First of all, thank you for buying this theme. To make your experience pleasant, we've added as much info as needed in this documentation.

While we have tried to keep an easy-to-use user interface, we understand that you might have some questions about installing and using our theme. Following is a detailed step-by-step guide to help you with most of the questions or issues that you may be experiencing.

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There are two methods to install the theme. If the normal installation method (a) is not supported by your web host, you will have to use the alternate option (b).

a. Normal Installation

1. Log into your WordPress admin panel and go to Appearance → Themes
2. Click the Add New button at the top.
3. Click the Upload Theme button at the top.
4. Click the Choose File button and navigate to the location of the theme zip file highstake.zip.
5. Click Install Now to begin the installation.
6. Wait for the success message, then click Activate.

b. FTP Installation (alternate method)

1. Unzip the theme zip file highstake.zip.
2. Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/themes/ and place the theme folder inside it.
3. Log in to your WordPress admin panel and go to Appearance → Themes
4. Locate the theme thumbnail and click the Activate link.

ImportantAfter activation, you will be presented with several plugins that you have to activate. Do not forget to activate them all or not all of the theme features will be available.

Highstake recommends a few plugins to extend it's functionality. These plugins can be installed automatically from the notification in WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard). Although, Highstake will work perfectly without any of these plugins, you may want to extend the theme's features with them.

Recommended Plugins

• One-Click Demo Import

  To import content from our demo!

• Mailchimp for WordPress

  This plugin enable integration between your WordPress site and Mailchimp

How to Install the Plugins

1. Log into your Dashboard page.
2. Go to Appearance → Install Plugins.
3. Click install link below the plugin you want to install.

We have included Highstake with one-click demo importer feature. You can easily to import content from our demo then you can edit it with your content. But first please install all recommended plugins. Please take a look the Installing Recommended Plugins section to read how to install the plugin.

After that please go to Appearance → Import Demo Data, then click the Import Demo Data button. Depending upon the number of content, images and server speed, the process may take long to complete.

ImportantIn some themes you need to install some of the recommended plugins before importing the demo content such as Jetpack, TJ Team Content, Advanced Custom Fields Pro, WooCommerce, etc.

WordPress child theme allows you change the functionality of the theme without having to edit the original/parent theme template files. If you plan to making any customization, we recommend to create a child theme instead of editing the theme template files. Since the child theme is stored separately, you don't need to redo the changes next time you upgrade the theme.

Creating a Child Theme

There's a plugin you can use that will create a child theme from within the WordPress dashboard: http://wordpress.org/plugins/child-theme-configurator/ or you can download Highstake blank child theme.

Download it here.

More About Child Theme

You can read more about Child theme on WordPress Codex →

If you are migrating from another theme, then upon activating Highstake you may find previously added images display strangely with weird aspect ratios and sizes. Don't worry. It is normal. The image thumbnails are required to be recreated using Highstake's presets.

There is a very easy fix to this issue. Just install Force Regenerate Thumbnails plugin.

How To Use It?

1. After you install it, go to Tools → Force Regenerate Thumbnails
2. Click the Regenerate All Thumbnails button
3. Depending upon the number of images and server speed, the process may take long to complete.
4. After it done, you can deactivate and delete the plugin.

The Site Icon is used as a browser and app icon for your site. Icons must be square, and at least 512px wide and tall.

How to Upload your Icon?

• Select Appearance → Customizer
• Choose Site Identity
• You will see the Site Icon uploader.
• Upload your icon at least 512px x 512px

By default, Highstake styles the site title with pre-defined styles and displays it as Text Logo. If you'd like to upload your custom logo for your site, please follow the steps below:

• Select Appearance → Customizer
• Choose Site Identity
• You will see the Logo uploader.
• Upload your icon at least 90 x 30 pixels

By default, Highstake uses Montserrat and Karla font as default theme font family. But Highstake provides an option to change it in case you dont like it. It is easy to change it, please follow the steps below.

Access the setting

• Select Appearance → Customizer
• Choose Design → Fonts
• You will see the settings for each font

How to use it

Each setting have 2 setting Font name/style/sets and Font family , if you want to change the fonts you need to change both.

Please follow the example steps so you will understand how to use it. First please go to https://fonts.google.com/ then choose font you like by clicking the + button.

Then you will see a small popup window at the bottom, click it. You can customize the font style, for example you need a Regular and Bold style. Click the Customize tab then choose the style, please follow the image below.

After that back to the Embed tab. Copy the data, paste it to the Font name/style/sets and Font family setting in the Customizer. If you confuse, please take a look the 2 picture below

Highstake provides option to change the accent color, the default accent color is #e60000 or red.

How to Change it?

• Select Appearance → Customizer
• Choose Design → Colors
• You will see the option to change the color.

Per Page/Post Basis Layout

You can setup the layout per post or page. This is done when you add or edit the post or page. There are 4 types layout you can choose

How to use it

1. Assuming you're at the new post or page screen (Posts → Add New) or (Pages → Add New)
2. After you create the post or page, scroll down and find Layout meta box.
3. Choose the layout.

Blog Layouts

This blog layouts setting will applied to the home page.

How to use it

• Select Appearance → Customizer
• Choose Design → Layouts
• You will see the option to change the layouts.

Highstake supports the custom menu function to allow you to setup your menus. You can set it through following steps.

Creating Standard Menu

1. Go to Appearance → Menus.
2. To create a new custom menu, click the create a new menu link, give the menu a name, and click Save Menu button.
3. You can add pages, categories or custom link's to the menu using the boxes at the left, add items to the menu and drag/drop to arrange them.
4. And, be sure to select Primary Location or Social Links as the Theme Location before saving your menu.
5. When you are done, click Save Menu

Custom Widgets

Highstake comes with 11 custom widgets to give you more flexibility to customize your site.

1. Advertisement: Show your custom ads, adsense, amazon, etc easily.
2. Facebook Like Box: Allow you to display your Facebook Page in a Like Box, hence your reader can 'Like It' directly at your site.
3. Most View Posts Thumbnail: Display most view posts with thumbnail, post date and post view
4. Popular Posts Thumbnail: Display popular posts by comments along with thumbnail and post date.
5. Random Posts Thumbnail: Display random posts along with thumbnail and post date.
6. Recent Posts Thumbnail: An improvement over the default recent posts widget, including thumbnail.
7. Feedburner: Allows your reader to subscribe your posts through feedburner service.
8. Twitter Timeline: Display an official Twitter Embedded Timeline widget.
9. Video: Easily to display your video from some popular video website such as youtube, video, etc.
10. Social: Display your social media link profile.
11. Tabs: Display popular posts, recent posts, recent comments and tags in tabs.

Sidebars

Highstake provides 1 sidebar areas:

1. Primary Sidebar: Main sidebar that appears on the right of your site.

Custom Sidebars

Highstake is fully compatible with all of the custom sidebars plugins available for free. Custom sidebars allow you to change the sidebar to display different widgets per post or page.

If you wish to use custom sidebars feature, we recommend the Simple Page Sidebars plugin. It's an extremely powerful and flexible free plugin.

Using the Simple Page Sidebars

1. To use this plugin, first, go to Settings → Reading
2. Under the Default Sidebar select the default sidebar, in this theme you should select Primary Sidebar
3. Go to post or page you wish to change with the new sidebar.
4. Scroll down and find Sidebar meta box(see image below).
5. Click the Enter New link to create new sidebar.
6. Click the Update button.

Then, last step is you only need to go to Appearance → Widgets and choose the widget you wish to use then put it in the new sidebar.

Container layouts is a variation of the theme container. Highstake provides 3 option to choose:

1. Full Width
2. Boxed
3. Framed

How to Choose it?

• Select Appearance → Customizer
• Choose Theme Options → General
• You will see the option to choose the container layouts.

Highstake provides 3 types of Featured area.

Display static image with description.

Display list of posts by tag you set in Customizer.

Display any slider by 3rd party plugin that support shortcode.

How to Use it?

• Select Appearance → Customizer
• Choose Theme Options → Featured
• Choose the type you want.

Highstake provides 2 types of Callout area.

Display subscription box with title and description

Display list of posts by tag you set in Customizer.

How to Use it?

• Select Appearance → Customizer
• Choose Theme Options → Callout
• Choose the type you want.

All of our themes include a language file to make translating to a different language easy. Inside the theme folder /wp-content/themes/themename/languages , you'll find a language file named themename.pot . Or in this theme file named highstake.pot

Configure WordPress

Before translating the theme, you'll need to make sure WordPress is setup correctly with your locale. Open wp-config.php and modify the line below.

/**
 * WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
 *
 * Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
 * language must be installed to wp-content/languages. For example, install
 * de_DE.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to "de_DE" to enable German
 * language support.
 */
define( 'WPLANG', '' );

Translating the Theme

1. Download and install Poedit.
2. Open highstake.pot in Poedit. Translate as needed.
3. Save the file with the locale. For example, if you translate the theme to German language then you would save your files as de_DE.po.
4. Copy both these files(de_DE.po and de_DE.mo) under the languages folder of highstake.

Resources Used

• HTML5 Shiv - MIT/GPL2
• FitVids - WTFPL
• SlickNav - MIT
• Font Awesome - MIT
• Normalize.css - License
• Owl Carousel - MIT