================================================================================================ ***** FLATTER THEME DOCUMENTATION ***** ================================================================================================ Tags: translation-ready, custom-background, theme-options, custom-menu, post-formats, threaded-comments Requires at least: 4.0 Tested up to: 4.2.2 Stable tag: 1.0.0 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Photo Source: http://www.pexels.com == INSTALLATION == 1. In your admin panel, go to Appearance > Themes and click the Add New button. 2. Click Upload and Choose File, then select the theme's .zip file. Click Install Now. 3. Click Activate to use your new theme right away. == REQUIRED PLUGINS == Flatter Theme requires the following plugins from the WordPress Repository. 1. Menu Icons Plugin 2. Newsletter Plugin 2. Contact Form 7 Plugin 3. Woocommerce Plugin [ if you want to display your site with products to sell online ] == FLATTER THEME HOMEPAGE == By default, WordPress site will takes you to Blog as your Homepage but in order to get the Flatter Theme Homepage, you have to go to Pages > Add New page. Here you can add title as Home and select the template as Frontpage. Then Save the page, assign that page to frontpage via settings and all done...!!! == FLATTER THEME OPTION PANEL == Go to Appearance > Customize. Click on Flatter Theme Option where you will get the following sections for the homepage to set. *** Flatter Theme Option *** 1. Theme Logo: You can replace the default theme logo with your own logo by uploading. Uploaded image size must be 200px width and 52px height for the logo. 2. Slider Categories: You can choose your Homepage Slider Category by selecting in the select box and Welcome Home button link can be changed as per your requirement. 3. Features Categories: You can choose your Homepage Features Category by selecting in the select box. 4. Services Categories: You can choose your Homepage Services Category by selecting in the select box. 5. Testimonials Categories: You can choose your Homepage Testimonials Category by selecting in the select box. 6. Latest Post Categories: You can choose your Homepage Latest Post Category by selecting in the select box. 7. Our Works Categories: You can choose your Homepage Our Works Category by selecting in the select box. 8. Newsletter Section: Add your Newletter Heading for Homepage but for Subscribe button, you have to install Newsletter plugin and from widget section, you have to drag that plugin widget to newsletter widget. 9. Footer Settings: You can choose your Footer Settings here for Copyright text and Footer Social Icons. By default, social icons are turned off and if you want to turned on, you have to click on that Show social icons box. Then add your social icons links url to below boxes as required. *** Flatter Sidebar Layout *** After successfully optimizing your site requirements from Flatter Theme Option, now you can choose your site sidebar layout option for Blog, Single page, Post page, Search page and Page not found page accordingly. Here we have Both sidebar, Left sidebar and Right sidebar option for layouts. We have also Full width layout for Blog page and Single page in Page Sections via template. == FLATTER THEME MENU ICONS == We have used the Icons for our main menu in header and which is already included within the theme plugin installer. To input your desired icons for your menu items, you need to do the following in the Appearence > Menus Section. 1. Select your main menu for your site. 2. Click on menu tab eg. Home and click at Select link after Icon. 3. Select the best icon for your menu item to display in site. 4. Do the same procedures for rest of the menu items by placing your desired icons.