Thank you for purchasing our plugin. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email at themepassion@jaybabani.com. Thanks so much!
First install WordPress (Installing WordPress) , then please log in to admin panel to install Material - White Label WordPress Admin Theme plugin.
There are 2 ways of installing a plugin
1. Install via WordPress Admin
2. Upload via FTP directly to your server.
To install the plugin correctly, you find plugin legacy-admin.zip file (in the plugin folder) downloaded from marketplace.
Go to WordPress admin panel -> Plugins -> Add New to upload plugin.
To install the plugin correctly, you MUST UNZIP legacy-admin.zip file (in the plugin folder) downloaded from marketplace.
Log into the WordPress admin, go to Plugins → You will find a new plugin "Material - White Label WordPress Admin Theme" in the list. Now click on "Activate" link below it.
You will see admin theme in action directly..
If you wish to upgrade via FTP, you can do the following:
Material Admin comes with advanced control panel options. After the plugin is installed correctly, a new tab is added in the Admin Menu named as Material Admin.
All the options like selecting a theme, logo settings, page loader settings, color settings, typography, forms, buttons etc. can be found in this panel.
You can take some time out and go through all the detailed options.
Using Material Admin you can either select any inbuilt theme or can create your own theme.
Go to Admin Menu → Material Admin → Pick a Theme section.
Select Custom Option to build your own theme or Select any inbuilt theme option.
Click save changes button.
You can also import the inbuilt themes in the options panel from import/export tab under Material Admin Menu tab. Find the inbuilt theme import files in the downloaded package.
This plugin lets you create your own admin theme. As mentioned earlier you need to select Custom Theme option first in Material Admin → Pick a theme section.
After that you will notice many other styling settings available in different subsections of Material Admin Section like Logo settings, typography, top bar, form, menu etc.
Go to all these sections to make your changes and click save changes button when done.
This will generate a new CSS file on the server and this file will be applied automatically to your wordpress admin section. This way you can create a theme as many times as needed.
With Material Admin you can have your customized dashboard. Go to Material Admin → Dashboard Widgets section.
All the statistics are calculated from your website and displayed on your dashboard.
Choose which widgets to show or hide.
With Material Admin you can have your own branding in Admin Panel. Go to Material Admin → Logo Settings section.
Upload your logo and favicon images of proper dimensions as mentioned in the section. You can upload logo, login page logo, Collapsed menu logo (smaller in size), favicon images.
Demo images are already part of plugin directory. You can also replace theme in the directory via FTP.
To access Theme option go to Material Admin -> Login Page Section.
In this section you can build your own login page. Pick the backgroud, color, opactiy, button color, form styles etc. in this section.
Give your users/visitors a unique look of your brand by customizing this page based on your branding needs.
Typography is unique feature of this plugin.
Power of 650+ Google fonts in your admin panel is a amazing addon.
Pick different fonts for menu, heading, button and body text. Also pick the back up font just in case online access to google fonts directory is not available. Thus you can also use your desktop fonts at will along with google fonts.
You can set options like font size, font weight, line height, word spacing and letter spacing too in this section for any font.
You can also control the appearance of default admin panel top bar using Material Admin.
Material Admin also gives you an option to enable or disable top bar on your website along with your admin panel.
Enable or disable top bar at will from the top bar section in control panel.
You can also pick from two different styles of appearance.
Plus customize its styling options based on your liking or branding
Set the form and buttons layout of your admin panel via WP Admin → Material Admin → Form and Button sections respectively.
Pick settings like page text color, backround color etc from their respective sections.
Click save changes when done.
These options are applied throughout the Admin panel generally.
Material Admin theme comes with a integrated page loader progress bar at top of page. This page loader can be seen in action at the time when the page is loading at top.
Its a nice addon to know the how much proportion of page content is loaded and is ready to use.
You can enable or disable it from control panel as well.
Set the content boxes layout of your admin panel via WP Admin → Material Admin → Content Boxes section.
Pick settings like page text color, backround color, heading background etc from this section.
Click save changes when done.
These options are applied throughout the Admin panel generally.
Import and export your settings option. Also do some custom settings like footer editing and adding your own custom CSS code from the option panel.
Also manage your admin menu from menu management addon. Rename, Reorder, Change Menu Icon, Enable/Disable Menu and Sub menu items. Also control plugin permission and other settings from the Material Admin Addon Tab.
This plugin uses the famous Redux Framework for Options Panel. This framework uses external third party scripts in the plugin. It is recommended to install Redux vendor Support Plugin along with this plugin. This Redux vendor support plugin is included in the download package. Just install it as wordpress plugin along with this plugin.
Redux Vendor Support plugin in download package is named as "redux-vendor-support-master.zip"
You can also download the copy of latest version of this support plugin from its official github page. Get latest redux vendor support plugin from: https://github.com/reduxframework/redux-vendor-support
Go to your WordPress Admin panel > Plugins. You will find a plugin "Material Admin WordPress Theme" in the list. Now click on "Deactivate" link below it.
This will uninstall the plugin and restore your WordPress admin theme to default style that comes with WordPress installation package.
Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this Plugin. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this plugin.