Advisory WordPress Theme Documentation

Thank you for purchasing Advisory WordPress Theme. This documentation consists of several parts and shows you the entire process of setting up and customizing a WordPress theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please refer to the Support section. Thanks so much!

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It enables you to build Websites and powerful on-line applications and requires almost no technical skills or knowledge to manage. Many aspects, including its ease of use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular Web site software available.

Creating a website with WordPress is significantly much easier than coding it by yourself. if you are a beginner, even working with WordPress may be difficult to you. That's why, in this section we will provide some useful links and also will explain how to get oriented in the documentation and what pattern to follow when building your website with our theme. Please note that this documentation covers all the main settings for the theme, but it doesn't cover instructions about working with WordPress, as this is a very extensive topic. If you are new to WordPress, we would recommend to first get familiar with the WordPress system, so you can have at least basic knowledge about how it works and then proceed with setting the theme.



Table of Contents

  1. Theme Installation
  2. Import Demo Content
  3. Homepage Setup
  4. Header
    1. Site name / logo
    2. Setting the menu
  5. Homepage Slider
  6. Inner Page Banner
  7. Homepage Section
    1. What We Offer
    2. Welcome
    3. Company Video
    4. Why Choose Us
    5. About Advisory
    6. Counter
    7. Testimonials
    8. Latest Events
    9. Our Skills
    10. Our Team
    11. Latest Blog
    12. Get in touch
  8. Footer
  9. Footer Menu
  10. Contact Form
  11. Page Templates & Sidebars
  12. Widgets
  13. Shortcodes
  14. Multilingual
  15. Support

Free Version

  1. Homepage Setup
  2. Slider Section
  3. Services Section
  4. Welcome Section
  5. Footer

1. Theme Installation

a. Through WordPress Dashboard

  1. Go to the menu Appearance > Themes and click on Add New button.
  2. Click on Upload Theme button.
  3. Click on Browse button and navigate to the unzipped theme package on your computer.
  4. Look for a file called advisory-pro.zip Click on it to select, then click OK.
  5. Click on Install Now button and wait until the installation is complete.
  6. Click on Activate link to activate the theme on your WordPress site.
  7. Go to Appearance >> Theme Options >> Restore Default.
Note: Some servers have limited folder access settings applied and wouldn't allow uploading the theme trough the admin - in these case you have to upload the theme via FTP.

b. Manual Installation using FTP client

If you know the FTP login details of the server where your site is hosted and you have a FTP client installed (such as FileZilla), you might consider using this way of uploading your theme.

  1. Unzip the Advisory-pro.zip file
  2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/themes
  3. Upload theme to /wp-content/themes/
  4. Go to Appearance » Themes and activate theme from Dashboard.
First you have to unzip the download file, find the zip file called advisory-pro.zip, unzip it and upload the folder to the main WordPress installation folder » wp-content » themes. Please note that if you prefer this way of installation, you have to make sure that the main files of the theme are contained just within one folder of the themes folder.

You can activate the theme after it is uploaded on the server. In order to activate this theme you have to go to the admin panel » Appearance » Themes. In this section you should see the theme with a title Advisory PRO. Just click on the Activate button and your theme should get activated.



2. Import Demo Content

After activating the Advisory theme, please import demo content using following



3. Homepage Setup

After activating the Advisory theme, please setup homepage using following



4. The header

The header consists of three main elements:



a. Changing the site name / logo

If you don't have your logo image then you can use site name and tagline. To change site name and tagline
Go to Settings » General » Site Title

OR if you want to uplaod logo for your website go to Appearance » Theme Options » Basic Settings » Logo
You can also increase logo image height as per your requirement.



b. Setting the menu

  1. First of all create pages from Pages >> Add new page
  2. Go to Appearance >> Menu
  3. Click on Create a new menu link
  4. Give a name to your menu in Menu name and click save menu button
  5. Once you have create menu. You need to add pages by selecting with checkboxes. After adding menu list you can arrange it by drag and drop.
  6. Select menu theme locations Primary Menu from Menu Settings
  7. Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu


5. Homepage Slider

In order to add slides to homepage slider: Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Homepage Slider
For each slide there are different options that you can apply.

If you don't want to use this default image slider, you can use any image slider WordPress plugin



6. Inner Page Banner

To change inner page banner image: Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Homepage Slider » Inner Page Banner

To set different banner image for each individual page



7. Homepage Section

a. What We Offer

To manage this section



b. Welcome

To manage this section



c. Company Video

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 1

Shortcode/Content: 
[section-main-title title="Your goals are individual. We believe business advice should be too." subtitle="" color="#ffffff" align="center"][subtitle color="#ffffff" size="20px" margin="0" align="center" description="Watch Our Company Video"][space height="50px"][custom-video youtubeid="CVUcvPA73T0" cover=""]

To display YouTube video, you need YouTube video ID



d. Why Choose Us

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 2

Shortcode/Content: 
[row][column_content type="left-column-40"][subtitle color="#fa8245" size="20px" margin="0 0 20px 0" align="left" description="Why Choose Us"][section-main-title title="Top Reasons to use Advisory to build your website" subtitle="" color="#292929" align="left"][subtitle color="#484848" size="17px" margin="0 0 40px 0" align="left" description="posuere tellus imperdiet facilisis. Curabitur vive faucibusy tellus, eu semper nunc finibus placer Suspendisse potenti. Praesent vel sem in semv utate interdum."][subtitle color="#484848" size="17px" margin="0 0 40px 0" align="left" description="faucibusy tellus, eu semper nunc finibus placer Suspendisse potenti."][button align="left" name="Read More" link="#" target="_self"][/column_content][column_content type="right-column-60"][whychooseus title="Bright Minds With Best Ideas" number="1" link="#"][whychooseus title="Digital Solutions For Brands" number="4" link="#"][whychooseus title="Engaging Users Wherever They" number="2" link="#"][whychooseus title="Investment Planning and Management" number="5" link="#"][whychooseus title="Business Increase Every Year" number="3" link="#"][whychooseus title="Branding and Project Management" number="6" link="#"][clear][/column_content][/row]


e. About Advisory

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 3

Shortcode/Content: 
[row][column_content type="left-column-50"][history_image image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/advisory-pro/images/thumbnail-large.jpg"][/column_content][column_content type="right-column-50"][subtitle color="#f1384d" size="20px" margin="0 0 20px 0" align="left" description="About Advisory"][section-main-title title="We are the largest Business expert in Europe and Asia" subtitle="" color="#282828" align="left"][subtitle color="#595959" size="17px" margin="0 0 50px 0" align="left" description="Posuere tellus imperdiet facilisis. Curabitur viverra faucibusy tellus, eu semper nunc finibus placerat. Suspendisse potenti. Praesent velsem in sem vulputate interdum vivera faucbusy tellus, eu semper nunc finibus"]<div class="success-message">Successfully Providing the Best Business Solution from 20 years</div>[clear][/column_content][/row]

To change the image in this section



f. Counter

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 4

Shortcode/Content: 
[column_content type="counter-wrapper"][counter value="3890" plus="" title="Happy Clients" icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/advisory-pro/images/counter-1.png"][counter value="10" plus="" title="Offices Globaly" icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/advisory-pro/images/counter-2.png"][counter value="499" plus="+" title="Employee" icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/advisory-pro/images/counter-3.png"][counter value="15" plus="+" title="Years in Operation" icon="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/advisory-pro/images/counter-4.png"][clear][/column_content]

To change the image icons in this section



g. Testimonials

To display clients testimonials

Shortcode/Content: 
[row][column_content type="left-column-50 clients-reviews-title"][section-main-title title="Read Our Clients Reviews" subtitle="Testimonials" color="#ffffff" align="left"][/column_content][column_content type="right-column-50 clients-reviews"][testimonials][/column_content][clear][/row]


h. Latest Events

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 6

Shortcode/Content: 
[row][column_content type="left-column-30"][section-main-title title="Join on going latest events" subtitle="" color="#000000" align="left"][subtitle color="#595959" size="17px" margin="0 0 130px 0" align="left" description="Posuere tellus imperdi facilisis. Curabitur faucibu tellusemper ellus imperdi facilisisurabiture faucibue tellusemper nuncing finibus placer."][button align="left" name="View All Events" link="#" target="_self"][/column_content][column_content type="right-column-70"][events image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/advisory-pro/images/event-image-1.jpg" title="Women’s Leadership Action" address="los angeles, USA" date="20" month="Feb" link="#"][events image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/advisory-pro/images/event-image-2.jpg" title="Latest Economy Seminar" address="San francisco, USA" date="21" month="Feb" link="#"][/column_content][clear][/row]

To change the image in this section



i. Our Skills

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 7

Shortcode/Content: 
[row][column_content type="left-column-50"][towimage image1="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/advisory-pro/images/skil-left-img-1.jpg" image2="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/advisory-pro/images/skil-left-img-2.jpg"][/column_content][column_content type="right-column-50"][section-main-title title="Let Them Know You are the Best" subtitle="Our Skills" color="#282828" align="left"][subtitle color="#595959" size="17px" margin="0 0 60px 0" align="left" description="Vivamus tempus dignissim felis, eu males tortor posuerefa ucibus. Integer purus dolor, tempor eget urnaeu, facilisisma lesuada diam. Suspendissequelit."][skillwrapper type="circle" track_color="#e0e0e0" chart_color="#fa8245" chart_size="150" align="center"][skill percent="80" title="Business Growth"][skill percent="75" title="Product Value"][skill percent="70" title="Active Clients"][/skillwrapper][/column_content][/row]

To change the image in this section



j. Our Team

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 8

To display Team Members:

Shortcode: 
[space height="30px"][our-team show="4"][clear][button align="center" name="View All Team" link="#" target="_self"]


k. Latest Blog

This section is used to display latest news

Shortcode: 
[latest-news showposts="4" date="show" comment="hide" author="hide" title="Get inspiration with our latest updates" subtitle="Latest from the blog"]


l. Get in touch

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 10

To display Contact Form:

Shortcode/Content: 
[row][column_content type="left-column-50 contact-map-bg"][section-main-title title="15’372 Websites Hacked Daily" subtitle="Get in touch" color="#282828" align="left"][subtitle color="#505050" size="25px" margin="0 0 50px 0" align="left" description="Don’t be the next: we can help you!"][contactinfo icon="fas fa-map-marker-alt" title="Address" description="Phasellus at eleif Phasellus vulputate idgravida."][contactinfo icon="fas fa-phone-volume" title="Phone" description="123 - 456 - 7890  /   789 - 456 - 1230"][contactinfo icon="fas fa-envelope-open-text" title="Email" description="info@sitename.com 
support@sitename.com"][/column_content][column_content type="right-column-50"][contact-form-7 id="1537" title="Advisory Form"][/column_content][/row]


8. Footer

To manage footer section go to the Appearance » Theme Options » Footer



9. Setting Footer menu

  1. Go to Appearance >> Menu
  2. Click on Create a new menu link to create footer menu
  3. Give a name to your menu (Footer Menu / Support Menu) in Menu name and click save menu button
  4. Add pages by selecting with checkboxes.
  5. Select Display location Footer Menu from Menu Settings
  6. Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu


10. Contact Form

To display contact form, install the Contact Form 7 plugin



11. Page Templates & Sidebars

When you create a new page from the Pages » Add New section, the "Default Template" is assigned to the page by default. The default page template is a standard page template that can be with a sidebar or full-width layout and can contain custom content.



12. Widgets

The WordPress widgets are used to manage sidebars:



13. Shortcodes

To view all shortcodes go to Appearance » Theme Options » Short Codes:



14. Multilingual

This theme is ready for translation - it comes with a .po file that contains all the embedded into the theme strings.
It supports multiple languages. The qTranslate X WordPress plugin offers a way to maintain dynamic multilingual content on a WordPress site.

How to make your website translate ready?

To translate Homepage sections Title, Content, Button texts, Read more texts



15. Support

If you have any questions regarding our WordPress themes, you can contact us through our support forum or you can mail us at support@gracethemes.com Our support team is always ready to help you with any problems of customization or compatibility you may encounter.

Advisory Lite Free Theme Documentation

Thank you for using Advisory Lite Free WordPress Theme. This documentation consists of several parts and shows you the entire process of setting up and customizing a free WordPress theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please refer to the Support section. Thanks so much!


1. Homepage Setup

After activating the Greenest Lite theme, setup homepage using following

Go to Appearance » Customize » Select static front page



2. Slider Section

Go to Appearance » Customize » Theme Options Panel » Header Slider Sections



3. Services Section

Go to Appearance » Customize » Theme Options Panel » Three Circle Services Section





3. Welcome Section

Go to Appearance » Customize » Theme Options Panel » Welcome Section





7. Footer