The first real Multi-Site theme:
Not only home variations or demos but fully created sites for your ready to publish on the net
We would like to thank you for purchasing Tower! Before you install the theme please get through this documentation. Here you will find all the necessary information you need to fully set up Tower theme.
Tower is a Wordpress theme, so it need to be installed into a wordpress installation. If you haven't installed Wordpress yet, please read the documentation part about "things to do" and "wordpress installation". If the documentation is not enough please watch the video tutorials or write at our support forum.
Thank You, we hope you will have a great experience using Tower!
For a correct use of Tower, please ensure that your web host has the proper requirements. Also keep in mind to always create secure passwords for FTP and Database.
Here is a screen shoot to show you how to find the purchase code.
For installing wordpress either locally or in a web host, please see more detailed information here!
Follow the steps below to install via FTP.
Step 1– Log into your hosting space via an FTP softwareTower has several plugins that you need to install in order for the theme to be fully equipped. You will have several notices during installation and after, which will instruct you, which plugin to install. The plugins you need to install are: LayerSlider WP, MailChimp List Subscribe Form, Revolution Slider, User Avatar, WPBakery VIsual Composer and WP Retina 2x
There is one way to update your theme. Before you update, it is best practice to always check our update notes. Also we strongly recommend you to make a backup of your previous theme folder. See the information below for more.
Update Steps:First you need to manually download the new theme package from your Themeforest account. Once you have the new theme package, you can choose to upload the theme via WordPress or via FTP. Please see the information below for how to download new files, and install options.
Tower has an advanced and complete Theme Options panel. It's organized in tabbed sections, where each option has a clear description on it's function.
In this documentation you will find an explanation to all the available options.
Find Tower theme options at your Wordpress admin panel -> Tower, in the main WP left menu. Note: We will be add more options with future theme updates.
Here you can set the body and headings font typography and font sizes.
Styling of the blog: blog style, layout, single post layout and active post like.
Here you can set the portfolio slug and portfolio custom fields parameters.
Here you can set the overall site layout,like page container width in both percentage or pixels. The extra side navigation and it's position. The page builder row margin bottom and inner page content padding.
Here you can add/edit clients for both the light and the dark background versions.
In just a few clicks you will have already the site you see when first visiting our theme in ThemeForest. Even more convenient is the fact that you can choose how many of that data you will import. You can import All, just the Content, Theme Options configurations or the Widget configurations. All the demo content data and setting will be do downloaded to your WP installation.
Here
you can view all demo sites created with Tower.
Here you can export all your settings and content of your site.
Tower theme offers a powerful & advances option panel organized into sections which allows the user to customize the theme in every aspect. The Header section offers the user the possibility to choose the header style from a list of predefined headers, also customize them by choosing from the options.
Here are the different header style. Click on different header styles to see how do they look on our theme demos.
Header Options in Tower theme options panel offers the possibility to customize the main header by selecting the header style (select from 11 header styles), define header height, background, show/hide search in header. Also it has some extra options:
In this section the user can set up the dropdown menu, set background colour, borders, typography and Mega-menu.
Switch On to enable page header for pages, posts (For each post or page you can add custom options). Select the style, background, font colour, height.. etc, for your page header.
Here is a screenshot that shows you the various areas and descriptions of the page settings described above
Setting up your home page is the same as setting up any other regular pages except that you need to specify in the settings which page will be your main home page. Tower offers several pre-designed home page options. Any of the layout options you see on our demo can be imported through our demo content importer. However, you are not stuck with our pre-designed layouts, you can build any type of home page you desire using Visual Composer and the shortcode elements. You can mix and match anyway you like.
To setup the contact page, you will need to follow the same steps as for creating a normal page. Using Visual Composer elements , complete the contact page with a google map to show exact location and a contact form to make it easier for visitors to contact you.
Basic steps:
To setup the FAQs page, follow these steps:
Like in any other theme, the first thing you need to do is create the blog posts. Tower offers several blog post types, like the standart post, Quote, Gallery, video and audio. Each blog post you make will be displayed in the assigned blog page. And with the ability to assign custom categories to each post, you can easily display a set of posts based on category. See below for information on how to create blog posts.
Every blog post you create gets a single post page. The single post page displays all the content of the post (the image, text, descriptions, etc). There are various setting for the single post page, please see below for information on each section
A Post Format is a piece of meta information that can be used by the theme to customize it's presentation of a post. Tower offers a variety of single posts. You can have a standard post with a featured image and basic content or you can choose between a gallery, a video post, an Audio post or a quote post. Choose the desired format in the right panel of wordpress post admin panel.
To create a basic standard post go throw these steps: Set up the post name and fill in the content. You can add media such as images, or create a gallery and add it to the post. Also Tower gives you the chance to make your content more dynamic by using Shortcodes in Posts.
A quotation. Probably will contain a block-quote holding the quote content. Alternatively, the quote may be just the content, with the source/author being the title.
A gallery of images. Post can contain a gallery shortcode; can have image attachments or gallery.
A single video or video playlist. Then in the Excerpt area, enter the video url.
An audio file or playlist. Could be used for Podcasting.
This post style has additional options. If you want to use this post style, then activate the innovative post in Blog Options panel and select the effects.
Categories– this is meta information you create for the post. In the right hand sidebar of the post editing page is a "Categories" box that allows you to add a unique category to the post. For example: WordPress, Photoshop. Each category is a meta link that your viewer can click to view similar type of posts. You can also access and edit Categories from the "Post" sidebar item in your WP admin.
Tags– this is meta information you create for the post. In the right hand sidebar of the post editing page is a "Tags" box that allows you to add tags to the post. For example: Photography, Design. Each tag is a link that your viewer can click to view similar type of posts. You can also access and edit Tags from the "Post" sidebar item in your WP admin.
The first blog method we will cover is the standard WordPress method, setting up an assigned blog or "post" page. It’s as simple as making a new page, and then telling WordPress to use that page as the post page.
Follow These Steps Below To Assign A Blog Page
Here are the different blog page styles:
Here are the different blog single post page styles:
Tower includes advanced portfolio options that allows users to create as many portfolio pages as they wish. Each portfolio page you create can have a different set of categories, options, layouts and more. Let’s get started!
Follow The Steps Below To Create A Portfolio Page:
After you have made your portfolio page, you need to create portfolio posts so they will show up on the portfolio pages. Tower offers several options for portfolio posts, and with the ability to assign custom categories to each post, you can easily display a set of posts based on category. Each portfolio post offers several ways to add tags, categories and skills. Categories are the filters you see above the post that allow the viewer to sort the posts. Skills and Tags are used to add additional meta info to the post. See below for information on how to create portfolio posts.
Follow the Steps Below To Create A Portfolio Post
Here are the different portfolio page styles:
To assign slider to a page, go to the 'General Settings' > 'Slider Options' and choose one of the available sliders from the dropdown list.
Codeless slider is a very nice and powerful slider. You can create lot of different sliders, each different from one another. To create and populate a slider follow these steps:
To user a slider, you have to first select the page that will contain it. Than select and configure the desired slider.
Revolution Slider, is composed by sliders and slider template.
You can choose to either import Slider with dummy data, or create it from scratch. To create from the start, follow the steps below:
After creating the slider, you can edit , export or delete it. There can be changes even to the template, after it's been created.
How To Use:
From the theme html use:
<?php putRevSlider( "alias" ) ?>
example:
<?php putRevSlider() ?>
For show only on homepage use:
<?php putRevSlider(,"homepage") ?>
For show on certain pages use:
<?php putRevSlider(,"2,10") ?>
From the widgets panel drag the "Revolution Slider" widget to the desired sidebar
From the post editor insert the shortcode from the sliders table
LayerSlider WP is a premium multi-purpose slider for creating image galleries, content sliders, and mind-blowing slideshows with must-see effects, even from your WordPress posts and pages. It uses cutting edge technologies to provide the smoothest experience that’s possible, and it comes with more than 200 present 2D and 3D slide transitions.
All Sliders - use this menu to create, edit or import/export sliders.
Skin Editor- use this menu for core changes of slider’s css.
Transition Builder- is used to assign specific transitions to your slider or even compose new ones. You can use 2D and 3D transitions.
Custom Styles Editor- gives a peak on your custom CSS file.
Flex slider is another available slider for your convenience.
Visual composer is a strong and important feature of Tower theme. It contains all necessary elements to build numerous unique and complete pages. You can add, edit, delete, arrange elements to your liking and need. We'll go through a full and detailed explanation of each one of them. See below a list of all available elements:
Here is the list of all shortcodes used in theme
Code:
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[player_audio link="http://users.skynet.be/fa046054/home/P22/track06.mp3" audio_type="mp3"]
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[imagestyle style="circle"]your image source here[/imagestyle]
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[alert title="Success!" style="success"]Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.[/alert] [alert title="Warning!" style="warning"]Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.[/alert]
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