Prolific

A theme suitable for Corporate Offices and Personal sites. Make your business sites, travel agency sites, fashion sites, sports sites and many more.

Get more features on Premium Version: ProlificPro

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 Prolific 
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 prolific.zip and upload the folder.
3. Once it’s uploaded, go to your WordPress Admin, browse to Appearance > Themes.
4. Click the Activate link.

Dummy Data

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.

This theme is specially build for corporate purpose. Usually each page have content and featured image.  Featured image will display on front page, in single page.

Adding Featured Image

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

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.

Parent Page and Child Pages

This theme is based on Parent Page and Child Pages. All the section on the home page are managed by Widgets and the content on the sections are called from Child Pages.

Parent Page will be a selector page and the content of it’s child page will appear on front end. Look here to know about how to create a Child Pages.

Home Page/Make Home Page as Demo

Are you wondering about how to create home page as our demo ? Here we are going to present you how to make home page as demo. Please just follow the below procedure to make it. It’s simple to create home page.
1. Install Theme Prolific

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

2. Create Page for Home and Blog
You need at most two pages, one for Home and another for Blog, to make like demo. Please follow this below steps to
set home 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. Preview front page
View the front page, the featured section(Slider Section) will appear. To change the slider,

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Featured Section Options > Feature Slider Selection
• Select parent page and its sub-pages will be shown is slider.

5. Section below the slider
Are you wondering how to add the section below the slider ? It’s simple, please follow the below process:

• Go to Appearance > Widget
• Add the available widget (Example AT About Section) on “Home Main Content Area”
• Look here to know how to make About Section.
• Use the available options of the Widgets
• View the home page, you will find the about section there.

6. More section on Home Page
If you need more section on home page, just add the available widget there on “Home Main Content Area”
You will find the others section below.

• Make Team Section On Home Page.(Follow Same Parent Page and Child Page Process)
• Make Testimonial Section on Home Page.(Follow Same Parent Page and Child Page Process)
• Follow the same process for other sections as well.

How to make One Page Site ?

Please follow the blog post to know about create one page site. Follow all the steps mentioned on the post. 

Theme Options and Setting on Customizer

All the team options and settings are available on Admin Panel > Appearance > Customize. From this section you can manage,

• Site Title, Tagline & Logo
• Menus
• Slider Sections
• Home Page Sections
• Footer Widget Sections
• Site Layout including Sidebars
• Footer Sections including copyright
• Breadcrumb Options
• Search Placeholder
• Related Post Options etc

Site Title, Tagline & Logo

• 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.

Slider Sections

• Go to Appearance > Customize > Featured section options

Enable Slider

• 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 Parent Page and its child pages will appear on slider. Look here to create child pages.
• If preview is fine, click on “Save & Publish” to save the changes.
• Featured Image of each sub page will appear as a slider image.

Widgets On Sidebar/Home Main Content Area

Prolific is based on Widgets as well. You can manage the home page section, inner page sidebar section and footer section with widgets. To add the widgets on this section,

• From Customize, go to Widgets and Sidebar or Appearance > Widgets > Sidebar
• Add the necessary widgets from the available Widgets
• 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

Header Options

• From the Header options, you can customize your site header
• From Customize, go to Header Options
• You can manage the phone number, email and social icons on the header.

Footer Options

• From Customize, go to Footer Option

Copyright Text

• From Customize, go to Footer Option and Copyright Text
• Write your Footer Copyright Text
• Click on ‘Save & Publish’ button to save your change.

Social Options

• From Customize, go to Footer Option and Social Options
• Enable the Social icons on the footer. You must need to add the social links on header section first.
• Click on ‘Save & Publish’ button to save your change.

Layout/Design Option

Very flexible options for changing you site layout, design and colors.

Front Page Content Options

• From Customize, go to Layout/Design Option then Front page content options
• Checked to hide the content from front page.

Setting up Default Sidebar Layout

• From Customize, go to Layout/Design Option then Default Sidebar Layout
• From the dropdown Choose available options. (Make sure your widget area have widgets)

Setting up Default Blog/Archive Layout

• From Customize, go to Layout/Design Option then Default Blog/Archive Layout
• From the dropdown Choose available options. (Left image and No Image)

How to change the Site Primary color and Background color ?

• From Customize, go to Layout/Design Option then color
• Set the primary color and background color.
• Click on “Save & Publish” to save the changes.

How to Add/Remove the background image

• From Customize, go to Layout/Design Option then Background Image
• You can add or remove the Background Image
• Manage the Background Image based on available options
• Click on ‘Save & Publish’ button to save your changes

Where and how to add custom CSS ?

If you are familiar with CSS, you can customize you site by writing your own CSS code

• From Customize, go to Layout/Design Option then Custom CSS
• You can add custom CSS here
• Click on ‘Save & Publish’ button to save your changes

Theme Options

Extra more options for your theme customization.

How to Enable/Disable Breadcrumb

• From Customize, go to Theme Options then Breadcrumb Options
• Now Enable/Disable Breadcrumb

How to change Search Placeholder

• From Customize, go to Theme Options then Search
• Enter Search Placeholder

How to Make Our Services Section ?

1.  Create a Page(Parent Page). Example: Services
2. Create Page(Child Page). Example: Services 1, Services 2, Services 3 & Services 4. Look here to know about creating child pages.
3. Go to Appearance > Customize > Widgets > Home Main Content Area > Select the AT Service Section Widgets
4. Select the Parent Page (Services)
5. Click on Save & Publish to save the changes.
6. View on Front End. Services section will appeared there.

Where to add the icons on services section ? 

1. While adding pages, you will get a section to add the icon class.
2. Please add the Google Font awesome icon class there.
3. Please see the screenshot below for details.

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.

Make Team, Testimonials, Clients etc section

All the section on the home page are based on child/parent page and widget. You can create the parent page as a selector and it’s child pages to display on the front end. Follow the same procedure, as our services section above to make the other sections as well.

If you have any problem related to theme, please post your query on support forum.