After purchasing successfully our theme from Themeforest, you will need to download theme package to use. To download the package, please login to your Themeforest account, navigate to “Downloads”, click the Download button in the left of the theme, choose All files & documentation to download our theme package to your computer. The theme package contains:
- ListGo Theme File: Includes listgo.zip file that consists of everything you need to install the theme.
- Document Folder: Includes ListGo Documentation file that helps you get to know about ListGo and guides you to build your site with our theme.
- Licensing Folder: Includes the licensing files of Themeforest purchase.
To use ListGo theme, You must be running WordPress 4.0 or higher, PHP 5.3 or higher, Mysql 5 or higher.
Installing Theme
Once you have downloaded the ListGo package from Themeforest.net, you can choose one of the two methods to install this theme.
- Installation Via FTP
Extract the listgo.zip file and upload the extracted folder to the /wp-content/themes/ folder on your server.
-
WordPress
Navigate to Apperance -> Add New Themes -> Upload page. Select the listgo.zip file.
Press the Install Now button to upload and install the theme.
After uploading the theme, you must activate it. Navigate to the Appearence -> Themes page to activate the theme.
Installing Plugins
After you have actived ListGo, you will see a notice at the top of the screen. This notice warns you about 8 plugins that are required and recommeded to be installed along with the theme (or click on Appearance->Install plugin). Click on Begin installing plugins to install/active the plugins one by one.
Theme's Demos
There are two ways to import the demo: Importing demo via Wiloke Service and Importing demo via WordPress Import
Importing Demo Via Wiloke Service
Following these below steps to import theme's demos:
- Ensure that Wiloke Service plugin is activated, If you have yet to see Wiloke Service menu item on the admin menu, please go to Appearance -> Install Plugins -> Looking for Wiloke Service -> Installing and Activating it
- Once the plugin is activated, click on Wiloke Service
- You need to enter your Access Token here, You can generate a Access Token via wiloke.net
- Navigate to Import sub-menu and choose a demo that you want -> Hits Import button
Importing Demo Via WordPress Import
Following these below steps to import theme's demos:
- Click on Tools -> Import from the admin sidebar
- Looking for Wiloke Service, If you have not installed it yet, click on Install Now, else click on Run Importer.
- Opening the package that was downloaded from the ThemeForest, you will see a folder called dummy-data, the demo.xml included in this folder. Dragging the file into import area and click Import. It may take a few minutes, so please be patient.
There are 3 methods to update the theme:
- Manually via WordPress admin: After downloading the package from Themeforest, you can delete the old theme and install the new theme. All your settings with our theme will be preserved but it sometimes results in losing Menu or Widgets settings because this method actually switches on/off the menu and widget location which has been registered by this theme.
- Manually via FTP:After downloading the package from Themeforest, you can extract it and using FTP client like FileZilla to remove the old theme and upload the new theme. With this method, all your settings, including the menu and widget will be persevered.
- Wiloke Service (Strongly Recommend): Using Wiloke Service to automatically update the theme and the plugins were included.
The theme supported Visual Composer plugin, so you can create a lot of styles on Homepage by using drag & drop functionality. Following these steps below to create a cool homepage for your website:
- Click on Add New sub menu of the Pages menu
- Enter a title for this page.
- Switch WordPress Editor to Backend Editor mode by clicking Backend Editor button.
- Click Add Element, a popup of shortcodes will be shown now
- Here you can choose shortcodes that you want to use for the page.
- We need to set the page as Visual Page before click Publish button. In the Page Attributes box, select Visual Page for Template setting.
- Now click Publish button
- Finally, go to Settings->Reading->Checked A Static page and assign Front page to Homepage (It's page title that was created previous step)->Click Save Changes
Wiloke ListGo Functionality plugin is required by this feature, so please ensure that this plugin is activated.
Adding Listing Page
- From the admin sidebar, clicking on Listings -> Add New
- There are somethings below you need to pay attention to:
- Listing Locations box: Where locations does the listing belong to? Eg: Asia, Europen.
- Listing Categories box: What kind of Services the lising belong to? Eg: Coffee, Shoping.
- Listing Template: Quickly set a style for the listing.
- Listing Information:
- Latitude & Longitude:This field is very important, It defined where coordite the listing appear on the map. If you leave empty this field, it means the listing will never to be shown on the map.
- Location: It brings more detail than Listing Locations category. Eg: The listing belongs to X city (X -> Listing Locations category) and the address is 123 Y street (Listing Information).
- To show Listing Information, and Gallery of the listing, please go to Appearance -> Widgets -> Dragging Widget Items that contain (Listing Detain) text in its name.
Listing Category, Listing Location
You can set the Featured Image for each Listing Category/Listing Location by clicking on Listing Categories / Listing Locations -> Select one its item -> Clicking on Edit link
A lots of Theme Settings will be found at Appearance->Theme Options. Here you can upload Logo site, Favicon, customize Typography, etc.
