01Getting started

This is the Radiate Pro theme instruction page. We have tried our best to keep it as simple as possible. If you think it can be made even simpler let us know we will be glad to change it. Let’s start! On the right side you can see the table of contents of this documentation.

Jump to the section you want, or read it all through – your choice.

Let’s move on!

02Installation

Installing your theme is pretty easy! After purchasing theme go to http://themegrill.com/my-account page and download the theme. After doownloading you should have a radiate-pro.zip file. This is a compressed file containing all of the required templates and images required for the theme to function properly.

Upload the theme

1. Go to Appearance > Themes in the WordPress Dashboard
2. Click on the Add New button
3. Click on the Upload link
4. Select the radiate-pro.zip file
5. Click Install Now

Activate the theme

1. Go to Appearance > Themes in the WordPress menu
2. Hover over the theme thumbnail and press the Activate button

03Custom Menu

By default, the menus will fallback to Pages. That means just after activation of theme you will see all the pages as menus. If you want selective menus with combination of links, pages, categories then custom menu is what you should be looking for.

Set up Custom Menu

1. Go to Appearance > Menus in the WordPress menu
2. Click on Create a new menu link
3. Give a name to your menu in Menu Name and click Create Menu button
4. Now choose the pages, categories, custom links from the righside of your screen by selecting the checkbox and click on Add Menu
5. Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu

04Add Readmore to your post

If you only want to show some text and image instead of the full post in your blog, then you can use the more tag.

1. First go to post in your Dashboard
2. Click on any place on the post editor where you want to insert the more tag.
3. Then click on the Insert More tag button situated on the top of post editor or use the shortcut ALT+SHIFT+T

1. You can write some text then insert an image and then use the readmore tag or however you like
2. This will create a more tag line
3. Click Update

05How to add three featured box in home page?

1. First create three pages with title, content and featured image for each.
2. Now go to Appearance->Customize->Front Page Featured section
3. Now select the three pages in the three dropdown respectively
4. Click Save Publish

How to limit text on featured box?

1. First Go to the featured box page in your dashboard.
2. Just below the page editor you will see the excerpt box
3. If you don’t see the excerpt box. Scroll to the top and you will see the screen optionson the right hand side corner.

1. Click it and check the Excerpt box. Now you should see the excerpt box below the editor
2. Fill the excerpt box with the desired amount of text that you want to show.

06How to change site Layout?

You can change the layout of your site to right sidebar, left sidebar, No sidebar full width and No sidebar content center.

If you want to change the layout of whole site i.e all pages, posts then follow following steps:

1. Go to Appearance->Customize->Layout Settings Section
2. And choose the layout settings from the dropdown
3. Click Save Publish

If you want to change the layout of specific post or page then follow following steps:

1. Go to specific page/post from your dashboard
2. On the right side of your post/page editor you will see Select Layout
3. Select layout of your choice
4. Click update

07Setup Header

Radiate Pro comes up with two header option.

• Header Display Type 1/ Default
• Header Display Type 2 – Supports header logo image plus tagline

By default the header type 1 is selected which only supports site title. Now if you wish to integrate logo and site title in your header then you have to switch to Header type 2.

1. Go to Appearance->Customize->Header Options
2. And choose Header Display type 2
3. Now under Header Logo Image Upload upload your logo. The recommended height for the logo is 68px
4. Click Save & Publish

08How to setup slider?

Note: When you activate slider, header image will be replaced by slider.

1. Go to Appearance->Customize->Slider Options
2. Check Enable the Slider Option. Now this will activate the slider in your home page only
3. Now if you wish to activate the slider in all pages then check Show slider on all pages
4. On the Number of Slides field enter the number of slides you want to rotate. By default it is set to 2.
5. Click Save & Publish and refresh your browser
6. Now again go to Appearance->Customize->Slider Options and you will see the same number of slider meta fields created that you have entered in Number of slides
7. Now fill the detail for each slides one by one.
8. First Upload the image for slider, then fill Slide title, slide text, Button text and Redirect link. Note: The recommended size for the slider is 1500px width and 500px height
9. Check Open this slide link in new tab if you want to open your slider in new tab when clicked
10. Click Save & Publish

09Edit Footer

1. Go to Appearance->Customize->Footer Editor
2. Now in the textarea box you will see the default footer information. Just replace it with your own copyright text or any text as your wish
3. Click Save & Publish