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Hordes WordPress Theme

Equestrian And Horse WordPress Theme

Install WordPress

To get this theme you must have WordPress already installed. If you need help installing WordPress, follow the instructions in WordPress Codex. Below are some useful links on WordPress information:

Install & Register Theme

When purchasing Hordes theme from Themeforest, you will be able to download Hordes files from your Themeforest account. The main_files contains all files, you have to find hordes.zip and upload it on your directory.The video below will show you how to install & register Hordes theme.

Install & Activate Required Plugins

After install & register Hordes theme you are ready to install required plugins. The video below will show you how to install & activate required plugins.

Import demo data

Import Demo Data – Now users can quickly and easily import our demo content with only one click to the button. This is the preferred method because it's the fastest and easiest way to get our demo content. It will import all our pages, posts, sliders etc.. If you wish to use our One Click Demo Content Importer, please see the video below.

Note : Demo data is only for theme testing purpose. Do not install demo data on a production website.

Theme options

Using theme options, you can control every setting on the theme. Let’s start learning theme options. Go to Hordes > Theme Options

Important: Theme Option works globally. But Page / Post Settings can overwrite the theme option. So if you change something from the theme option and its not appear on an individual page then please go to that individual page settings and check if it overwrites the Theme option or not. If yes, just set that option default ( Default will correspond with the theme option ) Or select an option you want to use.

General Options

  1. Primary Color : — Select theme primary color
  2. Secondary Color : — Select theme secondary color
  3. Enable Preloader : — Enable or disable preloader
  4. Preloader Image : — Upload preloader image
  5. Preloader Background Color : — Select theme secondary color
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Typography

You can change theme typography from here

  1. Primary Font: — Select primary ( body ) typography.
  2. Secondary Font: — Select Secondary ( heading & bold text ) typography.
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Note : You will find all others theme options like (Banner options, Blog page, Single post, Archive page, search page, 404 page Footer options etc) in this options list. See them all for customize theme easily. ( You can override theme options from individual page / post. )

Page / Post / Custom post Settings

When you create or edit a page or post you will see few options for page or post settings on page/post bottom. You can change page/post layout, Header, Footer , hide /show banner, change banner title, images from these metabox options

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Sidebar & Widgets

This theme provide multiple widget area. 1. Blog/Post Sidebar 2.Service Sidebar, 3.Footer Widgets. You can edit/add/Remove widgets from Appearance -> Widgets Options

Theme Updates

There are 2 methods to update WordPress themes to the newer version. These new updates are essential if you want to have a bug free website as we give new features and improvements to the theme over time. Some of these updates might be needed in order to make the theme compatible with WordPress newer versions. There is no risk of losing your settings and pages (If you don't edited theme core files). However if you had done modifications in parent theme files, then they will be lost.

Please note that before updating a theme, we recommend you to make a backup of your modified files. Also, we recommend to deactivate its current version and then upload the zip file with new theme version then activate and update the theme.

Update Through WordPress Admin Panel

  1. Navigate to Appearance > Themes Activate another theme to deactivate the Hordes theme
  2. Delete the installed Hordes theme.
  3. Unzip the file you just downloaded from ThemeForest and locate the WordPress Theme hordes.zip
  4. Still within the Themes section, on the header tab, click on “Install Themes” , then on the header second tab click “Upload” .
  5. Click “Browse…”and locate the new theme file hordes.zip
  6. The “Upgrade existing theme?” option choose “Yes” from the dropdown list.
  7. Click “Install Now”.
  8. Click “Activate”.

Using FTP

  1. Login in to your Themeforest account and go to downloads (Dashboard > downloads)
  2. Download the theme into your computer
  3. Install an FTP program (Filezilla is free)
  4. Retrieve your FTP login information from your hosting admin panel and login into your hosting via FTP
  5. Unzip the item main file
  6. Locate the hordes.zip file and unzip it. Make sure your unzipping software does not create an extra directory with the same name nested into each other.
  7. Drag and drop theme main folder into your FTP program with the destination: “YOUR_HOSTING_ROOT/YOUR_SUBDIRECTORY/wp-content/themes/”
  8. FTP program will give a warning that there is an existing with the same directory name, choose replace all.And wait until all files are replaced

Support / Contact With Us

Please follow the steps below :
  1. Please login to your ThemeForest account
  2. Go to item support page ( Click Here )
  3. Scroll down and click "Contact Author" Button

Update History

                    ----- 1.1.6 ( 25 Sep 2026) -----
                    Improved: WordPress Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Improved: WooCommerce Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                
                    ----- 1.1.5 ( 16 February 2026) -----
                    Improved: WordPress Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Improved: WooCommerce Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                
                    ----- 1.1.4 ( 02 October 2025) -----
                    Improved: WordPress Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Improved: WooCommerce Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                
                    ----- 1.1.3 ( 12 April 2025) -----
                    Improved: WordPress Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Improved: WooCommerce Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                
                    ----- 1.1.2 ( 08 January 2025) -----
                    Improved: WordPress Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Improved: WooCommerce Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                
                    ----- 1.1.1 ( 29 September 2024) -----
                    Improved: WordPress Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Improved: WooCommerce Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                
                    ----- 1.1.0 ( 7 June 2024) -----
                    Improved: WordPress Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Improved: WooCommerce Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                    Updated: Codestar Framework.
                
                    ----- 1.0.9 ( 20 Jan 2024) -----
                    Improved: WordPress Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Improved: WooCommerce Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                
                    ----- 1.0.8 ( 1 Oct 2023) -----
                    Improved: WordPress Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Improved: WooCommerce Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                
                    ----- 1.0.7 ( 5 July 2023) -----
                    Improved: WordPress Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Improved: WooCommerce Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                
                    ----- 1.0.6 ( 15 January 2023) -----
                    Improved: WooCommerce Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                    Updated: Codestar Framework Plugin.
                
                    ----- 1.0.5 ( 12 April 2022) -----
                    Improved: Elementor Latest Version Compatibility.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                
                    ----- 1.0.4 ( 13 February 2022) -----
                    Added: WPML Support.
                    Added: RTL Support.
                    Added: Team Widget Column Change Option.
                    Added: Team Widget Slider Enable Option.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                    Updated: Codestar Framework Plugin.
                    Improved: WordPress 5.9 Compatibility.
                    Improved: WooCommerce 6x Compatibility.
                
                    ----- 1.0.3 ( 27 October 2021) -----
                    Added: Header & Footer Color Change Options.
                    Added: Preloader Image Size Change Options.
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin.
                
                    ----- 1.0.2 ( 15 October 2021) -----
                    Fixed: Minor CSS Issues
                
                    ----- 1.0.1 ( 9 October 2021) -----
                    Added: Sticky Header
                    Updated: ThemeDraft Core Plugin
                    Updated: Codestar Framework Plugin
                
                    ----- 1.0.0 ( 2 August 2021) -----
                    Initial released