Perceptiona - Multipurpose WordPress Theme

Created: 01 July 18

Latest Update: 01 July 18

Version: 1.0

Recommended WordPress Version : 4.9.6

Thank you very much for purchasing our theme.

We hope you have enjoyed the template’s live preview and you want to create such a beautiful website. Now, this documentation is everything needed for you to setup your perfect website. Please follow each instruction carefully, even single a line of code can do wonders (in all senses) so please don’t miss anything on this user guide

If you have any question, please feel free to contact us.

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1. Why this documentation is very important?

We are sure that we have covered all the essential instructions needed to setup a nice theme as you see in our template’s live preview. We expect you to read this user guide before you open any support request (if you ask about things already present in this guide, you will be gently asked to read this again

2. If I need help, will you provide free support?

Yes, we have a dedicated support system where we offer free support. Our support is applicable only for issues and bugs within our product. We do NOT provide free customisation services in the scope of free support.

3. What kind of support are you providing?

We offer free support for our products where we can help you ﬁx issues within our code (if any) and assist you on theme setup. Please note support is not applicable for third party jQuery plugins and GPL code components (because they are not created or maintained by us).

4. When can I expect a response from you?

Our team will be online during 10.00 to 17.00 on Monday – Friday (IST, India). For support request we usually make a response within 24 hours. Due to the complex nature of some queries, responses can’t be guaranteed a speciﬁc turn-around time, but we value each user and we will surely get back to you. In case if we experience heavy load of support tickets we will announce the status on Twitter.

5. If I need to customize this template will you offer it?

We are unable to provide free customisation services on our products. If you have great passion and considerable budget please open the request as a premium project, please email to: support@risingthemes.net We will get back to you via email.

6. How can I know about future updates and bug ﬁxes?

We release updates regularly and we notify our users via Tweets as well as Email Newsletters (we do hate spam).

Theme Installation

1. Through WordPress Dashboard

Go to the menu Appearance > Themes and click on Add New button.
Click on Upload Theme button.
Click on Browse button and navigate to the unzipped theme package on your computer.
Look for a file called perceptiona-pro.zip Click on it to select, then click OK.
Click on Install Now button and wait until the installation is complete.
Click on Activate link to activate the theme on your WordPress site.
Go to Appearance >> Theme Options >> Restore Default.

Manual Installation using FTP client

If you know the FTP login details of the server where your site is hosted and you have a FTP client installed (such as FileZilla), you might consider using this way of uploading your theme.

Unzip the perceptiona-pro.zip file
Upload theme to /wp-content/themes/
Go to Appearance -> Themes and activate theme from Dashboard.

First you have to unzip the download file, find the zip file called percepriona-pro.zip, unzip it and upload the folder to the main WordPress installation folder » wp-content » themes. Please note that if you prefer this way of installation, you have to make sure that the main files of the theme are contained just within one folder of the themes folder.

You can activate the theme after it is uploaded on the server. In order to activate this theme you have to go to the admin panel » Appearance » Themes. In this section you should see the theme with a title Perceptiona. Just click on the Activate button and your theme should get activated.

Homepage Setup

After activating the Perceptiona theme, setup homepage using following

Go to Settings -> Reading -> Front page displays
Click on radio button of Your latest posts
Go to Appearance -> Theme Options and click on Restore Defaults in bottom side

Header Setting

The header consists of three main elements:

Contact Info & Call-to-action button
Site Name / Logo

1. Setting the Contact Info & Social Icons

The settings for to change the Office Hours, contact info and social network icons in top header section is located in Appearance » Theme Options » Basic Setting

2. Changing the site name / logo

If you don't have your logo image then you can use site name and tagline. To change site name and tagline go to Settings » General » Site Title

OR if you want to uplaod logo for your website go to Appearance » Theme Options » Basic Setting You can also increase logo image height as per your requirement.

Setup Navigation

1. Multipage Menu

First of all create pages from Pages >> Add new page
Go to Appearance >> Menu
Click on Create a new menu link
Give a name to your menu in Menu name and click save menu button
Once you have create menu. You need to add pages by selecting with checkboxes. After adding menu list you can arrange it by drag and drop.
Select menu theme locations Primary Menu from Menu Settings
Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu

2. Single Page Menu

Go to Appearance >> Menu
Click on Create a new menu link
Give a name to your menu (Primary) in Menu name and click save menu button
Give a name to your menu in Menu name and click save menu button
Select menu theme locations Primary Menu from Menu Settings
Create Custom Links
Set URL: #section1
Set Link Text: About Us (name of menu)
Repeat the same process by creating Custom Links and to set URL & Link Text to add more menu elements

Setup Homepage Slider

In order to add slides to homepage slider go to the Appearance » Theme Options » Homepage Slider

For each slide there are different options that you can apply.

You can change Slider Effects and Timing.
You can change Slider Animation speed, pause time
You can change Slider Hide/Show Direction Naviagtion of slider.
You can change Slider Hide/Show pager of slider.
You can change Slider Pause Slide on Hover.
Slider images should be of size 1400 × 653 pixels

If you don't want to use this default image slider, you can use any image slider WordPress plugin

Go to Appearance » Theme Options » Homepage Slider
Enter your slider shortcode which is provided by plugin without php tag

Homepage Sections

The homepage contatins lots of section to create beautiful and professional website.

1. Who We Are

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 1

2. Why Choose Us

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 2

3. What is Perceptiona

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 3

4. Our Services

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 4

In order to change Font Awesome icons in this section:

Find 'fa fa-desktop' and replace 'desktop' with your icon name
You can find more icons here FontAwesome
Icon name should be in lowercase case

5. What Clients Said

This section is used to display clients testimonials in your website

First of all create new posts from Testimonials -> Add Testimonials
To manage this testimonials section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 5
Use this shortcode to display testimonials: [testimonials]

6. Latest News

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 6

7. Our Project

This section is used to display project gallery

First of all add some project images from Photo Gallery -> Add New
To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 7
Use this shortcode to display project gallery: [photogallery filter="true" show="-1"]
Set filter="false" to remove filter from gallery

8. Our Clients

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 8

9. Get In Touch

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 9

10. Subscribe Newsletter

To manage this section go to Appearance » Theme Options » Sections » Section 10

Footer

The Footer section consists of five main elements:

Footer Menu
Recent News
Contact Us
Copyright text

To manage footer section go to the Appearance » Theme Options » Footer

Go to Appearance >> Menu
Click on Create a new menu link
Give a name to your menu in Menu name and click save menu button
Add pages by selecting with checkboxes.
Select menu theme locations Footer Menu from Menu Settings
Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu

Page Templates & Sidebars

When you create a new page from the Pages » Add New section, the "Default Template" is assigned to the page by default. The default page template is a standard page template that can be with a sidebar or full-width layout and can contain custom content.

Default Template
- Used to setting up the content on any page with Right Sidebar
Left Sidebar
- Used to setting up the content on any page with Left Sidebar
Full Width
- Used to setting up the content on any page without Sidebar
No Sidebar
- Used to setting up the content in center on any page without Sidebar
Contact Us
- Used to setting up the contact page.

Widgets

The WordPress widgets are used to manage sidebars:

Can manage sidebar from widgets (exa. blog sidebar and main sidebar)
Footer section can manage from footer widgets 1,2.3,4

Shortcodes

To view all shortcodes go to Appearance » Theme Options » Short Codes:

[servicesbox image="ADD YOUR IMAGE URL HERE" title="FREE SHIPPING" description="Free shipping on all USA order"][servicesbox image="ADD YOUR IMAGE URL HERE" title="ONLINE SUPPORT" description="We support online 24/7 on day"][servicesbox image="ADD YOUR IMAGE URL HERE" title="MONEY BACK GUARENTEE" description="30 days money back guarentee"][servicesbox image="ADD YOUR IMAGE URL HERE" title="SAFE PAYMENT" description="Protect online payment"][clear]

Photo Gallery

[photogallery filter="true" show="8"]

Testimonials Rotator

[testimonials]

All Testimonials Listing

[testimonials-listing show="10"]

Sidebar Testimonials Rotator

[sidebar-testimonials]

Client Rotator

[client_lists]
[client title="Enter here title" image="Enter here client image logo url with https:" link="#"]
[client title="Enter here title" image="Enter here client image logo url with https:" link="#"]
[client title="Enter here title" image="Enter here client image logo url with https:" link="#"]
[client title="Enter here title" image="Enter here client image logo url with https:" link="#"]
[client title="Enter here title" image="Enter here client image logo url with https:" link="#"]
[/client_lists]

Contact Form

[contactform to_email="test@example.com" title="Contact Form"]

Our Team

[our-team show="4" teammemberlength="25"]