- Get Started
- Installation
- Premium Plugins
- WooCommerce
- Initial Steps
- How To
- Child Theme
- Theme Update
- FAQs
-
@ 2017 Copyright JWSThemes
Get Started
Introduction
Updated: 10-Oct-2017
By: JWSThemes
My profile: http://themeforest.net/user/jwsthemes
Support Center: http://jwsuperthemes.com/forums
Email: [email protected]
Click Here View Perfomy Live Demo Site
Thank you for purchasing Perfomy WordPress Theme. Before you get started, please be sure to always check out these documentation files. We outline all kinds of good information, and provide you with all the details you need know to use Perfomy Theme.
If you are unable to find your answer here in the documentation, please contact us on our Support Center or directly from our themeforest account
Thanks so much for purchasing our Theme. It's our pleasured of making your choice. We hope that you would enjoy it!
To download the Perfomy theme, please log in your ThemeForest account and then go to ThemeForest download page. Locate to Perfomy theme and then download the installable WordPress file only.
Installation
Theme Installation via WordPress
When you download the theme from Themeforest, you will get an archive file in .zip extension.
You need to unzip that archive. When done, you should see Perfomy.zip (zip file name can be changed from version to version).
Please, follow the steps below to install Perfomy Theme.
Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Appearance > Themes. Click Add new button, located at the top of the screen or Add new theme ( see screenshots below ).
Step 3 - Click on Upload button at the top of the screen.
Step 4 - Choose Perfomy.zip.
Step 5 - Wait while the theme is uploaded and installed then activate the theme.
Step 6 - After activating the theme a notice should appear on the top of the screen, click on begin installing plugins ( see screenshots below ).
Step 7 - Select all the plugin,change Bulk Actions drop to Install then click apply ( see screenshots below ).
Step 8 - Congratulation you are ready to use Perfomy, check the Initiate Steps part of our documentation to see what you may want to do before starting to edit your WordPress Site.
Common Theme Installation Problems
“Are you sure you want to do this?”
If you get the “Are you sure you want to do this” message
when installing Perfomy.zip file via WordPress, it means you have an
upload file size limit. Install the theme via FTP if this happens, or
ask your hosting company to increase the limit.
Missing stylesheet file
If you get an error saying that the stylesheet is missing,
then you have uploaded the wrong folder. Please check that you are
uploading the Perfomy.zip within the Theme Files folder. You have to
unzip the file that you download from Themeforest to find this.
If you are going to install the theme using FTP, you will need an FTP Client, such as FileZilla.
When you download the theme from Themeforest, you will get an archive file in .zip extension.
You need to unzip that archive. When done, you should see Perfomy Folder(folder name can be changed from version to version).
Please, follow the steps below to install the theme via FTP:
Step 1 - Log into your hosting space (server) via FTP client.
Step 2 - In extracted archive folder, find Perfomy folder
Step 3 - Upload the Perfomy folder to your server in path .../wp-content/themes/.
Step 4 - The uploaded path should be like this: .../wp-content/themes/Perfomy/
Step 5 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard and go to Appearance > Themes and activate the Perfomy Theme.
Step 6 - After activating the theme a notice should appear on the top of the screen, click on begin installing plugins ( see screenshots below ).
Step 7 - Select all the plugin,change Bulk Actions drop to Install then click apply ( see screenshots below ).
Step 8 - Congratulation you are ready to use Perfomy, check the First Steps part of our documentation to see what you may want to do before starting to edit your WordPress Site.
Additional Links
Before importing the dummy data Make sure you have all the plugin installed (if you want to use portfolio, team, testimonial, packages and woocommerce. You make sure to install all first ).
Error or Problem with Import of the Demo
If you have problems importing the demo ( example :
infinite loading, error 505 with when using wordpress importer ) then
you may have a problem with the server settings. Please create ticket in Our Support Center.
Step 1 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Install and Activate All Plugin.
Step 1 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Theme Options > Import/ Export.
Step 3 - Then Click on Import Demo
Step 4 - The Dummy content is really big and may takes more then 30 minutes to import depending where you are living, Do not interrupt/cancel the import process!
Step 6 - Done!
This video tutorial shows you how to Import Data Perfomy Theme with just one click.
If you would like to learn the best practice of using Perfomy theme, you can import content from our demo web site. Importing theme is performed using XML file located in theme ZIP file downloaded from Themeforest and following these steps.
If the script auto importing demo data doesn't works with your host, we had included demo data within the theme files, take a look at the folder /dummy-data
3.1. WordPress Importer
Step 1 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Tools > Import. Then click on WordPress ( bottom of the list ).
Step 3 - A window should appear click the Install now button which is on bottom right.
Step 4 - Click Activate
plugin & Run Importer. Then choose the content.xml file and
click upload file and import Do not interrupt/cancel the import process!
Step 6 - Done! But you still need to set the Menu, Homepage.
The importer should be run only once. If something went wrong and you need to import the content again, you may need to reset your WordPress.
Use this plugin to reset the WordPress database : http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-database-reset/
Step 1 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Slider Revolution and import slider.
Step 1 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Theme Options > Import/Export and import theme options.
Step 1 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Install plugin Widget Importer & Exporter.
Step 3 - Go to Tools > Widget Importer/Exporter and import widget.
Premium Plugins
Visual Composer
Visual Composer is the most popular drag and drop editor for Wordpress.
If you need dedicated support for this component, please visit: Visual Composer on Code Canyon
Here is Documentation of Visual Composer guide.
Perfomy theme includes the premium plugin - Revolution Slider.
Once you've installed and activated the Revolution Slider
plugin, you will then see the menu item appear at the bottom of the
WordPress menu, as below:
You can import the revolution slider we used in our demo, all slider are in the slider folder. To learn more about the Revolution Slider plugin please read the Plugin documentation
Here is
Plugin documentation
WooCommerce Plugin
Documentation
For full documentation visit the following websites:
WooCommerce Plugin Page
WooCommerce Documentation
WooCommerce Community Forums
WooCommerce Builtin Shortcodes
WooCommerce 101 video series
YITH WooCommerce Compare plugin is an extension of WooCommerce plugin that allow your users to compare some products of your shop. All products are saved in one complete table where the user can see the difference between the products. Each product features can be set with the woocommerce attributes in the product configuration. You can also add a simple widget with the list of products the users have added, where you can manage them. Also you can simply customize the compare table with your style, by editing the specific template.
Full documentation is available here
This plugin is 100% compatible with WPML
Sometimes the halfway is better: what if you are looking to a product in a list and its image is still too small?
You have to open its product page, waiting for its loading and finally observe what you are interested into. So why don't use a simple way to look immediately at the product's distinctiveness? Here it is what Quick View can offer you.
People are more attracted to what they can see clearly. And often the classic product lists are not enough to understand the real value of a product. That's when Quick View strikes successfully! Your clients will be free to look in a better way your products, reading also a small description with all the most important features and qualities you want to underline. In this way, they will be more focused on what they really want and they will proceed easily to the purchase step.
Main features:
- Add a button in product loop to open a modal window with the product summary using ajax
- Choose to enable the prettyPhoto lightbox for images in quick view
- Customize style of modal
Full documentation is available here.
What can really make the difference in conversions and amount of sales is without a doubt the freedom to share your own wishlist, even on social networks, increasing indirect sales: can you imagine the sales volume you can generate during holidays or birthdays, when relatives and friends will be looking for the wishlist of your clients to buy a gift?
Offer to your visitors a chance to add the products of your woocommerce store to a wishlist page. With YITH WooCommerce Wishlist you can add a link in each product detail page, in order to add the products to the wishlist page. The plugin will create you the specific page and the products will be added in this page and afterwards add them to the cart or remove them.
Full documentation is available here.
This plugin is 100% compatible with WPML.
Initiate Steps
General Options
1. Please enable Less Design before making any changes in Theme Options.
2. If you want to custom css, you should add styles intoTheme Options > Custom CSS , not in style.css file. 'Custom CSS' will keep your changes in css forever even when updating the theme.
Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Theme Options > General .
Step 3 - Choose which part of the theme you want to modify.
Less Design To use the less design features.
Layout - To modify Body layout with wide or boxed.
Body Background - To modify Body background with image, color, etc.
Smoothscroll - To Enable/Disable Smoothscroll.
Responsive Design - Use the responsive design features.
Step 4 - When you finish to customize the general options don't forget to save.
Step 1 - Go to Settings > Reading in your WordPress Dashboard panel.
Step 2 - Set "Front page displays" to a "Static Page".
Step 3 - In the drop down menu for "Front Page" choose a page which will be your home page.
Step 4 - Leave the drop down menu for "Posts page" empty, as this is not used by the theme.
Step 5 - Save changes.
Step 1 - Login to the WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - From the 'Appearance' menu on the left-hand side of the Dashboard, select the 'Menus' option to bring up the Menu Editor.
Step 3 - Select Create a new menu at the top of the page.
Step 4 - Enter a name for your new menu in the Menu Name box.
Step 5 - Click the Create Menu button.
Your menu is now defined, and you can now add pages to it (steps below).
The Screen Options allow you to choose which items you can use to add to a menu. Certain items, like Posts are hidden by default. The Screen Options are located in the top right corner of your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 1 - Locate the pane entitled Pages.
Step 2 - Within this pane, select the View All link to bring up a list of all the currently published Pages on your site.
Step 3 - Select the Pages that you want to add by clicking the checkbox next to each Page's title.
Step 4 - Click the Add to Menu button located at the bottom of this pane to add your selection(s) to the menu that you created in the previous step.
Step 5 - Click the Save Menu button once you've added all the menu items you want.
Your custom menu has now been saved.
Once you've created a menu and filled it with items, it's time to assign it to one of the theme pre-defined locations.
Step 1 - Go to Appearance > Menus and click Manage Locations.
Step 2 - Assign each Theme Location with a menu. You can assign menus to multiple Theme Locations.
Step 3 - Click the Save Changes button.
Perfomy features Mega Menus. The mega menus are available only for top level navigations items only in "Main Menu" area.
Follow the steps below to create a mega menu:
Step 1 - Add a an item to the menu editor. This has to be a top level item!
Step 2 - Click on arrow icon in the top right-hand and expand.
Step 3 - Seclect the columns number you want to use (from standard to 6) in Submenu Type.
Step 4 - Now, you need to add child menu items, which will represent columns in the mega menu.
First level of child items will represent Titles in each columns.
Add some sub child menu items.
Step 5 - Now, add child items to each of those columns. This will represent your actual sub-menu pages. Take a look at the image below.
Step 6
- If you want to Remove the Titles (First Column, Second Column Third Column) Go back to the Mega menu setting and check Hide Mega Menu heading(1).
- Adding Widget / Image to the Menu. To do this first you need to have a Widget set with some widget ( you can create new sidebar go to Appearance > Widget ). Menu doesn't work with all the widget, but works will all Perfomy Widget and Default WordPress Text Widget
- When you have set your sidebar with widget click on the sub child menu you want to turn into widget area ( we will turn the third column into a widget area), make sure it doesn't have sub menu.(4)
- Enter class icon FontAwesome for icon input. Ex: fa fa-heart.(3)
- DropDown menu align with Dropdown Align select(Alignleft, Alignright, Aligncenter, Fullwith, Auto).
- Choose image for DropDown menu Background Image.(4)
The menu dropdown should now look something like this :
You can upload your logo image in the Theme Options. Please, follow the steps below to upload your logo & & favicon:
Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Theme Options > Logo.
Step 3 - Upload a Logo( Used For normal header ) and a Logo ( Used for Stick Header ).
You can upload your favicon image in the Theme Option or Appearance. Please, follow the steps below to upload your favicon:
Method 1 - Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity.
Method 2 - Upload your favicon. Should be a Png/Gif image.
Follow the steps below to find out how to change the page options:
Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Theme Options > Page .
Step 3 - Choose whether or not you would like to show page comments.
Step 4 - When you have finish to customize the color don't forget to save.
For each page you can change the title style, title background color, select to use a slider and much more! Check the screenshot and read the documentation to see how it works
Take a look at Set Homepage section.
Follow the steps below to find out how to change the Archive Post:
Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Theme Options > Post Setting .
Step 3 - Choose which part of the Blog you want to modify.
Select Layout - Select layout for Archive Post.
Image Default - Select an image for Feature post.
Crop Image - Choose whether or not you would like to crop the image of post on your Archive Post.
Image Width - Enter the value of the width of image on your Archive Post.
Image Height - Enter the value of the height of image on your Archive Post.
Show Post Title - Choose whether or not you would like to show title of post on your Archive Post.
Show Post Info - Choose whether or not you would like to show info of post on your Archive Post.
Show Post Description - Choose whether or not you would like to show description of post on your Archive Post.
Excerpt Length - Insert the number of words you want to show in the post excerpts.
Excerpt More - Insert the character of words you want to show in the post excerpts.
Select Layout - Select an image for Feature post.
Select Layout - Select an image for Feature post.
Select Layout - Select layout of Single Post.
Crop Image - Choose whether or not you would like to crop the image of post on your Single Post.
Image Width - Enter the value of the width of image on your Single Post.
Image Height - Enter the value of the height of image on your Single Post.
Show Post Title - Choose whether or not you want to show Post Title.
Show Social Share - Choose whether or not you want to show Social Share.
Show Post Info - Choose whether or not you want to show Post Info.
Show Post Navigation - Choose whether or not you want to show Post Navigation.
Show Post Tags - Choose whether or not you want to show Post Tags.
Show Post Author - Choose whether or not you want to show Post Author.
Show Post Comment - Choose whether or not you want to show Post Comment.
Show Post Related - Choose whether or not you want to show Post Related.
Show Post Tags - Choose whether or not you want to show Post Tags.
Step 4 - When you have finish to customize the color don't forget to save.
Sidebar Position - Select sidebar position in page Archive products.
Columns - Enter number columns you want to display.
Columns for Fullwidth - Enter number columns you want to display for fullwidth.
Products Per Page - Enter number products per page.
Show.. - Choose whether or not you want to show Result Count, Catalog Ordering, Pagination, ..
Sidebar Position - Select sidebar position in page single product.
Show.. - Choose whether or not you would like to show Product Title, Product Price, Product Rating, ..
Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Theme Options > Header .
Header Layout - Select header layout in your site.
Header-v1
Header-v2
Header-v3
Header-v4
Step 3 - When you finish to customize the color don't forget to save.
Perfomy comes with 03 footer styles.
Follow the steps below to find out how to change the footer:
Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Theme Options > Footer .
Step 3 - Select the footer layout.
Follow the steps below to find out how to change the title bar:
Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Theme Options > Title Bar .
Step 3 - Choose which part of the title bar you want to modify.
Background: To modify background with image, color, etc.
Step 4 - When you have finish to customize the color don't forget to save.
Follow the steps below to find out how to change the Typography:
Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Theme Options > Typography .
Step 3 - Choose which part of the typography you want to modify.
Body Font Options: To modify value of Font Family, Font Subsets, etc.
H1 - H6 Font Options: To modify value of Font Family, Font Subsets, etc.
The theme comes with many sidebars:
The theme comes with an extensive Theme Options Panel. From the Theme options panel you will be able to set or change the color of the theme, layout, header style, social icons and a lot more. You should take the time to go through all of these options to ensure that you are getting the most out of the theme. Click Theme Options to access the Theme Options Panel.
Custom CSS
How To
Create Post
Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
Step 2 - Click the 'Posts' tab.
Step 3 - Click the 'Add New' sub-tab.
Step 4 - Start filling in the
blanks: enter your post title in the upper field, and enter your post
body content in the main post editing box below it.
Step 5 - As needed, select a category, add tags, post format, fill in the meta setings below the editor.
Step 6 - Upload a featured image for your Post.
Step 1 - Change Post Format to Gallery.
Step 2 - Scroll down until you see the Gallery Settings.
Step 3 - After finishing, Update your Post, it should looks like this
Step 1 - Change Post Format to Video.
Step 2 - Scroll down until you see the Video Settings.
Step 3 - After finishing, Update your Post, it should looks like this.
Step 1 - Change Post Format to Audio.
Step 2 - Scroll down until you see the Audio Settings.
Step 1 - Change Post Format to Quote.
Step 2 - Scroll down until you see the Quote Settings.
Step 1 - Change Post Format to Link.
Step 2 - Scroll down until you see the Link Settings.
To you show your posts you need to create a Blog page. Click here to check how create a blog page.
Follow the steps bellow to understand how to create a blog page.
Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)..
Step 2 - Click on Pages > Add New.
Step 3 - Give your page a name then Change the Editor to Backend Editor ( you need to have the Visual Composer plugin activated ).
Step 4 - Click on the Add Element button.
Step 5 - Select the Blog module.
Step 6 - The Blog Settings should appear. You can customize the Blog by modifying the settings
Step 7 - After finishing, Publish the page.
Resto theme includes support for the Visual Composer plugin. Visual Composer comes with a lot of drag and drop modules to help you quickly and easily building your pages.
You can read more information with the documentation live at link https://wpbakery.atlassian.net/wiki/display/VC/Visual+Composer+Pagebuilder+for+WordPress to understand how it works.Step 1: Go to Pages > click "Add new" and then enter your page information.
You can create your page content with CLASSIC MODE or if you would like to create a complex page with page builder, click to "Backend Editor" to use Visual Composer plugin building your page.
Step 2: Add elements on page, drag and drop to manage its position and edit its content.
Click on "Publish" to save and publish your new page or "Save draft" to save it as a draft.
Here is how it works on our page
List of builder items ( included buider items build special for this theme )
Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
Step 2 - Click the 'Portfolio' tab.
Step 3 - Click the 'Add New Portfolio Item' sub-tab.
Step 4 - Start filling in the
blanks: enter your portfolio title in the upper field, and enter your
portfolio body content in the main post editing box below it.
Step 5 - Add tag(s) to your item, the tags will be used as a filter on Portfolio Template pages.
Step 6 - Upload a featured image for your portfolio item then publish it.
Step 1 - Scroll down until you see the Portfolio Settings.
Step 2 - After finishing, Update your Post
Showing Portfolio Items
To you show your portfolio items you need to create a Portfolio page.
Follow the steps bellow to understand how to create a portfolio page.
Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)..
Step 2 - Click on Pages > Add New.
Step 3 - Give your page a name then Change the Editor to Backend Editor ( you need to have the Visual Composer plugin activated ).
Step 4 - Click on the Add Element button.
Step 5 - Select the Portfolio module.
Step 6 - The Portfolio Settings should appear. You can customize the Portfolio by modifying the settings
Step 7 - After finishing, Publish the page.
Follow the steps bellow to understand how to create testimonial.
Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)..
Step 2 - Click on Pages > Testimonial >Add New.
Step 3 - Enter the name of the customer or client in the post title field..
Step 4 - Add their feedback in the post body.
Step 5 - You can also add a photo or other image using the featured image field. This image will be displayed alongside the feedback. If you want to link back to the website or social media profile of the person who provided the testimonial, you can enter the address in the Website Link field.
Step 6 - Adding a link is a good idea as it allows your visitors to verify and find out more about your clients and customers, helping to increase your social proof and credibility and the value of the testimonials.
Step 7 - Provide company name.
Step 8 - Select or add new Testimonial Category and Testimonial Tag.
Step 9 - Provide the featured image. The image should have minimum width of 670px and minimum height of 500px.
Step 10 - You can Save draft, have a Preview before Publishing officially.
Follow the steps bellow to understand how to create team.
Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)..
Step 2 - Click on Team > Add New.
Step 3 - Enter the name of the member in the post title field..
Step 4 - Add their description in the post body.
Step 5 - You can also add a photo or other image using the featured image field.
Step 5 - Enter team settings.
Step 6 - You can Save draft, have a Preview before Publishing officially.
Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Dashboard, go to Contact > Add New
Step 2 - Give a Name to your form and change Mail Info
Step 3 - Edit the Form field to change the Form Layout ( if you want to use one of the layout you saw on the demo check the next step )
- You can edit a mail template for mail that is to be sent as a result of a form submission. You can use mail-tags in these fields.
- Mail (2) is another mail section which is optional. If you want to send a different mail to different user you can use Mail 2 section. This section works same as Mail section. To use this section simply check the Use Mail (2) box.
- For more information, see Setting Up Mail.
Step 4 - Save your Form
Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)..
Step 2 - Click on Pages > Add New.
Step 3 - Give your page a name then Change the Editor to Backend Editor ( you need to have the Visual Composer plugin activated ).
Step 4 - Click on the Add Element button.
Step 5 - Select the Contact Form 7.
Step 6 - The Contact Form 7 Settings should appear. Select the Form you want to use you can also customize the Color and change the fields layout and button design
Step 7 - Update / Publish your page
Step 1 - To get ID User, please visit this link.
Step 2 - Go to Appearance > Widgets and open this sidebar and click 'Access Token' to open link in a new tab. Here is the link:
Step 3 - Then click Generate Access Token:
Step 4 - Login with your instagram info:
Step5 - Paste Access Token here and remember enter the number of limit.
Step 6 - Click Save to save changes.
Step 1 - Go to Appearance > Widgets and open this sidebar:
Step 3 - Click Save to save changes.
Step 1 - Go to Appearance > Widgets and open sidebar
Step 2 - Config here
Step 3 - Click Save to save changes.
First of all, make sure of the plugin functionalities have been enabled from settings dashboard.
Within the same section, you can enable/disable the zoom functionality on products when the access take place from mobile devices.
Now, you can configure zoom settings on the product image.
Settings that can be configure are:
"Zoom box width/height" - width and height of the zoom box"Image size" - size of the image shown within the zoom box. When you change this option, you must regenerate thumbnails in order to make the plugin work correctly. To regenerate thumbnails, we suggest you use a free plugin like Regenerate Thumbnails.
"Zoom box position" - zoom box position in respect to product image (inner or aside)
"Loading label" - the label showed during the loading of the product images.
"Opacity" - the opacity of the magnifier.
"Blur" - enable this option to apply a blur effect to the product image on the mouse hover. This effect will be available only if the zoom box is on the right of the product image.
The plugin allows to show miniatures of the product within a slider. In order to do it, it is essential to activate "Activate slider".
Here is the list of settings you find within "Slider settings" section:
"Items" - the number of images to show under the product image."Circular carousel" - choose whether to roll product images in a circular way in the slider
"Infinite carousel" - choose whether the slider should be sequential showing the product images. If activated, once you reach the last image of the gallery, you will be redirected to the first one of the slider.
Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard) > Pages > All Pages.
Step 2 - Select the Page you want to add Shortcode then press Edit button.
Step 3 - Click Add element button.
Step 4 - Select Shortcode you want to add.
Step 1 - Hover on shortcode and click on 'Edit' button.
Step 2 - configure shortcode in setting box such as to select how many columns will display in product carousel.
Step 3 - Click Save to save changes.
Child Theme
What is a Child Theme?
- If you modify a theme directly and it is updated, then your modifications may be lost. By using a child theme you will ensure that your modifications are preserved.
- Using a child theme can speed up development time.
- Using a child theme is a great way to learn about WordPress theme development.
Perfomy comes with a Child Theme.
Simply install Ethan_Child.zip like a regular WordPress theme.
A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme. Child themes allow you to modify, or add to the functionality of that parent theme. A child theme is the best, safest, and easiest way to modify an existing theme, whether you want to make a few tiny changes or extensive changes. Instead of modifying the theme files directly, you can create a child theme and override within.
There are a few reasons why you would want to use a child theme:
You need to use a Child Theme only if you are making code customizations.
Theme Update
Theme Update via WordPress
Updating the theme via WordPress is very similar to the install process via WordPress.
Follow the steps below to update your theme via WordPress:
Step 1 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2 - Go to Appearance > Themes.
Step 3 - Deactivate the Perfomy Theme by simply activating a different theme. Once you activate a different theme, you can delete the Perfomy theme.
Step 4 - Delete the Perfomy Theme. Do not worry, your content will not be lost!
Step 5 - Then simply upload the new “Ethan.zip” file in the Appearance > Themes section. Click on the Install Themes tab at the top and choose to upload the zip file. You have this step explained in section: Theme Installation via WordPress.
Updating the theme via FTP is very similar to the install process via FTP.
Follow the steps below to update your theme via FTP:
Step 1 - Go to .../wp-content > themes
location on your server using a FTP client and backup your "Perfomy"
theme folder by saving it to your computer, or you can choose to simply
delete it. Your content will not be lost.
Step 2 - Download the new version of Perfomy theme from your Themeforest and retrieve Perfomy folder by unpacking the zip that you download from Themeforest and Ethan_(version.number).zip.
Step 3 - Then simply drag and drop the new "Perfomy" theme folder into .../wp-content > themes location. Choose to “Replace” the current one if you did not delete it.
Step 4 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes and activate the new Perfomy theme.
FAQs
My site loads slow, How can I speed it up?
- You can either get your web host to increase your PHP limits.
- You can upload your theme via an FTP client. We offer a video tutorial located in the Video section of the forum that explains how to use FTP to install your theme.
- If you can access the admin area of your site, login to your admin section and deactivate all plugins. After doing so, check your front end page again. If it loads without error, you have a plugin conflict. Now, start activating each plugin one by one. When you see the 500 error again on the front end pages, you will know that the last plugin you activated is the likely culprit. Deactivate it and continue checking all remaining plugins one by one to make sure there are no others.
- If you are getting the 500 error on the front end and the back end admin area, then you will need to access your site via an FTP client. A little known trick is to change the name of your/wp-content/pluginsfolder to something else temporarily like “plugins.bak.” This will make WordPress ignore your plugins. Then check to see if this resolves the problem. If it does, log into your admin section and then change your plugin.bak folder back to plugins . Then deactivate all of your plugins via your admin page.
- memory_limit 128M
- post_max_size 32M
- upload_max_filesize 32M
- max_execution_time 600
- You can get your web host to increase your PHP limits so a larger zip file is allowed to be uploaded. They will know which limits to set if you explain the issue.
- You can upload your theme via FTP. View our video tutorial in the Video section of the forum to learn how to install your theme via FTP. It is very easy and efficient.
There are several things you can do to speed up your website. First thing you need to do is consider adding a caching plugin to WordPress. We use and recommend W3 Total Cache. Another thing you can do is use a Content Delivery Network provider. We use and recommend MaxCDN (See our infographic about What is a CDN and Why you need it). You should also consider using a better web hosting provider. Shared hosts are usually slower. If you are receiving a lot of traffic, then you should consider moving to a VPS or a Dedicated server. Last but not least, check out our presentation about Maximizing Performance and Speeding up WordPress.
Yes, all you need to do is point the domain name to the hosting account.
There is no limit to the number of plugins you can install. However, too many plugins or even a few poorly coded plugins can slow your site down immensely, so it is important to install plugins correctly.
This most likely happens when you paste a code from a website with wrong formats. Sometimes the formatting error is done on the website where the code is available however most of the time, this error happens because you pasted the code on the wrong location. Unfortunately, you will not be able to make the edits using your wp-admin section. You will have to use FTP to login to your web host and modify your theme’s file.
Consider following our Beginner’s Guide to Pasting Code from the Web into WordPress.
We have written an extensive article on How to Install and Setup Google Analytics in WordPress. It is important to mention that you will NOT be able to install Google Analytics in your WordPress.com blog. They provide a built-in feature called WordPress.com Stats.
Embedding videos can add quite a bit of value to your blog and your content. Whether you want to use your own videos or just any video from YouTube or another video hosting site, you need to know how to embed videos within your posts.
The process is very simple and you can just post the URL for the video within the post. Make sure to put it where you would like it to show up. For more information about embedding videos in WordPress, check out our post about The Easiest Way to Embed Videos in WordPress.
Installing a copy of WordPress on your PC is possible. You can do this fairly easily, but you will need the right tools. Another thing to keep in mind, when you install WordPress on your PC, nobody will be able to see your website until you publish it with your own hosting account.
You can find out how to install WordPress on your PC without post called, A Quick Guide to Installing WordPress with WAMP on your Windows Computer.
Please take a look at this Article
Recommended PHP configuration limits are as follows:
You can verify your PHP configuration limits by installing a simple plugin found here. If you still cannot resolve the 500 error, talk with your web hosting support.
If you are installing your theme from the WordPress theme installer, but get a message that says "Are you sure you want to do this?", most likely your web server is configured with low PHP settings that only allow a certain size ZIP file to be uploaded via WP admin.
Most hosting companies configure their servers to only have the maximum file upload size limit at 8-10 MB, some are less. The Perfomy theme ZIP is currently about 34 MB in size which is due to the included plugins and all the demo content. So if you get this error, your web server is rejecting the upload due to the overall size of the Alibaba.zip file. WordPress is unfortunately giving you a rather ambiguous message in response. This is not a theme issue or bug.
There two ways to solve this problem.
Recommended PHP configureuration limits are as follows:
memory_limit 128M
post_max_size 32M
upload_max_filesize 32M
max_execution_time 600