Thank you for purchasing our theme!
This guide provides instructions for installation. It is recommended you read it thoroughly
to fully leverage the "Arter" theme's capabilities. If you need any help or support please contact us through the ThemeForest Messaging system or Support Email: beshleyua@gmail.com
Before beginning the installation and configuring of your new theme, you must first have WordPress already installed on a server. Here is a very detailed guide at Wordpress Codex that will walk you through every step.
To upload through your Dashboard, select “Appearance” and then “Themes”. Next, select the “Add New” button at the top of the page and then select the “Upload Theme” button. Choose Arter theme "arter.zip" file and select “Install Now”. Once the theme is fully uploaded and installed, click “Activate” to activate the WordPress theme.
When uploading your theme with the installer, please ensure you are uploading the theme .zip file, not the entire package you downloaded. In this case, you will be uploading "arter.zip".
To manually upload your new WordPress theme, login with your credentials to your website and locate the
wp-content folder in your WordPress install files. Upload the un-zipped
Arter WordPress Theme folder into the: wp-content/themes folder.
Once uploaded, activate the theme by heading to the “Themes” menu in the WordPress Dashboard.
Once you have installed and activated our theme you will be prompted to install required and recommended plugins for all theme features. Just click the link to Begin installing plugins and activate all plugins.
- To import demo content, please follow some steps below:
1. First you need to install the theme.
2. Activate all plugins, next go to Appearance > Import Demo Data and import demo content from the list. (Video installation instructions below).
- To enable on your page, please do the following:
1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New (or Edit).
3. In the tab "Page Attributes" > "Template", select "Layout builder (Elementor)" and Save Changes.
4. Click to "Edit with Elementor" button.
5. In Elementor builder panel drag and drop "Arter Theme" elements & blocks and fill the fields.
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All global settings can be found in Dashboard > Theme Options. In addition, you can customize:
In "Styling" Tab you can edit: Page Transition (Enable Smooth page transitions), Theme Color, Heading Color, Text Color, Menu Items Color, Heading Size, Paragraph Size, Menu Items Size, Heading Font, Menu Items Font, Paragraphs Font.
In "vCard" Tab you can edit: Header Background, Profile Image, Profile Name, Profile Short Description, Profile Information, Profile Skills Blocks, Profile Buttons.
In "Footer" Tab you can edit: Footer Text, Footer Text (Right), Socials buttons.
In "Blog" Tab you can edit: Blog page, enable/disable Categories, disable/enabled Post Excerpt, disable/enabled Featured Image, Social Share.
In "Portfolio" Tab you can edit: Portfolio Page, Disable Lightbox (on portfolio).
In "404" Tab you can edit: Title 404, Content 404.
In "Preloader" Tab you can edit: Preloader Text.
- To create Home Page, please do the following:
1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New.
2. Enter your Page Title "Home".
3. In the tab "Page Attributes" > "Template", select "Layout builder (Elementor)". In the tab "Publish" click to "Publish" button.
4. Click to "Edit with Elementor" button.
5. In Elementor builder panel drag and drop "Arter Theme" elements: "Hero Banner", "Numbers", "Portfolio", "Pricing", "Project Banner", "Project Description", "Project Image Carousel", "Blog (Carousel)", "Blog (Grid)", "Clients", "Contact Form", "Contact Information", "Project Image", "Project Image Gallery", "Resume", "Services", "Testimonials" and more.
6. In the field "Your homepage displays" > "A static page (select below)" > "Homepage:" select "Home"
- To create Portfolio Items, please do the following:
1. First your need to create Portfolio categories, go to Portfolio > Portfolio categories, enter category name in fields Name & Slug. Click to "Save Changes" button.
2. Go to Portfolio > Add Portfolio.
3. In the tab "Featured Image", select image from Library or Upload new.
4. 3. Fill Title, Categories, Description and click to "Edit with Elementor" button.
5. In Elementor builder panel drag and drop "Arter Theme" elements: "Project Banner", "Project Description", "Project Image Carousel", "Blog (Carousel)", "Blog (Grid)", "Clients", "Project Image", "Project Image Gallery", "Testimonials", "Hero Banner", "Numbers", "Portfolio", "Pricing", "Contact Form", "Contact Information", "Resume", "Services" and more.
- To create Portfolio Page, please do the following:
1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New.
2. Enter your Page Title "Portfolio".
3. In the tab "Page Attributes" > "Template", select "Layout builder (Elementor)". In the tab "Publish" click to "Publish" button.
4. Click to "Edit with Elementor" button.
5. In Elementor builder panel drag and drop "Arter Theme" elements: "Portfolio", "Project Banner", "Clients", "Testimonials" and more.
- To create Contacts Form, please do the following:
1. Go to Dashboard > Contact > Contact Forms > Add New.
2. Enter form name "Contact Form".
3. In the tab "Form" you can use default form layout or enter this code lines:
<!-- contact form --> <div class="art-contact-form"> <!-- form field --> <div class="art-form-field"> <!-- name input --> [text* your-name class:art-input placeholder "Name"] <!-- label --> <label><i class="fas fa-user"></i></label> </div> <!-- form field end --> <!-- form field --> <div class="art-form-field"> <!-- email input --> [email* your-email class:art-input placeholder "Email"] <!-- label --> <label><i class="fas fa-at"></i></label> </div> <!-- form field end --> <!-- form field --> <div class="art-form-field"> <!-- message textarea --> [textarea* your-message class:art-input placeholder "Message"] <!-- label --> <label><i class="far fa-envelope"></i></label> </div> <!-- form field end --> <!-- button --> <div class="art-submit-frame"> <button class="art-btn art-btn-md art-submit" type="submit"><span>Send message</span></button> </div> </div> <!-- contact form end -->
4. In the tab "Mail", enter this your email address.
5. Save Changes.
- To create Contacts Page, please do the following:
1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New.
2. Enter your Page Title "Contact".
3. In the tab "Page Attributes" > "Template", select "Layout builder (Elementor)". In the tab "Publish" click to "Publish" button.
4. Click to "Edit with Elementor" button.
5. In Elementor builder panel drag and drop "Arter Theme" elements: "Contact Information", "Contact Form", "Clients", "Testimonials" and more.
- To create History Page, please do the following:
1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New.
2. Enter your Page Title "History".
3. In the tab "Page Attributes" > "Template", select "Layout builder (Elementor)". In the tab "Publish" click to "Publish" button.
4. Click to "Edit with Elementor" button.
5. In Elementor builder panel drag and drop "Arter Theme" elements: "Resume", "Clients", "Testimonials", "Numbers", "Pricing", "Services" and more.
- To create Blog Pages, please do the following:
1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New.
2. Enter your Page Title "Blog".
3. In the tab "Page Attributes" > "Template", select "Layout builder (Elementor)". In the tab "Publish" click to "Publish" button. In the tab "Publish" click to "Publish" button.
4. Click to "Edit with Elementor" button.
5. In Elementor builder panel drag and drop "Arter Theme" elements: "Blog (Carousel)", "Blog (Grid)", "Clients" and more.
- To create Create/Edit Menu, please do the following:
1. Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Menus.
2. Select create a new menu at the top of the page.
3. Enter a name for your new menu in the Menu Name box.
4. Click the Create Menu button.
5. Select the Pages that you want to add by clicking the checkbox next to each Page's title. Click the Add to Menu button.
To easy and fast update theme and plugins you can use Envato Market Plugin (I added this plugin in recommended list in the theme):
1) Install Envato Market Plugin: https://envato.com/market-plugin/ and activate.
2) On admin panel go to Envato Market -> Settings -> Generate an Envato API Personal Token -> Click on link -> Login to your Envato Account -> Checked “Permissions ( https://gyazo.com/8a94c801e8197207d3d37467aa8587fb )” on list -> Create Token.
3) Use plugin “Envato Market -> Themes” to install all future updates. (in a few clicks).
Thanks!
You can update our theme via WordPress Panel, Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes. Click "Add New" -> "Upload Theme". Choose Arter theme "arter.zip" file and select “Install Now”.
You can update our theme using via FTP or Cpanel.
Download the latest version of the theme on ThemeForest download page and you rename the folder contain the old theme and create a new folder and insert the latest theme in here.
If you need any help or support please contact us through the ThemeForest Messaging system or Support Email: beshleyua@gmail.com
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