Magnitude – AF themes Documentations

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

From WordPress Dashboard

Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
Go to the Appearance panel, then Themes.
Click Add New.
Search theme name Magnitude
After Installing the theme Click Activate button

FTP Installation

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

Via AF themes Site

Download Magnitude theme via, www.afthemes.com/products/magnitude
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.

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

Magnitude 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 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

Go to Admin Panel > Appearance > Themes > Add New and search theme Magnitude
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 Page)
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.