Magnitude Pro

Familiarity with the WordPress Ecosystem

Please take the time to read through the instructions and take notice of the instructions listed here, as many support related questions can be answered simply by re-reading these instructions.

We will frequently update this theme fora bug fix, add new features and more… please follow us on twitter and like us on facebook to get a notification.

If you are new with WordPress, please read the WordPress documentation first:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Posts (WordPress Posts)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages (WordPress Pages)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels (Administration Panels)

Theme Installation

Via AF themes Site

Download Magnitude Pro theme via, www.afthemes.com/products/magnitude-pro
Go to your WordPress website dashboard
Go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload and select the Zip file you recently downloaded.
Click on Install and Activate it.

File Upload Size:
Be sure to check php upload_max_filesize and post_max_size is 32M or higher. If you are running shared web hosting you should contact your web hosting service provider to find more information about that. If you are running unmanaged dedicated server or VPS you should check your php.ini file. Alternatively you can edit .htaccess file in the root of your website and add the following values:

php_value post_max_size 32M php_value upload_max_filesize 32M

Setting these values will ensure you wont get an error reporting that your upload and post memory limit is too low.

FTP Installation

Use your FTP software to browse to wp-content/themes folder.
Extract magnitude-pro.zip and upload the folder.
Once it’s uploaded, go to your WordPress Admin, browse to Appearance > Themes.
Click the Activate link.

Activate License

Go to your WordPress website dashboard
Go to Appearance > Theme License
Enter your theme license key into the License Key field
Click Activate

Info: Without activating license, you will not receive any updates of Magnitude Pro

You can always use the support forum in case if you faced any problem while installing the theme.

Magnitude Pro Recommended Plugins

All the above-listed plugins are recommended on the WordPress dashboard after activating the theme. You can simply install them from there. See the below video to know more about installing plugins.

How to Import Dummy Data?

Importing the demo data is easy in Magnitude News and Magazine Responsive WordPress theme. See the below video to know how to import the dummy data.

Note: If your website has genuine content already, it is not recommended to import the dummy data. Make sure, you are building a new website from scratch before importing the dummy data.

How to add Pages?

It is easy to add a post and page in WordPress.

Go to Admin Panel
Go to Pages > Add New
Give the Title of the Page
Write the Content of the Page
Scroll to down and see the right corner, you will find the Set Featured Image section

Note: If you are not familiar with the new WordPress Editor Gutenberg, you can easily disable it and enable the classic editor.

1. Install Theme Magnitude Pro

Go to Admin Panel > Appearance > Themes > Add New and search theme Magnitude Pro
Click on Install and then Activate

We already mentioned the possible methods to install theme above.

2. Create Page for Home and Blog( Static front Page )
At first, you need to create two pages, one for Home Page and another for the Blog page.

Go to admin panel > Pages > Add New
Give the title of the page (Example: Home)
Click on Publish to publish the page.
Create another page (for Blog).

3. Set Homepage and Blog page

Go to admin panel > Settings > Reading
Click on “A static page (select below)”
Set Front page: (Home Page recently created above)
Posts page:(Blog you recently created)

4. Set static frontpage template

Go to admin panel > Pages
Find the page that you have set to “Static Page”, here (Home Page recently set above)
Get Page Attibutes metabox > Template
Select Frontpage Template from the dropdown
Save Changes

Note: You can get all the available widgets on the Static Front Page Section Widget Area.

See the below video to know more about setting home page and blog page.