We would like to thank you for purchasing Dash!

This documentation file helps you to understand the whole theme concept and how it works. You should read all sections of the file before start your work. Here have multiple detailed explain of elements, theme sections and included video tutorials.

If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please check out and search for Forum page.

After that you still can't find the solution yet, please leave a ticket on Support system then support agents help your issue asap.

Surely you have already installed WordPress on your server. If you don't installed it yet and you are new to WP and have problems installing it, you might want to check out following tips.

About WordPress

Detailed instruction about WordPress

Installing Tutorials

Installation tutorial by WordPress

Instructional Video

Video lessons by Woo Themes

Getting Started

WordPress Tips for Beginners

WP101 Basix Training

Some great videos from WPTuts on WordPress

You need to download theme files after you've purchased the it. Following image describes downloads section of the item and you have 2 download choices.

Visit Downloads menu from your profile dropdown.

Please click on Download (green) button and choose your options.

Downloading All Files gives you a all-files.zip file with all the content listed below

documentation

This is costumer's handbook. Obviously, If you can reading this file, you're open this file :)

dummy-data

You have an Dash Click option for import demo data. But if you need detailed xml files please pick up those here. You should read about how to use it from Demo Data part of this document.

Dash-v1.0.zip

You can use this file for install function of built in WordPress.

Dash-child.zip

Child theme. Please make your file changes in it. And this child theme helps you to keep your changes in it even updated main theme continually. You should read more details about child theme here.

Dash-changelog.txt

Contains changes history, change descriptions, date and modified files list.

You can either choose to upload the theme via WordPress upload function or via ftp to your site.

1. Via WordPress theme uploader (recommended)

Note: This is a short video instruction but prepared on a different theme. If you see here some small difference please do not pay attention on them and just focus on the steps.

2. Via FTP client

Envato Toolkit

The Envato WordPress Toolkit enables you to access your Envato WordPress purchases from within your WordPress Dashboard. It allows you to not only install themes, but also to receive update notifications and update automatically, just like regular WordPress themes.

Visual Composer

The most advanced PageBuilder Plugin that is drag and drop frontend and backend page builder plugin that will save you tons of time working on the site content. You will be able to take full control over your WordPress site, build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required

Portfolio Plugin

This plugin an optional plugin but highly recommended for your portfolio. It has own features and single post options those compatible with portfolio details section. Your portfolio posts won't let go after you activated different themes on your site and that's the biggest reason why we are adding portfolio post type as in a custom plugin.

Note: This is a short video instruction but prepared on a different theme. If you see here some small difference please do not pay attention on them and just focus on the steps.

Configure Envato Toolkit Plugin

Dash Click Demo Data Options

Theme has dedicated data option. You should click Dash of those link and select your desired Concept home page layout. Action will set a few important tasks including selection of Home page, Main navigation setting and Sidebar widgets when you click on Import Demo Data button.

Note: Please wait patiently for a while until imports all the content. Delay time is depends on your server upload speed but it won't be exceed than 2 minutes.

Full content Demo site setup

Previous option helps you to include minimized demo content on your site reason for quick include. But you can have full demo data with regular XML data imports.

1. Go to Tools → Import
2. Choose WordPress from the list.
3. Upload the demo concept.xml using the form provided on download. (concept deltegates newspaper, movie, ...)
4. 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.
5. You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the “Download and import file attachments” box.
6. 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.

Via Envato Toolkit Plugin (recommended)

Hope you have provided your account information in Envato Toolkit plugin. If you go to the Envato Toolkit => Themes page, you'll see similar to following image. Let's click on Update automatically link at right bottom. This is a most efficienat and easy way to integrate latest verion on your site.

After clicking to auto-update, you’ll see the confirmation that everything worked correctly.

Via WordPress theme uploader

Go to the Appearance => Themes and activate another theme than Dash such as TwentyTwelve, TwentyThirteen or Dash child theme. Delete the old version of the theme because folder name existing error comes up when we try to install it without deletion. Then install the theme again as you see early in this documentation.

Via FTP client application

Usually updating a theme means replacing the old files with the new Dashs. You can see changelog.txt file from the new download archive and you can get updated files list as modified/added and deleted. Upload and overwrite those files on your theme directory.

If theme changed lots of files and you really hard to collect changed files, there is a better way to do it when it comes to WordPress themes.

WordPress treats two version of the same theme as different themes. That is, if you have Dash v1.2 and v1.3 in your wp-content/themes folder they are treated as two different themes independent of each other.

That means you can have multiple version of the same theme installed on your blog. So whenever there is a new version of your theme available, instead of replacing or deleting the files of the older version follow this procedure.

1. Try to upload new theme archive to the site
2. If the folder name of the new version clashes with the old version, rename the folder of new version.
3. Upload the new version to your wp-content/themes folder via FTP or through the interface provided by your web host or by using the upload feature in WordPress.
4. Activate the new version from your dashboard.

The main advantage of following the above procedure is you can quickly switch back to the old version of the theme if you find any problems with the new version or if it clashes with any plugins you are using.

Live Customize panel has many options those help you to control your site. You have to know only where your desired options exist and how they are capable of. Please take some time to navigate through each tab and read options' description.

Header layouts configures header parts including header text logo, header background image, header layouts.

1.Header layouts image

Brand Color is the basic color of your website. It changes color of such things header login, text, menu item,slider button, main part icon,button etc.You can change brand color through customize's general option.

1.Customize's Brand Color option

Additional VC Elements those comes with the theme

Our theme is compatible with Contact form 7 and please put following markup on the Form field of your form. Then your form turns similar into our style that presents on Contact page.

  
                             [text* text-456 class:form-input placeholder "Your name"] 
                             [text* text-456 class:form-input placeholder "Email address"]
                             [textarea textarea-217 class:form-textarea placeholder "message"]
                             [submit class:a-btn class:form-submit "Send Message"]
                          

Subscribe form

You can have subscribe form by MailChimp for WordPress plugin. Install the plugin and add a widget instance on footer sidebar area.

Our team will support every question about theme after purchase.

• SUPPORT FORUM

Sometimes hard to implement small css features by predefined options. Then we've prepared some helpful classes those can used on any custom places and style your content. Most of page builder elements have Extra class field and you can allow following classes on them.

We have used the following plugins, fonts & images. All fonts, images, icons used in this template are free for commercial use.

• Montserrat from google webfont.

• jQuery v1.11.3  (jquery.org)

Images are used from

• thinkstockphotos.com
• shutterstock.com

• Visual Composer by WPBakery