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THEME
This site is built with the Jupiter theme framework. They have a great free knowledge base to help you learn everything you need to know to master this theme.
Click Here – Jupiter Themes Knowledge Base
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PLUGINS
(mt) MediaTemple System Plugin
System Plugin for Media Temple servers to run efficiently.
Add from Server
Plugin to allow the Media Manager to add files from the webservers filesystem. Note: All files are copied to the uploads directory.
Site Stager
WordPress staging and development made easy. Bundled with the Media Temple Premium WordPress product to enable developers to stage/sync WordPress sites.
Akismet
Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from spam. It keeps your site protected even while you sleep. To get started: 1) Click the “Activate” link to the left of this description, 2) Sign up for an Akismet plan to get an API key, and 3) Go to your Akismet configuration page, and save your API key.
Better Search and Replace
A small plugin for running a search/replace on your WordPress database.
Custom Login Page Customizer
Custom Login Customizer plugin allows you to easily customize your login page straight from your WordPress Customizer.
Easy Modal
Easily create & style modals with any content. Theme editor to quickly style your modals. Add forms, social media boxes, videos & more.
Envato WordPress Toolkit
WordPress toolkit for Envato Marketplace hosted items. Currently supports the following theme functionality: install, upgrade, & backups during upgrade.
Gravity Forms
Easily create web forms and manage form entries within the WordPress admin.
SumoMe
Free Tools to grow your email list, social followers, and traffic from SumoMe.com
Woocommerce
An e-commerce toolkit that helps you sell anything. Beautifully.
WPBakery Visual Composer
Drag and drop page builder for WordPress. Take full control over your WordPress site, build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required.
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UPDATING CONTENT
Pages
Your page content such as Home, Contact, etc. can be directed from the “Pages” content type.
Posts
Blog posts can be added and categorized from the “Posts” content type.
Footer
All footer content is built with “Widgets”. Go to Appearance > Widgets and find the Footer widget modules to add and edit footer content.
Menu
The header menu and footer menus can be edited from Appearance > Menus.
Testimonials
The testimonials on the home page are built from the “Testimonials” content type. They are then selected from the content module found within the Home page.
You can also add new testimonials and add those to other pages since you can select what testimonials show up on each individual page.
FAQ
You can add FAQs to a page via the FAQ content type.
Pricing Tables
You are also given the ability to add pricing tables to your website via the “Pricing Tables” content type.
News
If you want to create a News section, you can segment off this content with the “News” content type.
Products
This site utilizes Woocommerce for E-commerce functionality. To manage your settings and orders go to “Woocommerce’ in the admin.
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Tutorials
For useful tutorials on how to use WordPress simply activate the “Sidekick” and “WP101 Video Tutorials”. Once activated you’ll see tabs to navigate to the tutorials in the left admin sidebar.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]
MAKING UPDATES
To make updates to the theme, it is recommended that you create a staging instance first and make updates there and push those to your production site. Making changes on your staging server will give you the ability to test stability and bugs without disturbing your customers user experience.
How to Stage a Website with Media Temple[/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”150″][/vc_column][/mk_page_section]