Theme Installation

Once you download Montenegro Theme, unzip the main item. you will see the following folders:

1. Montenegro.zip - Theme files that you will need to upload into your wordpress themes directory
2. Documentation.zip - Documentation files, this which you are already browsing this momentt
3. Demo Content.zip - Demo Content such as pages, posts, and so on, title says it all.
4. Required Theme Plugins - Those are Required Premium plugins that you will need to install along with the theme in order for it to work properly
5. Licensing - Theme license (GPL) and other items used by the theme

When you activate the theme, you will need to install some mandatory plugins aswell, those are:

1. MailChimp - Used for the newsletter systems.
2. ZillaLikes - Used for the likes module implemented in our theme.
3. Simple Custom Posts Order - This plugin will allow you to set in which order the posts will be displayed in your page.

Montenegro can be installed in two different ways:

1. Installing through WordPress
2. Installing through FTP (File Transfer Protocol) - Manually uploading the unzipped theme into themes directory

Installation through WordPress

Installing a theme through wordpress is quite a simple process. After you have logged into wordpress account and are ready to go, in the admin panels sidebar navigate to appearance and then select themes. After that, click on the install themes tab and select upload from the navigation bar right below it. Click "choose file" button and locate your theme zip file (Montenegro.zip) then hit install now. After Montenegro has been installed locate and click activate.

Please be informed that you should not upload the whole item you have downloaded from Themeforest as you will get an error of broken stylesheet file. Instead locate the Montenegro.zip file inside the main file you have downloaded.

Warning!
While installing your theme through wordpress admin, you may encounter an error message saying "are sure you want to do this?". This is mainly due to your hosting php settings. Montenegro theme zip file is roughly around 6mb and in some hostings the default value for max_upload_limit left default which is 2mb. To solve this problem you should either increase your maximum upload size (to 10mb) on your hosting admin panel or ask your host to do it for you if you do not have the privilege to alter your server php settings. This is a very common request and they should be able to help you out. Once the limit is increased you can re-try the install and you'll be all good to go.

Installation through FTP

1. Download the Theme archive and extract the main theme zip file that contains Montenegro.zip
2. You may need to preserve the directory structure in the archive when extracting these files. Some softwares like "winrar" create a sub directory with the same directory name they have unzipped. uploading the theme to your server via FTP with this structure is WRONG and you will face some errors.
3. Use an FTP client (for example filezilla) to access your host web server
4. Transfer your unzipped theme to your server in the wp-content/themes
5. Once the theme is uploaded, you will need to activate it. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate your uploaded theme.

Importing Demo Content

Bellow is a step by step explanation on how to import our demo website content, please read carefully and if you face any problems that is not covered here, open a thread in our ticket system.

1. Login into your WordPress Admin section (http://www.your-web-site.com/wp-admin)
2. Go to Appearance > Themes > Upload > Montenegro.zip and activate the theme.
3. Begin installing the required plugins, and activate them.





4. Go to Appearance > Theme Options > Demo Importer and hit "Import" after you've pressed import please wait a few seconds to have the demo installation completed. Important! Please don't navigate away while the installation is being performed. Done!
NOTE:

It is best that you install the Demo Content on a fresh and clean database, that's because our One Click Demo Importer imports all the content, images/content even sets up the menu and frontpage of your website.






5. Done! You should now have the dummy/demo content similar from the Live Preview of the theme.

Increasing WordPress Limit

Increasing the WordPress Memory Limit

1. Edit your wp-config.php file and search for this line, the default value should be 32M or 64M, raise it if needed:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '96M');


Note:Please note that WordPress memory can be different to the server - you need to set this regardless of server memory settings

2. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini If your line shows 32M try 64M:
memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)
3. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 64M
4. If none of the above works then talk with your hosting provider and let him know about your problem.

Updating the Theme

There are 2 methods to update our wordpress themes to a newer version. These new updates are essential if you want to have a bugfree website as we give new features and improvements to the theme over time, some of these updates might be needed in order to make the theme compatible with wordpress newer versions. There is no risk on losing your settings and pages. However if you had done modifictations on theme files, then they will be lost.

Update Through Wordpress Admin Panel

1. For this method you should first install Theme Upgrade Tool
2. Unzip the file you just downloaded from ThemeForest and locate the WordPress Theme. (eg. Montenegro.zip)
3. Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
4. Click on "Appearance > Themes".
5. Still within the Themes section, on header tab, click on "Install Themes", then on header second tab click "Upload".
6. Click "Browse..." and locate the new theme file. (eg. Montenegro.zip)
7. In the "Upgrade existing theme?" option choose "Yes" from the dropdown list.
8. Click "Install Now".
9. Click "Activate"

Update Through FTP

1. Login into your Themeforest account and go to downloads (Dashboad > downloads)
2. Download the theme into your computer
3. Install an FTP program (Filezilla is free)
4. Retrieve your FTP login information from your hosting control panel and login into FTP
5. Unzip the item main file
6. Locate Montenegro.zip and unzip it. Make sure your unzipping software doesn't create an extra directory with the same name nested into each other.
7. Drag and Drop theme main folder into your FTP program with the destination : "YOUR_HOSTING_ROOT/YOUR_SUBDIRECTORY/wp-content/themes/"
8. FTP program will give a warning that there is an existing directory with the same name, choose to replace all.
9. It will take a few minutes to replace all the files, so be patient and let it do its job.

Theme Options

Montenegro Theme comes with Redux Framework, this means lots of customization for you and your project, all being at a push of a button.

What is Redux Framework?

Redux is a simple, truly extensible and fully responsive options framework for WordPress themes and plugins. Built on the WordPress Settings API, Redux supports a multitude of field types as well as: custom error handling, custom fields & validation types, and import/export functionality.

With our Theme Options you can choose how your page will be displayed, the fonts that will be used, even the colors for individual elements:

General Settings

If you need to apply some small CSS tweaks to your theme, then you are in right place. Please note that you should always have a copy of your custom codes as sometimes you may mistakenly reset Theme Options to default settings and you might lose all your custom css. Alternatively you may consider making a child theme if your customisation is beyond just a few lines of CSS.

Also, here you can find customizable JS (javascript), where you can fill in your desired js code, add your js snippets and enjoy your newly created custom work.

Blog Settings

Customize the blog hero section type (Image/Video) , show date info, show share links, hide sidebar.

As this wasn't enough you have much more options you can play around with, as you can see in these prints we've provided. All the options present in our Theme Options are well explained, so we don't have to go into more details in this documentation, this was just a small sample of what you can manage with it.

Custom Page Templates

Montenegro Theme comes with two custom page templates such as "Index Page", "Contact Page" and "About Page".

With our Page Templates you easily customize the layout of your page only by filling a few fields text fields.

We've done all of this to ease up your work and make your build process even faster

Index Template

As the title says this kind of template is only used for your index pages (pages that will be set as your homepage).

You can edit the Page Title, the subtitle, the "discover" button with it's URL target which will take you to your desired part of the website, the Hero section type be it either Image, Video or Slider, and the styling of the fonts for title and subtitle.

Contact Template

This kind of page template is mostly used for the Contact page of your website.

You can customize the Page Title, Phone Number, Email Address, Social Media icons and also the background styling for that specific page.

About Template

This kind of page template is mostly used for the About page of your website.

You can customize the Page Title, Blockquote, Contact me label with the url target for it, and also the background styling for that specific page.

Portfolio Options

Montenegro uses custom posts for each Portfolio item, all of them will be displayed on your HomePage or desired page using the Portfolio shortcode.

Portfolio Items contains the image and the content.

Portfolio Options gives you the ability to change the slug of your newly created portfolio.

Montenegro Shortcodes

Shortcode: Portfolio

With the Montenegro Portfolio shortcode you can include/exclude items by their ID's (items which can be found in the Portfolio Custom posts), change the "All Projects" label, and you can also include/exclude categories, which will make it even easier for you to display only the items you want in a specific gallery.

Posts Formats

Standard Posts Formats support: Video/Image/Quote/Audio/Gallery

Montenegro Theme supports standard posts formats such as Image, Video, Gallery and more.

You can use those formats if you need some extra formats besides the ones that come with our theme (our custom posts).

Also you can use them even in your standard posts.