Coursaty, theme documentation

Server requirements is one of the key factors for WordPress and Coursaty theme, it is highly recommended to use a server which supports the following requirements. We explain about WordPress, Coursaty, WooCommerce server requirements.

WordPress requirements

WordPress recommends following server settings.

Coursaty requirements

We recommends following server settings for Our WordPress Theme:

WooCommerce requirements

Coursaty support WooCommerce officially so it is best to make sure your server also supports this plugin requirements if you are going to set up a shop.To learn about the plugin server requirements, read the official article.

WordPress is well-known for its ease of installation. Under most circumstances, installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less that five minutes to complete.

Before beginning the installation and configuring of your new theme, you must first have WordPress already installed on a server.

If you are struggling, here is a very detailed guide at Wordpress Codex that will walk you through every step.

If you prefer something more visual, you can watch this video tutorial on how to install Wordpress by us

(Please note the video shown is from our NUVO Restaurant theme, but the same process applies)

In order to install Coursaty, once you download the theme, unzip the main archive. You will see the wp-Coursaty.zip file

Coursaty Can Be Installed in 2 Different Ways:

1. 1 Installing through WordPress
2. 2 Uploading through FTP (File transfer protocol)

1. Install Coursaty – Installation through WordPress:

Installing a theme through WordPress is quite a simple process. After you have logged into your WordPress Simply navigate to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme . Click the button “choose file” and locate your Theme zip file (wp-Coursaty.zip), then click the “install now” button. After Coursaty is installed, find the Theme in Appearance > Themes and click Activate.

Please be informed that you should not upload the whole archive you downloaded from Themeforest, as you will get an error reporting “broken stylesheet file”. Instead locate the wp-Coursaty.zip file inside the main archive you downloaded.

2. Installation Through FTP:

Please be informed that you should not upload the whole item you have downloaded from Themeforest as you will get an error message. Instead:

1. Download the Theme archive and extract the main theme zip file with the title (wp-Coursaty.zip)
2. You may need to preserve the folder structure in the archive when extracting these files. Some softwares such as Winrar create a subdirectory within the same directory name they have unzipped. Uploading a theme to your server via FTP with this structure will lead to error messages.
3. Use an FTP client (for example Filezilla) to access your host web server
4. Transfer your unzipped theme to your server in the wp-content/themes
5. Once the theme is uploaded, you need to activate it. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate your uploaded theme.

Once you have installed and activated our theme you will be prompted to install required and recommended plugins. Just click the link to Begin installing plugins.

Next, check boxes to select all the plugins you want to install, select the bulk action of install from the dropdown box and then click the button to apply.

Next, just click the link to Return to Required Plugins Installer.

Select the plugins you had installed, and then apply the bulk action to activate them.

Finally, you will got a confirmation notice that your plugins were activeded.

Noted: Before you install our themes please read some our tips here:

• How to install sample data using one click in CMS theme 
• How to install sample data using import xml method

To help you set up website with the least efforts, we include in the theme package dummy content file. After installing it, all content seen on the live demo will be imported except for images/videos.

There are two methods you can use, one is using our One-click Importer, the other is Importing manually. To go with the former option, please follow the steps below:

1. 1. Go to Theme Option on the Appearance menu
   

   

2. 2. The Import/Export menu tab will show.
3. 3. Just click Import now and wait for the process to complete.

   

4. 4. After the importation is finished, Save Changes and you are done.

Now you have a website just like our demo, with the pictures replaced by grey images.

The Custom Post Type of theme can be installed by this way: Go to CPT UI-> Import/Export, copy and paste content of wp-coursaty/inc/dummy/wp_coursaty/posttypes/post.json file into Post Types area and copy and paste content of wp-coursaty/inc/dummy/wp_coursaty/posttypes/tax.json file into Taxonomies area. See screenshot for details:

All Custom Post Type will be imported for your site

To imprort the demo content by yourself, please follow the steps below:

1. 1. Go to Tools > Import.
2. 2. Select Wordpress system then browse for the .xml file. You shoud be able to find it following the path Theme Option > inc > dummy > Coursaty > XML.
3. 3. 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.
4. 4. You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the "Download and import file attachments" box.
5. 5. Click Submit.

Now you have a website just like our demo, with the pictures replaced by grey images.

The theme options can be installed by this way: Go to Appearance->Theme Options->Import/Export, copy and paste content of wp-coursaty/inc/dummy/wp_coursaty/options.json file into Import Options field. See screenshot for details:

This is plugin required all our themes

This plugin provides an easy to use interface to create and administer custom post types and taxonomies in WordPress. This plugin is created for WordPress 4.x.

If you need dedicated support for this plugin, please visit: Custom Post Type UI

After installation, you will be suggested to install additional plugins. To install them and activate, please navigate to Plugins, you will see a list of required and optional plugins. We recommend that you install the following to get the best of our theme:

Visual Composer is the most popular drag and drop editor for wordpress.

If you need dedicated support for this component, please visit: Visual Composer on Code Canyon

Create a responsive (mobile friendly) or fullwidth slider with must-see-effects and meanwhile keep or build your SEO optimization (all content always readable for search engines). See the heaps of custom transitions/animations for each object on the page!

Customize this slider with our convenient drag & drop backend to your very needs. This plugin features tons of unique transition effects, an image preloader, video embedding, autoplay that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your own effects.

For premium support with this plugin please visit: Revolution Slider on Code Canyon

This plugin converts all SoundCloud Shortcodes into embeddable SoundCloud players. It works for any SoundCloud track, playlist, user, or group.

Once you install this plugin, it works for any of your blog posts.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: SoundCloud Shortcode

Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular form builders for wordpress.

We have created styles ready for you to use within your Coursaty theme.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Contact Form 7

This plugin will add a custom set of fields to the user profile page which will allow for the use of a custom profile photo.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Custom User Profile Photo

LearnPress is free and always be free, but it has premium high quality WordPress Plugin which will probably help you make money from your WordPress based LMS, try and see how it is.

LearnPress WordPress Online Course plugin is lightweight but super powerful with lots of add-ons to empower its core system.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: LearnPress

Woo Commerce is one of the most popular shopping cart plugins for wordpress.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: WooCommerce

WooCommerce Quantity Increment re-adds the quantity buttons depreciated in WooCommerce 2.3 .

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: WooCommerce Quantity Increment

Flex Map is a wordpress map plugin that provides many features with different map types such as creating area mapping, polygone, polyline, circle, rectangle, single markers, street view markers.

With a simple visual map editor, It is extremely easy to make and place your map anywhere on your frontend wordpress site.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: FLEX MAP

Newsletter is a real newsletter system for your WordPress blog: perfect for list building, you can easily create, send and track e-mails, headache-free.

It just works out of box!

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Newsletter

1. 1. From the 'Appearance' menu on the left-hand side of the Dashboard, select the 'Menus' option to bring up the Menu Editor.



2. 2. Select create a new menu at the top of the page



3. 3. Enter a name for your new menu in the Menu Name box.
4. 4. Click the Create Menu button. 



5. 5. Click Select to select menu created.

Your new custom menu has been defined.

You can add different link types into your menu, these are split between panes left of the menu you're currently editing.

1. 1. Locate the pane entitled Pages.
2. 2. Within this pane, select the View All link to bring up a list of all the currently published Pages on your site.
3. 3. Select the Pages that you want to add by clicking the checkbox next to each Page's title.
4. 4. Click the Add to Menu button located at the bottom of this pane to add your selection(s) to the menu that you created in the previous step.



5. 5. Click the Save Menu button once you've added all the menu items you want.

Your custom menu has now been saved.

When planning the structure of your menu, it helps to think of each menu item as a heading in a formal report document. In a formal report, main section headings (Level 1 headings) are the nearest to the left of the page; sub-section headings (Level 2 headings) are indented slightly further to the right; any other subordinate headings (Level 3, 4, etc) within the same section are indented even further to the right.

The WordPress menu editor allows you to create multi-level menus using a simple 'drag and drop' interface. Drag menu items up or down to change their order of appearance in the menu. Drag menu items left or right in order to create sub-levels within your menu.

To make one menu item a subordinate of another, you need to position the 'child' underneath its 'parent' and then drag it slightly to the right.

1. 1. Position the mouse over the 'child' menu item.
2. 2. Whilst holding the left mouse button, drag it to the right.
3. 3. Release the mouse button.
4. 4. Repeat these steps for each sub-menu item.



5. 5. Click the Save Menu  button in the Menu Editor to save your changes.

1. 1. Scroll to the bottom of the menu editor window.
2. 2. In the section titled Theme locations, click the check box for the location where you want your menu to appear.



3. 3. Click Save menu once you've made your selection.

Congratulations! Your menu has now been added to your site.

You can set any menu as Primary menu here.

Result menu:

With the Page Options specially built for our themes, you can easily customize Header, Page Title and Footer of every page.

Header

Choose Header Menu Main Menu, About, Quick Link.

You can give a Title, Sub Title and select layout for your Page Title here.

Page Title

Custom: Enable/Disable custom style mode.

You can give a Title, Sub Title and select layout for your Page Title here.



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Footer Options

Custom: Enable/Disable Remove footer margin.



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To set a page as Home page, go to Settings > Reading in your WordPress Dashboard panel.

1. 1. Set "Front page displays" as "A Static Page"
2. 2. In the drop down menu for "Front Page" choose a page which will be your home page.



3. 3. Save changes.

Instructor, Portfolios, are created using Shortcodes. For more detailed instruction, please head to Shortcode > CMS Grid

Courses and Posts are created using Shortcodes. For more detailed instruction, please head to Shortcode > CMS Carousel

To Add Widget on Sidebar, please following these steps:

1. 1. Navigate to Appearance>Widgets to access the list of widgets and widget section that they can be added. The left hand side show all widgets you can use. The right hand side shows all different section you can add widgets to.
2. 2. Simply drag and drop the widget you want into the widgets section you want to the right hand side.
3. 3. When you finished, you can visit the site to see results.

The options panel is home to all of the theme's extensive configuration options. To view the panel, click on Appearance > Theme Option in the left-hand menu. Here you have the ability to alter many core aspects that make up how your theme looks and behaves. Any of the options that have some ambiguity to them conviently have descriptions to explain their purpose.

With our built-in importer, you will be able to get your site ready in a flash. Simply select a layout and click Install to start importing demo data.

You can set Favicon icon for your site here.

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You can set Accent Color and Link Color here.

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Result of Links Color:

You enable/disable page loading here.

After turn on this button, reload the page to see result.

Typography

Not just color, all text elements are also within your control. You can define the style of Body text and H1 to H6 Headlines for yourself.

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On this section, Coursaty theme had some available fonts for you. If you want to set a special font for a special class, you only need to insert your class into Selector section, and choose the font that you want on the Font dropdown box. Finally, you click Save changes and see your result, all completed.

Example:

1. Copy class that you want to change.

2. Select Font Family, Font Weight & Style and paste class on Selector section.

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Here you can set up layout for all pages. You can change the layout of each page individually using Page Options. You can also customize the body's Background and Padding.

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This is one of most important sections for theme because this is what users see first. With our Theme Options, you will find various options to configure Header, including changing Layout  (multiple layouts not available in Coursaty though),  and config Sticky Header here.

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You can enable/disable Header Top here.

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You can set background for main header.

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You can set background Header ontop.

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On this section, if you enable Sticky Header, the header will resize smaller and stick at the top of the screen when you scroll down, hence the size of the logo will change accordingly. You can set Color for menu First Level, Sticky header background.

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Background: Select background color for dropdown menu.

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Please set the values for sections Background, Typography, Color Option, Menu Item Background Hover/Active and Border. After see the result on your mobile.

Background: Select background color for Mobile Menu.

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All options relating to Page Title and Breadcrumb can be found here.

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  Layouts: You can select some available layouts for page title here.

  Background:

  You can click Upload to upload an image file for your page title background.

  You can also change background color for page title here.

  You can click Upload to upload an image file for your page title background.

  Margin & Padding: You can set Margin & Padding for Page Title.

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You can change font style of Page Title here.

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Here, you can change the text before the Breadcrumb home and config Typography with title text.

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You can enable/disable the sections below to result display the best.

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You can enable/disable the sections below to result display the best.

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You can enable/disable the sections below to result display the best.

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You can enable/disable the sections below to result display the best.

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You can enable/disable the sections below to result display the best.

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You can enable/disable the sections below to result display the best.

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Here you can set Margin for Footer section.

Back to top: Enable/Disable button back to top.

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Notice: If your page had not shown any widget, please do 2 steps:

1. 1. Install Widget Data - Setting Import/Export plugin.
2. 2. Import file widget.json

Here you can enable/disable Footer Top and customize for it.

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Similar Footer Top section, please enable Footer Bottom and customize for it.

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Please create/paste custom css here. Make sure css is out of any errors/mistakes. Please always remember to click "Save Changes" button. Without that you will lose all your changes.

You can turn on/of Smooth Scroll in this section.

Here is where you can turn on/off Developer Mode.

This section is especially for all those who want to move settings from theme options panel between themes or when you move your website from test server to live. Please always remember to click "Save Changes" button. Without that you will lose all your changes.

Visual Composer is a powerful Wordpress page builder that allows you to create complex page layouts without touching a single line of code. To switch to Visual Composer's Backend Editor, click on this button:

When Visual Composer's editing pane comes up, click on either of these buttons to Add Element.

A shortcode selecting panel will show up, you can see all the shortcode available in the theme. Select the one you would like to use.

You will then encounter a setting panel for the shortcode (each shortcode has it own setting options), after a bit of configuration, it will show up nicely on your page.

• Enter the placeholder text for search field.
• Hide time field Checkbox time field for courses search tools.
• Hide Category field Checkbox category field for courses search tools.
• Hide Location field: Checkbox location field for courses search tools.

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• Title: Add title of fancy icon box.
• Description: You can add description for your Single Fancy Box.
• Content Align: You can choose the type of display Default, Left, Right and Center.

• Icon Library: Select libraries available.
• Icon Item: Select an icon for your single fancy box.
• Image Item: Select image for item.

• Shortcode Template: Select your single fancy box template.

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• Layout Mode : Select a layout for instructor.
• Item background : Select background for item.

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• Title: Enter title for Pricing Tables.
• Layout Mode: Select layout Default, Style 2 ,Style 3 for pricing tables.
• Icon library: Select an icon library for your Pricing Tables.
• Icon: Select icon library.
• Details Link: Add title and link for pricing tables.

• Price Unit: Enter your plan unit for pricing tables.

• Available Icon: Select icon from library.
• Add feature icon is Available or Unavailable.

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• Time remaining: Choose date will occurs events.

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• Icon library: Select icon library.
• Icon: Select a icon for socials network.
• Title: Set title for socials network icon .
• Icon link: Enter link for icon.

• Layout Mode: Select layout for socials.

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Enter number item of to show.

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• Title: Enter title for Testimonal Carousel.
• Testimonial text: Enter text of your Testimonal Carousel.

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• Title: Enter title for Testimonal Carousel.
• Enter link for image.

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• Function Mode: You can choose the type of display Login, Register.
• Title: Add title of register box.

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Enter number category to show.

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Instructors

• 1. To display instructors in a page, first you need to create instructors items. Go to Instructors > Add New.
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• 2. Enter the instructors's name in Title field. Enter Instructors content in the content section.
• 3. Select a Categories for your instructors. Create more Category by enter name instructors,then clicking Add .
• 4. Set instructors's profile picture by choosing a Set Featured Image.
• 5. Finally, Publish.
• Result:

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• 1. Go to Page > Add New.
• 2. Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.
  
  
• 3. Select CMS Grid.
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• Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.
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• Post types: Set Post Types as instructors.
• Post count: Limit the number instructors to display in grid by entering Post Count number.
• Order by: Select how to sort retrieved posts.
• Sort order: Designates the ascending or descending order.

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• Layout Type: Select layout style to show.
• Columns Devices: Select the number of columns displayed.

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• Shortcode Template: Choose a layout to show for the instructors.
• Result:

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Portfolio

• 1. To display Portfolio in a page, first you need to create portfolio items. Go to Portfolio > Add new.
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• 2. Enter the portfolio name in Title field. Enter portfolio content in the content section.
• 3. Select a Category on Portfolio Categories. Create more Category by clicking Add New Portfolio Category.
• 4. Set portfolio picture by choosing a Featured Image.
• 5. Finally, Publish.
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After creating portfolio items, it's time to display them in a page using CMS Grid shortcode.

• 1. Go to Page > Add New.
• 2. Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.
  
  
• 3. Select CMS Grid.
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• Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.
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• Post types: Set Post Types as portfolio.
• Post count: Limit the number portfolio to display in grid by entering Post Count number.
• Order by: Select how to sort retrieved posts.
• Sort order: Designates the ascending or descending order.

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• Layout Type: Select layout style to show.
• Columns Devices: Select the number of columns displayed.

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• Shortcode Template: Choose a layout to show for the portfolio.
• Result:

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Courses

• 1. To display courses in a page, first you need to create courses items. Go to Courses > Add New.
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• 2. Enter the courses's name in Title field. Enter Courses content in the content section.
• 3. Select a Category for your member. Create more Category by clicking Add New Courses Category.
• 4. Set courses's profile picture by choosing a Set Featured Image.
• 5. Finally, Publish.
• Result:

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• 1. Go to Page > Add New.
• 2. Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.
  
  
• 3. Select CMS Carousel.
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• Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.
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• Post types: Set Post Types as courses.
• Post count: Limit the number courses to display in carousel by entering Post Count number.
• Order by: Select how to sort retrieved posts.
• Sort order: Designates the ascending or descending order.

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• Devices: Select item quantity shown on screens.
• Margin Items: Set space between items.

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• Smart Speed: Select speed scroll of each item.
• Icon library: Select icon library.

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• Shortcode Template: Choose a layout to show for the courses.

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• Result:

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Posts

• 1. To display Posts in a page, first you need to create posts items. Go to Posts > Add new.
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• 2. Enter Posts name in Title field. Enter posts content in the content section.
• 3. Select a Category for posts on Categories section. Create more Category by clicking Add New Category.
• 4. Set posts's picture by choosing a Set featured image.
• 5. Finally, Publish.
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After creating posts items, it to display them in a page using CMS Grid shortcode.

• 1. Go to Page > Add New.
• 2. Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.
  
  
• 3. Select CMS Carousel.
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• Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.
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• Post types: Set Post Types as our posts.
• Post count: Limit the number of Posts to display in carousel by entering Post Count number.
• Order by: Select how to sort retrieved posts.
• Sort order: Designates the ascending or descending order.

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• Devices: Select item quantity shown on screens.
• Margin Items: Set space between items.

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• Shortcode Template: Choose a style to show for posts.
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• Title: Enter title for Post.
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The theme is compatible with WPML plugin, thus can be translated into multiple languages. Follow this link for guide. You can also use POEdit plugin for translation.

• 1. Located the .po and .mo files in folder /languages.
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• 2. Select language in admin options.
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• 3. Find language prefix (save option and reload front-end view html).
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• 4. Copy two file .po & .mo and rename to eg( en_CA.mo & en_CA.po ... ) same for other languages .
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• 5. Open the file .po with POEdit and translate the texts into your preferred language.
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• 6. When complete, you’ll want to save the file twice, as two separate files – a .po file and a .mo file. When you save the files, you must name them according to your language code. Find a list of language codes at WordPress in your Language. As an example, the language code for English is en_EN, so you would save the translated files as en_EN.po first, then en_EN.mo.
• 7. When that’s done, simply upload the files to your theme folder.

Our themes are optimized by with H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 tags, clean code, HTML5 but if you want to get higher ranking on search engines, you must need some help from SEO plugins and Google Pagespeed Service:

• Yoast SEO plugin
• Google Pagespeed Service
• Smush.it ( Optimizing Images )
• SEO Friendly Images ( SEO Images )

1. Uplodate theme

There are 2 methods to update our WordPress themes to a newer version. These new updates are essential if you want to have a bug free website, as we add new features and make improvements to the theme over time. Some of these updates might be needed in order to make the theme compatible with newer versions of WordPress. There is no risk of losing your settings and pages. However, if you had made modifications to theme files, they will be lost.

1.1 Update Coursaty Through WordPress Admin Panel:

1. For this method you should first install the Theme Upgrades Tool.
2. Unzip the file you just downloaded from ThemeForest and locate the WordPress Theme. (wp-Coursaty.zip).
3. Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
4. Click on “Appearance > Themes”.
5. Click on Add New button on this page
6. Click on Upload Theme Button
7. Click “Choose File” and locate the new theme file. (wp-Coursaty.zip).
8. In the “Upgrade existing theme?” option choose “Yes” from the dropdown list.
9. Click “Install Now”.
10. Click “Activate”.

1.2 Update Coursaty Through FTP

• Login to your Themeforest account and go to downloads (Dashboard > Downloads).
• Download the theme to your computer.
• Install an FTP program (for example, Filezilla is free).
• Retrieve your FTP login information from your hosting admin panel and login into your hosting via FTP.
• Unzip the item main file.
• Locate theme.zip (wp-Coursaty.zip) and unzip it. Make sure your unzipping software does not create an extra directory with the same name, nested into each other.
• Drag and drop theme main folder into your FTP program with the destination: “YOUR_HOSTING_ROOT/YOUR_SUBDIRECTORY/wp-content/themes/”.
• The FTP program will give a warning that there is an existing directory with the same name, choose to Replace All.
• It will take between 15 to 30 minutes to replace all files. Once you are done, login to your WordPress dashboard and go to Theme Options. On the header (beside Theme Options logo) the theme version will be changed to the latest version. This is the indication that your theme is updated. We recommend method one which takes less than one minute.

1. Uplodate necessary plugins

When the time comes that you want to update our themes to the latest versions you may need to update necessary plugins of theme. To update the plugin you will need to follow the steps below:

1. 1 Deactivate plugins
2. 2 Delete plugins
3. 3 On the Dashboard, go to Appearance->Install plugins to reinstall plugins.

The team at REDEXP are always happy to help you with any questions or recommendations you have about the Coursaty theme. If you need any help or support please contact us through the TF Messaging system or
direct at Email: support@cmssuperheroes.com
direct at Forum: here