Alchemists Documentation

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Thank you very much for purchasing our theme. We've put a lot of hard work into it, and we hope you love it as much as we do. As far as the documentation is concerned, we have tried to cover as much as possible to help you get your new theme up and running and to help you customise it.

If you have any questions or problems that aren't answered here, please feel free to create a new ticket on our support site.

We love to hear your feedback - if you find any bugs or have suggestions for improvements please get in touch. Nearly all of the time we follow your advice and issue a rapid update to Alchemists.

Since WordPress is constantly being updated information about how to install WordPress may become out of date, so you always can read official guide HERE

Below are all the useful links for WordPress information:

• WordPress Codex – general info about WordPress and how to install on your server.
• First Steps With WordPress – general information that covers a wide variety of topics.
• FAQ New To WordPress – the most popular FAQ’s regarding WordPress.

Once you've downloaded the installation file on ThemeForest, extract it and locate a file called alchemists.zip. You can install the theme by using one of two installation methods:

WordPress upload

1. Login to WordPress admin.
2. Go to Admin panel > Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
3. Click on Choose File and select alchemists.zip.
4. Click on Install Now.
5. When your theme is successfully installed, click Activate to activate the newly installed theme.

FTP upload

1. Using FTP client, login to the server where your WordPress website is hosted.
2. Using FTP client, navigate to the /wp-content/themes/ directory under your WordPress website's root directory.
3. Using FTP client, upload the Alchemists directory to themes directory on remote server.
4. Once uploaded, navigate to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes in the WordPress Dashboard and hit Activate below your newly uploaded theme.

When you first install the theme you'll see a popup on your dashboard from the theme asking you to install a number of plugins.

Allow the theme to install these for you. The plugins which are installed are dependent of the theme, the images below are for illustrative purposes only.

We have included the exported files from our demo, this allows you to quickly set up your theme the same way our demo is set up.

1. Log-in to your WordPress backend and navigage to Appearance > Import Demo Data.
2. Click on Import Demo Data only once.
3. That's it! :)

Finally, if you have not done so already, its highly advisable to update your permalink settings. To do this, head to Settings > Permalinks and select any option other than default. We recommended 'postname' - as you can see below.

Theme Options panel allows you to customize color styling, typography, text etc. of the theme. Go to Dashboard > Theme Options to start customizing the theme.

You can add your own custom logo in seconds, thanks to our easy to use theme options. To begin, just head to Theme Options > General Settings in your WordPress admin area.

Upload your logo in Custom Logo field. Also upload your image to Custom Logo @2x field for retina displays or specify the image URL. It should be x2 time bigger than standard logo image.

Use Custom Logo Width and Custom Logo Width on Mobile option fields to change logo width.

1. Go to Appearance → Customize → Site Identity → Site Icon
2. Click on Select Image
3. Upload your favicon or choose from existing.
4. Crop your image or Skip cropping.
5. Click on Save & Publish.

Starting from v2.1.0 you can setting up menu instead of simple links in the Header Top Bar.

Creating Top Menu

To create Top Menu please follow next steps:

1. Go to Appearance → Menus → Edit Menus
2. Create a new menu by clicking on Create a new menu link
3. Enter menu name, e.g. Top Menu
4. To assign the menu to the menu location, click the Manage Locations tab then select Top Menu from the drop-down under Assigned Menu and then click the Save Changes button.

   

Adding Menu Items

1. Go to Appearance → Menus → Edit Menus → Top Menu
2. Add My Account page, change label to Register and enable Display Mode: Logged Out Users, so that the register menu link only shows for logged out user.
3. Add My Account page, change label to Login and enable Display Mode: Logged Out Users.
4. Add My Account page and enable Display Mode: Logged In Users, so that the account menu link only shows for logged in user.
5. Add a custom link using Custom Links menu creation option with url [site-url]/my-account/customer-logout/ and label Logout. Also enable Display Mode: Logged In Users.

   

6. As an option you can add nav-account__item--logout CSS class to logout link to make it a little bit different.

   

To change theme colors navigate to Theme Options > Styling

Here you can control the colors site.

To customize theme typography navigate to Theme Options → Typography and enable customization options Customize Body font? and Customize Headings?.

Here you can control Typography options such as Font Family, Font Weight, Font Size, Line Height, Font Color.

To build your site you can also use Widgets. Navigate to Appearance > Widgets and using drag-and-grop interface place widgets into Widgets Area (Sidebar, Pushy Panel, Footer Area 1 etc.)

Get more info about widgets here.

SportsPress plugin created to transform your WordPress site into a fully configurable team, club, or league website. Features a suite of sports tools including fixtures, results, automated standings, players rankings, and individual profiles for clubs, players, and staff.

Alchemists theme bundled with WPBakery Page Builder plugin. To get information how to work with please visit official documentation page.

WooCommerce is a free eCommerce WordPress plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, WooCommerce is the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives both store owners and developers complete control.

To get more information please check the official documentation.

Contact Form 7 is our recommended form plugin for WordPress. It is a simple but powerful form creator for WordPress. Here we will show you how to use Contact Form 7 to create and edit a basic form.

After Contact Form 7 is installed, you will find a new menu item in your WordPress admin area called Contact, here is where your forms and created and edited. From the Contact main screen, you will see your first contact form, its usually a default form called Contact Form 1 OR if you have imported the demo data for our theme you may see a few forms that we have made specially for you.

<div class="row">
  <div class="col-md-4">
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="contact-form-name">Your Name <span class="required">*</span></label>
      [text* input-name id:input-name class:form-control placeholder "Your full name..."]
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="col-md-4">
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="contact-form-email">Your Email <span class="required">*</span></label>
      [email* input-email id:input-email class:form-control placeholder "Your email..."]
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="col-md-4">
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="contact-form-subject">Subject</label>
      [text input-subject id:input-subject class:form-control placeholder "Your subject..."]
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
  <label for="contact-form-message">Your Message <span class="required">*</span></label>
  [textarea* textarea id:textarea class:form-control x5 placeholder "Enter your message here.."]
</div>
<div class="form-group form-group--submit">
  [submit id:submit class:btn class:btn-primary-inverse class:btn-lg class:btn-block "Send Your Message"]
</div>

Child themes are separate themes that rely on a parent theme for most of their functionality. If you are using a child theme, WordPress will check your child theme first to see if a specific functionality exists. If it doesn’t, it will use the parent theme. This is great because it allows you to modify only what you need.

If you plan to edit the theme files, like style.css, we're suggesting you to install both alchemists.zip and alchemists-child.zip themes, then activate the child theme. Child themes are great because allow you to edit the theme and also lets you update the original theme in the future, without loosing your edited files work.

More about child themes and how to use them you can read here: LINK.