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Essential
Minimal
tru
Less
Essential Theme
Purchase · Setup · FAQ · Shortcodes · Typography
Before We Begin
Before installing the Essential Theme you must have the following steps completed. Be sure to finish them before diving into the Setup section.
Setup Essential
Setting up Essential is simple and should take less than 15 minutes.
Install the Essential Theme
Installing your theme is very straightforward and you will take the same steps no matter which theme you’ve chosen. Simply visit the Install Your Theme section below to follow the step-by-step tutorial.
Add Content
More info soon!
Create Menus
How to add menu items in WordPress
Configure Widgets
More info soon!
FAQ
More info soon!
Shortcodes
All shortcode documentation can be found on the Essential Theme Shortcodes demo. Click on any shortcode for a complete example.
Content Shortcodes
These shortcodes can be used in any Page, Post, or Widget.
Text Settings
These shortcodes are used to customize the Text Settings options in your Appearance > Customize panel.
Entries Section
Footer Section
Comments Section
Typography
For samples of the various typography and style options in this theme visit the Essential Typography and Style demo.
Minimal Theme
Purchase · Setup · FAQ · Shortcodes · Typography
Before We Begin
Before installing the Minimal Theme you must have the following steps completed. Be sure to finish them before diving into the Setup section.
Setup Minimal
Setting up Minimal is simple and should take less than 15 minutes.
Install the Minimal Theme
Installing your theme is very straightforward and you will take the same steps no matter which theme you’ve chosen. Simply visit the Install Your Theme section below to follow the step-by-step tutorial.
Add Content
More info soon!
Create Menus
How to add menu items in WordPress
Create the Minimal Social Menu
Below the main navigation you’ll see, in the demo, that there’s a social menu where readers will have easy access to your social media profiles.
Adding this menu is simple.
Go to your Appearance > Menus panel and create a new menu and call it Social.
Next you’ll want to add Custom Links using your social profile URL as the URL and any of the following as your respective Link Text:
- #fa-facebook#
- #fa-twitter#
- #fa-instagram#
- #fa-pinterest-p#
These tags will automatically output the Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest icons respectively. This will also work for any icon that you find on this page. Simply wrap the corresponding fa- class name in two # signs and you’ll be good to go.
The final step that must be taken with this menu is to add it to the site. In this instance there isn’t a Display Location with a checkbox, so instead go to your Appearance > Widgets panel and drag a Navigation Menu widget to your After Header widget area. Then, in the dropdown box, select the Social menu that we created above, click Save and your menu will be live.
Configure Widgets
More info soon!
FAQ
More info soon!
Shortcodes
All shortcode documentation can be found on the Minimal Theme Shortcodes demo. Click on any shortcode for a complete example.
Content Shortcodes
These shortcodes can be used in any Page, Post, or Widget.
Text Settings
These shortcodes are used to customize the Text Settings options in your Appearance > Customize panel.
Entries Section
Footer Section
Comments Section
Typography
For samples of the various typography and style options in this theme visit the Minimal Typography and Style demo.
tru Theme
More details soon!
Less Theme
Purchase · Setup · FAQ · Shortcodes · Typography
Before We Begin
Before installing the Less Theme you must have the following steps completed. Be sure to finish them before diving into the Setup section.
Setup Less
Setting up Less is simple and should take less than 15 minutes.
Install the Less Theme
Installing your theme is very straightforward and you will take the same steps no matter which theme you’ve chosen. Simply visit the Install Your Theme section below to follow the step-by-step tutorial.
Add Content
More info soon!
Create Menus
How to add menu items in WordPress
Configure Widgets
More info soon!
FAQ
More info soon!
Shortcodes
All shortcode documentation can be found on the Less Theme Shortcodes demo. Click on any shortcode for a complete example.
Content Shortcodes
These shortcodes can be used in any Page, Post, or Widget.
Text Settings
These shortcodes are used to customize the Text Settings options in your Appearance > Customize panel.
Entries Section
Footer Section
Comments Section
Typography
For samples of the various typography and style options in this theme visit the Less Typography and Style demo.
All Themes
Install Your Theme · Activate Your License Key · Add Content
The following documentation applies to every theme available on BYLT.
Install Your Theme
Installing your new theme is extremely simple. First, return to your BYLT Dashboard to download your theme file.
If you’re using a Mac simply option-click on your theme file (hold the option key and click the link with your mouse) to automatically download the ZIP file to your Downloads folder.
Alternatively, on any computer including a Mac, you can simply right-click on your theme file and select Save Link As, Download Linked File As, or whatever similar option you find in that menu.
You should now see a window asking you where you would like to save the file. I recommend saving your theme file to your Desktop for easy access. You will need it in just a moment.
Note: If you’re using the right-click Download Linked File As option in Safari your file will automatically be renamed to index.php.zip. This file will still work as expected, but I recommend renaming this to the name of your theme to avoid confusion.
Ok, now that you have your theme file saved you’ll just want to copy your License Key. We’ll be using this immediately after activating your theme.
Now on to the installation.
Simply go to your Appearance > Themes panel and click the Add New Theme button.
Next click the Upload Theme button.
Now we will be choosing our file. Simply click the button, navigate to your Desktop or Downloads folder, and select the zip file that you’ve previously downloaded from your BYLT Dashboard.
Now simply click Install Now.
Once the upload is complete you will see the following screen.
Click Activate to finish the installation.
Now that your theme is installed and activated you’ll need to activate your theme License Key.
Notice
You may encounter the following error when installing your theme:
The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.
This happens when your computer is configured to automatically extract and delete ZIP files after download. Since WordPress requires that all theme installations are ZIP files you will simply need to follow the steps at the beginning of this section to download your ZIP file and then install your theme.
Activate Your License Key
Your License Key enables automatic updates which ensures that you’re always using the latest version of your theme.
If you haven’t already copied this key in the previous step then simply return to your BYLT Dashboard and copy your theme License Key.
Now that you have your License Key go to your Appearance > License Key panel, paste your Key into the field, and click Save Changes.
Finally, click Activate License and you’ll be good to go.
Once activated you will see your license details, confirming that your License Key has been activated.
Now that your theme is installed and your License Key is activated return to your theme section above.
Add Content
By default WordPress creates a few pieces of content: a Sample Page, a Privacy Policy page, and a Hello World! post.
To begin it can help to leave the Sample Page and Hello World! post in place, but feel free to delete them at any point in the future. They are only placeholders.
Speaking of placeholders, we recommend that every site has an About page and a Contact page. So let’s walk through the process of adding an About page with placeholder content.
More info soon!
WordPress Documentation
WordPress Setup
Select Your Web Host · Install WordPress
The following documentation applies when setting up any WordPress theme, whether you’ve purchased from BYLT or elsewhere.
Select Your Web Host
We highly recommend Bluehost.
The full step-by-step hosting tutorial is coming soon!
Install WordPress
For a full step-by-step tutorial visit How to Install WordPress.
WordPress Administration
Contact Support
Our minimalist business is called SPYR and there are just two of us – there’s me, Jeff Sarris, and my co-founder Dave LaTulippe.
When you reach out below we’ll both see the message, but you’ll hear back from me.
I only mention this because I want you to know that we’re a tiny team of two managing SPYR, BYLT, and all projects with The Minimalists and our various other clients.
This just means that, while you’ll get a response directly from me, it will take about 3 business days to hear back. Rest assured though that when you hear back you’ll have an absolute and thorough answer to your question. Effective emailing is vital to running a successful minimalist business and we’re here to help you succeed.
Anyway, I look forward to hearing from you! My only ask is that you review the above support documentation before messaging to make sure that your question hasn’t already been answered.
Since I’ve handled support for our products and business for a decade now the thousands of hours that I’ve worked directly with clients have helped me craft this support page to fulfill almost every need.
If you can’t find your answer above I definitely hope you reach out, you’ve found an area where I can improve this page! Just do me a favor and check first. :)
Thanks so much!
—Jeff Sarris, SPYR