Thank you for purchasing this theme! A big high-five from the Rescue Themes team!
This document covers the installation and use of this theme and is intended to get your site up and running quickly.
If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to send us a message through our ThemeForest contact form.
Download the 'Installable WordPress file only' from your Envato Marketplace account's download area and upload/activate the .zip file in WordPress.
After the theme is activated, a list of recommended plugins will be displayed at the top of the WordPress admin area. Install and activate those plugins by selecting 'Begin installing plugins'.
Once the plugins are installed and activated, upload the demo content XML file with the WordPress importer. This file will be located within the 'All files & documentation' download package in your Envato Marketplace account's download area.
Notice: Check the 'Download and import file attachments' option after clicking 'Upload file and import'. This will import demo images. It may take a couple extra minutes to import but it'll be worth it.
From the Reading Settings of your WordPress site, assign the Home page as the 'Front page' and the Blog page as the 'Posts page'.
With your demo content imported, you can now assign the demo navigation menus.
Lastly, a quick save of the theme options panel should get you on your way.
Appearance > Theme Options > Save Options
These are recommended plugins for you to enjoy all of the features included with this theme. The theme will function without theses plugins. You're welcome to use other plugins but this theme has been designed to accomodate these plugins specifically.
Once activated, this plugin will created a custom post type so that you can add an image gallery/portfolio to your site.
Portfolio > Add Item
Paste this shortcode to any page for displaying the gallery (a full width page is recommended):
[rescue_portfolio]
This plugin will add a shortcode dropdown in your WordPress editor. It's as simple as selecting from the dropdown the shortcodes you'd like in your post or page.
For a complete list of shortcodes, jump down to the shortcode list below.
This is a powerful, full featured open source events management plugin for WordPress. This theme has custom style specifically for this plugin.
For more information, please visit the Events Calendar for WordPress Tutorials
Seamless Donations supports donations by US and non-US donors to a Paypal account. All you need to do is embed a simple shortcode and supply your PayPal Website Payments Standard email address to start receiving donations today.
Paste this shortcode to any page for displaying the donation form (a full width template page is recommended):
[dgx-donate]
For more information, please visit Seamless Donations in the WordPress Plugin Directory
The official MailChimp plugin allows you to quickly and easily add a signup form for your MailChimp list as a widget. This theme has widgetized areas that will display this plugin's widget with custom styling.
For more information, please visit Mailchimp in the WordPress Plugin Directory
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.
For more information, please visit Contact From 7 in the WordPress Plugin Directory
To use these shortcodes, please activate the Rescue Shortcodes plugin. For an example of these shortcodes in action, visit the example pages: Shortcode Elements and Shortcode Grid
[rescue_button color="black" url="#" title="Visit Site" target="blank" border_radius=""]Sample Content[/rescue_button]
[rescue_button color="red" url="#" title="Visit Site" target="blank" border_radius=""]Sample Content[/rescue_button]
[rescue_button color="orange" url="#" title="Visit Site" target="blank" border_radius=""]Sample Content[/rescue_button]
[rescue_button color="blue" url="#" title="Visit Site" target="blank" border_radius=""]Sample Content[/rescue_button]
[rescue_button color="green" url="#" title="Visit Site" target="blank" border_radius=""]Sample Content[/rescue_button]
[rescue_button color="white" url="#" title="Visit Site" target="blank" border_radius=""]Sample Content[/rescue_button]
[rescue_googlemap title="Rescue Themes Offices" location="5046 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60615" zoom="14" height=250]
[rescue_tabgroup]
[rescue_tab title="First Tab"]
First tab content
[/rescue_tab]
[rescue_tab title="Second Tab"]
Second Tab Content.
[/rescue_tab]
[/rescue_tabgroup]
[rescue_box color="blue" text_align="left" width="100%" float="none"] This is just an example title [/rescue_box]
[rescue_box color="gray" text_align="left" width="100%" float="none"] This is just an example title [/rescue_box]
[rescue_box color="green" text_align="left" width="100%" float="none"] This is just an example title [/rescue_box]
[rescue_box color="red" text_align="left" width="100%" float="none"] This is just an example title [/rescue_box]
[rescue_box color="yellow" text_align="left" width="100%" float="none"] This is just an example title [/rescue_box]
[rescue_highlight color="blue"]This is just some example text[/rescue_highlight]
[rescue_highlight color="gray"]This is just some example text[/rescue_highlight]
[rescue_highlight color="green"]This is just some example text[/rescue_highlight]
[rescue_highlight color="red"]This is just some example text[/rescue_highlight]
[rescue_highlight color="yellow"]This is just some example text[/rescue_highlight]
[rescue_donation_tabgroup group_title="Help Us Reach our Goal"]
[rescue_donation_tab title="Total"]
Example Fundraiser
[rescue_progressbar title="Example" percentage="75" color="#f1c40f"]
Example Fundraiser
[rescue_progressbar title="Example" percentage="45" color="#1abc9c"]
[/rescue_donation_tab]
[rescue_donation_tab title="Goal"]
Second tab content
[rescue_clear_floats]
[rescue_button color="black" url="http://rescuethemes.com" title="Visit Site" target="blank" class="right" border_radius=""]
Sample Content
[/rescue_button]
[/rescue_donation_tab]
[rescue_donation_tab title="Donate"]
Third tab content
[rescue_button color="blue" url="http://rescuethemes.com" title="Visit Site" target="blank" class="right" border_radius=""]
Sample Content
[/rescue_button]
[/rescue_donation_tab]
[/rescue_donation_tabgroup]
[rescue_toggle title="This Is Your Toggle Title"]Sample Content[/rescue_toggle]
[rescue_spacing size="40px"]
[rescue_clear_floats]
[rescue_column size="one-half" position="first"]Sample Content[/rescue_column]
[rescue_column size="one-third" position="first"]Sample Content[/rescue_column]
[rescue_column size="one-fourth" position="first"]Sample Content[/rescue_column]
[rescue_column size="one-fifth" position="first"]Sample Content[/rescue_column]
[rescue_column size="one-sixth" position="first"]Sample Content[/rescue_column]
[rescue_column size="two-third" position="first"]Sample Content[/rescue_column]
[rescue_column size="three-fourth" position="first"]Sample Content[/rescue_column]
[rescue_column size="two-fifth" position="first"]Sample Content[/rescue_column]
[rescue_column size="three-fifth" position="first"]Sample Content[/rescue_column]
The shortcode is a basic template. Replace the defaults as necessary.
[icon type="cloud" size="lrg | 5x | 4x | 3x | 2x | 1x" pull="center | Left | Right" color="#cccccc"]
Zurb Foundation
http://foundation.zurb.com
Google Fonts - Open Sans
http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Open+Sans
Fancybox v2
http://fancyapps.com/fancybox
Font Awesome
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome
Images:
http://photodune.net/item/elegant-bearded-success-business-man/4174822
http://deathtothestockphoto.com
http://gratisography.com
http://picjumbo.com
http://getrefe.tumblr.com
http://unsplash.com/
Rescue Themes Plugins
https://github.com/RescueThemes/rescue-portfolio
https://github.com/RescueThemes/rescue-shortcodes
https://github.com/RescueThemes/rescue-about-widget
Recommended 3rd Party Plugins:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar
http://wordpress.org/plugins/seamless-donations
http://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp
https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7
Jump on back to the intro section of this document if you need to get in touch (there will be some handy links for you up there).