Grace Mag PRO WordPress Theme Documentation

Thank you for purchasing Grace Mag PRO 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. Homepage Section
    1. Post Slider
    2. Health & Fitness News
    3. Fashion & Lifestyle
    4. Business News
    5. Food & Nutrition
    6. Buy Theme Now
    7. Photography News
  7. Footer
  8. Footer Menu
  9. Contact Form
  10. Page Templates & Sidebars
  11. Widgets
  12. Shortcodes
  13. Multilingual
  14. Support

Free Version

  1. Homepage Setup
  2. Header Ads Banner
  3. News Scroller Section
  4. Post Slider Section
  5. Post Carousel Section
  6. Blog Post with Sidebar
  7. 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 grace-mag-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 grace-mag-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 grace-mag-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 Grace Mag PRO. Just click on the Activate button and your theme should get activated.



2. Import Demo Content

After activating the Grace Mag PRO theme, please import demo content using following



3. Homepage Setup

After activating the 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. Homepage Section

a. Post Slider

To display Post Slider News

Shortcode: 
<div class="three-col">[postslider catname="" showposts="-1"]</div>
[column_content type="one_third_last"][postlayout1 catname="" showposts="2" titlecolor="#ffffff"][/column_content]


b. Health & Fitness News

To display posts of Health & Fitness

Shortcode: 
[postlayout-carousel catname="" showposts="10" excerptlength="30" readmore="READ MORE →"]


c. Fashion & Lifestyle

To display posts of Fashion & Lifestyle

Shortcode: 
<div class="three-col">			
<h2 class="section_title"><div>Fashion & Lifestyle</div></h2>
[postlayout2 catname="" showposts="4" excerptlength="30" readmore=""]
</div>
[column_content type="one_third_last"]<h2 class="section_title"><div>Sports News</div></h2>
[sidebarpost catname="" showposts="7" sidecontlength="5"]
[/column_content]


d. Business News

To display posts of Business category

Shortcode: 
[businessnews catname="" showposts="6" excerptlength="10" readmore="Read More"]


e. Food & Nutrition

To display posts of Business category

Shortcode: 
[latest-news show="6" excerptlength="15" readmore="Read More →"]


f. Buy Theme Now

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

Shortcode: 
<div class="separator-border">			
<div class="three-col">
 [subtitle color="#ffffff" size="30px" margin="0 0 0px 0" description="Create a Magazine Website in minutes!"] 
 [subtitle color="#ffffff" size="14px" margin="0 0 0px 0" description="The Most Advance Framework for publishing"] 
 [subtitle color="#ffffff" size="30px" margin="0 0 0px 0" description="NEWSPAPER"] 
</div>
[column_content type="one_third_last"][button align="center" name="BUY NOW" link="#" target=""] [/column_content]
[clear]
</div>


g. Photography News

To display posts of Business category

Shortcode: 
<div class="three-col">
<h2 class="section_title"><div>Photography & Videography</div></h2>
[postlayout3 catname="" showposts="4" excerptlength="35" readmore=""]
</div>
[column_content type="one_third_last"]
<h2 class="section_title"><div>Travel & Holidays</div></h2>
[sidebarpost1 catname="" showposts="2" sidecontlength="5" color="#ffffff"][clear]
<img src="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/grace-mag-pro/images/youradd.jpg" />
[/column_content]
[clear]


7. Footer

The Footer section consists of four main elements:

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



8. Setting footer menu (Quick Links & Support Links)

  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


9. Contact Form

To display contact form in your website

Shortcode for Contact Form: 
[contactform to_email="test@example.com" title="Contact Form"]


10. 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.



11. Widgets

The WordPress widgets are used to manage sidebars:



12. Shortcodes

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



13. 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



14. 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.

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1. Homepage Setup

After activating the Massage Spa theme, setup homepage using following

Go to Appearance -> Customize -> Select static front page



2. Header Ads Banner

To add the advertisement banner in header section Go to Appearance » Widgets » Header Ad Widget







3. News Scroller Section

To display news scroller section





4. Post Slider Section

To display this post slider section





5. Post Carousel Section

To display this post carousel section





6. Blog Post with Sidebar

To display this section





7. Footer

To customize the footer section Go to Appearance » Widgets » Footer Widget 1/2/3