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Installation

Step 1 WordPress installation

To install this theme, you must have a working version of WordPress already installed on your server. WordPress is well-known for its ease of installation.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing.WordPress. Please visit this link for installing WordPress.

Step 2 Installation Through Dashboard (Easy)

  1. Log in to the WordPress Dashboard.
  2. Go to Appearance->Themes.
  3. Click on Add New Button.
  4. Search Alternative
  5. Click on Install tab and Activate it
  6. Now your Alternative theme is ready to Use

Step 3 Manual Installation using FTP (Advanced)

  • First download a zip file from https://wordpress.org/themes/alternative/ .
  • Unzip alternative.zip file at your PC.
  • Access your host web server using your favorite FTP client (such as Cyberduck or FileZilla etc).
  • Upload whole folder inside public_html/wp-content/themes/alternative(folder) and Do not change directory/folder name.
  • Log into your WP admin paneland click on the Appearance->Theme tab.Now click on the Alternative theme to activate it.

Note: Parent Theme Edge must be installed to work with Child theme Alternative

Header Setup

Step 1 Upload Logo/ Fav Icon/ Web Icon

Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Alternative WordPress Settings > Site Title & Logo Options > Upload Site Icon & Site Logo

Step 2 Setup Menu

  1. Go To Apperance > Menu
  2. Create a new menu by clicking on create a new menu
  3. Add your menu items as pages/ Category/ Custom Url in left side menu
  4. Choose “Main Menu” from below Checkbox

Step 3 Setup Social Icons

  1. Go To Apperance > Menu
  2. Create a new menu by clicking on create a new menu
  3. Add your menu items as Custom Url in left side menu
  4. Choose “Add Social Icons Only” from below Checkbox

Step 4 Setup Top Information

Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Drag TF: Contact Us widget at Display Contact Info at Header

Importing the Demo Content

Note: This Demo Importer plugins is only for Free users. If you are using free themes then download importer plugins from free instruction page. So we recommended to use free demo importer for free users and Plus demo importer for plus users. Also this importer plugin is for fresh themes who doesnot have anything to loose from their website. If you have existing site then don’t use this plugins to import dummy content

  1. Install Contact Form 7 Plugins to look exactly as in our demo
  2. Download Theme Freesia Demo Import and install it as a plugin
  3. Click on Dashboard > Appearance > Import Demo Data
  4. Click on Import Demo Data

Once you have imported the demo content delete One Click demo Import plugin

Setup Frontpage as in Demo

Setup Our Features

Create a feature page from Dashboard > Pages > Add New Add Title, Content & Featured Image

After creating pages Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Alternative Theme Options > Display frontpage Features > Select Feature page just now you have created

Frontpage Features

Custom CSS

You can add your custom CSS that will overwrite the theme CSS. Go to dashboard >appearance > Customize > Additional CSS

Slider Setting

  1. Go to Dashboard > Pages > Add New > Add Page Title, Content and Featured Image > and Click on publish/Update
  2. Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Alternative Slider Options > Slider Settings
  3. To enable slider, select Frontpage or Entire Site option under Enable Slider
  4. Again go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Alternative Slider Options > Display page Slider
  5. Select your page in page slider #
  6. Click on Save & Publish

Layout Options

  1. Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Alternative Theme Options > Layout Options
  2. Select responsive layout on/off
  3. Select large or medium image display
  4. Disable Entry Format from Blog Page
  5. Disable Entry meta from Blog Page
  6. Set your design layout as fullwidth or boxed or small boxed layout

Alternative Options

  1. Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Alternative Theme Options > Alternative Options
  2. Check to disable Search Form
  3. Check to disable Stick Menu
  4. Check to disable Goto Top
  5. Check to disable Top Social Icons
  6. Check to disable Buttom Social Icons
  7. Click on Save & Publish

Set Contact page

  1. Go to Dashboard > pages > Add New
  2. Add all your google iframe code in your editor
  3. Select Contact Template from rightside of the page
  4. Click on Update/Publish

To add Contact Information Shortcode to display Contact Form 7
Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Drag Text Widget to > Shortcode for Contact page sidebar & Add iframe code

Contact Form Shortcode

To add Contact Information at sidebar
Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Drag TF: Contact Us Widget > Contact page sidebar & fill the contact information

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  2. Regenerate Thumbnails for Regenerating Thumbnails
  3. Contact Form 7 for Contact Us page
  4. WP-PageNavi for Numeric Pagination
  5. Polylang for multilanguage
  6. bbPress for Support Forum
  7. Breadcrumb NavXT
  8. wooCommerce for your Shopping Site