Introduction

Consultplus WordPress Theme

Download the Theme

First of all, thanks so much for purchased our item. We’re really appreciated it and hope you enjoy it!
If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, feel free to post at designarc.ticksy.com. We will do our best to answer you in shortest of time (24-48 hours usually). Before contacting support, please make sure you have followed the setup guide as there may already exist the answer to your question there.

To download the theme log into your ThemeForest account and go to ThemeForest download page. Locate to the theme you had purchased (our theme) and then download the installable WordPress file only




How to Install Theme

Before beginning the installation and configuring of your new theme, you must first have WordPress with latest version already installed on a server.

Step 1: Go to Appearance -> Themes then click to Add New



Step 2: Upload your downloaded 'consultplus.zip' theme file, and then click on Install Now



Step 3: After the installation progress completed, click Activate to activate your theme.



Video tutorial: Upload & Install Theme, install and active required/recommended plugins, import demo data with single click : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtStwaoNUYc

Installing Required Plugins

1. After theme installed, Go to Appearance -> Themes Activate.



2. Activate your theme copy by entering your purchase code.


*Check here to find details to get your Purchase Code

3. Once you enter correct purchase code and activate theme, you are ready to install the plugins and import data.

4. After theme Activated, Go to Appearance -> Themes, Just click the link to Begin installing plugins.



5. Once you have clicked on Begin installing plugins, you will be prompted to install required and recommended plugins. Select all plugins and click on Install and apply.



6. After Intallation, Click on Begain Activating Plugins



7. Select the plugins you had installed, and then apply the bulk action to activate them.



8. Finally, you will got a confirmation notice that your plugins are activated.

One click Demo Importer

This theme offer One click demo data import solution. Go to Appearance >Theme Options > Demo Data Importer and click to Import Demo Data. Theme has 5 diffrent Home pages and several inner pages, you will get all pages within "demo1".



Importing can take a couple of minutes depending on your host, you should see a success confirmation when the importing is completed.

Navigation

Step 1: Go to Appearance > Menu, enter your navigation name and click to Create Menu.

Step 2: Create new menu,Choose item from the left to menu area and Save.

Step 3: For Sub menu, Go to menu area , Select the menu item and place it below the particular menu item and leave it slightly in the right side and save it.


The theme offer two Menu locations: Primary and Footer

Add your custom menu, drag any link/page/post to it and set menu location for it.


Widgets

Theme has pre built widgets. You can put widgets in areas like footer, sidebar, below content, and basically any place in theme.


Go to Appearance -> Widgets



1. Footer1:
i) Go to 'TMC Have Widget' widget, Drag and drop in 'Footer1' widget area


2. Footer2:
i) Go to 'TMC Footer Menu' widget, Drag and drop in 'Footer2' widget area


3. Footer3:
i) Go to 'Audio' widget, Drag and drop in 'Footer3' widget area

ii) Go to 'TMC Footer Menu' widget, Drag and drop in 'Footer3' widget area

iii) Go to 'Cart' widget, Drag and drop in 'Footer3' widget area


4.Footer4:
i) Go to 'TMC Footer Socials' widget, Drag and drop in 'Footer4' widget area


Sidebar widgets:

1.Right Sidebar:
i) Go to 'Search' widget, Drag and drop in 'Right Sidebar' widget area

ii) Go to 'Recent Posts' widget, Drag and drop in 'Right Sidebar' widget area

iii) Go to 'Recent Comments' widget, Drag and drop in 'Right Sidebar' widget area

iv) Go to 'Archives' widget, Drag and drop in 'Right Sidebar' widget area

v) Go to 'Categories' widget, Drag and drop in 'Right Sidebar' widget area

vi) Go to 'Meta' widget, Drag and drop in 'Right Sidebar' widget area

vii) Go to 'Text' widget, Drag and drop in 'Right Sidebar' widget area


2.Left Sidebar:
i) Go to 'Catrgories' widget, Drag and drop in 'Left Sideba' widget area

ii) Go to 'TMC Posts' widget, Drag and drop in 'Left Sidebar' widget area

iii) Go to 'Text' widget, Drag and drop in 'Left Sidebar' widget area


3.Service Sidebar:
i) Go to 'TMC Service Menu' widget, Drag and drop in 'Service Sidebar' widget area

ii) Go to 'TMC Posts' widget, Drag and drop in 'Service Sidebar' widget area


Update Contents in widgets area

Go Widget area and click, Now fill all fields and save.

Pages

Setting Up your Front page & Blog Page

tep 1: Go to Settings > Reading and select which page you would like for your font-page and blog page

Setting Up your site permalinks

tep 1: Go to Settings > Permalinks and select one from common settings

Building Pages with visual composer

This theme includes support for the Visual Composer plugin. Visual Composer come with a lots of drag and drop modules to quickly and easily building your pages.

I perfer you read it's documentation live at https://wpbakery.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VC/Visual+Composer+Pagebuilder+for+WordPress to know how it works.

Here is how it works with our theme:

Sliders

This theme come with Revolution Slider premium license, in order to understand how the slider works and how to work with it, I prefer you read it's documentation live at http://revolution.themepunch.com/documentation/

Theme Options

Theme options is a custom admin page to all of the theme's extensive configuration options. It allows users to change theme settings without modifying theme files or touching any code. To view the panel, navigate to the Theme Options in the left-hand menu. Here you have the ability to alter many core aspects that make up how your theme looks and behaves.

General

To change Global Comment and Favicon go to Appearance > Theme Options > General

Layout

To change the Layout

Header

To change style of Header

Menu

To change style of Menu

Titlebar

To change the information of Titlebar

Typography

The theme option allow you to select from 500+ google fonts, You also can change font color, size, align etc..

Social Media

In order to display social icons, you will need to:

Enter your social profile URL:

Blog

To change the Blog Settings

Footer

To change style of Footer

Demo Importer

Here is, how to import the demo data One click Demo Importer

Import / Export

Import / Export All the settings of Theme Options.

Update Theme

From here you will be able to update the theme.

Translate

From here you will be able to translate the theme in your own language.


The theme comes with GetText Catalog file (.PO) which contains all strings that are specific to the theme and won't be translated when changing WordPress language itself. The files reside in /languages folder of the theme. To translate WordPress Find a list of language codes at http://www.wordpress.org in your Language. As an example, the language code for English is en_EN.
Translating .PO file allows changing theme specific strings language. In order to translate .PO file follow proceeding instructions:
1. Download and Install POEdit Software from http://www.poedit.net/download.php POEdit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (PO files) editor which provides compact view of data and very effective user interface.
2. Extract the theme and copy the theme files into a new directory.
3. Now open the PoEdit application, and create a new catalog (File » New catalog).
4. From the menu, select Catalog » Settings and fill in all required information.
5. Click on the Paths tab and change the local path from 1st line to your path with theme files and click "OK" then update the catalog (Catalog » Update from sources) to verify that your path to the theme is correct.
6. Now you can start translating the theme by selecting each bold string in the list, and typing translation in editable area at the bottom.
7. After you have completed string translations, save your catalog by using the language code_COUNTRYCODE file naming convention, eg. as fr_FR, and upload the compiled catalog that was generated by PoEdit (eg. fr_FR.mo) to your server, in the theme language directory.
8. Now that you have a compiled translated file you need to instruct Wordpress to use it (if you’ve already installed Wordpress in another language you might have the next step done already). Open the file wp-config at the root of your Wordpress installation and look for the following code:
define ('WPLANG', '');
If, per say, in our above example we translated to French then we saved our file as "fr_FR.mo" and need to change this line of code to:
define ('WPLANG', fr_FR ');
If everything is done correctly, you should now see the frontend of your site in translated strings.
Important:
Do not translate php values, such as %s, %2$s etc. Always include them in the translated string!