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"Fan Pit - WordPress Theme".

1. General & Installation

 

Fan Pit is youthful, simple yet powerful and well rounded theme carefully tailored for fan page and magazine kind of sites. It's clean and modern layout paired with tasteful typography keeps readers relaxed and focused on the content. It is fully responsive and includes different page templates, post formats and a custom header image to expand customizing options.

Fan Pit is user friendly theme with responsive layout that looks great on any device, big or small. It is compatible with Major Browsers, Smartphones and Tablet's.

To keep it simple we built it using core WordPress options (pages,post and widgets) to create an easy to use site with a lot of useful features.

 

1.1 Getting Started

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For information regarding the installation of the WordPress platform, please see the WordPress Codex - http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

Theme uses basic, core WordPress options (pages,post,categories) to create site that is easy to use even for very beginners. There is no option panel with many settings in it, all available theme adjustments are available inside the WordPress "Theme Customizer" that allows site admins to tweak a theme's settings and see a preview of those changes in a real time. You'll be able to upload your image logo or to change the site title and tagline, change background color, upload background image, change header image and more.

This theme uses new WordPress feature called "Post Formats". Using "Post Formats" posts can be styled differently and independently of each other.

*Please note that the pictures in the Live Preview are for the presentation purposes only and are not included with the theme.

 

1.2 Installation

When you are ready to install the theme, you must first upload the theme files and then activate the theme itself. The theme files can be uploaded in two ways:

  • FTP Upload: Using your FTP program, upload the non-ziped theme folder "fanpit" into the /wp-content/themes/ folder on your server
  • WordPress Upload: Navigate to Appearance > Add New > Upload. Go to browse, and select the ziped theme folder "fanpit.zip". Hit "Install Now" and the theme will be uploaded and installed.

Once the theme is uploaded, you need to activate it.

After activation, you should see the Fan Pit Theme as an active theme:

 

 

1.3 Introducing WordPress Theme Customizer?

The Theme Customization screen (i.e. "Theme Customizer") allows site admins to tweak a theme's settings and see a preview of those changes in real time.

Fan pit has implemented this option and added some useful options to help you style the background, colors, upload image logo and to write copyright text on your own.

Navigate to Appearance > Customize

On the left side, you'll find Theme Customizer with all the options it contains.

 

OPTIONS:

1. Site identity

This gives you freedom to change the title, tagline and the logo for your site.

2. Toggle Button Option

This gives you the option to add or remove toggle button on the header image.

3. Header Image

This gives you the option to change header image or to remove it.

4. Copyright Settings

This gives you the option to change copyright text.

5. Widgets

This gives you the option to preview all available widgets on the page you are viewing and to add or change widgets inside available Widgetized Areas.

 

1.4 Widgetized Areas

Widgetized areas are higly customizable and give numerous possibilities with just a couple of mouse clicks. Let me explain:

In widget areas you can use as many widgets as you want and it will adjust itself to the number of widgets you choose. For example, if you choose to have one widget it will spread across the whole area and create one column. If you choose two widgets, the two widgets will be placed in two columns. Maximum number of columns in one row is three therefore within one row you can have up to three widgets. If you however choose to have more widgets they will be placed in the next three column row (or more rows). The widgets will automatically adjust to nicely fill the space using Masonry.

This feature can be combined with "Jetpack Widget Visibility" feature to create even more useful possibilities.

 

1.5 Plugins used with this theme:

1. Soliloquy Slider with addons can be found inside the Plugins folder

2. WooCommerce: http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/ - used for shop page

3. Elementor: https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/ - Page Builder

4. Widget Visibility: https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-visibility/ - A simple and easy way to control which pages your widgets appear.

5. Contact Form 7: https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/ - contact form

1.6 Soliloquy Slider

To install the slider navigate to the Plugins > Add new > Upload > Choose file.

 

After you install the plugin you'll see the new menu "Soliloquy" (if there is a new slider update, update it before you continue), verify your license key and than you'll get available addons for the installation. You can also install the add ons from the plugins folder:

 

Now you can install Soliloquy addons - "Carousel Addon", "themes Addon", "Thumbail Addon".

If you don't see addons at first click on the "refresh button" and they will show up.

 

To create slider click on "Add New" option and name it. Now you can play and create your slider using many options and features that this great slider offers.

When you finish with creating your slider, navigate to the post, page or widget where you want to use your slider. Inside pages and posts, on the top of the edtior you`ll find "Soliloquy" slider button.

 

Click on the button to open the new window. There you'll be able to choose created sliders and put theminside the page or post:

 

If you want to use slider inside the widgets sidebar, navigate to Appearance > Widgets, there you'll find "Soliloquy" widget. Drag and drop widget inside one of the available sidebars and choose the slider you want to show :

 

1.6 How to start?

There are two ways to start building your site with this WordPress theme.

  • Starting from scratch with your own content - to start from scratch we recommend following the documentation. Start with the front page, blog, header, menu and footer and then add inner pages.
  • Replicate the demo site and then start from there - to replicate the demo follow the instructions for the demo content.

 

If you'd like to have a demo site set up on your server and you don't have time or will to do it yourself let us do it. We offer professional demo setup service for a small fee and quick turn-around time of max. 48 hours. More about this service you can find here: Professional Theme Demo Setup