Table of Contents
I)Introduction
Overview
LiveMag is a flexible all purpose magazine theme. This theme is clean and modern designed which will suit your most purposes, whether you are running a magazine website or personal blog. LiveMag comes with many custom particles that bring the features that you need for news display, videos, gallery showcase and article writing.
Beside that, we have a dedicated support center for all of your support needs. It includes our Documentation, Community Forum for any questions you have. We usually get back to you within 12-24 hours. (except weekend and holiday seasons which might take longer). Don't hesitate to contacting us if you have any question or need any assist.
Features
Easy to customize: Theme Options powered by WordPress’ Customizer, you can change the logo image, logo text, slogan, social links, footer….without knowledge program. You can also change entire font of website based on Google fonts library. (With one our plugin)
Responsive Design: This means that you only need one theme for the desktop, tablet, smartphone and other mobile devices.
Unlimited color: This means that you can change color for primary color, navigation background color, link color, link hover color....
Page template and Post fomats: This theme supports 5 post formats (video, gallery, audio, quote, link) and some page templates (left sidebar, right sidebar, full page, list authors, 404 page )
HTML5 Base Template: We used HTML5 in Our Templates to make elegant, modern and SEO friendly website that would be fully functional & represents awesome typography.
Custom widgets: This theme included 6 widgets: Advertise Banner, Last posts (with 3 styles), Feature posts (with 3 style), Post sliders (with 3 mode: slideshow, carausel, sticky), Social network, Tags, Search. These widgets are included so many options.
Quick translate: You can translate this theme to your language, it's easy..
Sample data: Allows you to install this theme with all sample data like our demo.
No Framework: We do not use the framework, they are often bloated with unnecessary features and have many security vulnerabilities.
System Requirement
Database:• MySQL 5.3 +
Web Sever:• Apache 2.x +
Browser:• Firefox 4 +, IE (Internet Explorer) 9 +, Google Chrome 10 +, Opera 10 +, Safari 5 +
Change logs
VERSION 1.0
-- First release.
II)Getting started
After download our template package, you must extract it before install.
Folder extracted:
- Documents: This folder contains the installation/user guide of this theme.
- Sample data: This folder contains xml, json file (which allows you import all content like our demo).
- Theme: This folder contains all install package of theme (which allows you to install theme on available Wordpress websites).
- Licensing: This folder contains product license files.
A)Install Theme
If you have already wordpress site, you can install this theme for your site.
- Go to Appearance -> Themes -> Add New
- Click to Upload theme:
- Click to Browse and choose Zip file in Theme folder, then click to Install Now
- After installing the theme, kindly active it. And you will see a notice to install plugin. This theme need Vafpress Post Formats UI plugin to display the post thumbnail. Click to Begin installing plugin:
- After installing the theme, kindly active it. And you will see a notice to install plugin. This theme need Vafpress Post Formats UI plugin to display the post thumbnail, Alithemes Google Fonts Plugin to change the fonts and LiveMag Demo Import to import the demo content
.Click to Begin installing plugins, install and active those plugins:
B)Install Sample data
If you’re aiming to match the demo layout exactly, it helps to have the sample content from the demo installed; it includes the posts, categories, media and menus from the demo content. This is especially useful if you’re going to be following the manual widget placement guide for a theme, as the widget configuration references the demo content.
Before starting the import process, we’ll need to ensure that the LiveMag Demo Import plugin has been installed.
Go to Appearance -> Import Demo, click Import Demo Data button, and wait some minutes.
Your site will be identical to our demo
III) Theme Customize
Theme Options powered by WordPress’ Customizer, you can change the logo image, logo text, slogan, social links, footer….
After install our theme, Go to Appearance -> Customize You will see the left sidebar on next screen:
Site Identity:
You can change the site title, taglign and site icon (It's is small square images which are used by web browsers to show a graphical representation of the site being visited at the left side of the browser’s address bar.)
Header and Footer:
In this section, you can change the logo (use Image or Text), the copyright text at footer, show or hide the social icon, search box area, Off canvas, back to top button…
Off canvas sidebar
Layout setting:
In this section, there are many options to change the archive or post layout. You can choose the sidebar position is left or right, you can display or hide the metabox, author box, related posts, social share, archive header...
Archive layout option
Color setting:
In this section, you can change the color for main navigation color, primary color, link color, site background or Off canvas background...
Example: Change main navigation background
Social setting:
In this section allow you setting your social network site, one icon will appearance on top navigation.
Quick Translation:
In this section, you can translate this theme to your language, it's easy..
Menu setting:
In this section allow you setting the menus on your site. This theme has 2 menu locations: Main and Footer
IV) Widgets setting
There are 6 custom widgets in this theme: Post Sliders, Social, Last Post, Feature posts, Advertise, Tags. Each widget has the options, it will help you custom front-end display.
Alithemes Sliders
This widget will show the latest posts as slider. You can choose one category or all categories, post format, number of post to show
Alithemes Feature posts
This widget will show the latest posts Carausel or Grid. You can choose one category or all categories, post format,...
Alithemes Last posts
This widget will show the latest post with many different layouts.
You can choose one category or all categories, post format, number of post to show.
There are 3 layout to display the posts.
Alithemes Social
With this widget, you can setup your social network and display it on front-end. There are 6 social sites: Twitter, Facebook, Google plus, Dribble, Pinterest, Youtube
Front-end display
Alithemes Advertise
This widget allow you insert advertise banners (images) and set link for them. You can also set the banner size and link target
Alithemes Tags
This widget allow you custom Tags widget: You can choose number to display, set smallest and largest tags size
V) Use Plugins
Alithemes Google Fonts
We have created a plugin called Alithemes Google Fonts, it allows you to easily change the font on your website.
This plugin is installed like any normal wordpress plugin.
After you install and activate this plugin, go to Appearance -> Customize, you'll see an item is added in the left column: Typography Settings
THANK YOU
Thank you so much for using this theme. If you have more questions relating to this theme, you might consider visiting the our forum: http://alithemes.com or send email to address: [email protected]
AliThemes Team