ZTube
ZTube Professional Video Theme for Wordpress
ZTube Simple and Professional WordPress Theme.
ZTube designed for Video Websites, and Vide/News/Magazine sites. This theme will help you get a professional video/news site up and running quickly, it is inspired by the popular websites: YouTube and Vimeo.
ZTube document covers the installation and use of this theme and often reveals answers to common problems and issues. I encourage you to read this document thoroughly if you are experiencing any difficulties. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this document, feel free to hit us.
You can install the theme by 2 different ways, they both are very easy and it only depends on which method you want to try to install it.
Installing Theme via WordPress
You can install theme directly to your site by using the Add New Themes option in the Appearance sub-menu.
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Navigate to "Appearance -> Themes" and switch to tab "Install Themes -> Upload".
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Click the "Choose File" button and choose "ztube.zip" file (in "/wp-content/themes/" directory).
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Click the "Install Now" button and wait a few seconds till WordPress does its job.
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Click "Activate" link after theme installed successfully.
Installing Theme via FTP
To add a new Theme to your WordPress installation manually via FTP, follow these steps:
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Using an FTP client to access your host web server.
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Upload 'ztube' folder to '/wp-content/themes/' directory, and the result structure looks like "/wp-content/themes/ztube/".
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Go to "WP Admin > Apperance" page, Activate ztube theme.
If you are wondering how the theme will look exactly, you should import the demo content.
"Tools -> Import" page.
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WordPress Run Importer.
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Chose dummy-data/ztube.dummy.xml select file. Click Upload file and import button.
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"or assign posts to an existing user" - SELECT USER -
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Import Attacthments section checked "Download and import file attachments" and submit
That's it. Now the demo content will be uploaded to your site.
Note: Please do not forget to backup your important content.
Go to 'Theme Customization > General' and configure General Settings
Go to 'Theme Customization > Home' and configure Home Settings
How to configure these options? Just follow the description of each settings section and each options, it's very easy.
Adding a new video is extremely simple.
Click Videos -> Add Video.
Go to the Video Player section.
- Visibility (Fixed Width or Full Width)
- Video Image/Poster: This section is only needed to specify the poster displayed on the "FluidPlayer" playback screen. Embed/Iframe is invalid for videos.
-Duration: Video duration
- Finally Add new source
To add Youtube/Vimeo etc Embed/Iframe video, copy/paste.





We provide translation files for you to translate the theme into your language. The translation files default.mo and default.po are located in the languages folder inside your package.
To translate the theme into your language, follow the steps below:
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Edit the .po file using POEdit (you can also use qTranslate or WPML plugin)
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Use the translation field to make replacements
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From the file menu, save file with your language name it, for example: de_DE.po. It will generate both a .po and .mo file for your translation. Note: Make sure the language files you generated are in the languages/ folder/.
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Next edit wp-config.php located in the root folder of wordpress and define the WPLANG prefix with your language name which should be similar to the translation file name.
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You're done!
If you have any further questions or need support, please do not hesitate to contact us via one of the following ways:
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Simply post your question in theme comments on item page.
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Submit your issue via message form on our profile page while logged in.
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Send us an email here: info@insya.com
!!! IMPORTANT !!!
BACKUP YOUR DATABASE
We are very careful to avoid occurred errors, but just in case, you should always backup your dababase before you're ready to installing or upgrading themes and plugins.
There are also two ways to upgrade the themes.
Upgrading Theme via FTP
it's very easy, just do it like Installing Theme and override the older.
Upgrading Theme via WordPress
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Go to "Appearance > Themes" and temporarily activate a different theme (theme can not be deleted if it is active).
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Now click on the "Delete" button to delete the theme.
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click on the "Upload" link, upload the latest theme zip and activate it (see tutorial on Installing Themes)
Upgrading instructions
Before you're going to upgrade theme, please follow the instructions that match your situation.
= 1.0 - 2012.07.15 * Init release.