The Corps User Guide

The Corps Introduction
This documentation will give you an understanding of how The Corps is structured and guide you in performing the most common functions. If you require further assistance, related to topics not covered in this documentation, then please contact us via Our Support Forum.

NOTE: We will not respond to any support questions on Item comment section or through e-mail. If this document doesn’t answer your questions feel free to open up a private ticket in our our support forum

If want to customize this theme as per your requirement, please contact us here: Our Support Forum

WordPress is one of the most popular CMS in the world that makes it the best choice for your website.
You can download and install WordPress from the official website using WordPress’ very setup steps called “Famous 5-minute install”.
For more information on WordPress, please, visit the WordPress Codex page.

Theme requirements:

Apart from the necessary WordPress requirements, and WooCommerce requirements, here are listed recommended server configuration requirements to make the theme’s functions work correctly.

• PHP: Version 7.2 or greater
• MySQL: Version 5.6 or greater ( OR MariaDB version 10.1 or greater)
• memory_limit – 256M, or higher
• max_execution_time – 300, or higher
• max_input_time – 300, or higher
• upload_max_filesize – 64M, or higher
• max_input_cars – 3000, or higher
• HTTPS support: Refer Moving Toward SSL and SSL and HTTPS for more information.

Most problems, such as white screen, out of memory error, sample data import failure, etc., usually arrive due to server settings and excessively low PHP configuration limits. You can change the necessary configurations, either by yourself (if your hosting provider allows you to do so) or contact your hosting provider to increase the limits.

So, make sure your server configuration is all set up, and the theme and plugins are working correctly. Enough server configuration will also ensure fast speed and increased performance.

Note

• Please check the theme requirements before you start with the theme. You can check PHP configuration and limits in Admin Panel > Tools > Site Health > Info [tab]. Site Health tool is built-in in WordPress v5.2 or greater. If you are using WordPress v5.1.x or lower, use the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin.
• In addition to the theme’s, above-mentioned, minimum requirements, if you are using an extensive list of plugins, the minimum requirements of your website may increase, according to the count and requirements of plugins.

Package from Themeforest
With your purchase of this theme, the first step is to download the package from Themeforest. Move your mouse over your Themeforest Login name in the top right corner and click ‘Download’. You will see the number of items purchased, along with the package’s content, as shown in the following diagrams.

Next, click Download > All files & documentation next to The Corps theme and save the package on your computer.

The download includes documentation, license, zipped file with theme files and the The Corps theme files folder. Unpack the entire package after downloading.

Before you can complete the installation, make certain you have unpacked the entire package. This is very important! You can complete the installation in either of the following two ways:

WordPress Theme Manager – To install theme with this method follow below steps.
1. Please go to Admin Panel > Appearance > Themes

2. Click “Add New” button. It will display WordPress theme upload page.

3. Now, click on “Upload Theme” button and it will expand upload theme upload form, where you can select zipped theme folder called the-corps.zip. After selecting (the-corps.zip) theme file press “Install Now” button and WordPress will do the rest for you.

4. After successful theme installation in next screen it will display installation report with link to activation. From this screen (or from Theme Manager) you can activate the theme.

FTP Upload – To install theme using FTP method follow below steps.
1. Open your sites’ root path in any FTP client. You will some WordPress folders (wp-admin, wp-includes and wp-content) already exists.

2. Upload “thecorps” folder (extracted from bundle-download or the-corps.zip) in wp-content/themes folder.
3. Now, go to Admin Panel > Appearance > Themes. Here you can see the uploaded theme is installed. Go to The Corps theme and click “Activate” button to activate the theme.

In TheCorps v2.0.0, to reduce the theme package size, we moved sample-data and plugins on our server. So, to access these resources, from the server, it will require to activate the theme first.

Also, since the theme activation system is integrated into the new version, some core features will be deactivated, until the theme is not activated. Once, the theme is activated, all the features will be activated.

To activate the theme, follow the below steps:

1. Update the theme with the latest version.
2. Go to Admin Panel > theCorps.
3. Enter purchase-code and click on “Check” button.
4. Click on Plugins tab. It will redirect to theme’s bundled plugins page.
5. Update “theCorps – Helper Library” to latest version.

Once the theme is activated, it will display some tabs, including License, Support, Plugins, Theme Options, Install Demos, System Status, and Ratings.

If you are installing and activating, the theme for the first time or plugins are not updated to latest, it will display License, and Plugins tabs only. From the Plugins tab, you can install/update necessary plugins, and once all the required plugins are activated, other tabs will appear.

After theme installation and activation, it will redirect you to welcome screen, where you can start installation of required plugin by clicking “Proceed” button. Clicking on “Proceed” will lead you to the plugin installation page.

If you are guided to some other page, instead of Welcome screen, it will display a notice in Admin Panel to install required and recommended plugins. You can click “Begin installing Plugins” to proceed plugin installation.

The Corps requires some plugins to be installed to run various theme functionalities properly. Few plugins will be installed from WordPress Plugins Repository and few plugins are bundled with theme. On plugin installation page, it will display list of required and recommended plugins.

Choose plugins and select “Install” in Bulk Action dropdown and click Apply button. First, it will install the selected plugins and then it will display the same list to activate the installed plugins.

You can manage (install/uninstall, activate/deactivate) plugins from Plugin Manager (Admin Panel > Plugins). For more information on plugin management go to WordPress Codex – Plugin Management.

The theme is provided with the sample data. It will create similar (not exactly, because contents/layout on demo site change time-to-time as per new changes) instance of our demo site.

After successful theme and plugins installation you can proceed with sample-data to install sample data. It will help you to understand the content/layout and customize the site easily. If you want to proceed from scratch, you can skip this step.

If you use the 1 Click Demo Install option, you don’t need to use .xml files. It’s a simple One Click Process. To proceed to sample data installation go to The Corps (Theme Settings) & Sample Data and click on “Install” button (and Keep Calm). The rest will be done in background-process.

Once installation is done, then home page, blog page, post, portfolio, testimonials, menu and widget will be set automatically.

Note: Before proceeding with sample-data step you must install all “Required” plugins. Otherwise, it may lead to broken structure.

In General Settings, we have provided site Logo, Sticky Logo, WordPress Login Logo, Preloader and Back to Top settings.

In color schemes, you can change the site default color and set as per your site design.
We provide 3 color options:

1. Primary:  Main theme color and main background color
2. Secondary: Theme dark title and background
3. Tertiary: Theme Description color and border colors

Apply color which suits your website the best.

Note: For Revolution Slider color you have to select color from revolution plugin.

In the Widgets tab, you can set theme footer columns as per your need. By default, theme provides 4 columns widget area.

– In site header, Theme provides many types of headers. You can set any header type as per your theme design. Some header type options provides top bar section. You can also set your top bar section in site header option.

– Top bar section has 5 elements such as email, phone number, social profiles, log-in and register. You can set any element in top bar section on left and right side. You can add phone number, email and social profile link in “Site info” tab in The Corps Setting menu.

– If you don’t want to show the Sticky menu then you can off the sticky menu option. By default, Sticky menu is on.

– Page Header option provides you to set your header section with image or color. If you want to set the page header as image then page header provides predefined header image and custom image option. You can also set your own page header image using custom banner image option.

– In Background Opacity Color, it provides to set the banner image background opacity as per your need.

Theme provides compatibility to Breadcrumb NavXT plugin. If plugin is installed and activated, then breadcrumb will appear on front side. You can show/hide breadcrumb on front side as per your requirements.

Footer tab contains Copyright and Footer Popup Form fields.

In Copyright field you can set copyright content in footer.

In Footer Popup Form you  can set contact form in footer area, which will be opened when user will contact envelop icon in the footer. Footer Contact Form field is limited to few short codes to prevent field from adding unwanted contents.

In the Page Settings tab, you can set default page layout settings. By default, page setting provides right sidebar. You can set full width page, left sidebar page, right sidebar page, and two sidebar page.

– In the Blog tab, you can set the blog page title, Blog Subtitle, Blog Sidebar, Blog Layout and Display Meta Items.

– Blog Sidebar has 3 layouts like Full Width, Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar.

– Blog Layout has 4 layouts like Classic, Grid, Masonry and Timeline blog layout.

– Blog post, by default, displays meta items like Date, Author, Categories, Tags and Comments. If you don’t want to display any option on blog post meta item then you can uncheck option. You can also re order meta item using drag and drop with drag handle.

You want to display Post category, Post tag and Author page description then you can select option in which page you want to display description.

– Display Meta Items option just as blog page meta items.

– You want to show the related post, post author info and post navigation in blog post detail page using this option. By default, theme displays all options. If you don’t want to show any option in detail blog post page, then you can off the option.

– Theme provides two styles to display members listing. One layout style will display team member image with member name, member designation, short description and social media link. Second layout style will display only member image and member name, member designation, and social media link will appear on mouse hover on member image.

Team Style Demo:
Style 1 : http://www.potenzawp.ga/thecorps-wp/pages/team/
Style 2 : http://www.potenzawp.ga/thecorps-wp/pages/teams-2/

Theme provides two styles to display clients listing page.

Clients Style Demo:
http://www.potenzawp.ga/thecorps-wp/pages/our-clients/
http://www.potenzawp.ga/thecorps-wp/pages/our-clients-2/

– Theme provides two styles to display FAQ listing page with display category source wise option.

– Style one supports displaying items from multiple categories. And, there are two options to select multiple categories, either select all categories or select specific categories.

– Style two supports displaying items from only 1 category, so here you can select only one category from category selector.

– If you want to display particular category wise FAQ then you will select category option and also select FAQ categories which categories FAQ you want to display on FAQ page.

Faq Style Demo:
http://www.potenzawp.ga/thecorps-wp/pages/faqs/
http://www.potenzawp.ga/thecorps-wp/pages/faqs-2/

You can set your social profiles link in this option and these links will be displayed in topbar on front. Topbar will be visible based on “Header Type” selected in Theme Options (theCorps > Appearance > Site Header > Header Type).

You can set your contact information like phone number and email and this info will be displayed in top bar on front page. Topbar will be visible based on “Header Type” selected in Theme Options (theCorps > Appearance > Site Header > Header Type).

We have given total five social sharing features like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google Plus, and Pinterest. If you want to disable any social sharing feature then you can disable from this section. This social sharing icon will appear on blog listing page and blog detail page.

If you want to do any custom formatting using CSS/Javascript, then you can add your own CSS/Javascript from this section.

This section contains setting to enable/disable Maintenance or Coming Soon method. You can enable settings to display these pages if your site is under maintenance or construction.

This element allows to insert button.

This element allow to insert clients logos from Clients section.

This element allows to insert counter with label and icon.

This element allows to add heading (with dropping words) and content.

This element allows to insert Featured content.

This element allows to insert Featured Text with Title, Description and icon with various styles.

This element allows to insert list items with icons instead of bullets.

This element allows to insert image (long in height) with scrolling inside mobile.

This element allows to insert vertical skills progress bar with Title, Description and Percentage.

This element allows to insert rounded skills progress bar with Title, Percentage and Colors.

This element allows to insert team members list from Teams section.

This element allows to insert portfolio items from Portfolio section.

This element allows to add pricing table.

This element allows to add recent posts.

This element allows to add 6 recent posts with teaser content.

This element allows to add text/heading with typing effect.

This element allows to add horizontal skill bar.

This element allows to add title and subtitle specially made for theme to match theme style.

This element allows to add sliders.

This element allows to add social profiles link with icons.

This element allows to add step numbered featured contents.

This element allows to add testimonials carousel/listing from Testimonials section.

This element allows to add timeline content with Title, Description and Date.

You may find some useful documentation and tutorials links here.

1. Visual Composer
2. Slider Revolution
3. Contact Form 7
4. Breadcrumb NavXT
5. MailChimp for WordPress

To create Mega Menu follow below steps:

1. Create a new or use existing menu.
2. First check “Enable Mega Menu” checkbox to enable Mega Menu in current menu.

3. Now add top menu items. In root menu items, you can see a checkbox “Mega Menu”. By selecting this checkbox, you can enable mega menu on any root level menu item.

4. Selecting “Mega Menu” checkbox will enable few more fields, which will help to control mega menu output/display. New field details are as below:
1. Menu Width: As name suggests, by this field, you can control width of Mega Menu. It contains two options.
1. Full Width: This will allow to display Mega Menu in full width of navigation area.
2. Custom Width: Selecting this will enable two more fields which offer settings to set custom mega menu width and offset. So, by these controls, you can manage mega menu width easily.
2. Column Count: By this you control column counts in Mega Menu. So, if you want to add 3 columns, select 3 in dropdown.

5. Then add “Custom Link” child menu items (Column Wrapper), to root mega menu item, as same number of selected in Column Count. In this document screenshot (hereafter reffered as Demo), we added 3 child menu items (Column Wrapper) because we selected “3 Column” in “Column Count”.

6. Then, add menu items to columns. We added 3 menu items to each column. Here you can see Mega Menu with sub menu items in columns.


7. Now, add another root level menu for another Mega Menu item. In this select “Custom Width” in “Menu Width” and “4 Column” in “Width Offset” and “8 Column” in “Width”. And, select “2 Column” in “Column Count”. Then, add 2 “Column Wrapper” and 4 items in each column.

The basic concept of a Retina image is that an image twice the size of a standard web image will be displayed on screen. On a non-retina device an image will be 100px X 100px whereas a Retina device will display the same image but at 200px X 200px. Most of devices use this branded concept for Retina devices like having approximately twice the pixel density of a non-retina device.

If you want to get perfect looking images on Retina screens. If for example you build website where you upload regular images into Content, you must always upload 2 images in Media
Add new section which looks like below:

my_image.png - this is the name for standard image (e.g. 100px X 100px)
my_image@2x.png - this is the example name for retina image and file must be always 2x larger than regular image (e.g. 200px X 200px)

Note You need to include retina.js to make your website completely retina ready. See example below:

<!-- retina --> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/retina.js"></script>

For more information about retina documentation and to download retina.js Click here.

The Corps support all major browers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 9 and Above.

If you like our theme and support, Please do not forget to rate it with 5 stars in your Downloads section and write a review in Comments as it will add more value to our services!

Kindly visit here: http://themeforest.net/downloads and find “Rate this item” below the download button and rate out the theme.

All images are for preview purposes only and are not included in the download files. Images of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.

Scripts

• Jquery
• Jquery UI
• Owl Carousel 2
• Magnific Popup
• isotope
• Jquery appear
• Modernizr
• Easy pie chart
• jQuery.NiceScroll
• Touch Effects (Image Caption Hover Effects)
• Typer

CSS & Fonts

• Bootstrap
• Font Awesome
• Jquery UI
• Google Fonts
• Open sans
• Raleway

Note For questions on basic WordPress, HTML, Javascript or CSS editing – please give your question a quick Google or visit W3Schools as theme issues get top priority.

Here’s step-by-step instructions of how to re-create pre-built website, please watch below instructional video.

Instructional Video – Theme Settings

Instructional Video – Visual Composer