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Installing Via WordPress

1. Login to WordPress Browse to Appearance > Themes
2. Click Add New
3. Click the Upload link
4. Click Browse
5. Select the zipped theme file to upload (the zip file is in the Upload folder if you chose to download all files) and click Install.
6. Now Activate the theme

Upload Via FTP Server

1. Login to your site via FTP
2. Browse to your folder located at wp-content/themes
3. Upload the main theme folder (the folder is located in the Upload folder if you chose to download all files)
4. Login to WordPress
5. Browse to Appearance > Themes
6. Find and activate the theme

One Click Demo Import

After installing the theme you should be prompted to install and activate the included plugins. Make sure you've installed / activated the plugin "One Click Demo Import". After the installation of the plugin:

1. Go to Appearance > Import Demo Data
2. Select one of the demos and click "Import".
3. Please click "Import" button only once and wait, it can take a couple of minutes, up to 5 minutes, so please, have patience.
4. After you imported the demo, save your menu in order to be displayed. Go to Appearance > Menus.
5. After setting up your menu, scroll down to the bottom of the page and assign the menu to the "Header Navigation" Theme Locations at the bottom.
6. After that, please follow the Documentation for plugins configuration.

Import WordPress XML

This theme includes a demo-content.xml file that will allow you to import the sample data to your site. This file includes most of the demo site data, which includes main theme functions to make it easier for you to see how the theme works.

1. Login to your Envato account
2. Click on the theme download link
3. Select the "All Files & Download" option
4. Open the zip file, the demo-content.xml file is in the Sample Data Folder
5. Login to WordPress
6. Double check that all recommended plugins have been installed and activated (if not, the sample data related to those plugins will not be imported)
7. Browse to Tools > Import
8. Click on the WordPress option (you will have to have the "WordPress Importer" plugin installed, you will be prompted if it's not already installed and active)
9. Click Browse and select the sample data .xml file
10. Click Upload files and import
11. Assign the posts to an existing user
12. Check the box to download and import file attachments
13. Click Submit
14. Give the import some time and do not navigate away from the page until the upload is complete
15. Go to Settings > Reading, set your from page to a Static Page, select Home from the drop down, and save
16. Go to Appearance > Menus, click on the Manage Location tab, assign the main menu, and save
17. If you'd like to change any of the widget, go to Appearance > Widgets and drag and drop widgets into the active widgetized areas
18. You should now have site content similar to the live demo for this theme!

Homepage – How to build and set it

By default WordPress sets the blog page as a main page and this is not what most of us want, we need custom pages. To change WordPress default settings you have to:

1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New:
2. Name it Home or whatever and from the right on Page Attributes choose "Template - Home".
3. Now go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading and from "Front page displays" select "A static page (select below) and select the page you've created a few seconds ago.

1. Create a new page, go to Pages > Add New

2. Set the page title and select a page template.

3. Go to Settings > Reading and set the newly created page as a homepage.

4. Random / Top Viewed / Top Commented

In order to display Random / Top Viewed / Top Commented pages, we need to create them. Same steps as the Home page, the steps above.

1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New:
2. Name it "Random" and from the right on Page Attributes choose "Template - Home (Random Posts)".

1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New:
2. Name it "Top Viewed" and from the right on Page Attributes choose "Template - Home (Top Viewed)".

1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New:
2. Name it "Top Commented" and from the right on Page Attributes choose "Template - Home (Top Commented)".

WooCommerce Configuration

Whether you’re launching a business, taking brick-and-mortar retail online, or developing sites for clients, use WooCommerce for a store that powerfully blends content and commerce. WooCommerce is the world’s most popular open-source eCommerce solution.

1. Install and activate the WooCommerce plugin from here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/
2. Go to Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce > Product Catalog.
3. Change "Products per row" with 3 and "Rows per page" with 2, as per screenshot and click "Publish".

Using Anthemes Publishing without the demo content from the demo

In this section, you will learn how to install the plugin and create a simple frontend publishing form with it. Just follow these steps::

1. Go to Plugins > Add New in your WordPress site’s admin panel and click on the Upload link at the top of the screen. Plugin can be found via Itaka-wp/plugins.
2. Upload the plugin’s zip file. Once the file has been uploaded, activate the plugin.
3. Access the plugin control panel located at Anthemes Publishing > Forms.
4. To create a new form just enter a suitable name, description and post type and click ‘Create Form’. After a few seconds the newly created form should show up on the right side of the screen.
5. The form is now ready for use and can be integrated into any post or page. Just create a new page and add [wpfepp_submission_form form=”X”] in the content area. Replace X with the form ID. The form should look something like this:
6. On a different page use the shortcode [wpfepp_post_table form=”X”]. This shortcode will create a list of posts with edit and delete links. The list will contain all the posts of the post type supported by form X. It should look something like this:

Customizing A Form

If you want to customize an existing form then here are the basic steps that you need to follow::

1. Go to Anthemes Publishing > Forms.
2. In the list table located at the right side of the screen you will see all your existing forms. Hovering over a form name should make the ‘Edit’ link visible. Click on this link to start modifying the appearance and behavior of the form.
3. On the next screen you will see a list of form fields. You can drag and drop these fields to rearrange them or click on a field to change its settings.
4. Once you are fully satisfied with your form save your changes and see them in action on the frontend.

Defining Restrictions for a Field

One of the things that set Anthemes Publishing apart from the multitude of form plugins available on the Internet is that it allows you to define restrictions such as word range, maximum links, number of comma-separated sections and so on. A post is not created until all the requirements are met. To define restrictions for a particular form field:

1. Go to Anthemes Publishing > Forms and start editing the form for which you want to define restrictions.
2. On the next screen click on any field to slide open its settings. In this case, we will use the Content field as an example. This is what it looks like on the settings page:
3. Now you can drag and drop validators and sanitizers onto this field to add restrictions. For instance, you could add the Min Words validator to the field and the user will not be able to create a post until it meets the word requirement. If you do not want to define a particular restriction just leave it empty or remove it. For instance, if you don’t want to set a maximum word count limit then just leave the area empty.

Working with Custom Fields

If you want to save a user-entered value as post meta then you should create a custom field. Here’s how you can do so:

1. Go to Anthemes Publishing > Forms and start editing the form for which you want to create a custom field.
2. On the right side of the page you will notice a box titled ‘Custom Fields’. Its looks like this: : Enter a label along with a valid meta key and hit the Add button. Your new custom field will show up under the default form fields. Let’s say you want to give your users the ability to submit a byline along with each post. All you have to do is create a custom field by entering a label and a valid meta key like ‘byline’ or ‘about_the_author’. After that you can get the byline for each post by using something like this:

   <?php $byline = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'byline', true ); ?>

Itaka is using 2 Custom Fields

If you haven’t installed the demo content with the 1 click demo install option, you’ll need to create manually the custom fields: "Embed Code" and "External Link".

1. Go to Anthemes Publishing > Forms and start editing the form for which you want to create a custom field.
2. Now, create the “External Link”. For the label add “External Link” and for meta Key add “itaka_link” and click add. Note: You can change the label name, but you can't change the meta key.
   
   Now you can click the custom field you've created and configured it, like this:



3. First, create the “Embed Code”. For the label add “Embed Code” and for meta Key add “itaka_embed” and click add. Note: You can change the label name, but you can't change the meta key. .
   
   Now you can click the custom field you've created and configured it, like this:



4. Now, create the “External Link”. For the label add “External Link” and for meta Key add “itaka_link” and click add. Note: You can change the label name, but you can't change the meta key.
   
   Now you can click the custom field you've created and configured it, like this:

MailChimp Configuration

This plugin helps you grow your MailChimp lists and write better newsletters through various methods. You can create good looking opt-in forms or integrate with any existing form on your site, like your comment, contact or checkout form.

1. Install the plugin and activate it.
2. Go to Dashboard > MailChimp > Form and paste this:
   

   <div class="subscribe-widget">
   <h3>Get the latest Itaka updates</h3>  
     <input type="email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your email address" required />
     <input type="submit" value="I'm in" />
     <p><input name="AGREE_TO_TERMS" type="checkbox" value="1" required=""><span>I have read and agree to the terms.</span></p>  
   </div>
    								

3. Now go to Appearance > Widgets and drag the widget "MailChimp Sing-up Form" to the custom siderbar you want to use.
4. You can add your MailChimp API via Dashboard > MailChimp > MailChimp, after you've added your API key, click "Save Changes".

First, you’ll need to install the plugin “Multi-column Tag Map“"

Tag Index

Create a page from Dashboard > Pages > Add New and paste this code:

[mctagmap columns="4" show_navigation="yes" hide="yes" num_show="4" more="more »" toggle="« less" show_empty="yes" name_divider="|" count_order="DESC"  tag_count="yes" exclude="2009, exposition" descriptions="no" equal="yes" manual="" basic ="no" basic_heading="no" show_categories="no"]
							

Categories Index

Create a page from Dashboard > Pages > Add New and paste this code:

[mctagmap columns="4" show_navigation="yes" hide="yes" num_show="4" more="more »" toggle="« less" show_empty="yes" name_divider="|" tag_count="yes" count_order="DESC" exclude="2009, exposition" descriptions="no" equal="yes" manual="" basic ="no" basic_heading="no" show_categories="yes"]
							

Users Index

Create a page from Dashboard > Pages > Add New and paste this code:

[mctagmap columns="4" show_navigation="yes" hide="yes" num_show="4" show_empty="yes" name_divider="|" count_order="DESC" author_avatar_linked="yes" show_authors="yes" author_avatar="300"]
							

Option 1: The Beginners Option

Here’s the most simple way of updating your WordPress theme that’s purchased from ThemeForest::

1. We need an easy way of overwriting the theme files, since WordPress doesn’t support this, we need a plugin, install this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades/
2. Go to the downloads page of your ThemeForest account here: http://themeforest.net/downloads
3. Find the theme you’re updating from the list, click the big green “download” button once, and from the drop down menu choose “installable WordPress file only”
   
4. Upload the downloaded zip file to your WordPress installation via “appearance” -> “themes” -> “add new”, just like you did when you first installed the theme.
5. Thanks to the plugin mentioned in step 1, you’ll now get an “upgrade existing” option after uploading your theme, without the plugin you’d just get an error.
6. There you go, you’ve updated the theme!

Option 2: The Automatic Option

Envato offer an automatic update solution for ThemeForest themes by using “Envato Toolkit”, see the full details of this here: http://www.wpexplorer.com/envato-wordpress-toolkit-guide/

Option 3: The FTP Upload (Advanced Users)

Another way to update your theme is via FTP, that is, you connect to your server and manually overwrite the theme folder. To do this grab the theme files mentioned from Option 1, with these in hand, unzip the file you have, you should have a folder just called THEMENAME (being the name of your theme)

Now the next step is simple, connect to your server via FTP (if you don’t know how to do this, use option 1) navigate to /wp-content/themes/, do not just overwrite the theme folder – here’s why. In previous updates to my themes, files have been deleted or relocated, if you just overwrite the folder then these files will remain, this can cause issues (especially with WooCommerce), here’s what you should do instead: Delete the THEMENAME folder that’s on your server, and then re-upload the new THEMENAME folder, this ensures that your new theme is 100% correct.

Please remember you have purchased a very affordable theme and you have not paid for a full-time web design agency, so please be patient, polite and respectful.

• * Responding to questions or problems regarding the item and its features
• * Fixing bugs and reported issues
• * Providing updates to ensure compatibility with new software versions

• * Customization and installation services
• * Support for third party software and plug-ins

Support requests are being processed on business days Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 17:00 (GMT +2) within 24h in the order they were received:

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• * Make sure your question is a valid Theme Issue and not a customization request.
• * Make sure you have read through the documentation and any related video guides before asking support on how to accomplish a task.
• * Try disabling any active plugins to make sure there isn't a conflict with a plugin. And if there is this way you can let us know.
• * If you have customized your theme and now have an issue, back-track to make sure you didn't make a mistake or make a clean install of the theme.
• * Almost 80% of the time we find that the solution to people's issues can be solved with a simple "Google Search". You might want to try that before seeking support. You might be able to fix the issue yourself much quicker than we can respond to your request.
• * Make sure to state the name of the theme you are having issues with, when requesting support via ThemeForest.