General Information

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing our theme. We are happy that you are one of our customers and we assure you will not be disappointed. We do our best to produce top notch themes with great functionality, premium designs and easily readable code.

McKinney's Politics is a responsive and clean Blog WordPress theme, made by a team of creative professionals here at ThemeREX.
ThemeREX is a place to buy premium WordPress themes and HTML templates covered by effective and helpful support. Creative, crazy about details and innovative. We are a small and customers oriented company aiming to exceed your expectations!

Rate This Theme

PLEASE do not forget to rate this theme on ThemeForest. It only takes a second but it helps more than you think and of course it is always good to know what others think about our work.
If you like our theme, please consider rating it with 5 stars. You can rate it in the "Downloads" section of your account:

How To Use This Document

Before you get started we highly encourage you to get familiar with this documentation file. Spending half an hour reading the manual may save a lot of your time and avoid questions with obvious answers.

To quickly find the necessary information click on the "Search" button in the upper right corner of this documentation file and type the "keyword" you are looking for in the opened "Find Window" search box.
Alternatively you can use your browser's built-in "Search" tool. To do that press the CTRL+F (in Windows) or CMD+F (in OSX) keystroke to open the search bar.

License

With ThemeForest regular license you are licensed to use this theme to create one single End Product (the final website customized with your content) for yourself or for one client. In short:

What is allowed with single regular license:

1. You can create one website for yourself or for your client and you can transfer that single website to your client for any fee. This license is then transferred to your client.


2. You can install the theme on your test server for testing/development purposes (that installation shouldn't be available to the public).


3. You can modify or manipulate the theme, you can combine it with other works to create the End Product.


4. Theme updates for that single End Product (website) are free.

What is not allowed:

1. With single regular license it is not allowed you to create multiple websites. For multiple websites you will need multiple regular licenses.


2. To resell the same website (Single End Product) to another clients. You will need to purchase an extended license for this.

• License FAQ
• Licenses overview
• Regular license details
• Extended license details

Help & Support

Support Policy

Please read this user guide carefully, it will help you eliminate most of potential issues with incorrect configuration or using this template.

IMPORTANT! For more information regarding the theme's functionality, we suggest checking our Video Tutorials and Articles.

To be able to request a technical support assistance, you need to have a valid purchase code. To get the code, please navigate to your ThemeForest "Downloads" page and click on the theme download link.
Check this link for more information on this matter.

PLEASE NOTE That as authors of this theme we do provide support only for the theme-related features and of course for the issues related strictly to this theme.
We do not provide support for configuration, installation, maintenance, customization, 3rd party plugins integration or any other compatibility issues that might arise. Nevertheless, there is an exception that is only applied to the plugin(s) we have developed and integrated ourselves.

If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, feel free to post them on our support message board (forum) at https://themerex.net/support/. We will respond as soon as possible (within 24 – 48 hours, usually faster). We are open from 10am to 7pm (CET), from Monday till Friday.

Please be aware that some questions are posted on our website in "Common Questions" section. So, before submitting a new ticket, please try searching our website for an answer, as well as checking our Video Tutorials and Articles. Our website has its own inner search and also has been indexed by Google, so if you can not find your answer with our website search, it is worth typing it into Google too. Please make sure you have looked at all the available resources before submitting a support request.

Third-party extensions

Unfortunately, we do not provide support for third-party extensions. Please contact the author of the extension if needed. If you feel that you might have troubles with installing an extension, we advise you to order a professional installation service.

PLEASE NOTE that this theme may not be compatible with some third-party extensions. It is impossible for theme authors to make the theme compatible with all the existing extensions by default.
Only the standard (“default”) WordPress theme is compatible with all third-party extensions. Please be aware that an author of the extension should provide a detailed instruction on how to integrate it with a custom theme (since nobody actually uses “default” themes).

Customization

As we have mentioned above the theme's customization/modification is beyond the scope of our support policy.

As for minor CSS tweaks the best way is to use Firebug (an add-on for Firefox), Chrome Developer Tools (available in Google Chrome) or other similar tools.
Check these short video tutorials regarding Firebug functionality features:

• http://getfirebug.com/video/Intro2FB.htm
• https://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/15-introduction-to-firebug/

More information regarding CSS syntax can be found here:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/learn/css
• http://www.w3schools.com/css/
• http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/syntax

Additional Information

IMPORTANT! Please be aware that we do not include theme-related .PSD files into the theme package, because it might significantly increase the size of a downloadable archive.
In case you need these files you can always request them by contacting our support department at https://themerex.net/support/.

Please also be advised that all clipart images included in this theme are copyrighted to their respective owners and are not available for download with this theme. Clipart images can not be used without express permission from the owner and/or need to be purchased separately.

Getting Started

WordPress Information

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. Below are all the useful links for WordPress information.

• WordPress FAQ - General information about WordPress.
• WordPress Documentation - A great knowledge-base for WordPress beginners.
• PHP Function References - Detailed information on WordPress PHP functions and lot of usage examples.

Theme Requirements

To use this theme you must be running at least WordPress 5.0, PHP 5.6.20 or higher (for WooCommerce plug-in PHP 7.2+). If you use low-end hosting with limited resources (e.g. GoDaddy!), you may experience issues with "one-click" demo data installation feature.
We recommend that you contact your web hosting service provider to make sure that your server PHP configuration limits are as follows:

If you are running unmanaged dedicated server or VPS, you should check your php.ini file. Alternatively, you can edit .htaccess file in the root of your website and add the following values:

Setting these values will ensure you will not get error messages during the installation. To safeguard your website, please use secure passwords and the latest version of WordPress and plugins.

Here is the list of other recommended web hosting services:

• Bluehost (Exclusive Offer for our Customers: -70% OFF)
• SiteGround
• InMotion Hosting

Theme Installation

Unpacking the theme

Before installing the theme, please make sure you unpacked the archive and extracted theme files. After unzipping the archive, you will see the following files:

If you try to install the wrong files, you will get missing style.css file error. This is the most common error that means you are trying to install an incorrect package.

To install "McKinney" theme, you must have WordPress installed. For information regarding WordPress platform installation, please check the WordPress Codex or check this great video tutorial.

Update WordPress: To ensure a positive user experience, we highly recommend updating your WordPress to the latest stable version. This will help utilizing all of the latest features of WordPress.

If you have questions regarding the theme installation, we recommend reading the detailed instruction below.

You can install the theme in two ways:

• via FTP:
  
  
  1. Log into your web server with FTP client software.
  
  
  2. Unzip the mckinney-politics.zip file and ONLY use the extracted /mckinney-politics theme folder.
  
  
  3. Upload the extracted /mckinney-politics theme folder into /wp-content/themes folder.
  
  
  4. Navigate to the Appearance > Themes tab and activate the theme.


• via WordPress:
  
  
  1. Login to admin panel.
  
  
  2. Navigate to Appearance > Themes and click on the Add New button.
  
  
  3. Choose Upload theme option. Click on Browse...(Choose file in Safari/Chrome), select the "mckinney-politics.zip" and click Install Now button.
  
  
  4. After the successful installation, click on Activate or navigate to the Appearance > Themes and click on Activate button to activate the newly installed theme.
  
  
  5. Once the theme is activated, you will be prompted to install the required ThemeREX Addons and the other recommended plugins, if any. It might be (but not always should) Instagram Feed or MailChimp for WP (in case they are included), for example.
     
     
     All these plugins are included into the theme archive, or can be installed from the WordPress.org repository.
     The theme can function without the recommended plugins. But if you want your website look precisely as the demo page, you have to install all recommended plugins and import demo content. This is a good idea if you are building your website from scratch.
     However, if you have an existing website, you should be very careful with plugins installation and importing demo data: this may affect an entire website's content, it's look, behavior and structure. Please refer to the Demo Content section for more details.
  
  
  6. As a final step - the new menu item Appearance > ThemeREX Addons should appear in the WP Dashboard menu bar.
  
  
  7. IMPORTANT! If you want to make changes in theme’s templates or functions, we recommend activating a child theme before demo data installation. Please see the Child Theme section for more information.

Child Theme

Child theme is for developers willing to make changes to core functions and code. If you are not planning to dig that deep, you can just skip this chapter.

IMPORTANT! If you want to make changes in theme’s templates or functions, we recommend to install a child theme and apply changes there. To learn more about that, please visit WordPress Codex.

In the theme's package you can find all the necessary files for the child theme. It is located in the "mckinney-politics-child.zip" archive. The installation of a child theme is similar to the main theme.

A few recommendations on how to use a Child Theme:

• Almost all files from the main theme can be replaced in a child theme. It doesn’t concern only .php-files with templates and basic logic, but also both .js, .css files from respective folders and files with images, icons etc.
• If you want to change some theme-related functions or add new ones, copy/add all the required functions into functions.php file in the mckinney-politics-child folder. If our theme contains functions with such names, they will be replaced with yours, if not – your functions will complete our theme logics.
  PLEASE NOTE If you want to replace some functions from other files (except functions.php), e.g. from _wp_utils.php or _utils.php, we do not recommend you to copy respective files into the child theme, but you should create the respective functions in functions.php in the child theme. This should be done, so that when updating the theme, new functions from these files are available for use.
  As for other files - put out the templates from the folder 'templates', images from the folder 'images' etc. - to make changes copy theme into the folder 'child theme' and make changes there.

Plugins Installation

In order to make the theme look exactly as the demo page, you need to install recommended plugins. Click on Begin installing plugins link.

Alternatively, you can use Appearance > Install Plugins menu that redirects to the plugins installation page. Check all the listed plugins, select Install option and click on Apply button. Installation may take a few minutes, please be patient and do not refresh the page.

Find the list of included plugins below:

• Contact Form 7


• Cool Timeline (free version)


• Elegro Crypto Payment


• Essential Grid


• MailChimp for WordPress


• Slider Revolution


• The Events Calendar


• ThemeREX Addons (required)


• ThemeREX Updater


• WooCommerce


• WPBakery Page Builder (required)

SUCCESS! After the installation you will get a notification informing that plugins were installed successfully.

PLEASE NOTE! Our theme is compatible with Cookie Information (formerly WP GDPR Compliance) plugin, though it is not included into the theme's package.

Gutenberg Compatibility

Our theme is compatible with Gutenberg page builder. You can create new pages using this editor.

All existing demo pages are built through WPBakery Page Builder and should be customized via WPBakery Page Builder ONLY.

PLEASE NOTE! It is possible to switch between the page builders. Please use One page builder for creating/customizing One particular page/post.

Demo Content

Our themes have simple One click demo data import tool. It's very easy to use and you can get a precise copy of our demo website in just 1 click.

Before installing demo data, please make sure you have installed all the required plugins, please refer to Plugins installation section of this document for details.

To import demo content into a WordPress site, please follow these steps:

1. Log in to your site as an administrator.


2. OPTIONAL! In case you will receive a notification message prompting to install required ThemeREX Addons plugin, click on Begin installing plugins" and install it on the corresponding page.
   IMPORTANT! The rest of recommended plugins are not mandatory for installation of demo content but highly recommended.


3. Navigate to Appearance > Install Demo Data:

4. On the page that showed up set the required parameters.
   
   IMPORTANT!When installing "Whole demo-site content", ALL THE EXISTING CONTENTS of your website will be deleted and replaced with the new data! We highly recommend that you install "Whole demo-site content" only on blank WordPress installation.

5. Click on "Start import" button.
   
   PLEASE NOTE It may take a while for demo data to be copied from our server to your site. It depends significantly on the Internet connection speed between your website and our server. Please wait patiently and do not refresh/leave the page.


6. Once the data is successfully imported, you will see the following message:
   



IMPORTANT: In case "Demo Data" installation stuck and you see "Error load data from the file ... " error message, you can manually install it by downloading the demo.zip archive from our server. In this case, please unzip demo.zip file and upload the exracted /demo folder into /wp-content/themes/mckinney-politics folder. Now refresh the installation page on your site or go to Appearance > Install Demo Data and repeat the procedure described above.

Treat the screenshot below as an example only. The list of folders inside a theme package may vary.





In case the issue persists, please contact your hosting provider to make sure that your server configuration meets the Theme Requirements or refer your request to our support department

PLEASE NOTE! Some plugins might consume a large amount of memory (RAM) while they are enabled and in use! Besides that, by installing such massive add-ons as WooCommerce, Revolution Slider, BBPress, BuddyPress and others, you are adding at least up to 20-40Мb (per each) to the memory (RAM) consumed by your website.
For instance, after installing and activating the Revolution Slider, your website’s memory (RAM) consumption might increase up to 70-80Mb, as for BBPress and BuddyPress - it might consume about 100-110Mb of RAM. Add WooCommerce and your website's RAM consumption might not fit even in 128Мb! So you will have to increase the available memory to 192М (better up to 256Mb) to make all these plugins work properly.

Theme Update

This step is required if you received the notification that a new version of the theme is available. You can see this information in Changelog section at the bottom of the item's details page.

PLEASE NOTE Before you go ahead with the update make sure you backup your old theme's folder. Download it to your computer locally.

It is a good practice to backup both your files and database regularly and especially before making some serious updates.

Update Option 1. Update using the ThemeREX Updater plugin
(for theme version 1.2.1 and above only!)

1. Please make sure the ThemeREX Updater plugin is installed and activated. This plugin is provided with the theme.


2. Navigate to Appearance > ThemeREX Updater and enter your purchase code to get the latest versions of bundled plug-ins and theme updates through the WordPress admin panel. To get the code, please navigate to your ThemeForest "Downloads" page and click on the theme download link. Check this guide for more details.

3. We recommend you to check the "Create backups" option to allow the system create backups for plugins versions and the theme automatically.


4. Proceed to WP Dashboard > Updates and check if any updates are available.

5. Choose the options for an update (plugin, theme, etc.) and click on Update button.


6. You can restore the backups created by the system in WP Dashboard > Updates or in Appearance > ThemeREX Updater (if the "Create backups" option was checked before the update).

Update Option 2. Update using WordPress uploader

1. Log into your ThemeForest account and navigate to your downloads tab. Find the theme and download “Installable WordPress file”.



2. Log into your WordPress website and go to Appearance > Themes.


3. Activate a different theme. Delete the previous version of mckinney-politics and re-upload the new WordPress Installable files that you have downloaded from ThemeForest during the 1st step.


4. Once it is uploaded, activate the theme.


5. Update (if necessary!) the included plugins, if you see a notification message prompting about a newer version.
   
   
   • Navigate to WP Dashboard > Plugins > Installed Plugins.
   
   
   • Update ThemeREX Addons plugin. You can click on "Update" button (if available in a particular theme) or deactivate and delete this plugin. Then follow the prompt to install it again. This will load a new plug-in version on the site.
   
   
   • Deactivate and delete the rest plugin(s) of old version.
   
   
   • Go to Appearance > Install Plugins and install the plugin(s) like it was described in the Plugins Installation section of this documentation.
   
   

Update Option 3. Update using FTP client

1. Log into your ThemeForest account and get the last version of the theme as described above.


2. Connect to your server using desktop client software (we recommend CyberDuck and Filezilla).


3. Change directory to /wp-content/themes.


4. Remove existing folder with old theme files.


5. Unpack theme installable files downloaded from ThemeForest and upload to the theme folder.


6. Update (if necessary!) the included plugins as it was described above, if you see a notification message prompting about a newer version.

Quick Start

After the theme activation and demo content import, we are ready to get started with basic theme settings like site title, tagline, logo, favicon etc.

To change your site title and tagline, go to Settings > General. Please note, these parameters are important for search engines.

Another great idea may be setting custom permalinks structure to make them more SEO friendly and human-readable. Go to Settings > Permalinks and make changes according to the example below.

Customizer settings

Now let's navigate to Appearance > Customize in the WP dashboard side menu - the feature which makes theme customization extremely user-friendly and straight-forward, allowing the Administrator to manage the feel and look of the blog website easily from one place.
Customizer's settings are responsible for the overall

PLEASE NOTE that our theme has an unique inheritance hierarchy. It means that Global settings made with Customizer Panel can be overridden by settings of each particular page via the its "Theme Options"..​

But there is one more unique feature we have implemented. It allows you to integrate Blog Archive feed with the WPBakery Page Builder in any area of the page - just right where you want it to appear without any deep code modifications. Find more detailed instructions in the Blog Archive Styles section (Doc Navigation menu item).

We have integrated a lot of additional options to the default WordPress "Customize" menu, which allows you to flexibly control the appearance and behavior of the whole website as well as individual types of posts, pages and categories.

Moreover, you can see the changes of the frontend right after the alterations - when the needed parameter is selected, without switching from admin to frontend each time. It saves much of your time and lets you customize your website just in several clicks. When you are done with the changes, you should click on "Save and Publish" button at the top of the Customizer's side menu.
There are quite a lot of parameters here, but luckily the majority of them have default values that suit most of users needs. Let's take a closer look at them:

Menus

These settings allow you to manage available Menus:

Menus can also be edited via "Appearance > Menus" settings.

There is a default Main Menu type available, expandable and can be edited right through the Customizer settings.

Check the screenshot below for more information.

Widgets

Depends on the selected page that is being edited with Customizer's tools you can notice different kind of widgets sets included to a particular page.

If you expand this widget set, you will be able to:

1. Add a Widget (for Classic Widgets Editor) or Add a Block (for New Block Widgets Editor): just click on "Add a Widget/Block" button to see the available widgets, then choose the one you want to use:




2. Reorder the position of widgets using 3 icons:


• Move - allows you to move the widget to another sidebar.


• Down - the widget will be moved down.


• Up - the widget will be moved upwards.

After you reorder the position of the widgets/blocks in the sidebar, save your changes.

Please note! Our theme supports both Classic Widgets Editor and New Block Widgets Editor (WordPress 5.8+). You can easily switch between the editors using the "Disable new Widgets Block Editor" option in Appearance (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > General section.

Moreover, our theme provides a few Custom Widget sets that are available in Appearance > Widgets section (for New Block Widgets Editor - under "Widgets" group) as well as a few more additional areas (you can add on your own) that allow displaying the necessary widgets almost anywhere on the page. Check the screenshots below for more information.

You can assign any Custom widget (Widget area) to the page in the Theme Options section.

Below is an example of how the "Sidebar Widgets" set may look like:

Here is a short guide that will help you to have a better understanding of how and where widgets can be set and displayed:

1. Navigate to the Appearance > Widgets section and drag and drop all the necessary widgets to the needed Widget Sets, such as "Custom Widgets 1, 2, ..." or any other ones. On the screenshot below you can see custom widgets marked with arrows that we will be using.

2. Now let's create a test page and add a simple custom block to it via the WPBakery Page Builder.

3. Once it's done, navigate to your page's "Theme Options". On the header tab enable the "Header widgets" option and specify the necessary widget set you want to be displayed.



4. On the "Widgets" tab enable the options like it is shown on the example below.



5. On the "Footer" tab enable the "Footer widgets" option and specify the necessary widget set for it.



6. Once it's done the page needs to be updated ("Update" button in the right hand sidebar). Now let's navigate to the frontend to see the result of our customizations.

1. ThemeREX Addons - About Me: Displays the photo and description of the website admin.


2. ThemeREX Addons - Audio Player: Displays an audio player.


3. ThemeREX Addons - Banner: Displays a regular banner image.


4. ThemeREX Addons - Calendar: Displays a regular calendar.


5. ThemeREX Addons - Categories list: Displays the list of available categories.


6. ThemeREX Addons - Contacts: Displays your Logo and contact information.


7. ThemeREX Addons - Flickr Photos: Shows photos from Flickr account.


8. ThemeREX Addons - Most Popular & Commented Posts: Displays the most visited, most commented and most liked articles.


9. ThemeREX Addons - Post Slider/Revolution Slider: Displays the slides via Posts (Swiper) Slider or Revolution Slider.


10. ThemeREX - Recent News: Displays the most recent news.


11. ThemeREX Addons - Recent Posts: Displays the most recent posts. Unlike the standard widget, it can display a post featured image, author name, comments, post counters and post category if you enable these options.


12. ThemeREX Addons - Socials: Shows the links to social network profiles. The social icons inherit the links (URLs) to your social profiles specified in the Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > Socials tab.


13. ThemeREX Addons - Twitter: Shows latest tweets from Twitter account.


14. ThemeREX Addons - Video Player: Displays a video player.

Title, Tagline & Site icon

Settings of this group are responsible for the website icon, tagline and title display:

Site Title

The text entered into this field will be displayed as the logo (if the image logo is not uploaded) and as the website title in your browser tab.

Tagline

The text entered into this field will be displayed as the website slogan under the logo. By default, the tagline is used if no image logo is selected.

Site Icon

You can upload/remove your site icon (favicon) here (must be 512x512px).

Background

These settings allow you to add the background image/color behind the content body, when "Boxed" body style is enabled and to manage the position of the background image:

Just click on Select image button to upload the image from the Media Library or your computer. Right after this step, additional options appear, such as "Preset", "Image Position", "Image Size" and a few other.

Header

This option allows you to add the header background image to your website top panel.

Current Header/Previously uploaded

This option allows you to upload an image to the header area (Do not forget to also check the "Header Style" option settings). It also shows the current header image and previously uploaded one.
The Header image override option is responsible for overriding the header image with one of the post's/page's/product's featured image.

Header Video

This setting allows you to upload a video to the header area.

Header Style/Position/Color Scheme

Here you can apply one of a few different header styles and set its position, as well choose the necessary color scheme.

Menu Style/Color Scheme

These group of setting allows you to manage behavior of the menu.

Menu Hover

Select one of the hover effects applied to the menu.

Submenu show animation/Submenu hide animation

Choose an effect for submenu animation.

Search in the Header

Select one of the available styles for the search field bar.

Header widgets

Select one of available widget sets to display them on every page.

"Header fullwide" setting allows you to stretch the header area to the entire window width. "Show page title" and "Show Breadcrumbs" options are responsible for displaying title and breadcrumbs on the page.

Show cart button

Select the way to show the cart button in the user menu.

Logo

Embed your logo URL into this field to display the image.

Logo for Retina

Upload a double size logo image to make it look better on the Retina displays.

Mobile layout from

This setting is responsible for mobile layout. For instance, if screen's resolution is 959px the mobile layout will be applied.

The Events Calendar

Settings of this group allow managing the overall look of the Event Calendar elements.

WooCommerce

Settings of this group allow managing the overall look of the WooCommerce elements. The single products can be added/customized in WordPress Dashboard Menu > Products.

The quantity of products displayed on shop page is inherited from the Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce > Product Catalog section. "Products per row" and "Rows per page" options work only if the "Shop mode" (Appearance > Customize > Shop) is set to "Thumbnails".

Additional CSS

Settings of this group are responsible for specifying additional custom styles.

Content

You can customize behavior of the content area in this section.

Body Style

Body Style options allow you to choose the way the page is displayed selecting the width for the website body content:

Boxed

Wide

Fullwide

Fullscreen

Site color scheme

Choose one of the available color schemes for your site.
"Expand Content" setting allows you to expand the pages content, if the sidebar is hidden.
"Remove Margins" setting simply removes the margins above and below the content's area.

Text with Privacy Policy link

Specify the text for the checkbox in a default form. This text will be displayed before the Privacy Policy link. It works only for forms that are built using trx_sc_form shortcode.

In order to add/customize the Privacy Policy link, navigate to Settings (WP Dashboard) > Privacy and specify the page that will be used as a Privacy Policy one.

Button's hover/Image's hover

Select the necessary hover effects for buttons and images.

Below you can find an example of image's hover effect with the option set to "Dots".

Sidebar widgets/Color Scheme/Sidebar Position

These group of setting allows you to manipulate with sidebar color scheme, its position and widgets in contains.

Widgets-related settings

These settings allow specifying widgets set for any widget area. Check the Widgets section for more information.

Footer

This option allows you to customize footer widgets.

Color Scheme

Select the necessary color scheme for the footer area.

Footer widgets

Select the necessary widgets to display in the footer area.

Footer columns

Set the necessary columns quantity to display the widgets in.

Footer fullwide - this setting stretches the footer area to an entire window width.
Show logo - this setting displays logo in the footer area.

Logo for Footer/(Retina)

Upload your logo image here.

"Show social icons" options allow to display the necessary social icons in the footer area. The social icons inherit the links (URLs) to your social profiles specified in the Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > Socials tab.

Copyright

Place your copyright text. Use {Y} symbol to indicate the current year.

Homepage

Settings of this section allow you to manage homepage style and its' widgets:

Blog style:

• Excerpt - Posts contain the featured image, a small excerpt from the post content and "Continue Reading" button.
• Classic 2/3 columns - "Excerpt" style posts arranged in 2/3 columns.
• Portfolio 2/3/4 columns - Posts displayed in a few columns, but without description.
• Gallery 2/3/4 columns - Posts displayed as gallery image tiles.
• Chess 1/2/3 columns - Posts displayed in a "chess" order.

Header-related settings

These settings allow selecting header widgets.

Sidebar-related settings

These settings are responsible for specifying widgets set for a sidebar and its position as well.

Widgets-related settings

These settings allow specifying widgets set for any widget area. Check the Widgets section for more information.

Blog archive

This section allows you to control the layout and style of your blog archive pages such as a blog stream page and category pages. The settings of this section are same as for the Homepage we have described above.
Please check our article or visit this video tutorial for more information on how to customize the Posts pages.

Blog style

Select the necessary post style for your blog archive (Same as for the Homepage).

Category to show

Select the necessary category to display in the blog archive.

Pagination style

Select the necessary pagination style for posts to show.

Posts content

Select the way to display your posts' content.

Animation for posts

Select the necessary animation style for your posts to show up.

Header-related settings

These settings allow selecting header widgets.

Sidebar-related settings

These settings are responsible for specifying widgets set for a sidebar and its position as well.

Widgets-related settings

These settings allow specifying widgets set for any widget area. Check the Widgets section for more information.

Services, Shop, Events

These settings are responsible for overall look and behavior of Services, Shop and Events pages. The settings are similar for all of these groups of pages, especially the widget-related ones.

Expand content

In case there is no sidebar on the page, the content will occupy the sidebar area.

Header widgets

This setting allows specifying header widgets.

Sidebar-related settings

These settings are responsible for specifying widgets set for a sidebar and its position as well.

Widgets-related settings

These settings allow specifying widgets set for any widget area. Check the Widgets section for more information.

Shop mode

This setting allows you to display products' lists in 2 different styles: Thumbnails & List.

The quantity of products displayed on shop page is inherited from the Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce > Product Catalog section. "Products per row" and "Rows per page" options work only if the "Shop mode" (Appearance > Customize > Shop) is set to "Thumbnails".

Color Scheme Editor

Settings of this section provide you more options to flexible manage the color scheme of your website. Let's consider these parameters.

Color Settings

Here you can select whether to stick with Simple (you will be able to change only accented colors, links and buttons colors) or the Advanced option (you will be able to get the full control over the appearance of your site) of color scheme customization settings.

Color Scheme

Select one of a few predefined color schemes:

Links

This option allows you to set the necessary color for your links and accented areas.

Links Hover

Here you can set the necessary hover color for your links and accented areas.

PLEASE NOTE In case the capabilities of "Simple" color scheme are not enough you can go with the "Advanced" one and completely change the feel and look of your entire website.

Pages

This section covers the information about Pages in your website: included page templates, how to edit existing pages, add new ones.

Page templates

Please navigate to Pages in your WordPress admin panel, click on Add new button to create new pages:

There is Page Attributes > Template block on the right. It allows you to select the page style. Additionally you can manipulate with Theme Options settings to make your page look more attractive.

In order to choose some static content page for your Frontpage, please navigate to Settings > Reading and locate Homepage displays, select Static page, and choose pages for your Homepage and Posts page. (Please do not forget to add your new Blog page to the navigation bar in Appearance > Menus). On the same page in admin you can enter the number of posts to be displayed on the blog archive pages:

IMPORTANT! Please note, if you want to set any other page rather than Home as your front page (for example Blog Archive or any other one) and want to display the slider on it as well, then proceed to Appearance > Customize > Homepage > Header Widgets section and select the "Header Widgets" option. Slider can be added in Appearance > Widgets section. See the screenshots below for more information. Once it's done click on "Save" button at the top right corner in the Customizer side menu bar.

Homepage

Now, let's proceed with building a homepage. You can create as many options of the main page, as you want.

We will show you how to configure one the homepage, which is "Homepage 1" (just the same one as on our demo).

Homepage 1

The screenshot below demonstrates the page style we are aiming at:

The algorithm of our actions would be as follows:

1. Select Pages > Add New and create a new page.


2. Specify a name for it (e.g. Home 1).

Now the page is ready for further customization with WPBakery Page Builder. Before you start, please check these WPBakery Page Builder-related tutorials. They will give you a basic understanding of how to build a page properly.

1. Official WPBakery Page Builder FAQ page.


2. Getting Started With WPBakery Page Builder Guide.


3. WPBakery Page Builder: A Guide To Drag & Drop Page Building.


4. How to Add Row and Column with WPBakery Page Builder.


5. How to Add Row or Column Background with WPBakery Page Builder.


6. How to Create Empty Space Between Elements with Custom Height.

The whole page is build with the following elements: Rows, Block containers, Content blocks, Gaps, Columns and other shortcodes. On the screenshots below you can see which backend section corresponds to a frontend section.

Here is how it looks on the frontend:

And here is how it looks in the WPBakery Page Builder's backend editor:

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="large" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_height="yes"][vc_column][trx_sc_anchor icon_type="fontawesome" id="services" title="services"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_services cat="0" count="4" columns="2" title="Our Services" subtitle="TO CREATE A HIGHLY INFORMED AIMED SOCIETY" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css="" scheme="inherit"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="5px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces"][vc_column][trx_sc_anchor icon_type="fontawesome" id="about" title="about"][trx_sc_promo type="default" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" text_bg_color="#f6f6f6" image="527" image_position="left" image_width="50%" image_cover="1" image_bg_color="" size="large" text_width="none" text_float="none" text_align="left" full_height="1" text_paddings="1" text_margins="" gap="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=".vc_custom_1469450255363{background-color: #f6f6f6 !important;}"][vc_column_text]
<h1>Join us, and let’s
get to work</h1>
[/vc_column_text][vc_separator color="custom" accent_color="#e4e4e4" css=".vc_custom_1469185703282{margin-top: 2em !important;margin-bottom: 2.5em !important;}"][vc_column_text el_class="padding_right_large"]<span style="font-size: 1.143em; line-height: 1.9em;">How can we get our country back on track? How to preserve our Constitution and get people value and honor it? All this core questions have been evolving in our minds for years. And now we have all the answers to them. Join us and change your future.</span>[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
<h4>THE IMPORTANT ISSUES OUR NATION FACES</h4>
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="10px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][vc_column_text el_class="padding_right_large"]
<ul class="trx_addons_list trx_addons_list_simple">
 	<li>Entitlement Reform</li>
 	<li>Foreign Policy</li>
 	<li>Education</li>
</ul>
<ul class="trx_addons_list trx_addons_list_simple">
 	<li>Criminal Justice Reform</li>
 	<li>The Economy</li>
 	<li>Veteran Healthcare</li>
</ul>
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="11px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_button type="default" size="normal" link="/our-team/" title="Learn More" subtitle="" align="none" text_align="none" bg_image="" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" image="" icon_position="left" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][/trx_sc_promo][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][trx_sc_anchor icon_type="fontawesome" id="news" title="news"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="large" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="none" align="none" padding="none" title="What's New" subtitle="The Latest News From The Campaign" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile="1"][vc_empty_space height="4px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][ess_grid alias="blog-home"][/trx_sc_content][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row" css=".vc_custom_1469458932489{background-image: url(/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bg-form.jpg?id=453) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_column][trx_sc_anchor icon_type="fontawesome" id="call_to_action" title="call to action"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile="1"][trx_sc_promo type="default" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" text_bg_color="#ffffff" image="227" image_position="left" image_width="50%" image_cover="1" image_bg_color="" size="small" text_width="none" text_float="center" text_align="center" full_height="" text_paddings="1" text_margins="" gap="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="large" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="14px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][vc_column_text]
<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.4em;">Become a Volunteer</h2>
<div style="font-size: 1.143em; line-height: 1.8em; padding: 0 1em; margin-bottom: -5px;">Get involved in our debates, become a volunteer or join as activist. It's time to step up and change the future.</div>
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_column_text][mc4wp_form id="461"][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][/trx_sc_promo][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile="1"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" equal_height="yes" content_placement="middle" css=".vc_custom_1469455954419{background-color: #121f30 !important;}"][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1469455919168{background-image: url(/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/block-1.jpg?id=232) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_column_text]
<h3 style="text-align: center; margin: 0;"><a href="/contacts/">Have a question?</a></h3>
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3" scheme="dark" css=".vc_custom_1469515046866{background-color: #c01b33 !important;}"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_column_text]
<h3 style="text-align: center; margin: 0;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><a style="color: #ffffff;" href="/contacts/">Donate now</a></span></h3>
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3" scheme="dark"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_socials type="default" icons="%5B%7B%22link%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Frss.com%2F%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-rss%22%7D%2C%7B%22link%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FThemerexThemes%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-twitter%22%7D%2C%7B%22link%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fchannel%2FUCnFisBimrK2aIE-hnY70kCA%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-youtube%22%7D%2C%7B%22link%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.facebook.com%2FThemeRexStudio%2F%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-facebook%22%7D%5D" title="Follow Us:" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][trx_sc_anchor icon_type="fontawesome" id="events" title="events"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="5px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="none" align="none" padding="none" title="Upcoming Events" subtitle="Announce" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="5px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][/trx_sc_content][cool-timeline layout="horizontal" show-posts="3" order="DESC" date-format="default" icons="NO"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][trx_sc_anchor icon_type="fontawesome" id="testimonials" title="testimonials"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="none" align="none" title="testimonials" subtitle="what people say about us" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css="" padding="none"][/trx_sc_content][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="large" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="8px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][trx_sc_testimonials cat="39" count="3" columns="1" slider="1" slides_space="0" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css="" type="default"][vc_separator color="custom" accent_color="#e4e4e4" css=".vc_custom_1468999640341{margin-top: 2em !important;margin-bottom: 3.5em !important;}"][trx_sc_testimonials cat="40" count="2" columns="2" slider="" slides_space="0" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css="" type="simple"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="large" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="5px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row" scheme="dark" css=".vc_custom_1469709010460{padding-top: 32px !important;padding-bottom: 28px !important;background-color: #c01b33 !important;}"][vc_column][trx_widget_twitter title="" count="2" follow="" username="themes_ancora" consumer_key="mpjhC2vjT0CO4k4K77URkQ8kZ" consumer_secret="jhS0eIOrn7EUorHjnWMBwvTuFzmV3BRYAjb6PVoaQ9P4NBpyYY" token_key="1414595613736546304-NX5MP5csqI1MQI2a2MIrc5rzVB9xWl" token_secret="XJ9YEY7jYmbFmWUMUbLpPT4UfpFJEVG4j5bs5abOtkq8c" id="" class="" css="" bg_image=""][trx_sc_anchor icon_type="fontawesome" id="contacts" title="contacts"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" content_placement="middle" css=".vc_custom_1469789163885{background-color: #f6f6f6 !important;}"][vc_column width="1/2"][trx_sc_googlemap type="default" style="new" zoom="12" width="100%" height="750" markers="%5B%7B%22address%22%3A%221%2C%20Central%20Road%2C%20Chicago%22%2C%22icon%22%3A%22140%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Title%20for%20this%20marker%22%2C%22description%22%3A%22Description%20of%20this%20marker%22%7D%5D" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""][/trx_sc_googlemap][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="none" align="none" padding="none" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="light" id="" class="form_modern_wrap" css=""][vc_column_text]
<h2 class="sc_item_title sc_form_title">Our contacts</h2>
<h5 class="sc_item_subtitle sc_form_subtitle">Contact Us Today</h5>
[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner el_class="form_info" css=".vc_custom_1607273394967{margin-top: 4.35em !important;}"][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][vc_column_text]
<div class="sc_form_info_item sc_form_info_item_address"><span class="sc_form_info_top">Address:</span>
<span class="sc_form_info_data">176 W street name,New York, NY 10014</span></div>
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][vc_column_text]
<div class="sc_form_info_item sc_form_info_item_email"><span class="sc_form_info_top">Email:</span>
<span class="sc_form_info_data"><a href="mailto:info@yoursite.com">info@yoursite.com</a></span></div>
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width="1/3"][vc_column_text]
<div class="sc_form_info_item sc_form_info_item_phone"><span class="sc_form_info_top">Phone:</span>
<span class="sc_form_info_data"><a href="tel:+1(800)123-4567">+1(800)123-4567</a></span></div>
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][contact-form-7 id="751"][/trx_sc_content][/vc_column][/vc_row]

The background color/image for the page blocks can be customized in the Row/Column Settings > Design Options tab in the WPBakery backend editor. Here you can set the custom paddings/margins.

Below are individual Theme Options settings for the Homepage 1:

Once you finished with building your page you would need to assign it as Homepage. To do this:

1. Select the menu item Settings > Readings
   
   
2. In the Front page displays section select "A static page (select below)" option, in the "Front page:" dropdown list choose the page you have already created.

Below you can find another variation of the same Homepage we have described above.

Home 2

This is how the second version looks like.

[vc_row full_width="stretch_row"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="8px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="none" align="none" padding="none" title="our services" subtitle="TO CREATE A HIGHLY INFORMED AIMED SOCIETY" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css="" scheme="inherit"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="large" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="5px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][trx_sc_icons align="center" color="" columns="3" icons="%5B%7B%22title%22%3A%22our%20mission%22%2C%22description%22%3A%22Values%20of%20freedom%2C%20respect%20for%20human%20rights%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22%2Fcpt_services%2Four-mission%2F%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-flag-1%22%7D%2C%7B%22title%22%3A%22our%20campaings%22%2C%22description%22%3A%22Strengthen%20democracy%20and%20support%20society%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22%2Fcpt_services%2Fcampaigns%2F%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-worldwide%22%7D%2C%7B%22title%22%3A%22join%20Volunteer%22%2C%22description%22%3A%22Legal%20framework%20and%20management%20practices%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22%2Fcpt_services%2Fvolunteers%2F%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-handshake%22%7D%5D" id="" class="" css="" type="modern" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" size="medium"][/trx_sc_content][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" css=".vc_custom_1469536489289{background-color: #f6f6f6 !important;}"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row" css=".vc_custom_1469537916737{background-color: #f6f6f6 !important;}"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]
<h2 style="text-align: right; margin: 0;">OBJECTIVES & PRINCIPLES
OF OUR PARTY FOR BUILDING
JUST AND HUMANE
SOCIETY</h2>
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1470990751283{padding-right: 2em !important;padding-left: 2.2em !important;}"]Get involved in our debates, become a volunteer or join as activist.
It’s time to step up and change the future.
<ul class="trx_addons_list trx_addons_list_simple" style="margin-right: 10%;">
 	<li>Entitlement Reform</li>
 	<li>Foreign Policy</li>
 	<li>Education</li>
</ul>
<ul class="trx_addons_list trx_addons_list_simple">
 	<li>Criminal Justice Reform</li>
 	<li>The Economy</li>
 	<li>Veteran Healthcare</li>
</ul>
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile="1"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" css=".vc_custom_1469536489289{background-color: #f6f6f6 !important;}"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile="1"][trx_sc_promo type="default" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" title="Join us, and let’s get to work." subtitle="TO CREATE A HIGHLY INFORMED AIMED SOCIETY" description="How can we get our country back on track? How to preserve our Constitution and get people value and honor it? All this core questions have been evolving in our minds for years. And now we have all the answers." link="/our-team/" link_text="Learn More" link_image="" text_bg_color="" image="281" image_position="left" image_width="50%" image_cover="1" image_bg_color="" size="normal" text_width="none" text_float="center" text_align="left" full_height="" text_paddings="1" text_margins="" gap="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""][/trx_sc_promo][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile="1"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content_no_spaces" equal_height="yes" content_placement="middle" css=".vc_custom_1469455954419{background-color: #121f30 !important;}"][vc_column width="1/3" css=".vc_custom_1469455919168{background-image: url(/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/block-1.jpg?id=232) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_column_text]
<h3 style="text-align: center; margin: 0;"><a href="/contacts/">Have a question?</a></h3>
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3" scheme="dark" css=".vc_custom_1469515046866{background-color: #c01b33 !important;}"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_column_text]
<h3 style="text-align: center; margin: 0;"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><a style="color: #ffffff;" href="/contacts/">Donate now</a></span></h3>
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3" scheme="dark"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_socials type="default" icons="%5B%7B%22link%22%3A%22rss.com%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-rss%22%7D%2C%7B%22link%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FThemerexThemes%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-twitter%22%7D%2C%7B%22link%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fchannel%2FUCnFisBimrK2aIE-hnY70kCA%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-youtube%22%7D%2C%7B%22link%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.facebook.com%2FThemeRexStudio%2F%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-facebook%22%7D%5D" title="Follow Us:" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row" css=".vc_custom_1469544522059{background-image: url(/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bg-events.jpg?id=626) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="none" align="none" title="Upcoming Events" subtitle="Announce" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css="" scheme="dark" padding="none"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][/trx_sc_content][trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="none" align="none" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css="" scheme="inherit" padding="none"][trx_sc_events type="default" cat="0" count="4" columns="1" past="" slider="" slides_space="0" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="/events/" link_text="View All Events" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""][/trx_sc_content][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="large" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="5px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/6"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content" el_class="visible_all_content_horizontal_cool_timeline"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="5px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="none" align="none" padding="none" title="campaign trail" subtitle="join us" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css="" scheme="inherit"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile=""][/trx_sc_content][cool-timeline layout="horizontal" show-posts="5" order="ASC" date-format="default" icons="NO"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content" equal_height="yes" content_placement="middle"][vc_column width="1/2" css=".vc_custom_1469604624042{background-image: url(/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bg-blog-home-2.jpg?id=251) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="8px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="none" align="none" padding="small" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="left_padding" css=""][trx_sc_blogger type="classic" cat="42" count="1" columns="1" orderby="date" order="desc" excerpt="" slider="" slides_space="0" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""][/trx_sc_content][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="large" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2" css=".vc_custom_1468841908405{background-color: #f6f6f6 !important;}"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="8px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="none" align="none" padding="small" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="right_padding" css=""][trx_sc_blogger type="default" cat="0" count="3" columns="1" orderby="date" order="desc" excerpt="" slider="" slides_space="0" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="/blog-style-classic-1-column/" link_text="View All" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""][/trx_sc_content][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="large" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row" css=".vc_custom_1469111365137{background-image: url(/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bg-team.jpg?id=418) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile="1"][trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="none" align="none" title="Our Great Team" subtitle="Team Members" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="line_white" css="" padding="none" scheme="inherit"][/trx_sc_content][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="large" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="5px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][trx_sc_team cat="0" count="3" columns="3" slider="" slides_space="0" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row" scheme="dark" css=".vc_custom_1469709083288{padding-top: 32px !important;padding-bottom: 28px !important;background-color: #c01b33 !important;}"][vc_column][trx_widget_twitter title="" count="2" follow="" username="themes_ancora" consumer_key="mpjhC2vjT0CO4k4K77URkQ8kZ" consumer_secret="jhS0eIOrn7EUorHjnWMBwvTuFzmV3BRYAjb6PVoaQ9P4NBpyYY" token_key="1414595613736546304-NX5MP5csqI1MQI2a2MIrc5rzVB9xWl" token_secret="XJ9YEY7jYmbFmWUMUbLpPT4UfpFJEVG4j5bs5abOtkq8c" id="" class="" css="" bg_image=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width="stretch_row" content_placement="middle" css=".vc_custom_1469614486204{background-image: url(/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/bg-home-2.jpg?id=249) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}"][vc_column width="1/12"][/vc_column][vc_column width="10/12"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="5px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][vc_row_inner css=".vc_custom_1469615584662{padding-right: 3em !important;padding-left: 3em !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}"][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1607271480722{padding-top: 5em !important;}"]
<h2 class="sc_item_title sc_form_title">Our contacts</h2>
<h5 class="sc_item_subtitle sc_form_subtitle">Contact Us Today</h5>
[/vc_column_text][contact-form-7 id="772"][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/12"][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Below are individual Theme Options settings for the Homepage 2:

Menus

The theme supports the following menu: Main menu (located in the header part of the website right under the logo image). The menu is managed in Appearance > Menus > Edit or via "Customizer" settings in the "Menus" section.

First you should select the menu to edit to see its menu structure. Then you will be able to edit/add new items to the navigation.

In Appearance > Menus > Manage Locations the menu is assigned to its position on the website.

Blog Archives

Our theme allows you to create numerous kinds of Blog Archive Feeds by flexibly managing their settings through the "Theme Options". So now you can customize the behavior and an overall feed's look to make it stand out from the rest.
Moreover there is one more additional feature that allows you to embed a Blog Feed right into the middle of your page's content just in a few clicks. And, yes, it can be done via WPBakery Page Builder.

PLEASE NOTE that our unique Settings Inheritance System allows you to override an overall (global) behavior of all pages ( that are set through the "Customize" option) by changes made to settings of some of the individual pages/posts/categories. Global customization for Blog Archive-related feeds are available through "Appearance > Customize > Blog Archive" section.

Blog Archive Types

Regular Blog Archive Feed:

Backend options:

Please note, if there are no additional options enabled/disabled for each particular post/page/category in its backend setting, then you should check the Global Options that are available in Customizer settings. See the example below.

"Chess"/2 columns" Blog Archive Feed:

Backend options:

"Classic"/1 column" Blog Archive Feed:

Backend options:

"Portfolio"/3 columns" Blog Archive Feed:

Backend options:

Additional Blog Acrchive feature

As we have mentioned above there is the feature that allows you to embed a "Blog Archive" feed right in the middle of the content of any page.

Follow the steps below to find out more about it:

1. Create a test page and add a few simple elements using WPBakery Page Builder backend editor. For example let's add a regular text block and a few icons.
   PLEASE NOTE that you need to specify the "Blog Archive" template's type in the Page Attributes or Template sidebar, depending on the page builder you are using.


2. Once it's done add the same text block again but with this code inside %%BLOG_ARCHIVE%% of it to display our Blog Archive feed. Then move the row with this block right between two icons items.


3. To save the changes click an "Update" button and proceed to the frontend of your page to see the final result of your customizations.

Please be aware that Blog Archive template displays the Blog feed by default, so applying this feature in the way we have described makes sense only if you need to embed the your right inside of the custom content.

Slider

By default our theme supports a simple Swiper posts slider. Built-in theme's slider allows you to display Featured images from the posts of any category. You can add a slider to the page using slider shortcode. The settings of this shortcode allow you to select a category, and specify the number of the posts to be displayed. Check the Slider Shortcode section for more information.

Nevertheless, the theme is fully compatible with an extremely powerful and beautiful Revolution Slider plugin. It allows you to create an unlimited number of sliders and set anywhere you want on the page within the necessary widget.

Below are the backend and frontend screenshots of the Revolution Slider (All the Homepages have the same sliders settings, the only difference is slide images):

"Learn more" button code:

To have a better understanding of this plugin's functionality we highly recommend checking the following links:

• Slider usage Example and how-tos
• Support center + FAQs and Documentation

The slider can be added through the "Widgets" section as well as through the WPBakery Page Builder. Using Widgets allows you to place the slider not only in the header of the page (might vary, and depends on how many default sidebars locations are available for each particular theme), where it usually supposed to be.

Below is a short guide on how to configure a Revolution Slider by adding it to one of the widget sets.
Please note that in case you do not have a slider set up (but the Revolution Slider plugin is already installed) you need to create it first and fill with slides by navigating to Slider Revolution tab in the WP Dashboard side menu.

1. Navigate to the Appearance > Widgets menu item in the WP dashboard side menu.


2. Locate the Revolution slider widget and drag and drop it to any of the available widget sets. Once it's done specify the necessary parameters and click on "Save" button.
   Check an example below.

3. Navigate to the page you want your slider to appear on and enable the necessary widget area on the Widgets tab. For example, let's display our "Custom Widgets 8" with the slider above the page's content area.

4. Once it's finished click "Update" and "Preview Changes" buttons to see how it will look on the frontend.

Shortcodes

Shortcodes is a handy feature in WordPress that allows you to do some pretty incredible things by just inserting a shortcode into a page or post. Using Shortcodes is very straight-forward, just insert one where you want the relevant content to show up.

The theme comes with a number of custom shortcodes allowing you to add the info in a simple way. Moreover, you can use WPBakery Page Builder to add new elements to the page. Find the theme-related custom shortcodes on the ThemeREX tab in the WPBakery Page Builder's backend Editor.

Below is a list of the shortcodes included into the theme.

Action

This shortcode inserts "Call to action", event item or columns layout.

Example:

[vc_row][vc_column][trx_sc_action type="event" full_height="" columns="1" slider="1" slides_space="0" actions="%5B%7B%22title%22%3A%22One%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%7D%2C%7B%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%7D%5D" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="#" link_text="Button" link_image="" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Anchor

This shortcode inserts an "Anchor" item for the inner page navigation. If you want to create one-page navigation then make sure you checked the "Scroll to Anchor" option in Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > General.

Example:

[vc_row][vc_column][trx_sc_anchor icon_type="fontawesome" id="news" title="news"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="large" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="none" align="none" padding="none" title="What's New" subtitle="The Latest News From The Campaign" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile="1"][vc_empty_space height="4px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][ess_grid alias="blog-home"][/trx_sc_content][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Blogger

This shortcode displays category posts in a wide variety of different ways and styles. The single blog posts are editable in Posts (WP dashboard) > All Posts.

Example:

[trx_sc_blogger type="classic" cat="42" count="1" columns="1" orderby="date" order="desc" excerpt="" slider="" slides_space="0" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""]

Button

This shortcode displays buttons.

Example:

[vc_row][vc_column][trx_sc_button type="default" size="normal" link="#" title="example" subtitle="" align="none" text_align="left" bg_image="" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" image="" icon_position="left" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="3px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_button type="simple" size="normal" link="#" title="example" subtitle="" align="none" text_align="left" bg_image="" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" image="" icon_position="left" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="15px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_button type="default" size="small" link="#" title="example" subtitle="" align="none" text_align="left" bg_image="" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" image="" icon_position="left" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="3px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_button type="simple" size="small" link="#" title="example" subtitle="" align="none" text_align="left" bg_image="" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" image="" icon_position="left" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Content Area

This shortcode limits content width inside the fullwide rows. Just set the necessary width in the shortcode's options window. In the example below we insert the Button shortcode inside the content area with a limited width.

Example:

[vc_row][vc_column]
[trx_sc_content type="default" width="none" float="right" align="none" padding="none" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""]
[trx_sc_button type="default" size="normal" link="#" title="example" subtitle="" align="none" text_align="left" bg_image="" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" image="" icon_position="left" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="3px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_button type="simple" size="normal" link="#" title="example" subtitle="" align="none" text_align="left" bg_image="" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" image="" icon_position="left" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="15px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_button type="default" size="small" link="#" title="example" subtitle="" align="none" text_align="left" bg_image="" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" image="" icon_position="left" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="3px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile=""][trx_sc_button type="simple" size="small" link="#" title="example" subtitle="" align="none" text_align="left" bg_image="" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" image="" icon_position="left" id="" class="" css=""]
[/trx_sc_content]
[/vc_column][/vc_row]

Events

This shortcode displays events.

To customize a single event post, proceed to the WordPress Dashboard Menu > Events, open a single event post and update the "Event Categories", "Featured Image", "The Events Calendar" (for time and date) sections to your needs.

Example:

[trx_sc_events type="detailed" cat="0" count="3" columns="3" past="1" slider="" slides_space="0" title="Events" subtitle="" description="" link="#" link_text="Button" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""]

Form

This shortcode displays a contact form. The text for the checkbox "I agree..." is set in Appearance > Customize > Content > Text with Privacy Policy link.
In order to add/customize the Privacy Policy link, navigate to Settings (WP Dashboard) > Privacy and specify the page that will be used as a Privacy Policy one.

Example:

[vc_row][vc_column][trx_sc_form type="default" style="inherit" align="none" labels="" phone="" email="" address="" title="" subtitle="" description="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

To customize the form you should edit form template file in any text editor like Notepad or TextEdit. In the .../wp-content/plugins/trx_addons/shortcodes/form folder you can find form-related files like tpl.default.php, tpl.detailed.php and others. These files are responsible for displaying the form in different styles. Choose the file you need, open it in any text editor, and change HTML code according to your needs.

You can also translate the form fields onto the language you need using .pot file located in the .../wp-content/plugins/trx_addons/languages folder. Please check the Translations section for more information on this matter.

Googlemap

This shortcode displays a Googlemap. Please make sure you entered an API key into the "Google API key" field on the Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > API tab.

Example:

[trx_sc_googlemap type="detailed" style="new" zoom="13" width="100%" height="420" markers="%5B%7B%22latlng%22%3A%2241.031786%2C-73.629356%22%2C%22icon%22%3A%22140%22%7D%5D" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""][/trx_sc_googlemap]

Icons

This shortcode displays icon(s) or image(s) with title and description. You can expand the list of available icons by adding new ones from the fontello website. Watch this video guide for more information.

Examples:

[trx_sc_icons align="center" color="" columns="3" icons="%5B%7B%22title%22%3A%22our%20mission%22%2C%22description%22%3A%22Class%20aptent%20taciti%20sociosqu%20ad%20litora%20eget%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22%23%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-flag-1%22%7D%2C%7B%22title%22%3A%22our%20campaings%22%2C%22description%22%3A%22Class%20aptent%20taciti%20sociosqu%20ad%20litora%20eget%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22%23%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-worldwide%22%7D%2C%7B%22title%22%3A%22join%20voluenteer%22%2C%22description%22%3A%22Class%20aptent%20taciti%20sociosqu%20ad%20litora%20eget%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22%23%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-handshake%22%7D%5D" id="" class="" css="" type="modern" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" size="medium"]

Price block

This shortcode inserts a price table divided by blocks. Please note, if you want 3 or more blocks to occupy an entire screen width then enable "Expand content" option in the "Theme Options" section for this particular page.

Example:

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][trx_sc_price icon_type="fontawesome" price="Free" period="Trial" link="#" link_text="Subscribe" type="default" currency="" image="" icon_fontawesome="" id="" class="" css=""]Free! 30 Days[/trx_sc_price][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][trx_sc_price price="89" currency="$" period="monthly" link="#" link_text="Subscribe" image="" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" icon_openiconic="" icon_typicons="" icon_entypo="" icon_linecons="" id="" class="" css="" type="default"]Save $98 every year compared to the monthly plan by paying yearly.[/trx_sc_price][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][trx_sc_price price="129" currency="$" period="yearly" link="#" link_text="Subscribe" image="" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" icon_openiconic="" icon_typicons="" icon_entypo="" icon_linecons="" id="" class="" css="" type="default"]Save $120 every year compared to the monthly plan.[/trx_sc_price][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Promo

This shortcode inserts a promo block. It also allows you to use custom images, icons and apply different color schemes.

Example:

[trx_sc_promo type="default" icon_type="fontawesome" icon_fontawesome="" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" text_bg_color="#ffffff" image="227" image_position="left" image_width="50%" image_cover="1" image_bg_color="" size="small" text_width="none" text_float="center" text_align="center" full_height="" text_paddings="1" text_margins="" gap="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="large" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="14px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][vc_column_text]
<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.4em;">Become a Volunteer</h2>
<div style="font-size: 1.143em; line-height: 1.8em; padding: 0 1em; margin-bottom: -5px;">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</div>
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="medium" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_column_text][mc4wp_form id="461"][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][/trx_sc_promo]

Services

This shortcode displays available services. To manage "Services" proceed to the WordPress Dashboard Menu > Services post type. Use "Services Group", "Featured Image" (for the image), "Excerpt" (for the summary) settings and the general content section (if the "Excerpt" section is empty) to customize the post.

Example:

[trx_sc_services cat="0" count="4" columns="2" title="Our Services" subtitle="To create a society in which an informed " description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css=""]

Skills

This shortcode displays skills diagram(s).

Example:

[trx_sc_skills type="pie" filled="" compact="" max="100%" values="%5B%7B%22title%22%3A%22Investments%22%2C%22value%22%3A%2275%25%22%2C%22color%22%3A%22%23dd3333%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%7D%2C%7B%22title%22%3A%22Partnership%22%2C%22value%22%3A%2280%25%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%7D%5D" color="#dd3333" border_color="#f4f7f9" id="" class="" css="" columns="" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" back_color="#f4f7f9" cutout="96"]

Recent News

This shortcode inserts a recent news list. Do not forget to specify the necessary category to get the news from.

Example:

[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_recent_news style="news-magazine" widget_title="" title="Recent News" subtitle="" show_categories="" category="8" count="3" featured="3" columns="3" offset="0" orderby="date" order="asc" ids="" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Socials

This shortcode displays social icons.

Example:

[trx_sc_socials type="default" icons="%5B%7B%22link%22%3A%22%23%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-tumblr%22%7D%2C%7B%22link%22%3A%22%23%22%2C%22icon_type%22%3A%22fontawesome%22%2C%22icon_fontawesome%22%3A%22icon-reply%22%7D%5D" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css=""]

Table

This shortcode inserts a regular table.

Example:

[trx_sc_table type="default" align="none" width="100%" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" id="" class="" css=""]
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<td>#</td>
<td>Column 1</td>
<td>Column 2</td>
<td>Column 3</td>
<td>Column 4</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1.</td>
<td>Raw 1 Cell 1</td>
<td>Raw 1 Cell 2</td>
<td>Raw 1 Cell 3</td>
<td>Raw 1 Cell 4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2.</td>
<td>Raw 2 Cell 1</td>
<td>Raw 2 Cell 2</td>
<td>Raw 2 Cell 3</td>
<td>Raw 2 Cell 4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3.</td>
<td>Raw 3 Cell 1</td>
<td>Raw 3 Cell 2</td>
<td>Raw 3 Cell 3</td>
<td>Raw 3 Cell 4</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
[/trx_sc_table]

Team

This shortcode displays team members. To manage "Teams" proceed to the WordPress Dashboard Menu > Team post type. Use "Team Group", "Item Options" (for the position), "Featured Image" settings to customize the post.

Example:

[trx_sc_team cat="0" count="2" columns="2" slider="" slides_space="0" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css=""]

Testimonials

This shortcode displays testimonials block. To manage "Testimonials" proceed to the WordPress Dashboard Menu > Testimonials post type. Use "Testimonials Group", "Item Options", "Featured Image" settings and content section to customize the post.

Example:

[trx_sc_testimonials cat="0" count="3" columns="1" slider="1" slides_space="0" title="" subtitle="" description="" link="" link_text="" link_image="" scheme="inherit" id="" class="" css="" type="default"]

Widget About Me

This shortcode displays an "About Me" widget.

Example:

[trx_widget_aboutme title="About Me" avatar="163" username="Michael" description="Lorem Ipsum" id="" class="" css=""]

Widget Audio Player

This shortcode inserts an Audio Player widget.

Example:

[trx_widget_audio title="Audio" caption="" author="" cover="72" url="/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/laura.mp3" embed="" id="" class="" css=""]

Widget Banner

This shortcode displays banner images. You can select/upload the image, paste URL from the other site for the banner or use HTML/JS Code.

Example:

[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_banner title="Banner" image="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/img_4.jpg" link="#" code="" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Widget Calendar

This shortcode displays a widget calendar.

Example:

[trx_widget_calendar title="Calendar" weekdays="" id="" class="" css=""]

Widget Categories List

This shortcode displays list of categories. The images for the posts categories can be set in WordPress dashboard > Posts > Categories tab.

Example:

[trx_widget_categories_list title="Categories List" style="1" number="5" columns="5" show_posts="1" show_children="" id="" class="" css=""]

Widget Contacts

This shortcode displays widget with logo, short description and contacts. Please do not forget to specify the necessary links (URLs) to your social profiles in the Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > Socials tab.

Example:

[trx_widget_contacts title="" logo="163" logo_retina="" description="Sample text." address="" phone=" 1 718 987 56 74" email="mik@starr.com" socials="1" id="" class="" css=""]

Widget Flickr Photos

This shortcode displays images from your Flickr account.

Example:

[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_flickr title="" flickr_username="" flickr_count="12" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Widget Popular Posts

This shortcode displays popular posts.

Example:

[trx_widget_popular_posts title="Most Popular Posts" title_popular="1" title_commented="2" title_liked="3" number="4" show_image="1" show_author="1" show_date="1" show_counters="1" show_categories="1" id="" class="" css=""]

Widget Recent Posts

This shortcode displays the most recent posts. You can set additional options on the "Details" tab in the WPBakery Page Builder's Posts Settings window.

Example:

[trx_widget_recent_posts title="Recent Posts" number="4" show_image="1" show_author="1" show_date="1" show_counters="1" show_categories="1" id="" class="" css=""]

Widget Slider

This shortcode allows you to display either (default) Swiper Slider or the Revolution Slider. In the WPBakery Page Builder's settings you can manage the slider's settings by specifying a category to get the posts from, number of posts, slider's height and other options.

Example (Swiper Slider):

[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_slider title="Swiper" engine="swiper" height="345" alias="main" category="9" posts="5" slides_per_view="1" slides_space="0" interval="7000" titles="center" large="" controls="" pagination="" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Example (Revolution Slider):

[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_slider title="Revolution" engine="revo" height="345" alias="main" category="0" posts="5" slides_per_view="1" slides_space="0" interval="7000" titles="center" large="" controls="1" pagination="1" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Widget Social Icons

This shortcode displays social icons to the social networks you are subscribed. Please do not forget to specify the necessary links (URLs) to your social profiles on the Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > Socials tab.

Example:

[trx_widget_socials id="" class="" css=""]

Widget Twitter

This shortcode displays posts from your twitter account. Please be aware that as the matter of security reasons we provide the shortcode without the twitter tokens and consumer keys. Please use your own keys to make it display your twitter feed properly.

Example:

[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_twitter title="Twitter" count="2" bg_image="453" follow="1" username="" consumer_key="" consumer_secret="" token_key="" token_secret="" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Widget Video Player

This shortcode inserts a video file.

Example:

[trx_widget_video title="" cover="334" embed="#E-8_JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwd2lkdGglM0QlMjI1NjAlMjIlMjBoZWlnaHQlM0QlMjIzMTUlMjIlMjBzcmMlM0QlMjJodHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnlvdXR1LmJlJTJGSWpVYnV5bmxYaXclMjIlMjBmcmFtZWJvcmRlciUzRCUyMjAlMjIlMjBhbGxvd2Z1bGxzY3JlZW4lM0UlM0MlMkZpZnJhbWUlM0U=" id="" class="" css="" link=""]

Post Formats

The theme uses standard WordPress post formats.

Find all the post types on the screenshot below.

Extra Plugins & Features

In this section we will talk about an additional plugins we have included to the theme package. On of them, which is ThemeREX Addons, we have developed ourselves.

ThemeREX Addons

As a free addition to this theme we have included a unique ThemeREX Addons plugin. After its activation, you will be able to noticeably expand the options of the theme. These addons allow you to enable/disable widgets, shortcodes, custom post types, set links on your social profiles as well as the some advanced theme specific settings.

Once the plugin is installed the ThemeREX Addons item will appear under the Appearance tab in WP dashboard menu.

Below you can find a brief description of all the available settings.

General

Settings of this tab define the general behavior of your theme.

• Debug Mode - Enable debug functions and theme profiler output.
  
  IMPORTANT! There is a separate file for each script snippet .js and style related .css data. For better theme performance the system automatically re-compiles/re-merges these files into a single .js/.css related one after every "Save Options" button click in Customizer (Appearance > Customize) and ThemeREX Addons settings (Appearance > ThemeREX Addons).
  In case the "Debug Mode" is on, the theme does not run the re-compile/re-merge mode, so each and every file loads separately. That is why we do recommend to turn this mode on only if you need to edit/customize the source script and style related files. Please do not edit the following (re-merged) files: trx_addons.css, trx_addons.js, __colors.css, __style.css, __scripts.js.


• Disable new Widgets Block Editor - Disable new Widgets Block Editor, if after the update to WordPress 5.8+ you are having trouble with editing widgets or working in Customizer. New Widgets Block Editor is used in WordPress 5.8+ instead of classic widgets panel.


• Image dimensions - Which dimensions will be used for the uploaded images: "Original" or "Retina ready" (twice enlarged).


• Quality for cropped images - Specify range of quality (1-100) to save cropped images.
  
  PLEASE NOTE If you change the images quality do not forget to regenerate the thumbnails again.


• Show page preloader - Select or upload page preloader image for your site.


• Page preloader bg color - Specify background color for the page preloader.


• Add "Scroll to Top" - Add "Scroll to Top" button when page is scrolled.


• Scroll to Anchor - This options allows you to scroll between anchors with mouse wheel.


• Update location from Anchor - This options updates browser's location bar while page is scrolling.


• Open external links in a new window - If checked, this setting adds parameter target="_blank" to all external links.


• Popup Engine - Choose one of two scripts to display your popup images.


• Enable Custom post types/widgets/shortcodes - These settings are responsible for adding custom post types (such as Testimonials, Team and others) theme-related custom widgets and custom shortcodes as well.

API

Insert a generated Google API key to make your Google map function properly. More information on how to properly obtain an API key can be found here.

Socials

Here you can specify all the necessary links (URLs) to your social profiles. Just paste the necessary URL address into the needed fields and click "Save".

Theme Specific

Settings of this section allow you to override the default theme's grid and wrap classes. These setting are for advanced users only.
If you are not sure what to do with it, please leave these settings intact.

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
Check this link for more information. More guides are available here (video tutorial) and here.

[contact-form-7 id="751" title="Contact form 1"]

IMPORTANT! According to General Data Protection Regulation, you need to make your forms compliant. Some prebuilt forms, that come with this theme, already have the corresponding "I agree..." checkboxes. For newly created forms you should add the consent checkboxes in ONE of the following ways:

1. Use [acceptance acceptance-841]...[/acceptance] tag. Treat the code and the screenshot below just as an example:

2. Use the Cookie Information (formerly WP GDPR Compliance) plugin (not provided with the theme).

Cool Timeline (free version)

Cool Timeline is a responsive WordPress pure HTML & CSS timeline plugin that allows you to create beautiful horizontal and vertical history timeline. You simply create posts, set images and date then Cool Timeline will automatically populate these posts in chronological order (ASC or DESC), based on the year and date of stories. You can easily show timeline on any page of your website using shortcode – [cool-timeline]. The plugin is translated into 4 languages (German, French, Indonesian & Italian).

Check the links below for more information about this plugin.

• WordPress plugin page


• Official plugin page


• Official video tutorial

You can add as many timeline stories as you want under the Timeline Addons (WP Dashboard) > Cool Timeline Stories menu. See the screenshot below.

Here's an example of pre-built timeline, like on demo Home 1 and Home 2 pages.

[cool-timeline layout="horizontal" show-posts="3" order="DESC" date-format="default" icons="NO"]

[vc_row full_width="stretch_row_content" el_class="visible_all_content_horizontal_cool_timeline"][vc_column][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="5px" alter_height="none" hide_on_mobile="1"][cool-timeline layout="horizontal" show-posts="5" order="ASC" date-format="default" icons="NO"][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="huge" hide_on_mobile=""][vc_empty_space height="" alter_height="small" hide_on_mobile=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Available attributes for default timeline schortcode

[cool-timeline layout=”default” skin=”default” date-format=”F j” icons=”YES” show-posts=”20″ animation=”FadeInOut” order=”DESC” story-content=”full”]

• layout - Choose between five layout options: default, horizontal, one-side, simple, compact. In simple timeline you can create a timeline without bigger year circle in between the stories.
• skin - 2 skins are available: default, clean.
• date-format - You can choose any date-format to show with the stories according to your language and requirements.
• icons - You can display (YES/NO) cool icons along with timeline stories.
• show-posts - If you have a large timeline with a lot of stories then you can use this option to show pagination option after a number of stories.
• animation - There is 1 animation effect (FadeInOut) in Cool Timeline free version. You can purchase pro version for more effects.
• order - You can choose between ASC and DESC.
• story-content - Show full HTML content or short description with read-more inside timeline stories.

Custom CSS classes for horizontal layout of timeline

• .visible_all_content_horizontal_cool_timeline - hides "opening additional info in a popup" functionality and displays all available content inside a body of a slider.
  

Additional CSS classes can be assigned for a row with Cool Timeline shortcode.

Elegro Crypto Payment

Elegro Gateway provides facilities for smooth, safe and instant cryptocurrency payments with automated exchange to EUR/USD or any other fiat currency at direct exchange rates. Payment processing fees are reasonable and calculated depending on business risk levels. Your customers can make purchases on any device and without any fees for elegro-inspired payments.
Check this link for more information.

Essential Grid

We have added an Essential Grid plugin, to let you create nice gallery views. More information on how to use this plugin can be found here.
Please check a video tutorial showing how to create a new essential grid gallery: here.

To get started you should create page and put specific alias, which is essential grid shortcode, for example:

[ess_grid alias="cobbles"]

Images on the gallery page are featured images that are inserted in posts. Those post are assigned to the specific grid gallery in essential grid plugin settings.

[vc_row][vc_column][ess_grid alias="cobbles"][/vc_column][/vc_row]

MailChimp

This plugin helps you add subscribers to your MailChimp lists using various methods. You can create good looking opt-in forms or integrate with any other form on your site, like your comment form or WooCommerce checkout.

More information on how to properly use this plugin can be found here.

Below you can find some of the backend settings (WP dashboard menu > Mailchimp > Forms) and the newsletter sign-up form as well.

Mark-up code

<p>
	<input type="email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your Email Address" required />
</p>

<p>
	<input type="submit" value="become a member" />
</p>

With the shortcode below you can display the newsletter sign-up form on any page you want.

Revolution Slider

Our theme is fully compatible with an extremely powerful Revolution Slider plugin.

Once the demo content is installed Revolution Slider item will show up in the theme's menu (otherwise you can install the plugin manually and create/add the necessary slides on your own).

Please check the following links for more information regarding the Revolution Slider functionality:

• Slider usage Example and how-tos


• Support center + FAQs and Documentation

Events Calendar

We have included this awesome plugin to our theme to help you create and manage events easily. Here are some of its features: Rapidly create events, Saved venues & organizers, Calendar month view with tooltips, Event search, Events Taxonomies (Categories & Tags), Completely responsive from mobile to tablet to desktop.

More information on how to properly use this plugin can be found here.

Here is an additional video tutorial that might help you to have a better understanding of how this plugin functions.

• WordPress Tutorial: Events Calendar Plugin

Below you can find some of the backend settings (WordPress Dashboard > Events > Settings tab).

ThemeREX Updater

This is our self-made plugin that allows you to update the main theme as well as the bundled plugins through the WordPress admin panel. ThemeREX Updater plugin requires a valid purchase code that can be entered in the Appearance > ThemeREX Updater section. To get the code, please navigate to your ThemeForest "Downloads" page and click on the theme download link. Check this guide for more details. Once any plugins or theme updates are available for download, you will receive a corresponding notice in WP Dashboard > Updates. Please view the Theme Update chapter of this documentation file for more information.

WooCommerce

Woocommerce is an industry leader e-commerce plugin for WordPress. Another good news is that our theme is fully compatible with this great tool, allowing you to turn your website into sales machine in just a few clicks. You simply need to install this plugin and allow it to create a set of pages to display categories, products etc. Then you need to add a set of products.

We highly encourage you to read the great documentation files WooCommerce offers. These manuals help to create effective and reliable on line stores providing more features than you can imagine. Here is a list of really useful links helping you create and polish your shop.

• Documentation - official plugin documentation.


• Free and Premium extensions - powerful toolbox bringing more features to your shop


• iOS app for Woocommerce - this application gives you full control over your shop.

WPBakery Page Builder

To make your customization even easier we have added the WPBakery Page Builder to this theme. Before you start, please check these WPBakery Page Builder related tutorials. They will give you a basic understanding of how to build a page properly.

1. Official WPBakery Page Builder FAQ page.


2. Getting Started With WPBakery Page Builder Guide.


3. WPBakery Page Builder: A Guide To Drag & Drop Page Building.


4. How to Add Row and Column with WPBakery Page Builder.


5. How to Add Row or Column Background with WPBakery Page Builder.


6. How to Create Empty Space Between Elements with Custom Height.

Translations

We recommend using Poedit software for translation-related purposes.

To translate the theme to your language, please follow these steps:

1. Download and install Poedit software.

2. Navigate to the theme/.../languages/ folder and locate .pot file. Copy it to your desktop for editing.

3. Double click on the .pot file. In the Poedit window click on the "Create New Translation" button, choose the necessary language of the translation from the dropdown list and click "OK."

4. Now select the constant text string you need to translate from the "Source text - English" field and type in the necessary translation into the "Translation" field.
   You can translate as much as you want, just go through the file and click on each string in "Poedit" and add your translation.

5. Next, you have to save the changes to your .po file using the naming convention based on the language code (e.g. pt for Portuguese) followed by the country code (for instance _BR for Brazil). To do that click on the "sheet" icon (you can also use hotkeys CMD+Shift+S in OS X or Win+S in Windows) and type in the name according to the screenshot below.
   The first lower-case letters define the language, whereas the second upper-case letter defines the country. In most cases, the language and country are the same, like “de_DE” for Germany.
   However, there is a difference for languages like English or Portuguese, which are spoken in several countries natively. In this case, the difference is in the first and second letter pairs; for the UK, the code would be en_GB, whereas the en_US stands for the USA. If you are not familiar with the codes for your native language and country, then visit the GNU website. See Language Codes and Country Codes for the lists of codes.
   Please note, if you use the wrong naming convention WordPress can not process your translation.

6. When saving your .po file, Poedit automatically creates a new .mo file, with the same naming convention. According to the example above, the file would be called pt_BR.mo.

7. Upload the .po and .mo files you just created to the .../languages folder. Make sure these files are in the same directory as the default.pot one.


8. Our theme is using ThemeREX Addons plug-in, so some translation should be done in language files of this plug-in in the .../wp-content/plugins/trx_addons/languages directory. There is also a trx_addons.pot file in this directory.
   Generate the .po and .mo files according to your language. See the file names on the example below:
   trx_addons-pt_BR.po, trx_addons-pt_BR.mo.
   Make sure that the language of your files is the same as in your Wordpress admin panel > Settings > General Settings section.

In case you still have questions on how to use Poedit, please check the following resources:

• Editing language files with POEdit

Website Customization

Custom Websites are usually the most important part of an online marketing campaign. A properly built custom website can help you get the most results from your marketing efforts. Our team can do it for you.

Please, find some of our offers below:

You can check the full list of offers here.