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Photoistic

1.Theme Installation

After you purchase and download your theme from Theme Palace, you can choose either of the approaches given below to install your theme:

1.1.Approach I : From your admin dashboard.

  1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
  2. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
  3. Select Add New.
  4. Then, select Upload Theme.
  5. Click Browse. Locate Photoistic.zip theme in your computer.
  6. Select Photoistic.zip and click Install Now.

1.2.Approach II : Upload and install theme through FTP client

Users can use FTP clients like FileZilla to connect to your web server.

  1. Unzip Photoistic.zip to your Desktop.
  2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of Photoistic.zip theme.
  3. Now, log into the WordPress Dashboard with your login details.
  4. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
  5. Users will see the theme in the list.
  6. Then, click the Activate button.
  7. Now, the theme will be activated, and go through the following options to set up the theme step-wise.

2.Demo File

If you want to import the demo content manually, then here is the demo file for you. Just click on the button to download the demo file

3.How to set Homepage setting?

From Customize section, go to Homepage Setting you will see two option.

  • Your latest posts: When you choose this option then you will see these options.
    • Your Latest Posts Title : This option only works if Static Front Page is set to “Your latest posts.” This option allows to set the title.
    • A static page: you will be able to set a page as Front Page and you will find Post Page option as well.
      Note: All the custom sections of homepage will only be visible on Homepage setting once you set a page for the Homepage Setting option.

      From Homepage : you can set any page as Homepage .

      From Posts Page : you can set any page as Blog.

    • Enable content : Check to display Homepage’s content. If this option is enable then the content of homepage is displayed. For Example “Home” is set as the front page then content of home is displayed at home page design after enable this option.

    3.1.How to manage Site Title, Logo, Tagline and Site Icon?

    1. From the Customize section, go to Site Identity.

    2. From Site Identity, the User will be able to incorporate different site identity options from Site Identity, such as:

    • Logo( Only available in WordPress version greater than or equal to 4.5 ): This allows the users to set and modify the site’s main logo.
    • Site Title: This allows the users to modify the title of the site.
    • Tagline: This section allows the users to modify and set the tagline of the website.
    • Display Site Title and Tagline: This option allows the users to enable and disable the display of the title and the tagline from the site.

    • Site Identity Extra OptionsThis section allows the users to choose different options to display the title, logo, and tagline.

      • Hide All: Users can enable this to display anything in the header.
      • Show All: Users can enable this to display the logo title tagline in the header.
      • Title Only: Users can enable this to display only titles in the header.
      • Tagline Only: Users can enable this to display only taglines in the header.
      • Logo + Title: Users can enable this to display the logo and title in the header.
      • Logo + Tagline: Users can enable this to display the logo, and tagline in header then click this option.
    • Site Icon: The Site Icon is used as a browser and app icon for your site.Icon must be square and at least 512px wide and tall.

    3.2.How To Set and Manage the Color Settings?

    1. From the Customize section, go to Colors.

    2. On the Colors section, there will be the following different options:

    • Site Title Color: This modifies the site’s title color.
    • Site Tagline Color: This modifies the Site’s tagline text color.
    • Background Color: This modifies the background color of the site.

    3.3.How to manage Header Image ?

    1. From Customize section, go to Header Image
    2. From Header Image, you will have these options:

    • Header Image This changes the header image.

    3.4.How to manage Background Image?

    1. From Customize section, go to Background Image.

    2. From Background Image, you will see:

      Background Image: This will change the background image for the entire site.

    3.5.How to create a menu?

    Note: This theme has two menu locations provided as Primary and Social.

    • Menu Options :

      • To create menu, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Menu .

      OR

      You need to create menu from / Customize / Menus / Create Menu .

      You can create more menus in similar way. After creating menu, you need to add pages to that menu.

      To add pages to the menu, you need to create some pages (For e.g: “About Us” , “Blogs”). After creating pages you need to add that pages to the menu.

      After you added the pages to the menu set the menu location from / Customize / Menus / Menu Locations /.
      Two locations are available.(Primary Menu and Social Menu).

      Primary Menu : This setting allows the user to change or set the Primary/Main menu.

      Social Menu : This setting allows users to change or set social menus on footer section.

    3.6.How to create a Widget?

    1. From Customize section, go to.

    2. From Widgets, you will be able to Add and Remove widgets.


    Note:
    If you want to add a widget area in the footer then you must add widgets in Footer Widget 1, Footer Widget 2, Footer Widget 3, and Footer Widget 4
    Sidebar: This sidebar is default sidebar area. This sidebar area is displayed on blog pages, single blog pages, and pages.

    4.How to setup front page as shown in the demo?

    The demo of the front page can be divided into different sections as shown below.

    1. Main Slider
    2. Speciality Section
    3. Stories Section
    4. Promotion
    5. Recent Products
    6. Latest Posts

    These section’s content are display when you choose a static page option on Homepage Setting.

    Recommended plugins for this theme are:
    Catch Themes Demo Import The “Catch themes demo import: “is recommended in this theme to import the demo pages.

    • First Install Catch Themes Demo Import Plugin and active this plugin.
    • Then go to Dashboard-> Appearance -> Import Demo Data
    • Then click the Import demo data button.

    *Note: You need to import demo data in fresh wordpress otherwise existing posts, pages, categories, images, custom post types or any other data will be deleted or modified.


    JetPack Jet pack is recommended in this theme for better security performance and to keep the site protected.

    Contact Form 7 Contact Form 7 is recommended in this theme to create an eCommerce toolkit that helps you sell anything. Beautifully.

    User can see the divided sections in the image below :

    The customizer for the front-page setting options has the following sections shown below:

    4.1.Main Slider

    To configure the Menu section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Main Slider.

    In this section the panel, it will include:

    • Main Slider Enable: This will enable /Disable the display of the Main Slider section.

      • *After enabling the Main Section, section, user will see following options

      • Slider Button Label:This setting allows the user to set the button label for the section.
      • Select Post : This setting will allow the user to select any post for this section.
      • Alternative Button : This setting will allow the user to set the button label of the post.
      • Alternative Button Link : This setting will allow the user to set the button link of the alternaative button.

    4.2.Speciality Section

    To configure the Menu section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Speciality Section.

    In this section the panel, it will include:

    • Speciality Section Enable: This will enable /Disable the display of the Main section.

      • *After enabling the Speciality Section, section, user will see following options

      • Subtitle: This setting allows the user to set the subtitle for the section.
      • Section Title: This setting allows the user to set the title for the section.
      • Select Post : This setting will allow the user to select any post for this section.

    4.3.Stories Section

    To configure the Menu section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Stories Section.

    In this section the panel, it will include:

    • Stories Section Enable: This will enable /Disable the display of the Main section.

      • *After enabling the Stories, section, user will see following options

      • Subtitle: This setting allows the user to set the subtitle for the section.
      • Section Title: This setting allows the user to set the title for the section.
      • Select Post : This setting will allow the user to select any post for this section.

    4.4.Promotion

    To configure the Menu section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Promotion.

    In this section the panel, it will include:

    • Promotion Enable: This will enable /Disable the display of the Main section.

      • *After enabling the Promotion, section, user will see following options

      • Image: This setting allows the user to set the background image for the section.
      • Select Post : This setting will allow the user to select any post for this section.
      • Button Label:This setting allows the user to set the button label for the section.

    4.5.Recent Products

    To configure the Menu section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Recent Products.

    In this section the panel, it will include:

    • Recent Products Enable: This will enable /Disable the display of the Main section.

      • *After enabling the Recent Product, section, user will see following options

      • Sub Title: This setting allows the user to set the subtitle for the section.
      • Title: This setting allows the user to set the title for the section.
      • Select Product : This setting will allow the user to select any product for this section.

    4.6.Latest Post

    To configure the Menu section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Front Page / Latest Post.

    In this section the panel, it will include:

    • Latest Post Section Enable: This will enable /Disable the display of the Latest Post section.

      • *After enabling the Latest Post Section, section, user will see following options

      • Section Sub Title:This setting allows the user to set the sub title for the section.
      • Section Title:This setting allows the user to set the title for the section.

      • Content Type : It contains select options (Post, Category) which allow user to select title from one of those.
        • Posts: Selecting Posts as Content Type allows user to choose Posts from Select Post setting where featured image and content of that selected posts is displayed.

          • Posts Options : It contains following settings

          • Select Post : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that post.

        • Category: Selecting Category as Content Type allows user to choose Category from Select Category setting where featured image and content of that selected Category is displayed.

          • Category Options : It contains following settings

          • Select Category : This setting allows user to select post to get featured image and content of that Category.

    5.How to manage Theme Options?

    You will see following sections under Theme Options:

    1. Breadcrumb
    2. Layout
    3. Excerpt
    4. Blog/Archive
    5. Single Post
    6. Pagination
    7. Footer Option

    The above sections are described below.

    5.1.How to manage Breadcrumb?

    This option is used to enable/disable Breadcrumb.

    1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
    2. From Theme Options, you will see Breadcrumb.
    3. In Breadcrumb you will see:

    • Enable Breadcrumb : This enables the breadcrumb image when the page is fully not loaded.

      • After enable Breadcrumb You will see following option

      • Seperator: This setting allow user to select the seperator.

    5.2.How to manage Layout?

    This option is used to change the layout option of site also allows to change the Width of the body part.Available site layout is Wide& Boxed.

    1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.

    2. From Theme Options, you will see Layout.

    3. In Layout Options you will see:

    • Site Layout : This option is for Site Layout. You can change the layout of site
    • Global Sidebar Position : This option is for Global Sidebar Position. You can choose either Right sidebar or Left Sidebar .
    • Posts Sidebar Position : This option is for Posts Sidebar Position. You can choose either Right sidebar or Left Sidebar
    • Pages Sidebar Position : This option is for Pages Sidebar Position. You can choose either Right sidebar or Left Sidebar

    5.3.How to manage Excerpt?

    This option allows user to set the excerpt length on the archive, blog and search.

    1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.

    2. From Theme Options, you will see Excerpt.

    3. In Excerpt Options you will see:

    • Blog Page Excerpt Length: This option allows user to set the excerpt length.

    5.4.How to manage Blog/Achrive Options?

    1. From the Customize section, go to Theme Options.

    2. From Theme Options, users will see Blog/Archive.

    This setting will include following settings:

    • Hide Banner : User can hide the banner image on a blog/archive page.
    • Hide Date: This option allows the user to enable/disable the date assigned in a blog/archive page.
    • Column Layout: This option allows the user to set the column layout of a blog/archive page.

    5.5.How to manage Single post Options?

    1. From the Customize section, go to Theme Options.

    2. From Theme Options, users will see Blog/Archive.

    The Single Post setting includes following settings:

    • Hide Banner : User can hide the banner image on a single page.
    • Hide Date: This option allows the user to enable/disable the date assigned in a single page.

    5.6.How to manage Pagination?

    1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.

    2. From Theme Options, you will see Pagination.

    3. In Pagination you will see:

    • Pagination Enable: This option enables the pagination on the site.
    • Pagination type : You will see following options:

      • Numeric : This is for numeric pagination option.
      • Older Posts/Newer Posts : Default pagination option.

    To configure the footer widget, user need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / widgets / Footer options.

  • Copyright text : This changes the copyright text of Copyright content.
  • Display Scroll Top Button: User can easily hide or display scroll buttons.

    • 6.How to manage Reset all settings?

    1. From Customize section, go to Reset all settings..
    2. In Reset all settings you will see:

    • Check to reset all settings: Check the Check to reset all settings and refresh the page to reset all theme settings to default.

    7.How to manage WooCommerce?

    1. From the Customize section, go to WooCommerce..

    2. WooCommerce user will see:

    • Store Notice
    • Product Catalog
    • Product Images
    • Checkout

        • In Store Notice user will have following option:

        In Product Catalog user will have following option:

        In Product Images user will have following option:

        In Checkout user will have following option:

    8.How to manage Additional CSS?

    1. From Customize section, go to Additional CSS..
    2. Additional CSS you will see:

      • You can add your own CSS here.

    9.How to manage Export/Import?

    1. From the Customize section, go to Export/Import..

    2. Export/Import user will see:

    • User can import and export data here.

    10.Updating Theme Using FTP

    To update Theme though FTP, follow these basic steps:

    1. Download the latest version of Photoistic theme to your Desktop
    2. Unzip Photoistic.zip to your Desktop
    3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of Photoistic theme which shall replace the old files.
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