Welcome to Flatline Documentation!

Thanks for Buying

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. If you're stuck with anything, please refer to support forums.

Installation

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.
  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.
  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.

Recommended Plugins

When the first time you activated the theme, you will see the notice above about recommended plugins. If you feel the plugins is not needed, then you can click the Dismiss this notice to hide the notice.

If someday you need to install those plugins, you can go to Appearance » Install Plugins . Choose which plugin you want to install.

Important Please note, those plugins is Recommended not required.

Child Theme

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 Flatline blank child theme here.

More About Child Theme

You can read more about Child theme on WordPress Codex.

Regenerate Thumbnail

If you use this theme for existing website, we recommended you to install Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to fix the image sizes. Every theme has different image dimensions, so this is important step to do.

How To Use It?

  1. After you install it, go to Tools > Regen. Thumbnails
  2. Click the Regenerate All Thumbnails button
  3. The process depends on how many images on your website. If you only have 10-30 images then process only takes a few minues.
  4. After the process done, you can deactivate and delete the plugin.

Site Setup

Before you setup another things please do a site setup below.

1. Installing Jetpack Plugin

We build Flatline integrated smoothly with Jetpack. We integrate some of it features, such as:

  • Infinite scroll
  • Portfolio
  • Testimonial
  • Responsive videos
  • Tiled galleries
  • Sharing
  • Related posts

How To Install Jetpack?

  1. Log into your dashboard.
  2. Go to Appearance > Install Plugins
  3. Find Jetpack by WordPress.com then click Install.

2. Installing Meta Slider Plugin

One of Flatline feature is you can display a banner/promo slider on front page. We seperate the functionality into a plugin. So, if you don't need this feature just ignore it.

How To Install Meta Slider Plugin?

  1. Log into your dashboard.
  2. Go to Appearance > Install Plugins
  3. Find Meta Slider then click Install.

3. Installing WP Retina 2x Plugin

This plugin is to make you website retina device support.

How To Install WP Retina 2x Plugin?

  1. Log into your dashboard.
  2. Go to Appearance > Install Plugins
  3. Find WP Retina 2x then click Install.

4. Create Front and Blog Page

You should create these pages to get your site working properly, by default the theme home/index is only showing a list of latest posts which is should be used as Blog page.

Creating Front Page

  1. Considering you're at new page screen (Pages > Add New)
  2. Add the title with Home
  3. Under Page Attributes switch the Template to Home Template
  4. Click publish button

Creating Blog Page

  1. Considering you're at new page screen (Pages > Add New)
  2. Add the title with Blog
  3. Click publish button

Displaying the Pages

  1. Please go to Settings > Reading
  2. Check the A static page option
  3. Select Home as Front page
  4. Select Blog as Posts page
  5. Save Changes.

Home Page Setup

Flatline comes with easy drag n drop to manage the front page content using widgets. We provide 4 sidebar for it.

Sidebar

1. Front Page Slider

This sidebar is to display slider. You can use the Meta Slider widget in this sidebar or any other slider plugin which has a widget to display the slider.

2. Front Page Top

This sidebar is to displayed below the Front Page Slider sidebar. It suitable to display Call To Action widget and Featured Page widget.

3. Front Page Middle

This sidebar is to displayed below the Front Page Top sidebar. It suitable to display Projects widget, it also has a white background to make the content stand out.

4. Front Page Bottom

This sidebar is to displayed below the Front Page Middle sidebar. It suitable to display Testimonial widget.

Widgets

  • Call To Action: This widget is to display custom call to action block.
  • Featured Pages: This widget is to display featured pages, you can easily to choose which pages you want to use.
  • Projects: This widget is to display latest projects/portfolio. You can't use this widget if you have not enable the Portfolio post type in Jetpack setting.
  • Testimonials: This widget is to display latest testimonials. The testimonial post type will appear when you installed Jetpack.

Layouts

You can setup the post or page layout when add or edit the post or page. There are 3 types layout you can choose:

Layouts Type

  1. Full Width layout : Display the content in a full width mode or without sidebar.
  2. Left Sidebar layout : Display the content with sidebar on the left.
  3. Right Sidebar layout : Display the content with sidebar on the right.

Per Page/Post Basis Layout

  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.

Teams Page Setup

Flatline comes with optional Teams member page to display your website editor or author. Click here to see it in action.

Page Setup

  1. To display the team data, first you need to install our Teams content plugin.
  2. Please download on http://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-junkie-team-content/
  3. Or you can go to Appearance » Install Plugins. Click install under Theme Junkie Team Content.
  4. You will see a new Teams menu on the left.
  5. To add new member data, just go to Teams » Add New.

Displaying The Page

  1. Assuming you're at new page screen (Pages > Add New)
  2. Add the title with Teams or About Us or anything.
  3. Add the description in the Editor.
  4. Under Page Attributes switch the Template to Teams Template
  5. Click publish button.

Background Setup

Background Setting

Fireup also support WordPress core features Custom Background to help you customizing the background color or image.

  1. Go to Appearance » Background .
  2. You can choose the color using the pallete setting or upload an image.
  3. Save changes.

Others Setup

Change Default Feed URL

If you want to change the default url with your feedburner url, then follow the below steps:

  1. Go to Appearance » Theme Settings .
  2. Open the General tab.
  3. Under the FeedBurner URL , paste your Feedburner url.
  4. Save Options.

Add Tracking Code

If you want to add a tracking code to your website like google analytics code, then follow the below steps:

  1. Go to Appearance » Theme Settings .
  2. Open the General tab.
  3. Under the Tracking Code , paste the code here.
  4. Save Options.

Customize Footer Text

If you want to change the footer text, then follow the below steps:

  1. Go to Appearance » Theme Settings .
  2. Open the Footer tab.
  3. Under the Footer Text option, type the footer text you want.
  4. Save Options.

Custom Code

In some case you will need to add custom script to your website, for example google webmaster meta script or google analytics code. With theWorld you can easily to add it to your website.

  1. Go to Appearance » Theme Settings .
  2. Open the Custom Code tab.
  3. You can use both of these textarea to put your custom code.
  4. Save Options.

Advertisement Setup

Flatline provides 2 spots for you to display advertisement on single post withouth editing the theme.

Single Post Advertisement

In this page you can display your ads in two areas, before content and/or after content.

  1. Go to Appearance » Theme Settings .
  2. Open the Single Post tab.
  3. Scroll down, you should see two advertisement settings, Before Content Advertisement and After Content Advertisement
  4. Put your ad code in the textbox.
  5. Save Options.

NoteYou can also display your ads via widget in your sidebar.

Shortcodes

You can use these shortcodes by installing our Shortcodes plugin which available for free! You can see the shortcodes in action here.

  1. Please download on http://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-junkie-shortcodes/
  2. Or you can go to Appearance » Install Plugins. Click install under Theme Junkie Shortcodes.
  3. Then go to the post or page editing screen.
  4. You should see Add Shortcode button(see image below) beside the Add Media button.
  5. Click on it, then you will see a selectbox to choose the shortcodes you wish to use.
  6. Finally, click the Insert Shortcode button.

Translation & Internalization

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 flatline.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 flatline.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 flatline.

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