Mastor Documentation

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The instruction is to help you with installation of the Mastor theme.

Download packages

Purchase Mastor template from ThemeForest then you can download our template package on there.

Once the download is complete, unzip the file and you would see the following packages:

• Guides - our detail documentation for the theme
• Theme folder - for manual installation
• Samples - the sample data of the demos, you can import it
• PSD - the PSD files of the theme
• Licensing - the theme license

System Requirements

When selecting a hosting service, you should check to see that these server requirements are provided and installed on their web servers:

• PHP version 5.6 or greater
• MySQL version 5.6 or greater

Theme Installation

There are 2 ways to install a Wordpress theme.

Installing Theme From the WordPress Dashboard

Installing a WordPress theme is super easy, you’ll see our video guide:

- Step 1: Navigate to Appearance → Themes in your WordPress admin dashboard.

- Step 2: Click the Add New button at the top of the page and go for the Upload option.

- Step 3: Choose mastor_theme.zip then click Install

- Step 4: Wait while the theme is uploaded and installed then activate the theme.

Install theme via FTP

Many users are on shared hosting with low upload limits, and in such situations the Mastor theme is often too large to install through Wordpress. We suggest you should upload it via FTP.

If you don't know how to use FTP visit this link for information: http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients . You will need to first uncompress the PACKAGE-theme.zip file you have found in the master zip downloaded from Themeforest. This zip uncompresses into a normal folder. This unzipped folder is all you need to transfer via ftp and if you open it, you will see all sorts of folders and css and php files which together contain all the theme coding.   

Using the FTP program transfer this folder which contains the above files to the Wordpress installation theme root directory: /wp-content/themes.

Do not upload any of the other files or folders such as licensing or resource or documentation. Uploading any of the other folders may cause problems resulting in the theme not working properly. Learn from Wordpress Official Documentation about installing theme with FTP client or with cPanel: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes

Activate Mastor as default theme

After completing the upload, activate the theme as per activating any other theme.

Goto your Dashboard >> Appearance >> Themes >> Activate Mastor template

Follow the instruction from the image below:

Known problems when installing the theme

a. The “Broken theme and/or stylesheets missing” error is most common when you install or activate a new theme.

If you get an error saying that the stylesheet is missing, then you have uploaded the wrong folder. Please check that you are uploading the mastor_theme.zip within the Theme Files folder. You have to unzip the package file that you download from Themeforest to find this.

b. Problems with uploading via WP admin panel due Upload limit.

You may check your file upload limit on Your Media Uploader page in WordPress. Depending upon the web hosting company and the conditions of the service they provide it may vary. The most common is about 8 MB which is more or less enough. But uploading some media files like audio and video may become a problem with for example 2 MB upload limit.
We decided to share some tips about how to extend your maximum file upload size in WordPress:

1. Through functions.php file:

You may add the below mentioned code in the functions.php file of your theme

@ini_set( 'upload_max_size' , '64M' );

@ini_set( 'post_max_size', '64M');

@ini_set( 'max_execution_time', '300' );

2. Through PHP.INI file:

If you cannot see the php.ini file in your directory create the new one with below mentioned code and upload it to your root folder on your web server.

If you can see the php.ini file then change parameters or add :

upload_max_filesize = 64M

post_max_size = 64M

max_execution_time = 300

In case that tip does not work with 64MB, try it with 10MB.

3. Through .htaccess method

You may try modifying the existing .htaccess file in the root directory or creating a new one.

Add the following code in the existing or new .htacess file:

php_value upload_max_filesize 64M

php_value post_max_size 64M

php_value max_execution_time 300

php_value max_input_time 300

You can reset all of the setting for the each page on our custom panel by clicking “Reset” button on the bottom.

Plugins Installation

Right after the theme was activated, a notification at the top of the screen will suggest to continue with the installation of the plugins recommended for getting the best our of your theme.

Follow the installation steps below:

Step 1. Click ‘Begin installing plugins‘ and select the plugins you need to install from the list.

Step 2: Select all plugins then choose Install , Click Apply to install all plugins

• Plugins Using in Mastor theme

1. Contact Form 7: Allow you create contact forms on Contact Page.
2. MailChimp : to use newsletter function
3. Revolution Slider: premium responsive slider.
4. WPBakery Visual Composer: powerful visual composer to create page layout.
5. WooCommerce: The Shop engine for your WordPress site.
6. Wpopal Framework For Themes: Implement rick functions for themes base on wpo framework and load widgets for theme used.
7. Metabox : Create custom meta boxes and custom fields for any post type in WordPress.
8. Google Web Fonts Customizer: add and use google web fonts to any themes .

Step 3:  After Installing all Plugins, select Activate then click Apply to active all plugins.

Follow our video guide to know more :

Install Data Demo

Step 1 :Install Data Demo

One click import data

Opal Team very happy to provide for customer a new function to import data more quickly. It is "One click import"

With "One click import", customer do not import step by step data as import usual. It import all data like : Content, Widget, Revolution slider, Menu, Customize...

Before use one click import please, Go to Visual Composer-> Role Manager and choose Custom in post types and Enable Visual Composer for pages, posts and custom post types. Click "Save Changes" to save your setting.

To use it make sure file of your theme have to "import" folder in "inc" folder like this:

Go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> WpOpal Import . You can see " Get demo from live server", please click in "Mastor sample" :

1. Demo Soure : Choose name of demo to import .

2.Import Type : Choose name of type to import ( choose All or chose one of types to import)

Click "Import" and popup is displayed, click "OK" to continue import data

When import has been imported it will display popup : "Import is successful"

Follow our video guide to know more :

Or You can import data by tool of wordpress.

Importing The Demo Data - XML File

The Mastor theme comes with importable demo data, such as pages, products, blog, posts, portfolio items, etc, to help you get started in case you’re running on a fresh WordPress installation.

But before import data you should go to "Settings->Permalinks and choose Default in common settings" , you import or export data will not be lost.

 Then  go to Settings-> Opal Posttypes and enter your settings.

Then go to Visual Composer-> Role Manager and choose Custom in post types and Enable Visual Composer for pages, posts and custom post types. Click "Save Changes" to save your setting.

How to set up image size for WooCommerce

These settings affect the actual dimensions of your product images in the shop pages. You can skip this step in case you’re starting a new website and your WordPress installation is fresh, but if you’re switching from another theme and you already have products in your store, you need to make sure the WooCommerce image sizes are the correct ones for your newly installed theme.

a. Navigate to WooCommerce → Settings → Products and find the “Product Image Sizes ” section at the bottom of the page.

Update those values with the following this image for Mastor theme.

b. If your site has image with another size. To see the changes after you update the image sizes, you need to re-generate the images by using Regen.Thumbnails Plugin

- Go to Plugins Tab then search and install Regen.Thumbnails plugin

- Navigating to Tools → Regen.Thumbnails then re-generate your images

And  go to step by step bellow:

Step 1: From the WordPress admin area go to Tools >> Import and click on the WordPress link.

Step 2: You can import all of our demo by one step

Step 3: Assign Authors

Choose the option to download all data sample file and click Submit. Do not interrupt/cancel the import process!

The importer should be run only once. If something went wrong and you need to import the content again, you may need to reset your WordPress.
Use this plugin to reset the WordPress database : http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-database-reset/

Step 2 :Set a page as Home Page

After import Dummy Data you need to set default Home page for your site, from your WordPress dashboard, navigate to Settings → Reading.

Select “A static page” and choose “Dummy Homepage” as the Front Page.

Save change then Homepage data sample will be set.

Another, Please go to Visual Composer-> Design Options and click to "Enable" Use custom design options.
Change
+ Elements bottom margin to 0 px .
+ Grid gutter width to 30 px.
Click Save to change.

Step 5 - Done! But you still need to set the Menu, Widget, Slider. Follow more on bellow

Follow our video guide to know more :

2. Import Revolution Slider

1.If you choose import data by tool of wordpress

From the WordPress admin area go to Revolution Slider >> Import Slider and select Slider file on our package.

2.If you choose import data by one click import

Revolution slider will be displayed after import data by One click import.

 you can see all slider displayed in here and you can

 + Embed slider.

+Export.

+Delete.

+Duplicate.

+Preview.

+Settings.

+Edit slider.

Widgets Installation

Install widget

1.If you choose import data by tool of wordpress

a. Install widget

Go to Admin Panel -> Appearance -> Widgets.

You can see all our widgets, easy to configure by drag and drop Widgets to sidebar.

Then you can use sidebars to position you want. Even you can use sidebar for MegaMenu.

Morever you can search and add more plugins for your purpose by searching on the internet.

Follow our video guide to know more :

b. Install widget by plugin import widget

Go to Admin Panel -> Plugins -> Add new.

You can see broad add new plugin, please fill in " import widget" to search plugin.

and go to Tool -> widget importer & exporter then you choose widget to import in your site.

When import finish you can see widget :

2.If you choose import data by one click import

Go to Admin Panel -> Appearance -> Widgets.

You can see all our widgets will displayed in sidebar after import data.

Set Up Logo

You can upload your logo image in the Customize. If the logo is not uploaded, then your site name will be used.
Please, follow the steps below to upload your logo:

Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.

Step 2 - Go to Appearance > Customize > Site Indentity Tab

Step 3 - Upload your logo by clicking on Select Image ( our current Mastor logo is 150px x 50px ).

Step 4- Upload your favicon - should be a 32px x 32px Png/Gif image.

Set Up Menu

1. Creating your menu

Step 3 - Select Create a new menu at the top of the page.

Step 4 - Enter a name for your new menu in the Menu Name box.

Step 5 - Click the Create Menu button. Your menu is now defined, and you can now add pages to it (steps below).

2. Adding pages to your menu

Step 1 - Locate the pane entitled Pages.

The Screen Options allow you to choose which items you can use to add to a menu. Certain items, like Posts or Products are hidden by default. The Screen Options are located in the top right corner of your WordPress Dashdoard.

3. Assigning a Menu to a Location

Once you've created a menu and filled it with items, it's time to assign it to one of the theme pre-defined locations.

- Go to Appearance > Menus and click Manage Locations.

You can see menu is assigned after import data by "One click import"

Front end look like

Menu Home look like.

In homepage have :

To show it, please create Account (topbar menu in topbar sidebar) like create main menu

Set Up Home Page

You can quickly build a home page using Visual Composer for WordPress that is drag and drop frontend and backend page builder plugin that will save you tons of time working on the site content. You will be able to take full control over your WordPress site, build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required

From your Dashboard admin Navigate to Pages

  - Select All Pages to see all page then click edit one page you want

  - Select Add New to create new page

A. How to use Visual Composer

Have you ever used Visual Composer ? Please follow that guide first : Visual Composer guide

Official Plugin Documentation For More information about the Visual Composer check the official documentation.

Watch video about Visual Composer

1. Classic Mode.

You can insert code on table then Home page will be created automatically.

2. Backend Editor Mode

Drag and drop elements you need to build your page layout.

How to use Back End Mode

a. 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 Elements you want to use.

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

b. Edit Element

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

c. Duplicate Element

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

d. Remove Element

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

e. 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 

3. Page Options

a. Page Attributes

You can select page attributes on right sidebar of page admin layout. Each Page templates have each styles

b. Page configure default template

For each page you can change the page layout style, header skin, footer skin and much more! Check the screenshot and read the documentation to see how it works

• Enable Fullwidth Layout - Select if you want the page to have a Fullwidth layout.
• Header Layout - Select skin specific for Header on page or use Global
• Footer Layout -  Select skin specific for Footer on page or use Globalsidebar.
• Disable Breadcrumbs - Select if you want to disable the subtitle and breadcrumbs.
• Breadcrumbs Text Color - Select color for text of breadcrumbs.
• Breadcrumbs Background Color - Select color background for breadcrumbs.
• Breadcrumbs Background - Select image to set background.
• Layout Style - Select style for page to have a Auto, Left-Main Sidebar or Main-Right Sidebar or Left-Main-Right Sidebar.

B. Mastor Home Page Layout

Mastor come with 4 home page layouts. Please check out landing page to know more and build your home page you need.

1. Home 1

2. Home 2

3. Home 3

4. Home 4

C. Set a page as Home Page

Step 1 - Go to Settings > Reading in your WordPress Dashboard panel.

Step 2 - Set "Front page displays" to a "Static Page".

Step 3 - In the drop down menu for "Front Page" choose a page which will be your home page.

Step 4 - Leave the drop down menu for "Posts page" empty, as this is not used by the theme.

Step 5 - Save changes.

Set Up Blog Page

1. Create the blog post

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)

Step 2 - Click the 'Posts' tab.

Step 3 - Click the 'Add New' sub-tab.

Step 4 - Start filling in the blanks: enter your post title in the upper field, and enter your post body content in the main post editing box below it.

Step 5 - As needed, select a category, add tags, post format, fill in the meta setings below the editor.

Step 6 - Upload a featured image for your Post.

Step 7 - Select Post Format. You can create blog post with a lot of Formats like link, gallery, image ..... Select format on Format box from in right sidebar

Step 8 - Scroll down until you see the Post Configuration box, there you will be able to customize the post.

Step 9 -  When your post is ready, click Publish.

2. Manager current all blogs

Navigate to Posts → All Posts

You can see all informations of you blog post, add new, edit or delete them.

Frontend look like :

3. Blog Global Configure

Step 1 - From your admin Dashboard navigate to : Apperance > Customize >  Blog

Step 2 - Set up Archive & Category Setting.

You can set Global (default) layout for archive blog page and category blog post then select content sidebar to display

Step 3 - Set up Single Post Setting

• Show share post : enable or disable share post function
• Show related post : enable or disable related post
• Number of post to show : select number of related post to show
• Single blog layout  : Select layout for single blog.

Set Up Footer

Set Up Footer

Step 1 - From admin Dashboard, navigate to Footer > Add Profile Footer

Step 2 - Using Visual Composer backend editor Mastor then add element to your Footer 

Step 3 - Build your footer style with unlimited layout

Some version footer layouts for you.

Footer default.

Front end look like :

Visual Element Layout setting

Step 4 - After create your footer profile. Navigate to : Apperance > Customize > Footer.

Choose your footer for  page.

Create Testimonials

Step 1: Go to Testimonial from Dashboard then create content of Testimonials

Step 2: Drag WPO Testimonial elements by using Visual Composer on page you want to display testimonials.

You can choose some setting like title, skin ....

Create Paralax

With Visual Composer you can create Parallax Sections

Step 1: From your admin dashboard. Go to Page

Step 2 : Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon) beside row you want to make it become Parallax Sections.

Step 3: In General Tab, select option Parallax

Step 4: In Design options tab, ADD padding and REMOVE margin for better result, add a Background Image change to Cover and then Saves changes .

Step 5: - Update or Publish your page and you should now have a section with parallax background

Create Brands

Step 1: Go to Brands from Dashboard then create Brands

Step 2: Drag Brands elements by using Visual Composer on page you want to display testimonials.

You can choose some setting like title, number of brands ....

Create Newsletter

We are using MailChimp for WP plugin for Newsletter subscribe. You can read more about MailChimp from here

Follow that step below to help you can collect email of subscribers.

Step 1 - Signup for Mailchimp account then create your lists to collect email

Step 2 - Install and active plugin MailChimp for WP

Step 3 - Navigate to MailChimp for WP > MailChimp then connect with your mailchimp account you created from step 1

Step 4 -  Create mailchimp form to collect email. Navigate to Forms

Import HTML Code below on section Form mark-up Source

Source :

	<div class="form-style-1">
	  <p><input id="mc4wp_email" class="form-control" name="EMAIL" required="required" type="email" placeholder="Email address " /></p>
	  <p><input class="btn-default btn" type="submit" value="Subcribe"/></p>
	</div>

Step 5 - After creating from of your plugin. You must set position where you want to display.

Going Appearance -> Widgets then drag mailchimp widget to Newsletter Sidebar. You can bring that sidebar to every position you want. ( You can drag to left, right sidebar for each page. You can drag to Footer position.... )

Create Contact Page

1. Create Contact Form.

Make sure you install and active Contact Form 7 plugin to continue reading.

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Dashboard, go to Contact > Add New

Step 2 - Give a Name to your form and change Mail Info

Step 3 - Edit the Form field to change the Form Layout

2. Create Contact Page

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)..

Step 2 - Click on Pages > Add New.

Step 3 - Give your page a name then Change the Editor to Backend Editor ( you need to have the Visual Composer plugin activated ).

Step 4 - Click on the Add Element button

Step 5 - Select the Contact Form 7 element.

Step 6 - The Contact Form 7 Settings should appear. Select the Form you want to use you can also customize the Color and change the fields layout and button design .
Step 7 - Update / Publish your page

Mastor Theme use Customizer provides an ultra effective and intuitive way to customize theme layout & setting with real-time preview. Bring all of settings to customizer, you do not need to using another theme option anymore

To access Customizer go to your admin Dashboard  Navigate to Appearance >> Customize

1. Fonts Customizer : Add and use google web fonts to any themes

2. General Setting : Manage general setting like your logo,favicon, copyright, ....

3. Theme And Layout Setting: select your header style, footer style for global

4. Header Setting : Set up social for header

5. Social Sharing Setting: select social channel apperance to sharing

6. Header image : create customize image for breadcrumb and title section

7. WooCommerce : manage setting of WooCommerce function

8. Blog & post : manage global setting for Blog

9. Menu:manage setting of Menu

Please follow video , you will know more about customizer :

The easiest way to translate theme to the language of your choice is to use "WPML" plugin.

- To begin, be sure you have the WPML Plugin installed and activated, along with the WPML String Translation plugin.

- To set up WPML the first time, follow their Getting Started Guide.To begin translating, select WPML (in the Dashboard menu) -> String Translation. You should see a list of the strings in the theme (there should be only four), with blue translation links to the right. Click these links to reveal the list of languages you use on your blog and the associated translations.

- How to set and translate main features of the theme

• Using translation management http://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-the-translation-editor/
• Translation Management & Features – http://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-the-translation-editor/translation-management-features/
• Translating URL slugs – http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/translating-page-slugs/

- How to scan strings coming from the theme

• http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/theme-localization/

- How to translate strings using String Translation

• http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/string-translation/

- If adjustment is needed for WPML language switcher please also add this

• http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/custom-language-switcher/

- If you need more help with WPML plugin. Please go WPML Forum

1. How to update Theme

a. Update Theme via WordPress

Updating the theme via WordPress is very similar to the install process via WordPress. Make sure you had backup all of your customization in our theme.
Follow the steps below to update your theme via WordPress:

Step 1 - Download latest theme package on ThemeForest

Step 2 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard.

Step 3 - Go to Appearance > Themes.

Step 4 - Deactivate the Mastor Theme by simply activating a different theme. Once you activate a different theme, you can delete the Mastor theme.

Step 5 - Delete the Mastor Theme. Do not worry, your content will not be lost!

Step 6 - Then simply upload the newest “mastor_theme.zip” file in the Appearance > Themes section. Click on the Install Themes tab at the top and choose to upload the zip file. You have this step explained in section: Theme Installation via WordPress.

b. Update theme via FTP

Updating the theme via FTP is very similar to the install process via FTP.
Follow the steps below to update your theme via FTP:

Step 1 - Go to .../wp-content > themes location on your server using a FTP client and backup your "Mastor" theme folder by saving it to your computer, or you can choose to simply delete it. Your content will not be lost.

Step 2 - Download the new version of Mastor theme from your Themeforest and retrieve Mastor folder by unpacking the zip that you download from Themeforest and mastor_theme.zip.

Step 3 - Then simply drag and drop the new "Mastor" theme folder into .../wp-content > themes location. Choose to “Replace” the current one if you did not delete it.

Step 4 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes and activate the new Mastor theme.

2. How to create Child 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.

How to create Create child ?

Follow that documentation to create Child Theme  Child Themes - Codex

Using that plugin to create Child Theme : One Click Child Theme

3. How to Speed Optimization

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

1. Install a Cache Plugin for WordPress. We recommend W3 Total Cache.
2. Install an Image Compress Plugin. We recommend WP Smush It.
3. Install a Database Optimizer Plugin We recommend WP Optimize
4. Reduce the number of posts on the page
5. Reduce the number of unnecessary plugins.
6. Use more icons and less images.

If you are unable to find your answer here in our documentation, please take a photo screenshot with description detail about your problem or idea. Send all to email : [email protected] . Our technical team will check and try their best to help

Our support scope

Our support covers configuration, building site as demo, trouble using any features, and bug fixes. We don't provide support for customizations or 3rd party extension.

Our support time

We try our best to monitor the email around the clock, however, this is not always possible due to different time zones. We will try to reply you as fast as we can.

Our working time is 8.00 AM - 5.30 PM, Monday to Friday (GMT+7). So if ask for help in the weekend, you may have to wait a little bit for support and please be patient.