How To Install The7 Template

Thank you for purchasing The7!

In this Quick Start Guide you will find all required data on how to install the theme and bundled plugins, troubleshoot most common issues and make your site wait similar the theme demo.

For detailed information on theme usage delight visit The7 online user guide.

Furthermore yous can use Troubleshooter and Knowledge Base of operations at our Support Portal.

The7 comes with gratis support. So when all else fails, please exercise not hesitate to submit a support request via our online Help-Desk-bound. Our support policy is available on this page.

If you lot want someone to help you with theme customization, or even build your entire website, our Custom Store service is there at your service.

We hope you will relish working with The7.
Yours sincerely, Dream-Theme.

Before Getting Started

Due to corporeality of features available in The7, you lot may notice the number of settings in it to exist a fleck overwhelming (compared to a "usual" multipurpose theme).

For super-like shooting fish in a barrel accommodation, nosotros recommend using "Theme Options > Wizard" and avoid advanced settings at kickoff. Very soon you will get the idea backside theme compages and will be able to use The7 to its full potential.

Besides notation, that this Quick Starting time Guide does not embrace basic WordPress usage. If y'all are a WordPress newbie, please get accustomed with information technology before proceeding with this manual and theme!

Here are some links that volition aid yous to become more confident with WordPress:

First Steps with WordPress (this is one of virtually consummate guides): http://codex.wordpress.org/First_Steps_With_WordPress
Explanations on well-nigh common WordPress terms: http://en.support.wordpress.com/lexicon/
All-time WordPress-related articles for Web Developers (from novices to guru): http://cyberspace.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/top-50-wordpress-tutorials/
Brand certain you sympathise Pages, Posts, Menus, Widgets, Plugins etc.

Theme Installation

Earlier proceeding, please make sure that following plugins are not installed or deactivated:

WP-pagenavi;
WP-less;
Options Framework.

If you've downloaded and unzipped the full theme package (you are reading this document, so you've manifestly did ), locate the theme installation file called "dt-the7_v.10.X.10.nix" (or something like that).

Alternatively y'all can download the installable WordPress file from "Downloads" tab of your ThemeForest account (fig. 1):

Fig. ane - Downloading installable file.

Uploading theme via cPanel

If your host offers the cPanel control panel, follow these instructions:

In cPanel File Manager, navigate to your "themes" folder. If your WordPress is installed in the document root binder of your spider web server you would navigate to "public_html/wp-content/themes" and if you have WordPress installed in a sub-folder called "wordpress", you would navigate to "public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes".
Once you've navigated to the "themes" folder in cPanel File Director, click on Upload file(due south) and upload the installable .naught file.
In one case the .nothing file is uploaded, click on information technology in cPanel, then in the console to the right, click on "Extract File Contents", and that .zero file will exist uncompressed.
Follow the instructions below to activate the theme.

Uploading theme via FTP

To add a theme via FTP, follow these basic steps:

Unzip the installable file. Y'all demand to preserve the directory structure in the archive when unzipping it.
Using an FTP client to admission your host web server, upload the theme binder ("dt-the7") via FTP into "wp-content/themes/" folder.
Follow the instructions below to activate the theme.

Activate the theme

To activate The7:

Select the "Advent > Themes" panel.
From the Themes console, scroll over The7 thumbnail prototype to meet options for it:

Fig. 3 - Activating The7.
Yous can view more than data about whatsoever theme by clicking Theme Details.
A live preview of The7 theme (using your website'due south content) can exist seen by clicking Live Preview.
To actuate the theme click the "Activate" button.
Your selection will immediately go active.

Troubleshooting

Cannot upload the theme

CHMOD issue — Fig. 4 - Cannot upload the theme.

If you were not able to install the theme via "Appearance > Themes" interface (see fig. 4 above), most probably your server has upload file size limit. The theme installable .zip file is as well large to exist uploaded via WordPress admin area. Y'all tin contact your hosting provider and enquire to ease this limit (eastward.thou 40-50 MB will do).

Missing the mode.css stylesheet

Fig. 5 - Theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.

A mutual issue that can occur with users new to installing WordPress themes is a "Broken theme and/or stylesheets missing" error message beingness displayed when trying to upload or actuate the theme. This error message does not mean that the theme is cleaved, it merely ways that you lot are uploading the wrong file.

Please make sure that file you are uploading installable file. It is called something like "dt-the7_v.X.X.X.zip". Please refer to Basics department of this guide for details.

Blank page / allowed memory fault after The7 activation

Blank page on theme preview or after theme activation, in most cases, is the indication of memory limit issue. Information technology's the aforementioned issue when you're getting the "Immune retentivity size of xxxxxxxx bytes exhausted" error. Hither's how to solve it:

Showtime and foremost, try to edit the "wp-config.php" file in the root of y'all WordPress installation. Search for 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT'. If there is such setting, set the limit to '256MB'. If there's no such setting, add this chip of code before the MySQL settings define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M' );. Besides brand sure there'southward no 'WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT' setting in "wp-config.php" file; or make sure it is not less and then '256MB'.

2nd, if editing "wp-config.php" did not help, endeavor to add this bit of code in the beginning of ".htaccess" file: php_value memory_limit 256M.

3rd, if you go the error even after completing both steps above, it may be that your PHP is configured in CGI or suPHP etc. In this example instead of ".htaccess", you should create a file called "php.ini" and place this fleck of lawmaking in it: memory_limit = 256M.

Failed to create customization .CSS file

Theme will work fine on the vast majority of correctly installed and configured WordPress sites without any additional settings. Nevertheless on some (very rear) hosting configurations you can detect that images on your site are not uploading/displaying or theme returns notifications about setting certain CHMOD rules on "uploads" folder (see fig. 6 above). If you are experiencing this upshot, please follow these steps to fix it:

Make sure that theme installed strictly to "your_site/wp-content/themes/" folder.
The folder "your_site/wp-content/uploads" must be created. On some servers yous'll need to set its CHMOD to 755, on others – to 777.

404 error on some pages

Afterwards theme activation, on some pages you can come across the "404 Page not found" fault. This is a simple one. In WordPress admin area, navigate to the "Settings > Permalinks" and click "Save Changes" push button. This will update the ".htaccess" file to piece of work with custom post types of The7 correctly.

Plugins installation

Immediately afterward theme activation you volition see the recommended plugins installation notification (fig. seven):

Even if yous dismissed this notice, you withal tin install plugins via "Plugins > The7 Plugins" interface (fig. viii):

Fig. 8 - Recommended plugins installation interface.

The installation procedure is quite straightforward: you hover the mouse over desired plugin and click the "Install" link. After installing the plugin, delight don't forget to go back to "Plugins > The7 Plugins" interface and click the "Actuate" link on installed plugin(due south). The aforementioned procedure tin can be used to update plugins.

Bulk plugins installation / activation / update actions are likewise available. However note that this feature may not work correctly on some servers.

Demo Content

To import the demo content (or a "dummy content" every bit we call it) you lot'll need to install the "The7 Demo Content" plugin via "Plugins > The7 Plugins", activate it and navigate to "Tools > The7 Demo Content" (fig. 9):

What must be imported separately

Later on you've imported the chief bulk of demo content, you'll need to import the Slider Revolution sliders. Y'all can detect them in "Demo Content > Slider Revolution" folder of full theme package. Delight refer to plugin user transmission for details.

You may also want to import theme options from thematic demo that y'all've installed. In "Demo Content > Theme Options" folder of total theme package you'll find .TXT files with encrypted settings for each demo. Use the content of one of those files in "Theme Options > Consign/Import Options" interface.

Theme Options Sorcerer

The7 has highest amount of settings to customize your website appearance in industry up to appointment! Therefore, number of advanced settings in Theme Options tin be a bit overwhelming at get-go. Particularly if you lot have no experience with "multipurpose" WordPress themes.

Do not worry, we have your back cowered from starting time seconds of using The7 theme. You lot practise non accept to mess with all settings to pattern your site. Simply use the "Theme Options > Wizard" interface!

Theme Options Sorcerer allows you to ready up basic settings of site appearance, mobile and desktop headers, branding, sidebar, footer, background and text colors, etc. The Wizard will do the residual, intelligently calculating all other settings, so you can take your site professionally designed in mere minutes!

When Wizard will do its work, if yous wish, you tin fine-tune every aspect of your site design in the corresponding department(southward) of Theme Options.

What's Adjacent?

In one case you've read this Quick Start Guide, installed the theme and made yourself somewhat accustomed with it, you may want to read the full user guide available online. Though we hope (and believe), you lot'll rarely need information technology.

If you meet whatever issues, yous can employ Troubleshooter and Cognition Base at our Back up Portal.

If you lot experience that you cannot resolve the issue yourself or demand to enquire something near theme feature(s), delight practise non hesitate to submit a back up asking via our online Assist-Desk. (Make sure that you lot've read our support policy on this page.)

If you want someone to help y'all with theme customization, or even build your entire website, our Custom Store service is there at your service.

And, of grade, you can grab another copy of The7 for your upcoming projects here on ThemeForest.

Nosotros hope you will savour working with The7
and it will be a great assist in all your endeavors online!
Yours sincerely, Dream-Theme.