Table of Contents
- Installation
- Install Theme Using WordPress Dashboard
- Install Theme by Using cPanel
- Install Theme Manually Using FTP
- Front Page & Posts Page Settings
- Navigation Menus
- Theme Panel
- General Settings
- Header Slider Settings
- About Us Settings
- Features Settings
- Counter Settings
- Services Settings
- Portfolio Settings
- Team Skills Settings
- Our Team Settings
- Twitter Feed Settings
- Pricing Settings
- Testimonial Settings
- Blog Settings
- Contact Us Settings
- Social Profiles Settings
- Footer Settings
- Custom CSS
- Import / Export Options
- Portfolio
- Blog Posts
- Page Templates
- Custom Widgets
- Jetpack Plugin
Installation
- Install Theme Using WordPress Dashboard (Recommend)
- Download the theme file “ta-meghna.zip” to your local machine.
- Log in to the WordPress Dashboard. Select the Appearance panel, then Themes. Select Upload Theme. Upload the “ta-meghna.zip” file and install it.
- Active the theme.
- Install Theme by Using cPanel
- Download the theme file “ta-meghna.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-meghna.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-meghna.zip” and extract the files it contains.
- Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Upload the theme directory “ta-meghna” 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.
Front Page & Posts Page Settings
- Set Front Page
- Go to: Pages → Add New.
- Add a page title (ex. ‘FrontPage’)
- Go to: Page Attributes → Template just below the publish module to select the FrontPage template.
- Publish the page.
- Next, go to: Settings → Reading → Front Page Displays and select the Static Page > Front Page as your newly created FrontPage (instead of the recent posts setting).
- Save changes.
- Set Posts Page
Create a new page using the Blog template and set it as the “Posts Page”.
Navigation Menus
Theme Panel
- General Settings
- Header Slider Settings
- About Us Settings
- Features Settings
- Counter Settings
- Services Settings
- Portfolio Settings
- Team Skills Settings
- Our Team Settings
- Twitter Feed Settings
- Getting Twitter API Consumer And Secret Keys
- The first thing you need to do to get your Twitter API key is to create a Twitter Application. Visit apps.twitter.com and login to your Twitter account. Then just fill out the basic information for the application and it’s ready to be published.
- Now that you’ve created your application, Twitter has assigned you a few data points to work with.
- Pricing Settings
- Testimonial Settings
- Blog Settings
- Contact Settings
- Custom CSS
- Import / Export Options
Here you can upload site logo and favicon, and set site preloader.
Here you can enable/disable Header Slider Module, and set your responsive header image slider.
Here you can enable/disable About Us Module, and set id for this section for one page scrolling. Create your unlimited About Us Box with drag and drop sortings.
Here you can enable/disable Features Module, and set id for this section for one page scrolling. Create your unlimited Features Box with drag and drop sortings.
Here you can enable/disable Counter Module, and set id for this section for one page scrolling. Create your unlimited Counter Box with drag and drop sortings.
Here you can enable/disable Services Module, and set id for this section for one page scrolling. Create your unlimited Services Box with drag and drop sortings.
Here you can enable/disable Portfolio Module, and set id for this section for one page scrolling. Also you can add your own title for Portfolio section, and enable/disable the portfolio filter.
Here you can enable/disable Team Skills Module, and set id for this section for one page scrolling. Also you can create background parallax effect for this section, and add your unlimited Services Box with drag and drop sortings.
Here you can enable/disable Our Team Module, and set id for this section for one page scrolling. Create your unlimited Our Team Box with drag and drop sortings.
Here you can enable/disable Twitter Feed Module, and set id for this section for one page scrolling. Also you can create background parallax effect for this section, and set your Twitter username and link text for Follow button.
In order to use the Twitter API Key to pull tweets from your Twitter in the theme, you’ll need to create a Twitter Application through your account. It may seem super-technical, but it’s actually very simple to do.
You must create a personal Access Token and Secret key to allow you to unlock personal account functions with your application – just click “Create Access Token” and Twitter will add these data points as well.
Here you can enable/disable Pricing Module, and set id for this section for one page scrolling. Create your unlimited Pricing Box with drag and drop sortings.
Here you can enable/disable Testimonial Module, and set id for this section for one page scrolling. Also you can create background parallax effect for this section, and add your unlimited Testimonial Box with drag and drop sortings.
Here you can enable/disable Blog Module, and set id for this section for one page scrolling. Also you set Blog page title, text for “View All Posts” and “Read More” buttons.
Here you can set your email address. This is where the contact form will send a message to. Also you can set your Address, Phone Number, and Latitude/Longitude on Google Map here.
Here you can arrange your social icons and add URLs to your social profiles. The social icons will be displayed on your footer.
Here you can set site copyright information.
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.
Here you can back up and restore your options data in one of three ways: raw data, file and URL.
Portfolio
- Add a Portfolio Post
- Go to: Portfolios → Add New.
- Add a title.
- Add text in the content area to describe your portfolio.
- Add some tags in the Portfolio Tags area.
- Add some additional information in the Portfolio Metabox area.
- Click Set Featured Image and upload your image(s) and set one as the featured image.
- Click Publish.
The portfolio section uses a custom post type called Portfolio. This is how you add a new portfolio post:
Blog Posts
- Standard Post
- Audio Post
- Video Post
- Gallery 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.
All you need to do is to select audio format, and paste the embed code in one of the two fields below the large text box.
All you need to do is to select video format, and paste the embed code in one of the two fields below the large text box.
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.
Page Templates
- 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.
Custom Widgets
The TA Meghna theme includes various Custom Widgets which are ready to use:
- 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.
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
- WordPress.com Stats
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 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 lets you know how many visits your site gets, and what posts and pages are most popular.