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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.

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