Etc. Theme Documentation

This file will help you to start working with your new WordPress Theme. First steps installing, guides to create your own pages, portfolio views or any other feature included.

• Installation
• Theme Options
• Menu Setup
• Adding Posts
• Adding Projects
• Adding Pages

1. Installation

The first point that we must talk about is "how to install" any WordPress Theme.

1.1 Installing the Theme

• Login to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to Appearance > Themes
• Click the Add New button on top of the page, then the Upload Theme button on the next page
• Choose file etc.zip included in the theme package and click Install Now
• Once the file is uploaded and installed, navigate to Appearance > Themes and click the Activate button

1.2 Required Plugin Installation

Once your theme is installed, you will notice a message at the top of your dashboard prompting you to install certain plugins. To insure that your site has all of the same functionality that you see in the demo, it’s important that you install and activate these plugins.

1.3 Importing Demo Content

You can import the demo content with just one click. Go to Appearance > Import Demo Data and click Import Demo Data button. The importing process can take several minutes.

2. Theme Options

After activating the theme, you will notice that a new submenu item appeared under Appearance with the tag Customize. If you click on it you will be taken to the WordPress customizer, a tool which will allow you to modify the look and feel of your website.

3. Menu Setup

After playing with the theme's settings, you should to create your page's main menu.

• Navigate to Appearance > Menus
• Click on the Create a new menu link. Enter a menu name and click Create Menu
• Add your created pages to the menu
• Be sure to check the box to set the menu as Header menu in the Manage Locations area
• Click Save Menu and that is all

Detailed instructions on creating a menu are located on the WordPress website here.

4. Adding Posts

These are the default steps that you need to do in order to add a blog post:

• Go to Posts > Add New
• Enter a title
• Select a post category
• Add some relevant tags
• Choose a featured image
• Insert all of your remaining content in the content area
• Click Publish and you're all done

5. Adding Projects

The process of adding projects is quite similar to adding posts:

• Go to Projects > Add New
• Enter a title
• Choose a featured image
• Insert all of your remaining content in the content area
• Click Publish and you're all done

6. Adding Pages

The process of adding pages is quite similar to adding posts:

• Go to Posts > Add New
• Enter a title
• Select a page template or leave the default one
• Insert all of your remaining content in the content area
• Hit Publish and you're all done

6.1 Page Templates

As you might already noticed, there are a few Page Templates available for you to use. Each template will configure your page to look and act in a different way.

• Default Template — This is the default template and it outputs exactly the content of the page, without any modifications.
• Portfolio — This page outputs all the portfolio projects that you have on your site. In the Portfolio Settings area you can select from a list of categories to appear in this certain page. Using the categories selector, you can add only certain categories to certain pages and create unlimited portfolio pages!

6.2 Forms

This theme doesn't have any dedicated form builder, because it offers you styling to use your own form plugins. We recommend Contact Form 7, as it's free & easy to use.

There are a few elements which you can use in order to style the form. Below you have an example on how we built the contact form in our demo:

<p class="contact-name">Name *[text* your-name]</p>
<p class="contact-email">Email *[email* your-email]</p>
<p class="contact-subject">Subject[text your-subject]</p>
<p class="contact-message">Message[textarea your-message]</p>
<p>[submit "Send Message"]</p>