Photo Magic Pro

Photo Magic Pro Theme is a powerful & retina-ready Photography WordPress Theme for photographers, illustrators and creative
artists but isn’t limited to them. The theme customizer comes handy so there is no hassle to worry about. This theme
focuses on large photos and allows plenty of gallery, slider and portfolio options and is best for someone with a story
to share. Besides the featured post slider, various other options such as varied blog layouts, customizer API,
translation ready (compatible with Popular plugin) and many more are available. Its fluid layout & visually responsive
design looks great on all devices and screen sizes.

From your admin dashboard

1. Log in to the WordPressAdministration Panels.
2. Go to “Appearance > Themes” .
3. Select ‘Add New’.
4. Then, select ‘Upload Theme’.
5. Click ‘Browse’ and Locate ‘photo-magic-pro.zip’ theme in your computer.
6. Select ‘photo-magic-pro.zip’ and click ‘Install Now’.

Using FTP

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

1. Unzip photo-magic-pro.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 your Photo-Magic-Pro 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.

The theme will now be activated.

Navigate Customize > Site Identity

From there you can manage the following:

• Logo
• Site title
• Tagline
• Enable or disable
  ‘Site title and tagline’
• Site Icon

You can set up the front page in two different formats: – a blog page or a static front page.
A blog page is a usual inner page, while a static front page has special display options.

Setting up Static Front Page

First, create and publish a page with suitable title for the home page. (E.g. Home)
Then, go to Customizer > Static Front Page > A static page.

Select the page required for static front page. Now, enable the sections from the customizer. After this, your current
display will change to the display similar to that of theme demo.

The customizer lets you add, modify, enable or hide various features of the theme.

Front page Customizer

Once you have the static front page set up, a number of sections appear on the front page, all of which can be
modified from the Customizer.

1. Main Slider
2. Portfolio Section
3. Featured Section
4. Blog Section

General Customizer

The general costomizer includes various options.They do bring changes in the front page as well.

1. Colors
2. Font Setting
3. Background Image
4. Menus
5. Widgets
6. Theme Options
7. Reset All Options

Firstly,
Go to Customizer > Home Main Slider

1. Settings Options (Main Slider)

i) Enabling/Hiding the main slider.
Go to Setting Options.
On checking the option ‘Enable Feature Slider’ the slider will appear on the front page. When the option is not
checked, it means that the slider will be hidden.

ii)Selecting number of sliders for main slider
Go to, Setting Options > Number of slider
Now you can select the number of sliders you want.

iii) Selecting Slider From Pages OR category
Go to, Setting Options > Select Slider From.
Now select page or category as per your need.

2. Selecting specific pages or post for each slider

Firstly,
Go to Customize > Home Main Slider > Select Slider From.
Select page here if you want to display pages.
If you do not want pages but posts in the main slider, select category.
All the required posts must be listed under a certain category first.
Then,
For displaying pages,
Go to Customize > Home Main Slider > Select from Page
Now, you can select specific pages for each slider.
OR for posts,
Go to Customize > Home Main Slider > Select from Category.
Now, select the category that contains the posts you want to display.

3. Slider Properties

4. To select number of words appearing per slider, slider mode, slider transition and pause duration or to
enable/disable arrow, pager, auto play, title and caption.

Go to Slider Property and select within.

Go to Customizer > Home Portfolio Section

1. Enabling/Hiding the Portfolio Section

On checking the option ‘Enable Portfolio‘ the section will appear on the front page. When the option is not checked,
it means that the section will be hidden.

2. Section Settings (Portfolio Section)

i) Editing Main Title and subtitle
Go to ‘Sections Settings‘ and edit the main title and subtitle.

ii) Selecting the “number of portfolio/s”
Go to Section Settings > “Number of portfolio/s”
Here, you can select the number of portfolios you want to display.

3. Selecting Categories for Portfolio

Once, you have the categories ready with at least one post in each of the category you can select it for the portfolio.

Go to Customizer > Home/Front Portfolio Section > Select Category
Here, you can select the categories you want to display.

Go to, Customize > Home Featured Section

1. Featured Options

i) Enabling featured section
Go to Home Featured Section > Featured Options and ceck ‘Enable Featured’ to enable featured section in the
front page.

ii) Editing the main title
Go to Customize > Home Featured Section > Featured Options > Main title.
You can edit the main title here.

iii) Selecting Services from either page/ Category
Go to Home Featured Section > Featured Options > Select Featured From.
Now, select page or category as per your need.

iv) Selecting number of featured posts to be displayed
Go to Featured Options > Number of featured
Now, you can select the required number of featured posts you want to display.

v) Selecting number of words appearing in single column
Go to Featured Options > Number of Words in Single Column.
Now, you can set the number of words that appears in the featured section for each post in the front page.

vi) Enabling Browse All button
Go to, Home Featured Section > Featured Options and check ‘Enable Button’.

vii) Editing ‘Browse All Button’ Text
Go to Featured Options > Browse All Button Text.
You can edit the text there.

viii) Selecting which page ‘Browse All Button’ leads to
Go to Featured Options > Browse All Button Link and enter the required URL in the box.

2. Selecting specific pages or posts for services

First, Go to, Customize > Home Featured Section > Featured Options > Select Featured From
Select page here if you want to display pages.

If you do not want pages but posts in the featured, select category.
Please list all the required posts under a certain category first.
Then,
For displaying pages
Go to Customize > Home Featured Section > Select Featured from Page
Now, you can select specific pages for the featured section.
OR for posts,
Go to Customize > Home Featured Section > Select Featured from Category.
Now, select the category that contains the posts you want to display.

The blog section will be updated automatically as you publish new posts.
You can still edit various settings.
Go to Customize > Home Blog Options.

1. Enabling the Blog Section
   On checking the option ‘Enable Blog’ the section will appear on the front page. When the option is not
   checked, it means that the section will be hidden.
2. Editing the main title
   Go to Home Blog Options and enter the text in Main title.
3. Determining number of blogs appearing in the front page
   To specify the number of blogs you want to display in the front page, go to, Home Blog Options > Number of
   Blog/s.
4. Determining number of words appearing for blog post in the front page
   To set a certain word limit for blog section of front page, go to Home Blog Options > Number of words for
   blog post.
5. Enabling ‘Browse All’ button
   Check the ‘Enable Button’ box within Home Blog Options to enable the button.
6. Link ‘Browse All Button’ to specific page
   Go to Home Blog Option > Enter URL to redirect and enter URL to redirect.
7. Editing the ‘Browse All Button’ Text
   Go to Home Blog Option > Browse All Button Text and enter the desired title therein.
8. Selecting blog from category
   You can also display posts in the blog section from a single category. For this, Go to Home Blog Options >
   Select Category For Blog.
   And, select the category you wish to display.

Font Setting

To edit the fonts, Go to Customizer > Font Setting > Font Family.

Now choose the specific font family for each of the given sections.
Once, the preview is fine, save it.

Colors

Editing basic colors.

A number of color options are available for texts in different sections, background, menus etc. To edit the colors:
Go to Customizer > Colors.
Now, you will be able to change the color options. Once, the preview is fine you can save and publish it.

2. Resetting the colors.
Go to Customizer > Colors Reset
On checking the ‘Reset’ option and saving it the color options will change to default colors of the theme.

Background Image

To set or edit the Background Image.

Go to Customizer > Background image.
You can upload a picture there. Once, you have the picture selected you can make various changes regarding how it
is displayed. Save the changes once you are fine with the preview.

Go to Customizer > Menus
Here, you can create and manage the menus.

1. Creating a Menu
From Menus, click ‘Add a menu‘ button, you will be able to create a menu here. Once, you have created the menu,
you can further add items to the menu.

2. Creating a Social Menu.
From, Menus create a menu (E.g. “Social menu”) and assign its location to Social Menu.
Now, once you add custom links and social media URLs in each of the links, you will get the social icon in the Social Menu.