0) Install wordpress . Video: https://vimeo.com/17147778
1) Download the theme from themeforest.net

2) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Appearance -> Themes. Click “Add new”, then upload archive theme

3) Click "Activate theme" then click “Begin activating plugins”


4) Activate all required plugins. vanessa plugin It must be activated for correct work of the theme

5) Import demo data. Go to "Appearance"->Import demo data and click "Import".  Note: Sometimes after this step some   plugins may be deactivated, just enable they again.   

 

6) Go settings->permalinks and click “Save”


To work correctly, you must activate all required plugins (Follow instructions after activate theme) and add spetial pages (or just import demo data):

 

 

 

Change map style

1) Choose the right type of card to https://snazzymaps.com or http://www.mapstylr.com/. Next, copy the json code

2) Go to the Dashboard -> Customize your site -> Map style and paste the code in the box stylemap_json (screen looks like)

3) Save changes

 

 

 

You can edit the page as the backend and in frotende via visual composer.

1) Click edit page 

2) Edit custom section 

3) in panel 'Design options' you can specify a background image for the section and also some ccs

 

 

 

See how to edit video

 

 

1) Click edit page 

 

2)  Click edit on section  in  'Section ID' insert you ID (note: ID must be no spaces or special characters ) 

 

 

 

3) add before the ID # and isert in field  'Menu item Url' and title menu in  'Menu item name'  (click on button '+ Add More item' to add new field)

4) Select the display to the left or right of the main WP menu

 

 

See how to edit onepage menu video

 

 

 

 

1) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Customizing -> Logo

2) Click  "Select image" adn select image for logos

3) Small logo for fixed header, Big logo its standart logo, Loader logo its logo for preloader 

4) Press save button 

 

 

 

1) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Appearance -> Theme Options -> Google Fonts  and add google fonts then click save changes button

 

 

2) Go to tab Typography and select your fonts 

 

 

Watch video how to add a font

1) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Customize ->  Social networks

2) insert url social networking

 

3)  you can also insert other social networks, for this add shortcode to textarea "Insert Social shortcode or another" shortcode [vanessa_social_links  url="https://pinterest.com/" class="fa fa-pinterest"] in params url your custom url, im param class use your custom class like "fa fa-pinterest"

 

 

1) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Customize  ->  Color theme  and select the color

 
 
 
2) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Appearance -> Theme Options and select color for need  element
 
 
 

How to change the position of sidebar

1) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Customizing ->  Blog settings Location sidebar  

 
How to change the Blog list button text /  Limint word in post blog list
 
Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Customizing -> Blog settings  -> Blog list
 
 
 
 
 

 in this setting, you can turn off the preloader smoothscroll and logo standard url 

 

1) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Performance

 
 
1) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Performance 
 
2) insert you api key and id subsctiber list
 
How to find the Mailchimp Api and list id

 

 

 

1) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Customize -> Setting email and insert you email

 

1) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Customize -> Contact form shortcode

2) insert your custum shortcode in "Contact form shortcode" [vanessa_contact_form] standart form , and modal mesages

 

 

1) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Customize -> Header Image and select default image 

2) Go ty Categories click edit

 

 

3) Press buttion 'Upload/Add image' and selecet image for Categorie then click 'Update'

 

 

4) also you can change the header image for page / single post for this edit post and in vanessa Image you can set img

 

5) you can set custom images for 404 erorr page and Archive, for this go to wp-admin  -> Appearance -> Theme Options  -> 404 Page Header Options, itself also  for search  wp-admin  -> Appearance -> Theme Options  ->  Search Page Header Options

 

 

1) Go to Wordpress Admin Panel -> Customize -> Map style

2) in this site http://www.mapstylr.com/showcase/ select map style 

3) paste json code in stylemap json

 

 

In 'General Config' you can specify the height and width of the logo
In 'Custom CSS & JS' you can  insert your custom css and js code 
In 'Image mask' you can select color for header mask
 
In  'Google Fonts' you can add fonts so they can be used in 'Typography' 
In 'Typography'  you can set  fonts and others settings for Typography for h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6
In 'Navigation' you can set color for header menu
In 'Theme Sidebars Color Options' you can select color for sidebar  
In 'Frontpage Header Color Options' you can select color for Frontpage Header
In  'Blog/Page Header Options'  you can disable the display of the picture in the header, header section background color 
 
 
also you can choose the height of the header and header padding bottom
in 'Blog/Page Header Color Options'  You can select a color for the title and subtitle for page
in 'Single Page Header Options'  You can select a color for the title and subtitle for single post
you can disable Breadcrubms visibility
you can change the size of the blog head and set the padding
in 'Archive Page Header Options'
You can select a color for the title and description for  Archive /  Categories 
you can change the size of the  Archive /  Categories  head and set the padding  and disable Breadcrubms
in '404 Page Header Options'  you can choose a background image for the page 404, mask or background color, colors, error text, hader height and font size 
in  'Search Page Header Options' you can choose a background image for the search, mask or background color, colors,   hader height and font size, and disable Breadcrubms
in ''Blog/Page Breadcrubms Options"  you can set the color of the font size or hide them

Go to wp-admin and Edit post / page at the bottom of the page in 'Short description (text near title)' you can specify a description of the post

 

 

 

 

Q: Map not work / need api key

A: Go to wp-admin -> Customizing  and insert your google api key 

you can get here api key https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key

 

Q: mail does not come with forms

A:  make sure you have working on hosting a standard function php mail(), if it is blocking try this plugin https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/easy-wp-smtp/

 

Q: How to find the version of the theme

A: Go to wp-admin Appearance-> Themes click on vanessa in the pop-up window you can see the version theme 

 

Q: How update theme?

A: try this plugin https://github.com/envato/envato-wordpress-toolkit or replace via ftp folder /wp-content/themes/vanessa/ and update Vanessa_plugin in folder /wp-content/plugins/vanessa/_plugin

 

Q: How update plugins?

A: Go to wp-admin click 'Begin updating plugins', to update the paid plugins like VC delete this plugin and inst and install them as in theme installation

 

Q: How change the video url?

A: Edit page and insert url video, you need to be sure to specify the url in two formats mp4 and webm and specify a poster image

 

 

 

Q: how to get the licensing keys for the  visual composer ?

A: To work properly licensing keys Not needed, they are only required for auto-update these plugins.

All new versions this plugins we will deliver with Vanessa theme