Portal FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions About Portal

Basics – Provided information in this section and the documentation will help you understand your new theme, and get the most out of it. Please read full documentation on this theme in order to use it properly and in full power.

1.1 Template Features

Portal is a HD full screen modern theme for your gallery or portfolio showcase webiste. Packed with Paralax images and videos, galleries and sliders, Portal introduces many new elements for you and your site. Additional functionality is added via the Frontend Builder for creating simple pages and posts. Frontend Builder is equipt with many page layouts you can use instantly. Theme is 100% Responsive and HD Retina Ready. Enojy your new Portal Theme!

1.2 Template Tips & Tricks

Read full documentation
Use only Full HD images for your Featured images (1920x1080px and more)
Setup your Featured area content first, and then edit your post inside Frontend Builder
Use custom Sidebars in Appearance>Theme Options
Use Videos in your Featured content area
Use Gallery Template to show your galleries (attached images will be shown)

1.3 Authors and Support

The Portal theme was designed and developed by Shindiri Studio and Mihajlovicnenad.com. For support on the Portal theme for WordPress please visit our Support forum, the Portal theme item page on themeforest.net or email us support@shindiristudio.com.

Installation – Provided information in this section covers the Portal theme and required plugins installation, setting up the Portal theme and setting up plugins.

2.1 Installation of the Template

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For information on installing the WordPress platform, please see the WordPress Codex – http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress. Upon downloading the Portal archive, extract the archive and inside you will find full contents of your purchase. Portal_theme.zip archive contains the installable theme files.

Please Note: You can install the theme in two ways: inside WordPress, or via FTP. If you have trouble installing the theme inside WordPress, please proceed with installing it via FTP and you will be able to get around the issue

Installing from WordPress

Follow the steps below to install inside WordPress

Navigate to Appearance > Themes
Click Install Themes and then Upload
Navigate to portal_theme.zip on your computer and click Install Now
To activate the newly installed theme navigate to Appearance > Themes select the Portal Theme and press Activate
After install, activate the theme and continue to the next section ‘Installing plugins’!

Installing via FTP Server

Follow the steps below to install via FTP

Unzip portal_theme.zip to a desired location on your HDD. These extracted files will be uploaded later via FTP
Connect to your server via FTP
Navigate to /wp-content/themes/ on server
Navigate to location of unzipped portal_theme.zip
Upload local folder /portal/ to remote /wp-content/themes/
To activate the newly installed theme navigate to Appearance > Themes select the Portal Theme and press Activate
After install, activate the theme and continue to the next section ‘Installing plugins’!

Migrating from another theme

If you have already used WordPress with another theme and you’re migrating to Portal Theme please use the Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to resize all the images uploaded on server. Click the link above and download the free plugin, activate the plugin and regenerate your thumbnails.

2.2 Installation of the Plugins

Upon installation and activation of the Portal Theme you’ll be noted to install Plugins used with this theme.
Portal Theme uses the following plugins :

FrontEnd Builder by Shindiri Studio LINK / REQUIRED
Easy Bootstrap Shortcode LINK / REQUIRED
WordPress Visual Icon Fonts LINK / REQUIRED
Revolution Slider LINK
WordPress Visual Icon Fonts LINK
Flickr Badges Widget LINK
Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator LINK

The required plugins must be installed. The Portal theme will not work properly if these plugins are not installed. To get all the options for this package please install all avaiable plugins. It’s highly recommended to install all plugins at this stage. For documentation on these plugins you can read more on the Plugin Websites.

Upon Plugin installation you’ll be noted again to activate the installed plugins. Activate all the installed plugins.

2.3 Setting the Theme Options

After you’ve done the first two steps of installing the theme and plugins you can continue to Appearance > Theme Options to set your Theme Settings and Style.
General Settings

General Settings include your Logo. Use Upload Logo to change the default Portal Logo. Click Upload and use WordPress UI to upload or choose your previously uploaded image. If you don