Avocation Pro Theme Documentation
Introduction
Thank you for purchasing Avocation Pro. Before you get started, please be sure to always check out these documentation files. We outline all kinds of good information, and provide you with all the details you need know to use Avocation Pro Theme.
If you are unable to find your answer here in the documentation, please contact us on our Support desk.
What is included in the price?
- Avocation Pro WordPress Theme
- Child Theme
- 1 Year Free Updates
- Theme Documentation
- Premium Support - To our support desk.
Thanks!
FasterThemes Team
Theme Installation via WordPress
After the purchase you will be able to download the theme .zip file.
When done, you should see avocationpro.zip (zip file name can be changed from version to version).
Please, follow the steps below to install Avocation Pro Theme.
Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Appearance > Themes. Click Add new button, located at the top of the screen or Add new theme ( see screenshots below ).
Step 4 - Choose avocationpro.zip.
Step 5 - Wait while the theme is uploaded and installed , when done Activate the Avocation Pro theme. (see screenshots below )
Step 6 - Congratulation you are ready to use Avocation Pro, but first Activate your license key.
Common Theme Installation Problems
“Are you sure you want to do this?”
If you get the “Are you sure you want to do this” message when installing avocationpro.zip file via WordPress, it means you have an upload file size limit. Install the theme via FTP if this happens, or ask your hosting company to increase the limit.
Missing stylesheet file
If you get an error saying that the stylesheet is missing, then you have uploaded the wrong folder. Please check that you are uploading the avocationpro.zip within the Theme Files folder.
Theme Installation via FTP
If you are going to install the theme using FTP, you will need an FTP Client, such as FileZilla.
After the purchase you will be able to download the theme .zip file.
When done, you should see avocationpro.zip(folder name can be changed from version to version).
Please, follow the steps below to install Avocation Pro theme via FTP:
Step 1 - Log into your hosting space (server) via FTP client.
Step 2 - In extracted archive folder, find avocationpro folder
Step 3 - Upload the avocationpro folder to your server in path .../wp-content/themes/
Step 4 - The uploaded path should be like this: .../wp-content/themes/avocationpro/
Step 6 - Congratulation you are ready to use Avocation Pro, but first Activate your license key.
Additional Links
Theme License Activation
After installing the theme the first step to take will be activating the theme license. Enter the license key and you'll get access to theme support.
Follow the below instruction to activate the theme license.
Step 1 - Go to your WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Theme License.
Step 3 - The final step is to click on Save Changes.
Plugins Installation
After activating the theme and the license a notice should appear on the top of the screen, click on Begin installing plugins.
Follow the below instruction to activate all the necessary plugins.
Step 1 - Got to your WordPress Dashboard and click on Begin installing plugins.
Step 3 - Once the plugins are installed go back to Install required plugins and Activate them all.
Setting up the Demo Content
Before importing the dummy data Make sure you have installed all the plugins and set the permalinks.
Once the theme will be activated you will see the option for importing demo.
Set Permalinks
Step 1 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Settings > Permalinks select Post name & click on save changes.
One Click Importer
Step 1 - Go to Appearance > Avocation Pro Demo Setup
Step 2 - click on Import Demo Data.
Step 3 - Done! Menu and Home Page will be automatically set.
Menu Setup
Create & Manage your menu
First we will see how to create your menu
Adding pages to your menu
How to add page to our new menu
Assigning a Menu to a Location
Select where to show our menu
Create & Manage your menu
Step 1 - Login to the WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - From the 'Appearance' menu on the left-hand side of the Dashboard, select the 'Menus' option to bring up the Menu Editor.
Step 3 - Select Create a new menu at the top of the page.
Step 4 - Enter a name for your new menu in the Menu Name box.
Step 5 - Click the Create Menu button.
Your menu is now defined, and you can now add pages to it (steps below).
Adding pages to your menu
The Screen Options allow you to choose which items you can use to add to a menu. Certain items, like Posts are hidden by default. The Screen Options are located in the top right corner of your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 1 - Locate the pane entitled Pages.
Step 2 - Within this pane, select the View All link to bring up a list of all the currently published Pages on your site.
Step 3 - Select the Pages that you want to add by clicking the checkbox next to each Page's title.
Step 4 - Click the Add to Menu button located at the bottom of this pane to add your selection(s) to the menu that you created in the previous step.
Step 5 - Click the Save Menu button once you've added all the menu items you want.
Your custom menu has now been saved.
Assigning a Menu to a Location
Once you've created a menu and filled it with items, it's time to assign it to one of the theme pre-defined locations.
Step 1 - Go to Appearance > Menus and click Manage Locations.
Step 2 - Assign each Theme Location with a menu. You can assign menus to multiple Theme Locations.
Step 3 - Click the Save Changes button.
Page Options
Go to Pages > Add New or edit any page scroll down the page and at the bottom you'll find below options.
Here you can choose whether to show or hide your header menu.
2. Footer
Here you can choose whether to show or hide your footer widget area .
3. SEO Settings
Here you can assign page title and meta description and also manage the robots setting.
4. Facebook Pixel
Here you can add your facebook pixel code for your website.
Page Builder Widgets
Important Note: We use SiteOrigin page builder plugin so if you're not familiar with it then please click here to check SiteOrigin Page Builder Tutorials to understand how the page builder works.
Go to Pages > Add New or Edit a page. Click on the Page Builder tab and go to Add Widget as shown in below screenshots.
Go to Pages > Home and you'll find below options where, you can make the changes as per your requirements.
1. SiteOrigin Slider
In this widget, you can set image slider in any page. Using this you can add slider frames and controls.
2. About Us
In this widget, you can change your details and build your posts query to display the posts.
3. Projects Widget
In this widget,you can change your project details and build your posts query to display the projects.
4. Testimonial Widget
In this widget, you can change your testimonial details and build your posts query to display the testimonials.
5. Business Widget
In this widget, you can change your business details.
6. Our Blog Widget
In this widget, you can change your blog details and build your posts query to display the posts.
Go to Pages > Contact Us and you'll find below options where, you can make the changes as per your requirements.
1. Text Widget
In this widget, you can change text in the page.
2. Contact Us Widget
In this widget, you can change your contact details and features.
Go to Pages > Projects and you'll find below options where, you can make the changes as per your requirements.
1. Projects Blog Widget
In this widget, you can change your project blog title and build your posts query to display the projects.
Customize Options
Go to Appearance > Customize and you'll find below options where, you can make the changes as per your requirements.
1. General Settings
#. Basic Settings
In this panel, you can change your breadcumb background image, footer background image and blog title .
#. Top Social Settings
In this panel, you can manage your social links.
#. Static Front Page
In this panel, you can change your front page and post page.
2. Styling
# Colors
In this panel, you can change your theme color , secondary color and background color.
# Theme Fonts
In this section, you can change your theme fonts.
3. SEO
# Facebook Pixel setting
In this panel, you can paste your Facebook Pixel script and it will reflect throught out website. You can also overwrite this code in Page option in individual page.
# Google analytics
In this section, you can paste your Google Analytics script and it will reflect throught out website.
4. Footer
# Footer widget area
In this panel, you can change hide show footer area , set column for footer widgets and also set copyright in footer.
