Confidence - Multipage Wordpress Theme

# 01Getting started

Firstly,a huge thanks for purchasing this theme, your support is truly appreciated!

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If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this document,feel free to pose them in the dedicated support forum

Please read the documents carefully. If you forget read a part of documentation , your website will not work. YOU MUST FOLLOW THIS STEPS:

- Install & activate confidence theme
- Install & Activate all theme plugins ( admin left menu - appereance - install plugins )
- Install / upload theme demodata Tutorial

# 02Installation

Installing your theme is pretty easy! After downloading you should have a Confidence.zip file. This is a compressed file containing all of the required templates and images required for the theme to function properly.

### Upload the theme

1. Go to Appearance > Themes in the WordPress menu
2. Click on the Add New button
3. Click on the Upload link
4. Select the `Confidence.zip` file
5. Click Install Now

### Activate the theme

1. Go to Appearance > Themes in the WordPress menu
2. Hover over Confidence thumbnail and press the Activate button

After theme activated, go to Theme Option and click on Save Changes once. Now you can see initial Confidence theme setting appear at front end.

### Installation problems

1. Theme is missing the style.css stylesheet error : Read me
2. 10 Common WordPress Theme Issues & How To Fix Them : Read me

- Need help about installation ?

# 02.1Install and Activate Plugins

After activate the theme, you can see a section, on the top, it includes a reminding about plugins of the theme ( or you can find theme plugins here : appereance - install plugins ) :

1. Click Begin installing plugins
2. Go to Bulk actions > Install
3. Select all plugins
4. And click Apply

After a few minutes...That's it! Now, you should activate the plugins for use them:

5. Hover Plugins on the right bar
6. Click Installed Plugins
7. Go to Bulk actions > Activate
8. Select all plugins
9. And click Apply

After activate theme you can find plugins here : admin menu - appereance - install plugins

# 02.2Installing Demo Data

Just one click and wait 1-10 minutes

Please change your media settings before using demodata

Creating your website has never been much easier ever. If you would like to have your demo just like ours, all you need to do is just to click the 'One Click' demo importer. With the help of the 'One Click', your website will be seen like ours saving your time. You can also change easly any elements you wish on your website.

In order to work One Click Demo please follow these steps;

Wordpress Admin Panel > Appearance > Installer Panel and Run Installer.

Revolution slider will not working via oneclick installer, please upload Revslider demodata manually after complete installation Revolution slider demodata / full tutorials

# 02.3Setting Up Front and Blog Page

To set up the Frontpage,you must first create a new page with no content inside it, you can do so by navigating to

Pages > Add New.

You can give this page a title of "Frontpage" Under the page attributes section,

Select Page Template As Front Page Template and Click "Publish".

Once you have created your new page:

1. Go to Settings > Reading
2. Select A static page from Front page displays section
3. Select frontpage for Front page
4. Select Blog for Posts page

If you haven't applied these setting above,your frontpage sections will not be displayed.

# 03Creating Menu

One "Front Page" is set,you need to create all the required pages and create a menu in Appearance>Menus

If you do not choose the priamry menu, home section will don't work.

1. Go to Appearance > Menus
2. And assign it to Primary Navigation Menu at the bottom and save it.

This will create you onepage theme perfectly

# 04.1Add Subscribe Form

- Go to: Contact Form 7 from left side of admin panel
- Click 'Add New', create your contact form and copy the shortcode of this form..
- You can use this form in the pages via visual composer plugin now.
- Copy and paste this code anywhere

Default form code:

<div class="form-group relative"> [text* text-174 class:form-control class:input-lg placeholder "Enter email"] [submit class:btn class:btn-lg class:btn-primary class:btn-block class:btn-subscribe "→"] </div>
Please change demo form input elements
Here is the Contact Form 7 plugin documentation: Contact Form 7 Documentation

# 05Post Formats

This theme makes use of all of WordPress' 10 post formats to give you plenty of ways to show content in the top section of your articles. You choose type by selecting format in the "Format" box on the right side when you edit or add a new post. Depending on which format you select, new options will appear below the large text field.

Here is how to use each one of the formats, and what each one does:

- Standard - This is the default option. It will not automatically include a featured image at the top of the post, like the image format does. It's simply a standard post that shows article text.
- Audio - Shows an audio player at the top of your post, as well as the featured image. Two audio URL fields will appear once selected. Both audio formats are required for cross-browser compatibility.
- Aside - Hides the entry title of the article
- Gallery - Shows all images attached to the post as a slider at the top of the article. More details how to use will appear below once selected.

  Note: If you want to show an image in the article below the slider, but still not include it in the slider, you need to go to Media > Add New and upload it there. Then go back to the post and insert it. Make sure it's not attached to the post.

- Quote - Shows a big quote box at the top of the article. Fields for the quote text and quote author will appear once selected.
- Video - Shows an embed video at the top of the article. Fields for link embed or code embed will appear once selected.
  You can show self-hosted videos in this field, although it's not intentionally supported, by using HTML5-video tags in the Embed Code field.

# 06Theme Settings

Theme settings is here: Appereance - Theme options

Included:

# 07Woocomerce options

After install woocommerce plugin you need to set woocommerce pages. Woocommerce page settings here : appereance - theme options. If you want to add woocommerce widgets go here : appereance - widgets

You can visit plugin documentation website.

# 08Translate theme

Translate theme tutorial

# 09Visual Composer Settings

Go here Visual Composer Settings -> Design Settings

And select "Use custom design options": enable

Change the default value of Elements bottom margin and Grid gutter width to 0

Look Visual Composer Tutorial Videos

# 10Visual Composer Shortcodes

# 11Theme problems

1- Question : I did everything like in the documentation but menu is invisible?

Solution: Please go to Admin - pages - frontpage and click update

2- Problem : I can not load the demodata or some images.

Solution:Check your server settings or contact service provider. Some hosts block the demodata.

4- Problem : I did all updates and did fresh installation but there are some allignment issues.

Solution:Please install latest version of theme. Check your 'Theme Options'. Update your theme via FTP or Wordpress Toolkit.

# 12Additional Information

Extra information that you may find useful.

### Font Awesome and other font (icon) issues?

If you have trouble with Font Awesome showing strange characters instead of icons, you are most likely using a CDN or external host in some way for the font files. Certain browsers may have issues with that, as they follow certain web standards. (Also make sure that your font files were uploaded correctly, and empty caches)

This can be fixed with for example this sample .htaccess file from MaxCDN. If you wish to read more about this, it relates to CORS headers.

### Useful plugins

Many common problems or missing features can usually be solved with plugins. Here is a list of some great ones.

- Regenerate Thumbnails - A must-have when changing theme or thumbnail sizes
- WordPress Importer - Import XML file data for the website
- WP-PageNavi - Better pagination for your blog
- Contact Form 7 - A simple and flexible contact form plugin
- W3 Total Cache - Cache plugin to speed up your website
- Easy Add Thumbnail - Auto-set featured images for old as well as new posts
- Facebook Thumb Fixer - Make sure articles shared on Facebook and Google+ shows the right thumbnail images
- Responsive Lightbox - Easily add responsive lightboxes to your website and gallery images
- SyntaxHighlighter Evolved - Post code in your articles in a visually pleasing way
- WooCommerce - Sell stuff

### Recommended theme editing software

- Firefox - The web browser of choice for me, although there are many good ones
- Firebug - Inspect code directly in the web browser. Lite version for Chrome here. Search on YouTube for video tutorials and you will quickly learn how to use it.
- PoEdit - Translate your theme. Read how to translate here.
- Notepad++ - A great text editor to modify theme code
- FileZilla - Modify or upload theme files via FTP

### Link Resources

Learn more and ask about WordPress' standard features. WordPress is in itself an extremely well-documented open platform. It is recommended to search for answers via Google / DuckDuckGo first if you have questions – it almost always give useful information or at least point you in the right direction.

- WordPress.com Documentation - Quick and simple guides to standard features
- WordPress.org Codex - Documentation and great code examples
- WordPress.org Forums - Support for WordPress
- WordPress Code Answers - Ask and find great answers to code questions
- Ninetheme support videos - Find answers from all over the web. Always good.
- Revolution slider docs
- Contact form 7 tutorial

# 12.1Troubleshooting 101

Do you have a problem with your theme? This quick troubleshooting guide should be the first thing to check through - it will help you find the root cause of the issue.

A WordPress website issue can come from mainly one of 4 areas:

- Conflicting plugins
- Broken WordPress install
- Incorrect server setup
- The theme itself

Lets find out where your issue is coming from!

### Step 1: Check your plugins

The first thing to do is to see if you have any plugins installed. Do you? If so, go to your admin panel and disable all of them. Now, go back to your site and see if the issue remains. If the problem is gone, then re-activate your plugins one-by-one and check the site between each activation. This way you will directly find the plugin(s) that cause problems.

If your issue remains even with all plugins disabled, go on to the next step.

### Step 2: Check your customizations

Have you customized your theme in any way before you noticed the issue? If so, go to the theme demo website of the theme and see if you find the same issue there. If you can not see the issue there, you need to take a look at your customized code and find what may be wrong.

### Step 3: Is the issue admin panel related?

If you have problems with media uploads, errors in the WordPress dashboard or other access issues, the likely cause is either an incorrectly setup server or a broken WordPress install.

To see if your problem is related to a broken WordPress install or an incorrect server setup, simply activate a WordPress default theme such as Twenty Twelve. Does the issue remain? Then your issue is not theme related. If the issue goes away with a default theme active, then it's most likely theme related.

- Do you think your issue is WordPress related? Re-installing WordPress may be a good idea, or asking for help on the wordpress.org forums.
- Do you think your issue is server related? Try some Google-searching for the issue, or contact your server provider about it.
- Do you think the issue is coming from the theme? Make sure to read this documentation through. If the issue remains and you are certain it's coming from the theme, feel free to report the bug on the wordpress.org support forums for hueman.

### Note: Remember cache!

If you apply/repair code to fix issues but see no changes on your website when you save it, check if your website has any cache plugin activated. If so, make sure to empty all caches. Also force-refresh the page when viewing it by pressing F5.

# 12.2Google Webfonts

Add new font families to Google Webfonts:

# 12.3Theme Updates

Theme update wia FTP:

Theme update wia Wordpress Toolkit:

# 12.4Theme Update service

Theme Update($15)

Low price service for customers who don't want make mistake while updating theme.

Complete Theme Installation($24)

Includes;

- Theme + Plugin Installation
- Demodata Installation
- Full Demo Settings

Wordpress Installation($45)

Includes;

- Wordpress installation
- Database installation
- Theme + plugin installation
- Demodata installation
- Full demo settings.

# 12.5Theme updates

If this is your first-time install or if you use the wordpress.org version of the theme, you can skip this step.

It is a good idea to keep your theme up to date with the latest version, as it often includes important bugfixes or new neat features. If a new version of the theme is available, do the following to update it:

1. Download the latest version.
2. Locate the `Confidence.zip` file to upload.
3. Go to Appearance > Themes in the WordPress menu
4. Activate a default theme temporarily, such as Twenty Twelve (to be able to delete your current theme)
5. Click on the theme you wish to update, and press the red delete link bottom right. Your admin panel options should remain saved.
6. Upload the new `Confidence.zip`, as you did on first-time install, and activate it.
7. Learn more how to use child themes here.

You are now running the latest and best version of the theme!

Important: If you haven't used a child theme for your theme customizations, you must do the following before each update:

- Backup your custom.css file if you have used it, it will be overwritten and needs to be re-added after the update.
- Backup your additional language files if you have created/modified any, they will be removed and need to be re-added after the update.
- Backup any other custom code.

# 12.6Visual Composer Manual Update

1. Download the latest version theme on the themeforest download page.
2. Locate the `Confidence/plugins/js_composer.zip folder` file to upload.
3. Go to Plugins in the WordPress menu
4. Delete visual composer plugin
5. You can check this menu : appereance - install plugins or updated plugin here: Confidence/plugins
6. Upload the new `js_composer.zip`, as you did on first-time install, and activate it.

You are now running the latest and best version of the plugin!

# 13Theme pages

Theme included extra 8 page types. Using :

1-) Events page

To create a events page,create a new page,you can do so by navigating to Pages> Add New.You can give this page a title you do not have to include any content. Under the page attributes section the page template must be set to "Events". And after create events page you need to add event post type. You can find event post type admin menu > events > add new

2-) Team/staff page

To create a Team page,create a new page,you can do so by navigating to Pages> Add New.You can give this page a title you do not have to include any content. Under the page attributes section the page template must be set to "Team". And after create Team page you need to add Team post type. You can find Team post type admin menu > Team > add new

3-) Causes page

To create a Causes page,create a new page,you can do so by navigating to Pages> Add New.You can give this page a title you do not have to include any content. Under the page attributes section the page template must be set to "Causes". And after create Causes page you need to add Causes post type. You can find Causes post type admin menu > Causes > add new

4-) Contact page

To create a Contact page,create a new page,you can do so by navigating to Pages> Add New.You can give this page a title you do not have to include any content. Under the page attributes section the page template must be set to "Contact". Contact map settings here : admin > appereance - theme options > Contact page maps

5-) Fullwidth page: this page for your special business. You can use elements shortcodes and any content with template

To create a Fullwidth page,create a new page,you can do so by navigating to Pages> Add New.You can give this page a title you do not have to include any content. Under the page attributes section the page template must be set to "Fullwidth".

6-) Ministry page

To create a Ministry page,create a new page,you can do so by navigating to Pages> Add New.You can give this page a title you do not have to include any content. Under the page attributes section the page template must be set to "Ministry". And after create Ministry page you need to add event post type. You can find event post type admin menu > Ministry > add new

7-) Prayers page

To create a Prayers page,create a new page,you can do so by navigating to Pages> Add New.You can give this page a title you do not have to include any content. Under the page attributes section the page template must be set to "Prayers". And after create Prayers page you need to add event post type. You can find event post type admin menu > Prayers > add new

8-) Program page

To create a Program page,create a new page,you can do so by navigating to Pages> Add New.You can give this page a title you do not have to include any content. Under the page attributes section the page template must be set to "Program". And after create Program page you need to add event post type. You can find event post type admin menu > Program > add new

# 14Ninetheme Support Center

Again, thank you for purchasing Confidence. If you need some help, or support please use email or contact form via themeforest profile site. Hope you happy with the theme, all the best with your business.

You can ask your question on: Ninetheme Support

If you want to rate it: Confidence Page