First of all, a big thanks for purchasing this theme. This document includes a guide and general information about the theme. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this document.

If you're planning to build a website using WordPress, you must first ensure your hosting provider meets WP's requirements.

Database

  • MySQL 5.0.15 or higher
  • PostgreSQL 8.3 or higher
  • SQLite 3.3.7 or higher

PHP

  • PHP 5.2.5 or higher (5.3 recommended)
  • PHP5 GD library installed
  • Disabled error_reporting flag on production server
  • Enabled mod_rewrite in Apache for clean URLs
  • Memory limit set up at least 64MB

This theme requires the latest Wordpress version (3.5. +).

There are 2 different ways to upload the theme.

  1. FTP: Unpack the trend.zip and upload the unpacked folder into the wp-content/themes/ folder
  2. WordPress: Login into WordPress and go to Appearance > Add New Themes > Upload. Select the zipped theme file trend.zip and click Install Now.

Enable theme

After copying theme into theme foldre you have to enable it. Please sign into WordPress administration and navigate into "Appearances -> Themes". Click on the "Activate" link.


Enable theme plugins

This step is very important. After activating the theme, you will see a notice about installing plugins that the theme uses. Click on "Begin installing plugins", tick all of the plugins listed and then using the drop down underneath, select Install. Apply. Once they are all installed, click on "Return to Required Plugins installer" and tick all of the plugins once more, but this time, select "Activate" from the drop down and hit apply.


Import demo content by theme

After activating the theme, you will be redirected to the "Theme Options" section of the page. At the top of the page you will see a green button "Import demo content". Click the button and wait until the import has finished. Done!




Import demo content manually

  1. How to Use the XML File to Import the Demo Site’s Content
  2. Log into your site as an administrator.
  3. Make sure you activated your new theme before proceeding.
  4. Go to Tools > Import
  5. Choose “WordPress” from the list.
  6. Upload the demo content .xml using the form provided on that page.
  7. You will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
  8. You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the “Download and import file attachments” box.
  9. Please be patient while WordPress imports all the content. Posts, Pages, Projects, and Menus are imported. You will need assi
  10. gn the menu a theme location & you’ll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress’ import system.
  11. Enjoy!

NOTE: The demo xml file is located in the "export" folder.


Regenerate theme thumbnails

If you are installing Trend on a website that already has images uploaded, please follow these important steps once Trend is activated:

After logging into your admin Wordpress account:

  1. Go to Plugins -> Add New and install a free plugin called "Force Regenerate Thumbnails"
  2. After Installing and activating it, go to Tools -> Force Regenerate Thumbnails
  3. Click on "Regenerate All Thumbnails" and wait until it is finished

This fixes all your existing images to work with Trend. Any images uploaded after Trend is active will have the appropriate thumbnails created automatically.

After logging into your admin area:

  1. Go to "Appearance > Theme Options > General"
  2. Click the button in the section logo / favicon
  3. Click "Select Files" and open the image you want to use.
  4. Click "Send to OptionTree".
  5. Save the changes.

If you want to have custom image or video as homepage:

  1. Go to "Pages > All Pages"
  2. Add/Edit a page with a suitable name
  3. Change the page template to "Custom Homepage":



  4. A new meta box will appear above the page title.
  5. Choose the photo you want to use as homepage from the drop down menu:



  6. Update/Publish
  7. Go to "Settings > Reading"
  8. Set the page you have created as a static from page
  9. Save changes

Trend can use any of the several hundreds of Google fonts available. You can select one font for the body text (often a clean, light font) and another font for everything else (menu font, titles, etc).

How to change the current theme font:

  1. Go to "Appearance > Theme Options > Fonts".
  2. Choose the font you want for body and headings. ( After selecting the font, a demo text will appear bellow the dropdown menu to show you how it looks like ).



  3. After you have the font, save the changes.

To have a contact page like the one seen on the Trend demo:

  1. Go to Plugins > Add New
  2. Search for "Contact Form 7" and install it
  3. After activating the plugin, there will be a new option in your Wordpress bankend. Go to Contact
  4. There will be a default contact form created, simply copy the code of it under "Shortcode" (should be similar to: [contact-form-7 id="2841" title="Contact form 1"])
  5. Add/Edit a page with a suitable name
  6. Paste the shortcode code of the contact form
  7. Publish/Update the page

Trend does not force a website to have a specific format to show the title at the top of the browser, this is to provide the freedom to set them up as you wish. It is recommended to install a free SEO plugin such as: All-In-One Seo or SEO by Yoast. Both these plugins will allow you to set the titles as you wish to show them and at the same time improve your SEO.

You can use the shortcodes provided with this theme when creating a post or page:





  1. Diferent table elements ..
  2. Titles
  3. Dropcaps
  4. Bar Graphs
  5. Toggles
  6. Dividers
  7. Buttons

Trend comes with everything setup to easily translate it into any language. To translate into a different language:

  1. Go to the theme translation folder, which is located in "trend/lang/"
  2. Make a copy of the file 'default.po' and rename the file to the locale of your language, example: Spanish would be 'es_ES.po'
  3. Open Poedit (can be downloaded for free from http://www.poedit.net/) and open the file you have created in it
  4. Translate all the strings and save your changes. After you save, you will have two files, exaple: Spanish would have 'es_ES.po' and 'es_ES.mo'
  5. Upload these files to "Trend/lang/"
  6. Make sure your WordPress config file (located in the root of your website "yoursite/wp-config.php") has the following line set to your locale: "define ('WPLANG', 'es_ES');"

When Trend is activated it recommends several plugins. One of them is called "Envato Wordpress Toolkit" which when enabled and setup, will automatically alert you on your Dashboard when a new version of the theme is available and allows you to install it with only a few clicks. If you did not install the plugin when you first installed Trend, and wish to install it now, please follow these steps:

  1. Go to "Appearance > Install Plugins"
  2. Hover over "Envato Wordpress Toolkit" and click on "install plugin"
  3. Go to "Plugins > Installed Plugins" and activate "Envato Wordpress Toolkit"
  4. A very good tutorial on how to use this plugin can be found at: http://wpmu.org/envato-wordpress-toolkit-a-themeforest-auto-updater/

All your settings should remain intact after updating the theme (menu settings, theme option settings, etc).

Alternative theme update method:

You can also update the theme manually by going to Themeforest.net, logging into your account and downloading the latest Trend version. For users who are not using a Child Theme:

  1. Deactivate your current Trend version in the Theme section (This can be done by activating any other theme)
  2. Delete the Old Trend theme from your website
  3. Upload the new version of Trend as normal and activate it

For users who are using a Child Theme:

  1. Delete the Old Parent Trend theme from your website
  2. Upload the new Parent version of Trend as normal and activate it