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1Document History

Date Version Changed by Change Description
Jan 10, 2017 1.0 Amor admin Intial Release

2Theme Installation/Activation

➢ Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes and Click on Add New

➢ Click on Upload Theme

➢ Click on Choose File and from your download package select Potara.zip

➢ Click on Activate

3Plugins Installation

After activate theme.

➢ Click on Begin Installing Plugins

➢ Click on Bulk Actions and choose Install,then click on the Apply button to install and activate plugin(This process may take a while on some hosts, so please be patient)

➢ Now,this plugin is installed and activated

4Import Demonstration

We need to complete 3 steps as below to finish demostration importing

  • Content: to import Posts, Pages, Menus
  • Option: to import Theme Options, e.g: site background, typography...
  • Widget: to import setting of Widgets

Note: to avoid duplicated contents, please reset all old setting of Pages, Menus, Widgets

Please follow this section step by step.

4.1Import Content XML

➢ Go to Dashboard > Tools > Import and Click on Wordpress

➢ Choose a demo_content.xml file from your download package and then click on Upload file and Import

➢ Assign Authors,tick on Download and import file attachments,then click on Submit

➢ This process may take a while on some hosts, so please be patient. (some hosts between 5-6 minutes)

Note (important): After importing, we should set Homepage as Front Page (See section 5.1)
Moreover, the images may be incorrected size. To correct them, please use the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to resize all the thumbnails.

4.2Import Theme Options

➢ Go to Download package > folder demo content and open theme_option.json select all > copy all codes.

➢ Go to Dashboard > Theme Options > Import/ Export, click on Import from file and paste code here:

➢ Then press Import and Save Changes

4.3Import Widgets

Note: This step will be done by Plugin Widget Importer & Exporter
If it isn't available on your Dashboard, please install it.

Go to Dashboard > Tools > Widget Importer & Exporter and Choose file widget.wie from download package and press Import Widgets

5Building Site

5.1Creating Homepage

Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New , Insert Page Title and set Template as Home Page

Go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading and set Front Page as Home Page,then press Save Changes

5.2Building Homepage

Home Page of Potara is built base on Widgets. Your Page will be done easly with Drag, Drop Interface.

Go to Dashboard > Appearance> > Widgets

You can drag Widgets (left of site) and drop them to Widget Holders (right of site).
Home Page is organized by below Widget Holders:

  • Header: section is Header Slider
  • Full-width Top: section is under Header Slider with full-width layout.
  • Content: section is under section Full-width Top and belong to Sidebar.
  • Sidebar: section is under section Full-width Top and belong to section Content.
  • Full-width Bottom: section is under section Content.

5.3Menus

Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Menus

To create Header Menu on the top of Site, you can follow as below steps:

  • Create a new menu
  • Insert Menu Name
  • Click Create Menu

Next,you can set up for new menu by following as below steps:

  • Select up items on containers (left site) and Add to Menu
  • Tick on Main Menu
  • Save Menu

6Widget

Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets

After dragging and dropping widgets in sections,you have some options to set for theme.

Main options of a widget as below (Press Save after changing):

  • Title: set the title for the widget to show on theme.
  • Post source: set categories that you want to show in that widget.
  • Excerpt length: set length of excerpt content.

  • Number of entries to display: set post quantity for that widget to show on theme.
  • Post Offset: set post ordinal number for that widget to show on theme.
  • Number of entries load more: set post quantity that loaded more for that widget.

7Theme Option

7.1General Settings

Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Theme Options > General Settings

Setting the color for some sections on theme as below:

  • Primary Color: set color for background of post and the header section.

7.2Site Layout

Go to Dashboard > Theme Options > Site Layout

Setting the main layout of Site as below:

  • Site Layout: choose between wide or boxed layout for site.
  • Enable reponsive: to enable or disable feature Reponsive of Site.
  • Enable sidebar in responsive layout: Disabled to hide Sidebar with Mobile Screen.

7.3Header Setting

Go to Dashboard > Theme Options > Header Settings

Setting Header of Site as below:

  • Header Layout: choose center or standard to set header logo position.
  • Enable Fixed Logo-Site: fixed or not fixed header logo position.
  • Logo-padding Option: set up padding top and bottom of header logo.
  • Enable logo site: show or hide logo site.
  • Site logo: you can upload logo that you like.
  • Enable header banner: if you choose enable,you can set header banner with image or link url.
  • Site Menu-Logo: you can upload logo on header menu-bar.
  • Enable top-bar social: enable or disable social icon on menubar.
  • Social media: add url of social type that you want to show.
  • Enable fixed header menu: Choose between fixed and static header navigation

7.4Footer Setting

Go to Dashboard > Theme Options > Footer Setting to set up Instagram, Scroll Button and insert Copyright Text

Footer of Potara also support Widgets, you can move on Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets to pick up them to Widget Holder Footer Sidebar 1, 2, 3.

7.5Typography

Go to Dashboard > Theme Options > Typography

You can change some font of Site as your style. Potara supports all Google Fonts. Header font affects menu titles, category titles and module titles. Title font affects post titles. Text font affects text body, excerpt...

7.6Post Settings

Go to Dashboard > Theme Options > Post Settings

Setting the information on Post as below:

  • Review Score: to Enable or Disable post meta review score on a post.
  • Author: to Enable or Disable post meta author on a post.
  • Date: to Enable or Disable post meta date on a post.
  • Comments: to Enable or Disable post meta comments on a post.

7.7Page Settings

Go to Dashboard > Theme Options > Page Settings

Setting Page as below:

  • Enable Sticky Sidebar: to Enable or Disable sticky sidebar.
  • Layout: to set the layout for Blog,Author,Category,Archive and Search page.
  • Remove Pages in Search Result: to show or not the page in search result.

7.8Single Settings

Go to Dashboard > Theme Options > Single Settings

Setting Page as below:

  • Enable Share Box: to Enable or Disable the share links in a single page.

If share box is enabled,you can select the link that you want to share by enabling it(Facebook,Google +,Twitter,...)

  • Author Box: to Enable or Disable to show content about the author of that post.
  • Post Navigation: to Enable or Disable to show the previous and next post.
  • Related Posts: to Enable or Disable to show the related post of that post.
  • Comment Section: to Enable or Disable to show comments and comment box that somebody want to write something.

8Customize

Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize

After pressing Customize,the new window will show many items to change (Theme option,Widget,Menu...).

After changing,please press Save and Public to save.

9Tags

Go to Dashboard > Posts > Tags

To add new Tag,input Name,slug(Optional),choose Parent(Optional). Then press Add New Tag

To set Layout of Tag Page, you can move on Edit Tag and select Tag layout

10Post

10.1Creating

Go to Dashboard > Posts > Add New

10.2Layout

You can select layout for your Post at Post Option
We have 5 kinds of layout: Stardard,Prallax Image,Prallax Image no Sidebar,Scrolled Image,Scrolled Image no Sidebar.

10.3Format

You can select format for your Post is Gallery, Video or Audio

10.4Review

To enable feature Review of Post, move on Review System an tick on Include Review Box.
Now you can insert criteria list an rate them, adding summary, setting layout of Review Box.

10.5Categories

You can sellect categories for your Post

10.6Featured Image

You can set a featured image for post by uploading from your folder or select from media library.

11Categories

Go to Dashboard > Posts > Categories

To add new Category,input Name,slug(Optional),choose Parent(Optional). Then press Add New Category

To set Layout of Category Page, you can move on Edit Category and select Category layout

12Comments

Go to Dashboard > Comments

You can control all comments on all posts

Some items that you can use as below :

13Language Translation

You can translate WordPress Themes by using PoEdit

So you are looking to change the language of your WordPress based site to something else than English. Let me give you some simple steps to achieve this.

  • The first thing you need to do is to make sure that the theme has the appropriate language file. The default language files and eventually, the bonus ones are located in the theme's directory in the /languages/ directory. They are .po and .mo files.
  • If you don't find the appropriate language file for your target language then you must copy the default.po file and rename the copy accordingly to your desired language. The language files names must have this format "ll_CC", where "ll" is an ISO 639 two-letter language code (lower case) and "CC" is an ISO 3166 two-letter country code (upper case). The country code specification is not redundant: Some languages have dialects in different countries. For example, ‘de_AT’ is used for Austria and ‘pt_BR’ for Brazil. The country code serves to distinguish the dialects. See Language Codes and Country Codes for the lists of codes.
  • So let's say you want to translate to Brazilian Portuguese and you have copied default.po to pt_BR.po. Now you have to edit it using the world's favorite free .po editor, PoEdit (http://www.poedit.net/download.php).

  • Once you open the file you will be presented with the list of all the English strings on the left side and their translation (if present on the right). To translate simply click on a line and on the bottom of the window, you can enter your translation. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poedit
  • Once you are done simply hit save in PoEdit and this will automatically save the .po file and generate/regenerate the .mo file (a binary file).
  • Now all you have to do is change the language of your WordPress installation. To do this you need to go to Settings -> General -> Site Language and choose your appropriate language.

You can reopen the .po file at any time and change, continue to translate, etc.

14Contact

Thank you for choosing Potara! We truly hope that you have a good experience with our themes.
If there is any issue, please don't hesitate to contact us as below

Or post your question on ThemeForest comment section.
Good luck!