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HRG Host Documentation

WordPress Theme by NRGThemes

Greetings! Bellow you will find complete documentation for HRG Host theme.

General Informations - top

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First of all, we want to say thank you! We are very grateful that you have chosen our theme for your website. We will do everything we can to provide you the best support possible. Before you get started, please be sure to always check out these documentation files. We outline all kinds of good information, and provide you with all the details you need know to use HRG Host Theme. Feel free asking us if you need more help. If you are unable to find your answer here in the documentation, please search our Support Forum and watch our Video Tutorials. If you still can't find it, you can open a new topic on our Support Forum with all the details we need.

Video Tutorials - top

Below is a list of our videos, there were not recorded specifically for this theme but they are universal and you can learn from them the basic theme usage.
Folder Structure - top
HRG Host Theme Folder Structure:

Getting Started - top

In this section we will go over the process of setting up WordPress environment, next I will show you how to install and activate your brand new theme. Finally you will learn how to setup all of the key features of HRG Host theme.

Preparing WordPress - top

If you already have WordPress installed on your server just skip to the next section. If you haven't yet installed WordPress on your server here you will find a complete guide on this topic. Just follow the steps and you will be ready in a blink of an eye with your shiny new WordPress website.


Installation and Theme Activation - top

Each WordPress Theme can be installed in this ways: via ftp client, through the admin panel:

Installing WordPress Theme via FTP client: Installing Theme via WordPress Admin Panel:

Required Plugins - top

After installing and activating the theme you will see a yellow popup at the top of the page. Saying: "This theme requires the following plugins..." please click the 'Begin Installing plugins' link. You will be redirected to 'Install Required Plugins' page, here you will find all of the theme required plugins. To install them just check all of them and from the drop down select install once installed do the same to activate them.

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After installing plugins you need to activate them. So Click "return to Required Plugins Installer".

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Select all the plugins, choose "Activate" in select field and click "Apply".

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Visual Composer - page builder plugin. It takes full control over your WordPress site with Frontend and Backend editors. Build any layout you can imagine with drag and drop page builder plugin – no programming knowledge required.


Import Demo Data - top

By installing the demo content, your theme will look like the one you see on our demo. This install is not necessary but will help you get the core pages, categories and meta setup correctly. This action will also let you understand how the theme works by allowing you to modify a content that is already there rather than creating it from scratch. With the theme installed and activated go to Appearance>Import Demo Data. Select Demo Site > HRG Host Demo, and Import Type > All. Press the Import button to start importing the content.

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Yoe need to wait for a few minutes when demo content is importing. Then you'll see the notice: All done. Have fun!.


Options - Theme Options - top

After installation and activation it is time to set up your website. First thing you will notice is the 'Theme Options' Tab added into the WordPress Admin sidebar. This section contains all of the custom HRG Host options (see image bellow). The default options set in the panel are similar to those in the ThemeForest preview.

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Notice: Before leaving the 'Theme Options' tab make sure to click the 'Save' button at the top of the panel, otherwise your changes will be lost.

In tab you will find all of the basic settings divided into few sections:

General

Notice: Before leaving the 'Theme Options' tab make sure to click the 'Save Changes' button at the top of the panel, otherwise your changes will be lost.

Header
  • Favicon - add your favicon.
  • Site Logo - you can upload your site logo
  • Enable header advertising block (can be changed for every page individually) - switch ON or OFF to turn on/off header advertising block.
  • Header Advertising Block - you can type text to advertising block here.
  • Enable header additional menu - switch ON or OFF to turn on/off header additional menu.
  • Header additional menu - you can create and edit additional menus in header.

Notice: Before leaving the 'Theme Options' tab make sure to click the 'Save Changes' button at the top of the panel, otherwise your changes will be lost.

Footer
  • Enable footer sidebar - you can switch On/Off to (Show or Hide) footer sidebar.
  • Enable footer socials - you can switch On/Off to (Show or Hide) footer social network links.
  • Enable footer menu - you can switch On/Off to (Show or Hide) footer menu.
  • Footer Copyright Text - you can Customize your footer text.
  • Enable footer bottom line - you can switch On/Off to (Show or Hide) footer footer bottom line.
  • Footer bottom line - you can create and edit additional menus in footer bottom line.

Notice: Before leaving the 'Theme Options' tab make sure to click the 'Save Changes' button at the top of the panel, otherwise your changes will be lost.

Single
  • Show related posts on single - you can switch On/Off to turn on/off view of relted posts as single.

Notice: Before leaving the 'Theme Options' tab make sure to click the 'Save Changes' button at the top of the panel, otherwise your changes will be lost.

Register / Login
  • Select Login/Register page - you can select login or register page here.
  • Show Login/Register buttons in header - you can switch On/Off to (Show or Hide) Login/Register buttons in header.
  • Login form title - you can set title for your Login form.
  • Login form description - you can set description for your Login form.
  • Register form title - you can set title for your Register form.
  • Register form description - you can set description for your Register form.
  • Recovery form title - you can set title for your Recovery form.
  • Recovery form description - you can set description for your Recovery form.

Notice: Before leaving the 'Theme Options' tab make sure to click the 'Save Changes' button at the top of the panel, otherwise your changes will be lost.

Socials

You can create and edit additional menus in footer bottom line.

Notice: Before leaving the 'Theme Options' tab make sure to click the 'Save Changes' button at the top of the panel, otherwise your changes will be lost.

Custom code
  • Custom CSS - you can add your own CSS code.
  • Custom JS - you can add your own JavaScript code.

Notice: Before leaving the 'Theme Options' tab make sure to click the 'Save Changes' button at the top of the panel, otherwise your changes will be lost.

Documentation

You can find link on this documentanion here

Backup

You can Import a Backup your options setting to this theme and/or Export and Download Backup options settings from this theme using this section.
You can Reset All Option if it required.

Notice: Before leaving the 'Theme Options' tab make sure to click the 'Save Changes' button at the top of the panel, otherwise your changes will be lost.


Content - top

Creating and Editing Pages - top
There is a video tutorial corresponding to this section of the documentation - Creating Pages

Reading settings. Follow Settings in WordPress Admin Panel and select Reading. Then choose: A static page and select Front page and Post page. Make sure to click 'Save Changes' button, otherwise your changes will be lost.

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Creating page. To create pages click the Pages tab in the WordPress Admin Panel. To create new page click the 'Add New' button.

Enter the page title. Fill the page with all necessary you need. You can also select Featured image. Before leaving, make sure to click the 'Publish' button at the right side of the panel, otherwise your changes will be lost.

There is a video tutorial corresponding to this section of the documentation - Creating Menu

To setup the Menu first you need some pages, if you haven't setup any yet please see the first section of this chapter. Once all your pages are created (of course you can edit/add/remove them at any point) go to the Appearance>Menus to create your new menu.

Menu Adding items to a menu

Once a menu is created, you can add items into it. On the left column you can find different custom links, pages or categories that can be added to your menu.

Deleting a menu item
Creating Posts - top
There is a video tutorial corresponding to this section of the documentation - Creating Post

To create posts click the Posts tab in the WordPress Admin Panel. To create new post click the 'Add New' button. Enter the post title and add some text to the field.

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For each post you can choose a 'Post Format'. HRG Host theme supports 5 post formats: Standard, Video, Gallery, Audio, Quote. Please, add some tags, related to your post in "Tags". And you have an opportunity to set Featured image to post in "Featured Image". You can also add some media - just click "Add media" and select what you want: "Insert Media", "Create Gallery", "Set Featured Image" or "Insert from URL". If you add some media, be sure to click "Insert into post" to save changes. After finishing - click "Publish".

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Editing Blog Posts
Quick edit an existing blog post

Quick edit is a tool which allows you to update the details for a particular blog post. You can change the title, the permalink, the slug or edit the date and publishing settings. You can also change categories, add tags, enable or disable comments, or change the status of the blog post. All these actions can be performed by following the next steps:

Edit the content of an existing blog post

You can also edit multiple blog posts at once!

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Post Formats - top

In the previous section i have explained the basics of the post formats and theirs additional settings (if you haven't read it please do). Below I will go over all of the post formats and explain it's additional functions.

Post Standard

Standard post with an image.

Quote

This post format lets you display quote in a beautiful way, you should specify the quote in the additional field called Quote Text and quote author in a Quote Author field.

Audio

This post format lets you display an audio player at the top of the post, you have three additional fields to use: MP3 file - this field specifies the mp3 source for the audio player, OGG file - this field specifies the ogg source for the audio player. Also there is drop down which enables you to specify if you want to upload the audio file or embed it.

Video

This post lets you display a video player at the beginning of your post. You can embed the video from vimeo, youtube etc. or upload your own as MP4, OGG file.

Gallery

A gallery of images. Post will likely contain a gallery shortcode and will have image attachments.


Addons - top

HRG Host provides support for plenty of different addons for your page. If you are looking for shortcodes, Visual Composer components - this section is definitely for you.


Visual Composer Addons/Shortcodes - top

To add any of the shortcodes or addons please go to visual composer, add new row and click the add button, to learn more about visual composer please read it's documentation here.

Visual Composer

If you have trouble in setup for our custom Visual Composer components please read this detailed tutorial below. Please make sure that you carefully read the offical documentation of Visual Composer before you start.

Row

This component allows you to create new row:

Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Text Block

This component allows you to add simple text block to page:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Separator

This component allows you to add separator line between blocks:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

Separator with Text

This component allows you to add separator line between blocks:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

Single Image

This component allows you to add simple image block:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Tabs

This block offers to contain Tabs Items:

paragraph paragraph Tabs Item

This block offers to create Tabs Item block:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

paragraph Accordion

This block offers to contain Accordion Items:

paragraph paragraph Accordion Item

This block offers to create Accordion Item block:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

paragraph Widgetised sidebar

This component allows you to add wigetised sidebar block:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image YouTube Video

This component allows you to add video using video link url:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Google Maps

This block offers to create map block:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

Raw HTML

This component allows you to add raw HTML block:

You can add your HTML code here.

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Raw JS

This component allows you to add raw JavaScript block:

You can add your JavaScript code here.

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Contact Form 7

This component allows you create contact form for your page. Contact Form 7 documentation you can find here

image Contact Form

This shortcode add contact form to your website (you need to create contact form before with Contact Form 7):

Notice: don't forget to save changes!

title title Table

This block offers to create table on page:

paragraph paragraph

Notice: don't forget to save changes!

Heading

This block offers to create heading block on page:

paragraph paragraph

Notice: don't forget to save changes!

paragraph Slider

This block offers to create slider block on page, and contain slides:

paragraph paragraph Slide

This block offers to create slides in slider block:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

paragraph Services

This block offers to create services block on page, and contain servises items:

paragraph paragraph Service

This block offers to create servise in services block:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

paragraph Plan

This component allows you to add Plan block to page :

image paragraph

Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Advantages

This block offers to create advantages block on page, and contain advantages items:

paragraph paragraph Advantage

This block offers to create servise in services block:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

paragraph Search

This component allows you to add Search block to page :

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Features

This component allows you to add Features block to page, which contains Feature blocks:

Feature

This component allows you to add Features block to page, which contains Feature blocks:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Button

This component allows you to add Button to page :

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Call to Action

This component allows you to add Call to Action block to page:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Support

This component allows you to add Support block to page:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Clients

This component allows you to add Clients block to page, which contains Client items:

Client

This component allows you to add Client blocks to Clients block:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Process

This component allows you to add Process block to page, which contains Step items:

Step

This component allows you to add Client blocks to Clients block:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Testimonials

This component allows you to add testomonials block to page, which contains testimonial items:

Testimonial

This component allows you to add testimonial blocks to testimonials block:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Blog

This component allows you to add Blog block to page:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Latest news

This component allows you to add Latest news block to page:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

image Message Box

This component allows you to add message box to page:

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Notice: don't forget to save changes!

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Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this theme. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating this theme. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have any suggestions on how to improve our themes or documentation please share them!

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