We would like to thank you for purchasing GridX!

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.

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.

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 :)

GridX (Zip)

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

GridX-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.

Licencing (Folder)

This contains the licensing files.

DummyData (Folder)

You have an One 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 Dummy Data part of this document.

Changelog (Text)

Contains changes history, 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)

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

Ultimate VC Addons

This plugin adds several premium elements in your Visual Composer. Every single element in the package is crafted with utmost attention to details and a simple objective to provide you an ultimate experience.

Revloution Slider

This plugin features tons of unique transition effects, an image preloader, video embedding, autoplay that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your own effects.

ThemeTon Portfolio

This plugin an optional plugin but highly recommended for your portfolio. It has own features and sinlge 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.

Configure Envato Toolkit Plugin

One Click Demo Data Options

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

Please wait for a while until imports all the content.

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 content.xml using the form provided on download.
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 plugin 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 GridX such as TwentyTwelve, TwentyThirteen or GridX 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 ones. 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 GridX 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 to use them. Please take some time to navigate through each tab and read option's description.

Grid X Style

You need to set post size on every single posts those need to be show as featured/different styled.

Even Style

Masonry Style

Menu system works through WordPress core functions. Then I hope you don't have any trouble with it. We extended menu options with a few options such as Menu Icon and Mega menu options. Please look at next images and follow the steps for your menu.

Automatic installation

Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t even need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of WooCommerce log in to your WordPress admin panel and go to: Plugins > Add New.

In the search field type “WooCommerce” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found the plugin you can view details about it such as the the point release, rating and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by simply clicking Install Now. After clicking that link you will be asked if you’re sure you want to install the plugin. Click “yes” and WordPress will automatically complete the installation.

It’s possible at this stage that you will be taken to a page requesting the FTP details of your webserver. This will be the case if you’ve not installed a plugin on this particular installation of WordPress before. If so, simply fill in your details to complete the installation.

Manual installation

The manual installation involves downloading the plugin and uploading it to your webserver via your favourite FTP application.

1. Download the plugin to your computer.
2. Unzip the file.
3. Using an FTP program, or your hosting control panel, upload the unzipped plugin folder to your WordPress installation’s wp-content/plugins directory.
4. Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu within the WordPress admin.

After you’ve installed and activated the plugin, be sure to select ‘Install WooCommerce Pages‘ to get started.

More details of WooCommerce setup

If you need more detailed documentation of WooCommerce usage, you should visit this link and get your information.

WooCommerce options (builtin the theme)

You can control some options from Live Customize => Post Types => WooCommerce

Our theme is translatable to your language and every static text section located in translate functions such as __() and _e(). You can use included PO file for your new language like following embedded way.

WPML plugin

If you want to use any custom plugin for your translation, yeah please go ahead and install WPML plugin because our theme is compatible with it and I wanna recommend it for you.

- Getting started guide

- Languages configuration

- Static theme text translation

- Menu / navigation translation

- Content translation guide

- Check theme compatibility certificate

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

<span class="form-field small-field">[text* your-name class:form-control placeholder "Your Name"] </span><span class="form-field small-field">[email* your-email class:form-control placeholder "Your email"]</span>
<span class="form-field">[text your-subject class:form-control placeholder "Subject"]</span>
<span class="form-field">[textarea your-message class:form-control placeholder "Your Message..."]</span>
[submit "Send"]

Note: I didn't make extra space between first 2 elements because of preventing unnecessary BR from CF7.

Thank you to all who developed following projects/products. We really appreciate your support and time. We definitely couldn't do this template without you. We wish you all the best.

Special thanks to:

Images

• PhotoDune.net - Team images, some slider backgrounds
• PublicDomainArchive.com - Background images, portfolio image & gallery images
• Joshua Jadon - Book cover images on Home7, didn't included on download
• KLM - Be My Guest collection by Julian Burford
• IconFinder.com - Free social logo PNGs
• SubtlePatterns.com - A couple of transparent background textures

Open Source Projects

• Twitter Bootstrap
• Isotope
• jQuery
• Magnetic Popup
• Owl Carousel Slider
• MediaElement HTML5 Player
• Backbone JS
• Blurjs
• jQuery Validation Plugin
• Waypoints
• Less By Alexis Sellier
• Elegant Icons

Premium Projects

• Visual Composer by WPBakery
• Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer by BraninstormForce
• Revolution Slider by ThemePunch