Creative Portfolio Pro Documentation
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Introduction
- Theme Name : Creative Portfolio Pro
- Author : misbahwp
- Support Forum : https://www.misbahwp.com/pages/community/
- License : GNU General Public License v3 or later
- Discription : A portfolio website needs to look professional and this is exactly what you get when you design your portfolio with this outstanding Creative Portfolio WordPress Theme. It is specifically created for designing professional portfolios for businesses, professionals, freelancers, and anyone who is willing to project their work or skills online in a much more professional and sophisticated manner. This theme includes a lot of surprising elements that will suit the portfolio website owners no matter which business or profession they are in. It is a multipurpose theme that works for portfolios that may belong to several niches. You will be amazed to see its incredible demo that you can use for getting your website up and running with immediate effect. One-click demo importer will work in quick time and get you a website live within minutes. This Creative Portfolio WordPress Theme brings a design that can attract recruiters as well as target audiences who are looking to hire you for their work. The impressive slider is provided with slider settings and gives a catchy first impression of your skills as well as your profession.
How to Establish the Theme
Setup Theme
Template installation is very simple process.
You can also install your theme using WP Admin
he first task is to log in to your WordPress admin area. Next, click on
1. In dashboard click on Appearance >> Themes
2. Click on the Add New button at the top of the themes page once page is loaded
3. Click the button labelled as 'Upload Theme'.
Select the creative-portfolio-pro.zip theme from the Browse Button, then click the Install Now button
5. WordPress will now install your theme and display a success message, as well as a link to activate or to see the live preview. Congratulations on completing the installation of your theme.
Demo Importer -
Follow below instructions to setup creative-portfolio-pro theme.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Creative Portfolio Pro Themes Setup
Once you are on the Creative Portfolio Pro themes setup, click on the start button.
As the demo importer process finish then check your site, all the content will imported and theme will display like live demo.
Necessary Plugins
When you initially activate the theme, you'll be asked to install these plugins on your Dashboard. You can ignore the message if you don't want to install these plugins on theme activation, and if you change your mind later, you can install them manually.
In the Dashboard, click on Plugins >> Install Plugins.
Kirki
Plugin download link kirki
Contact Form 7
Plugin download link contact-form-7
Creative Portfolio Pro Custom Posttype
Plugin download link Creative Portfolio Pro Custom Posttype
Setup Menu
Setup Menu
In the dashboard, go to Appearance >> Menu
From the 'Appearance' menu on the left-hand side of the Dashboard, select the 'Menus' option to bring up the Menu Editor.
Select Create a new menu at the top of the page. Enter a name for your new menu in the Menu Name box. Click the Create Menu button.
Your new custom menu has now been defined.
Adding Items to a Menu
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.
Your custom menu has now been saved.
In front end, it will look like this.
Creative Portfolio Pro Theme Setup
Top Header Setup
In order to proceed with you can set icon, text, button text and button url so follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Header Settings
In front end, it will look like this.
Logo Setup
In order to proceed with Theme Logo setup, you can set site title and tagline, follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Site Identity >> Logo Or Set Title and Tagline You can also Enable / Disable Site Title and Tagline
In front end, it will look like this.
Slider Section
Slider Settings
In order to proceed with Theme Slider Settings , you can set slide show , follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Slider Settings
Select number slides to show. You can set sub heading , main heading , content , button text and button url. You can choose from this options for each slider option.
In front end, it will look like this.
About Us Section
About Us Settings
In order to proceed with About Us Settings follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> About Us Settings
You can set heading, sub heading and content for section. You can also set the button text and button url.
In front end, it will look like this.
Top Clients Section
Top Clients Settings
In order to proceed with Top Clients Settings follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Top Clients Settings
You can set main heading for section. You can also set counter of the section for top clients of images
In front end, it will look like this.
Recent Projects Section
Recent Projects Settings
Important Step:- Creative Portfolio Pro Custom Posttype plugin is necessary for creating a post for sections.
Fetch Categories
This screen is divided into the Add New Category and category table sections.
This table lists all of your categories. Categories are displayed hierarchically and alphabetically.
Follow the instructions given below to setup Category Settings.
In the Dashboard, go to Recent Projects >> Categories >> Add New
Once you have done with this you will see the categories on your theme customize.
In this section, you have to add new category for each post.
Fetch Post
In the Dashboard, go to Recent Projects >> Add New
To proceed with Post, you should first choose the post title, content, and featured image, price value and price title choose the category in which you want your post to appear.
Follow the instructions given below to setup Post Settings.
In the Dashboard, go to Recent Projects >> Add New
You can make multiple posts for category.
Once you have done with this you will see the post on your front page.
In order to proceed with Recent Projects Settings follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Recent projects Settings
You can set heading and content for section.
You can set heading, sub heading for section. You can also set the button text and button url.
Select the number of posts to view. You have the choice of picking Category. You can choose from this options for each recent projects settings.
In front end, it will look like this.
Counter Section
Counter Settings
In order to proceed with Counter Settings follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Counter Settings
You can set main heading for section. You select number counters to show in section , icon, value and title.
You can also set the button text and button url.
In front end, it will look like this.
Services Section
Services Settings
In order to proceed with Services Settings follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Services Settings
You can set main heading for section. You select number services to show in section , icon, title and content of services.
You can also set the button text and button url.
In front end, it will look like this.
Recent Gallery Section
Recent Gallery Settings
In order to proceed with Recent Gallery Settings follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Recent Gallery Settings
You can set main heading for section. You select number image to show in gallery
You can also set the button text and button url.
In front end, it will look like this.
Work Process Section
Work Process Settings
In order to proceed with Work Process Settings follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Work Process Settings
You can set main heading for section. You select number process to show in section , icon, title and content of process.
In front end, it will look like this.
Newsletter Section
Newsletter Settings
In order to proceed with Newsletter Settings follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Newsletter Settings
You can set main heading of section. You can choose from this options for each Newsletter settings.
Important Step:- Contact Form-7 plugin is necessary for creating a contact form.
In front end, it will look like this.
Testimonial Section
Testimonial Settings
In order to proceed with Testimonial Settings follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Testimonial Settings
You can set main heading for section. You select number process to show in section , icon, title and content of process.
In front end, it will look like this.
Recent Blog Section
Fetch Categories
This screen is divided into the Add New Category and category table sections.
This table lists all of your categories. Categories are displayed hierarchically and alphabetically.
Follow the instructions given below to setup Category Settings.
In the Dashboard, go to Posts >> Categories >> Add New
Once you have done with this you will see the categories on your theme customize.
In this section, you have to add new category for each post.
Fetch Post
In the Dashboard, go to Posts >> Add New
To proceed with Post, you should first choose the post title, content, and featured image, and then choose the category in which you want your post to appear.
Follow the instructions given below to setup Post Settings.
In the Dashboard, go to Posts >> Add New
You can make multiple posts for category.
Once you have done with this you will see the post on your front page.
Recent Blog Post Settings
You can set heading and content of section. You can choose from this options in latest blogs settings.
In order to proceed with Theme Recent Blog Post Settings , you can set tab post , follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Recent Blog Settings
Select the number of posts to view. You have the choice of picking Category. You can choose from this options for each recent blog Post Settings.
Once you have done with this you will see the post on your front page.
Footer Setup Section
There are four columns in the footer. Any widget can be added there.
1. In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Widgets
To add widgets to the footer, see the screenshot below.
You can add footer columns by selecting widgets such as text, images, Recent posts and so on, which allow you to quickly add text or images of your choice.
In order to manage content for footer and add some widgets, navigate to, follow the instructions given below.
2. In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Widgets >> Footer Sidebar
Your footer will appear like this once you have added widgets to it.
Footer Copyright Text
Copyright Text
In order to proceed with footer Settings, You can fill the copyright content to footer copyright Settings.
In front end, it will look like this.
Theme Color / Font Option
Setup Background
Background Settings
In order to proceed with Background Settings follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Background Settings >> Featured Projects Section
You can set background color for section. You can choose from this options for each Background Section.
In front end, it will look like this.
Setup Theme Font Style
Typography Options
In order to proceed with Typography Options, you can change complete font style just one click. follow the instructions given below.
You can change heading and body font style
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Typography Options>>
In front end, it will look like this.
Setup Theme Color
Color Options
In order to proceed with theme color option, you can change complete font color and button background and border color on just one click. follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Color Option
In front end, it will look like this.
Page Templates Settings
Setup Contact Page -
Follow these instructions to setup contact page.
Make a page to set the template: In dashboard, click on Pages >> Add New Page
Name it "Contact" or whatever you want. Then, from the template dropdown, select the "contact page template."
The Page Attributes section provides your page a parent page and a template.
How to Construct a Contact Form -
The Contact Form 7 plugin is installed in the usual way. Click Plugins > Add New in the WordPress dashboard and type Contact Form 7 in the Search box. From the search result, select the plugin and click the Install Now option.
From the admin panel, just go to Contact > Contact Forms to create a Contact Form. There is a list of the forms that are available, though there are none, at now
You may also create your own contact form by clicking on the Contact >> Add New
Building a new form of contact -
Scroll to Form and give this new contact form a name. You can make modifications to contact form template from here.
The multiple fields which will display on your form, as well as the labels that will be next to those fields, are defined by the template.
When you are done with changes, click Save.
A key step is to copy the Shortcode that displays next to your contact form. This is displayed in the form editor as well.
Contact Form and Location Section
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Contact Page Settings >> Contact Form and Location Section
You can set heading, content and location. You can choose from this options for each Contact Page Settings.
Place the Contact Form-7 shortcode code in customize option.
In front end, it will look like this.
Setup Blog Page
Set Up Post Right Sidebar
Follow these instructions to setup post right sidebar page.
1. Make a page to set the template: Go to Dashboard >> Pages >> Add New Page
Caption it "Post Right Sidebar" or anything you want to. Then, from the template dropdown, chose "Post Right Sidebar.
The options of this page template (like sections content, images and number of posts they display) can be controlled it.
The Page Attributes section provides your page a parent page and a template.
1. Make a page to set the template: In dashboard, click on Pages >> Add New Page
In front end, it will look like this.
Set Up Post Left Sidebar
Follow these instructions to setup post left sidebar page.
1. Make a page to set the template: In the Dashboard, go to Pages >> Add New Page
Title it "Post Left Sidebar" or anything you like. Then, from the template dropdown, pick "Post Left Sidebar".
The options of this page template (like sections content, images and number of posts they display) can be controlled it.
The Page Attributes section provides your page a parent page and a template.
1. Make a page to set the template: In dashboard, click on Pages >> Add New Page
In front end, it will look like this.
Setup Page Template
Set Up Page Right Sidebar
Follow these instructions to setup page right sidebar page.
1. Make a page to set the template: In the Dashboard, go to Pages >> Add New Page
"Label it "Page Right Sidebar" or anything as you like". Then, from the template choices, select "Page Right Sidebar".
The options of this page template (like sections content, images and number of posts they display) can be controlled it.
The Page Attributes section provides your page a parent page and a template.
1. Make a page to set the template:In dashboard, click on Pages >> Add New Page
In front end, it will look like this.
Set Up Page Left Sidebar
Follow these instructions to setup page left sidebar page.
1. Make a page to set the template: In the Dashboard, go to Pages >> Add New Page
Label it "Page Left Sidebar" or anything as you want. Then, from the template choices, select "Page Left Sidebar.
The options of this page template (like sections content, images and number of posts they display) can be controlled it.
The Page Attributes section provides your page a parent page and a template.
1. Make a page to set the template: In dashboard, click on Pages >> Add New Page
In front end, it will look like this.
Theme Post & Page Settings
Post Admin, Comments and Date settings
Post Admin, Comments and Date settings
In order to proceed with Post Admin, Comments and Date settings follow the instructions given below.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Post Settings
You can Enable / Disable post of admin, comments and date. You can choose from this options for each Post Settings.
In front end, it will look like this.
Post and Page Banner Settings
Post and Page Banner Settings
In order to proceed with you can change banner background image and color . follow the instructions given below.
You can change also page and poste title color. You can choose from this options for each Post Settings.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >> Theme Options >> Post Settings
In front end, it will look like this.
Section Reorder Settings
Section Reorder Settings
In order to proceed with you can change or reorder the section . follow the instructions given below.
You can change also hide the section. You can choose from this options for each section reorder Settings.
In the Dashboard, go to Appearance >> Customize >>Theme Options >> Header Settings >> Section Reorder Settings
In front end, it will look like this.
