General Information

Introduction

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

CindyJ is a responsive and clean Blog & CV WordPress theme, made by a team of creative professionals here in Axiomthemes.
Axiomthemes 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 Our Theme

DON'T FORGET to rate this theme on ThemeForest – it is good to know what others think about our work. 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.

Use our built-in Search tool (top right corner in the header of this file) or the search tool in your browser (click CTRL+F - works in most browsers) to quickly find all the keywords which you are looking for:

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 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.

For more information about licenses, please refer to ThemeForest:

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.

PLEASE NOTE That as authors of this theme we are able to provide support only for the features which we created and for the issues related strictly to this theme. We do not provide support for configuration, installation, maintenance, customization, any kind of 3rd party plugins, except the ones we have developed 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 at https://axiom.ticksy.com/.
We will respond as soon as possible (within 24 – 48 hours, usually faster). Please make sure you take a look at 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 Web Inspector (available in Safari/ Safari Technology Preview ), Developer Tools (for Firefox and Google Chrome) or other similar tools.
Check these short video tutorials regarding Firebug functionality features:

More information regarding CSS syntax can be found here:

Bundled Plug-ins

The theme package contains a number of bundled plug-ins. Please click here to view the list of plug-ins that come included into the theme.

If a new version of a bundled plug-in is available, it will be included in the next theme release. You can also request it by submitting a support ticket.

Bundled plug-ins are fully functional without the activation using a registration license key. In case you are willing to receive automatic updates and support from the plug-in team, you will need to purchase the plug-in separately. Only the direct buyers get the plug-in license key.

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.

PLEASE NOTE! The theme is designed for free WordPress version downloaded at WordPress.org. We do not guarantee the theme full compatibility with installations on Wordpress.com due to limitations in website control and theme customization.

Theme Requirements

To use this theme you must be running at least WordPress 3.9, PHP5, mysql 5 or higher. If you use low-end hosting with limited resources (e.g. GoDaddy!), you may experience issues with "one-click" dummy 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:

max_execution_time 600

memory_limit 128M

post_max_size 32M

upload_max_filesize 32M

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:

php_value max_execution_time 600

php_value memory_limit 128M

php_value post_max_size 32M

php_value upload_max_filesize 32M

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:

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 styles.css file error. This is the most common error that means you are trying to install an incorrect package.

To install "CindyJ" theme, you must have WordPress installed. For information regarding WordPress platform installation, please check the WordPress Codex at http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress.

Update WordPress: To ensure a positive user experience, we highly recommend updating your WordPress to the latest stable version 4.0 or higher. This will help utilizing all of the latest features of WordPress.

PLEASE NOTE! The theme is designed for free WordPress version downloaded at WordPress.org. We do not guarantee the theme full compatibility with installations on Wordpress.com due to limitations in website control and theme customization.

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 cindy-j.zip file and ONLY use the extracted /cindy-j theme folder.

    3. Upload the extracted /cindy-j theme folder into /wp-content/themes folder.

    4. Activate the newly installed theme. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate it.

  • via WordPress:

    1. Login to admin panel.

    2. Go 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 "cindy-j.zip" and click Install Now button.

    4. After the successful installation, click on Activate or go to Appearance - Themes and click on Activate to activate the newly installed theme.

    5. After the theme is activated, you will be prompted to install the required (ThemeREX Addons) and recommended plugins: Instagram Feed and MailChimp for WP.
      All these plugins are included into the theme archive, or can be installed from the WordPress.org repository.
      The theme can function without 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 plugin installation and importing dummy data: this may affect the website content and structure.

    6. A new menu item Appearance > ThemeREX Addons will appear.

    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 at http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes.

In the theme's package you can find all the necessary files for the child theme. It’s located in the "cindy-j-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 cindy-j-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 to be redirected to the plugins installation page. Check all 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.

Available plug-ins:

  • Instagram Feed

  • MailChimp for WordPress

  • ThemeREX Addons

  • WPBakery Page Builder

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

Demo Content

Our themes have simple One click dummy 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.

IMPORTANT! When installing demo-data, ALL THE EXISTING CONTENTS of your website will be deleted and replaced with the new data! We highly recommend that you install demo data only on blank WordPress installation.

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

  1. Log in to your site as an administrator.
  2. If you see a message prompting to install required plugin ThemeREX Addons, 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 Dummy Data:
  4. On the page that showed up please set the required parameters.
  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, you can manually install it by downloading the demo.zip archive from our server and extract it in your Theme's folder root directory. If the issue persists, please contact your hosting provider to make sure that your server configuration meets the Theme Requirements. Otherwise, please refer your request to our support department.

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 details page, as well.

Do Not Forget Before you go ahead with the update, please make sure you backup your old theme 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 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 cindy-j 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 the included plugins if you see a notification message letting you know that plugins have a new version.
    • Navigate to WP Dashboard > Plugins > Installed Plugins.
    • Deactivate and delete the 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 2. 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 the included plugins as it was described above, if you see a notification message letting you know the plugins have a new 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 - 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.

PLEASE NOTE This is a "OnePage" theme. All the customizations are applied to the Home page only. Settings for the other pages and posts can be set up in "Blog Archive" section in the "Customize" menu. The rest of the posts and pages such as "Lifestyle", "My Travel", "Fashion", "Post Formats" etc. are just examples (variations) of how the single page/post might look like.

We have integrated many 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 of the individual page types.

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 through with the changes, you should click on "Save and Publish" button at the top. There are quite a lot of parameters here, but luckily the majority of them have default values that suit most of the users. Let's take a closer look at them:

Menus

These settings allow you to manage Menus:

Menu Locations is a default Menu location. Main Menu displays menu under the logo image.

  • Main Menu - Displays menu under the logo image.

Check the screenshot below for more information.

Predefined Menu set:

Widgets

These settings allow you to manage Sidebar and Footer widgets just as you used to do in Appearance > Widgets in WordPress admin panel:

Here you can manage standard sidebars (widget sets) included in the theme:

  • Sidebar - By default, it is displayed vertically to the left or right from the main content.
  • Header - By default, it is displayed at the header of the page.
  • Footer - By default, it is displayed at the footer of the page.

If you expand one of these widget sets, you will be able to:

  1. Add a widget: just click on "Add a widget" 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 widgets in the sidebar, please click on "Done" button at the bottom.

You will be able to assign any of these widget sets to the sidebar of Homepage, Blog archive pages, Search results pages, Single post pages and Single pages in the corresponding menu items of Appearance > Customize.

Moreover, you get a few Custom Widget sets that can be managed in Appearance > Widgets:

On the same page you will see Available Widgets section which also includes MailChimp SignUp form. In order to add the widget to the Sidebar, just drag and drop it to the needed position, add the content and Save it.

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:

Custom widgets

  1. ThemeREX Addons - About Me: Displays the photo and description of the website admin:
  2. ThemeREX Addons - Advertisement block: Used to insert advertising banners - images with links or arbitrary HTML-blocks. IMPORTANT! Be careful to use extraneous HTML-code not to disrupt the design of the page.
  3. ThemeREX Addons - Calendar: A standard WP Calendar showing the current date and the days with available daily archives (posts).
  4. ThemeREX Addons - Categories list: Displays the list of available categories.
  5. ThemeREX Addons - Contacts: Displays your Logo and contact information.
  6. ThemeREX Addons - Flickr Photos: Shows photos from Flickr account.
  7. ThemeREX Addons - Most Popular & Commented Posts: Displays the most visited, most commented and most liked articles.
  8. ThemeREX Addons - Post Slider/Revolution Slider: Displays the slides via Posts (Swiper) Slider or Revolution Slider.
  9. ThemeREX - Recent News: Shows recent news.
  10. 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.
  11. ThemeREX Addons - Socials: Shows the links to social network profiles. The widgets for social media icons are added in Appearace - Customize - Socials.
  12. ThemeREX Addons - Twitter: Shows latest tweets from Twitter account.
  13. Mailchimp SignUp form: Allows you to add subscribers to your MailChimp lists.Mailchimp for WP plugin should be installed to use this widget.

    In order to configure your Mailchimp widget, please follow these steps:

    • Navigate to MailChimp for WP - MailChimp in your WordPress admin and enter your MailChimp API key. To do that you should be registered at Mailchimp website:
    • Open MailChimp for WP - Forms and fill in Form mark-up. You can see the code for the demo form on the screenshot below:
      • Mailchimp Form Code 
      <div class="mc4wp_wrap">
<input type="email" id="mc4wp_email" name="email" placeholder="Enter your e-mail" required>
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe">
</div>

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 or color behind the content body, when "Boxed" body style is enabled and to manage image's position:

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.

Color Scheme

The next section of settings allows you to 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:

Dark
Grey
Light
Default

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.

Accent2/Accent2 Hover

These options allow you to change color/hover of secondary 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 your website's look.

Header

Settings of this group are responsible for managing an overall look and behavior of the header elements.

Current Header/Previously uploaded

This option allows you to upload an image to the header area. It also shows the current header image and previously uploaded one.

Header widgets

This setting allows you to add widgets to the header.

Additional settings in this section are responsible for stretching the header widgets to an entire screen width, showing/hiding a page title and breadcrumbs in the header area.

Logo

Logo image can be uploaded or selected from the Media Library.

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 960px the mobile layout will be applied.

Additional CSS

Settings of this group allow you to specify 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 - the page's body is in the area of limited screen width, and the background image is visible.

  • Wide - the page's body occupies an entire screen width (background image is behind it and is not visible), and the content occupies the fixed width area in the center of the screen.

  • Fullwidth - the page's body occupies almost all screen width.

Boxed

Wide

Fullwidth

Expand Content setting responsible for expanding content width, in case the sidebar is hidden.

Footer

Settings of this group are responsible for managing an overall look and behavior of footer elements, such as footer widgets, logo and copyright text.

Footer widgets

Select the necessary widgets that will be displayed in the footer.

Footer columns

Set the necessary columns quantity to display the widgets in.

Footer fullwide

It this setting is enabled footer will occupy an entire window width.

Logo for Footer/(Retina)

Upload your logo image here.

Copyright

Place your copyright text here.

Homepage

Settings of this group are responsible for managing an overall look and behavior of homepage elements.

Blog style:

  • Excerpt - Posts will 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 will be displayed in a few columns, but without description.

Header Widgets

Select the necessary widgets that will be displayed in the header.

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 the 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.

Style-related settings

These settings allow choosing blog and pagination style. Blog Style settings are the same as for the Homepage settings.

Post-related settings

These settings allow manipulating with posts content and animation.

Header-related settings

These settings allow specifying header's 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.

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:

On the right you will see Page Attributes - Template section. 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 "Front page displays", select Static page, and choose pages for your Frontpage 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:

CV Card

This section covers the information about CV Card in your website. CV Card is a feature that lets you integrate resume and portfolio functionality into your WordPress website.

You can find CV Card settings under Appearance -> ThemeREX Addons -> CV Card. Check the ThemeREX Addons > CV Card section for more information.

It consists of 6 main sections, which are About Me, Resume, Portfolio, Testimonials, Certificates, and Contacts.


Let's review each of them in detail.

About Me

In the About Me section you can showcase information about yourself.

You can find the About Me section settings under Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > CV Card.

There, you need to specify a page that should be used as content for the About Me section. Please click here for more information.

Resume

Resume is one of the most prominent sections in your CV Card. It allows you to display such information as skills, work experience, education, and services.

You can edit existing or add new resume items using the Resume custom post type.


Each Resume item has a type. It can be either Skills, Work experience, Education or Services.


When you add a new Resume item, you need to choose the item type in the Item Options box.

TIP: If you don't see the Item Options box, make sure it's enabled in the Screen Options settings in the top right corner of your page.

You can find additional Resume settings in the Resume section under Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > CV Card.

There, you can manage the order of resume sections, number of posts to display, number of columns, and more. Please click here for more information.

Portfolio

In the Portfolio section you can showcase your works using the gallery layout.

Using the Portfolio custom post type, you can edit existing or add new portfolio items.


You can assign a category to each portfolio item, thus making it appear in a corresponding portfolio tab.

The Portfolio category is assigned via the Portfolio Categories box in the item's edit screen.

Additional settings for the Portfolio section can be adjusted in Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > CV Card. Please click here for more information.

Testimonials

Testimonials section is based off of testimonials custom post types.


The Testimonials settings can be found under the corresponding section in Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > CV Card. Please click here for more information.

Certificates

Similar to Testimonials, Certificates section displays certificate custom post types.


For detailed customization of the Certificates section, go to the Certificates settings in Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > CV Card. Please click here for more information.

Contacts

The Contacts section consists of a submission form and contact details, such as phone number, email, and physical address.

You can edit the contact information in Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > Contacts. Please click here for more information.

Additional Customization

Each section can be additionally customized by placing content above or below the original section content. In order to do this:

  1. Create a new page (Pages -> Add New), and enter the %%CV_CONTENT%% tag, which would represent the original section content. You can place any custom content above or below the tag, including WPBakery Page Builder shortcodes.


  2. Go to Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > CV Card, and select the newly created page in the settings of the corresponding section.


  3. Save changes, and refresh your site. Now your custom content should appear above/below the section content.

Post Formats

The theme uses standard WordPress post formats, for you to run the blog using various visual representations of a post.

  • Standard – The default post format: you can add a featured image to the post or leave your post without it.
  • Post without image – The default post format with no image in it.
  • Aside – A note like post, usually styled without title.
  • Gallery – A gallery of images.
  • Link– A link to another site.
  • Quote – A quotation.
  • Status – Twitter like short status update.
  • Video – A post containing video.
  • Sound Cloud Audio – An audio file.
  • Chat – The chat looking post style.

Find all the post types on the screenshot below.

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, our 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. Please be aware that we do not include Revolution Slider plugin into the theme's package. To use this plugin, you need to purchase it first.

The slider can be added through the "Widgets" section as well as through the WPBakery Page Builder. Using Widgets allows 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 Swiper Slider by adding it to one of the widget sets.

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

  2. Locate the ThemeREX Addons - Posts slider or 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. For example, let's activate Slider in the "Header Widgets" section (Theme Options > Header tab).
  4. Once it's finished click "Update" and "Preview Changes" buttons to see how it will look on the front-end.

    5. Now the slider is right where you need it.

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 Back-end Editor.

Below is a list of the shortcodes available for this theme.

Recent News

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

Example:

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][trx_recent_news style="news-excerpt" widget_title="Recent News" title="" subtitle="Subtitle" show_categories="1" category="34" count="3" featured="3" columns="3" offset="0" orderby="date" order="asc" ids="" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Social Icons

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

Example:

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][trx_socials id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Widget About Me

This shortcode displays an "About Me" widget with some personal information.

Example:

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_aboutme title="About Me" avatar="15" username="CINDY JEFFERSON" description="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras quis mattis tortor, id sagittis lorem. Morbi tristique, quam vel semper varius, orci quam lacinia enim, in pretium metus dolor a justo. Maecenas interdum eros purus, a rhoncus nibh sollicitudin vel." id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Widget Advertisement

This shortcode inserts widget with advertisement banner images. You can select/upload the image or paste Advert Widget HTML Code.

Example:

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_advert title="Advertisement Widget" image="109" link="#" code="" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Widget Calendar

This shortcode displays a widget calendar.

Example:

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_calendar title="Calendar" weekdays="" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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:

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_categories_list title="Categories List" style="1" number="5" columns="5" show_posts="1" show_children="" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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:

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_contacts title="Contact Me" logo="65" logo_retina="" description="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras quis mattis tortor, id sagittis lorem. Morbi tristique, quam vel semper varius, orci quam lacinia enim, in pretium metus dolor a justo. Maecenas interdum eros purus, a rhoncus nibh sollicitudin vel. " address="Chicago, IL 60606 123, New Lenox" phone=" (212) 123 456 7890" email="[email protected]" socials="1" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Widget Flickr Photos

This shortcode displays images from your Flickr account. Do not forget to specify the necessary "Username".

Example:

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_flickr title="Flickr Photos" flickr_username="" flickr_count="8" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Widget Popular Posts

This shortcode displays popular posts.

Example:

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_popular_posts title="Popular Posts" title_popular="Most popular" title_commented="Most commented" title_liked="Most liked" number="4" show_image="1" show_author="1" show_date="1" show_counters="1" show_categories="1" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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:

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][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=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Widget Slider

This shortcode allows to display (default) Swiper 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):

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_slider title="Swiper" engine="swiper" height="345" category="34" posts="5" slides_per_view="1" slides_space="0" interval="7000" titles="center" large="" controls="1" pagination="" 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:

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_socials title="Socials Icons" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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 "Token keys" to make it display your twitter feed properly.

Example:

Plain Code 
[vc_row][vc_column][trx_widget_twitter title="Twitter Widget" count="2" bg_image="101" follow="" username="" consumer_key="" consumer_secret="" token_key="" token_secret="" id="" class="" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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 the unique ThemeREX Addons plugin. After its activation, you will be able to noticeably expand the options of the theme. With these addons you will get CV Card functionality with flexible settings, 12 wonderful widgets, Page Preload function, Auto Retina displays indicator with appropriate high-resolution images usage and much more.

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 addons settings to have a basic understanding of how they work.

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, __styles.css, __scripts.js.

  • 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 Once you change images quality, you will need to regenerate all thumbnails.

  • Page preloader image - 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.

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

Contacts

Here you may specify all the necessary information about yourself, such as your e-mail address, phone number, etc.
PLEASE NOTE this information will be shown on the printed version of your Resume.

This is how the printed version might look like.

Widgets

On this tab you may choose the necessary widgets you want for your theme. All you need to do is mark a checkbox towards desired widget and hit "Save".

Socials

Here you may specify all the necessary URLs to your social profiles. Just paste the necessary URL address into the needed field and hit "Save".

CV Card

Here is the main section that is responsible for the overall look and behavior of your CV Card.

Here's how your CV card might look like on the frontend.

General Settings:

  • Enable CV Card - If for some reason you do not need a CV card you may disable it here.

  • Use CV Card as homepage - This option allows you to set your CV card as a main page. So once somebody decides to visit your website he will be redirected straight to your CV card page.

  • Hide blog - This option allows you to hide the Blog page.

  • Use splash - The Splash screen will be shown to somebody who visits your site for the first time.

  • Sections - Here you may enable/disable the sections and also change their order.

  • Use AJAX loader - Here you can turn on the AJAX loader to have possibility to load an inactive tabs content.

  • Navigation - This setting allows you to manipulate styles of CVs' sections.

  • Small button "Blog"/"VCard" - Select or upload image.

  • Splash button "Blog"/"VCard" - Select or upload image.

Header Settings:

  • Header narrow - Here you can choose bettwen narrow header and the regular one.
  • Header bg tint - Specify the tint for your header.

  • Header image - This setting allows you to change your main header CV image.
  • Header image style - Choose one of three available image styles: boxed - small image with borders, fit - image fits the header's area, cover - image covers whole header's area.

  • Header letter - Specify a letter that will be displayed over the header image.

  • Text in the Header - This text will be displayed in the header's area.

  • Social icons - Specify whether to display the social icons under the header image.

Resume Section:

  • Section's title - Specify the title for the Resume section.

  • Page Resume - Select the page that contains layout of the Resume section. Attention! To insert content of this section in the page - place %%CV_CONTENT%% into this page.

  • Resume parts - Select available parts of the Resume section. You can here change their order.

  • Print full version - This setting allows you to choose what Resume version should be printed. If unchecked, the short version will be used.

  • Download version - Enter here URL to downloadable version of the resume.

    • PLEASE NOTE Skills, Work Experience, Education and Services options have the same settings. Below we will briefly describe one of these options, which is Skills. The reset of the options will behave the same.

    Items for these options can be managed via WP Dashboard menu at Resume > All Resume Items section.

  • Skills - First resume part.

    • Items number - Specify the items quantity here.

    • Columns number - Specify the columns quantity to be used for displaying items.

      • Screenshot below demonstrate option, where we picked 4 items and set 2 columns.

    • Use Slider - This setting allows you to use slider to show your items.
    • Narrow - If this option is checked you will get a bigger skills boxes.
    • Delimiter - Here you may decide whether to use delimiter or not.

Portfolio Section:

PLEASE NOTE Portfolio Categories such as Graphic, Photo, Video, Web can be managed via WP Dashboard menu at Portfolio > Portfolio Categories section.

  • Section's title - Specify the title for the Portfolio section.

  • Page Resume - Select the page that contains layout of the Portfolio section. Attention! To insert content of this section in the page - place %%CV_CONTENT%% into this page.

  • Style - Specify one of three available styles for your Portfolio items.

  • Items number - Specify the quantity of portfolio items to be displayed.

  • Columns number - Specify how many columns for portfolio items will be displayed.

  • Use Slider - Choose whether to use slider for your portfolio items.

  • Space between slides - Specify space between each slide (in px).

Testimonials Section:

PLEASE NOTE Testimonials can be managed via WP Dashboard menu at Testimonials > All Testimonials/Add new section.

  • Section's title - Specify the title for the Testimonials section.

  • Page Resume - Select the page that contains layout of the Testimonials section. Attention! To insert content of this section in the page - place %%CV_CONTENT%% into this page.

  • Items number - Specify the quantity of testimonials items to be displayed.

  • Columns number - Specify how many columns for testimonials items will be displayed.

  • Use Slider - Choose whether to use slider for your testimonials items.

  • Space between slides - Specify space between each slide (in px).

Certificates Section

PLEASE NOTE Certificates can be managed via WP Dashboard menu at Certificates > All Certificates/Add new section.

  • Section's title - Specify the title for the Certificates section.

  • Page Resume - Select the page that contains layout of the Certificates section. Attention! To insert content of this section in the page - place %%CV_CONTENT%% into this page.

  • Items number - Specify the quantity of certificates items to be displayed.

  • Columns number - Specify how many columns for certificates items will be displayed.

  • Use Slider - Choose whether to use slider for your certificates items.

  • Space between slides - Specify space between each slide (in px).

Contacts Section

PLEASE NOTE Contacts can be managed via WP Dashboard menu at Appearance > ThemeREX Addons > Contacts section.

  • Section's title - Specify the title for the Contacts section.

  • Page Resume - Select the page that contains layout of the Contacts section. Attention! To insert content of this section in the page - place %%CV_CONTENT%% into this page.

Shortcodes

Here you may define whether you want to use the shortcodes or not.

Theme Specific

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

Instagram Feed

This plugin is responsible for displaying a completely customizable Instagram feed on your WordPress website. Check this link for more information.

Mailchimp

MailChimp is a newsletter service that allows you to send out email campaigns to a list of email subscribers. MailChimp is free for lists up to 2000 subscribers, which is why it is the newsletter-service of choice for thousands of businesses.
This plugin acts as a bridge between your WordPress site and your MailChimp account, connecting the two together.
Check this link for more information.
More guides are available here.

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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:

Sources and Credits

In this section you can find additional information regarding fonts and clipart (.psd files) used in this theme.

  • Fonts:

    • '"Open Sans", sans-serif'; '"Ek Mukta", sans-serif'; '"Old Standard TT", serif'.

      Check the theme.options.php file for more information.


  • Clipart:

    • Images were taken from http:/www.depositphotos.com/.

    • IMPORTANT! Please be aware that all clipart images included in this theme are the 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.
      Nevertheless, you can request the image IDs/references by contacting our support department.


  • PSD Files:

    • IMPORTANT! Please note 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 as well.

Troubleshooting

Thank you for purchasing our theme. We are happy that you are one of our customers.
If you come up with any theme-related questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, feel free to post them at our support forum at https://axiom.ticksy.com/. We will respond as soon as possible (within 24 – 48 hours, usually faster).

Please do not forget to check our Video Tutorials and Articles.

We are open from 10am to 7pm (CET), from Monday till Friday. Please be aware that we are off on weekends.

PLEASE NOTE! Our support policy covers trouble using any features related strictly to this theme. We do not provide support for additional customizations, 3rd party plugins integration or any other compatibility issues that might arise. You also need to have a valid purchase code to request an assistance from our support team.