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Author: | Designova |
Support: | Through Forum Only |
Author URL: | Designova |
Item URL: | Check Demo Now |
Current Theme Version: | 1.0 |
Krome Shortcodes Version: | 1.0 |
Krome Posttypes Version: | 1.0 |
Documentation Version: | 1.0 |
Created: | 30-Aug-2016 |
Modified: |
This refers to installing the theme on your WordPress powered website. This means you already have a website powered by wordpress CMS.So here's what you have to do:
Alternatively you can install the theme though FTP method. Here are the steps
Krome theme requeries Krome Shortcode plugin to get all the page builder elements available for this theme. This plugin is an extension for Visual Composer Page builder. You can find the plugin files inside the downloadpack under Plugins folder. Before activating the plugin ensure that you have installed Visual Composer plugin.
Here are the steps to install the plugin
You must install WP Retina 2x plugin from Wordpress Plugin Repository to make your graphics looks great on HiDPI devices.
We have included an option for easier demo data installtion.You can install the demo with just one click from Theme Options >> Import Demo Data.
For beginner users and those who want to take a look at the demo content, you can install the demo data:
After activating the theme click on the Theme Options link inside the Appearance tab (Dashboard >> Theme Options)
You can upload your brand logo on the logo field, which will be displayed on top left of the header bar aswell as left side of the footer
Footer Cover Image: This theme features a slide out menu. The menu has a dark background image in cover mode. If you want to change the default image you can use this option
Copyright Text: Text that appears on the bottom right side of the footer.
Footer Text - Below Logo: Short paragraph that appears below the footer logo
Optional Preloader Image: By default logo will act as pre-loader image. If you want to change it to a custom preloader please do upload the file here. You can upload .gi/.png/.jpg. Please not the fact that you can't upload css3 based preloaders through this option
Add respective account handles, icon will appear on the footer. You can add your own icons also. Kindly follow the fotrmat described under the 'Custom Social Media' field.
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The customize section has two sub sections for font and color management.
Custom CSS option is to create your own styles for the theme. You can also use this feature to override some existing css rules.
Choose highlighted areas color for the site. For row ,column and many other elements, there will be color choosers in Visual Composer
You can choose fonts for four major text items, heading, bolder heading , body font and speciality headings. You can choose anyfont from google fonts pallete for all of them
You can export your theme options settings for backup , migration etc. Its a standard feature for Redux Framework.
To create a new page, open your Dashboard ⇒Pages ⇒ Add New:
This is how you can add a page. You need to choose the right template and configure the meta options properly to make the pages appear as displayed in our demos
In the following sections we will explain page templates and use of meta options in detail based on the usages in our demo website.
Krome supports Visual Composer PageBuilder. We have created an extension for Visual Composer with theme specific components. We have also included the Visual Composer plugin inside the download pack
Krome Addon details has been explained later on this docs
There is only one field in page meta option which is for sub heading. It will work only on pages which uses 'Default Template'
Krome has got one custom post type for portfolio.
The posts will be displayed through 'Visual Composer' -> Krome -> Portfolio Grid.
Please ensure that you have installed and activated 'Krome Posttypes Plugin'
Drag and Drop 'portfolio grid' from 'Krome' group in VC page builder elements. The grid item can be expanded as three types lightbox image, light box video and standalone project page.
There are eight layouts available for the portfolio grid 2 column, 3 column, 4 column and 6 column in fluid and spaced variants. For proper layouting you should use uniform thumbnail sizes. Kindly follow the image dimensions as shown in our demos.
To add a new portfolio item Dashboard ⇒Portfolio ⇒ Add New Project:
Add the title and necessary contents and add your projects to respective categories. You can add a portfolio item in more than one categories.
We have added another taxonomy for the 'Portfolio' post type called 'Group'. This is for grouping various portfolio layout. You can choose the layout style and sorting group from portfolio grid shortcode option
Please do check the theme demo, where we have employed this technique to sort the portfolios in many differnt layouts.
The portfolio metaboxes are grouped in three differnt segments Portfolio Thumbnail Image , Portfolio Item Options and Standalone Project Page Options. You must upload a Thumbnail image otherwise the item will be omitted from the portfolio grid.
To show a single image on lightbox popup.
To show a single video from youtube/vimeo on lightbox popup. Please add video id only. It will automatically decide between youtube/vimeo id to show
You can display your blog items through 'Posts'. Its a default wordpress feature. To show posts as in in the picture below, please use 'Blog Posts Grid' shortcode from VC > Krome Tab
Krome supports Visual Composer, install Visual Composer provided with this downloadpack (Auto install option available with theme through TGM Plugin Activation. Follow the instructions from Admin notice bar after theme install). We have created an extension for the Visual Composer with theme specific componenets. You can see them inside 'Krome' tab on VC builder elements.
You need to adjust some of the default styles for Visual Composer. Go to Dashboard => Visual Composer => General Settings => Role Manager (Tab)
Mega font size heading text.
Custom themed paragraph text with color chooser.
You can choose thin and bold parts of a paragraph (as in pic above) using this shortcode.
Basic heading with bold and light font options and a text color chooser
Image slider with dot navigation
Image slider with right and left arrows navigation
Settings are excatly same as in 'Image Slider'
Incrementing numeric animation status counter. Numbers will animate into the view while scrolling.
Testimonials carousel with two column or three column layout with alternate background colors. You can choose 'Black and Silver' or 'Black and White' background color combos
A simple blockquote with thin text and bold sub text. This shortcode is also used as section headings in various situations through out the theme demo
A small block of text with heading, description and URL field. Please refer the pic above
Settings are self explonatory
Animated skill bars. You can easily arrange them in any column layout.
This shortcode will show blog posts in a grid style as shown in following picture
See it in actionStack of parallax images with caption on hover.
Make suer that visual composer row is in full width mode. Refer the picture below
See it in actionIts a composition layout with a heading , icon and a block of text. In our demo we use SVG icons, you can either use SVG or PNG.
Team members displayed in carousel format. It has member photo, short bio and three social icons option
Add Lattitude and longitude of your location and it will display place marker on google map with the specified location in center
1. See it in actionA simple ajax based contact form which sends messages from customers to your email id
See it in actionIts a dedicated portfolio theme and you can set many differnt portfolio layouts with this single shortcode and portfolio post type. The setup is simple and all you want to take care of is about grouping the type of posts to respective 'Categories' and 'Groups'. The concept of 'Groups'; an extra taxonomy for portfolio posts has been explained already on the post type section.
We have included eight types of portfolio layouts to choose from
Please do upload thumbnail images according to the layout you are choosing. For square layouts uploading images with same height and width is mandatory otherwise you may end up in creating pretty weired layout
Please do set Visual Composer row to Full width (no padding) to display the grid full fluid layout
Fullscreen background video with heading and button on overlay. See it in action
It will only work with 'Video Background' page template. This shortcode cannot be used in single post page and portfolio standalone pages
Button Shaped Link. There are three variants choose from, the theme colored, white and the hard black.
We have tried to cover all basic stuffs needed for you to quickly customize this template. That is all for the initial setup and basic customization. If you need help, we will be always in your reach though our support forum. We appreciate you follow us on twitter, we are @designovastudio on twitter. We hope you have found this quick tutorial as helpful. If you like our works, please rate our themes at themeforest (theme’s page). This will help us to produce more awesome themes. http://www.themeforest.net/user/designova. Please visit our fb page for more new stuffs and freebies.