Installing Parasol Theme

There are two ways to install Parasol theme on your WordPress:

1. Installing via WordPress Dashboard

1. Navigate to your WordPress Admin Menu and open Appearance → Themes section
2. Switch to Install Themes tab
3. Select Upload
4. Browse for .zip file on your computer and install it
5. Activate theme

2. Installing via FTP

1. Open your FTP Client Application (example: FileZilla)
2. Fill the login details (host, username, and password) then press Quickconnect
3. Go to ‘wp-content’ folder
4. Go to ‘themes’ folder
5. Extract the Parasol.zip file into your local drive then search the current location and upload the Parasol folder

Got an error during installation process? Try the following:

• If you are upgrading the Parasol theme via WordPress Admin menu open your ‘parasol.zip’ and rename the ‘parasol’ folder before uploading. Eg: parasol2. Then press Enter
• Make sure you are using the latest version of WordPress
• Make sure your hosting is running the latest version of PHP and MySQL
  Try to upload manually via FTP (FileZilla)

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Parasol Overview

Parasol is a magazine WordPress theme designed for portfolio

Parasol Frontpage

Theme Panel

Parasol uses a new version of our theme panel. This new panel will provides you more impressive experience to explore our themes. There are 4 sub menus inside of it. They are:

• Dashboard

Dashboard panel contains a lot of settings to customize Parasol theme. Within this panel you can configure the theme, customize its layout and optimize your website’s SEO. Just drag and drop the option from the left column into the right column to show all sub-options inside of it.

• Custom File Editor

This feature allows you to customize your themes by editing custom.css file.

• Update Framework

You will be informed the version of the theme panel framework you are currently use. Also you can update you framework to the latest version within this panel.

• Theme Info

This contains general information about Indulgencesuch as product version, framework vesion, license type and links to product support.

• Import Export Settings

This provides a feature for you to import or export your theme settings into a text file.

Page Template

Parasol provides 8 page templates available. They are:

Default Template

Archive

Contact

Gallery

Portfolio

Post

Sitemap

Testimonial

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Theme Options

There are many options available to customize the theme: social networking, thumbnail images and also contact settings. They are:

General Settings

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → Theme Options → General Settings. This provides general settings for your website. They are:

1. Use for Blog Title/Logo: There are 2 options available, they are ‘Logo’ and ‘Title’. Choose which option you prefer to set where your website header gets the source. The option ‘Title’ means that your website title will be used as the website header logo
2. Custom Favicon: Set your website’s favicon. Upload a 16x16px .ico image. Click here to generate your favicon
3. Header Custom Logo: If you prefer to use logo for your website header, set your website’s logo by uploading an image or by attaching a URL (external image)
4. Footer Custom Logo: Set your website’s footer logo by uploading an image or by attaching a URL (external image)
5. Header Left: Specify a text to be displayed on the left side of the wesite header
6. Header Left: Specify a text to be displayed on the right side of the wesite header
7. Enable Presstrends Tracking: This feature will allow us to see how you are using our themes. None of your personal data will be sent to us
8. Main Layout: There are 2 layout options available to use as your main website layout

Frontpage Settings

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → Theme Options → Frontpage Settings. This provides settings to configure how your website frontpage looks like. They are:

1. Headline Type: Choose a portfolio type which its portfolio will be displayed in the headline section
2. Brand Category: Choose a brand category which its posts will be displayed in the brand section
3. Front Top: Choose a page to be displayed on the front top section
4. Front Middle Left: Choose a page to be displayed on the front middle left section
5. Front Middle center: Choose a page to be displayed on the front middle center section
6. Front Middle right: Choose a page to be displayed on the front middle right section

Social Networking

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → Theme Options → Social Networking. Specify your social networking accounts that you are going to integrate to your website. There are Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ account available. Also you can enable/disable Social Share Button you would like to display on the single post and pages. There are Facebook Like Button, Twitter Share Button and Google +1 Button available

Thumbnail Settings

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → Theme Options → Thumbnail Settings. This provide settings to configure how the theme will generate the thumbnail images and its size. They are:

1. jQuery Lightbox Animation: Enable or disable jQuery lighbox animation on thumbnails
2. WordPress Featured Image: Enable this feature if you prefer to use this feature to generate thumbnail images on your website. If you enable this, there are two additional options :
• Dynamic Resize: If this options is enabled, the thumbnail in each post will be resized dynamically using WordPress native function
• Hard Crop: The original image will be cropped to match the target aspect ratio
3. Timthumb Image Resizer: If you enable this feature, the script will dynamically re-size images added through post custom field
4. Automatic Thumbnail: Enable this feature to allow the theme generates post thumbnail automatically from the first image in post
5. Thumbnail Images in RSS Feed: Enable this feature to allow the theme generates post thumbnail in RSS feed article
6. Thumbnail Image Dimennsions: You can specify the thumbnail image size that you are going to use on your website

Analytics ID, RSS Feed

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → Theme Options → Analytics ID, RSS Feed. In this section you can:

1. Put your GoSquared token
2. Put your google analytics script in your website
3. Specify your feedburner URL
4. Specify the feedburner comments URL

Open Graph Setting

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → Theme Options → Open Graph Settings. This contain settings to configure Open Graph feature on your website. You can enable/disable this feature and also there are options to specify the site name, open graph admin info and an image url to be set as open graph image.

Footer Settings

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → Theme Options → Footer Settings. In this section you can specify a text to be displayed as a custom credit in the footer section.

Contact Form

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → Theme Options → Contact to specify your email address which will be be used in the contact form on your website.

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SEO Settings

This panel provides settings to encourage your website Search Engine Optimization.

Page Title

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → SEO Settings → Page Title. In this section there are options to set how the title of every page in your website will be displayed. They are:

1. Blog Title: Specify a text you want to display as a blog title
2. Blog Description: Specify a sentence you want to display as a blog description
3. Separator: Specify a character you would like to use as a separator in page title
4. Custom Page Titles: Enable or disable this feature on your website. If you enable this option, there are additional options available. They are:
• Homepage Title Layout: You can define the order of the elements on your homepage
• Single Title Layout: You can define the order of the elements on the single title layout
• Page Title Layout: You can define the order of the elements on the page title layout
• Archive Title Layout: You can define the order of the elements on the archive title layout
• Page Number: You can specify a text that precedes page number in page titles
• Page Number Position: You can define the position you want to display the page number on your website

Description Meta

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → SEO Settings → Description Meta. In this section there are options to set meta description of your website. They are:

1. Homepage Description: There are 3 options available to choose. Each option describes the source where the home page meta description is populated
2. Custom Homepage Description: Specify a decription of your homepage
3. Single Page/Post Description: There are 3 options available you can choose the source where the single page/post meta description is populated
4. Global Post/Page Description: Enable or disable custom meta description on your posts and pages

Keyword Meta

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → SEO Settings → Keyword Meta. In this section there are options to set keyword meta of your website. They are:

1. Homepage Keywords: There are 2 options available to choose. Each option describes the source where the homepage meta keywords is populated
2. Custom Homepage Keywords: Specify a custom homepage keywords of your website. Separate each keyword using comma
3. Single Page/Post Keywords: There are 3 options available you can choose the source where the single page/post meta keywords is populated
4. Global Post/Page Keywords: Enable or disable custom meta keywords on your posts and pages

Indexing Options

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → SEO Settings → Indexing options. There are options available:

1. Archive Pages to Index: Select which archive page to be indexed
2. Add Follow Meta to Posts and Pages: Enable or disable a feature to add follow meta in all of your posts and pages

Advanced Options

Go to Parasol → Dashboard → SEO Settings → Advanced options. There is option available to enable or disable 3rd party plugin data and also there is an option to hide ColorLabs SEO Settings box from the post and page editing screens

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Creating Portfolio

1. Go to Portfolios → Add New Portfolio
2. Enter the portfolio title
3. Enter the portfolio content
4. Specify your portfolio URL
5. Choose a portfolio type
6. Specify a featured image

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Creating Testimonial

1. Go to Testimonials → Add New Testimonial
2. Enter the Testimonial title
3. Enter the Testimonial content
4. Specify a name, a company and a URL for your testimonial
5. Choose a Testimonial type
6. Specify a featured image

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Creating Brand

1. Go to Brands → Add New Brands
2. Enter the Brand title
3. Enter the Brand content
4. Choose a Brand type
5. Specify a featured image

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