Welcome

Welcome! First of all we want to thank you for purchasing our Demeter WordPress Theme.

In the following sections we will explain how to set up and use Demeter theme the easiest way possible. Although there're a lot of things written in this documentation, the theme itself is not hard to use. You can go to the Theme Options page and explore everything yourself. This file is more of a reference if you do not know what to do, or if you are not familiar with WordPress.

If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to ask your questions at the oceanthemes2014@gmail.com.

Best regards

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What we support

We provide free support only when there are bugs and issues with our up to the WordPress, Plugin & Browsers versions stated in the product page.

What we don’t support

Our support is NOT applicable to the following queries:

Support Response

Theme Information

Files Included

The download package (.zip) that you get from ThemeForest contains the following files and folder:

Installation

Install Theme

After you download the .zip package from ThemeForest, unzip it. You'll see a file demeter.zip, which is the main file that needed to upload and install.

Notice: If you download Installable WordPress file then that file is the zip file we use to upload and install.

You can either choose to upload and installl the theme using FTP or use WordPress theme install function.

Upload and install using FTP

Install theme using WordPress install function

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Install plugins

After installing Demeter, you'll see a notification in the top of the page that says the theme needs some plugins to function properly.

Demeter theme requires follow plugins (all are free and available on WordPress.org):

Demeter is working perfectly with these plugins. It automatically adds more styles to them to make the design match the theme.

To install these plugins:

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Link update Visual Composer: http://vegatheme.com/plugins/js_composer.zip

Link update Revolution Slider: http://vegatheme.com/plugins/revslider.zip

Install demo content

If you are new to WordPress and have problems with setting up the theme you might want to import the demo content file that comes with the theme. The following actions will import some dummy posts and pages from the live preview:

import

After completing all above steps, go to Posts, Pages... to see imported data.

Important: Due to license of images, we have to remove images in distributed demo content and replace them with placeholers. All images get from placehold.it, if you have any download errors when import demo-content.xml, problem can be speed of internet connection. Don't worry about that, you can replace with your own images.

Import slider

After setting up the page, you need to setup the slider for page like home to make it display the same as in live preview.

The download package contains exported slider (Revolution Slider) that help you easier to create sliders. Following the steps below:

(1): Go to Revolution Slider. (2): Click Import Slider button. (3): When a popup appear, click Browse and select demo-slide.zip file. (4): Click Import Slider button to start import the selected slider.

import slider

Setup homepage and blog page

After install demo content, you'll see a page Homepage. This page will be used as the homepage of the website. To set it as homepage, please go to Settings \ Reading, under Front page displays, please chose A static page (select below) and select Homepage for Front page and Blog page for Posts page.

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Setup Menu

Although the theme is working now and it shows menu, but because we haven't created a menu for primary location, the theme will display all pages by default. As the number of pages is large, displaying all of them in the menu is a bad idea.

Create or edit a menu

Following these steps to create a menu:

menu

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Setup widget areas

Demeter theme has 1 widget areas (sidebars) by default: Appearance > Widgets

To setup a sidebar, select it from the right by clicking its title or the arrow down. Then drag and drop widgets from the left to the sidebar area.

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That's all! Now you have the website up with all basic elements!

Theme Options

The Demeter theme comes with unique, creative and easy-to-use Theme Options page. You can change all theme options in one place!

All options have full description so you can know what you are doing. Just click and save!

Let's go through each section.

Import Theme Options

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General Settings

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Here are the explanations of some options that can help you understand and use them better:

Favicon and Logo Upload

Favicon (short for Favorite icon), also known as a shortcut icon, Web site icon, tab icon or bookmark icon, is a file containing one or more small icons, most commonly 16x16 pixels, associated with a particular Web site or Web page. Browsers that provide favicon support typically display a page's favicon in the browser's address bar (sometimes in the history as well) and next to the page's name in a list of bookmarks. Browsers that support a tabbed document interface typically show a page's favicon next to the page's title on the tab, and site-specific browsers use the favicon as a desktop icon.

This is how favicon appears:

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Demeter lets you upload favicon or enter favicon URL in the input box:

The favicon should be in one of the following format: .ico, .png, .gif. Usually we should use .ico.

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When you're done, you can click Save Changes button to save your data.

Preload Settings

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When you're done, you can click Save Changes button to save your data.

Blog Settings

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Portfolio Setitngs

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404 Setitngs

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Footer Setitngs

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Styling Setitngs

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Social Setitngs

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Visual Composer

Extending the functionality of "Visual Composer" plugin, the page builder function available in More allows you to create various of template variations for use in your site. It has the similar interface with WordPress Menus & Widgets admin page - This makes you feel comfortable with the user interface.

Tutorials Visual Composer

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Section Setitngs:

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Page Templates

Home Page

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Blog Page

You can use Blog Grid or Blog With Sidebar

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Portfolio Single

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