Hello Michael,

Thank you for purchasing our theme and for reaching us. Yes, it is possible to bring audio or video from any URL. You need to paste the URL in the Audo or Video tab like given here : https://drive.google.com/a/transvelo.com/file/d/0BxmC16gQK81fTk4tcEZPV002MTQ/view?usp=drivesdk

Let me know if this works.

Thanks, Ibrahim

Thanks Ibrahim please can you try it yourself on google drive to play mp3 audio files.

It is not working. I guess it is a bug, can you do something about it.

Michael

Hello Michael,

Thank you for your patience. Google Drive does not allow you to hotlink which means you cannot get the URL of the audio file. All you get is the URL of page that embeds the audio.

However you can embed the media file. Please follow the steps given below :

1. Make your google drive file public.

2. Open the file in google drive and you will notice a black bar at the top, if you click on ”:” you will see “Embed Item”.

3. It will open a dialog box like this : https://drive.google.com/a/transvelo.com/file/d/0BxmC16gQK81fem5HT2lDME5pNTA/view?usp=drivesdk

4. Only copy the item highlighted and not the complete embed code.

5. Place the code within src of iframe and paste it inside “Embedded Audio” in the “Audio Tab” of sermons. Example code below :

<iframe src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxmC16gQK81fM3hUdjQzUkNhLTA/preview" width="500"></iframe>

6. Screenshot example : https://drive.google.com/a/transvelo.com/file/d/0BxmC16gQK81fckRnTWZUaXlvQ1E/view?usp=drivesdk

Hope this helps. Let us know if you need further assistance.

Thanks, Ibrahim

still not working after 3days

Hello there,

Thank you for purchasing our theme and for reaching us. If you take a look at this page here : http://transvelo.github.io/docs/bethlehem/setup/home_page.html

You can see all the Visual Composer elements that goes into building this theme. You can also see the Visual Composer Setting of each element. You can edit those settings to customize text to suit your requirement.

If you can be more specific as to which text you are looking to edit, I will give you better direction.

Thanks again, Ibrahim

I want to edit all of it, obviously, because I do not intend to keep my church named ‘Beth’ or to show random YouTube videos, etc. When I create a new page and choose the homepage templates for it, and then use Visual Editor, nothing is editable!

Ok, if you should not use home page template and Visual Composer together.

I recommend you to import dummy data which will have the contents of home pages as Visual Composer elements. The home page v2 would look like this :

1. You can edit the Banner of the Visual Composer to change the content that says “Beth is a church..”.

2. Sermons Carousel pulls the content from Sermons. You can add your sermons from the admin dashboard ( It is available on activation of Bethlehem Extensions plugin )

3. Give Online – is another Banner element whose contents are editable. You can choose to have your own text or edit it.

Like I mentioned earlier, you should not use “Home Page” template (it is available only for legacy reasons) and should use Visual Composer only to customize the details of the home page.

Should you require further assistance please do let us know.

Thanks, Ibrahim

This is a highly unusual way of doing things, needing to import dummy data to be able to modify the templates that come with the theme. I just spent hours editing my site last night. Your directions need to say during install that I have to install dummy data if I want to be able to get your theme to work properly, and then of course I’ll need to spend hours deleting crap I don’t want.

Also FYI – if I had an existing website your “import dummy data” method would be useless and I’d be demanding a refund. You should re-evaluate this

Hello again,

Thank you for your inputs. I appreciate your feedback. The Home pages and other pre-built pages are built using Visual Composer and hence provided with dummy data.

Alternatively you can build home page by following the instructions in the documentation without having to import dummy data. Lot of users prefer Visual Composer.

For advanced users who wish to use home page templates alone, you can edit the content from bethlehem/inc/structure/template-tags.php you can place it in the child theme.

I differ on your view that it is unusual. I do not see it as being highly unusual this is because we have contributed to StoreFront Theme (https://wordpress.org/themes/storefront/) which has 40k+ active installation and they follow the template-tags method. ( Please compare our home page templates and the one that is here : https://github.com/woothemes/storefront/blob/master/template-homepage.php )

We bundled Visual Composer so that themeforest users who are comfortable with it to build their own layouts.

If you have a recommendation on how to make things easier, we are all ears. We strive to make this theme easily usable.

Thanks again for your inputs. Ibrahim

It is unusual. I’ve created hundreds of Wordpress sites and never been required to install dummy data to make a theme work. This is atypical because chances are extremely high that a website with hundreds of pages of existing content is going to end up having several posts, pages and other kinds of fails having the exact same file name as something in the dummy data, meaning the install of the dummy data will fail or things will fail to work properly.

You should build the option to edit the homepages into your theme settings page like all the other settings, or make the ability to import the home pages separately and choose a file name or something. The way you have it right now makes this task take a lot longer than it should.

Don’t get me wrong, the theme looks nice but customizing the site is not very user friendly.

Thank you again for your valuable inputs. I really appreciate it. I like the ability to import home pages separately. I will definitely include this in our next release. However editing the home page via settings makes things complicated. I will explain why :

1. Now we have 3 different home page styles all built separately either using template tags or Visual Composer. The options for all these pages vary so it would not be ideal to have it in theme options.

2. Lets say you want to remove “Our Team” section, or want to have a second sermons screen. It is not possible to have those settings in theme options.

3. Having customization options in theme options will work only when you want to have the same elements like in demo and want to change texts but adding/removing elements or rearranging it would make it difficult.

We have taken this into account and have built custom Visual Composer elements which lets you add to your VC’s backend editor. While I accept that importing all the dummy data wouldn’t be ideal. I will definitely include an option to just import the home pages alone.

Once again thank you for your inputs, I appreciate it. I hope my explanations are satisfactory. If you have any other questions or explanation or suggestion, please do not hesitate to ask us. We are glad to help.

Thanks

In Events, there is no option to Create a new event. I went to the plugin website and it appears this is a free feature not requiring the Pro version, yet I cannot create a New event. Why is that?

You should be able to do that. Some of our customers reported that once they de-activated and activated it appeared again. Can you try that and let me know if that works ?

De-activating the plugin and re-activating it brought up the new event feature. Thank you.

Under Products (the Charity Store footer) the currency appears to be locked as British pounds. How do I change it to US dollars?

Hello again,

The store uses WooCommerce to manage products. You can change the currency settings from WooCommerce > Settings > General > Currency Options. Here is more detailed documentation : https://docs.woothemes.com/document/shop-currency/

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Thanks, Ibrahim

Thank you. On the Contact page, the layout is very confusing. I can’t actually edit the map or change the location for the venue on this page. Where is this information editable at?

It seems this is editable under Events, but I have no events and yet this information is the default settings. So where do I delete the stored venue locations so I can replace them?

Update: Found the section to edit the stored venues by creating a new event and then selecting to use a stored location BUT when it redirects me to the page to edit the stored venue, it says I do not have permission to view this page.

Hello again,

Yes in the contact page, we show an events locations widget. This works like this : If you have added events, we have provided an “Event Venue Locations” element, which you can add, so that it shows the locations of recent events. Its not the other way round. If you want to add locations not connected to events, I suggest you to add a Text/HTML Widget with the HTML similar to this :

If you need help in editing the gist I posted, let me know.

Thanks, Ibrahim

To edit the map in the header, you need to navigate to Static Block > Contact Header or create a new static block and add your Google map embed code. You can then choose the “Contact Header” static block as Header content in Page attributes of contact page.

Here is Page attribute screenshot :

Here is Static Block screenshot that contains the Google Maps embed code:

Let me know if you need help.

Thanks, Ibrahim

Where are these screens located? You’re showing me what they look like, but not where they are located in the admin area.

Edit: Nm, it’s in Static Content.

The Events stuff still makes no sense. How do I DELETE your dummy data event locations so they stop appearing in the Contact page?

You can simply remove the “Events Locations” visual composer element in the Contact Page.

Here is screenshot reference : https://drive.google.com/a/transvelo.com/file/d/0BxmC16gQK81faTN1Ykx5Tmg5OVk/view?usp=drivesdk

That’s not what I asked to do….I do not want to delete the function of the page.

I want to keep the page functioning the way it does. I just want to get rid of the existing data on Venue locations so I can replace it with my own. How do I do that?

How do I replace Christian Faith Center Lake Houston and Central Park New York, and their addresses and phone numbers? When I try to edit them from the Add New Event page I get a message saying I do not permission.

I am not sure what is causing you a permission issue. Can you please email our support with your WP admin panel credentials and FTP details and I’ll look into it.

Hello there,

Thank you for purchasing our theme and for reaching us. We have built this theme to be reaponsive. I am not sure why it appears unresponsive to you ? Can you please share with us your Website URL and let us know which part you think is not responsive. We will fix it for you.

Thanks Ibrahim

Hello there,

Thank you for purchasing our theme and for reaching us. The theme comes with a pot file which means you can translate all the strings used within the theme.

We have made this video on how to translate “Sportexx” (our other theme) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFqjLPwNjyY (turn ON captions for information about a particular step )

The steps are exactly the same for Bethlehem as well. I hope this helps you. If you are facing difficulties, please do not hesitate to ask us and we are glad to help.

Thanks, Ibrahim

how do you change the “Stories” part of the theme? I need it to say something different, how can I edit the stories portion. Example, when I put a stories carousel, I’d like the “Read Story” part to say “Lee Mas”. And anything with the word story to change it to ” Poesias”. How can I do that?

Hello Raymond,

Thank you for purchasing our theme and for reaching us. You can change the logo by navigating to Bethlehem > General > Your logo.

Here is the link to the documentation : http://docs.transvelo.com/bethlehem/setup/logo_and_favicon.html

If you do not see the theme options panel, please make sure to install “Redux Framework” plugin which can be installed from Appearance > Install Plugins

I hope this answers your questions. If you have any other questions please do not hesitate to ask.

Thanks, Ibrahim

Thank you for your answer but I dont want to change the Logo, I want to use the default wordpress title and Tagline but without the bethlehem logo on the left. Here it is: http://imgur.com/3FA0zDI

Hello Raymond,

Please add this CSS code to Bethlehem > Custom Code > Custom CSS :

.bethlehem-logo svg { display : none; }

Let me know if this works.

Thanks, Ibrahim

Its working great! thank you. Btw, How do I make the background of area 1 different from background of area 2 as my attached? http://imgur.com/t0EdN9U

And How do I make the first menu level unclickable as my attached? http://imgur.com/SHQdlhu

When i attempt to change the footer color from Black to Blue with Footer Style number 2 in Bethlehem -> Footer -> Footer Background. It showed as my attached http://imgur.com/WfFHOPK. How do I fix this?

and also a problem with the event title or header as showed http://imgur.com/ZAuHjjL

Thank you Raymond for your questions. To answer your questions :

1. It is not possible unless you wrap the area with a div and style the div with a background color. Something like :

<div style="background-color:#fff;">

2. I am not exactly sure if I understand you. Unclickable ? Can you give me examples of this behavior ?

3 and 4 Please allow me to test this and get back to you.

Thanks, Ibrahim

2. Like I dont want people to click on the level 1 menu lable and go to a specific page. I want it just stay there as a text without any url attached but the drop-down menu is accessible. as picture http://imgur.com/SHQdlhu

Thanks for your clarification. To achieve this, you can simply drop a Custom link into the menu and have it linked to #.

Have you got answers for 3 and 4?

Hello Raymond,

We are releasing an update today which will resolve 3 and 4.

Thanks, Ibrahim

how do I use the update?

Hello Raymond,

The prescribed method is via Envato Toolkit. Here are the steps to update the theme : https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-update-themeforest-themes-with-the-envato-wordpress-toolkit/

Thanks, Ibrahim

Thank you. What if I want to to use Give plugin anymore (because it is not support Authorize.net), How can I update new url for “GIVE ONLINE” button on the top?

Hello Raymond,

You can simply de-activate if you do not want to use the plugin. However they do have authorize as an add-on. You can check it out here : https://givewp.com/addons/authorize-net-gateway/?ref=88

Disclosure : I am an affiliate of Give and I get paid a commission if you purchase an addon from them.

Thanks, Ibrahim

I dont want to waste $62 for a add-on. I did de-activate the plugin but the button “GIVE ONLINE” is still there and I also want a new url for that button, which goes to a specific page. How can I edit that button’s url?