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Free download theme: https://wpthemeall.com/versaille-personal-blog-wordpress-theme/

 

Personal Blog WP You need to download theme files after you’ve purchased the it. Following image describes downloads section of the item and you have 2 download choices.

Downloading All Files gives you a all-files.zip file with all the content listed below

Documentation

This is costumer’s handbook. Obviously, If you can reading this file, you’re open this file 🙂

Versaille (Zip)

You can use this file for install function of built in WordPress.

Versaille

Child theme. Please make your file changes in it. And this child theme helps you to keep your changes in it even updated main theme continually. You should read more details about child theme here.

Licencing (Folder)

This contains the licensing files.

DummyData (Folder)

You have an One Click option for import demo data. But if you need detailed xml files please pick up those here. You should read about how to use it from Dummy Data part of this document.

Changelog (Text)

Contains changes history, date and modified files list.

Installation

You can either choose to upload the theme via WordPress upload function or via ftp to your site.

1. Via WordPress theme uploader (recommended)

Step 1

Login to your website

Step 2

Go to Appearance -> Themes

Step 3

Click on Install Themes tab

Step 4

Click on Upload link and Browse to the Versaille.zip file (it is located in the folder you’ve downloaded from ThemeForest).

Step 5

Click Install Now button

Step 6

Then you see Versaille settings page right side on Dashboard menu section.

Step 7

Now you are ready to go. Create your new site and control it.

2. Via FTP client

Step 1

Login to your hosting via FTP client application (such as FileZilla and CuteFTP)

Step 2

Go to wp-content -> themes directory

Step 3

Upload Versaille folder (uncompressed) into this directory

Step 4

Refresh Appearance -> Themes of your dashboard and Activate the theme.

Initial Settings

After the activation you see this notice at top of your dashboard. This theme requires those three additional plugins and you need to install those.

Please click on Begin insalling plugins.

Envato Toolkit

The Envato WordPress Toolkit enables you to access your Envato WordPress purchases from within your WordPress Dashboard. It allows you to not only install themes, but also to receive update notifications and update automatically, just like regular WordPress themes.

Visual Composer

The most advanced PageBuilder Plugin that is drag and drop frontend and backend page builder plugin that will save you tons of time working on the site content. You will be able to take full control over your WordPress site, build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required

Revloution Slider

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.

Portfolio Plugin

This plugin an optional plugin but highly recommended for your portfolio. It has own features and sinlge post options those compatible with portfolio details section. Your portfolio posts won’t let go after you activated different themes on your site and that’s the biggest reason why we are adding portfolio post type as in a custom plugin.

STEP 2

Please select all plugins and select Install option on dropdown and finally click on Apply button.

STEP 3

You will see this page after activated plugins.

Configure Envato Toolkit Plugin

Envato Toolkit plugin requires MarketPlace username and API Key. You can get API key from your Settings tab of ThemeForest account. Lets provide those infomation and get theme update anytime and easily.

Demo Data

One Click Demo Data Options

Theme has dedicated data option. You should click one of those link and select your desired home page layout. Action will set few important tasks including selection of Home page, Main navigation setting and Sidebar widgets when you click on Import Demo Data button.

Installation Versaille – Personal Blog WP

 

 

Please wait for a while until imports all the content.

 

Full content Demo site setup

Previous option helps you to include minimized demo content on your site reason for quick include. But you can have full demo data with regular XML data imports.

1. Go to Tools → Import
2. Choose WordPress from the list.
3. Upload the demo content.xml using the form provided on download.
4. 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.
5. You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the “Download and import file attachments” box.
6. Please be patient while WordPress imports all the content. Posts, Pages, Projects, and Menus are imported. You will need assign the menu a theme location & you’ll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress’ import system.

Update Instructions

Note

Please make sure you backup your existing theme folder before updating. Additionally we recommend performing the update on a development site before making it on your live site.

Via Envato Toolkit Plugin (recommended)

Hope you have provided your account information in Envato Toolkit plugin. If you go to the plugin page, you’ll see similar to following image. Let’s click on Update automatically link at right bottom. This is a most efficienat and easy way to integrate latest verion on your site.

After clicking to auto-update, you’ll see the confirmation that everything worked correctly.

Via WordPress theme uploader

Go to the Appearance => Themes and activate another theme than Versaille such as TwentyTwelve, TwentyThirteen or Versaille child theme. Delete the old version of the theme because folder name existing error comes up when we try to install it without deletion. Then install the theme again as you see early in this documentation.

Via FTP client application

Usually updating a theme means replacing the old files with the new ones. You can see changelog.txt file from the new download archive and you can get updated files list as modified/added and deleted. Upload and overwrite those files on your theme directory.

If theme changed lots of files and you really hard to collect changed files, there is a better way to do it when it comes to WordPress themes.

WordPress treats two version of the same theme as different themes. That is, if you have Versaille your wp-content/themes folder they are treated as two different themes independent of each other.

That means you can have multiple version of the same theme installed on your blog. So whenever there is a new version of your theme available, instead of replacing or deleting the files of the older version follow this procedure.

1. Try to upload new theme archive to the site
2. If the folder name of the new version clashes with the old version, rename the folder of new version.
3. Upload the new version to your wp-content/themes folder via FTP or through the interface provided by your web host or by using the upload feature in WordPress.
4. Activate the new version from your dashboard.

The main advantage of following the above procedure is you can quickly switch back to the old version of the theme if you find any problems with the new version or if it clashes with any plugins you are using.

Live Customize Panel

Live Customize panel has many options those help you to control your site. You have to know only where your desired options exist and how to use them. Please take some time to navigate through each tab and read options’ description.

Group	Class	Description
Site Identity	Site title	Enter the name of your site (or blog) here. Most themes will display this title, at the top of every page, and in the reader’s browser titlebar. WordPress also uses this title as the identifying name for your Syndication feeds.
	Tagline	In a few words, explain what your site is about. Your sites’s slogan, or tagline, might be entered here. A tagline is short phrase, or sentence, used to convey the essence of the site and is often funny or eye-catching.
	Site icon	The Site Icon is used as a browser and app icon for your site.
	Colors
		Background Color	You can possible to change the color on your background.
Brand Color		This is your company logo color or your brand color then you can control.
Menu Color		Here is the menu color select you can change your color.
Title Color		Here is the title color select setting.
Text Color		Here is the you can the change your text color.
Second Color		This is show your title color.
Menu
	Menu location	Your theme contains 1 menu location. Select which menu you would like to use. You can also place menus in widget areas with the Custom Menu widget.
	Primary	You can change the menu location header and footer also control menu.
	Font
		Primary Font	You can change the primary menu font.
Title Font		You can change title font on your wesbite.
Small Title Font		All small title and content of font.
Text Font		You can change the only post of the text font.
Brand logo
		Logo Image	You can upload own your logo.
		Logo width	You can insert your logo width.
		Favicon	Here is the insert your favicon.
		Header height	You can control your header height.
Page title
		Padding top	The padding top clears an area around the content (inside the border) of an element.
		Padding bottom	The padding bottom clears an area around the content (inside the border) of an element.
		Background image	You can upload image on your webiste on this.
		Footer
Footer Enable/Disable			Here is the you can control your footer show on your website.
Footer style			You can divide your footer section of columns.
Footer text color			You can select your footer color.
Footer background color			You can select your background color of footer.
CopyRight Content			Protects the copyright of all your Internet publications legally certifying the authorship of your blog posts.
Post types
		Post
		Page	You can control your page. More flexible
		Portfolio	Show your portfolio posts by category and specific numbers.
		Extras
			Export/Imports
Custom CSS			Here is you can insert your css code.
Widgets				You can add your widgets here to sidebars and footer columns.

Page Builder : Visual Composer

After the installation, you can configure something on following place for Visual Composer. You might want to allow VC for your custom post types initially.

Additional VC Elements by our theme

Visual composer has tons of elements that presents content view. But our theme has a few advanced elements that enriches this beautiful theme. Please hit on the tab and find elements and use them for your need. Every element has a purpose and detailed options.

Group	Description
Blog Bost	Show your blog posts by 5 different column variation.
Button	It is possible to add button on your section.
Call to Action	.
Partners	A element of partners list it will show featured image and description.
Google Map	The element allows options for you to fill overlay coloured layer and custom map marker image.
Image Box	Filter element will show image as horizontal and vertical.
Portfolio	Show your portfolio / project posts by 5 different column options and with category filter or without.
Price Table	Here is show your insert price of goods.
Tabbed Service	Work with advanced elements like tabs, accordions and tours in your section.
Service	This element is showe your company services. Additional, here is classic icons. Hope you like it.
Team member	Manage your team member profile pages using our Team Member custom post type, create multiple teams.
Testimonial Carousel	This element you can insert your partner logo and url. It will show like image carousel.
Counter
Tabbeb Process	Work with advanced elements like tabs, accordions and tours in your section.
Title	You can add title on your section.
Testimonial Container	A container element. If you add more numbers elements of it’s column/count, the element will automatically slide as carousel.
Progress Bar	You can add title on your property and section.

Page Options

You’ll find Page options at bottom of your main editor. Please read the option name and description and use them for customize your every single page.

Portfolio Options

Theme has an additional element for your portfolio. You can make your portfolio page with it first by it’s options including Column variations, Filter and Pagination options.

Menu & Navigation controls

Menu system works through WordPress core functions. Then I hope you don’t have any trouble with it. We extended menu options with a few options such as Menu Icon and Mega menu options. Please look at next images and follow the steps for your menu.

Contact Form

Our theme is compatible with Contact form 7 and please put following markup on the Form field of your form. Then your form turns similar into our style that presents on Contact page.

[text* your-name id:input_name placeholder "Your Name"]
[email* email-526 id:input_email placeholder "Your Email ID"]
[textarea* textarea-486 x3 id:textarea_message placeholder "Message"]
[submit "Submit" id:"btn_smt"]