- The theme zip file ORSON.zip(included Visual Composer and Revolution Slider plugins)
- Child theme for easier customize in ORSON-child.zip
- Document in Documentation.zip
- Link download psd ORSON in psd-include.txt
Thank you for purchasing our theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this documentation, please feel free to contact us via email. Thanks so much!
To use ORSON, you must be running WordPress 3.9 or higher, PHP5.4 or higher, and MySQL 5 or higher. We have tested it with Mac, Windows and Linux. Below is a list of items you should ensure your host can comply with.
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:
Get the ORSON Theme installation package from your account(after login on Themeforest.net) at downloads page and save it to your computer.
Step 1 - Login to your Wordpress Dashboard
Step 2 - Go to Appearance -> Themes. Click the Add New button or Add new theme link. (check screenshot below)
Step 3 - Click on the Upload Theme button. Locate "Orson.zip" and click Install Now.
Step 4 - Click on the Activate button to activate ORSON. Congratulations, you have now activated ORSON! You can now proceed with ORSON's Plugin Installation.
Step 1 - Log into your Hosting server using an FTP client (like FileZilla or WinSCP).
Step 2 - Locate "ORSON.zip" that you found in your ThemeForest Package and unzip it somewhere on your hard drive. Once it is unzipped it will look like a folder named ORSON with all theme files in it.
Step 3 - Locate your Wordpress installation and upload the theme directory ORSON (you unzipped in the previous step) into ../wp-content/themes/ in your Wordpress installation.
Step 4 - Click on the Activate button to activate ORSON. Congratulations, you have now activated ORSON! You can now proceed with ORSON's Plugin Installation.
All plugins required have been zipped/already into your download package, so you only need to do is click on the Begin installing plugins.
You should be navigated to the Install Required Plugin page, which shows a plugin list similar to this:
Next, Click on the checkbox beside "Plugin" label to select all plugins in the list.
Then choose "Install" from the drop-down list at the top and then click "Apply".
The installing process status will be shown in your browser. It may takes a few minutes, so please be patient. After sucessfull, your screen like that
When the notice "All installations have been completed" appears, click on the "Return to Required Plugins Installer" link to turn back to the plugin list.
Next, click on the box beside the Plugin label again to select all plugins and choose Activate this time as image below.
With ORSON, you can build a fully functional website just by clicking a button and install our demo data or click 5.2.1 Create A New Page to step by step. Your ORSON installation will be set up with what we have on our demo website, and you can use it as a template to develop your own website.
Go to Appearance >> Install Demo Data menu
Then click Install button to install demo data:
The process would be displayed on import status bars so you will know when it is finished and your data is ready.
DONE. Now, you can visit your website to view demo.
You can create countless pages with content. Our theme includes several page templates to choose from, and all you need to do is to choose the page template that suits your needs. All of this is done in the pages section of your WordPress admin.
If you DID NOT One Click Install Demo Data, you will need to MANUALLY CREATE your Home and other pages. Here’s how to build it:
Video guide on How to create page using Visual Composer
Step 1 – Navigate to Pages in your admin sidebar and click Add New option.
Step 2 – Input a new name for your page, and click "BACKEND EDITOR"(must installed Visual Composer plugins).
Step 2.1 – Don't click "BACKEND EDITOR": only input content to area 3 then go to Step 3
Step 2.2 – Click "BACKEND EDITOR": your screen could be like this
Step 3 – Set your Parent page. It’s usually set to No Parent.
Step 4 – Set your page template from the Template dropdown list.
Step 5 – Content for your page goes in the editing field, use the Visual or Text editor. Page content is mainly built using Shortcodes. See the Shortcodes section for how to use them. You can also use our demo content, see the corresponding section of this document for the demo code of each page.
Next, you can publish this page and set it as your frontpage (8.1. Settings a static page as Home) in the Wordpress Settings panel.
Now you can start fiddling with Visual Composer to build your home page with any design that you like.
In case you don't have time for experience with it, you can switch to "Classic Mode" and use one of the shortcode sets provided below to build your frontshop based on one of the pre-made home page we offer.
To create a page similar to Homepage in our the demo, choose the Classic Mode and switch to the Text tab, then paste this code into the content of your page:
Paste one of these content into your Homepage, choose Template "Home Pages", then publish this page and set it as your frontpage(8.1. Settings a static page as Home) in the Wordpress Settings panel.
For a further understanding on these shortcodes and what they do, please visit ORSON Demo page.
Recently OnePage sites has become a trend, and ORSON can help you do it easily. You just have to create a Menu with Links as items.
Video guide on How to build OnePage.
After that, any where want menu link to section, please edit row by Visual Composer and type id on field: Row ID
THIS IS STEP BY STEP GUIDE ON HOW TO BUILD HOME PAGE MANUALLY FOR ORSON HOME 15
Need Wordpress, ORSON & plugins are already
Add Three " Text Widgets" to "Top Bar Left" Area
Go to Widget Manager
Add Text Widget 01:
Add Text Widget 02:
Add Text Widget 03:
Add Custom Menu and G5Plus - Social Profile Widgetsto "Top Bar Right" Area
Add Custom Menu Widget
For more information create menu: Cick here
Add Social Profile Widget :
You can consult this video guide on How to build Header Area (on ORSON - Homepage 15)
Go to ThemeOptions >> Logo Setting tab, do follow:
Go to Apperance >> Menus, do follow:
Go to ThemeOptions >> Header tab, then setting below
You can consult how to import slider at IMPORT SLIDER HOME PAGE And locate zip file slider to import on path: wp-content\plugins\orson-framework\install-demo\data\main\revslider
Click classic mode, add code below:
Follow below to create Portfolio item or Category
Follow below to create Our Team item or Category
Go to ThemeOptions >> Footer tab, then setting below
Go to Widget Manager
Add content to "G5Plus: Image" widget
Add content to "Text" widget
Add content "G5Plus - Social Profile" widget
Add content to "Text" widget
Add widget "Tag Cloud" to Footer 3
Add widget "G5Plus:Twitter" to Footer 4
If you are new to WordPress and have problems with setting up the theme you might want to import the demo content file that comes with the theme. The following actions will import some dummy posts and pages from the live preview:
Select WordPress from the list
Continue with steps in image
You would be asked to assign author, please selected and continue
After completing all above steps, open frontend link(Home 1) to see the pages imported to make, look like below is ok
If you don't want to use the demo content pack, you can read the instructions on how to work with our theme built-in Page Builder below to make your own pages.
After setting up the homepage, you need to setup the slider for homepage to make it display the same as in live preview.
The download package contains the exported slider (Revolution Slider) that can be used as your slider template. Please follow the steps below to import it to your shop:
Please note that these steps are to set up slider for homepage the same as in live demo. If you want to make your own slider, please follow the official Slider Revolution document.
Social Profiles
Social Profiles contains all options that allows user to share post/product on various social networks which automatically shows up under the content post, an important function that helps promoting your site. You can also check the options to decide which network are allowed to share the content of your website on. You can also turn off all options if you don't want your content to be shared at all.