Theme Installation Via FTP/Cpanel

To Install the theme via FTP/Cpanel follow these steps:

• Download a Copy of Theme zip file from WordPress.
• Save the downloaded theme zip file in your hard drive.
• Extract the downloaded zip file.
• Now Connect the ftp server using the FTP details and copy the extracted folder to your WordPress theme direcetory
• Now go to the Dashboard > Appearance > Themes.
• You’ll see the theme in the theme dashboard.
• Activate the theme.

Theme Installation Via WordPress Dashboard

To install the theme via WordPress Dashboard follow these steps:

• Login into WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes.
• Click on Add New button then search Minimal Portfolio in search field.
• Click Install button to theme install into the wordpress site.
• Once installed, Activate the theme.

Minimal Portfolio Child Theme

This is minimal portfolio simple child theme.

Minimal Portfolio Child

Theme Recommendation & Configuration

To install recommended plug-in follow the below steps:

• • Check in header notification after activate the theme.
  • Theme recommend the plug-in Filterable Portfolio and Conact Form 7 like below screen shot

• • Click to install the plug-in to your site like screen shot.

• • After plug-in install, you have configure the Portfolios Settings.
  • Navigate to Portolios > Settings.
  • Configure the Filter Portfolio Option like below screenshot
  • Once Done, Click Save button.

Import Demo

Note: Before you start to demo import, You should install the theme and recommended plugin. please check Theme Installation to install theme and plugin to your site.

Note: If you import demo means no need to create post, page, portfolio.

• Login to you WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Tools > Import.
• Demo file located in theme folder. like this minimal-portfolio/demo/minimal-portfolio-demo.xml
• After successfully imported, you have to set homepage. We briefly explained under the title Setup Home Page.
• Next, You have to Activate Primary Menu In WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Menus.
• Next, Configure the Filterable Portfolio Settings as said on Theme Recommendation & Configuration.

Create Portfolio & Show on Homepage

• • Before start to create portfolio items, You have to create Portfolio Category and Skills.
  • Go to Portfolios > Category.

• • Go to Portfolios > Skills.

• • Go to Portfolios > Add New.

• • Finally Publish the Portfolio.
  • Next, Go to Pages > Add New.
  • Use shortcode [filterable_portfolio] on new page content.

• • If you want to disable page title to the page means please Activate the Disable Page Title Option.

• Publish the page

Setup Home Page

• • Go to Settings > Reading
  • Set Homepage and Posts Page. Like below screenshot.

Portfolio Section Title

You can write Portfolio Section Title on homepage.

• • Login into WordPress Dashboard.
  • Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer.
  • Go toTheme Options > Portfolio Option.
  • Once Done, Click Save button.

Theme options

Sidebar Sticky

You can activate the sticky scroll for sidebar

• Login into WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer.
• Go toTheme Options > Sidebar Sticky Option.
• you can activate sticky for blog, archive, single post sidebar.
• Once Done, Click on Save button.

Post Slider

You can activate Post Slider.

• Login into WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer.
• Go toTheme Options > Post Slider Option.
• Once Done, Click on Save button.

Note:This option only for blog website.

Contact Form Configuration

• • Go to Contact > Contact Forms.
  • You can see 2 contact forms on contact form grid
  • Click Edit the shortcode form: id=”112″
  • Click Mail tab and Add your email address in the “To” field.

• Click Save Button

Setup contact page

• • Navigate to Pages > All Pages.
  • Click to edit the Page Contact Us.
  • Note: please take backup before you edit the page.

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Note: contact page content editor should be Text mode. Then only you can use html elements.

• Please check the screenshot. we have used the shortcode from Contact Form 7

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Configure Logo

Header logo option allows you to display a logo in your site replacing the default site tagline text. To configure the header logo for your site follow these steps:

• Login to you WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customize.
• Go to General Settings > Header Logo.
• Click on Select Logo button.
• Choose the logo of your choice from the media library.
• You will be provided with the image crop functionality crop the image as per your requirement.
• Then, click on Save & Publish button.

Setup Menu

You must create a menu before you can add item to it.

• Login into WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Menus.
• Click Create a new menu at the top of the page.
• Enter a name for your new menu in the Menu Name Field.
• Click the Create Menu button.

Now you can add items to the menu.

• Locate the panel entitled Pages.
• Within this panel, select the View All link to bring up a list of all the currently published Pages on your site.
• Select the Pages that you want to add by clicking the checkbox next to each Page’s title.
• 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.
• Click the Save Menu button once you’ve added all the menu items you want.

Configure Header Banner

You can show banner in your site after the header

• Login into WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer.
• Expand the Header Image tab.
• Click Add New Image to upload new images through media library.
• Please read description we recommended banner image size before you upload image.
• Click Publish button to show on website

Configure Breadcrumb

You can setup breadcrumb to your site. customers easily navigate to previous page or related pages.

• Login into WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer.
• Go to Theme Options > Header Option.
• Click Enable Breadcrumb to activate the breadcrumb
• Click Publish button to show on website

Activate Sticky Header

• Login into WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer.
• Go to Theme Options > Header Option.
• Click Enable Sticky Header option to activate header sticky
• Click Publish button to show on website

Page Title Bar

• Post/Page Title Background Image Here you can upload Your page title bar background image.
• Post/Page Title Background Color Here you can add or change your Page titlebar Background color

Footer Top

You can display 4 footer widget areas in the Footer. To Configure these footer widgets follow these steps:

• Login into WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets.
• Drag and Drop the widgets of your choice to Footer One, Footer Two, Footer Three & Footer Four widget areas.
• Configure the widget contents and settings.
• Once Done, Click on Save button.

Footer Bottom

You can change copyright text to your website:

• Login into WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer.
• Go to Theme Options > Copyright Option.
• Write Copyright Text into the Field.
• Click Publish button to show on website.

Background Image

You can set background image to your website

• Login into WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer.
• Expand the Backround Image tab.
• Click Select Image button to upload image through media library.
• Once Done, Click Publish button.

Background Color

You can set background color to your website

• Login into WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer.
• Expand the Colors tab.
• Select Color from Background Color button.
• Click Publish button to show on website.