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Installing Via WordPress

1. Login to WordPress Browse to Appearance > Themes
2. Click Add New
3. Click the Upload link
4. Click Browse
5. Select the zipped theme file to upload (the zip file is in the Upload folder if you chose to download all files) and click Install.
6. Now Activate the theme

Upload Via FTP Server

1. Login to your site via FTP
2. Browse to your folder located at wp-content/themes
3. Upload the main theme folder (the folder is located in the Upload folder if you chose to download all files)
4. Login to WordPress
5. Browse to Appearance > Themes
6. Find and activate the theme

Import WordPress XML

This theme includes a demo-content.xml file that will allow you to import the sample data to your site. This file includes most of the demo site data, which includes main theme functions to make it easier for you to see how the theme works.

1. Login to your Envato account
2. Click on the theme download link
3. Select the "All Files & Download" option
4. Open the zip file, the demo-content.xml file is in the Sample Data Folder
5. Login to WordPress
6. Double check that all recommended plugins have been installed and activated (if not, the sample data related to those plugins will not be imported)
7. Browse to Tools > Import
8. Click on the WordPress option (you will have to have the "WordPress Importer" plugin installed, you will be prompted if it's not already installed and active)
9. Click Browse and select the sample data .xml file
10. Click Upload files and import
11. Assign the posts to an existing user
12. Check the box to download and import file attachments
13. Click Submit
14. Give the import some time and do not navigate away from the page until the upload is complete
15. Go to Settings > Reading, set your from page to a Static Page, select Home from the drop down, and save
16. Go to Appearance > Menus, click on the Manage Location tab, assign the main menu, and save
17. If you'd like to change any of the widget, go to Appearance > Widgets and drag and drop widgets into the active widgetized areas
18. You should now have site content similar to the live demo for this theme!

Homepage – How to build and set it

By default WordPress sets the blog page as a main page and this is not what most of us want, we need custom pages. To change WordPress default settings you have to:

1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New:
2. Name it Home or whatever and from the right on Page Attributes choose "Template - Home".
3. Now go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading and from "Front page displays" select "A static page (select below) and select the page you've created a few seconds ago.

1. Create a new page, go to Pages > Add New

2. Set the page title and select a page template.

3. Go to Settings > Reading and set the newly created page as a homepage.

Thumbnails – Fix strange looking images on blocks

This problem appears when you install the theme on a site which already has content. The theme comes with it’s own thumbnails to minimize the page size and increase the page loading speed.:

1. Install and activate the Thumbnail Regenerate plugin from here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
2. Go to Tools -> Regen. Thumbnails and press the “Regenerate All Thumbnails” button:
3. Wait until the regeneration process is 100% done and check the page (your website). Refresh the browser page to see the changes, and that's it.

Contact Form 7 Configuration

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on:

1. Install and activate the Contact Form 7 plugin from here Contact form 7.
2. Navigate to Dashboard > Contact and click Edit your first contact form.
3. Copy / paste this code:
   

   [text* your-name placeholder "name*"] 
   [email* your-email placeholder "e-mail*"] 
   [text your-subject placeholder "subject"] 
   [textarea your-message placeholder "message*"]
   [submit "SUBMIT"]
   									

4. Now, copy the shortcode and paste it into your contact page:

Option 1: The Beginners Option

Here’s the most simple way of updating your WordPress theme that’s purchased from ThemeForest::

1. We need an easy way of overwriting the theme files, since WordPress doesn’t support this, we need a plugin, install this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades/
2. Go to the downloads page of your ThemeForest account here: http://themeforest.net/downloads
3. Find the theme you’re updating from the list, click the big green “download” button once, and from the drop down menu choose “installable WordPress file only”
   
4. Upload the downloaded zip file to your WordPress installation via “appearance” -> “themes” -> “add new”, just like you did when you first installed the theme.
5. Thanks to the plugin mentioned in step 1, you’ll now get an “upgrade existing” option after uploading your theme, without the plugin you’d just get an error.
6. There you go, you’ve updated the theme!

Option 2: The Automatic Option

Envato offer an automatic update solution for ThemeForest themes by using “Envato Toolkit”, see the full details of this here: http://www.wpexplorer.com/envato-wordpress-toolkit-guide/

Option 3: The FTP Upload (Advanced Users)

Another way to update your theme is via FTP, that is, you connect to your server and manually overwrite the theme folder. To do this grab the theme files mentioned from Option 1, with these in hand, unzip the file you have, you should have a folder just called THEMENAME (being the name of your theme)

Now the next step is simple, connect to your server via FTP (if you don’t know how to do this, use option 1) navigate to /wp-content/themes/, do not just overwrite the theme folder – here’s why. In previous updates to my themes, files have been deleted or relocated, if you just overwrite the folder then these files will remain, this can cause issues (especially with WooCommerce), here’s what you should do instead: Delete the THEMENAME folder that’s on your server, and then re-upload the new THEMENAME folder, this ensures that your new theme is 100% correct.

Please remember you have purchased a very affordable theme and you have not paid for a full-time web design agency, so please be patient, polite and respectful.

• * Responding to questions or problems regarding the item and its features
• * Fixing bugs and reported issues
• * Providing updates to ensure compatibility with new software versions

• * Customization and installation services
• * Support for third party software and plug-ins

Support requests are being processed on business days Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 (GMT +2) within 24h in the order they were received:

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• * Make sure your question is a valid Theme Issue and not a customization request.
• * Make sure you have read through the documentation and any related video guides before asking support on how to accomplish a task.
• * Try disabling any active plugins to make sure there isn't a conflict with a plugin. And if there is this way you can let us know.
• * If you have customized your theme and now have an issue, back-track to make sure you didn't make a mistake or make a clean install of the theme.
• * Almost 80% of the time we find that the solution to people's issues can be solved with a simple "Google Search". You might want to try that before seeking support. You might be able to fix the issue yourself much quicker than we can respond to your request.
• * Make sure to state the name of the theme you are having issues with, when requesting support via ThemeForest.