General Information

We would like to thank you for purchasing Simplux!

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.

WordPress Information

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

What’s Included In Package

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.

Download Package

 

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 :)
DummyData
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 Demo Data part of this document.
Simplux.zip
You can use this file for install function of built in WordPress.
Simplux-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.
Changelog.txt
Contains changes history, change descriptions, date and modified files list.

Installation

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

1. Via WordPress theme uploader (recommended)

Step 1
Login to your website
Step 2
Go to Appearance -> Themes
Step 3
Click on Install Themes tab
Step 4
Click on Upload link and Browse to the Simplux.zip file (it is located in the folder you've downloaded from ThemeForest).
Step 5
Click Install Now button
Step 6
Then you see Simplux settings page right side on Dashboard menu section.
Step 7
Now you are ready to go. Create your new site and control it.

2. Via FTP client

Step 1
Login to your hosting via FTP client application (such as FileZilla and CuteFTP)
Step 2
Go to wp-content -> themes directory
Step 3
Upload Simplux folder (uncompressed) into this directory
Step 4
Refresh Appearance -> Themes of your dashboard and Activate the theme.

Initial Settings

After the activation you see this notice at top of your dashboard. This theme requires those three additional plugins and you need to install those.

Please click on Begin insalling plugins.

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 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

Envato Toolkit plugin requires MarketPlace username and API Key. You can get API key from your Settings tab of ThemeForest account. Lets provide those infomation and get theme update anytime and easily.

Step 4

Demo Data

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.

Demo data

Demo data

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 full-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.

Revolution slider data

Update Instructions

Note

Please make sure you backup your existing theme folder before updating. Additionally we recommend performing the update on a development site before making it on your live site.

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 Simplux such as TwentyTwelve, TwentyThirteen or Simplux 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 Simplux 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.

Page Builder : Visual Composer

After the installation, you can configure something on following place for Visual Composer. You might want to allow VC for your custom post types initially.

General Page Options

Additional Visual Composer Elements

Visual composer has tons of elements that presents content view. But our theme has more advanced elements that enriches this beautiful theme. Please hit on the tab and find elements and use them for your need. Every element has a purpose and detailed options. You can see their live result on the demo pages. Enjoy :)

 

Video tip for about Tab element extends.



Row overlay color

Page Options

Portfolio Options

Theme has an additional element for your portfolio. You can make your portfolio page with it first by it's options including Column variations, Filter and Pagination options.

Header & Footer builder

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.

Contact Form

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.

<div class="uk-grid">
    <div class="uk-width-1-2@m">
        [text* your-name placeholder "Your Name (required)"] 
    </div>

    <div class="uk-width-1-2@m">
        [email* your-email placeholder "Your Email (required)"] 
    </div>

    <div class="uk-width-1-1@m">
        [text your-subject placeholder "Subject"]
    </div>

    <div class="uk-width-1-1@m">
        [textarea your-message placeholder "Your Message"] 
    </div>
    <div>
        [submit "Send"]
    </div>
</div>

Contact form 2

<label> Your Name (required)
    [text* your-name] </label>

<label> Your Email (required)
    [email* your-email] </label>

<label> Subject
    [text your-subject] </label>

<label> Your Message
    [textarea your-message] </label>

[submit "Send"]

Contact form 3

<div class="simplux-contact-form3">
[text* text-57 class:uk-input placeholder "Your Full Name:"]
[email* email-286 class:uk-input placeholder "Your Email:"]
[tel tel-312 class:uk-input placeholder "Phone Number:"]
[textarea textarea-715 class:uk-textarea placeholder "Describe Your Project:"]
[submit class:simplux-contact-btn "Send request"]
</div>

Contact form 4

<div class="uk-grid-large form-without-icons" uk-grid>
<div class="uk-width-1-2@m">
<div class="uk-inline uk-width-1-1@m"><span class="uk-form-icon" uk-icon="icon: user"></span>[text* text-546 class:uk-input placeholder "YOUR NAME*"]</div>
</div>
<div class="uk-width-1-2@m"><div class="uk-inline uk-width-1-1@m"><span class="uk-form-icon" uk-icon="icon: mail"></span>[email* email-917 class:uk-input placeholder "EMAIL ADDRESS*"]</div></div>
<div class="uk-width-1-2@m"><div class="uk-inline uk-width-1-1@m"><span class="uk-form-icon" uk-icon="icon: phone"></span>[tel* tel-182 class:uk-input placeholder "PHONE NUMBER*"]</div></div>
<div class="uk-width-1-2@m"><div class="uk-inline uk-width-1-1@m"><span class="uk-form-icon" uk-icon="icon: cog"></span>[select* menu-583 class:uk-select "CHOOSE SERVICE*" "SERVICE 1" "SERVICE 2"]</div></div>
<div class="uk-width-1-1@m"><div class="uk-inline uk-width-1-1@m"><span class="uk-form-icon textarea-icon" uk-icon="icon: comment"></span>[textarea* textarea-685 class:uk-textarea class:uk-height-small placeholder "MESSAGE*"]</div></div>
<div class="uk-width-1-1@m uk-text-left mt4">[submit class:uk-button class:uk-button-primary "SUBMIT NOW"]</div>
</div>

CSS helper classes

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.

Class name Description
.brand-color Styles text color by current brand color
.image-shadow Adds shadow on image element
.text-white Sets text color as white
.text-lightSets text color as white
.text-dark Sets text color as black
.text-thin Sets text font weight 100
.text-thin-300 Sets text font weight 300
.hidden-xxs Hides element on lower screen. Smaller than 480px wide
.text-center Text center
.text-right Text right
.text-left Text left
.list-inline Allows ul/ol to inline style.
.no-margin Disables element margin. Efficient usage is on Rows
.no-margin-top Disables element margin top
.no-margin-bottom Disables element margin bottom
.no-padding Disables element padding
.no-padding-top Disables element padding top
.no-padding-bottom Disables element padding bottom

Sources and Credits

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

Open Source Projects

Premium Projects