ELEVATION

A Charity Nonprofit Fundraising Theme


Useful links to get you started on Wordpress Installation

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

That's it for activating and installing WordPress and general settings.

Installation via WordPress

- Upload the Correct Files to WordPress.
- Upload the Installable WordPress file from admin area.

  1. Log in to your WordPress admin area
  2. Browse to Appearance > Themes
  3. Click on ‘Add New’
  4. Click ‘Upload’
  5. Browse and select the theme zip file to ‘Upload’ Make sure you zip the Elevation.zip and upload that zip. 
  6. Then Just active this Theme. 

Necessary Plugin Installation: 

 

There are some plugin packed with Elevation. After install and active this Theme, it will ask you to install some plugin. Just click on install and then active this theme. 

 

Watch the Following Video for WordPress Theme Installation and Plugin Installation: 

 

 

Installation via FTP

Elevation provides a powerful Theme Options Settings. Watch the following video for learning how to work with the Options panel. 

Import the Demo: 

You will see an option for "Demo Importer", just click on it and import your demo. 

 

Elevation Theme use Slider Revolution for the header slider. You can create your slider with this plugin. If you just want to import the demo slider just follow the video. 

 

While working with Homepage in Elevation, you must select this page template as "Homepage". Just watch the video and you got it. 

 

Portfolio Post Type

Post Type is a great feature. Add unlimited post type and it will automatically added in your Website. 

 

Causes Post Type

 

That is very necessary post type for a charity website. Check the following video and you can understand how to work with it. 

 

 

Team Members 

That's the another post type. It helps you to add new team member in your Website. Just follow the video: 

 

 

Testimonials Post Type

Testimonials always the most necessary part for a Website. Watch the following video to learn how to add testimonials in Elevation Theme. 

 

 

Event Post Type​

Show your upcoming events to your audience with this post type. It's very simple and easy to make an awesome Event section. Just follow the video: 

 

This is one of the most important part. You can easily link your PayPal id in the donation button. You when anyone click in Donate now button a popup comes and with this popup anyone can select his donation amount. Just watch the video: 

 

Here is a little tips for working with One Page menu. You should use one-page menu in your homepage. In one page menu, you can use any external link also like a blog. 

 

You should check the Import Slider Revolution for the slider import. In this section, I will show you two different way for importing demo. 

You can import the demo from Theme option. If this Theme options is not working for your Website then you can try an alternative way. 

 

Alternative Way: 

Go to Tools> Import 

You will see something like the following image. Just click in WordPress now. 

Now this will appear in your monitor. Just click on "Install Now" button. 

 

Now just Click on "Activate Plugin & Run Importer". Then you see an image like the following one. 

Just click on "Choose File" and select the demo-content.xml file. Click "upload file and import" button.

Then, select the author and finally, check "Download and Import File Attachment". and then click on "Submit" Button. 

 

It will takes some time and when everything will be done you will see a message like the following image. 

Now the demo import is successful. 

Set your homepage and blog page now and preview your Website. 

Widget Import :

We have added another file for your import. This is Widget import. It will arrange your Website widget like the demo. 

Download the "Widget Importer & Exporter" plugin and install it. Then go to Settings> Widget Importer > select the .wie file and import it. 

Everything will be done within a few seconds. 

Elevation Theme provides a built in Coming Soon page. You just need to know how to set up a coming soon page. It's very easy and simple. Just follow the video.