Maxdi - Creative Agency WordPress Theme

Thank you for purchasing our WordPress theme.

Intro

First of all, Thank you so much for purchasing this theme and for being my loyal customer. You are awesome! You are entitled to get free lifetime updates to this product + exceptional support from the author directly. This documentation is to help you regarding each step of customization. Please go through the documentation carefully to understand how this template is made and how to edit this properly.

We made Maxdi from the ground-up with flexibility in mind. Each element of Maxdi is extremely customizable, where you can make
Maxdi to reflect your own branding styles.

The guide gives you detailed methodologies about how you can customize Maxdi and make it fit your brand perfectly!

Theme Requirements

To use Maxdi, make sure your hosting provider is running the following software:

  1. WordPress 5.0 or higher.
  2. PHP 7.2 or greater. WordPress officially suggests to use PHP 7.2.
  3. MySQL 5.6 or greater.

Recommended PHP Limits

Many issues that you may run into such as: white screen, demo content fails when importing, empty page content and other similar issues are all related to low PHP configuration limits. The solution is to increase the PHP limits. You can do this on your own, or contact your web host and ask them to increase those limits to a minimum as follows:

  • max_execution_time 180
  • memory_limit 128M
  • post_max_size 64M
  • upload_max_filesize 32M
  • max_input_time = 60
  • max_input_vars = 3000

Also consider upgrading your PHP version to the latest version, the newer the better.

WordPress Information

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. If you need help installing WordPress, follow the instructions in WordPress Codex or you can watch the. Below are ll the useful links for WordPress information.

  1. WordPress Codex – general info about WordPress and how to install on your server
  2. First Steps With WordPress – general information that covers a wide variety of topics
  3. FAQ New To WordPress – the most popular FAQ’s regarding WordPress

What's included

When you purchase our theme from Themeforest, you need to download the Maxdi files from your Themeforest account. Navigate to your downloads tab on Themeforest and find Maxdi. Click the download button to see the two options. The Main Files contain everything, the Installable WordPress Theme is just the installable WordPress theme file. Below is a full list of everything that is included when you download the main files, along with a brief description of each item.

Theme Installation

It’s easy to install Maxdi. Just follow these steps, they won’t take much of your time.

  1. Download the theme zip file from your Envato account from ThemeForest.

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  2. **All files & documentation **(full zip folder). You will need to extract and locate the installable WordPress file to upload when installing theme

  3. Log in to your WordPress Dashboard (Ex: https://yourwebsite.com/wp-admin).
  4. Navigate to Appearance > Themes.

  5. Click on Add New and then Click on Upload Theme .

  6. Click Add New, then click Upload Theme > Choose File

  7. Navigate to the .zip file on your computer, then click Install Now

  8. When the installation complete, click Activate. You will be redirected to Themes page with Maxdi activated.

  9. Done.

Install theme via FTP

To manually upload your new WordPress theme, login with your credentials to your website and locate the wp-content folder in your WordPress install files. Upload the un-zipped 'sada' folder into the: wp-content/themes folder.

Once uploaded, activate the theme by heading to the “Themes” menu in the WordPress Dashboard. Locate the Maxditheme and hit “Activate”.

The theme files will be stored on your server in the wp-content/themes/ location.

Note: When uploading your theme with the installer, please ensure you are uploading the theme .zip file, not the entire package you downloaded. In this case, you will be uploading Maxdi.zip.

Plugin Installation

After activating Maxdi, you will see this notice:

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Click Begin installing plugins. You will be navigated to Install Required Plugins page.

Simply check all of them (or all of required plugins and some recommended plugins you like) and from the drop down select Install, then hit Apply.

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When finishing, it should look like this:

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Demo Installation

Our demo data import lets you have the whole data package in minutes, delivering all kinds of essential things quickly and simply. All you need to do is to navigate to Appearance >Import Demo Data. Hit Import Demo.

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Then click Continue & Import.

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Have a cup of coffee. The process is within minutes.

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When finishing, it should look like this:

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Page Options

On each page you'll see a Template Settings metabox, located below the page content editor. This metabox includes various options to control the header style , footer visibility and Logo Setting on each page.

Create a New Page

Step 1: Navigate to Pages in your admin sidebar and click Add New option.

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Step 2: Enter a new name for your page, then find the Page Attributes box on right side to set your Parent or Template page.

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Page Options

Here includes various options to control the header style, breadcrumb option and Logo Setting on each page.

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Use Elementor Page Builder to Build Page

Step 1: Choose Edit With Elementor to edit your page.

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Step 2: Choose Add Element to start adding our premade elements to your new page.

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How to Change Page Title

Step 1: Go to Pages > All Pages. Then point at the page you want to edit. You will see the Quick Edit option.

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Step 2: Edit the title as you want. Delete the current slug. Then hit Update. It will automatically generate new slug for your page.

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You can also edit some other options such as parent, template, status... If you want to edit more options, hit Edit instead of Quick Edit.

How to Create a New Post

Step 1: Navigate to Posts > Add New in your WordPress admin sidebar.

Step 2: Create a title, and insert your post content in the editing field.

Step 3: For a video/audio post, just simply paste the video/audio URL into the Embed Code field.

Step 4: Add Categories from the right side. Categories is meta information you create for the post. Each category is a meta link that your viewer can click to view similar type of posts. To assign it to the post, check the box next to the Category name. You can also access and edit Categories from the Post sidebar item in your WordPress admin sidebar.

Step 5: Add Tags from the right side. Tags is meta information you create for the post. Each tag is a link that your viewer can click to view similar type of posts. Type the name of the tag in the field, separate multiple tags with commas. You can also access and edit Tags from the Post sidebar item in your WordPress admin sidebar.

Step 6: For a single image, click the first Featured Image Box, select an image and click the Set Featured Image button.

Step 7: You can also customize Page Title & Sidebar Options in Settings.

Step 8: Once you are finished, click Publish to save the post.

Here is the screenshot that shows the various areas of the blog post page:

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How to Create a Category

Step 1: Post > Categories

Step 2: Name the category and fill to other section below.

Step 3: Hit Add New Category. Your new Category will aprear in the table of all category immediately.

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Similar to Category, you can create a new Tag in the same way.

How to Add Widget in Sidebar

Step 1: Appearance >> Widgets. You can see all of the Sidebar here.

Step 2:Choose the Widgets you want and drag it to the Sidebar you want or click on it to choose the Sidebar.

In the case you want to delete its settings, drag it back.

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How to Edit Widget

Hit Appearance > Widgets. Choose a widget you want to edit.

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Then choose its area as you wish and hit Add Widget.

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Then go to the right where you will notice a just-added widget. In this case, Search on Footer|#2. Type information and hit Save.

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Support

Free Support Scope:

  • Fixing bugs
  • Helping clients in changing site contents by sending instructions that couldn’t be covered by documentation

Paid Support Scope:

Paid support is not a part of Free Support when you purchase the template from ThemeForest. We understand that some clients need custom changes while using our template. For that we kept an option for paid support which includes:

  • Custom change request
  • Custom pages
  • Custom features

If you need any further help please contact with us to the email:

alimashadesign@gmail.com

Regards,
Alimasha Support Team