Minimag Documentation

MiniMag - Magazine and Blog WordPress Theme is an elegant and modern blog for all types of magazine & blog websites. Minimag is designed as simple and clean theme to maximize best readability.

If you have any questions, please use the comments from the item's page. ( atix ).

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Credits

Changelog

Author:	atix
Contact:	atix

Author URL:	atix
Item URL:	atix/Portfolio

Current Version:	1.0.0
Documentation Version	1.0.0

Created:	2017-Sept-02
Modified:	2017-Sept-02

NOTE!
You can change theme's look and feel from Admin > Theme Settings.
You can also add or override custom CSS code from Admin > Appearence > Editor

Stylesheets

Main stylesheet files used for this theme, you can find more information opening each file:

File Name	Description
`styles.css`	Styles for general elements for the template.
`bootstrap.min.css`	Bootstrap stylesheet.
`font-awesome.min.css`	Styles for font-awesome.
`animate.min.css`	Styles for animation.

JavaScript Files

Main JavaScript files for this theme:

Tag	Description
`bootstrap.min.js`	Bootstrap JS
`jquery.easing.min.js`	easing JS
`owl.carousel.min.js`	Carousel JS
`js/functions.js`	Custom Minimag JS

"Minimag Preview" has images from Fotolia, shutterstock and istockphoto.

Fonts used: Hind, Montserrat Google Web Fonts

1. Install Theme

Brief information about how to install your WordPress theme from scratch

1.1) Organize Your Files

Unzip the main files (the file that you have downloaded when you have purchased the theme). The theme installer is 'theme_name'_installer.zip. NOTE! - This is the only file that you should use to install the theme.

1.2) Upload Theme

Log in to your Wordpress Admin Panel, go to Appearence > Themes > Install Themes > Upload. Upload the zip file that was discussed in the above topic.

1.3) Activate Theme

Once you have uploaded the theme, it automatically installs to your wordpress. Click the Activate button to activate the theme.
Please read the usage documentation below. Note: Activate all required plugins once theme is activated. Required plugin name will appear in dashboard once theme activated.

1.4) Import Demo data and theme options

One Click Demo Import

Go to Theme Options > Demo Importer > Click Demo Import

OR ( Alternate Import Method )

Note: Find XML & JSON files inside "Sample Data" directory.

How to Use the XML File to Import the Demo Site's Content

Note : Make sure you have activated all required plugin before importing demo data.

Log into your site as an administrator.
Make sure you activated your new theme and related plugin before proceeding.
Go to Tools → Import
Choose "WordPress" from the list.
Upload the .xml using the form provided on that page.
You will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the "Download and import file attachments" box.
Please be patient while WordPress imports all the content. Posts, Pages, Projects, and Menus are imported. You will need assign the menu a theme location & you'll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress import system.

How to Use JASON File to Import the Theme Default Setting

Log into your site as an administrator.
Make sure you activated your new theme and related plugin before proceeding.
Go to Tools → Theme Options > Import / Export
Click "Import From File" from the list.
Open the .json in notepad.
Copy entire text and paste it in "Import From File" textarea.
Click the import button below.

2. General Usage

Information about adding pages and different content type.

2.1) Content overview

× Important!

Reading settings

If you plan to change the "Front page displays" from "Your latest posts" to "A static page (select below)", please only set up "Front page:" and leave "Posts page:" blank. You can add a blog style page by adding pages see @Add Pages.

Add Pages

In order to add content to your website first you have to add Pages, pages can be added from the Admin > Pages > Add new.

Add Menu

Create the menu

After you have added at least one page, you can start adding pages to the website's menu, go to Admin > Appearence > Menus
Add a new menu from the menu panel, save it, than select the created menu from the "Theme Location" panel and save it.

Add pages to the menu

You can add pages to menu from the Pages panel, than you can change menu items labels or order from the menu panel.

NOTE! Click on the image to see the full size

Blog pages

1. Create a regular page under pages.
2. From the Editor ('Theme Shortcodes') select the 'Blog Post' as a Shortcode .
3. You can add Blog posts from Admin>Posts>Add new.
4. Add this page to the menu:
Go to Admin > Appearence > Menus, from the 'Pages panel' select the page you have just created than click 'Add to Menu'.
From the menu panel you can change menu items order (just drag the menu items up/down). For more information about creating the website's menu see Add Menu

Theme General Options

In order to set theme general options go to Admin > Theme Options. You can set there logo, favicon, social media, contact and more.

NOTE! Click on the image to see the full size

2.2) Key elements

Key elements

Key elements allow you to easily populate your website with specific content.

Theme Settings

Set all theme related settings here.

Usage example: Set body style, short code related information and much more.

Refer following image for global theme related settings/options.

2.3) Contact form

Contact Form using Contact Form 7 plugin

Create your own contact form using Contact Form 7 plugin.

Contact Form

Create Contact form.

Usage example: Create contact form with required fields.

Refer following image to create contact form.

Display Contact Form

Set contact form shortcode in required pages.

Usage example: Set short code.

Refer following image to display contact form in page.

2.4) Create Pages

Create Pages using visual composer shortcodes

Create your own pages using visual composer.

Pages

Create your own page.

Usage example: Create your own page.

Refer following image to create page.

Available Plugins

Included plugins

Within the Minimag main download package you can find the following plugins:

Rev Slider

Refer : Rev Slider

How To Import Revolution Sliders ( Manually )

Step 1 – Go the the Revolution Slider tab in your WP Admin, and click the Import Slider button.
Step 2 – Choose the .ZIP file of the slider you’d like to import.
Step 3 – Once you’ve chosen the .ZIP file, an Import Slider button will appear.
Step 4 – Click the Import Slider button, and wait for it to finish uploading.
Step 5 – Once it’s finished uploading, you will now see your imported slider in the list of Revolution Sliders available.

How To Export Revolution Sliders ( Manually )

Step 1 – Go the the Revolution Slider tab in your WP Admin, and open the slider you’d like to export.
Step 2 – Switch to the Slider Settings tab on the top of the page.
Step 3 – On the right, you will find the ‘Import / Export / Replace’ dropdown. Click it to expand the tab and view the options.
Step 4 – Switch to the Export tab, and click the Export Slider button.
Step 5 – Once it’s finished downloading, you will receive a .ZIP file of your slider.

Visual Composer

Refer : Visual Composer

Minimag Toolkit

Minimag Toolkit contains all custom shortcodes which can be included in any page.

Usage:
Include shortcode to display specific sections in your page.

Minimag Custom Shortcodes:
Refer following images for same..