Manufactory Documentation
Manufactory is a clean and modern multi Purpose Industrial WP theme. You can customize it very easy to fit your business needs. Some of the theme’s strong points are: bold and fresh design, responsiveness, very easy to use admin panel, ready to use shortcodes, Visual composer & solid support.
If you have any questions, please use the comments from the item's page. ( erathemes ).
| Author: | erathemes |
| Contact: | erathemes |
| Author URL: | erathemes |
| Item URL: | wpmines/Portfolio |
| Current Version: | 1.0.0 |
| Documentation Version | 1.0.0 |
| Created: | 2016-Aug-30 |
| Modified: | 2016-Aug-30 |
Theme Styles
You can change theme's look and feel from Admin > Theme Settings.
You can also add or override custom CSS code from Admin > Appearence > Editor
Stylesheets
Main stylesheet files used for this theme, you can find more information opening each file:
| File Name | Description |
|---|---|
styles.css |
Styles for general elements for the template. |
bootstrap.min.css |
Bootstrap stylesheet. |
fonts/font-awesome.min.css |
Styles for font-awesome. |
animate.min.css |
Styles for animation. |
JavaScript JavaScript custom scripts
JavaScript Files
Main JavaScript files for this theme:
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
bootstrap.min.js |
Bootstrap JS |
jquery.easing.min.js |
easing JS |
owl.carousel.min.js |
Carousel JS |
js/functions.js |
Custom Manufactory JS |
Main icons icons used throughout the theme
"Manufactory Preview" has images from Fotolia, shutterstock and istockphoto.
Fonts used: Roboto, PT Sans, star Google Web Fonts
Installation and usage
1. Install Theme
Brief information about how to install your WordPress theme from scratch
Unzip the main files (the file that you have downloaded when you have purchased the theme). The theme installer is 'theme_name'_installer.zip. NOTE! - This is the only file that you should use to install the theme.
Log in to your Wordpress Admin Panel, go to Appearence > Themes > Install Themes > Upload. Upload the zip file that was discussed in the above topic.
Once you have uploaded the theme, it automatically installs to your wordpress. Click the Activate button to activate the theme.
Please read the usage documentation below.
Note: Activate all required plugins once theme is activated. Required plugin name will appear in dashboard once theme activated.
One Click Demo Import
Go to Theme Options > Demo Importer > Click Demo Import
OR ( Alternate Import Method )
Note: Find XML & JSON files inside "Sample Data" directory.
How to Use the XML File to Import the Demo Site's Content
Note : Make sure you have activated all required plugin before importing demo data.
- Log into your site as an administrator.
- Make sure you activated your new theme and related plugin before proceeding.
- Go to Tools → Import
- Choose "WordPress" from the list.
- Upload the .xml using the form provided on that page.
- You will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
- You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the "Download and import file attachments" box.
- Please be patient while WordPress imports all the content. Posts, Pages, Projects, and Menus are imported. You will need assign the menu a theme location & you'll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress import system.
How to Use JASON File to Import the Theme Default Setting
- Log into your site as an administrator.
- Make sure you activated your new theme and related plugin before proceeding.
- Go to Tools → Theme Options > Import / Export
- Click "Import From File" from the list.
- Open the .json in notepad.
- Copy entire text and paste it in "Import From File" textarea.
- Click the import button below.
2. General Usage
Information about adding pages and different content type.
Reading settings
If you plan to change the "Front page displays" from "Your latest posts" to "A static page (select below)", please only set up "Front page:" and leave "Posts page:" blank. You can add a blog style page by adding pages see @Add Pages.
Add Pages
In order to add content to your website first you have to add Pages, pages can be added from the Admin > Pages > Add new.
Add Menu
Create the menu
After you have added at least one page, you can start adding pages to the website's menu, go to Admin > Appearence > Menus
Add a new menu from the menu panel, save it, than select the created menu from the "Theme Location" panel and save it.
Add pages to the menu
You can add pages to menu from the Pages panel, than you can change menu items labels or order from the menu panel.
NOTE! Click on the image to see the full size
Blog pages
1. Create a regular page under pages.
2. From the Editor ('Theme Shortcodes') select the 'Blog Post' as a Shortcode .
3. You can add Blog posts from Admin>Posts>Add new.
4. Add this page to the menu:
Go to Admin > Appearence > Menus, from the 'Pages panel' select the page you have just created than click 'Add to Menu'.
From the menu panel you can change menu items order (just drag the menu items up/down). For more information about creating the website's menu see Add Menu
Theme General Options
In order to set theme general options go to Admin > Theme Options. You can set there logo, favicon, social media, contact and more.
NOTE! Click on the image to see the full size
Key elements
Key elements allow you to easily populate your website with specific content.
Portfolio
Usage example:
Highlight Portfolio information. You can add Portfolio details for visitors.
Refer following image to add new Portfolio Item.
Theme Settings
Usage example:
Set global theme related settings/options.
Refer following image for global theme related settings/options.
Available Plugins
Included plugins
Within the Manufactory main download package you can find the following plugins:
Rev Slider
Visual Composer
Manufactory Toolkit
Usage:
Include shortcode to display specific sections in your page.
Manufactory Custom Shortcodes:
Refer following images for same..
