Similarly, you can create menu for your inner pages as well and link the home page sections in it. Just  when you are adding section Id like “#contact” to link that section in your inner menu item, also add the home page URL of your site before it. e.g. https://templatic.com/#contact.

This was about creating special/regular menu for your website but if you want to add some visual effects to your menu then you can use the Templatic Mega Menu plugin, the process defined above will be same to some extent with some additions. Know in detail 

4. Setting up the Home Page Slider

If you have activated the sample data (from Appearance -> Themes) the slider must already be active. But if it isn’t then,

• Go to Appearance -> Widgets
• Place the “Home Page Main Slider” widget inside “Home Page Full Slider” widget area. To make sure the slider shows on the homepage make sure you’ve set a correct static page as your homepage.

Setup content and image using html <tags>

Basically using html <tags> you can decide where your content and image will appear, set image at background and change the background color. Follow these steps for that,

• Expand your T – Home Page Main Slider, you will have a field named as “Html Slider”
• There under “Content 1” ( you can increase such content boxes using there given “+ Add more”) you can put your html code. as shown below,

A) Shows content on right and image on left

<div class="slider_type slider_type1" style="background-image: url(http://../slider-bg.jpg)">
<div class="content">
<div class="right sld_cont"><br><br><br><br>
<h2>Mobile Ready</h2>
<p class="description">Mobile ready design of the theme makes sure that it renders beautifully on all devices out of the box </p><br/>
<p>Landing Page has been designed to look great on all devices; from huge desktop computers to smartphones. On each visit the theme will resize itself to accommodate the visitors screen size. </p>
<br/>
</div>
<div class="left sld_img">
<img src="http://../-img.jpg" />
</div>
</div>
</div>

 – End result at front end

 

B) Shows content on left of image 

<div class="slider_type gray">
<div class="content">
<div class="left sld_cont"><br><br><br>
<h2>Unlimited Colors</h2>
<p class="description">Yes, the in built color picker gives you unlimited color options to chose from for different sections of yor website</p><br/>
<p>Landing Page allows you to quickly change the color of your buttons background or any other important element on your website. Using the WordPress Customizer these changes can be made in seconds and in real time!</p>

</div>
<div class="right sld_img">
<img src="../image.png" /> </div> </div> </div>

– End result at front end

 

C) Shows content above image 

<div class="slider_type red">
<div class="content">
<h2>Landing Page WordPress Theme</h2>
<p class="description">Save time and money by using our tried and tested WordPress themes to quickly create an elegant website. Receive top-notch theme support whenever you need it.
</p>
<img src="../image.png" />
</div>
</div>

– End result at front end

 

The key things used are,

• <div class="content"> – to show content above image
• <div class="left sld_cont"> – to show content on left of image
• <div class="right sld_cont"> – to show content on right of image
• <div class="left sld_img"> – to show image to the left side.
• <div class ="right sld_img"> – to show image to the right side.
• <img src=".."> –  image tag used under <div> to set an image for the slider

Change background color

To change the background color of your slider, we have provided you 10 css classes as mentioned below,

1. pink : #ec65bb
2. red : #fb455d
3. orange : #ff6420
4. yellow : #f4cd00
5. green : #2eb44d
6. parrotgreen : #90c13d
7. aqua : #26c3ae sky
8. blue : #14c7f4
9. blue : #1480f9
10. gray : #4c4c4c

If you want to have color other than these classes then you have to add your own class and attributes in custom.css and use them.

 

5. Set up your portfolios

As mainly Landing Page is a Portfolio Theme, you can easily create the one. Follow these steps for that,

 

A) Create the Portfolio

• Add the category of your work, using  WP-admin -> Portfolio -> Type of Work like you do for a normal WordPress category.
• Now, go to WP-admin -> Portfolios -> Add Work
• Add your work/portfolio like you create a normal WordPress page and publish it (also check mark the ‘Type of the work’ that you created in the above step while creating the page.)

B) Set up the Portfolio on the Home Page

• Place the “T – Portfolio” widget in any of the Home Page widget area. We would recommend “Home Page Section 3” area.
• Expand this widget to choose all the options in it.
• Select the portfolio from the drop down “Select Post Type”
• Write how many portfolios you want to show on your home page in numbers. e.g. 8
• Click the save button of this widget and refresh your site to see the effect.

6. Setup other home page areas

As we have already seen some of the widget areas, let’s continue with further..

To add widgets, locate all these widgets at wp-admin -> Appearance -> Widgets

• Mega Menu Navigation  –  You can only place jQuery Mega Menu widget in this area and it will be visible at the top of your home page. Know how to create mega menu
• Inner Page Mega Menu Navigation – You can only place jQuery Mega Menu widget in this area and it will be visible at the top of your all inner pages (and not on your home page).
• Home Page Section 1   –  Appears after the slider on Home Page. T – About Team is one of the suitable widget for this area
• Home Page Section 2  – Appears after the Home Page content. T – Services and T – Testimonials are some of the suitable widgets here.
• Home Page Section 3  –  Some of the suitable widgets here are T – Portfolio and T – Advertisments 
• Home Page Section 4  –  Some of the suitable widgets here are T – Popular Post widget and T- Newsletter Subscribe
• Home Page Section 5  –  Some of the suitable widgets here are T -Contact us and T- Google map Widget

7. Setup sidebars

In this whole theme, there are 5 Sidebars as mentioned below and to locate it at back-end, just go to wp-admin -> Appearance -> Widgets.

• Front Page Sidebar – This sidebar appear on the home page ONLY when you have selected option “Your latest posts” in wp-admin -> Settings -> Reading. It will only appear on the right side of the screen and you cannot change its layout. (But if your have selected your latest post option as said above, you won’t be able to setup home page widgets like Slider)
  
• Post Listing Sidebar – It appears on the listing page of posts/blog.  Whatever widgets you place here will appear as sidebar items on your web site for this particular page.
• Post Detail Sidebar –  It appears on detail page of the posts/blog. Whatever widgets you place here will appear as sidebar items on the detail page of your blog/post.
• Primary Sidebar –  This sidebar is default one, if you do not apply any widgets in above mentioned areas then widgets applied here will be shown as their sidebars and same goes for other ordinary pages too.
• Contact Page Sidebar – This sidebar is specially made for the contact us page. some of the most suitable widgets would be “T-Latest Twitter Feeds” and “T- Facebook Fans.

If you use and activate WooCommerece Plugin then there will be an additional widget area of WooCommerece where you can use WooCommerece or Templatic widgets. This sidebar will be visible on WooCommerece product pages and for other WooCommerce pages, the default sidebar of this theme will be called (visible) i.e. primary sidebar.

8. Setup Contact Us page

You can make this page with the help of Contact Page Template. It will show you the contact us inquiry form. Then, you can also place some widgets to enhance the purpose of this page,

• Go to wp-admin -> Pages -> Add new
• Create contact page selecting “Contact Us page” template as shown in below section.
• Then, go to wp-admin -> Appearance ->Widgets-> Contact Page Content Area
• Drag and drop the required widgets there and save them
• Most suitable would be “Text” to show your contact details like phone number or any other contact details and “T- Google Map Widget” which will show Google map above the inquiry form showing your address (that you enter in this widget).

You can also add some of the available icons in your contact us page while defining your contact details as mentioned here

9. Setup Footer

This theme has two footer areas, so the widgets placed here will be visible through out your site i.e. on all the pages including home page.

Footer 1 column right

This is a single column area that shows widget at the right side on the footer and as it is a single column area, so the second widget placed here will appear right below the 1st widget. To setup widgets here,

• Go to wp-admin -> Appearance -> Widgets
• Drag and drop your desired widgets in the above said widget area “Footer 1 column right”
• Some of the suitable widgets would be T – Newsletter Subscribe and T – Social Media

Footer 4 columns left

It is divided into 4 columns and widgets placed here appear at the left side of the widget area “Footer 1 column right”. To setup, follow these steps,

• Go to wp-admin -> Appearance -> Widgets
• Drag and drop your desired widgets in the above said widget area “Footer 4 columns left”
• Some of the suitable widgets would be Categories, Archives, Meta and Tags

10. All the widget areas

Understanding widget areas are important in this theme because you will be using many of them for creating a special landing page menu as well. Let’s understand it by bifurcating them page wise where they appear,

Navigation widget areas

• Mega Menu Navigation – You can only place jQuery Mega Menu widget here. Your mega menu will come into effect on home page. But then make sure that you have unchecked that particular menu from wp-admin -> Appearance -> Menus -> Manage Locations (for WordPress 6.0). Read in detail how to setup mega-menu?
• Inner page Mega Menu Navigation – It works same like the Mega Menu navigation, just the diffrenece is that this menu appears on the inner pages and not on home page.
• Secondary Navigation Right – widgets placed here appear on the right side of secondary navigation bar and it is true for both custom menu as well as mega menu.

Home page widget areas

• Home Page Full Slider – Specially made for the widget T – Home Page Main Slider to show the sliding images on your site.

The below said areas appear one after other on the home page. You can place any widget(s) in these areas and then can create a Landing Page special menu on clicking which, it will take you over the sections individually as mentioned below,

Home Page section 1, Home page section 2, Home page section 3, Home page section 4 and Home page section 5

Contact Page areas

This one is specially for the contact us page as this page holds a great value. There are simply 2 widget areas dedicated to it.

• Contact Page Content Area – widgets placed here appear in the content area of this page.
• Contact Page Sidebar – Widgets placed here appear as sidebar items of this page

Read in detail about how to make contact us page?

Sidebar areas

These are total areas available for sidebars in this theme. you can read in detail about their usage in their section explained above.

Front Page Sidebar, Post Listing Sidebar, Post Detail Sidebar, Primary Sidebar and Contact Page Sidebar

Footer areas

You can read about this section in detail as explained above.

Footer 1 column right and Footer 4 columns left

Going Deeper

1. Create Pages using Landing Page Page Templates

 

A) Creating page using page template

Page Templates are the ready made pages based on some obvious needs. To create it,

• Create a new page from wp-admin -> Pages -> Add New
• Select any page template from the Template option given in Page Attributes section on the right side of your screen and publish it.
• Your particular page is ready!

B) Landing Page Page Templates

Landing Page comes with below mentioned built in Page Templates.

1. Advance Search – Shows a search form to search anything listed on the site.
2. Archive Page  – Shows the posts Month wise
3. Contact Us Page – Shows a contact us form (Inquires sent using such form goes to the admin email Id as described in WP-admin -> Settings -> General) 
4. Front Page – Creates a static Home Page
5. Sitemap Page – Lists the total posts,custom posts, pages of the site on the single page.

2. Customize pages using shortcodes

The easiest way to add buttons or columns into a post or page is to use short codes. To use them you will first need to install our Shortcodes plugin. Follow these steps:

• Download the plugin by clicking here
• Extract the plugin using software such as 7-Zip (use Extract Here option)
• Connect to your server using FTP. For details open this article
• Upload the plugin (folder) to wp-content/plugins
• Go to wp-admin -> Plugins and activate the plugin

To see what are the actual shortcodes available to you click on the link below:
https://templatic.com/demos/catalog/shortcodes-guide/

3. Translate Landing Page

To translate Landing Page, you will need software like Poedit. Using Poedit you need to load en_US.po located inside your /languages folder and translate it. For detailed instructions on translating with Poedit open our localization tutorial.

Along with the included .po file, Landing Page is also WPML compatible. Once you purchase the plugin install it in the same way you did the shortcodes plugin. Once installed, open the WPML documentation (will be provided after purchasing) and start translating. The actual translating process is no different than with any other WordPress theme.

4. Protect your contact page with captcha

In order to add some spam protection to your contact page first go to Appearance -> Themes -> Customize and click on “Show captcha” inside the “Contact Page Settings” section. With that done we need to install the WP-reCAPTCHA plugin. The easiest way to install the plugin is to head over to wp-admin -> Plugins -> Add New and enter WP-reCAPTCHA inside the search bar. From there you can install the plugin very easily.

Once installed, head over to Settings -> WP-reCAPTCHA and enter the public and private keys. You can get the keys for free by clicking here. With the done, your contact page should now be secure from spammers.

5. Creating a mega menu

In the Getting Started section we explained how to create a simple custom menu and make it display on the homepage. A mega menu is similar to a regular custom menu, but instead of allowing you to have just one dropdown per menu item, it enables you to create several columns inside one item. To create a mega menu you first need to install a plugin, follow these steps:

• Download the plugin by clicking here
• Extract the plugin using software such as 7-Zip (use Extract Here option)
• Connect to your server using FTP. For details open this article
• Upload the plugin (folder) to wp-content/plugins
• Go to wp-admin -> Plugins and activate the plugin

Now that you’ve installed and activated the plugin go to Appearance -> Menus and create your new menu. To utilize the mega menu plugin your menu should have a structure in which at least one item has two or more sub-items and those sub-items then have items themselves. For more info on custom menus watch this video.

With that done head over to Appearance -> Widgets and place the jQuery Mega Menu widget inside Mega Mega Navigation area. Inside the widget the “Number Items Per Row” option is the most important since it directly influences the structure of the mega menu item.

6. Compatibility with third-party plugins

WooCommerce Plugin – Like many of our themes, Landing Page is also compatible with WooCommerce plugin! This plugin helps you in setting up the web store along with managing shipping ,Tax, Stocks etc.

To Download, install and use it, follow these steps,

• Download WooCommerce plugin
• See the “Getting Started” Tutorial for installation and setting up WooCommerce plugin.
• WooCommerce’s Documentation/guide is available here.

Along with the WooCommerce, Landing Page is also compatible with some other plugins which you can/should use to extend the functionality of your theme. The most important of those are:

• WordPress SEO by Yoast – by far the best SEO plugin inside the WordPress plugins directory. Since Landing Page doesn’t come with SEO features built-in it’s highly recommended you install a plugin such as WP SEO by Yoast.
• Gravity Forms – unlike the SEO plugin, Gravity Forms is a premium plugin, but work every penny! It allows you to setup everything from simple contact forms to extensive and powerful order forms.

7. Setup Price tables with the help of third party plugin

Along with the above said third party plugins, this time we have also provided a compatibility with another third party plugin “Price Table”. With this you can create your required price packages and show them on your site.

Follow these steps for that,

• Download and install this free plugin on your site.
• It will create a separate post type named as “Price Tables” in your wp-admin menu panel. Create your price table using “Add New” link.
• On the same page (Add New) you will be having “Shortcode” section at the bottom right side of your screen. Copy that and paste it in the Text widget inside the <p></p> tags and place this widget in any home page widget area to show your packs on home page.
• Or you can also create a separate page by pasting the same shortcode in a WordPress page and then use the landing page special menu settings to load that page on your home page.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. My home Page isn’t showing the widgets that I have placed, why?

Check whether you have inserted sample data  OR  followed these below given steps? if your answer is NO for both these questions then that’s the reason why your widgets are not working! Please follow these steps to make your widgets work.

• Create a new page from WP-admin -> Pages -> Add New (Simple WordPress process of creating Page)
• Select the “Front Page Template” from the Template option given in Page Attributes section on the right side of your screen and publish it.
• Now, go to WP-admin -> Settings -> Reading
• Select the option A static Page (Radio Button)
• Then select the page name that you created using Front Page Template in Front page displays -> Front Page (Drop Down)
• Save your settings and refresh your site once. Your widgets must be working now!

2. Why are my video pages conflicting with the sticky header?

Most people won’t have a problem with this, but if you do instead of entering the embed code like this

<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/1yyRPI7Mu3M?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

Enter it like this
<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/1yyRPI7Mu3M?rel=0?wmode=transparent” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen wmode=”transparent”></iframe>

In short, add ?wmode=transparent to the end of the source (src) URL and wmode=”transparent” at the end of the iframe.

3. How can I add icons to T-Service widgets?

There are various icons that you can use on your website by adding them in T – Service widget at back-end. You just simply have to add their classes with opening and closing tags (html) into the widget. Some of the example of  classes are as follows,

<i class="icon-user"></i>write text here
<i class="icon-book"></i>write text here
<i class="icon-truck"></i>write text here
<i class="icon-heart"></i>write text here
<i class="icon-mobile-phone"></i>write text here
<i class="icon-pencil"></i>write text here
<i class="icon-coffee"></i>write text here

Let’s discuss in detail, how to actually use these icons in widgets?

• Find your required icon(s) from the website http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/ .
• Click on your icon to get its CSS class which you will be adding in the widget (as shown above).
• Now, go to wp-admin -> Appearance -> Widgets at your site
• Drag and drop T – Service widget in your desired widget area. We recommend to use it in any of the  home page area.
• Then, expand this widget to see the fields available in it
• Under the section “Service Type”, there will be field(s) namely “Link Text 1“, “Link Text 2“… (You can add these links as many as you want using “+Add more” option), add your class there and then after add your title.
• Save your widget and refresh your browser to see the effect.

Can I change the icon color?

Yes up to certain limit. we have provided 10 css class for the color which you can directly mention in T- Service widget (like the one written in the above screenshot. you can see “red” written in Link Text: 2 field). Those 10 classes are  pink, red, orange, yellow, green, parrotgreen, aqua, skyblue, blue, gray

However, if you want to have color other than the provided then you have to customize it from the code itself. As we do not provide customization (as per our support policy), we can just help you get started to locate the code as mentioned below,

• Go to your active WordPress directory and locate ..\wp-content\themes\landingpage\library\css
• Open the file that controls these shapes and color, style.css. You can see all the css used for these icons there and customize it as per your need.

Tip: We strongly recommend to use custom.css located in your active WordPress directory at ..\wp-content\themes\landingpage to overwrite the css changes of the theme.Read this tutorial to know how to use custom.css?.

Also do not forget to activate the option from wp-admin -> Appearance -> Customize -> General Settings -> Use custom css to use css code written in your custom.css file.

 

4.  How to set up Gravtar, FaceBook account link, Twitter account link in T-About Team widget? 

T – About Team widget is specially made to let you share about you and your team with your social networking account links and gravatar. It is very simple to add all these in widgets.

• Go to wp-admin -> Appearance -> Widgets, drag and drop T – About Team widget in your desired area. You will be having below mentioned fields,

• Name  –  As it is about your team, you can add name of your team member in this field which will be shown at the top of his/her photo
• Email ID –  It will be used to fetch the gravatar (Photo) of that particular team member on your site.
• OR Link to your photo  –  If you do not have or want to use the gravatar image, simply use the URL of your image in this field
• Designation –  It is just a text. Write the designation of your team member here.
• FB Link  –  You can link here your team member’s Facebook account. It will show a “f” icon on the gravatar image and on clicking that icon, user will be redirected to his/her Facebook profile.
• Twitter Link –  You can link here your team member’s twitter account. It will show a “Twitter Sparrow” icon on the gravatar image and on clicking that icon, user will be redirected to his/her Twitter account.
• Linked-In Link  –  You can link here your team member’s Linked -In account. It will show a “in” icon on the gravatar image and on clicking that icon, user will be redirected to his/her Linked In profile.
• + Addmore  and – Remove  –  Using these links, you can add or remove the number of team members you want to display on your site with their all information as said above.

But how these social media icons look at front end?

The fields FB Link, Twitter Link, LinkedIn Link that you just saw above look as shown below on your site when you hover on person’s photo

Can I add some more social media accounts here to show on my site?

Not exactly. We provide you ONLY these social media accounts with the theme but if you really want to add some more accounts then you will have to go a long way to customize the code. You can add it in theme-widgets.php located in your active WordPress directory at ..\wp-content\themes\landingpage\functions\

Developers’ Section

1. Make little tweaks using the custom.css file

Located inside the theme root folder, the custom.css file enables you to quickly overwrite any css class inside the theme. This allows you to store and manage all css tweaks using just one file. Before you start using the plugin, turn it on inside Appearance -> Themes -> Customize -> General Settings -> Use custom.css. Once activated, the file can be modified from the Appearance -> Editor section (or directly on the server).

2. Create a child theme

Child themes are the best way to customize a theme without compromising the main (parent) theme. Updates become a major issue when updating parent themes, since you often need to update files that you’ve previously tweaked. With child themes your core (parent) files are left alone and all modifications are performed inside a separate folder.

Since creating child themes isn’t theme-specific there are a number of articles available online that you can utilize. These two will provide a great starting point:

1. Child themes (WordPress Codex)
2. How to create a child theme (ManageWP)

3. Key Landing Page Files

In this area we’ll try to outline some of the theme’s sections and the files that control them, i.e. the files you must edit in order to make changes. It’s up to you whether changes will be made directly in the files or via the child theme.

• Homepage logo area – header.php
• Post detail page – post.php
• Post listing page (blog page) – content.php
• Most widgets – /library/functions/widgets.php