TP Philosophy

After you purchase and download your theme from Theme Palace, you can choose either of the approaches given below to install your theme:

1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
2. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
3. Select Add New.
4. Then, select Upload Theme.
5. Click Browse. Locate philosophy.zip theme in your computer.
6. Select philosophy.zip and click Install Now.

You can use FTP client like FileZilla to connect your web server.

1. Unzip philosophy.zip to your Desktop.
2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of Philosophy theme.
3. Now, log into the WordPress Dashboard with your login details.
4. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes.
5. You will see the theme in the list.
6. Then, click Activate button.
7. Now, the theme will be activated and go through the following options to set up the theme step wise.

If you want to import the demo content manually, then here is the demo file for you. Just click on the button to dowload the demo file

Note: All the custom sections of homepage will only be visible on Static Front Page once you set a page for the Front Page option.

1. From Customize section, go to Static Front Page.
2. From Static Front Page, you will be able to set a page as Front Page and you will find Post Page option as well.

From Front Page : You can set any page as Static Frontpage.

From Post Page : You can set any page as Latest Post.

1. From Customize section, go to Site Identity.
2. From Site Identity, you will be able to add various options related to site identity like:

• Logo( Only available in WordPress version greater than or equal to 4.5 ): It changes the main logo of the site.
• Site Title : It changes the main site title of the site.
• Tagline : It changes the tagline (i.e:Description) of the site.Just below site title.
• Display Site Title and Tagline: This enables/disables the site title and tagline from the site
• Site Icon : The Site Icon is used as a browser and app icon for your site.Icon must be square and at least 512px wide and tall.

1. From Customize section, go to Colors.
2. From Colors, you will have these options:

• Header Text Color: This changes the header text color.
• Background Color: This changes the background color of the site.

Note: Philosophy theme has only one menu location provided as Primary

• Menu Options :

To create menu, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Menu .

OR

You need to create menu from / Customize / Menus / Create Menu .

You can create more menus in similar way. After creating menu, you need to add pages to that menu.

To add pages to the menu, you need to create some pages (For e.g: “About Us” , “Contact”). After creating pages you need to add that pages to the menu.
After you have added the pages to the menu set the menu location from / Customize / Menus / Menu Locations /

Now, you will see these pages added as a navigation menu.

Header image will be visible on header part of the pages or posts. Also header image can be different for each pages or posts which can be achieved from header-image metabox.

1. From Customize section, go to Header image.
2. From Header image, you will be able to add various options like:

• Current header:

1. From Customize section, go to Background Image.
2. From Background Image, you will see:

Background Image:

This will change the background image for the entire site.

The demo of the front page can be divided into different sections as shown below.

1. Site Title & Tagline, Navigation Menu Section
2. Slider Section
3. About Section
4. Blogs Section
5. Contact Section
6. Copyright Section( Footer Options )

You can see the divided sections in the image below :

The image below shows customizer options for the sections shown above :

Slider Section

To configure Slider section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Slider
In this panel, you will find these options:

• Enable On: Select Static Frontpage to enable on home page otherwise Disabled to hide.

After Slider is enabled, you will see following options on customizer

After selecting Static Frontpage, you will see following options

Slider Control Options: It contain following settings:

• Transition Effect: Allows to change different types of effects provided.
• Enable Pager: Allows to controls pager controller provided.
• Content Type: It contains select options ( Pages, ) which allow user to get featured image from Pages.
  • Pages: Selecting Pages as Content Type allows user to choose Pages from Select Page #ID setting where featured image of that selected Pages is displayed as about section image and section content.

Pages Options: It contains following settings

• Select Page #ID: This setting allows user to select page to get the featured image of that page.
• Button Label : This setting allows user to set button text.

About Section

To configure About section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Homepage Sections / About.
In this panel, you will find these options:

• Enable On : Select Static Frontpage to enable on home page otherwise Disabled to hide.

After selecting Static Frontpage, you will see following options

• Content Type : It contains select options ( Pages ) which allow user to select featured image from page.
  • Pages: Selecting Pages as Content Type allows user to choose Pages from Select Page setting where featured image of that selected Pages is displayed as about section image and section content.

Pages Options : It contains following settings

• Select Page : This setting allows user to select page to get the featured image of that page.

Blogs Section

To configure Blogs section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Blogs.
In this panel, you will find these options:

• Enable On: Select Static Frontpage to enable on home page otherwise Disabled to hide.

After selecting Static Frontpage, you will see following options

• Content Type: It contains select options ( Category ) which allow user to get featured image from Category.
  • Category : Selecting Category as Content Type allows user to choose category from Select Category setting where featured image of latest posts related to that selected category is displayed.

Category Options : It contains following settings

• Title : This setting allows user to set title for this section as required.
• Select Categories : This setting allows user to select multiple category to get the featured image in their respective position.

Contact Section

To configure Contact section, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Homepage Sections / Contact.
In this panel, you will find these options:

• Enable On : Select Static Frontpage to enable on home page otherwise Disabled to hide.

After selecting Static Frontpage, you will see following options

• Content Type : It contains select options ( Custom Content ) which allow user to select featured image from one of those.
  • Custom Content: Selecting Custom Content as Content Type allows user to set custom image, custom title for the image, links on learn more button.

Custom Content Options: It contains following settings

• Title : This setting allows user to set title for this section as required.
• Address Label : This setting allows user to set Address label.
• Address : This setting allows user to set Address.
• Phone Label : This setting allows user to set Phone label.
• Phone Number : This setting allows user to set Phone Number.
• Email Label : This setting allows user to set Email label.
• Contact Email : This setting allows user to set contact Email.
• Upload a Background Image : This setting allows user to change the background image as required.
• Contact Form Options : This setting allows user to set the Contact Form Short-Code.

Primary Sidebar & Optional Sidebar

To add widgets in this area, you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Widgets panel. In this section you will see different widgets, but you can choose from these options:

• Primary Sidebar : This widget area will be visible on front-page,archive page,search page, blog page.
• Optional Sidebar Areas: It is used to replace Primary Sidebar if you want different widgets on pages or posts.It can be changed from Select Sidebar metabox in Pages or Posts.

Now you can add widgets as your wish in this widgets areas.

Copyright Section( Footer Options )

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Footer Options.
3. In Footer Options you will see:

• Enable Hero Footer Content: It allows user to enable/disable the hero footer content.
  • Hero Title: This changes the title of Hero Footer Content.
  • Upload a Background Image: This changes the background image of Hero Footer Content.
• Footer Text: This changes the copyright text at the footer section. Edit your copyright text here.
• Display Scroll Top Button: You can easily hide or display scroll buttons.

You will see following sections under Theme Options:

1. Layout
2. Excerpt
3. Breadcrumb
4. Pagination

The above sections are described below.

This option is used to change the layout option of site also allows to change the sidebar position.Available site layout is Wide & Boxed.

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Layout.
3. In Layout Options you will see:

• Sidebar Position : This option is for sidebar position. You can choose either Right or Left or No Sidebar.
• Site Layout : This option is for Site Layout. You can choose either Wide or Boxed.

This option is used to change the excerpt of the archive,search page.

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Excerpt.
3. In Excerpt you will see:

• Blog Page Excerpt length : This option allows user to change excerpt length for archive/search pages.
• Read More Text : This option allows user to change read-more text.

This option allows user to enable/disable breadcrumb on the home-page.

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Breadcrumb.
3. Click on Breadcrumb you will see.

• Enable Breadcrumb : This option enable/disable breadcrumb.

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Pagination.
3. In Pagination you will see:

• Check to enable pagination: This option enables the pagination on the site.

Only available in WordPress version greater than or equal to 4.7

1. From Customize section, go to Additional CSS..
2. Additional CSS you will see:

• You can add your own CSS here.

Available Metaboxes.

Note: These meta-boxes are to configure Sidebar Position, Select Sidebar and Header Image for specific posts or pages.

1. From Dashboard section, go to Posts Or Pages go to Add New then, go to Edit .
2. You will see Three Metaboxes. at the end.

• Sidebar Position.
• Select Sidebar.
• Header Image.

Sidebar Position: It contains four options from where you can set the sidebar position either in

• Default to customizer : Sidebar position will be set according to the value set in sidebar layout options in customizer.
• Right : Sidebar position will be set to right.
• No Sidebar : No sidebar will be visible.

Select Sidebar: It contains three options from where you can select the sidebar as

• Primary Sidebar : Widgets added in primary sidebar will be shown.
• Optional Sidebar 1 : Widgets added in optional sidebar 1 will be shown.
• Optional Sidebar 2 : Widgets added in optional sidebar 2 will be shown.

Header Image: It contains four options from where you can set the header image as

• Enable( Featured Image ) : Featured image of the selected post will be set as header image.
• Default( Customizer Header Image ) : Default image of the selected in custom header will be set as header image.

1. From Customize section, go to Reset all settings..
2. In Reset all settings you will see:

• Check to reset all settings: Check the Check to reset all settings and refresh the page to reset all theme settings to default.

To update Theme though FTP, follow these basic steps:

1. Download the latest version of Philosophy theme from your Theme Palace member My Account to your Desktop
2. Unzip philosophy.zip to your Desktop
3. Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of Philosophy theme which shall replace the old files.