Photostat PRO WordPress Theme Documentation

Thank you for purchasing Photostat 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. Inner Page Banner
  7. Homepage Section
    1. Services
    2. Welcome
    3. Latest News
    4. Our features
    5. Buy Theme
    6. Photo Gallery
    7. Our Team
    8. Our Skills
    9. Our Clients
  8. Footer
  9. Footer Menu
  10. Page Templates & Sidebars
  11. Widgets
  12. Shortcodes
  13. Multilingual
  14. Support

Free Version

  1. Homepage Setup
  2. Slider Settings
  3. Services Section
  4. Welcome Section

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 photostat-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 photostat-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 photostat-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 Photostat PRO. Just click on the Activate button and your theme should get activated.



2. Import Demo Content

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



3. Homepage Setup

After activating the Photostat PRO theme, setup homepage using following



4. The header

The header consists of two 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 Setting
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 the 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

The homepage contatins lots of section to create beautiful and professional website.

a. Services

To manage this section



b. Welcome

To manage this section



c. Latest News

This section is used to display latest news in your website

Shortcode: 
[latest-news show="3"][clear][button name="VIEW ALL POSTS" align="center" link="#" target="_self"]


d. Our features

This section is used to display various features in your website

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

Shortcode: 
[space height="10px"][column_content type="one_half"]<a href="#"><i class="far fa-image"></i><h6>Photography</h6>Aliquam in est gravida, tempus tellus ac, pellentesque odio. Mauris finibus iaculis diam vitae ultricies. Curabitur in laoreet metus. Aliquam erat volutpat.[clear]</a>[/column_content]
			
[column_content type="one_half_last"]<a href="#"><i class="far fa-gem"></i><h6>Branding</h6>Aliquam in est gravida, tempus tellus ac, pellentesque odio. Mauris finibus iaculis diam vitae ultricies. Curabitur in laoreet metus. Aliquam erat volutpat. [clear]</a>[/column_content]

[column_content type="one_half"]<a href="#"><i class="fa fa-desktop"></i><h6>Moview</h6>Aliquam in est gravida, tempus tellus ac, pellentesque odio. Mauris finibus iaculis diam vitae ultricies. Curabitur in laoreet metus. Aliquam erat volutpat. [clear]</a>[/column_content]

[column_content type="one_half_last"]<a href="#"><i class="fa fa-magic"></i><h6>Marketing</h6>Aliquam in est gravida, tempus tellus ac, pellentesque odio. Mauris finibus iaculis diam vitae ultricies. Curabitur in laoreet metus. Aliquam erat volutpat. [clear]</a>[/column_content]

[column_content type="one_half"]<a href="#"><i class="fa fa-map"></i><h6>Graphic Design</h6>Aliquam in est gravida, tempus tellus ac, pellentesque odio. Mauris finibus iaculis diam vitae ultricies. Curabitur in laoreet metus. Aliquam erat volutpat. [clear]</a>[/column_content]

[column_content type="one_half_last"]<a href="#"><i class="fab fa-telegram-plane"></i><h6>Publishing</h6>Aliquam in est gravida, tempus tellus ac, pellentesque odio. Mauris finibus iaculis diam vitae ultricies. Curabitur in laoreet metus. Aliquam erat volutpat. [clear]</a>[/column_content]

In order to change Font Awesome icons in this section:

  1. Find class="far fa-image" and replace "far fa-image" with your icon name
  2. Use icon only from Font Awesome
  3. Icon name should be in lowercase letter


e. Buy Theme

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

Shortcode: 
[promobox bgcolor="#dd3333" titlecolor="#ffffff" color="#ffffff" buttonbgcolor="#ffffff" buttoncolor="#dd3333" promotitle="Start a personal photography session" button="BUY THEME NOW!" url="#"]Qualitative Photography Theme with Unlimited Possibilities[/promobox]


f. Photo Gallery

To manage this photo gallery section



g. Our Team

This section is used to display Team members in your website

Shortcode/Content: 
[subtitle color="#222222" size="15px" margin="0 0 5px 0" description="Nunc sed lorem pretium, volutpat tortor id, adipiscing sem. Sed bibendum quis augue nec porta. Ut molestie tortor pulvinar"] 

[subtitle color="#222222" size="15px" margin="0 0 20px 0" description="faucibus justo vitae, interdum nunc. Vestibulum imperdiet nisl vel condimentum faucibus..."]
[our-team show="10"]
[button name="VIEW ALL" align="center" link="#" target="_self"]


h. Our Skills

This section is used to display various skills with data counter in your website

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

Shortcode/Content: 
[counter iconname="fas fa-user-secret" value="12" title="Professional"][counter iconname="fas fa-user" value="650" title="Happy Clients"][counter iconname="fas fa-cog" value="1200" title="Projects Completed"][counter iconname="fas fa-graduation-cap" value="25" title="Awards"]

In order to change Font Awesome icons in this section:

  1. Find iconname="fas fa-user-secret" and replace "fas fa-user-secret" with your icon name
  2. Use icon only from Font Awesome
  3. Icon name should be in lowercase letter


i. Our Clients

To change clients logo image

Shortcode: 
[client_lists][client image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/photostat-pro/images/client-logo1.jpg" link="#"][client image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/photostat-pro/images/client-logo2.jpg" link="#"][client image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/photostat-pro/images/client-logo3.jpg" link="#"][client image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/photostat-pro/images/client-logo4.jpg" link="#"][client image="http://sitename.com/wp-content/themes/photostat-pro/images/client-logo5.jpg" link="#"][/client_lists]


8. Footer

The Footer section consists of five main elements:

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. 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.



Photostat Lite free WordPress Theme Documentation

Thank you for using Photostat 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 Photostat PRO theme, setup homepage using following

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



2. Slider Setting

Go to Appearance -> Customize -> Frontpage Slider Options



3. Services Section

Go to Appearance -> Customize -> Theme Options Panel -> Services Page Column Section



3. Welcome Section

Go to Appearance -> Customize -> Theme Options Panel -> Welcome Section