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Installation

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You can skip few basic installation steps in this guide
if you watch and follow our Installation video guide below:

If you don't watched video follow manual steps:

Unzip the file that you download after purchase. The following files and folders will be in the unzipped file:

• florian.zip (Packed theme file for install)
• florian folder - theme for manual FTP upload
• Documentation/index.html (This file)
• Documentation/release-history.html - Update instructions for theme updates

The theme can be uploaded in two ways:

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

Once the theme is uploaded, you need to Activate it. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate Florian theme.

After you Activated this theme you will see Theme Dashboard page that will help you to install and configure theme step by step. First of all you need to activate your theme, then you can install plugins and import demo data.

You can always access Theme Dashboard page again from Appearance > Theme Dashboard.

PLUGINS INSTALLATION

Go to Appearance > Theme Dashboard and click Install plugins button to see theme bundled plugins available for installation and activation.

1. Check all required plugins and you can check recommended plugins (we recommend it to use, but theme will work without this plugins too):
   
   
2. Select Install in dropdown Bulk Actions menu and click Apply
3. You should get All installations have been completed message with installed Plugins table below it.
4. If you need Shop Features you can install WooCommerce plugin (go to Plugins and search for WooCommerce).

Our theme has included One-click demo data import feature. This sample data contains menus, sample pages, posts and images. Your site will looks exactly as our demo site if you import sample demo data. We are strongly recommend you to import Dummy Data first time when you use our theme first time.

ONE CLICK DEMO DATA IMPORT:

You can import all theme demo content with one click (posts, pages, products, categories, menus, sample images, sliders, plugins configurations).

Florian Theme Addons plugin must be installed and activated.

1. Go to Appearance > Import Demo Data.
2. Select theme demo that you want to import.
3. Click Import Demo Data button and wait until import process will be finished.
   

Check this article how to solve demo data import problems.

Please note that theme data does not have real images from our demo, all demo images will be replaced with sample solid color background images (you don't have legal rights to use real images, because you don't purchased it). You need to change demo images to your own real images.

THEME Settings

You can manage all theme settings with Live Preview in WordPress Customizer - go to Appearance > Customizer > Theme Settings or Appearance > Theme Settings to access all theme settings sections.

You can check theme options video overview:

Theme Options sections:

We will not cover all options sections in this Documentation because most of all options are very intuitive and Live Preview in Customizer allow you to see all options  works and which site parts affects in real time. Just try to use all options and play with it - do not worry, options does not apply if you don't click Publish in Customizer, so you will not break anything.

You can always create Customizer options backup using Customizer Export/Import plugin and Import it later in case you break something.

Logo SETUP

To add your logo to theme follow steps below.

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1. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Logo.
2. If you want to show Retina logo (high resolution logo for retina devices like iPhone, iPad, MacBook Retina, etc) you need to prepare your logo 2x size larger that original. For example if you want to see logo with 200px width on your site you should make your logo 400px width.
3. Select your logo image in Add new image and click Upload.
4. You can crop logo image if you want.
   
5. Upload Light logo for using with Transparent header (this should be the same logo with the same size as your regular logo, but in white/light colors, because it will be used on dark semitransparent backgrounds).
6. Click Save Changes.
7. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Logo and input your regular Logo image width:
   
   If you have big logo you can adjust Header height value in Appearance > Theme Settings > Header.
8. Click Save Settings.

HOMEPAGE SETUP (Static or BLOG)

This theme allow you to have two types of homepage:

1) Blog page is your homepage (and it may have all homepage blocks in addition to blog posts listing, and sidebars)

2) Homepage is a special static page (fullwidth page, without sidebars), with special theme blocks, and your Blog is a separate page with latest posts listing (without theme special blocks).

How to configure Blog page as homepage:

1. Go to Settings > Reading
2. Make sure that you have Your latest posts option selected for Front page displays (you will see your blog on homepage):
   
   
3. Adjust how many posts you want to show on homepage:
   
   
4. Click Save settings.
   
5. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Blog:
   
   
6. Here you can manage your homepage (blog listing) layouts and settings.
   
   To understand how different layouts and styles settings will change your homepage you can check our live demo site with different layout examples in menu.

How to configure Static page as homepage:

1. Go to Pages > Add new and create new empty page with name "Home". Select "Homepage" template for this page in "Page attributes" section:
   
   
   
   Do not change other page settings - it will not be applied to this special system page.
2. Go to Pages > Add new and create new empty page with name "Blog".
3. Go to Settings > Reading
4. Select your Home page as Front page and your Blog page as Posts page.
   
   
5. Adjust how many posts you want to show on blog page:
   
   
6. Click Save settings.
   
7. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Home: Static page and configure Latest posts limit if you want to show latest posts grid on Static homepage.

In both Blog or Static page homepages you can use special theme modules that can be configured in Appearance > Theme Settings sections with corresponding names:

- Subscribe block
- Welcome block
- Featured categories
- About block
- Popular posts carousel
- Editor's picks posts block

To understand how different layouts and styles settings will change your homepage you can check our live demo site with different layout examples in menu.

HOMEPAGE BLOG SLIDER SETUP

Our theme shave built in posts slider used on homepage.

Theme featured posts slider

You can show some selected posts in your Homepage blog slider with different layouts:

To configure your slider:

1. Go to Posts > Add new and create some post (or edit existing if you have).
2. Add featured image to your post if it does not have it.
3. In Post Settings section at the bottom check Show this post in homepage blog posts slider (Featured post) option:
   
   
4. Save your post. Now it will appear in your homepage slider.
5. Go to Appearance > Theme settings > Blog slider.
   
   
   
   Here you can enable your homepage blog posts slider, manage it style and layout and change other settings for slider.
   
   
6. Click Publish to save Customizer settings.

Third party sliders

If you want to use third party sliders instead of theme built-in slider you need to disable theme slider and enable your slider in theme settings.

How to do this:

1. Make sure you installed and activated your slider plugin.
2. Create your slider in your slider plugin
3. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Blog slider and enable Custom slider. Add your slider shortcode to Custom slider shortcode field.
   
   
   
   Please note that all slider settings in theme settings will NOT have any effect after you enabled custom slider, becase this settings works only for theme default slider. You need to manage your custom slider settings in its plugin.
4. Click Publish to save Customizer settings.

Homepage Welcome & ABOUT BLOCKS setup

You can use homepage Welcome block to show any HTML content below homepage slider.

How to do this:

1. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Welcome block and enable Welcome block on homepage.
   
   
2. Add your own HTML (Text, images, etc) in Welcome block HTML field.
3. Click Publish to save Customizer settings.

You can use Homepage About block to add image with your text on homepage. This block is very similar to Welcome block, but have predefined layout.

How to do this:

1. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > About block and enable About block on homepage.
   
   
2. Add your own HTML or use predefined layout (copy and paste code below to Text tab in About block HTML field and change text and link):
   
   
   <div class="florian-post">
   <div class="florian-post-details">
   <div class="florian-post-category">Welcome to my world</div>
   <div class="florian-post-title">
   <h5>We're passionate about Simplicity and Intentional</h5>
   </div>
   <div class="florian-post-description">
   The Florian is a lifestyle brand that through its channels, it creates daily content to inspire its audience. Our main goal is to encourage, inspire and get inspired by all the people around the globe beauty secrets and lifestyle tips.
   </div>
   <div class="florian-post-button"><a class="btn alt" href="#">Continue reading</a></div>
   </div>
   </div>
3. Upload your about block image.
4. Click Publish to save Customizer settings.

Homepage Featured Categories block setup

You can use homepage Featured categories block to show some of your categories as nice boxes (3 or 4 per row) with buttons.

How to do this:

1. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Featured categories and enable select categories that you want to show on your homepage.
   
   
2. Click Publish to save Customizer settings.

HOMEPAGE POPULAR POSTS BLOCK SETUP

You can show Popular posts carousel in your site header. You can show this block only on homepage or all site pages.

This block automatically show most viewed posts from your blog. You can edit/reset your posts Views count in every post settings when you edit your post.

To enable this block:

1. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Popular post carousel and enable Popular Posts block in settings:
   
   
2. You can change additional settings for this block.
3. Click Publish to save Customizer settings.

HOMEPAGE EDITOR'S PICK POSTS BLOCK SETUP

You can show Editor's Pick posts block in your homepage near footer with some selected posts.

To select posts for this block:

1. Go to Posts > Add new and create some post (or edit existing if you have).
2. Add featured image to your post if it does not have it.
3. In Post Settings section at the bottom check Show this post in editors pick block (Editors Pick's post) option:
   
   
4. Save your post. Now it will appear in your Editors Pick block.

To enable this block:

1. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Editor's picks posts block  and enable Editor's Pick block in settings:
   
   
   
2. You can change additional settings for this block.
3. Click Publish to save Customizer settings.

HOMEPAGE FOOTER SHORTCODE AND HTML BLOCKS SETUP

You can show HTML blocks in footer with any shortcodes or content inside it.

How to use this:

1. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Footer and use Footer HTML block and Footer Shortcode block settings to add your custom content in footer.
2. Click Publish to save Customizer settings.

pages MANAGEMENT

1. Go to Pages > Add new.
2. Input some page title.
3. Add page content.
4. You can Input page class if you want to add some CSS styles only for this page.
5. Change page settings:
   
   
   
   • Don't display this page title (only show page content) - enable if you want to hide page title
   • Page sidebar position - you can specify widgets sidebar position for this current page (every page can have different settings here).
   • Page header background image
6. Publish page.
7. Go to Appearance > Menus and add created page to menu.
   

BLOG POSTS MANAGEMENT

You created blog page (homepage) before in Installation step and added it to your homepage in Reading settings.

You can manage blog posts and categories as in any WP theme (Posts > Add new).

Our theme support different post formats:

You can select post format when you create post at the right Format section.

You can select different sidebar position for posts and select post for homepage Blog Slider display/Editor's picks in Post settings.

Wordpress tiled galleries in post contents

If you want to add WordPress Tiled galleries in your posts for images (like you see in our demo) you can install JetPack plugin and enable its tiled galleries feature. After this you will have options for gallery style when you add regular image gallery to your post content.

HOW TO SHOW SHORT POST DESCRIPTION AND ADD "CONTINUE READING" LINK

You need to divide your articles short content from full content to show your posts with "Continue reading" button on blog listing pages (your homepage for example) or you will see full articles. Check this WordPress guide how to use More WordPress tag in your posts to use this feature.

Also you can show posts excerpts with automatic text cut and Continue reading buttons. To enable this feature go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Blog  listing and choose excerpt for Blog posts short content display option.

HOW TO DISABLE BLOG POST FEATURED IMAGE DISPLAY ON SINGLE BLOG POST PAGE

You can disable featured post image in your posts single page (you will still have it in blog post loops):

1. If you want to disable featured image on single post page for all posts in your blog go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Blog single post and disable Featured image option.
2. If you want to disable image on single blog page for some blog posts only you need to edit your post and enable Don't show featured image on single post page option in Post Settings.
   
   
3. Save your post.

HEADER IMAGE FEATURE FOR BLOG POSTS

You can show header with custom background image for your posts (different image for different posts).

How to use this feature:

1. Edit your post and upload your image in Header Background section in post settings:
   
   
2. We recommend to use wide image in good resolution for nice cover display (1600px wide or more).
3. Save your post.
4. You can enable Transparent header feature for posts and pages with Header Background image in Appearance > Theme Settings > Blog single post:
   

RELATED postS DISPLAY

You can display related posts (by tags or categories - you can change this in Theme settings) for all your posts in some blog layouts.

To Enable this feature:

1. Assign the same tags for some of your posts (related posts feature works by tags or categories). Posts with the same tag will be related to each other.
2. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Blog listing or Blog single post and enable Related posts display.
   
3. Click Publish to save Customizer settings.

Worth reading post

In addition to Related Post that works automatically you can also manually select special posts ("Worth Reading" posts) that will be assigned to your post and displayed in nice fixed popup in the right bottom side of your Single Blog Post page. This block will show one from assigned posts randomly.

How to use this feature:

1. Go to Appearance > Theme settings > Blog single post and enable Worth reading post feature.
2. Edit your Post(s) and assign Worth reading posts to each post where you want to see it in Post settings:
   
   
3. Save post.

Reading progress bar in post

You can display reading progress bar in your single post pages for your visitors. When user will scroll post page this progress bar will show current reading progress of entire post content in fixed header.

How to use this feature:

1. Go to Appearance > Theme settings > Header and enable Sticky header feature.
2. Go to Appearance > Theme settings >Blog single post and enable Reading progress  bar feature.

Featured post (Sticky post)

You can display some of your posts (important posts) always at first position in blog listing and mark this as featured post. In different blog styles and layouts this "mark" will look different.

How to display your post as featured:

1. Edit your post in Posts.
2. In Publish section check Stick to the Front Page option. If you use Masonry layout for your blog you should add Featured image for this post (because it will be used as background for featured post).
   
   
3. Save your post.

Fullwidth posts with small width (side margins)

You can display your posts and pages with side margins for nice look.

To Enable/Disable this feature go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Blog > Blog single post and enable Small content width option.

This option work for both pages and posts without sidebars (you can disable sidebar for post and page in its settings when you edit your post).

gallery post FORMAT

1. Go to Posts > Add new and create some post (or edit your existing).
2. Select Gallery post format at the right (this is important, otherwise your gallery will not display).
   Click Add or Upload Files button in Post Formats option section for Gallery images:
   
   
3. Select your photos for gallery (original image size will be used, so crop/resize your photos before uploading it here).
4. Save your post. Now it will display your gallery instead of Featured image. On single post page gallery will work as lightbox for all images.

VIDEO post FORMAT

1. Go to Posts > Add new and create some post (or edit your existing).
2. Select Video post format at the right (this is important, otherwise your video will not display).
   Add your video url from video service (Vimeo for example, full list of supported video services available here) to Video url field in Post Formats options section for Video post:
   
   
3. Save your post. Now it will display your video instead of Featured image.

Audio post FORMAT

1. Go to Posts > Add new and create some post (or edit your existing).
2. Select Audio post format at the right (this is important, otherwise your video will not display).
   Add your audio url from audio service (Soundcloud for example, full list of supported audio services available here) to Audio url field in Post Formats options section for Audio post:
   
   
3. Save your post. Now it will display your audio instead of Featured image.

Do not add your video file or audio file url directly, this will not work. You should use supported video and audio services only (like vimeo or soundcloud) to upload your files and add to blog.

USING GUTENBERG - THE NEW EDITING EXPERIENCE

“Gutenberg” is the codename for the new WordPress editor focus. The goal of this focus is to create a new post and page editing experience that makes it easy for anyone to create rich post layouts. You can read more about this new Visual WordPress editor and test it here.

Gutenberg Editor is default editor in WordPress 5.0 and later and included with this theme. If you want to continue using old Classic Editor you need to install separate plugin for WordPress 5.0 and later (or disable Gutenberg plugin in Plugins if you use WordPress 4.x).

All demo posts and pages in this theme created using Gutenberg editor in its blocks elements, and may not display correctly without Gutenberg installed.

This theme does not require you to use Gutenberg editor (this is optional plugin provided with theme), you can use Classic Editor or any other your favorite WordPress Page Builder.

We prepared few help articles for you to learn how to use Gutenberg editor in our Help Center article.

COMING SOON PAGE SETUP

You can use Coming Soon feature when you just develop your site, that allow you temporaly disable website frontend for regular visitors (they will see your custom Coming soon page), but allow website administrators to see site and work on it.

You can use this plugin to enable coming soon mode on your site:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/coming-soon/

MENU MANAGEMENT

This theme have 3 menu areas. Header and top menus can have different layouts and styles. Header and top menus support multilevel submenus.

Top menu:

Header menu:

Footer menu:

You need to set what menus where will be display (you don't need to do this if you used One-Click demo data import feature):

1. Go to Appearance > Menus
2. Open Manage Locations tab
3. Select/create menu "Top Menu" for Top Menu
   
   Select/create menu "Header Menu" for Header Menu
   
   Select/create menu "Footer Menu" for Footer Menu
   
   
   
   If you don't have menus you need to create it and add your elements.
4. You can manage menu settings and styles in Appearance >Theme Settings >Top Menu and Main Menu and Footer.
   
5. Save changes.

WIDGETS MANAGEMENT

This theme have 6 widgets sidebars where you can add widgets:

• Page Sidebar (Right or Left)
• Posts listing sidebar (Right or Left)
• Single Post sidebar (Right or Left)
• Footer light sidebar with 3 columns
• Footer dark sidebar with 4 columns
• WooCommerce sidebar

After theme installation all WP widgets will be enabled (if you have WP fresh installation) so you need to turn off default widgets that you don't want to see:

1. Go to Appearance > Widgets
2. Move widgets from left "Available Widgets" block to right sidebar that you want to use to add it to display in theme
3. Move widgets from right sidebars block to left "Available Widgets" block to remove it from display in theme
   
   
   

Our theme have 5 special widgets for your blog that improve default WordPress widgets functionality, we recommend you to use this widgets instead of default:

• Florian Recent Comments - display recent blog comments with author name and date
  
  
• Florian Recent Posts - display recent posts with thumbnails and first big post image and images animations
  
  
• Florian Popular Posts - display most viewed posts with thumbnails and numeration
  
  
• Florian Content Widget - display any HTML content in your widget, with support for image background button, and predefined HTML styles
  
  
  
  You can use any shortcodes from any plugins in Content Widget, for example to show Mailchimp subscribe form in this widget.
• Florian Social Icons Widget - display social icons with links (use theme control panel settings for social icons)
  
  
  
  Also you can show social links from this widget anywhere (in content, theme content areas, etc) using [florian_social_icons] shortcode.
• Florian Posts Slider Widget - display posts slider with your posts by different criteria and settings (latest posts, posts from category, featured posts, popular posts, editor's picks posts)
  
  

How to add instagram feed to widget

You can show Instagram Feed block in you widget sidebar, you can read how to do this later in this documentation in Instagram Feed setup section.

How to USE SPECIAL CONTENT WIDGET

Our theme have special text/content widget that allow you to show nice blocks with any HTML content, shortcodes, background image, buttons, etc.

Let's create sample widget:

1. Go to Appearance > Widgets and add Florian Content widget to your sidebar.
2. Change Widget Settings:
   
   
3. Save widget setttings.
   

Instagram PLUGIN setup

If you installed Instagram Feed plugin (provided with theme) you can display your instagram feed in theme widget sidebars (or in other places using shortcode) or in theme footer.

How to enable this feature:

1. Go to Instagram Feed section in left WordPress admin panel menu (plugin should be installed).
2. Click big Login button and login to your instagram account. You will see your Access token and User ID after this. Copy this data to corresponding fields below.
   
   
3. Save Changes and click Customize tab.
4. Set values for options like you see on screenshot below:
   
   
   
   
   
5. Save settings.
   

Add widget to sidebar:

1. Go to Appearance > Widgets and add Text widget to your sidebar.
2. Copy and paste this shortcode to this widget content area:
   
   
   [instagram-feed num=9 cols=3 showfollow=false]
3. This code display 9 photos in 3 columns, without follow button. You can change this settings in shortcode. You can check all available shortcodes in Instagram Feed widget documentation.

Add Instagram to theme footer:

1. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Footer and Enable instagram display with your settings.
2. Save settings.

subscribe block setup

If you installed Mailchimp for WP plugin (provided with theme) you can display subscribe/signup form for your Mailchimp newsletter campaign in sidebar widgets or any blocks in theme. Also theme have special Subscribe block used on homepage and single blog posts pages that you can use to show your Mailchimp newsletter signup form.

How to configure your Mailchimp subscription form in WordPress:

1. Go to Mailchimp for WP > Mailchimp section in left WordPress admin panel menu (plugin should be installed).
2. Add your API key to MailChimp API key field (use Get your API key here link to obtain your key).
   
   
   
3. Save Changes.
   
4. Go to Mailchimp for WP > Forms.
5. Check your list for Lists this form subscribes to option to set what list will be used to subscribe your users on MailChimp.
6. Copy and paste HTML code below to Form mark-up field:
   
   
   <div class="mailchimp-widget-signup-form"><input type="email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your E-mail address" required /><button type="submit" class="btn btn-black"/><i class="fa fa-angle-right" aria-hidden="true"></i></button></div>
7. Remember your form id:
   
   
   
8. Save changes.

How to use theme Subscribe block:

1. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Subscribe block and enable it.
2. Copy and paste HTML code below to Subscribe block content field in Text (not Visual) tab:
   
   
   <div class="row">
   <div class="col-md-4">
   <h5>Join our newsletter</h5>
   </div>
   <div class="col-md-4">
   
   Enter your email and we'll keep you posted with news and updates!
   
   </div>
   <div class="col-md-4">[mc4wp_form id="228"]</div>
   </div>
3. Change 228 to your Mailchimp form ID that you remembered before.
4. Save settings.
5. If you want to show Subscribe block on single post page too you can enable this in Appearance > Theme Settings > Blog single post.

CTA POPUPS MANAGEMENT

You can show advertisement popups to show some call to actions to your customers (for example mailchimp subscribe form or some offers). We included Icegram plugin with theme that allow you to show popups, messages, toasts and other CTA blocks on your site with different desings and settings.

How to enable this feature:

1. Go to Plugins > Search, find and install Icegram free plugin.
2. Go to Icegram > Campaigns section in left WordPress admin panel menu (Icegram plugin should be installed).
3. Create new Campaign.
4. If you want to create Mailchimp subscribe block popup similar to our demo you should use this settings for popup:
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Save Changes.
   
6. You can use different settings and options to make different popups. Our demo is just an example.

ADVERTISEMENT MANAGEMENT

Our theme have built-in feature for banners/ads management that allow you to add any banners or other html in different predefined places in theme design.

How to use this feature:

1. Go to Appearance > Theme Settings > Banners management.
2. Choose place when you want to show your banner, enable it and add your banner HTML/image to this area.
   
   
3. By WordPress security rules you does not allow to use JavaScript, PHP and iFrames in this areas. If you really need this you can contact our theme support to enable this unsafe feature on your own risk.
   
4. Click Publish to save Customizer settings.

Theme shortcodes

Our theme include shortcode(s) that you can use in posts and pages content and your sidebars inside Florian Content and default WordPress Text widget's.

Social Icons shortcode

Shortcode will display your social buttons with urls that you configured in Appearance > Theme Settings > Social icons.

Usage:

[florian_social_icons]

Options:

This shortcode does not have options.

Demo:

JetPack Infinity Scroll

Our theme support WordPress JetPack plugin Infinity Scroll feature (you will have infinity posts auto loaded via ajax on your blog page when user scroll down your page).

Infinity Scroll feature work with simple theme layouts only (it will not work with complex layouts like Masonry, Two column, etc).

1. Install and activate JetPack plugin on your site. You can do this in Plugins > Add and search for it.
2. Go to JetPack > Settings and Activate Infinity Scroll feature.
3. You can adjust how many posts will be visible before loading new on scroll in Settings > Reading.
   

Translations

This theme is translation ready and WPML plugin compatible and this mean you can easy adapt it to your language or use it multilanguage. You can translate theme manualy of using Translation plugin that we included with theme.

Manual theme translation

We included POT files for translation with theme:

• /wp-content/themes/florian/languages/ - main theme translations

Read this help article about WordPress translations.

Translation with provided THEME translation manager

WPML PLUGIN (MULTILANGUAGE WEBSITE)

Child theme usage

This theme include Child Theme ZIP file. Check our special article how to use it.

Speed up your website

Our theme created for very fast and effective work, with correct server configuration and content optimization you can get 85-90 / 100 score in Google PageSpeed Insights test.

Site speed depends on several things in addition to theme (that already coded for extra fast work), like WordPress configuration, Server configuration and quality and Content optimization. We included simple guide how to optimize your website for extra fast work with our theme.

Useful advices for site Speed Up:

• Make sure that you have good hosting/server (we recommend to use Bluehost to host WordPress themes)
• Disable all third-party plugins that you does not use
• Check this official WordPress Optimization guide article and external article links in it. Follow all guides in it (especialy image optimization, server setup and optimization)

If you don't want to configure your website optimisation yourself you can order special service:

• Order Premium WordPress Website Google Page Speed and SEO Optimization service on Envato Studio.

Theme Updates

You will see when theme update available on our website and in email from Themeforest (if you subscribed for theme updates notifications).

Always backup your website before updating theme or plugins!

Read this article - How to update WordPress theme

MANUAL theme update

• Download latest theme archive from Themeforest (FULL theme archive with documenation, not just theme installation file).
• Unpack archive and open Documentation/release-history.html file in your browser for view (not for Edit).
• Follow instructions in file to update your theme.
• Do not update plugins bundled with theme yourself (even WooCommerce), before we will not add this updated plugins to our theme and tested it compatibility.

Automatic theme and plugin updates

If you newbie you can use this plugin for easy plugin and theme updates:

• Easy Theme and Plugin Upgrades

Support

We offer theme support and updates for our items.

Use any of this options to subscribe to theme updates releases notifications:

• Check Themeforest item page release history section (at the bottom on item page)
• Check our site - MagniumThemes.com
• Signup to our newsletter

If you have any questions about this theme you should:

1. Check WordPress section in our FAQ page
2. If you don't find answer submit support question in our support system
3. If you need customization service or WP/Theme setup - contact us

Please don't ask support questions in Themeforest comments, email, skype, facebook or twitter - questions in this places will never be answered.