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Getting Started

Welcome to Portlu.

Portlu purpose-built for the ever-evolving landscape of business consulting and services. Reflecting the essence of modern business, “Portlu” is ideal for consulting agencies, corporate bodies, startups, freelancers, organizations, personal portfolios, and visionary projects.

Requirements

You need at least WordPress version 5.4.2+ installed for this theme to work properly. It is strongly recommended that you always use the latest stable version of Wordpress to ensure all known bugs and security issues are fixed. Other requirements:

You need at least WordPress version 5.4.2+ installed for this theme to work properly. It is strongly recommended that you always use the latest stable version of Wordpress to ensure all known bugs and security issues are fixed. Other requirements:

  • PHP version 5.6 or greater . But for maximum speed gain we recommend you to use PHP version 7.3+.
  • MySQL version 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.0 or greater.
  • WordPress memory limit of 128 MB or greater.

Server Requirements: https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/handbook/handbook/server-environment

PHP Configuration For Hosting Server

Use this code For the Elementor Editing and Demo Import Problem in your PHP configuration file on the hosting Server.

  • max_execution_time = 1000
  • max_input_time = 600
  • max_input_vars = 3000
  • memory_limit = 512M
  • post_max_size = 512M
  • upload_max_filesize = 512M

What's Included

After purchasing Portlu theme on themeforest with your Envato account, go to your Download page. You can choose to download Portlu theme only (Installable WordPress Theme) or the entire Portlu theme package.

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  • portlu.zip: An Installable WordPress Theme zip file.
  • portlu-child.zip: A child-theme zip file and a readme.txt note about the child-theme.
  • bundled-plugins: This folder contains required plugins to work with our theme.
  • sample-data: This folder contains required plugins to work with our theme.
  • Licensing: This folder contains the terms and conditions of the license
  • online-documentation-link.txt: This file contains online-documentation-link for portlu.

WordPress Installation

Important! if you download the package file from ThemeForest and try to upload it to your WordPress, you will face this error: Theme is missing the style.css stylesheet. Please make sure you unzipped the package and are uploading the correct file to your WordPress.

Please follow the instructions in the video to see how you can install WordPress on your hosting:

Using Theme Uploader

After that you need to install and activate the following pre-packaged plugins:

Server Requirements: https://make.wordpress.org/hosting/handbook/handbook/server-environment

Follow the steps as instructed in the images below:

  • From the dashboard go to Appearance Themes Add New Upload Theme
  • Click on “Choose File” and select portlu.zip
  • Click on “Install Now”
  • Active the Theme
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Using FTP Clients

Follow the following steps to upload your theme using FTP clients:

  • Use an FTP such as FileZilla and go to your WordPress installation director
  • Navigate to /wp-content/themes/ folder and upload the theme folder there
  • Log in to your WP Admin Dashboard and open the Appearance Themes
  • You will now see Portlu Theme listed among the other themes. Click on Activate and you’re done!

Configure Generic Plugins

Follow the following steps to configure the plugins settings:

  • From the dashboard go to Generic Elements Settings Features
  • Plese see the screenshot and Configure like this.
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Importing Demo Contents

We are providing you two methods for importing demo contents: Automatic and Alternative. You can follow either one of these methods.

  • Automatic (Recommended): This method will remove all your existing data, so use this method only in fresh website. This procedure will be faster because you just have to do one click and then everything will happen automatically. If you want an exact clone of demo website without doing any manual configuration after importing data then this method is appropriate for you.
  • Alternative: Use this method only if: Automatic demo import method fails and You already have a working website with existing contents(eg. posts, pages etc).

Light Demo Import

Important! This option only for the light version of this theme. If you want to import light demo for your website, you need to configure some settings. See the below section.

  • First please make sure that Portlu Parent Theme or Child theme is activated on your site.
  • From the dashboard go to Appearance Customize Portlu Customizer Light Demo
  • After enabling the light demo, you can import demo data. Otherwise, you can't import light demo.
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Automatic Import

Important! Before proceeding, please remember that when you are done with the demo import, all existing settings and contents will be removed and replaced by the demo contents. So it is highly recommended that you should only do this in fresh site.

  • First please make sure that Portlu Parent Theme is activated on your site
  • From the dashboard go to Appearance Import Demo Data Import Demo
  • To update permalink, navigate to Settings Permalink Post name Save Changes
import-demo permalinks

Manual Import

We have provided some sample contents inside sample-data directory which comes with your theme package. You have to import those contents.

  • First please make sure that Portlu Parent Theme is activated on your site
  • Importing Contents : From the dashboard go to Tools Import Install Now (WordPress) Run Importer Browse -> contents-demo.xml Upload file and import
  • Importing Widgets :

    You need to install Widget Importer & Exporter plugin for importing Widgets.

    Tools Widget Importer & Exporter Browse -> widget-settings.json import widgets
  • Importing Customizer options :

    You need to install Customizer Export Import plugin for importing Customizer options

    Appearance Customize Export/Import Import Browse -> acf-meta.json -> checked import

Importing Contents

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Importing Widgets

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Importing Customizer options

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Change Demo URL

Please change our demo url from Elementor.

  • First navigate to Elementor Tools Section.
  • Change URL : From the dashboard go to Elementor Tools Replace URL

Change URL

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Change Site Title and Favicon

To change Site title and Favicon navigate to Dashboard Appearance Customize Site Identity and follow the following steps:

site-identity

Preloader on / off

Navigate to Dashboard Appearance Customize Portlu Customizer Header Extra Setting and follow the following steps:

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Back to top on / off

Navigate to Dashboard Appearance Customize Portlu Customizer Header Extra Setting and follow the following steps:

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Blog Setting

Navigate to Dashboard Appearance Customize Portlu Customizer Blog Setting and follow the following steps:

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Color Setting

Navigate to Dashboard Appearance Customize Portlu Customizer Color Setting and follow the following steps:

color-setting

404 page Setting

Navigate to Dashboard Appearance Customize Portlu Customizer 404 Page and follow the following steps:

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Typography Setting

Navigate to Dashboard Appearance Customize Portlu Customizer Typography Setting and follow the following steps:

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Slug Setting

Navigate to Dashboard Appearance Customize Portlu Customizer Slug Setting and follow the following steps:

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Home and Blog page setting

Navigate to Dashboard Settings Reading and follow the following steps:

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Customize Menu

Navigate to Dashboard Appearance Menus and follow the following steps:

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Turn on Coming Soon/Maintenance Mode

WordPress Maintenance Mode: How to Use It. https://elementor.com/blog/wordpress-maintenance-mode/

  • Navigate to Dashboard Elementor Tools Maintenance Mode
  • Choose between Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode
  • Set the template for the Coming Soon Mode. Template name "Coming Soon"

Note: You will see a red button on your top WordPress bar with the text: "Maintenance Mode ON".

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Customize Elementor Width

To change Customize Elementor Width navigate to Dashboard Pages Home(Edit with elementor) Let Top Bar Site Settings Layout Change Content width and white space and follow the following steps:

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Header Side Info

To customize Header side info navigate to Dashboard Generic Elements Generic Templates which page you want (open with elementor) and follow the following steps:

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Elementor Widget

Elementor Page Builder has a lot of built-in widgets by default. But we've created 50+ custom Elementor Widgets that you can use in your website and extend website functionality. You can find them under Bdevs Elementor section on Elementor edit mode.

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Translating Theme

You can translate this theme to another language easily. You have to translate several things for your website to work properly.

You need to translate 2 things Portlu theme & bdevs-elementor and bdevs-toolkits

Here is translate Theme step. Please follow the step to translate Theme

  • Install and activate plugin "Loco Translate".
  • Select the Theme or Plugin you want to translate from "Loco Translate" menu
  • Theme Translate (Portlu)
  • Plugin Translate (bdevs-elementor & bdevs-toolkits)
  • Click on New language link
  • Select your preferred language, and also select your location as "System". Then click on "Start Translating" button.

Here's a quick video tutorial about how to use Loco Translate:

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Updating Theme

We recommend that you use the Envato Market plugin to keep the theme up-to-date.

  • Install and activate the "Envato Market" plugin manually. Here's the plugin zip file: http://envato.github.io/wp-envato-market/dist/envato-market.zip
  • Navigate to Plugins Add New
  • From WordPress Admin Panel, navigate to "Envato Market" menu.
  • In this page, you'll find a field for inserting Envato Token. Insert your Envato Token Code from there. You can generate this code from this link: https://build.envato.com/create-token/?purchase:download=t&purchase:verify=t&purchase:list=t.
    Remember, while generating the token, you have to login using the same envato id which you used to purchase theme.
  • After completed the above steps successfully, Navigate to Appearance Themes. Here you'll see an "Update now" link beside your theme. Click on that link and your theme will be updated automatically

Here's a quick video tutorial explaining this method:

Contact Us

If you face any issue please contact us at Support Ticket. We provide 15 hours real-time support for our customers.

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