To install this theme it is essential to have a working version of WordPress already installed. For the information about WordPress platform installing, please see the WordPress Codex. After you download the “solutech.zip” file from Themeforest you will have all the necessary files . Then you should extract the “solutech.zip” file and you will find the theme zip file called “solutech.zip”inside. You need to install this file.

• Navigation > Appearance >Themes.
• Click Install Themes and press the upload button.
• Navigate to find the “theme/solutech.zip” file on your computer and click “Install Now” button.
• The theme will be uploaded and installed.
• Activate the newly installed theme. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate the installed theme.

codex.wordpress.org:Installing new theme

This video installation guide our template via admin panel of your site. If due to the features of your server you can not make downloading a template through a web interface then use the second method of installation via FTP. You will learn how to install the template as well as all the required plug-ins (please do not forget to install and activate them).

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• Log into your hosting space via an FTP software
• Unzip the theme/solutech.zip file and use the extracted solutech theme folder
• Upload the extracted solutech theme folder into wp-content themes in your wordpress installation
• Activate the newly installed theme. Go to Appearance Themes and activate the installed theme.

Please dont forget to install all the required plug-ins

This method is best but will complete overwrite your database. Use only if your site is clean.
This is a complete installation of your database which will result in the lose of your old data.

New access to the admin panel will:
user: admin
pass: admin

First please download demo content:
Solutech
Digital
Defender

Using plugin All-in-One WP Migration you can easily create your website 100% similar our demo.

Please learn this video tutorial

You can either start building your site from scratch, or import one of our demo sites and then modify it to fit your needs.

Please, do not forget to install and activate all the required plugins.

Here's what you need to do:

• Login to WordPress admin
• Go into Apperance > Import Demo Data
• Choose the demo site that you wish to import and click on the "Import" button.

What you need to do is follow the instructions that are taken from the Importing Content page from the WordPress website. To import from a WordPress export file into your blog follow these steps.

How to Use the XML File to Import the Demo Site’s Content

• Log into your site as an administrator.
• Make sure you activated your new theme before proceeding.
• Go to Tools → Import
• Choose “WordPress” from the list.
• Upload the demo content/solutech.xml using the form provided on that page.
• 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.
• You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the “Download and import file attachments” box.

Please be patient while WordPress imports all the content. Posts, Pages, Projects, and Menus are imported. You will need assign the menu a theme location & you’ll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress’ import system. Enjoy!

Many issues that you may run into such as; white screen, demo content fails when importing, empty page and other similar issues are all related to low PHP configuration limits. You can check it by installing a simple plugin found here.

Logo

1. Set your site logo
2. You can change this image size by changing width value (without changing header height)
3. Change header height
4. Logo Text should appear under the logo
5. Set you mobile version logo (default site logo)

Colors

1. Set your site main color
2. Add gradient to some widgets
3. Change gradient direction
4. Secondary color
5. Black color
6. Theme Tone (default Light). You can set your theme dark like this Quattro Black

Fonts

After this it should appear on Font select under Elements Tabs (control 2). Next elements can be changed:

• Text - text content for pages, posts and widgets
• Title - title in theme widget Title and posts Titles
• Subtitle -subtitle in theme widget Title
• H Link - widgets titles and links
• Button  - buttons text

1. Font family
2. Font weight
3. Font size
4. Font Color
5. Font Style
6. Title letter spacing

Decor

1. You can Hide or Show default theme decor
2. Upload you own decor and set it width and height

Other

1. Set default shape for some boxes (Square, Rounded and Round)
2. Plage Loader switch
3. Set Google Map Api if map doesn't appear on your site

General Settings

1. Header Types

Default

Centered Logo

Header Info (2 levels)

2. Header Layout - Normal / Full Width

3. Sticky - Yes / No

Header Colors

1. Background Color. White color with dark text or Black with light text
2. Set Transparency for Header

First please edit and choose footer in PixSettings - Footer .

To setup and edit the footer please use Pix Sections but set the necessary settings for this in the visual composer .

 

Now you can create unique footer and add them to your footer in theme customizer.
Also you can create and specify unique footer for each page in page settings

Visual Composer gives you instant access to built in content elements. Each content element has been carefully crafted and offers multiple options that will enable you to build any layout you desire. You can build complex layouts based on these content elements within minutes, and without requiring a single line of code. Please check this video tutorial:

• Documentation: kb.wpbakery.com
• Video tutorials: vc.wpbakery.com/video-tutorials

You can use these plugins with the solutech theme and you are fully compliant with the Envato’s policy, but you cannot activate them as the owner (so don't try to use the solutech purchase code to activate one of these plugins).

When you purchase a theme from ThemeForest that bundles Visual Composer and Revolution Slider, you are free to use these Premium plugins with the theme. However, your solutech purchase does not give you individual Visual Composer and Revolution Slider licenses that allow you to activate or download these plugins as you wish. Activation doesn’t mean the plugin will not work but only that you cannot receive direct updates. Please don't worry if you see warning messages about the plugin license activation.

• Navigate to the Plugins menu in your WordPress admin area.
• Deactivate Visual Composer, delete it
• Go to Install Required Plugins
• Upload and install the new version
• Activate Visual Composer.

In visual composer we added a custom Theme elements . You can use it for create your own unique style.

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel.

Step 2 - Click on Pages > Add New

Step 3 - Click on Solutech

To create a new unique section use default row settings and also theme row options .

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel.

Step 2 - Click on Pages > Add New

Step 3 - Click on Backend Editor


Step 4

Add and modify Row Layout

Step 1 - Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 - Select the Row Module

Step 3 - Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon) to Edit the Row element ( in our example we use row with 3 columns filled with text block )

Step 4 - To change the Row layout ( number of columns ) you need to click the second Icon from the left then select a layout or custom to make your own

Edit Element

Pencil Icon - To Edit Row, Column or Module you need to click the Pencil icon.

Duplicate Element

Pages Icon - To Duplicate Row or Module you need to click the Pages icon.

Remove Element

Trash Box Icon - To Remove Row, Column or Module you need to click the Trash Box icon.

About Row / Column / Custom heading / Text Block Design options

Design Options - When you edit row / column / custom heading / text block module, you can edit the design options . Row / Custom Heading / Text Block element have a default Bottom Margin of 35 pixel, you may want to set it to 0 if you don't want to have bottom space It is Good to add bottom Padding to your Column, so they will looks good on mobile Left and Right Margin should NEVER be modified, please left blank For Row module the Left and Right Padding should also NEVER be modified, please left blank

To create a new unique section use default row settings and also theme row options .

We will explain how to create a full width content section.

Step 1 - Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 - Select the Row Module

Step 3 - Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon)

Step 4 - Change the Type setting to Full width content then click Save changes

Step 1 - Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 - Select the Row Module

Step 3 - Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon)

Step 4 - Click on Design Options ADD padding and REMOVE margin for better result, add a Background Image change to Cover and then Saves changes

Step 5 - Seclect background overlay and Enable background fixed in this row.

Step 6 - Update or Publish your page and you should now have a section with background fixed

Parallax Section

Step 1 - Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 - Select the Row Module

Step 3 - Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon)

Step 4 - Add parallax type background for row (Note: If no image is specified, parallax will use background image from Design Options).
You can also use advanced parallax in the options theme
Step 5 - Click on Design Options ADD padding and REMOVE margin for better result, add a Background Image change to Cover and then Saves changes

Step 6 - Update or Publish your page and you should now have a section with parallax background

Video Section

Step 1 - Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 - Select the Row Module

Step 3 - Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon)

Step 4 - If checked, video will be used as row background.

Step 5 - You can edit the Design options ( remove margin and add padding "optional" ) and then Saves Changes and Update / Publish your page. You should now have a Full width Section with Video

First please import all the slides from a folder DemoContent/Revoslides using Revoslider import

• Documentation: slider-revolution-documentation
• Video tutorials: On youtube

If you are unfamiliar with this awesome plugin, we recommend that you use the online documentation

You can use these plugins with the solutech theme and you are fully compliant with the Envato’s policy, but you cannot activate them as the owner (so don't try to use the solutech purchase code to activate one of these plugins).

When you purchase a theme from ThemeForest that bundles Visual Composer and Revolution Slider, you are free to use these Premium plugins with the theme. However, your solutech purchase does not give you individual Visual Composer and Revolution Slider licenses that allow you to activate or download these plugins as you wish. Activation doesn’t mean the plugin will not work but only that you cannot receive direct updates. Please don't worry if you see warning messages about the plugin license activation.

• Navigate to the Plugins menu in your WordPress admin area.
• Deactivate revolution slider, delete it
• Go to Install Required Plugins
• Upload and install the new version
• Activate slider.

Appearance - Customizer - Additional CSS. Here you can add your own code to override the styles.

If you don't know anything about СSS and web pages, before doing anything with this template I recommend you to take at least some basic tutorial or hire somebody experienced to do this.

As for tutorials we recommend w3schools.com

You can now enable the Auto-Updating feature for solutech. To do this, please first make sure that you have the Envato WordPress Toolkit plugin installed. If you haven't already installed this plugin, you should see a notification on the top of your Dashboard stating that some required plugins haven't been installed or activated. Install and activate all of the required plugins, including the Envato WordPress Toolkit.

After you have installed and activated the Envato WordPress Toolkit, please go to Envato Toolkit from your dashboard and enter your Marketplace Username and API Key. You can find your API Key by logging into your profile on Themeforest and navigating to Profile > Settings > API Keys.

When you have entered your Marketplace Username and API Key and clicked Save Settings, a new tab will appear at the top of the screen named "Themes". Click on this tab to see all the themes you have purchased. If there is an update available for a theme, you will be notified here. To update your theme, just click on the "Update Automatically" link.

Please note that each time you use the Auto-Update feature to update the theme, a backup file of the old version of the theme will be stored on your server in ".../wp-content/envato-backups".

You can update your theme manually by performing the following steps:

• Download the latest theme zip file from ThemeForest
• Extract it and locate solutech.zip
• Extract solutech.zip and locate the solutech folder
• Copy/Replace content of the solutech folder to the /wp-content/themes/solutech folder of your web site.

If you think your website takes too much time to load maybe you should.

1. Reduce the number of posts on the page
2. Reduce the number of unnecessary plugins
3. Use more icons and less images

Child Themes - Codex

solutech comes with a Child Theme.
Simply install solutech_child.zip like a regular WordPress theme.

What is a Child Theme?

A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme. Child themes allow you to modify, or add to the functionality of that parent theme. A child theme is the best, safest, and easiest way to modify an existing theme, whether you want to make a few tiny changes or extensive changes. Instead of modifying the theme files directly, you can create a child theme and override within.

Why use a Child Theme?

If you modify an existing theme and it is updated, your changes will be lost. With a child theme, you can update the parent theme (which might be important for security or functionality) and still keep your changes. It’s a great way to get started if you are just learning WordPress theme development.

Changelogs file in folder theme/solutech/changelog.txt