For Dummies

First we want to give a thank you for use this theme. We truly appreciate your support!

 Useful links to get you started on Wordpress Installation

• How to Install WordPress
• Getting Started with WordPress
• New To WordPress - Where to Start
•  First Steps With WordPress
• WordPress Lessons

You can download latest Wordpress version from wordpress.org. If you don't know what Wordpress is or have some difficulties with Wordpress installation, you can try to contact your service provider support.

After you've installed WordPress and when everything is working fine as it should you need to go over some settings, just to make sure your wordpress is working without any problems.

Should you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please you can submit a support ticket. (guest ticket available)

When creating a support ticket, try to explain as clearly as you can the issue you are having and what you were trying to do when the problem occurred.

don't forget to provide the link to your site, wp-admin and FTP credentials. 
Our support guys will get back to you as soon as possible.
The support center works Monday through Friday, European Time.

After activate the theme, show up  a warning asking you to install the recommended plugins. Installing these is very easy - you just need to click 'Begin installing plugins' and you will be redirected to the plugin installation page where you can install them. After install, you can activate them at the same place.

 Click here to wordpress instructions about how to create a custom menu.

WordPress Widgets add content and features to your Sidebar and Footer. 

We have this widget areas available:

1. Right Sidebar
2. First Footer (left)
3. Second Footer (center)
4. Third Footer (Right)

• Just go to Appearence, Customize, Widgets.
• Choose a Widget and drag it to the place where you wish it to appear. 
• Once you dropped the widget to widget areas, WordPress automatically updates the Theme and it will appear in its area.

To setup Contact Form at footer:

Create a small contact form. (Take a look Other: Contact form) Then, go to Customize-> Appearence ->  Widgets -> First (or another) Footer Widget.

Drag and drop one text widget to the footer widget area.

Click Add a Widget

Pick up one Widget

click Save

 Click here to Learn more about Wordpress and Widgets.

ForDummies has an advanced Theme Options panel that is loaded with options. There are numerous options to go over in these docs but please take some time and navigate through each tab. Go to Appearance -> Customize and take a look. We've organized them into logical sets and have given  descriptions for items that need it, most things are self explanatory. Be sure to hit Save to save your settings once you are done.

Appearence => Customize => Colors

You can chose:

• Base Color Scheme (Black, white and 3 more colors ...)
• Customize Background and Page Background colors
• Customize menu text color
  
  

Click SAVE

Go to Appearence => Customize => Theme Options => Footer Copyright

Write your Copyright Message. Example: Copyright 2016 Mycompany.com

You can use some html tags here, like bold, italic and link. You can use also &copy

Then click SAVE

Go to Appearence => Customize => Theme Options => Background Image

Choose a background image.

Then, click SAVE

You can also setup the social menu (top right corner in our demo). (mark as Social Links Menu)

Here is the WordPress help:

https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Menu_User_Guide

If you want hide the right sidebar in your page, at page attributes, select Template No-Sidebar.

We suggest to use the plugin Meta Slider to create sliders. In our free theme we use free Meta Slider version.

Creating slideshows with Meta Slider is fast and easy.

At your dashboard, look for Meta Slider.

Simply select images from your WordPress Media Library, drag and drop them into place, set slide captions, links and SEO fields all from one page. You can choose from 4 different slideshow types (Flex Slider, Nivo Slider, Responsive Slides & Coin Slider) and use the provided shortcode  to easily embed slideshows in your site.

Here is the plugin help page.

We do not provide support for plugins. If you have questions on plugins we recommend directing your questions to the plugin authors. 

We suggest to use Free ShortCodes Ultimate Plugin to give you shortcodes in our free theme.

With this plugin you can easily create tabs, buttons, boxes, different sliders, responsive videos and much, much more. Using Shortcodes Ultimate you can quickly and easily retrieve premium themes features and display it on your site. 

This is the Guide On Line.

We do not provide support for these plugins. If you have questions on these plugins we recommend directing your questions to the plugin authors. 

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.

If you are not familiair with this plugin check out below resources.

Contact 7 Help - http://contactform7.com/docs/

Please be informed that we do not give support to any third party plugin's questions and issues. We can only afford to answer simple usage questions or issues related to incompatibility with the theme.

Comments are enabled on WordPress posts and pages by default. You can change the default for new posts or pages, as well as enable/disable comments on posts or pages you’ve already published.

You can change the defaults for new posts or pages on the Settings -> Discussion screen.

To hide comments on the specific page go to “WP-admin > Pages” and click the “quick edit” link. You will see the “Allow Comments” checkbox (fig. 1):

You can do the same in the Page/Post Adding/Editing interface. Simply check the “Discussion” checkbox in Screen Option – corresponding “Discussion” box will appear (fig. 2):

The Right Sidebar is the main widget area. You can manage the widget areas at Widget Section (Appearence -> Customize).

This is optional and for advanced users.

If you want to create a child theme, follow this steps:

1. Go to theme’s directory (usually wp-content/themes/) , find the folder fordummies,  and open it.

You can do it with any FTP programs, like filezilla.

2.  Move the folder
fordummies-child
to outside the fordummies folder

I mean, to the same folder where you can find all themes.

3. Then, go to your site
Dashboard => Appearance => Themes
and activate the fordummies child theme.

Now, you should see Active: fordummies Child

Remember to do one back up of the theme and child theme folders before begin to make modifications.

Please, remember: Our support finish after you install the child theme and it is working fine without modifications. We can’t give support to theme customizations.

Now, you can make changes at your new style.css (at fordummies-child folder)

This theme is multilingual ready. Right now, have 2 language files available: English and French. This language file will be installed automaticaly.

To make the translation in your language,  please, go to this url:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-themes/fordummies

Then, click over your language (locale) and click over ForDummies

after that, go ahead.

Should you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please you can submit a support ticket. (guest ticket available)

We can provide support for general theme issues, such as if you are stuck setting the theme or if you spot a bug. However, we can’t provide customisation services, there are a bunch of companies out there that can assist you with that for a fee, you can find them by searching Google for “wordpress customisation service”

We do not provide support for plugins. If you have questions on plugins we recommend directing your questions to the plugin authors. 

When creating a support ticket, try to explain as clearly as you can the issue you are having and what you were trying to do when the problem occurred.

don't forget to provide the link to your site, wp-admin and FTP credentials. 
Our support guys will get back to you as soon as possible.
The For Dummies support center works Monday through Friday.

Useful links to get you started on Wordpress Installation

• How to Install WordPress
• Getting Started with WordPress
• New To WordPress - Where to Start
•  First Steps With WordPress
• WordPress Lessons

Thanks a lot for using this theme. Hope you found this documentation helpful for using this theme. Please support this product by giving your ratings and testimonial. For any further help, you can visit our support site.

With best wishes

Bill Minozzi
www.BillMinozzi.com
www.ThemeForDummies.com