecessary amount of code that becomes an obstacle for the words we want to position on our website.

On the other hand, performance optimization plugins are not a good idea, as Orbital has a multitude of optimisation functions that you can activate and modify in Appearance > Customise > Performance Settings. The theme’s functions will always perform better as they are integrated, but if you activate these functions and those of any optimisation plugin, you would be generating duplications that would cause serious incompatibilities.

One of the most frequent queries is how to improve your PageSpeed score, the Google tool that measures how optimized your website is and that does not translate into how fast your website loads, being the loading speed only one of the parameters it would measure, although it is clear that if you make the proposed optimisations, your website will gain in speed.

Orbital Theme includes in Appearance > Customise > Performance Settings, a series of functions that will make it easier for you to improve your score by simply copying and pasting the conflicting routes that PageSpeed indicates in each of the corresponding sections.

For example, if you have a problem loading the Google Fonts you’ve selected and PageSpeed tells you the path, simply copy and paste it into Appearance > Customise > Performance Settings > Preload Fonts.

Other general improvements we suggest are as follows:

Blocking JavaScript or CSS:

Orbital has a quick and easy solution built into Appearance > Customise > Appearance Options, which allows us to fix these display blocking issues with just two clicks.
These are the fix render blocking css and js checkboxes, which we recommend always having checked.

Image compression:

Most of the time, a low score is due to the unnecessary heavy weight of the images on our website. To prevent this from happening or to solve it, we can use a compression plugin like WP Smush. You will notice a big difference.

Take advantage of caching space:

Many people, believe that the cache plugin is installed and is ready to fulfill its function. In some cases it is, but most of the time it needs to be adapted to the needs of our server and is configured differently depending on whether the server is based on Litespeed, Nginx, Apache… We can always ask our hosting provider for advice.

Reduce response time with the server:

This problem can be overturned due to any of the above mentioned problems, so it would be solved by applying those improvements. However, many times it can be a server quality problem or a temporary server failure.

That said, if our score has not improved significantly, it is probably a problem related to a plugin we are using.
In that case, we will have to evaluate whether or not we want to continue using that plugin and if it is worth it.

The important thing in this case is that the user experience is good and can navigate quickly through your website.

If an error related to Lighthouse appears and it is not possible to measure your PageSpeed score, there may be a temporary problem with the tool, so we recommend that you try again later.

This error can also be caused by a misconfiguration of your cache plugin, so we recommend that you revert to the original default settings and try again.

/*Entradas*/
.single .title{
	
text-align: center;
}

/*Páginas*/
.page .title{
	
text-align: center;
}

@media (min-width: 48rem){
.no-sidebar .container{
	
	width: 720px;
}
}

<!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics -->
<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-XXXXXXXXX-1"></script>
<script>
  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
  gtag('js', new Date());

  gtag('config', 'UA-XXXXXXXXX-1');
</script>

The script that you have to paste for the automatic ads will look like this:

<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<script>
  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({
    google_ad_client: "ca-pub-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    enable_page_level_ads: true
  });
</script>

It is possible that, despite having placed the code provided by AdSense, it is not being located on your website when you log into your account. This problem can be easily solved if you copy the script provided above and replace the ‘X’ with your user ID.

It is possible that you are running JS load duplications. You can check this by going to Appearance > Customize > Performance Settings > Fix Render Blocking, and uncheck ‘Fix JS Render Blocking. By doing this, you will be removing one of the JS loads you have active. If this resolves the problem, it would confirm that you either leave Orbital disabled (not recommended) or look for the plugin that is performing the JS load (e.g. a caching plugin).

You can choose where and how you want the share buttons to appear on the page and include a counter.

If the iframe is http and the website is https it will not work.
Remember also that it is always more convenient to embed the iframe provided by the YouTube ‘Share’ option rather than pasting the URL directly.

To generate your table of contents you only need to have a series of tags in your content. I.e. H1, H2, H3…
These tags in your titles will determine the hierarchy of the table of contents.
You will see in the editor of each post, below the text container and other content, an option ‘table of contents’, which must be checked. This is a built-in function of our theme, so you won’t need any additional plugins 😉

Under Appearance > Customise > Table of contents, you will see, at the top, a shortcode that you have to insert in your page or post in case you don’t want it to appear at the top.

Further down, you can check the general activation on pages and posts. If there is a page where you don’t want it, just uncheck the ‘Table of contents’ option in your editor.

You must include your country’s tax identification number, your ID. If you don’t have one you can put ‘not applicable’.

We sell a product from the European Union, so our currency is the Euro. If you are buying from a non-EU country, you are being charged in dollars.

In other words, even if it is a higher value, a $71 licence is the same as a €59 licence.

It depends, Orbital’s own settings will not change even if you upgrade.
If you have modifications related to the theme code, you should do it, because the code is rewritten in each update.

On the other hand, we will not be able to give you proper support if you use a child theme, as we cannot recognise it as the original theme and we would not know which modifications you have applied.

In addition, you will no longer receive regular updates, as WordPress will not recognise the theme as the original one.

Appearance > Customise > Layout options; uncheck ‘Show date’.

What you can see on that page is the header image. Although it is really a logo, it is working as the header of the website.

jQuery is a multiplatform JavaScript library, which simplifies the way to interact with HTML documents, manipulate the DOM, develop animations, add AJAX interaction to web pages….. It is the most widely used JS library.

It is advisable to have the option enabled depending on your own web needs.
If you run your website through Pagespeed and you perceive that one of the problems is that jQuery is blocking resources, you should uncheck it so that fix render blocking will solve it.

The menu sub-items are only displayed by default in the 1.0 version of the theme. Right now, by default, the sub-items are grouped in each item you mark them, so make sure you have the theme updated so that this does not happen.

It may occur when you are using a visual editor. Disable it, as above, and your problem will be solved.

The problem is that you have not activated the mobile menu. Appearance > Customize > Appearance options.
Also, you may not see the mobile menu because you have not yet created a menu on your website.