Event Star

Event Star Multipurpose WordPress Theme special designed for Event and Conference Management Sites as well as it suits for Business, Corporate or Blog sites. It fits all kinds of Events or Conference like Seminars, Meetings, Conferences, Team Building Events, Trade Shows, Business Dinners, Golf Events, Press Conferences, Networking Events, Incentive Travel, Opening Ceremonies, Product Launches, Theme Parties, VIP Events, Trade Fairs, Shareholder Meetings, Award Ceremonies, Incentive Events, Board Meetings, Executive Retreats, Weddings, Birthdays, Wedding Anniversaries, Family Events or any kinds of events you wish.

Theme Installation

From WordPress Dashboard Appearance > Themes

1. Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels.
2. Go to the Appearance panel, then Themes.
3. Click Add New.
4. Upload the Zip file of Event Star
5. After Installing the theme Click Activate button

FTP Installation (alternate method)

1. Use your FTP software to browse to wp-content/themes folder.
2. Extract event-star.zip and upload the folder.
3. Once it’s uploaded, go to your WordPress Admin, browse to Appearance > Themes.
4. Click the Activate link.

DummyData

Before importing the demo content. It is required that you install necessary plugins. They are:
1. Acme Demo Setup
2. Advanced Import

Then you can follow the path below:

• Dashboard > Appearance > Demo Import 
• Click on Get Started and a page will appear with a thumbnail image of the demo design.(There can be more than 1 demo design in some themes)
• Hover over the image and click on Import
• Then in few minutes the demo will be imported in your site and you can visit your site now.

Adding Pages

Adding a new page is the same way as default WordPress installations, however, there are extra options that might need explaining.
Usually each page have content and featured image. You can enable Excerpt Field

too. Feature Image and Excerpt Fields are used in the Widget and Sliders.

1. Go to Admin Panel
2. Go to Pages > Add New
   
3. Give the title of the Page
4. Write the content of the Page
5. Scroll to down and see the right corner, you will find the Set Featured Image section
6. The theme use Slider Content and most of the Widget Content from the Excerpt Field

This theme can fully customize from the Customize section. To customize theme, Go to Appearance > Customize. You will find the various options related to theme.
You can add as many page as you want. Later you can select added page in the Slider and Widgets as their components.

Home Page/Make Home Page as Demo

If you want to create Home/Front Page similar to demo but without importing demo content, you can follow the following procedure.

1. Install Theme Event Star

• Go to Admin Panel > Appearance > Themes > Add New and search theme Event Star
• Click on Install and then Activate

2. Create Page for Home and Blog Page

• Go to admin panel > Pages > Add New
• Give the title of page(Example: Home Page)
• Click on Publish to publish page.
• Create another page(for Blog), follow the above page creation method.

3. Set Home page and Blog page
Please set home page and blog page with following procedure.

• Go to admin panel > Settings > Reading
• Click on “A static page (select below)”
• Set Front page: (Home Page recently created above)
• Posts page:(Blog you recently created)

4. Theme Customizer
After setting Front Page and Blog page. Go to Appearance => Customize, all available theme options are here.

5. Adding Feature Section ( Slider)

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Featured Section Options > Feature Slider Selection
• Select Pages for the slider items. Click on Add New to add the required slider.
• Remember that the selected page Feature Image will be Slider Image, Excerpt will be Slider Content. You can also find various options there, try it freely

6. Feature Section => Feature Info
There is also and special section on Feature Section Options, called Feature Info. You can manage it from Featured Section Options

7. Adding Home/Front Page Other Sections like About Section, Count Down Section, Gallery Section, Schedule Section, Speakers Sections, FAQ Section, Testimonials Sections , Blog and News Sections, Contact Sections.

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Home Main Content Area
• Check the available widget/sections and add it to Home Main Content Area
• The Theme Custom Widgets are Prefixed with AT
• After adding widget on check for available options in the widgets
• Most of the widget use Page, while adding Widget, don’t forget to add title, content, excerpt, Feature Image and Feature Icon on the Page
• You can add any Widget available there, drag, drop, reorder and remove widget as you want

Theme Options on Customizer

When you go to Admin Panel > Appearance > Customize. , there you will see various options available to customize your site. Just try those options one by one you will able to understand how theme works and can create any kinds of sites.

Theme Options and Setting on Customizer

Some Available options in Customizer

• Home Page Setting
• Site Identity ( Site Title, Tagline & Logo)
• Header Options
• Featured Section Options
• Home Main Content Area
• Footer Options including copyright
• Layout/Design Option includes various options related to site Appearance
• Single Post Option with Related Post Options
• Theme Options which includes extra options in the theme
• Breadcrumb Options
• Search Placeholder
• Date Countdown Text on your own language
• Menus
• Widgets
• Additional CSS
• And other various Options and Widget Sections

Home Page Setting

This section helps you to set the front page and blog page.
It is same setting ( Settings > Reading )

Site Identity ( Logo, title and tagline )

• From Customize, go to Site Identity
• You will get the options to manage Site title, tagline and logo.
• Use the available options to customize the logo, site title and tagline.
• If preview is fine Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Header Options

Header Options includes Header Top, Menu Options, Header Images and Popup Widget options with individual setting etc.

• From Customize, go to Header Options
• Check all the available options on that section.
• If preview is fine, click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Featured Section Options ( Feature Slider and Feature Info Section )

You can add beautiful Feature Slider with Feature Info in the Front Page. Feature slider also includes the ability to add Count Down Timer.

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Featured section options

Enable Feature Section

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Featured section options > Enable Featured section.
• Checked on Enable Featured Section
• Featured section will display on Front/Home page
• If preview is fine, click on “Save & Publish” button to save the changes.

Featured Slider Selection

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Featured section options > Feature Slider Selection.
• Select the pages for the slider Items.
• If preview is fine, click on “Save & Publish” to save the changes.
• Title, Excerpt and Featured Image of each selected page will appear as a slider content and Image.
• Check all the available options to manage the slider section.
• You can make the responsive image or full screen background image from the available options.
• If preview is fine, click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Featured Info Section

This section is design to include basic information of you company or Events.

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Featured section options > Feature Info
• Select where to display
• Add icon, title and very short description
• If preview is fine, click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Home Main Content Area

Home main content area is special Home Page Sections from where you can add the available widgets to make the site as our demo page or even better.

• Go to Appearance > Customize >Home Main Content Area
• Add the necessary widgets from the available Widgets
• Specially use necessary widgets with AT prefix
• If you add the Widgets on Home Main Content Area, it will appear on Home Page Section.
• Drag up or down to manage the position of Widgets
• After adding/editing them, don’t forget to click ‘Save & Publish’ button at the top.

Footer Options

Footer Options will help you to change the copyright text, Social icons or Footer menu on footer sections.

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Footer Options > Bottom Copyright Section
• Change the options you desire
• If preview is fine, click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Layout Design Options

Layout Design Options help to change the overall layout of site including Front Page Content, animation, sidebar for Front page, Archive and Inner pages, Colors, Blog and Single Image size, Background image etc.

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout/Design Option

Front Page Content Options

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout/Design Option > Front Page Content Options
• Check to hide the front page content of home page.
• If preview is fine, Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Animation

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout/Design Option > Animation
• Check this to disable overall site animation effect provided by theme.
• This will not disable the slider animation, Slider has its own options for Animation, Check Feature Section options
• If preview is fine, Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Default Post Page Sidebar Layout

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout/Design Option > Default Post Page Sidebar Layout
• Select the sidebar from the available dropdown option.
• If preview is fine, Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Front/Home Front Sidebar Layout

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout/Design Option > Home Front Sidebar Layout
• Select the sidebar from the available dropdown option.
• If preview is fine, Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Category/Archive Sidebar Layout

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout/Design Option > Category/Archive Sidebar Layout
• Select the sidebar from the available dropdown option.
• If preview is fine, Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Default/Blog Archive Layout

This options helps to select featured image size, Read More text and overall blog/archive/search layout

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout/Design Option > Default/Blog Archive Layout
• Check the image options and read more options.
• Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Color

This free version have 5 different color options. Check the available color options and select the required color for you.

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout/Design Option > Color
• Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Background Image

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout/Design Option > Background Image
• Select the image for your site background.
• Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Single Post Options

The options content the Single Post Header Title and Image Size

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Layout/Design Option > Single Post Option
• You can Change Singe Post header title
• Also Feature Image Size
• Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Theme Options

Theme options includes the following features:

• Breadcrumb
• Search Placeholder
• Social Options
• Date Countdown Text

Breadcrumb

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Breadcrumb Options
• Check to Enable Breadcrumb to enable it.
• Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Search Placeholder

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Search
• Enter the suitable search placeholder.
• Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Social Options

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Social Options
• Enter the social link and select the icons for the respected links. Use search features there.
• Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.

Date Countdown Text

You can change date count down text

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Theme Options > Date Countdown Text
• Check the options there on the form.
• You can edit or remove the text.

How to visible Excerpt Section on Pages & Post?

1. Go to Pages > Add new or Edit the page
2. View at the top, you will see the screen options
3. Click there and Checked on Excerpts
4. After that Excerpt will visible. Please scroll to down to see it.
5. Please have a look on the screenshot for the details.

If you have any confusion, please use support forum for queries.