1. Theme Support and Licence
Thank you for purchasing JointUp WordPress Theme. If you need
support you can contact us by email (just.themes.wp@gmail.com).
You must provide purchase
code, we'll answer you in 1-2 business days (if you wait
for answer too long, please check spam folder).
According to item
support policy it doesn't include theme customization,
third party plugins integration and hosting problems.
- You are licensed to use the Item to create one single
End Product for yourself or for one client (a “single
application”), and the End Product can be distributed for
Free
- You can modify the Item and therefore delete unwanted
components before creating your single End Product
You are not allowed:
- You can’t Sell the End Product, except to one client. (If
you or your client want to Sell the End Product, you will
need the Extended License.)
For more information about license please read https://themeforest.net/licenses/faq.
2. Theme installation
To install this theme you must have a working version of
WordPress already installed. Make sure you have clean WordPress
setup.
This installation
guide will help you to install the WordPress. If you area
new in WordPress we recommend you to read WordPress Codex, FAQ
and Lessons.
Requirements
You need web hosting with at least PHP5.6, MySQL
5 or higher and WordPress 4.6 installed. Please
check WordPress official minimal requirements https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
If you have troubles with theme installation or one
click demo install, make sure your server configuration
limits are:
- post_max_size 32M
- upload_max_filesize 32M
- max_execution_time 600
- memory_limit 128M
You can check them using plugin PHP
Info. To change these values:
- Edit your .htaccess file (at root of your FTP) and
adding these lines:
php_value upload_max_filesize 32M
php_value post_max_size 32M
php_value memory_limit 128M
php_value max_execution_time 600
2. Try to use plugin PHP Settings
3. If it still not helps - contact your hosting provider, they must
help you with server configuration.
Installation
The theme files can be uploaded in two ways: Through FTP or
through WordPress dashboard.
- FTP
Upload the non-zipped theme folder into the
/wp-content/themes/ folder on your server. You must upload
folder /jointup/ from archive jointup.zip.
- WordPress
Navigate to "Appearance" > "Add New Themes" -> "Upload
Theme" -> "Choose file" (choose jointup.zip)
> Install

If you have error "Theme is missing the style.css stylesheet error"
- make sure you uploading inner WordPress .zip file with theme, not the
whole archive downloaded from ThemeForest. More information on https://help.market.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/202821510-Theme-is-missing-the-style-css-stylesheet-error.


Activate it after install.
Basic configuration
- Install all required plugins (Especialy Unyson, JT Extand WPBakery) by clicking on Begin
installing plugins

- Activate them after
that
- Update permalinks for custom pages in Settings ->
Permalink -> Save
Notice: if you want to use a child-theme, you can also
upload the file jointup-child.zip in addition with
the main JointUp Theme. Child Theme allows you to
add/modify CSS Stylesheet and functions without modifying main
theme files. And you'll not lose your modifications after main
theme update.
Demo Content Install
We recommend you to install demo content. Go to the Tools
-> Demo Content Install. Be aware - installing of
demo content will delete all your current content.
Click Install, wait till it'll be downloaded. Your WordPress
JointUp theme now must be identical to live preview. If you
have troubles with installation, please check minimal PHP
hosting requirements from Theme installation
section.

If Tools -> Demo Content Install not Available - make sure
Unyson Plugin is installed and activated. Also Backup & Demo Content Extension must be active:

If demo installation interrupts with warning "Curl SSL" , contact your hosting support and ask them to check, that Curl SSL support is enabled on your site.
If backup or import interrupts with "Abort" link and you have this notice in dashboard “Unyson: Your website is hosted using the LiteSpeed web
server. Please consult this article if you have problems backing up.” please read this article http://manual.unyson.io/en/latest/extension/backups/index.html#litespeed-webserver.
If after installation you have problems with menu and it displayed without drop down levels like on screenshot:

Make sure that Main Menu is assigned in Appearance -> Menu -> Menu Settings -> Display Location:

3. Theme Configuration
Upload your Logo and fill all fields in Appearance -> Theme Settings
Logo Upload

Pageloader - styled for particular theme page loader can be deactivated
WooCommerce Product Hover Zoom - activated mouse over
zoom in single product page
Google API Key - you must enter your Google
API Key if you need Google Maps services.
Media
Default Heading Icon and Headings Icon white - sets image visible under two-line headings in theme
Menu pattern - animated (by default) icon for hover and active menu elements. You can find in media archive several colors. It will be also used for Go Top link at the footer
Inner Header and 404 Page Background - upload background
images for certain pages.
Excerpt Blog and WooCommerce - automatically cuts text on
these pages.
Layout
Blog and Gallery layout - default layout for /blog/ and
/gallery/ pages.
Excerpt Blog and WooCommerce - automatically cuts text on
these pages.

Footer block
Hide Go Top - disables footer go top link
Footer Block Background - set animated background for Block Before
the Footer
Copyrights - change copyright text
Hide Footer - allows you to control footer
widget columns, also you can control mobile view of these
columns

Footer can have 1-4 columns (or can be fully disabled). In this demo we using 1-column layout.
Favicon
Next, in Appearance -> Customize you can set Site
Title, add Favicon

Color Customization
Appearance -> Customize -> JointUp Settings allows you to
change all main colors of the theme
(section can be named is theme you are using, for example JointUp Settings)

CSS Customization
For minor changes you can use Appearance -> Customization -> Additional CSS. Basic information about of CSS:
Also you'll need in-browser tool for CSS Tweaks (watch firebug video tutorial):
- Firebug (in Firefox)
- Chrome Developer Tools (in Google Chrome)
- Web Inspector (in Safari)
WordPress settings
You can find more information in WordPress
documentation, but we'll describe main options:

- Settings -> General. You can set here your email,
timezone, date format
- Settings -> Reading. Frontpage must be set to
"Homepage", but you can use any page of site as welcome
page. Also you can change number of posts per page. 6, 8 or
10 will be optimal
- Settings -> Discussion. You can enable/disabled
premoderation of comments here.
4. Menu and Widgets
Menu
Use Appearance -> Menu to set you header menu and
footer menu.
If you downloaded demo content, we set optimal pages, you can
change order and level. Add new pages or remove them here. You
can use different menus for header block (with multilevel
menus).

Widgets
Widgets are blocks visible in blogs, shop pages and
footer of site. You can configure blog sidebar position in pages
control (or disable it at all).
You can change them in Appearance -> Widgets.
You can use any of standard WordPress widgets. Also you can
install and any new widget in Plugins menu, but we can't guarantee
full
support for them.
5. Posts
Blogs posts
It's standard WordPress posts module. You can write articles
here, create categories, set tags.
