Welcome to Scandi portfolio documentation!
Here you will find everything you need to know about your new WordPress theme.
Welcome to Scandi portfolio documentation!
Here you will find everything you need to know about your new WordPress theme.
After purchase, download your new theme file from Themeforest. To do that, go to your themeforest.net profile move your mouse cursor over your login name in the right top corner and then click “Download”.
Here you will find all the items that you have purchased.
Locate Love Struck theme, click the “Download” button and choose “All files & documentation” and save the package on your computer.
UNZIP the package you just downloaded.
Inside you will find a copy of this documentation, license, purchase code and a zipped Scandi file (scandi.zip) that you will need to install on to your WordPress.
After you installed your theme and all required plugins, follow these steps:
After the import process is complete, you get all pages, images, posts and portfolio items you saw in the ThemeForest demo before purchasing the theme. Now all you have to do is replace the demo images and sample content with your own.
This chapter contains information about basic theme controls and their location so please read this chapter to avoid any confusion and get to know your theme better.
You can upload your logo image by going to Appearance > Customize > Site Identity
If you do not have a logo of your own, use the site Title and Tagline area or download a free photography logo form our website.
The Gutenberg WordPress editor is a new page builder that is being designed to integrate with WordPress core. Gutenberg will add content blocks and page builder-like functionality to every up-to-date WordPress website. When in use, it will replace TinyMCE as the default content editor. With Gutenberg, content is added in blocks of various types from the WordPress backend.
Gutenberg will the official, default editor starting with WordPress 5.0.
Since this is the future of WordPress, Scandi theme is encouraging you to transition to Gutenberg now so that you can get accustomed to the new WordPress already. So if you haven’t already, activate Gutenberg plugin now.
Scandi portfolio is one of the theme’s main features and this chapter explains how to set it up, manage and customize it.
If you imported the demo content, you already have a pre-made portfolio page and you do not need to create a new one.
For a faster load time, consider compressing images before upload. We use JPEGmini for all our images.
To create multiple portfolio pages with different galleries in each portfolio page follow these steps:
To see your new category portfolio page, add it to your menu (continue reading to learn how.)
Now that the categories are created and galleries assigned to it, add your categories page to your menu. To do that:
To add a specific gallery to your menu, go to Appearances > Menus and click on the “Screen options” button. Activate “Portfolio Entries”A new tab will appear where you can choose your single gallery to add to menu.
If you have only one gallery that you want to set as your Homepage, go to Portfolio > Portfolio Settings and set “In Portfolio Home Page:” setting to “Show a single Portfolio entry”. Then choose your portfolio entry from the drop-down that will appear.
Let’s say you have 4 portfolio entries – Weddings, Children, Portraits, Couples. You want to change the order to – Couples, Weddings, Portraits, Children.
Here’s what you do:
Step 1
Step 2
This chapter explains how to create your blog and how to create posts and add image galleries.
If you imported the demo content, you already have a pre-made blog page and you do not need to create a new one.
To add an introduction/welcome text in your blog page, do the following:
After you have assigned your Posts page as your Blog you can start creating posts for your blog and they will automatically show up on your blog page.
To create a post:
You can create beautiful, complex gallery layouts inside your post. This is especially useful if you need no showcase a particular photo session (such as “Jane and John” wedding).
To make your gallery wider than the content, select it and click on the “Wide Width” button.
To create a gallery where some of the images appear in 1 column, some in 2 or 3 columns, each column will need its own gallery. Basically, you will create multiple galleries with a different number of columns in each and stack them one on top of the other.
To do that follow the steps 1- 7. that are described above, but:
A “wide image” is a single image inside the post that is wider than the content. To make an image wide:
Scandi theme is using “Ninja Forms” to create its contact form.
To edit the existing form or create a new one go to Ninja Forms > Dashboard
Learn how to build a contact form here.
Scandi can hold 2 widgets in its footer. It was designed to hold your copyright information and your social links or a phone number so these widgets will look best in the Scandi footer area.
Add your social networks to your footer by placing the “Simple Social Icons” widget in the Footer Widgets area.
If you dont see this widget ibn the awailable widgets area, go to Plugins > Add New and search for and install “Simple Social Icons”
Check out the image below to see what settings we used in the demo.
Here we answer some of the most frequently asked questions.
If you do not find the answer to your question here or in the rest of the documentation, please visit our support forum.
Prevent people from stealing your work. They do that by right-clicking on your images and choosing the “Save Image As…” option.
We created a plugin specially for this, it works great with all our themes and its free!
Follow these steps:
The easiest way to keep your theme up to date is by using Envato Market plugin. Here is a short video tutorial on how to setup the plugin:
You can read more about the plugin in our Knowledge Base Article
If you’re stuck and can’t find the answer to your question in this documentation or if you found a bug that needs fixing, head straight to our Support Forum and create a new support topic. We will talk soon!