Theme Menu Settings

Theme Menu Settings Guide

This guide explains the customer-facing options available under WordPress Dashboard → VH360 Theme.

Dashboard

Use VH360 Theme → Dashboard as the main overview screen for the theme.

This screen shows:

Theme version information
Member, bulletin, activity, and feature status summaries
System status for required pages and permalink setup
Quick links for common admin tasks
Recent activity
Documentation and support links

Appearance

Use VH360 Theme → Appearance to manage broad theme appearance and feature switches.

This screen includes:

Color presets
A link to the WordPress Customizer
Theme feature toggles for profiles, bulletins, activity tracking, members directory, and the user menu system
Performance options for asset minification and lazy loading
A custom CSS field for site-wide styling adjustments

Use the WordPress Customizer link on this screen for visual settings such as colors, fonts, logo, and other design controls.

Profile Settings

Use VH360 Theme → Profile Settings to control user profile features.

This screen includes:

Enable or disable profile pages and profile customization
Show or hide profile avatars
Show or hide cover images
Show or hide social links
Show or hide profile statistics
Show or hide the profile header follow button
Select which social media platforms users can add to profiles
Configure avatar cropping
Set avatar upload limits, output size, minimum dimensions, and image quality
View supported avatar formats
Set cover image upload size limits
View the recommended cover image dimensions and supported cover image formats

Activity Feed

Use VH360 Theme → Activity Feed to control activity tracking and community post uploads.

This screen includes:

Enable or disable activity tracking
Choose which activity types are tracked, including video uploads, new member registrations, profile updates, and milestones
Set the activity retention period
Set how many activities display per page
Enable or disable photo uploads for community posts
Enable or disable video uploads for community posts
Set maximum photo and video upload sizes for community posts
Choose allowed community post video formats: MP4, WebM, and OGV
View activity statistics
Clear old activities based on the retention period

Community post upload settings on this screen are separate from the main video upload settings used by the frontend Create Video form.

Members

Use VH360 Theme → Members to configure the members directory.

This screen includes:

Enable or disable the searchable members directory page
Set members per page
Choose default sorting: newest first, oldest first, most active, or alphabetical
Enable or disable the directory search box
Show or hide profile card stats
Show or hide the follow button on member cards
Choose whether the directory shows all members or professionals only
Choose professional account types for professionals-only directories: Professional and Organization
Require approval before professionals appear in professionals-only directories
Choose which user roles are visible in the members directory
Enable member category filtering
Create member category labels for directory filtering

Page Templates

Use VH360 Theme → Page Templates as a setup reference for theme pages and shortcodes.

This screen shows template guidance for:

Dashboard
Profile Edit
Login
Register
Members Directory
Activity Feed
Bulletins

It also lists customer-facing shortcodes for displaying the dashboard, profile edit form, members directory, activity feed, and bulletins list.

Gallery

Use VH360 Theme → Gallery to control gallery features.

This screen includes:

Enable or disable galleries
Allow users to create galleries from the frontend dashboard
Enable or disable comments on galleries
Set the maximum number of images per gallery
Set maximum image upload size
Choose allowed image types: JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP
Choose the default gallery layout: grid, masonry, or justified
Set default gallery columns
Enable or disable lightbox viewing by default
Set how many galleries show per page on the archive
View gallery shortcode examples and available shortcode parameters

Notifications

Use VH360 Theme → Notifications to control the in-app notification system.

This screen includes:

Notification statistics
Enable or disable the notification system globally
Set the polling interval
Set the maximum number of notifications stored per user
Set notification retention days
Enable or disable notification types for follows, likes, comments, replies, mentions, and shares
Enable caching for notification counts and queries
Choose the cleanup schedule: hourly, twice daily, daily, or weekly
Run manual cleanup
Delete all notifications

Use the delete-all option carefully because it permanently removes all notifications.

Messages

Use VH360 Theme → Messages to control direct messaging.

This screen includes:

Total message and active conversation statistics
Enable or disable direct messaging site-wide
Require mutual following before users can message each other
Set the message character limit
Set the message retention period
View usage information for where users access messages

The screen also describes built-in security and performance behavior for the messaging system.

Permissions

Use VH360 Theme → Permissions to choose which user roles can access specific frontend features.

This screen includes role-based permissions for:

Creating posts from the dashboard
Creating videos from the dashboard
Hosting live rooms from the dashboard
Creating events from the dashboard
Creating bulletins from the dashboard
Creating galleries from the dashboard
Publishing galleries
Uploading images and media
Managing bulletin banners from the frontend dashboard

Administrators are always included in these permissions and cannot be removed from them on this screen.

Template Visibility

Use VH360 Theme → Template Visibility to control which community templates require users to be logged in.

This screen includes login requirements for:

Dashboard
Profile Edit
Members Directory
Activity Feed
Public author/profile pages

Business

Use VH360 Theme → Business to control professional account approval.

This screen includes:

Require Professional Approval
Pending professional approval list
Approve or reject pending professional accounts
View profile link for pending professionals

When professional approval is required, new professional registrations wait for admin approval before receiving professional access.

Paid Memberships

Use VH360 Theme → Paid Memberships to configure the paid membership system.

This screen includes tabs for:

General membership settings
Stripe and recurring billing
Plan configuration
Membership statistics

The General tab includes membership enablement, pricing page URL, locked-content behavior, renewal reminders, grace period settings, feature gating, and subscription card styling.

The Stripe / Recurring tab includes recurring billing, test mode, Stripe API keys, webhook signing secret, customer portal, and cancellation behavior.

The Plan Configuration tab controls billing mode, Stripe Price ID, auto-renew, trial days, frontend display name, display price, short description, and feature list for each plan.

Advanced

Use VH360 Theme → Advanced for troubleshooting, cache, and import/export tools.

This screen includes:

Debug mode
Error logging
Deprecated notices
Theme data cache expiration
Clear theme cache
Export and import theme admin option groups
Export and import Customizer settings
Reset all theme settings
Database information

Keep debug and logging options disabled on live production sites unless you are actively troubleshooting.

Video Upload

Use VH360 Theme → Video Upload to control main video uploads from the frontend Create Video form.

This screen includes:

Enable or disable direct video file upload
Set maximum main video upload size
Set allowed main video file extensions
View server upload limit information
View a summary of how the frontend upload flow works

When enabled, users can choose an uploaded video file as the video source from the Create Video form. Uploaded videos are stored in the WordPress Media Library.

These settings control main video uploads only. They do not control Activity Feed community post video uploads.

Starter Sites

Use VH360 Theme → Starter Sites to access the starter site/demo import screen.

This screen is used for importing available starter sites from the configured demo registry. It is separate from the regular theme settings screens.

Recommended Admin Workflow

For most sites, configure the menu in this order:

Use Appearance to enable the major theme features you want active.
Use Page Templates to confirm the required pages and shortcodes.
Use Profile Settings, Activity Feed, Members, Gallery, Notifications, and Messages to configure community behavior.
Use Permissions to decide which roles can create, upload, publish, or host from the frontend dashboard.
Use Template Visibility to decide which community pages require login.
Use Business if your site uses professional accounts.
Use Paid Memberships if you want membership-based access control.
Use Advanced only for troubleshooting, import/export, cache, or reset tasks.

Troubleshooting

I do not see a VH360 Theme submenu item

Confirm the related theme feature or bundled plugin is active. Some screens are added by bundled functionality, such as Starter Sites and Video Upload.

Users cannot access a frontend feature

Check both Permissions and Paid Memberships. Permissions control which roles can use a feature. Paid Memberships can also require an active membership for selected features.

Guests are redirected away from a community page

Check Template Visibility and confirm whether that template is set to require login.

Activity Feed uploads and main video uploads do not match

Use Activity Feed for community post photo/video upload settings. Use Video Upload for the frontend Create Video form.