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To use a WordPress theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For information in regard to installing the WordPress platform, please refer to the WordPress Codex here
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After extract the main zip file, you'll see these folders and files:
This template works well for WordPress 4.5.x - 5.0.x, update yours if needed.
Installing the theme can be done in 3 ways. You can upload the theme ZIP file using the built in WordPress theme upload, or copy the files through an FTP client.
After activating the theme, you would notice the message box on the top of admin pages to ask you install/activate some plugins, you could use them for free or cancel the messages. Include: BM Pagebuilder, BM Shortcodes, Contact Form 7 ...
To set up logo for your website, you need to:
The recommended logo image size is less than 240px(width) * 120px(hight) in on header, this is the container size. If you want the logo be displayed clearly on retina screens, you need to upload a double size image logo(e.g. 480px x 320px).
The predefined colour scheme for your website, please go to ThemeOptions > Schemes
There are many detail colour setting options for every scheme, you could define your own style base on the given scheme setting. Click on the small icon "?" on the right side description for every item to learn detail explanation for the option.
To set up the homepage, you need to create a page which you want to use it as homepage, after that, go to Settings > Reading , activate A static page (select below) , select the page from Front page: drop-down menu.
If there have been some images in your site already, please click the button. It will generate the right size thumbs for the images.
Before building your custom menu, you need to create your pages first, then navigate to Appearance > Menus, it is recommended to create you menu from Pages or Links.
If you want to change style of theme, please go to ThemeOptions > General Settings, put your css code to Cutom Css box.
You could also use Child theme also, put the cutom css to custom.css file. Refer more about child theme
On admin panel the left hand, click "Appearance > Theme Options" to enter Theme Options
From Theme Options, you could:
To create a new post, go to Posts > Add New from the admin panel. (refer to this article)
Each post should be set one category at least. You could set category to organize your posts. For the feature of this theme - "Page Template" (Portfolio List), it should list the posts within which category.
You could set "Featrued Image" for posts, the featured image could be shown on top of gallery post(part of templtes):
Or in Portfolio list:
The theme provide 7 formats for your post, theses formats would affect the layout of your post in list and content page. You need the to click on the radio button to change the format for a post:
Tips: There is not the option on slider template
Pleae check video guide:
Go to Pages / Add New, you could build all kind of pages you like.
There are 4 options for page template:
You could set the grid layout on each gallery post.
You can set mouseover effect, if you want to change transparency of mask. plase use the custom css(“Appearance > Customize : Additional CSS”):
.no-touchevents .grid-mask-filled-left .grid-item-con:hover:after, .no-touchevents .grid-mask-filled-center .grid-item-con:hover:after, .touchevents .grid-mask-filled-left .grid-item-con.air-hover:after, .touchevents .grid-mask-filled-center .grid-item-con.air-hover:after { opacity: 0.1; }
You can set it 0.1 - 1
Pleae check video guide:
Enable this option, the page would looks like:
If you enable this option, there is a spacer on content area:
You could create a image cover by this option, you need to set a Featured Image for the page. If this Featured Image is dark, you could set the light logo
You need to pickup a category(or several categories), all the posts belong to this category would be shown in your slider. Each Post in this category should be set Featured image. If you click one slide in BM slider, the Post page(shown on this slide) will be linked. If you want to use external link, please use Link Post, input the external URL into the first "Link" box.
You could also edit the Order, Auto play by default ...
You need input header text and content text. If you want to the text masking effect, please set "Heading Background".
Tips: The text masking effect only works for webkit browser, like Chrome, Safari.
The theme provide drag & drop page builder for your pages, press the button "Switch to Page Builder" to enable it. Following is a brief introduction for the page builder:
The modules could be placed directly into the panel or be dragged into a wrap, depending on your layout. A standard wrap have the same width with page content.
A fullwidth wrap have the following features:
You could set up a background color for the text block, leave it empty if you don't want to show any background color.
Icon on Left
Icon on Top
You could set a bullet icon for every item
You could create a button and customise the size and colour.
Single Image module is to enter a single image to your post/page.
This module could create 4 types of message box: Success, Warning, Error, Information
Accordion and Toggle has the same style in front end, you could expand only one item in Accordion mode and could expand multiple items in Toggle mode.
Horizontal Tabs
Vertical Tabs
Divider module is to place a spacer or lines in the vertical dimension.
The theme support the famous plugin "Contact Form 7", once you install it to your WordPress, the Contact Form 7 option would appear in the Form Type drop-down menu. Following image is the standard Contact Form module looks like in front end.
To enter a video to the page, you need to copy and paste the embeded code of the video, a example with Vimeo video:
Supported video:
For Vimeo and Youtube video, you could directly copy/paste the link of the video:
It is a section to place a slogan or other words with a mouseover background color and link.
You need set the Google Maps ApiKey firstly:
The Google Map module need you provide the name of your location.
If you want to use Google Map Style, please go to this page to edit the map style.
Build your price block by Price module, by now it support not more than 4 price blocks, and it is recommended to make the module fullwidth(1/1).
Progress bar:
Pictorial:
Pie:
Column:
Big Number:
The Count Down module allow you assign a deadline and to create a timer automatically on front-end.
Once you have build a layout via the page builder, and you want to clone them to other page/posts, you could save the current layout to a template and load then in the other page/post page builder section.
The Shortcode is assistant for article editing. You could add the shortcodes into WordPress editor or Text module of the Pagebuilder.
Please activate the BM Shortcode plugin.
The button looks like:
[button link="button URL" color="btn-dark"] Button Text [/button]
[button link="button URL" color="btn-light"] Button Text [/button]
You could define width, color, and style for line.
[line width="100%" color="blue" style="solid"]
[line width="20px" color="red" style="dot"]
[line width="100%" color="pink" style="dashed"]
[line width="100%" color="green" style="dashed"]
[line width="90%" color="brown" style="dashed"]
[line width="80%" color="grey" style="dashed"]
[line width="70%" color="dark" style="dashed"]
[line width="60%" color="black" style="dashed"]
Dictumst non sociis [highlight]highlight text[/highlight] purus purus duis.
Blank is used to insert a blank row spacer into your content.
[blank]
The style could be set "fullwidth" also.
[image style="standard" name="on" link="" target="off" caption="The cation of this image"]The image URL[/image]
[ux_gallery name="on"]196,195,194,193,192[/ux_gallery]
The numbers are ID of images. Please check how to find the image(media library) ID?
1) Log into WordPress admin panel, navigate to Media click on Library.
2) Switch from Grid View to List View, then mouse over the image, you will see an image ID in the bottom.
3) Open the image, and copy this image ID from the URL in your browser address bar.
[dropcap]S[/dropcap]celerisque sit sit sociis augue hac in, sit, enim amet ut lectus. Eu in? Mauris dis, et scelerisque? Adipiscing purus.
The Column shortcode support multiple witdh options between 1/6 to 1/2. Please add _last
for the last colunm of each row
[one_half]This is a one/half column. Eu denique fierent postulant pro, ea est audiam neglegentur. Mel ne dictas tacimates corrumpit, in erat iisque detraxit mea. Sea ex sonet salutatus. Eu sed idque dolorum, te erant tempor eum, nam movet ornatus ad. Ne sit probo cotidieque, et vel sonet dicam officiis, ex odio clita pro. [/one_half][one_half_last] This is a one/half column. Duo cotidieque efficiantur an. [/one_half_last]
2/3 + 1/3
[two_third]This is a two/third column. Eu denique fierent postulant pro, ea est audiam neglegentur. Mel ne dictas tacimates corrumpit, in erat iisque detraxit mea. Sea ex sonet salutatus. Eu sed idque dolorum, te erant tempor eum, nam movet ornatus ad. Ne sit probo cotidieque, et vel sonet dicam officiis, ex odio clita pro. [/two_third][one_third_last] This is a one/third column. Duo cotidieque efficiantur an. [/one_third_last]
1/3 + 2/3
[one_third] This is a one/third column. Duo cotidieque efficiantur an. [/one_third][two_third_last]This is a two/third column. Eu denique fierent postulant pro, ea est audiam neglegentur. Mel ne dictas tacimates corrumpit, in erat iisque detraxit mea. Sea ex sonet salutatus. Eu sed idque dolorum, te erant tempor eum, nam movet ornatus ad. Ne sit probo cotidieque, et vel sonet dicam officiis, ex odio clita pro. [/two_third_last]
1/4 + 3/4
[one_fourth] This is a one/fourth column. Duo cotidieque efficiantur an. [/one_fourth][three_fourth_last]This is a three/fourth column. Eu denique fierent postulant pro, ea est audiam neglegentur. Mel ne dictas tacimates corrumpit, in erat iisque detraxit mea. Sea ex sonet salutatus. Eu sed idque dolorum, te erant tempor eum, nam movet ornatus ad. Ne sit probo cotidieque, et vel sonet dicam officiis, ex odio clita pro. [/three_fourth_last]
1/5 + 4/5
[one_fifth] This is a one/fifth column. Duo cotidieque efficiantur an. [/one_fifth][four_fifth_last]This is a four/fifth column. Eu denique fierent postulant pro, ea est audiam neglegentur. Mel ne dictas tacimates corrumpit, in erat iisque detraxit mea. Sea ex sonet salutatus. Eu sed idque dolorum, te erant tempor eum, nam movet ornatus ad. Ne sit probo cotidieque, et vel sonet dicam officiis, ex odio clita pro. [/four_fifth_last]
2/5 + 3/5
[two_fifth] This is a two/fifth column. Duo cotidieque efficiantur an. [/two_fifth][three_fifth_last]This is a three/fifth column. Eu denique fierent postulant pro, ea est audiam neglegentur. Mel ne dictas tacimates corrumpit, in erat iisque detraxit mea. Sea ex sonet salutatus. Eu sed idque dolorum, te erant tempor eum, nam movet ornatus ad. Ne sit probo cotidieque, et vel sonet dicam officiis, ex odio clita pro. [/three_fifth_last]
1/6 + 5/6
[one_sixth] This is a one/sixth column. Duo cotidieque efficiantur an. [/one_sixth][five_sixth_last]This is a five/sixth column. Eu denique fierent postulant pro, ea est audiam neglegentur. Mel ne dictas tacimates corrumpit, in erat iisque detraxit mea. Sea ex sonet salutatus. Eu sed idque dolorum, te erant tempor eum, nam movet ornatus ad. Ne sit probo cotidieque, et vel sonet dicam officiis, ex odio clita pro. [/five_sixth_last]
[fixed_column margin_top="0px" margin_right="0px" margin_bottom="0px" margin_left="0px" width="600px"][height_light]This is a example of 600px Fixed Width Column.[/height_light] Mel ne dictas tacimates corrumpit, in erat iisque detraxit mea. Sea ex sonet salutatus. Eu sed idque dolorum, te erant tempor eum, nam movet ornatus ad. [/fixed_column]
The icons are supported with Font Awesome 4.7.
The "fa-music" is icon name, you will find the icon name here.
[icon size="fa-lg"]fa-music[/icon]
Medium Icon
[icon size="fa-2x"]fa-heart[/icon]
Large Icon
[icon size="fa-3x"]fa-plane[/icon]
[text size="12px"]The text font size is customisable.[/text]
The style is bullet of text list. The bullet icon is supported with Font Awesome 4.7.
The "fa-map-marker" is icon name, you will find the icon name here.
[list style="fa-map-marker"] Item 01 [/list][list style="fa-paper-plane"] The Text List support FontAwesome. [/list]
[switching_word size="h4" word1="Awesome" word2="Untouchable" word3="Foodful" word4="" word5=""]The Za theme is [/switching_word]
To translate the static strings of theme, it is recommended to install the free Loco Translate WordPress plugin here(check the DOC). The default pot file "air-theme.pot" is in /air-theme/languages/ folder. Please refer the video tutorials(click) to translate with the Loco Translate plugin.
There are the 5 translated(the strings in frontend pages) po files including: Japanese, German,French,Spanish,Simplified Chinese. If your language is one of them. The po files would be linked by default. If you want to edit them, please refer this video tutorials(click) .
It is recommend to use the popular WPML wp plugin if you want to make a multi-languages site:
[ux_theme_option]theme_option_copyright
[ux_theme_option]theme_option_descriptions_pagination
[ux_theme_option]theme_option_descriptions_comment_title
[ux_theme_option]theme_option_descriptions_your_message
[ux_theme_option]theme_option_descriptions_comment_submit
[ux_theme_option]theme_option_descriptions_next
[ux_theme_option]theme_option_descriptions_prev
[ux_theme_option]theme_option_descriptions_portfolio_learnmore
[ux_theme_option]theme_option_descriptions_tags
[ux_theme_option]theme_option_descriptions_menu_back
We strongly recommend that you use Autoptimize to optimize page speed, it is totally free WordPress plugin, it is very easy to use.
Check the 3 options:
Uncheck the "Also aggregate inline CSS?" option under advanced settings.
Please activate this plugin after finishing site creation, or the cache would disturb the custom work(custom css/js).
Once again, thank you for purchasing my theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to publish your question here.
Thanks,
SeaTheme