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Hi, I have had problems to make showing the “back to home” button that replaces the main menu in the other pages, if the “back to home” button is no longer part of Novela in the latest version and now the menu icon is shown on all pages as it the previous “Back to home” the theme shouldn’t have a scroll menu, it is very hard for users to get back to main page, how is gonna be fixed that the “back to home” menu is no longer in the theme?
In the next version, both :back to” and the nav icon will be visible. In the meantime you can download these files ( https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AJ6x-Z0cW70XocsyINzBBJ34GRXEmV4g?usp=sharing) and copy them in your-wordpress-directory/wp-content/themes/novela and overwrite the old files.
Dear Subsolar Team, It seems that your offered theme provides everything I need. But could you please provide a bit more info about the possible payment methods. For example: How easy is it to set pay pal as payment method. Is it just adding the sellers pay pal account and the page directing then to the pay pal check out before the file becomes downloadable? Thanks and nice evening
Hello,
The theme uses the Easy Digital Downloads plugin to handle the transactions. You can setup PayPal fairly easy by including your email and API key. You can read the full information here: https://docs.easydigitaldownloads.com/article/918-paypal-settings
Hey we liked the theme but before we purchase we want to ask couple of questions
1) insted of purchasing and downloade can we do something like purchasiung and read? 2) what are the limit on number of books ? 3) can anyone copy the content when reading ?
Waiuting for your reply
Hi there,
Thank you for the interest in Novela:
1) It’s not possible to have “purchase and read”. On purchasing, the book becomes downloadable.
2) There are no limits to the number of books.
3) There is a simple CSS code that we can provide you with. It will make the text unselectable.
What about displaying the actual menu instead of clicking a button to show it?
It is not possible because, as you can see, when the menu is shown, it overflows part of the site content. That’s why it’s best to be left toggleable.
cannot upload demo file included in documentation, where do i go to click upload?
Hi, Please read the documentation in documentation/index.html. The needed steps are described in there. It seems your support has expired, if you need further help with installing the dummy content, please renew it. Thank you.
Any way to make this like a normal website/wordpress site? Example, click the menu item and it takes you to the character page and not scrolling down.
Hi there,
Yes, you can create a simple Page about your character and then add it to the Menu. On click, the user will be redirected to that single page.
The instructions are insufficient and everything seems by trial and error. I am now having problems with “Read the Book” as I can see how to get it to work as in the sample. I have epub publication of book—-does this work? How do I get the slider to work as in the sample. Can I get more detail instruction on installing all of this section? HELP
Hello,
The theme implements the Easy Digital Downloads plugin – with it you can sell your book and in your case the epub format does a good job. Once the plugin is installed and activated, a Downloads menu will be shown on the let of the Admin Dashboard – there you can Add New book, which is your book.
From Book Chapters, again on the left sidebar of the Admin Dashboard you can add chapters for that book. There you can add chapters similarly to how you add a blog post in WordPress – Add the chapter title and add the text in the content. Most importantly for each chapter you need to adjust on the right side (under the Post/Update button when you edit the chapter) the Chapter Belongs To field and select the book you have added on before that.
You can also find in the documentation on how to create and add such buttons like Read The Book button.
After much trial and tribulation I was finally able to understand how to activate “Read-the-book” —-BUT now the MENU icon does not show up on the segment where the book pages are shown in “read the book.” How can I restore the menu icon (the three stripes)?
Could you deactivate any 3rd party plugins, as there could be a faulty one that results in the menu icon not showing? If the problem persists, please send us a link to the page with the problem.
Hello, I went to Book Chapters, Added New, and chose “book belongs to” in the dropdown on the side. However, when I publish the page, it shows up as a BLOG and not as a CHAPTER. What step did I miss?
Hello,
As WordPress always creates a Single Page for every Page, Post or in this case Book Chaper, you can “access” the chapter this way – with a direct link to it. But the default way the theme shows it is when the “Read The Book” is clicked. There the chapter will be visible like in the demo of the theme.
You can read more on how to add such a button from the documentation of the theme – it’s in the archive you download, open the “index.html” file in the “documentation” folder with your browser
Thanks, I had seen that but mistakenly applied it to a different button. shakes head. Thanks for the quick response.
Hello. I am translating a very long book made up of many volumes. May i use this theme for many volumes and chapters? Also, in preview page, pages are very short. Can i prepare very long pages?
If all are possible, i’ll buy it.
Thank you.
Hi there, as you can see each page is a chapter. When flipping to the next page, a new chapter is shown. There is a scrollbar that appears when the current chapter is longer.
Your Provided Dummy data is not working and also there is no any option for adding a new chapter. Please help
Hello,
Can you please explain what is not working? Are you receiving any errors?
Make sure you have installed and activated all of the required plugins (most importantly the SubSolar Novela Book Post Type plugin). That way you the option to add Book Chapters will appear on the left sidebar in the admin dashboard.
Yep that was issue of SubSolar Novela Book Post Type plugin. Thank You so much
I want to ask one more thing, how to add multiple books to our store
After you install and activate the Easy Digital Downloads plugin, you can add multiple books form the Downloads tab on the left sidebar of the Admin Dashboard. From the Book Chapters tab on the left, you can attach the different chapters to the different books
You can also read the documentation provided with the theme. From the archive you download from ThemeForest, open the index.html file in the documentation folder with your browser. We have xplained in detail how the theme functions there.
Hello! Recently i buy the theme. I did all steps as in instructions – add new page with template Front page and some sections.My pages appear on right menu, but on the view i do not see anything. what should i do to resolve my problem?
wordpress 4.9.4 php 5.5
Hi there, an update with the fix is currently uploaded for approval on Themeforest. In the meantime, please write to us via the Support tab and we will immediately send you a fix.
Hello, Your theme interests me, but I want to know if the book preview is limited in number of pages? I would like to put the entire book here (150 pages). Thank you.
Hi there, every chapter of the ebook is a separate post in the admin dashboard. You can have as many chapters as you want 
Your live preview doesnt seem to be working?
Hello,
Thanks for the information. There was a small downtime with our server. Is it loading now and if not on what device are you trying to view it?
Hello,
I would like to request the .xml file so I can install dummy content onto my website.
Please send it to creativeramon@gmail.com
You can find it in the dummy folder of the theme package zip. Also answered via the support ticket 
Hi. How can I add “Comment” section on my Front Page? I want visitors to the site to comment on the book.
What I see on the page is a Wordpress Comment which I don’t know how to remove.
Hi there, could you explain what you mean by comment section that you want to add and why do you want to remove the WordPress comments?
Hi. The WordPress comment is not working. Don’t know how to fix it.
We will be releasing an update for the theme in the next two days and will be looking into fixing this.
Hi. Any luck the new update fixed this issue?
Please downlaod the latest version from Themeforest and upload it. The bug should be fixed.
Thanks. Will the upload overwrite the content of my webpage? I have already set up the website. Wondering the best way to go about it, so I don’t start from scratch.
No, you won’t lose any content you have added to your webpages. You will lose manual changes to the core files if you have done any.
Uploaded and tries to install but it fails. Error: ‘Destination folder already exists.’ Any workaround?
You can try deleting the theme first and then install the new version or manually replace all the files in the theme’s folder via FTP.
Hi there. I am writing a book and it’s taking a long time, as I have to do it in the evenings. So, my plan is to have an awesome hook in the prolog / first chapter / intro, which is free for everyone to read, then the next three chapters / or first part of the book can be downloaded free of charge in return for their email address. How would I make this happen? Also, I don’t want to use mailchimp or any of those sorts of email services as the costs mount up! Can you help me? If there’s a solution, this is the theme for me. Best.
HI there,
Yes, you can set up a free book (Price equal 0) and when a user buys it, he must enter his email when checking out. Or you can use a free plugin like “Email download link” which can insert an email form on your site via a shortcode. It sends a link to every user who has submitted his email.
i ned change Headers and Titles Font by a custom font, which I must upload to the hosting, where I embed it in the code or as I do.
Hi there, You will have to embed your code via the Custom CSS field which you can field in the Novela Options panel. Here is a tutorial for Google Fonts implementation via CSS – https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/cos-general/how-do-i-add-google-fonts-to-my-new-landing-pages
Hi, I have two questions. I must change the next font type xxx, I also need to translate the contact form, could you help me? regards
Translating the theme is done as with every other Themeforest theme – you can use a software like POEdit or a plugin like Loco Translate or WPML.
Hi Subsolar Very interesting theme, just curious on the limits of theme. Can I allow customer to read the whole book or is it just limited to downloading/purchases?
You can insert as much of the book as you want. Yes, you can slow them to read the whole book 
Hi. Is it possible to indent my paragraph. E.g. using tab key to indent my paragraph like in Ms Word?
Hi there, you can read more about indentation in WordPress here – http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-easily-indent-paragraphs-in-wordpress/ Hope this article helps!