Chrisporate

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 chrisporate.zip theme in your computer.
6. Select chrisporate.zip and click Install Now.

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

1. Unzip chrisporate.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 chrisporate Free 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.

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

1. From Customize section, go to Homepage Setting.
2. From Homepage Setting, 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 Homepage .

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 Identity Extra Options
  • Hide All: If you don’t want to display anything in header then click this option.
  • Show All: If you want to display logo title tagline in header then click this option.
  • Title Only: If you want to display only title in header then click this option.
  • Tagline Only: If you want to display only tagline in header then click this option.
  • Logo + Title: If you want to display logo and title in header then click this option.
  • Logo + Tagline: If you want to display logo and tagline in header then click this option.
• 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 Title color: This changes the header text color.
  • Header Tagline Color : This changes the header tagline text color.
  • Background Color: This changes the background color of the site.
  • Color Scheme: This changes the theme color of the site. You will see various option of colors. Select the color of your choice.

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

• • Header video This changes the Banner view.It has two option to set the header video
  • You can upload own video.
  • Also you can paste youtube video url link.

• • Header Image This changes the header image.

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.

Note: Load free theme has two menu location provided as Primary, Social and Footer Menu.

• • 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 added the pages to the menu set the menu location from / Customize / Menus / Menu Locations .

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

1. Site Title & Tagline, Navigation Menu Section
2. Banner Section
3. About Section
4. Services Section
5. Portfolio Section
6. Auther Section
7. Latest Blog Section
8. Testimonial Section
9. Contact section
10. Footer Section

The image below shows the entire home page :

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

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

• • Title: This setting allows user to set title.
  • Sub Title: This setting allows user to set Subtitle.

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

• •  About Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.

After About section is enabled,, you will see following options

• • Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get the content of that page.
  • Enable Skills Content: Check to enable on About template otherwise Uncheck to hide.

After skills content is enabled,, you will see following options

• • • Shortcode: Show your skills in horizontal line graph. Use shortcode from TP PieBuilder plugin.

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

• • Services Section Enable  : Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.

After Services Section is enabled, you will see following options

• Title: This setting allows user to set title.
• Select Page: This setting allows user to select pages to get the content of that page.

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

• •  Portfolio Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.

After Portfolio section is enabled,, you will see following options

• • Title: This setting allows user to set title.
  • Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get the content of that page.

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

• •  Author Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.

After Author section is enabled, you will see following options

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

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

• •  Latest Section Enable Blog: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.

After Latest Blog section is enabled, you will see following options

• • Title: This setting allows user to set title.
  • Content Type  : 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

• Content Type: 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.
• Exclude Categories: This setting allows Posts from selected categories will be excluded.
• Select Category : This setting allows user to select category to get the contents in their respective position.

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

• •  Testimonial Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.

After Testimonial section is enabled, you will see following options

• Title: This setting allows user to set title.
• Select  Background Image: This setting allows user to set the custom image as the feature background image
• Select Page: This setting allows user to select page to get the content of that page.

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

• •  Contact Section Enable: Check to enable on home-page otherwise Uncheck to hide.

After Contact section is enabled, you will see following options

• • Title: This setting allows user to set title.
  • Full Address: This setting allows user to set Address.
  • Phone No: This setting allows user to set Phone Number. If you have multiple number then up click Add Phone No. button and you can add another phone number.
  • Email Id: This setting allows user to set Email. If you have multiple Email id then up click Add Email Id button and you can add another Email.
  • Contact Form Shortcode: Show your Contact Form. Use shortcode from Contact form 7 plugin.

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

• Display Footer Image: Check to enable on theme option otherwise Uncheck to hide.This allows user to show footer logo weather on static front page or on entire-site.
• Select Image:This allows user to show footer logo.
• Display Social Menu: Check to enable on theme option otherwise Uncheck to hide. This allows user to show footer Social menu weather on static front page or on entire-site.
• Copyright: This changes the copyright text of Footer Content.
• Display Scroll Top Button: You can easily hide or display scroll buttons.

You will see following sections under Theme Options:

1. Snow Fall
2. Layout
3. Excerpt
4. Blog/Archive
5. Single Post
6. Pagination
7. Footer Options

The above sections are described below.

• Enable Snow Fall: Check to enable on theme option otherwise Uncheck to hide.

After Snow fall is enabled, you will see snow fall animation in page, post as well as home page.

This option is used to change the layout option of site also allows to change the Width of the body part.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:

• • Global Sidebar Position : This option is for Global Layout. You can choose either layout with sidebar or Boxed.
  • Site Layout : This option is for site layout.

This option allows user to set the excerpt length on the archive, blog and search.

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

• Blog Page Excerpt Length: This option allows user to set the excerpt length.
• Read more text: This option is for text of the read more .

1. From Customize section, go to Theme Options.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Blog/Archive.
3. In Blog Page you will see:

• Title: This setting allows user to set title.
• Show Date: This option allows user to enable/disable date assigned in blog post.
• Show Author : You can hide the author image on blog, archive and search page.
• Show Category: This option allows user to enable/disable category assigned in blog post.
• Show Read More Button: This option allows user to enable/disable Read more button.
• Show Placeholder Image: This option allows user to enable/disable Show placeholder image.Show placeholder image if the post does not have featured image.

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

• Show Date: This option allows user to enable/disable date assigned on single post.
• Show Author: This option allows user to enable/disable author box on single post.
• Show Category: This option allows user to enable/disable post navigation on single post.
• Show Tag: This option allows user to enable/disable tag on single post.
• Show Comments Meta: This option allows user to enable/disable comment meta on single post.
• Show Pagination: This option allows user to enable/disable pagination on single post.

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

• • Pagination Enable: This option enables the pagination on the site.
  • Pagination type : You will see following options:
    • Numeric : This is for numeric pagination option.
    • Older Posts/Newer Posts : Default pagination option.

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

• • Display Footer Image: Check to enable on theme option otherwise Uncheck to hide.This allows user to show footer logo weather on static front page or on entire-site.
  • Select Image:This allows user to show footer logo.
  • Display Social Menu: Check to enable on theme option otherwise Uncheck to hide. This allows user to show footer Social menu weather on static front page or on entire-site.
  • Copyright: This changes the copyright text of Footer Content.
  • Display Scroll Top Button: You can easily hide or display scroll buttons.

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 Chrisporate Free theme from your Theme Palace member My Account to your Desktop
2. Unzip chrisporate.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 Chrisporate Free theme which shall replace the old files.