Thank you for purchasing our theme, we truly appreciate it. We believe that our framework is object-oriented cornerstone of our themes that makes further development and management essential and user-friendly. However some issues depending on end-user skills, by this reason we strongly recommend to follow each step in the order given below. Also we expecting that end-user will install StartUp Theme on brand new Wordpress site (clean or blank installation).
For more customisation you may contact us via helpdesk system.
The mod_rewrite Apache module (optional for SEO and user-friendly links)
Note:hosting is more secure when PHP applications, like WordPress, are run using your account’s username instead of the server’s default shared username (www or www-data). The most common way nowadays for hosting companies to do this is using suPHP. Just ask your potential host if they run suPHP or something similar.
We have tested theme on following hosting platforms:
Checking to ensure that you and your web host have the minimum requirements to run WordPress.
Download the latest release of WordPress from official WordPress website http://wordpress.org.
Unzip the downloaded file.
Prepare secure password for your Secret Key (FTP username and password, database name, user and database password).
Print this page out so you have it handy during the installation.
Wordpress Installation
StartUp Premium Theme can be used with Wordpress CMS only. You can download latest Wordpress version from wordpress.org. If you don't know what is Wordpress or have some difficulties with Wordpress installation, you can try to contact your service provider support. Also you may search for eHow-To's around the internet.
WordPress is well known for its ease of installation. Under most circumstances installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete. Many web hosts now offer tools (e.g. Fantastico) to automatically install WordPress for you. However, if you wish to install WordPress yourself, the following guide will help. Now with Automatic Upgrade, upgrading is even easier.
You can skip this step if Wordpress already installed or you can make it yourself.
Download and unzip the WordPress package if you haven't already.
Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it.
Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php.
Open wp-config.php in a text editor and fill in your database details as explained in Editing wp-config.php to generate and use your secret key password.
Upload the WordPress files in the desired location on your web server:
If you want to integrate WordPress into the root of your domain (e.g. http://example.com/), move or upload all contents of the unzipped WordPress directory (but excluding the directory itself) into the root directory of your web server.
If you want to have your WordPress installation in its own subdirectory on your web site (e.g.http://example.com/blog/), create the blog directory on your server and upload WordPress to the directory via FTP.
Note: If your FTP client has an option to convert file names to lower case, make sure it's disabled.
Run the WordPress installation script by accessing wp-admin/install.php in a web browser.
If you installed WordPress in the root directory, you should visit: http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php
If you installed WordPress in its own subdirectory called blog, for example, you should visit:http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php
Configure WordPress
Theme Installation
Note:Once you have installed theme you need to install additional plugins that you may find inside bundle.zip archive if you have downloaded entire theme pack with documentation. All additional plugins located inside bundle/plugins.
There are two ways you can install theme on your WordPress website.
Traditional file transfer method via FTP or cPanel
Easiest way through WordPress dashboard
Lets start with 1st method.
Adding New Themes Manually (FTP or SFTP)
Note: Before starting this process, make sure you have FTP software, you can get one from FileZilla and also you need to know your FTP logins and path. (Which you can get from your hosting provider or you can create one through cPanel)
Download the Theme archive and extract the files it contains. You may need to preserve the directory structure in the archive when extracting these files.
Using an FTP client to access your host web server, create a directory to save your Theme in the wp-content/themes directory provided by WordPress. For example, a Theme named Test should be in wp-content/themes/im-startup. Your Theme may provide this directory as part of the archive.
Upload the Theme files to the new directory on your host server.
Follow the instructions below for selecting the new Theme.
Using the Administration Panel (Dashboard)
Note: If your hosting account has strong PHP limitations you may see error message during im-startup.zip uploading. In this case you MUST use FTP client to upload unzipped theme files to wp-content/themes directory. More details see above.
Log in to your WordPress Dashboard (administration panel).
Click on Appearance and then Themes.
Click Install Themes
Here is 5 options in sub-menu (Search, Upload, Featured, Newest, Recently Updated). Click on Upload
Browse button appears, click on it and select the .zip format WordPress theme.
Click Install Now, and click Preview if you want to check your blog appearance else click Activate.
Theme Activation
Once you have uploaded the theme to the correct directory, you can now navigate to WordPress administration dashboard Appearance -> Themes, locate correct theme and activate it. After logging into the WordPress dashboard section, please navigate to Appearances -> Themes. You can see just installed theme.
Here is one more important thing for correct theme activation, you have to activate custom plugins that already included into theme. Above theme options you'll find yellow alert box with notice about plugin activation. Please follow instructions and activate all plugins from the list. You may use "Bulk action". Also you can install plugins manually from bundle directory.
Congratulations! From now theme is active and available for your visitors. But it's not all. Now you need to customise your theme by creating custom options and change default branding elements/design. You will be redirected on Theme Options page. There are ton of features so read this documentation to the end and you'll know how to manage your website.
Permissions
StartUp theme comes with two options for Image Resizing. "TimThumb" and "Built-In WordPress". We strongly suggest you use the second options "Built-In WordPress" (default).
For both options you will have to grant 777 (0777) permissions to the /cache/ folder located in StartUp theme folder (/wp-content/uploads/cache/). Some servers may not require it and you can use the theme as it is.
Creating Menu
Our Theme has 3 (THREE) custom menu regions.
Main Menu (megamenu) - is called "Primary Menu"
Bottom menu (secondary) - "Footer Menu" for footer region
Top menu (extra header) - For top links. You can also control Extra Header region from Theme Options section.
To create custom menu, go to Appearance -> Menus in your blog’s dashboard. If you do not see the Appearance menu option, you are not an administrator on the blog. Now you need create 3 custom menu. To create a custom navigation menu, type in a name for it (only you will see this) and click Create Menu.
Adding Pages and Categories Into Menu
Adding pages / posts / links and categories to your menu is as simple as checking the proper boxes for the pages you wish to add and then clicking button "Add to Menu".
Here is short video how to manage website mega menu navigation.
Please note: video recorded for our previous theme that contain three menus.