Daho - Blog & Magazine WordPress Theme
Theme Created: 01 March 2024
Documentation Created: 07 March 2024
Documentation Updated: 03 April 2025
Author Profile: https://frenify.com/
Introduction
First of all, Thank you so much for purchasing this template and for being our loyal customer. You are awesome!
This documentation is to help you regarding each step of customization. Please go through the documentation carefully to understand how this template is made and how to edit this properly.
WordPress General

A working version of WordPress.org must be installed before you can install the Daho. If you need help installing WordPress, follow the WordPress Codex
Before using any theme, it is important to understand how native WordPress functions work, and how to establish ownership of your new site.
WordPress links you will find useful:
- WordPress Codex: General information about WordPress and how to install it on your server.
- First Steps With WordPress: General information about WordPress.
- FAQ New To WordPress: The most popular WordPress FAQ’s
Theme Installation
To use Daho WordPress Theme, you must be running WordPress 6.0 or higher, PHP 5.6 or higher, or higher and mysql 5 or higher version. Below is a checklist of items your host needs to comply with to ensure proper Daho operation:
- Ensure your web host has the minimum requirements to run WordPress.
- Make sure the latest version of WordPress is up and running.
- If necessary, you can download the latest release of WordPress from the official WordPress website.
Theme Installation Process:
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Accessing WordPress Dashboard:
- Log in to your WordPress website by entering your username and password.
- Once logged in, you'll be directed to the WordPress Dashboard.
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Navigating to Themes Section:
- In the WordPress Dashboard, locate and click on the "Appearance" tab in the left sidebar.
- From the dropdown menu that appears, select "Themes."
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Finding the Theme:
- In the Themes section, you'll see a list of currently installed themes.
- Click on the "Add New" button at the top of the page to access the WordPress Theme Directory.
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Searching for Daho Theme:
- In the search bar located on the top right corner, type "Daho - Blog & Magazine" and hit enter.
- WordPress will display a list of themes matching your search query. Look for "Daho - Blog & Magazine" and click on it.
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Installing the Theme:
- Once you've found the Daho theme, click on the "Install" button.
- WordPress will download and install the theme for you. This process may take a few moments depending on your internet connection speed.
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Activating the Theme:
- After the installation is complete, you'll see an "Activate" button. Click on it to activate the Daho theme for your website.
- Once activated, you'll receive a confirmation message indicating that the theme is now active.
Daho Core plugin installation process
Purchase the plugin: Purchase the premium core plugin of the theme and install it plugins section of your dashboard. (You can remove the free core plugin of the theme if you have one)You will recieve an email with ready plugin, installation guide, license key and purchase information. See example below:

Adding Posts
Adding a new post is the same way as default WordPress installations, however, there are extra options that might need explaining.
>> Featured Image
While the theme can function without featured images, it's highly recommended that you add a featured image to each post. This not only makes your site/blog more lively but also improves user experience.
To set the featured image, use the WordPress normal method.

>> Recommended Image Size (for Blog Posts)
Image size (dimensions) will depend on what type of layout you're using throughout your WordPress installation or per individual post basis. This image will not only be used on the post, but also on the category listing pages.
Compatible with all layouts and default slider: 1920 x auto (width x height)
Author Avatar
The theme uses Gravatar to display users avatars . to craete or change your Gravatar :
If you have never setup a Gravatar account:
- Register / login to Gravatar. Upon registering, use the same email address that is associated with your WordPress User Profile.
- Upload your photo and associate it with that specific email address.
If you already registered at gravatar.com, follow these steps:
- Click on "My Gravatars" .
- Click on "Add a New Email" .
- Then, you'll need to click on "Add a New Image" .
- Upload an image.
- Then select the email address, and then select your image from bottom. Now it's associated with that email address. Click Save.
- It will take about 5-10 minutes to propagate on the internet, and then will appear on site.
Widgets
You can use any shortcodes in widgets. Just use text widget and put shortcode into it. Besides theme custom widget which may helpful for you. Listed below:
- Frenify Author
- Frenify Categories
- Frenify Company Info
- Frenify Donations
- Frenify Followers
- Frenify Social
- Frenify Top & Latest Articles
- Frenify Top Articles
Translation & Internalization
Theme comes with .po file included under the languages folder. To translate:
Method 1. Loco Translate
- Download and install Loco Translate.
- Go to Dashboard → Loco Translate → Themes and select Daho from the list
- Add on "New language".
- From the "Choose a language" select the language you want to translate
- From the "Choose a location" select languages/loco/themes/daho-{locale}.po (you can choose something else, it is just recommended)
- Click on "Start translating" button. And you can translate the theme to any language.
- After translating click on "Save" button
Please don't forget to change Site Language to the language you translated. You can change the site language in Dashboard → Settings → General → Site Language
Method 2. Poedit
- Download and install Poedit.
- Open daho.po file located here \wp-content\themes\daho\languages\ using poedit tool and translate the existing text to your own
- Save the file with the locale (for example: ru_RU.po).
If you have already setup WordPress in your language, you can get it from your wp-config.php file under, for example:define('WPLANG', 'ru_RU');
In this case, you would save your file as ru_RU.po. - Step above should have generated a .po and a .mo file. Copy both these files and put them into the languages folder of the theme.
Your Language & Localization
After translating, you may wish to use the correct locale to translate and localize your WordPress installation completely. Refer to Installing WordPress In Your Language at WordPress Codex to learn how to.
How to?
If you are having problem with SSL (https://), you haven’t configured your wordpress properly. Please, check below plugin to configure SSL (https://)
Go “Settings - Permalinks”, choose “Post Name” from Common Settings and push “Save Changes” button.

Yes, you can add your custom CSS code to the theme without changing any files of the theme. Just go to “Dashboard - Daho - Theme Options - Custom CSS”