Oscend Documentation

If you plan to make some modifications to the code of the theme, will be better to make them via the child theme. If you make modifications directly to the parent theme, you will lose them when the theme is updated. When you make modifications inside of the child theme instead, you can update the parent theme without losing any change you have made.

Child theme you’ll find in a “oscend-child.zip”.

More information about child themes you can find in WordPress Codex- Child_Themes.

To install this theme it is essential to have a working version of WordPress already installed. For the information about WordPress platform installing, please see the WordPress Codex. After you download the “oscend.zip” file from Themeforest you will have all the necessary files . Then you should extract the “oscend.zip” file and you will find the theme zip file called “oscend.zip”inside. You need to install this file.

You can install the theme in two ways: via WordPress, or via FTP. If you have trouble installing the theme via WordPress, please proceed with installing it via FTP and the problem will be solved. Follow the steps below to install via WordPress.

• Log in to the WordPress Administration
• Go to “Appearance › Themes › Add New › Upload Theme”
• Browse and select theme zip folder called “oscend.zip” (is located inside of downloaded zip package)
• Press INSTALL NOW button
• Activate theme with Activate link

FileZilla Free FTP Client

• Log into your hosting space via an FTP software
• Unzip the theme/oscend.zip file and use the extracted oscend theme folder
• Upload the extracted oscend theme folder into wp-content themes in your wordpress installation
• Activate the newly installed theme. Go to Appearance Themes and activate the installed theme.

• Go to “Appearance › Install Plugins”
• Install and activate required plugins

You can either start building your site from scratch, or import one of our demo sites and then modify it to fit your needs. We will now explain how to do the latter.

oscend comes with one-click import module. Here’s what you need to do:

• Login to WordPress admin
• Go into admin panel > Apperance > Import Demo Data
• Choose the demo site that you wish to import and click on the “Import Demo” button.

Many issues that you may run into such as; white screen, demo content fails when importing, empty page and other similar issues are all related to low PHP configuration limits.

The solution is to increase the PHP limits.

You can do this on your own .

• Find the php.ini file in your Server config files.
• For WAMP, its in apache2/bin/apache2.2.22/bin/php.ini
• Go to the line “max_execution_time=30” .
• Change it to 360 or any other large value.

Or contact your web host and ask them to increase those limits to a minimum as follows

• max_execution_time 360
• memory_limit 128M
• post_max_size 32M
• upload_max_filesize 32M

To setup and edit custom footer and Megamenu please use static blocks but set the necessary settings for this in the visual composer .

Now you can create unique footer and add them to your footer in theme customizer using static blocks.

Our theme comes with Custom widget created specially for the theme.
To set the Widget go to Appearance > Widgets.

To display the form please use this code in mailchump plugin.

     <div class="oscend-mc4wp form-group has-feedback">
  <input type="email" name="EMAIL" class="form-control " placeholder="Email address ..." required="">
  <span class="icon icon-Mail form-control-feedback"></span>
  <input type="submit" value="">
</div>

You can also configure a variety of forms using contact form 7 and Mailchimp extension .

Please use plugin font icon loader for add new icon sets .
Apperance – Font Icons Loader

After upload nothing has happened?
Please use the correct zip structure .
You must set permission 777 on the folder wp-content/plugins/font-icons-loader .
You can manually add in folder wp-content/plugins/font-icons-loader/fonts/newicons

You can use these plugins with the oscend theme and you are fully compliant with the Envato’s policy, but you cannot activate them as the owner (so don’t try to use the oscend purchase code to activate one of these plugins).

When you purchase a theme from ThemeForest that bundles Visual Composer and Revolution Slider, you are free to use these Premium plugins with the theme. However, your oscend purchase does not give you individual Visual Composer and Revolution Slider licenses that allow you to activate or download these plugins as you wish. Activation doesn’t mean the plugin will not work but only that you cannot receive direct updates. Please don’t worry if you see warning messages about the plugin license activation.

To update you need:

• Navigate to the Plugins menu in your WordPress admin area.
• Deactivate revolution slider, delete it
• Go to Install Required Plugins
• Upload and install the new version
• Activate Visual Composer.

WPbakery gives you instant access to built in content elements. Each content element has been carefully crafted and offers multiple options that will enable you to build any layout you desire. You can build complex layouts based on these content elements within minutes, and without requiring a single line of code. Please check this video tutorial:

• Documentation: kb.wpbakery.com
• Video tutorials: vc.wpbakery.com/video-tutorials

You can use these plugins with the oscend theme and you are fully compliant with the Envato’s policy, but you cannot activate them as the owner (so don’t try to use the oscend purchase code to activate one of these plugins).

When you purchase a theme from ThemeForest that bundles WPbakery and Revolution Slider, you are free to use these Premium plugins with the theme. However, your oscend purchase does not give you individual WPbakery and Revolution Slider licenses that allow you to activate or download these plugins as you wish. Activation doesn’t mean the plugin will not work but only that you cannot receive direct updates. Please don’t worry if you see warning messages about the plugin license activation.

To update you need:

• Navigate to the Plugins menu in your WordPress admin area.
• Deactivate revolution slider, delete it
• Go to Install Required Plugins
• Upload and install the new version
• Activate WPbakery.

For the construction of our template, we use Kaswara module . This add-on for WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) . With this module you can create different pages without any limits .

In WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) we added a custom Theme elements . You can use it for create your own unique style.

Step 1 – Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel.

Step 2 – Click on Pages > Add New.

Step 3 – Click on oscend.

To create a new unique section use default row settings and also theme row options .

Step 1 – Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel.

Step 2 – Click on Pages > Add New.

Step 3 – Click on Backend Editor.

Step 4

Add and modify Row Layout

Step 1 – Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 – Select the Row Module

Step 3 – Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon) to Edit the Row element ( in our example we use row with 3 columns filled with text block )

Step 4 – To change the Row layout ( number of columns ) you need to click the second Icon from the left then select a layout or custom to make your own

Edit Element

Pencil Icon – To Edit Row, Column or Module you need to click the Pencil icon.

Duplicate Element

Pages Icon – To Duplicate Row or Module you need to click the Pages icon.

Remove Element

Trash Box Icon – To Remove Row, Column or Module you need to click the Trash Box icon.

About Row / Column / Custom heading / Text Block Design options

Design Options – When you edit row / column / custom heading / text block module, you can edit the design options . Row / Custom Heading / Text Block element have a default Bottom Margin of 35 pixel, you may want to set it to 0 if you don’t want to have bottom space It is Good to add bottom Padding to your Column, so they will looks good on mobile Left and Right Margin should NEVER be modified, please left blank For Row module the Left and Right Padding should also NEVER be modified, please left blank

To create a new unique section use default row settings and also theme row options .

We will explain how to create a full width content section.

Step 1 – Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 – Select the Row Module

Step 3 – Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon)

Step 4 – Change the Type setting to Full width content then click Save changes

Step 1 – Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 – Select the Row Module

Step 3 – Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon)

Step 4 – Click on Design Options ADD padding and REMOVE margin for better result, add a Background Image change to Cover and then Saves changes

Step 5 – Seclect background overlay and Enable background fixed in this row.

Step 6 – Update or Publish your page and you should now have a section with background fixed

Parallax Section

Step 1 – Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 – Select the Row Module

Step 3 – Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon)

Step 4 – Add parallax type background for row (Note: If no image is specified, parallax will use background image from Design Options).
You can also use advanced parallax in the options theme
Step 5 – Click on Design Options ADD padding and REMOVE margin for better result, add a Background Image change to Cover and then Saves changes

Step 6 – Update or Publish your page and you should now have a section with parallax background

Video Section

Step 1 – Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element

Step 2 – Select the Row Module

Step 3 – Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon)

Step 4 – If checked, video will be used as row background.

Step 5 – You can edit the Design options ( remove margin and add padding “optional” ) and then Saves Changes and Update / Publish your page. You should now have a Full width Section with Video

You can add your chat using Jivochat service . To do this, register on site Jivochat and get the code that you need to add to Kaswara-Settings .

First please import all the slides from a folder DemoContent/Revoslides using Revoslider import

• Documentation: slider-revolution-documentation

Documentation: https://templines.com/go/revslider-doc/ Video tutorials: available on YouTube

If you are unfamiliar with this awesome plugin, we recommend that you use the online documentation

You can use these plugins with the oscend theme and you are fully compliant with the Envato’s policy, but you cannot activate them as the owner (so don’t try to use the oscend purchase code to activate one of these plugins).

When you purchase a theme from ThemeForest that bundles WPbakery and Revolution Slider, you are free to use these Premium plugins with the theme. However, your oscend purchase does not give you individual WPbakery and Revolution Slider licenses that allow you to activate or download these plugins as you wish. Activation doesn’t mean the plugin will not work but only that you cannot receive direct updates. Please don’t worry if you see warning messages about the plugin license activation.

To update you need:

• Navigate to the Plugins menu in your WordPress admin area.
• Deactivate revolution slider, delete it
• Go to Install Required Plugins
• Upload and install the new version
• Activate slider.

The Envato Market plugin can install WordPress themes and plugins purchased from ThemeForest & CodeCanyon by connecting with the Envato Market API using a secure OAuth personal token. Once your themes & plugins are installed WordPress will periodically check for updates, so keeping your items up to date is as simple as a few clicks.

You can add a global token to connect all your items from your account, and/or connect directly with a specific item using a singe-use token & item ID. When the global token and single-use token are set for the same item, the single-use token will be used to communicate with the API.

You can update your theme manually by performing the following steps:

• Download the latest theme zip file from ThemeForest
• Extract it and locate oscend.zip
• Extract oscend.zip and locate the oscend folder
• Copy/Replace content of the oscend folder to the /wp-content/themes/oscend folder of your web site.

• • Autoptimize HTML ,CSS , JavaScript and use images lazy load
  • Async JavaScript
  • Shortpixel – Optimization images
  • Autoptimize + ShortPixel AI + CDN work
  • Super Cashe

Enable – Compress pages so they’re served more quickly to visitors. (Recommended)

• • Added in .htaccess this code

<code data-language="html">
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 6 month"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 6 month"
ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/woff "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 6 month"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 6 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
</code>

• 6. Enable NGINX caching
• 7. Configure the server to display correctly WEBP images (you can use Shortpixel for generate this type of images)

All information about updates here Appearance – About theme