Introduction
Thank you for buying our WordPress Theme. The complete procedure to configure and manage a WordPress Website from the beginning is shown in this documentation in different portions.
What is WordPress CMS?
WordPress is an open source tool which is based on PHP and MySQL to create websites. It is a completely free content management system(CMS) and a strong blogging platform. With this CMS, you can develop websites and solid online apps. You hardly require any knowledge or technical capability to manage it. WordPress has become the most accepted website development software available because of it’s varied aspects like it’s easy usage and flexibility. Learn More
What is a Wordpress Template?
A WordPress template acts as a skin for the websites which are created on WordPress CMS. The installation of a WordPress Template is very easy. With the help of an installed new template, you can change the look of your WordPress website very easily. All the requisite source files are provided with a WordPress template and you can freely go for editing and increasing it the way you want.
Help and Support
Click here for support:
SupportFile Structure
The template package you have downloaded consists of several folders. Let's see what each folder contains:
- Screenshots -contains template screenshot. Not for production.
- theme -contains wordpress theme files
- "vw-freelancer-pro.zip" -this folder contains all the necessary files for the theme.
- "license.txt" -contains license details
- "readme.txt" -contain information about theme images path, font use and usage script
Template Installation
Template installation is very easy process.
All installation steps can be done within WordPress interface. It makes process comfortable and fast.
The installation process can be done in two ways
1-Install a theme using wordpress admin
First thing you need to do is to login to your WordPress admin area. Next, click on
1.Go to the Dashboard > Appearance > Themes
2. Once you are on the themes page, click on the Add New button at the top.
3. Click on upload theme button.
4. Click on Browse Button then select your vw-freelancer-pro.zip theme and click on install now button.
5. WordPress will now install your theme and show you a success message along with the link to activate or live preview.
Congratulations!! Your theme have been successfully installed.
2-Install a Theme using FTP
Your second installation option is to upload the theme via FTP. For this method first log into your site via FTP and browse to your folder located at wp-content/themes. Unzip the theme file you downloaded and upload only the extracted Total folder to your server.
Next log into your WordPress site and navigate to Appearance >> Themes to activate Total.
Section Color/Font Pallette
Color/Font is very easy process. We have given these options in all sections of customizer. It is a complete image to show you about color and font pallete. At a single glance of click you can set the color and fonts of the Headings, Paragraph and Buttons
Every individual section have an option to set the color pallete for Headings, Title/Text, Paragraph, Button Text and Button Background depending upon the number of option that are available in that respective section.
Default Color/Font settings
Theme Wizard
Follow the following steps to import content using Theme Wizard
1) Go to Dashboard >> Getstarted
2) Insert your key.
Refer video for Licence key activation:
3) Click on Setup Wizard and then Start Now button.
4) install Plugins.
5) Import your demo content based on Customizer and Gutenberg.
You can refer this video for setup your demo content based on
Theme Setup
Once you view your site after activating the theme, You will see the index page with the latest post. Now you will need to setup the home page template to show all the demo section on your front page.
Setup Home Page Template
Follow these instructions to setup Home page.
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1. Create Page to set template: Go to Dashboard >>
Pages >> Add New Page.
Label it "home" or anything as you wish. Then select template "home-page" from template dropdown.
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- 2. Set the front page: Go to Setting -> Reading --> Set the front page display static page to home page
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Once you are done with this, you can see all the demo content on front page.
Setup Header
This section shows how to setup the header section. First step for is to add site logo.
Steps for adding site logo.
1. Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Site Identity.
2. For Menu Section, follow these steps.
Go to Dashboard >> Pages >> Add New.
Follow same steps for the more pages.
Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Menu.
3. For Icon Section, follow these steps.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> Header.
The output will look like this.
Refer video for create and setup menu:
Setup Slider
In order to setup slider section.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> Slider Settings.
The output will look like this.
Refer video for Setup slider:
Services Section
After installation Services option will appear on the dashboard.
Follow same steps for the more posts.
In order to setup this section.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> services Section
The output will look like this.
Counter
In order to setup my Counter section,
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> Counter
The output will look like this.
Setup Trending Top Categories
In order to Trending Top Categories.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> Top Categories Section
Go to Appearance >> settings >> Post View Counter
Go to Following Steps
Step1
Step2
Counter Output:
The output will look like this.
Portfolio Section
In order to setup Portfolio section.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> Portfolio
Trending Services Section
After installation Projects option will appear on the dashboard.
Go to Dashboard >> Trending Services Section >> Add New.
Follow same steps for the more posts.
In order to setup portfolio section.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> Trending Services Section.
The output will look like this.
Hire A Professional Section
In order to setup Hire A Professional section.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> Hire Professional Section.
The output will look like this.
Setup Most Hired Freelancers
In order to setup Most Hired Freelancers section.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> Hired Freelancers Section
The output will look like this.
Work Process Section
In order to setup Work Process section.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> Work Process.
The output will look like this.
Choose A Right Plan For You Section
In order to setup Choose A Right Plan For You Section.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >>Pricing Plan Section.
The output will look like this.
Team Section
After installation Team option will appear on the dashboard.
Go to Dashboard >> Team >> Add New.
Step2:
Follow same steps for the more posts.
In order to setup Team section.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> Team Section
The output will look like this.
Testimonial Section
After installation Testimonial option will appear on the dashboard.
Go to Dashboard >> Testimonial >> Add New.
Step2:
Follow same steps for the more posts.
In order to setup Team section.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> Team Section
The output will look like this.
Latest Blog News Section
In order to showcase Latest Blog News Section.
Go to Dashboard >> Posts >> Add News
Refer video for create latest Post section:
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> My Blog.
The output will look like this.
Our Partner's Section
In order to setup artner's Section.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >>Pricing Plan Section.
The output will look like this.
Setup Ready To Get Started Section
In order to setup Freelancer Portals section.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >> Ready To Get Started.
Setup Contact Page
In order to setup Contact Page Section.
1. You need to follow some initial important steps.
2. You need to add contact form 7 plugin.
Create contact form
Go to Dashboard >> Contact >> Add New
Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Setting >> Footer Widgets
Refer video for installation of Contact form 7 Plugin:
Footer Section
There are four columns in the footer. Each column have different element to show. These sections will be setup from the admin pannel widget section. Add whatever widget you want and you can update the widget.
Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgets
In this way you can add footer section.
Refer video for Create a Footer Widget:
Footer Text
In order to showcase Footer Text on home page.
Go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Settings >>Footer Text.
In this way you can add footer Text.
Setup Navigation
- First of all, create pages from go to Pages >> Add new page.
- Go to Appearance >> Menu
- Click on Create a new menu link
- Give a name to your menu in Menu name and click save menu button
- Once you have create menu. You need to add pages by selecting with checkboxes. After adding menu list you can arrange it by drag and drop.
- Select menu theme location from the below checkboxes
See this screenshot for better understanding.
Page Templates and sidebars
Page Templates
- Home Template (the default Home template)
- Default Template (the default page template with a right sidebar position)
- Page (Left Sidebar) (a page templates with left sidebar position)
- Page (Right Sidebar) (a page template with right sidebar position)
- Blog (Full Width) (a blog templates with one column without sidebar)
- Blog (Left Sidebar) (a blog templates with left sidebar position)
- Blog (Right Sidebar) (a blog template with right sidebar position)
- Contact Template (the default Contact template with no sidebar position)
Post, Categories and Post Formats
Adding category
Review the following article for more information on adding categories: http://codex.wordpress.org/Manage_Categories_SubPanel
- Log into your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
- Click the Posts tab.
- With that done, click Categories for blog posts.
- Type in the name of your new category.
- After that, click the Add New Category button.
Click the Publish button.
Creating a Blog post
- Log into your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
- Click the Posts tab.
- Click the Add New tab.
- Type in your post content. For more information on adding posts, please check the following link http://codex.wordpress.org/Posts_Add_New_SubPanel.
Shortcodes
A shortcode is a powerful content building tool http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode. Shortcodes are easy to use. First of all, make sure that the editing mode is set to Visual.
- Contact- [contact-form-7 id="177" title="Contact Page"]
Refer video for Create Pages Using Shortcode:
Custom Widgets
