Documentation
How to work with Tirenoa: guides for the main tasks, sorted by subject, and a page for every element of the Builder with all its options.
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Basics
- Alternate Import Method – What to do when a prebuilt website import fails: fix the server limits, import in parts, or import single pages through the Builder Library.
- How To Import A Prebuilt Website – Import a complete prebuilt website or only parts of it, see what the import changes on your site, and remove imported content again.
- How To Use The Setup Wizard – The Setup Wizard starts a new site in a few steps: colors, typography, header and footer, first pages and features, or a prebuilt website.
- Importing Demo Sliders – Fix the “Slider cannot be found” message on an imported page: import the sliders of the prebuilt website, or remove the slider from the page.
- The Tirenoa Options Network – How Global Options, Page Options and element options work together, why some options are hidden and why a few always stay visible.
- Quick Start Guide – A first tour of Tirenoa: the admin menu, Global Options, building a page with the Builder, and header and footer through Layouts.
Builder
- How To Fix The “Content Error” Message In The Builder – What the Content Error message in Tirenoa Builder means, why the page cannot be opened as a layout and how to repair or restore the content.
- How To Upload And Use Custom Icons – Build an icon font with IcoMoon, upload the zip under Tirenoa › Icons and pick your own icons in every icon option of the Builder.
- How To Use Dynamic Content Options – Fill element options with live values such as the page title, the featured image, the current date or a custom field instead of typing fixed content.
- Layer Slider Element – Place a slider made with the LayerSlider plugin anywhere on a page. The element only exists while LayerSlider is active.
- Main Menu Highlight Styles – The five highlight styles of the main menu, the options each one depends on, and when the setting is not available at all.
- Next Page Element – Split a long page or post into several parts with numbered page links, using the Next Page item of the Builder.
- Slider Revolution Element – Place a slider made with the Slider Revolution plugin anywhere on a page. The element only exists while Slider Revolution is active.
- Events Element – Show events from The Events Calendar plugin as a grid of cards on any page. The element only exists while that plugin is active.
- Vertical And Horizontal Menu Widgets – Show a WordPress menu or a parent/child page navigation in a sidebar or footer with the Vertical Menu and Horizontal Menu widgets.
- The X (Twitter) Widget – What the Tirenoa: X widget can still do, which of its three styles depend on services X has restricted, and what it means for visitor privacy.
- Woo Sorting Element – Let shop visitors sort a product list, choose how many products to see and switch between grid and list view. Needs WooCommerce.
- Woo Featured Products Slider Element – Show the products you marked as featured in WooCommerce as a sliding row of product cards. Needs WooCommerce.
- Woo Product Carousel Element – Show products of your WooCommerce shop as a sliding row of product cards, for all products or chosen categories. Needs WooCommerce.
- Woo Shortcodes Element – Insert one of WooCommerce’s own content blocks, such as order tracking or a product grid, into a Builder page. Needs WooCommerce.
- WooCommerce Single Product Gallery – The options for the picture gallery on WooCommerce product pages: layout, zoom, gallery width and thumbnails, and which picture sizes to upload.
Forms
- How To Make a Multi-Step Form With Tirenoa Forms – Split a long form into steps with the Form Step item, add a button to each step and show a timeline or progress bar.
- How To Set Up Google reCAPTCHA – Get reCAPTCHA keys from Google, enter them in the options and protect forms, comments and login forms. Also covers Cloudflare Turnstile.
- How To Set Up SMTP for Email – Send all emails of your site through a real mail account with Tiaro Mail: provider, mailbox, sender address, test email, log and domain check.
- How To Use Tirenoa Forms – Create a form under Tirenoa › Forms, choose what happens on submission, place it on a page and read the entries.
- Tirenoa Forms Email Notification Placeholders – Use what visitors typed into a form in the subject, sender, recipients and message of its notification emails.
Layouts
- How To Build a Header and Footer With Layouts – Build a header and a footer in the Builder, show them on the whole site through the Global Layout, make the header sticky and give one page its own header.
- How To Use the Layout Builder – Layouts decide which header, page title bar, content and footer a page gets. Learn how sections, conditions and the Global Layout work together.
Library
- How To Save and Reuse Content With the Library – Save containers, columns, elements and whole pages to the Tirenoa Library, insert them on other pages, manage them and move them between sites.
- Library and Global Elements – Save containers, columns and elements to the Tirenoa Library and make them global, so one edit updates every page that uses them.
Off Canvas
- How To Use Off Canvas – Create popups and sliding bars with Off Canvas: types, design, conditions, triggers, display rules and how to open one from a menu item or button.
Global Options
- Global Options: Advanced – Reference for the Features, Code Fields, Post Types and Extras sections of the Global Options, with every option and its default.
- Global Options: Content – Reference for the Content group of the Global Options: Blog, Portfolio, Forms, Contact & Maps and Search, with every option explained.
- Global Options: Design – Reference for the Design group of the Global Options: the color palette, typography sets, link styling, custom fonts and custom CSS.
- Global Options: Email – Reference for the Email group of the Global Options: how the site sends mail and how the emails of your forms look.
- Global Options: Media & Social – Reference for the Social Media, Slideshows and Lightbox sections of the Global Options: every option, its default and what it changes.
- Global Options: Navigation – Reference for the Navigation group of the Global Options: main, flyout, secondary and mobile menus, logo and favicon, and breadcrumbs.
- Global Options: Privacy & Security – Reference for the Privacy and Custom Auth Pages sections of the Global Options: fonts, consent, the cookie bar and your own login pages.
- Global Options: SEO & Performance – Reference for the SEO and Performance sections of the Global Options: meta tags, structured data, llms.txt, fonts, images, caches and the web app.
- Global Options: Site – Reference for the Site group of the Global Options: Layout, Responsive, Background and Maintenance Mode, with every option explained.
- Page Options – Page Options change the layout, header, title bar, sidebars, footer and SEO texts of one single page or post. A tab-by-tab reference.
Ecosystem
- The Client Area and Tiaro Connect – my.tiaro.eu shows the state of your websites in one sign-in. What it reads, how a site is connected, and how to leave.
- Prebuilt Websites and Updates – The two services behind every Tirenoa site: prebuilt websites to start from, and the server theme and plugins are updated from.
- Search Engines and Indexing – Tell search engines which pages exist and which changed: IndexNow, the sitemap, Search Console, Bing, llms.txt, robots.txt and structured data.
- Tiaro Analytics – Visitor statistics without cookies that stay on your own server: what is counted, what is not stored, the reports, exports and permissions.
- Tiaro Cache – The page cache for LiteSpeed servers: what is cached, what purges it, the Caches screen, the admin bar entry and the crawler guard.
- The Tiaro Core Plugin – What the Tiaro Core plugin adds to a Tirenoa site: content types, elements, mail sending, redirects, client user types and the link to the client area.
- Tiaro Mail – Reference for Tiaro Mail: every setting of the mail account, the forced sender address, the log, the domain check and the test email.
- Tiaro Multilingual – Run a website in several languages: one page per language, the default-language fallback, translation status, media texts, glossary and the language switcher.
- Tiaro Redirects – The redirect manager of Tiaro Core: rules with codes, groups and hit counts, regular expressions, the 404 log, CSV import and export.
- Tiaro Shop – Sell items or collect requests for a quote: items, a cart in the browser, and orders your staff confirm by e-mail.
- Tirenoa Studio – The library of prebuilt templates, sections, forms and elements: where to find it, the import options and what an import changes.
- White Label Branding – Rename, restyle and tidy the WordPress administration, the login screen and the Tirenoa screens for the people who use the site.
Performance
- How To Replace Font Awesome Icons With A Custom Icon Set – Find the few Font Awesome icons your site really uses, rebuild them as one small custom icon set and switch the Font Awesome subsets off.
- How To Use PWA (Progressive Web Apps) – What the Progressive Web App options need, what they do once switched on, and how to set them up.
- Image Format And Size Guide – Which image format, pixel size and quality to use, and what Tirenoa does with every image you upload.
- Optimization Guide – What the Performance Wizard and the Performance options do, a sensible order to work through them, and how the page cache fits in.
- What Are Google Core Web Vitals And Why They Matter – The three measurements Google uses to judge page experience, and which Tirenoa settings influence each of them.
Maintenance
- How To Get Support – How to reach Tiaro for help with Tirenoa, and what to include so your question can be answered quickly.
- Important Update Information – How Tirenoa updates reach your site, what to do before an update, and what to check afterwards.
- Plugin Installation And Maintenance – Install, activate and update the plugins that belong to Tirenoa on the Plugins screen, and what to do when the plugin list stays empty.
- Share Usage Data – What the Share Usage Data switch is, what a usage report would contain, and why no usage data leaves a Tirenoa site today.
- Changelog – The public release history of the Tirenoa platform, version by version.
- Patcher – The Patcher applies small fixes to Tirenoa and its plugins between releases. Here is how the screen works and what an empty list means.
- Registration And Licensing FAQ – Tirenoa needs no registration, purchase code or license key. This page explains what the dashboard shows and why.
- Updating From Older Versions – Tirenoa starts at version 1.0.0, so no content or options conversion is needed when you update.
Elements
Every element of the Builder has its own page: what it is for, how to use it, every option, tips and, where possible, a live example. See all elements.
Support
If the documentation does not answer your question, write to Tiaro: tiaro.eu/contact.
