Documentation
Overview
Thank you for purchasing Impulse Vision!
Impulse Vision is Multi-Purpose Corporate WordPress Theme based on Twitter Bootstrap. Here you will find instructions for installation and customization of the theme.
Installation and Setup - Top
Take the following steps to install Impulse Vision.
Installing WordPress, installing the theme and the plugins
- Install WordPress - Make an installation of WordPress and set it up. Version 4.0 of WordPress is used in this tutorial
- Copy your theme files - Unzip your theme file. Copy the impulsepress and impulsevision directories to the themes directory of your WordPress installation. Note that Impulse Vision is a child theme of Impulse Press.
- Install the Revolution Slider plugin - Copy the revslider directory to the plugins directory
- Activate your theme and install remaining plugins - login to the administation part of your WordPress installation. To activate Impulse Vision - go to Appearance -> Themes and click activate
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Install and activate plugins - After activating the theme, you will see the following message on the top of the page: "The following recommended plugins are currently inactive: Contact Form 7, Latest Tweets Widget, MailChimp for WordPress, Widget Importer & Exporter, WooCommerce and WordPress Importer." Press "Begin installing plugins". In the next page, install and activate all the plugins in the list. Be sure to activate the Revolution Slider plugin from the plugin list as well.
Importing Sample Content, Widgets and Slider
To have an overview on how the theme works and the page templates look like, we suggest that import the demo content. In the Impulse Press theme directory, you will find a directory called "demo-content"- Go to the administration part and select Tools->Import
- Install and activate the WordPress Importer plugin
- Click on "Browse" and select the impulsepress1.4democontent.xml file from the "demo-content" directory. Click "Upload File and Import". On the next page select the user you would like to assign to your posts as an author and click submit. This will import some demo content.
- Click on the "Pages" on the administration. You will see many pages that demonstrate the use of all the page templates and other features of Impulse Press.
- Now we are going to import some widget content.
- Go to Tools->Widget Importer & Exporter. Click "Choose File" and select the impulsepress-wordpress-widgets file from the demo content directory. Click "Import Widgets". Some sample content for the Theme's widgets will be imported.
- Select Tools->Reading. Select "A static page", "Home Vision" as the front page and "Blog" as the post page. Click "Save Changes".
- Got Appearance -> Menus. Click the "Manage Locations" on the top. Select "Menu" for the Top Menu and press "Save Changes".
- Go to Appearance - Widgets. Open the "Tweet" widget on the right and remove all the widgets, except for the last one ("Latest Tweets").
- Now we are going to import the Revolution Slider content.
- Go to plugin page, click on "Import Slider" and browse to the demo content directory and select the full.zip, shop.zip and main.zip sliders.
- Go to widgets and select "Hero Slider" Main Slider, "Homepage Slider" Shop, and "Hero Slider Fullscreen" the full screen slider.
- Now go to Appearance/theme options, on tab styling choose the color and the font you want and save changes.
- Check here how to config the Latest Tweets Widget.
- Check here how to config the MailChimp for WordPress Lite.
Theme Structure - How It Works - Top
Impulse Vision is essentially a Multi Page Template Theme built using WordPress Content, Widgets and Post Types sections.
See the Post Types sections for instructions on how to achieve this layout.
Homepage Vision
The "Home Vision" page template contains one widget on the top: the "Hero Slider". In the example content, we added the Revolution Slider widget.
Below the top widget, there are three widgets in three columns "Main One", "Main Two" and "Main Three".
Below the Latest News section showing the 4 Latest News. At right we have the Post Type "Services", you can configure this on wordpress menu at left.
Projects zone pushed from Post Type "Project".
At bottom there is the Tweet widget and the "Footer 1", "Footer 1" and "Footer 1".
Post Types - Top
The post types are used in a similar way than a page or post but have specific options for each one.
Services - Top
The post type Services allow you to create a specific page with a title, description and featured image. Those services are displayed on some page templates.
To create one page displaying all Services you have to choose one of the Services Page Templates
Team - Top
The post type Team allow you to create Team Members with options like Name, Bio, Picture, Job Title, Email and Social Profile links. Those Team members are displayed on some page templates.
To create one page displaying all Team Members you have to choose one of the Team Page Templates
Projects - Top
Impulse Vision comes with a Project post type that allows you to showcase your Portfolio.
Create a Page and select the page template "Portfolio Page", click save and then it will show the options to display the portolio. Select one of the options: One Column, Two Column or Three Column. Now you have created the page you have to create the portfolio entries, you need to go to your administration area and select "Projects" from you menu. In this page, you will se a list of post of the "Project" type. Each post will correspond to an entry in your portfolio.
In the post edit screen, you can set the title, description, featured image, project sidebar content and project URL.
Also you can assign tags to your post and have your portfolio with categories.
Your projects will appear organized by tag, each one showing the featured image.
Galleries - Top
Masonry Gallery
Create a page and click "add media". Create Gallery and select or upload your photos, then click on bottom right "create a new gallery".
In the right sidebar you have the options to choose the link, number of columns and the random order.
Save changes and it's done.
Shortcodes - Top
Bootstrap Shortcodes
Impulse Vision comes with support for shortcodes for Twitter Bootstrap layouts, components and javascript. Using the shortcodes for Bootstrap components is very simple. After activating the Impulse Vision theme, you will see the icon (B) in the WordPress post editor bar. If you click the arrow, you will see a list of the available shortcodes.
Impulse Vision provides shortcodes for many Twitter Bootstrap features and components like the layout grid, alerts, buttons, glyphicons, etc. The Impulse Vision DEMO website showcases most of them.
Font Awesome Shortcodes
Impulse Vision comes with support for shortcodes for Font Awesome icons.
Using the shortcodes for Font Awesome icons is very simple. After activating the Impulse Vision theme, you will see the icon (Flag) in the WordPress post editor bar. If you click the arrow, you will see a list of the available icons shortcodes. You can also set the size of the icon.
The Impulse Vision Theme Options - Top
Impulse Vision has many options for customizing your theme and a powerful options panel that you can use to configure your theme. This framework is easily extendable so that you can easily add options to your theme.
General Options
In the general options tab, you can configure the logo of your login window, your favicon and to enable or disable breadcrumbs for your whole site.

Header Options
In the header options section, you can enable or disable the displaying of the top bar, slogan text and social icons.
Configure whether the navbar is fixed and your website logo.

Footer Options
Similarly to the header options, you can enable or disable the displaying of the social icons on your footer. You can also add a custom Copyright text.

Styling
You can choose one of the color styles available.
Impulse Vision allows you to customize the look and feel of your theme completely. You can include your own CSS theme in a directory (css-themes).
Choose the Google font to use on your website.

Blog
In the blog options, you can choose to display the blog metadata or not. You can also customize the text of the "read more" button.

Social
In this section, you can configure the links to various social media accounts.
In this Theme is only available the the icon type at right.

Tracking
Here you can enter your custom tracking code for Google Analytics for example.

Options Backup
This feature allows you to backup your options to a file.

Support - Top
You can get support from the Impulse Vision support site
Thank you again for your purchase and feel free to contact us with questions regarding the theme.
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