TA Magazine Theme Documentation

Thank you for choosing our free WordPress theme TA Magazine to update the look of your blog site. Congratulations, the hardest part is behind you. Now comes the easy stuff. Only a few simple steps and you’ll be on your way with your brand new look. First let us install and active the theme. We provide 3 methods to do that, choose the one most suitable to you.

Install Theme Using WordPress Dashboard (Recommend)

Download the theme file “ta-magazine.zip” to your local machine.
Log in to the WordPress Dashboard. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes. Select Upload Theme. Upload the “ta-magazine.zip” file and install it.
Active the theme.

Install Theme by Using cPanel

Download the theme file “ta-magazine.zip” to your local machine.
In cPanel File Manager, navigate to your themes folder. If your WordPress is installed in the document root folder of your web server you would navigate to “public_html/wp-content/themes” and if you have WordPress installed in a sub-folder called wordpress, you would navigate to “public_html/wordpress/wp-content/themes”.
Once you’ve navigated to the themes folder in cPanel File Manager, click on Upload file(s) and upload the “ta-magazine.zip” file you saved.
Once the theme file is uploaded, click on the name of that file in cPanel, then in the panel to the right, click on “Extract File Contents”, and that .zip file will be uncompressed.
Log in to the WordPress Dashboard. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes. Active the theme just uploaded.

Install Theme Manually Using FTP

Download the theme file “ta-magazine.zip” and extract the files it contains.
Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Upload the theme directory “ta-magazine” to the “wp-content/themes” directory on your host server.
Once the theme directory is uploaded. Log in to the WordPress Dashboard. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes. Active the theme just uploaded.

Navigation Menus

TA Magazine theme supports WordPress Custom Menus feature, you can create and arrange a group of navigation links for your visitors to find the important parts of your site faster. TA Magazine allows you to have two Custom Menus: one in the theme’s header and one in the footer. To set up your menus, go to the Appearance panel, then Menus. Don’t forget to tick “Primary Menu” in the Menu Settings if you want to display a menu in the header and/or “Footer Menu” if you want to display a menu in the footer.

Primary Menu

The Primary Menu has been designed to provide quick links for your visitors. It supports multi-level menus.

Footer Menu

The Footer Menu only supports top-level menus, it will only show the first level of menus.

Category Icon

You can add Font-Awesome icon to a category on edit page. Just enter the code and save it. e.g. folder-open.

Theme Panel

The TA Magazine theme comes with an advanced Theme Options powered by ReduxFramework. It comes with a great variety of options that you can use to tweak your site’s behavior easily, without needing to write a single line of code. You can customize any part of your site quickly and easily.

Header Settings

Here you can uploading site logo and favicon, enable/disable display Header Ad Module, Header Social Module and Header Login Module. Also you can customize the title and content for Announcements Module here.

Homepage Settings

Here you can set homepage modules. Enable or disable display Slider Module. Sticky posts will be used in the slider. Also you can enable/disable display Modern Listing Module, Tab Listing Module and Blog Listing Module, select categories and number of posts for each modules here.

Blog Settings

Here you can set blog listing style and customize post style. TA Magazine theme provides 2 listing layouts: modern grid style and traditional style. Also you can customize text for “Read More” and “Load More” buttons, the title for Related Posts Module, and enable/disable display Post Featured Image and Post Navigation Module here.

Social Settings

Here you can arrange your social icons and add URLs to your social profiles. The social icons will be displayed on your site header and Social Widget.

Ad Management

Here are all settings for advertisements, just paste your ad codes and save it.

Social Settings

Here you can arrange your social icons and add URLs to your social profiles. The social icons will be displayed on your site header and Social Widget.

Footer Settings

Here you can customize Copyright and Powered By text.

Contact Page Settings

Here you can set information for contact page. Enable/disable display Google Map. Set your email address and add some topics for the mail subject.

Google Map Settings

How to Embed a Google Map with iFrame.

Enter your address in the search box at Google Maps.
Click the setting icon in the bottom right corner and select share or embed map.

Select embed map option and copy the iFrame code.

404 Page Settings

Here you can set information for 404 page. Upload your custom 404 image and add notice information for 404 page.

Custom CSS

Here you can insert any custom CSS to the theme using the ACE Editor, which offers the ability to edit back-end code in an easy to use and easy to read embedded interface. Also ACE Editor offers real-time checking for code accuracy.

Import / Export Options

Here you can back up and restore your options data in one of three ways: raw data, file and URL.

Post Formats

TA Magazine theme makes use of some WordPress’ post formats to give you plenty of ways to show content in the top section of your articles. You choose type by selecting format in the “Format” box on the right side when you edit or add a new post.

Standard Post

This is the default option. It will automatically include a featured image at the top of the post. It’s simply a standard post that shows article text.

Audio Post

Shows an audio player at the top of your post, as well as the featured image. All you need to get an audio file to play in this player is to select audio format, and paste the direct link to either a .MP3/.M4A/.OGG and .WAV file in a custom field.

Video Post

Shows an embed video at the top of the article.
All you need to do is to select video format, and paste the video link (or embed code) in one of the two fields below the large text box.

Gallery Post

Shows all images attached to the post as a slider at the top of the article. Simply upload images to a specific post in WordPress, and select the “Gallery” post format, and it will automatically turn into a nice slider. It also smoothly resizes the slider height depending on each image’s size. Images will only show up if attached to the post.

Full Width Post

Just check “Use full-width template” option on the right side, it will use full-width post template without sidebar.

Page Templates

The TA Magazine theme comes bundled with 2 page templates which adds additional functionality to your pages. To add a page template to your page:

Go to Pages → Add New.
Go to Page Attributes panel in the right sidebar.
Select a Template.

Full Width Page Template

A full width page template without the sidebar, you can view the demo page here.

Contact Page Template

A contact page template, you can view the demo page here.

Custom Widgets

To add widgets in the Sidebar of this theme, you’d need to access Appearance → Widgets menu, and drag widgets to your Sidebar to activate them.

The TA Magazine theme includes various Custom Widgets which are ready to use:

Social Widget

This widget allows you to add social media icons which can be connected with your social media profiles. You can set your social profiles in Theme Panel → Social Settings.

About Widget

You can use [span][/span] tag to add color to your text with this widget.

Post Tabs Widget

This widget shows a tabbed widget for most popular and recent blog posts. Most popular posts tab uses data from Jetpack WordPress.com Stats module when is activated, or it will show posts by comments.

Posts Widget

This Posts Widget is more than just a simple alternative to the default Recent Posts widget. With many per-instance options it is highly customizable and allows you to display the resulting posts virtually any way imaginable.

Popular Posts Widget

A simple Popular posts widget with thumbnails support. This widget uses data from Jetpack WordPress.com Stats module when is activated, or it will show posts by comments.

Latest Comments Widget

A better widget to show the latest comments for your site.

Slide Show Widget

This widget allows you to display featured image of any posts in widgetized sidebar as slider effect. Great ability to customize slider with slider options, post management options.

MailChimp Newsletter Widget

Adds a WordPress widget that allows your users to sign up for your MailChimp mailing list. Please visit MailChimp Knowledge Base to get your Signup Form URL, User ID and List ID.

Jetpack Plugin

Jetpack adds powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users including customization, traffic, mobile, content, and performance tools. We highly recommend it for TA Magazine and our other themes. You can download it from WordPress plugin repository.

Infinite Scroll

Instead of having to click a link to get to the next set of posts, infinite scrolling pulls the next posts automatically into view when the reader approaches the bottom of the page.

Tiled Galleries

Tiled Galleries allow you to display your image galleries in three new styles: a rectangular mosaic, a square mosaic, and a circular grid.

The Related Posts feature pulls relevant content from your blog to display at the bottom of your posts. To start using Related Posts, head to the Jetpack page in your dashboard and click the Activate button for Related Posts.

Sharing

Sharing adds buttons to your posts that your readers can use to share your content on popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and more!

WordPress.com Stats

WordPress.com Stats lets you know how many visits your site gets, and what posts and pages are most popular.

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