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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, Wittermag demo it will take 3-5 minuts as it will download high-resolution images, so please, have patience as it will depend on your server power.
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.

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. Recent / Top Commented / Top Viewed / Random

In order to display all those pages, we need to create them. Same steps as the Homepage, the steps above.

Is the Home page you've created, so you can name it however you want.

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

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

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

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

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 "Random" and from the right on Page Attributes choose "Template - Home (Random Posts)".

1. To create a new Main Menu go to:

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom menu in WordPress and how to create a menu structure.:

1. Go to your WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Menus
2. Click on the "create a new menu" link.
3. Write a name for you menu.
4. Press Create Menu button.

2. To customize your new Menu:

1. Start to add menu items from the left panels (Homepages, Pages, Links, Categories).
2. You can manage your menus by using the drag and drop functionality and rearrange the menu items in the desired order.
   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. Select Header Navigation same thing you see in the photo from the below.
3. Click the Save Menu button.

3. Create 2nd menu:

1. Create "Categories" Link: create a custom link as per the screenshot:
   
2. At the top, in the right corner, you have a button "Screen Options" click it and check "CSS Classes". Now change the "Categories" link you've created like as per the screenshot: delete the # and add "title" for the CSS classes, and don't forget to add <span></span> for the Categories labed:
   
3. Now add some categories, as per the demo.
4. Create "Pages" link, the same way you've created the "Categories" link. For the pages link in the CSS Classes field add "space title" as per the screenshot:
   
5. Now add the pages you've created like: Random, Top Viewed, Top Commented, etc.
6. After setting up your menu, scroll down to the bottom of the page and assign the menu to the "Home Links Navigation" Theme Locations at the bottom, as per the screenshot and Click the Save Menu button:
   

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>Stay up to date with the latest Themes via email. We hate spam!</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"]
							

How do I translate my theme to another language?

Our themes are written in English, though you are of course welcome to translate them to your language. While it's possible to go through each theme file and manually translate the appropriate text elements, we highly recommend using the program Poedit to translate your theme. It's easy and will save you LOTS of time.

1. First, go to WP Dashboard > Settings > General > Site Language > Select your language > Save.
2. Then, download & install the Poedit program.
3. Open Poedit and click the "Open" button on the top-left of the program screen. Within your theme's files, find the "languages" folder and select the "wittermag-wp.POT" file.
4. A long list of text elements you may translate will appear in the box labeled "Source Text". Please note: You may not need to translate all of these elements. Many may be WordPress notification messages or similar.
5. Select the line within the "Source Text" box that you'd like to translate. When that line is highlighted, go down to the box labeled "Translation". Here, you can type the direct translation of the "Source Text" in whatever language you'll be using. Repeat this step for all of the "Source Text" elements you wish to translate.
6. When done, go to "File" and "Save as" within your theme's "languages" folder.
   IMPORTANT! You must save this new file with a name based on a specific format: aa_AA
   The first "aa" refers to ISO 639 two-letter language code (list found HERE).
   The second "AA" refers to an ISO 3166 two-letter country code (list found HERE).
   
   ( Example 1 )
   If translating to Danish, we would use the Danish language code of "da" and the Danish country code of "DK". The file name must be the language code in lowercase letters, followed by an underscore character, and lastly the language code in uppercase letters. So the finished file name would then be: da_DK
   ( Example 2 )
   If translating to Brazilian Portuguese, your file name would be: pt_BR
   Note: For the French language in Canada, please use "fr_FR". "fr_CA" is not recognized by WordPress.
7. When you save the file, it will automatically create your .po format as well as an additional .mo format file of the same name.
8. Via your FTP program, upload the .po & .mo files you just created to your theme's "languages" folder.
9. You're finished!