Aside WordPress Theme Documentation

• Created: 4/21/2014
• Latest Update: 4/3/2020
• By: SeaTheme - seatheme.net

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Installation

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

1. Extract the package file

After extract the main zip file, you'll see these folders and files:

• aside folder - main theme folder
• aside.zip - zipped theme
• Documentation folder - help file
• Log folder
• aside-child folder - the child theme folder
• demo-data.xml - the demo data, you could import it to your site
2. Install theme file

This template works well for WordPress 5.x, update yours if needed.
Installing the theme can be done in two ways. You can upload the theme ZIP file using the built in WordPress theme upload, or copy the files through an FTP client.

• Using WordPress Theme Upload:
  Be sure to extract the file "Aside.zip" from the ThemeForest download before uploading. Using the ThemeForest ZIP file directly will result in a "Missing Style Sheet" error.
  • Login to your WordPress admin.
  • In the "Appearance > Themes" menu click the tab "Install Themes".
  • At the top of the page click, "Upload", then click the file input to select a file.
  • Select the zipped theme file, "Aside.zip", and click "Install Now".
  • After installation you will receive a success message confirming your new install.
  • Click the link "Activate".

  The video guide - how to install

  
  Check the video

• Using FTP:
  • Login to your FTP server and navigate to your WordPress themes directory.
  • Normally this would be "wp-content/themes".
  • Extract folder "Aside" from the zipped theme.
  • Copy the folder "Aside" to your themes directory.
  • After the files finish uploading, login to your WordPress admin.
  • In the "Appearance" menu click "Themes".
  • Click "Activate" for the theme "Aside Responsive & Retina Ready Multi-Purpose WP Theme".

1. Recommended Plugins

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.

2. Import Demo data

If you are new for Wordpress, we suggest you use the demo data:

1. Go to the WordPress Admin Dashboard.
2. Click on the left sidebar item named "Aside" to open the ThemeOptions panel.
3. Go to ThemeOptions > Import Demo Data.
   Note: When you find the homepage is blank after importing demo data, it is beacause that the category(porfolio, blog modules of pagebuilder) is not set right(It happends on mutil-site), please set category for the modules (like portfolio) on hand.

3. Logo

To set up logo for your website, you need to:

1. Go to the WordPress Admin Dashboard.
2. Click on the left sidebar item named "Aside" to open the ThemeOptions panel.
3. Go to ThemeOptions > General Settings > Logo section, here you could upload a logo image or input logo text.

4. Skin

10 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. You could also click on the small icon "?" on the right side description for every item to learn detail explanation for the option.

5. Frontpage

To set up the homepage, you need to create a page which you want to use it as homepage, after that, go to ThemeOptions > FrontPage section to select the page from drop-down menu.

6. Menu

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.

7 Post Formats

Aside provide 7 formats for your post, theses formats would affect the style of your post in list and content page.

Portfolio Post

Aside provide template with multiple options for your portfolio post, you just need to turn on the "Use Portfolio Template" switcher to activate the template mode:

The text content container could be on left, right or fullwidth, and you could setup the image list layout for the images.

The video guide - Portfolio post

Check the video

5 Post Types

1. Team

You could add/manage your team members with the Team type post.

To add a new team member, please go to Team > Add New

To show the team members on webpage, you need to use the "Team" module from Page Builder:

1. Add at least 1 team member, assign a team category and upload a featured image(photo, required) for every team member.
2. Create a page and enable the Page Builder.
3. Insert a “Team” module to the page.
4. Edit the “Team” module, choose a team category you want to show in page.

2. Clients

You could add/manage your client information with the Clients type post with the similar interactions to Team.

To add a new client, please go to Client > Add New
Upload the client’s logo image to Featured Image.

To show your clients logo on webpage, you need to:

1. Add several clients you want to show, and set a client category for every client.
2. Create a page and enable the Page Builder.
3. Insert a “Client” module to the page.
4. Edit the “Client” module, choose a client category you want to show in page

3. Testimonials

You could add/manage your testimonials information with the Testimonials type post with the similar interactions to Team.

To add a new testimonial, please go to Testimonials > Add New

To show testimonials on webpage, you need to:

1. Add at least one testimonial you want to show, and set a testimonial category for every item.
2. Create a page and enable the Page Builder.
3. Insert a “Testimonials” module to the page.
4. Edit the “Testimonials” module, choose a client category you want to show in page

4. Jobs

You could add/manage your opening positions with the Jobs type post.

To add a new position, please go to Jobs > Add New

To show jobs on webpage, you need to:

1. Add at least one job post, and set a category for every item.
2. Create a page and enable the Page Builder.
3. Insert a “Jobs” module to the page.
4. Edit the “Jobs” module, choose a client category you want to show in page

5. FAQs

You could add/manage your frequently asked questions with the FAQs type post.

To add a new question, please go to FAQs > Add New

To show your FAQs on webpage, you need to:

1. Add at least one question post, and set a category for every item.
2. Create a page and enable the Page Builder.
3. Insert a “FQAs” module to the page.
4. Edit the “FQAs” module, choose a client category you want to show in page

Page Template

You could build a fullwidth slider or half page with a image using page template. To active page template, you need to turn on this switcher: go to Pages > Add New or edit a page:

• Fullscreen Post Slider allow you to quickly build a slider with your exist posts, the featured images would be displayed in the slides

  The video guide - Fullscreen Post Slider

  
  Check the video

• Revolution Slider is a powerful slider plugin for WordPress, and it comes with Aside, you could use the slider for free(for your one site). after installation and activating the plugin, you could see the Revolutions Slider option in the Template drop-down menu.

  Check the Revolution Slider documentation

  You could import the Revolution Slider demo data(click to download)

• Half Page template would display this page with a featured image on one side.

Page Builder

Besides templates, you could also build your page with traditional method or with the powerful Page Builder. The following section will tell you more about Page Builder

Aside provide drag & drop page builder for your pages and posts, press the button "Switch to Page Builder" to enable it. Following is a brief introduction for the page builder:

1. Wraps

The modules could be placed directly or into a wrap, depending on your layout. A standard wrap have the same width with page content, well a fullwidth wrap have the following features:

• A wider width than the page content, such as to be full-width to outer container, it could be used for your full-width sections.
• Support background color/image/video, IE 8/9 and touch devices do not support the video background, you need to upload a Atl Image for them.
• Parallax effect for image background, the effect do not support touch devices.
• Support tabs.

2. Modules

• Text Block

  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 Box

  Icon on Left

  

  Icon on Top

  

   

• Image Box

  

   

• Text List

  You could set a bullet icon for every item

  

   

• Button

  You could create a button and customise the size and colour.

  

   

• Portfolio

  Portfolio module is designed for you to showcase your portfolio post, on flip mouseover effect, the portfolio images could be previewed when mouse rollover.

  

  The video guide - Creating Brick list

  
  Check the video

  For the thumbnails size, please check the post.

   

• Gallery

  Gallery is a image list to show a gallery from image post (featured image) or a set of library images, click the image it would open a beautiful light-box or go to a particular link.

  

   

• Single Image

  Single Image module is to enter a single image to your post/page.

  

   

• Message Box

  This module could create 4 types of message box: Success, Warning, Error, Information

  

   

• Accordion / Toggle

  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.

  

   

• Tabs

  Horizontal Tabs

  

  Vertical Tabs

  

   

• Testimonial

  To show a testimonial module in page, you need to create testimonials from the left hand navigation: Testimonial > Add New, and assign every testimonial post a category, then when build the module, choose the category you want to use.

  

  

   

• Blog

  The Blog module could display the blogs in all format.

  

   

• Client

  The usage is similar with Testimonial module

  

   

• Divider

  Divider module is to place a spacer or lines in the vertical dimension.

  

   

• Team

  The Team Meta information would be hidden on mobile mode

  

   

• Jobs

  The usage is similar with Testimonial module

  

   

• FAQ

  The usage is similar with Testimonial module, and have a same style with jobs.

   

• Contact Form

  Aside 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.

  

   

• Video

  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:

  • Vimeo
  • Youtube
  • and other embeded videos from video sites

  For Vimeo and Youtube video, you could directly copy/paste the link of the video:

  

   

• Promote

  

   

• Share

  This section is to help viewers share your current page out via social medias, by now it support: Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest

  

   

• Google Map

  The Google Map module need you provide the name of your location.

  

   

• Price

  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).

  

   

• Slider

  

   

• Infographic

  Progress bar:

  

  Pictorial:

  

  Pie:

  

  Column:

  

  Big Number:

  

   

• Liquid List

  Liquid List could open the post content in current page with smooth animation:

  

   

• Carousel

  The carousel module support the list be horizontal scrolled

  

   

• Latest Post

  Latest Post could display a particular category post as a list follow a post.

  

   

• Count Down

  The Count Down module allow you assign a deadline and to create a timer automatically on front-end.

  

   

3. Save and Load templates

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.

When you edit the text via a text editor, you could use Short Code to add some advanced elements to your page/post:

Following are the short-code elements this theme support:

• 1. Button
• 2. Line
• 3. Blank
• 4. Image
• 5. Dropcap
• 6. Column
• 7. Fixed Width Column
• 8. Icon
• 9. Text List
• 10. Switching Words

WooCommerce is a popular wordpress eshop plugin, you could download it freely here. The Aside theme is completely compatible WooCommerce plugin from v1.2.

After install WooCommerce, you need install the WooCommerce pages as tip:

You could use shortcodes (check more) to display the products in page (or in Textblock of Pagebuild)

Note: the columns value is not supported, because we replace the Woocomerce's grid rule as the Aside's

On admin panel the left hand, click "Aside" to enter Theme Options

From Theme Options, you could:

• Import Demo Data to your website - Theme Options > Import Demo Data
• Export Demo Data - Theme Options > Export Current Data
• Setup Front Page - Theme Options > Front Page
• Setup Website Logo - Theme Options > General Settings > Logo
• Setup Fixed Sidebar or Floating Sidebar - Theme Options > Layout Settings
• Setup Social Media - Theme Options > Social Networks
• Setup the Colour and background for Website - Theme Options > Schemes
• Setup the fonts for Website - Theme Options > Font Settings
• Setup the custom icons - Theme Options > Icons

  if you don't want to use the icons included in Aside theme, you could upload the image icons. The custom icons could be used in sidebar social icons, icon box module and text list module of pagebuilder

  

1. Javascript files
   1. Bootstrap 2.3.1 - styles/bootstrap.js - Some js for Bootstrap layout
   2. jquery.isotope - js/main.js - An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts
   3. jquery.jplayer.min.js - js/jquery.jplayer.min.js - HTML5 media player plugin
   4. jquery.lightbox.min.js - js/lightbox/jquery.lightbox.min.js - lightbox plugin
   5. Modernizr 2.6.2 - js/main.js
   6. jCarousel Lite - v1.8.5 - js/main.js - Carousel plugin
   7. comments-ajax.js js/comments-ajax.js - jQuery Ajax Comments
   8. custom.core.js - js/custom.core.js - Aside theme main js
2. CSS files
   1. Bootstrap 2.3.1 - styles/bootstrap.css - Bootstrap layout
   2. Aside Pagebuild css - styles/pagebuild.css - Pagebuild layout and module style
   3. jquery.lightbox.css - /js/lightbox/themes/default/jquery.lightbox.css - Lightbox jquery plugin css
   4. style.css - style.css - Aside theme main css

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.

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