Dallas Documentation

We would like to thank you for purchasing Dallas!

This documentation file helps you to understand the whole theme concept and how it works. You should read all sections of the file before start your work. Here have multiple detailed explain of elements, theme sections and included video tutorials.

If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please check out and search for Forum page.

After that you still can't find the solution yet, please leave a ticket on Support system then support agents help your issue.

Surely you have already installed WordPress on your server. If you don't installed it yet and you are new to WP and have problems installing it, you might want to check out following tips.

About WordPress: Detailed instruction about WordPress
Installing Tutorials: Installation tutorial by WordPress
Instructional Video: Video lessons by Woo Themes
Getting Started: WordPress Tips for Beginners
WP101 Basix Training: Some great videos from WPTuts on WordPress

You need to download theme files after you've purchased the it. Following image describes downloads section of the item and you have 2 download choices.

Downloading All Files gives you a all-files.zip file with all the content listed below

Documentation: This is costumer's handbook. Obviously, If you can reading this file, you're open this file :)
DummyData: You have an One Click option for import demo data. But if you need detailed xml files please pick up those here. You should read about how to use it from Demo Data part of this document.
Dallas.zip: You can use this file for install function of built in WordPress.
Dallas-Child.zip: Child theme. Please make your file changes in it. And this child theme helps you to keep your changes in it even updated main theme continually. You should read more details about child theme here.
Changelog.txt: Contains changes history, change descriptions, date and modified files list.

Downloading the installable WordPress theme only gives you the Dallas.zip file.

You can either choose to upload the theme via WordPress upload function or via ftp to your site.

1. Via WordPress theme uploader (recommended)

Step 1: Login to your website
Step 2: Go to Appearance -> Themes
Step 3: Click on Install Themes tab
Step 4: Click on Upload link and Browse to the Dallas.zip file (it is located in the folder you've downloaded from ThemeForest).
Step 5: Click Install Now button
Step 6: Then you see Dallas settings page right side on Dashboard menu section.
Step 7: Now you are ready to go. Create your new site and control it.

2. Via FTP client

Step 1: Login to your hosting via FTP client application (such as FileZilla and CuteFTP)
Step 2: Go to wp-content -> themes directory
Step 3: Upload Dallas folder (uncompressed) into this directory
Step 4: Refresh Appearance -> Themes of your dashboard and Activate the theme.

After the activation you see this notice at top of your dashboard. This theme requires those three additional plugins and you need to install those.

Please click on Begin installing plugins.

Envato Toolkit: The Envato WordPress Toolkit enables you to access your Envato WordPress purchases from within your WordPress Dashboard. It allows you to not only install themes, but also to receive update notifications and update automatically, just like regular WordPress themes.
Visual Composer: The most advanced PageBuilder Plugin that is drag and drop frontend and backend page builder plugin that will save you tons of time working on the site content. You will be able to take full control over your WordPress site, build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required
Portfolio Plugin: This plugin an optional plugin but highly recommended for your portfolio. It has own features and sinlge post options those compatible with portfolio details section. Your portfolio posts won't let go after you activated different themes on your site and that's the biggest reason why we are adding portfolio post type as in a custom plugin.

Configure Envato Toolkit Plugin

Envato Toolkit plugin requires MarketPlace username and API Key. You can get API key from your Settings tab of ThemeForest account. Lets provide those infomation and get theme update anytime and easily.

One Click Demo Data Options

Theme has dedicated data option. You should click one of those link and select your desired home page layout. Action will set few important tasks including selection of Home page, Main navigation setting and Sidebar widgets when you click on Import Demo Data button.

Demo data

Please wait for a while until imports all the content.

Full content Demo site setup

Previous option helps you to include minimized demo content on your site reason for quick include. But you can have full demo data with regular XML data imports.

Go to Tools → Import
Choose WordPress from the list.
Upload the demo content.xml using the form provided on download.
You will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the “Download and import file attachments” box.
Please be patient while WordPress imports all the content. Posts, Pages, Projects, and Menus are imported. You will need assign the menu a theme location & you’ll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress’ import system.

Note

Please make sure you backup your existing theme folder before updating. Additionally we recommend performing the update on a development site before making it on your live site.

Via Envato Toolkit Plugin (recommended)

Hope you have provided your account information in Envato Toolkit plugin. If you go to the plugin page, you'll see similar to following image. Let's click on Update automatically link at right bottom. This is a most efficienat and easy way to integrate latest verion on your site.

After clicking to auto-update, you’ll see the confirmation that everything worked correctly.

Via WordPress theme uploader

Go to the Appearance => Themes and activate another theme than Dallas such as TwentyTwelve, TwentyThirteen or Dallas child theme. Delete the old version of the theme because folder name existing error comes up when we try to install it without deletion. Then install the theme again as you see early in this documentation.

Via FTP client application

Usually updating a theme means replacing the old files with the new ones. You can see changelog.txt file from the new download archive and you can get updated files list as modified/added and deleted. Upload and overwrite those files on your theme directory.

If theme changed lots of files and you really hard to collect changed files, there is a better way to do it when it comes to WordPress themes.

WordPress treats two version of the same theme as different themes. That is, if you have Dallas v1.2 and v1.3 in your wp-content/themes folder they are treated as two different themes independent of each other.

That means you can have multiple version of the same theme installed on your blog. So whenever there is a new version of your theme available, instead of replacing or deleting the files of the older version follow this procedure.

Try to upload new theme archive to the site
If the folder name of the new version clashes with the old version, rename the folder of new version.
Upload the new version to your wp-content/themes folder via FTP or through the interface provided by your web host or by using the upload feature in WordPress.
Activate the new version from your dashboard.

The main advantage of following the above procedure is you can quickly switch back to the old version of the theme if you find any problems with the new version or if it clashes with any plugins you are using.

Live Customize panel has many options those help you to control your site. You have to know only where your desired options exist and how to use them. Please take some time to navigate through each tab and read options' description.

Group	Class	Description
`General`


	Brand Color	This is your company logo color or your brand color then you can control.
	Title Color	You can select your title colors here.
	Content Text Color	You can change your content text colors here.
	Content Background Color	You can select only content background color here.
	Logo Color	You can change text logo color here.

`Menu`
	Menu location	Your theme contains 2 menu locations. Select which menu you would like to use. You can also place menus in widget areas with the Custom Menu widget.
	Primary	You can select the menu location at header.
	Footer Menu	This is the location which you can show your sub footer menu on your bottom webstie.

`Font`
	Title font normal	Here is you can change all of text fonts. Default value delegates "Hevletica Neue" There are all of Google fonts.
	Text font	Here is you can select text fonts from Google fonts. It is really easy to use.
	Logo font	You can change logo font here.

`Header`
	Page title Background image	Here is the you can upload image for all of the page title area.
	Page title background image height	Here is the you can set you header background image height.
	Menu Text Size	Here is the possible to change size of menu text.
	Menu item space	Here is the you can configure item space of menu.


























`Content option`


	Content Font Size	Here is the you can increase your content size of the fonts.
	Content text line height	Here is the you can control text line & height.
`Social Links`


	Social Links	Here you can insert your social URL and ID.

`Footer`
	Enable/Disable footer widget	This is a option to hide or show footer widget on your website.
	Enable/Disable sub footer	This is a option to hide or show sub footer on your website.
	Footer column	You can change your footer column up to 4 column here.

	Footer widget title color	This is a option to change footer widget title color.
	Title font	This is a option to change title font.
	Footer text color	This is a option to change footer text color.
	Text font	This is a option to change your footer text font.
	Footer text font size
	Footer background color	You can change footer background color here.
	Footer background image	Insert your footer background image here.
	Sub footer background color	You can change sub footer background color here.
	CopyRight Content	© Copyrights 2016 dallas. All rights reserved.
`Extras`	Export/Imports	Here is the copy to Customizer data.
`Extras`	Custom CSS	Here is you can insert your css code.
`Widgets`		You can add your widgets here to sidebars and footer columns.
`Static Front Page`		Your theme supports a static front page.

You can Reset all your changes back to default with bottom corner icon. Don't forget to backup your settings if you think some of them are important to you.

Brand Color is the basic color of your website. It changes color of such things header login, text, menu item,slider button, main part icon,button etc.You can change brand color through customize's general option.

1.Customize's Brand Color option

Live Customize's header option helps you to configure not only header background image but also header background image height.

Live Customize's social link option helps you to add the social links at footer area.

After the installation, you can configure something on following place for Visual Composer. You might want to allow VC for your custom post types initially.

Please read more about Visual Composer page builder from separate documentation file.

Visual composer has tons of elements that presents content view. But our theme has more advanced elements that enriches this beautiful theme. Please hit on the tab and find elements and use them for your need. Every element has a purpose and detailed options. You can see their live result on the demo pages. Enjoy :)

Group	Description
`Bars`	Show your company progress bar here.
`Client Slider`	Here is the you can upload your clients company logo. It will show carousel slider.
`Blog Posts`	Show your post. And you can get post here.
`Google maps`	The element allows options for you to fill overlay coloured layer and custom map marker image.
`Page title`	Here is you can add your custom page title.
`Portfolio`	Show your portfolio posts by category and specific numbers.
`Team Slider`	Here is you can add your team members compnay.
`Service Element`	Here is the you can add your company services with icon and text.
`Image box`	You can upload your image with you customize text.

You'll find Page options at bottom of your main editor. Please read the option name and description and use them for customize your every single page.

You will find portfolio option at middle of your admin dashboard or editor.

Theme has an additional element for your portfolio. You can make your portfolio page with it first by it's options including Column variations, Filter and Pagination options.

Menu system works through WordPress core functions. Then I hope you don't have any trouble with it. We extended menu options with a few options such as Menu Icon and Mega menu options. Please look at next images and follow the steps for your menu.

Our theme is compatible with Contact form 7 and please put following markup on the Form field of your form. Then your form turns similar into our style that presents on Contact page.

<div class='contact-us'>
< div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6" >
     [text* text-9 class:form-control placeholder "Name"]
< div >
< div class="col-md-6 col-sm-6" >
    [email* email-756 id:input_email-1 class:form-control placeholder "Email"] 
< div >
< div class="col-md-12 col-sm-12" >
    [textarea textarea-15 id:textarea_message class:form-control placeholder "Message"]
< div >
< div class="col-md-12 col-sm-12" >
  [submit row: 1 id:btn_submit-1 "Submit"]
< div >

Subscribe form

You can have subscribe form by MailChimp for WordPress plugin. Install the plugin and add a widget instance on footer sidebar area.

Sometimes hard to implement small css features by predefined options. Then we've prepared some helpful classes those can used on any custom places and style your content. Most of page builder elements have Extra class field and you can allow following classes on them.

Class name	Description
`.text-light`	Sets text color as white
`.text-dark`	Sets text color as black
`.text-thin`	Sets text font weight 100
`.text-thin-300`	Sets text font weight 300
`.hidden-xxs`	Hides element on lower screen. Smaller than 480px wide
`.text-center`	Text center
`.text-right`	Text right
`.text-left`	Text left
`.list-inline`	Allows ul/ol to inline style.
`.no-margin`	Disables element margin. Efficient usage is on Rows
`.no-margin-top`	Disables element margin top
`.no-margin-bottom`	Disables element margin bottom
`.no-padding`	Disables element padding
`.no-padding-top`	Disables element padding top
`.no-padding-bottom`	Disables element padding bottom

Thank you to all who developed following projects/products. We really appreciate your support and time. We definitely couldn't do this template without you. We wish you all the best.

Special thanks to:

Images

PhotoDune.net - Team images, some slider backgrounds
PublicDomainArchive.com - Background images, portfolio image & gallery images
IconFinder.com - Free social logo PNGs

Open Source Projects

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Documentation

General Information

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What’s Included In Package

Installation