The Agency v2 WordPress Theme

Theme Requirements

Softwares

• WordPress 3.9+
• PHP Version 5.4+

Image Sizes

Theme Installation

Please read carrefully the installation instructions before asking any questions about why your Theme is not installing correctly.

Within WordPress

• Navigate to Appearance -> Themes -> Install Themes. Go to Upload, and select the file “theagency-v2.zip” within the zipped file you downloaded from ThemeForest.net. Hit ‘Install now’ and the theme will be uploaded and installed. This may take some time.

FTP Upload

• Using your FTP client, upload the non-zipped theagency-v2 folder into the wp-content/themes folder on your server. Go to Appearance -> Themes and activate the theme. The template is now installed and activated.

Theme Options

The custom admin panel was developed to make the life on the end user (you) a whole lot easier. Within the custom admin panel you'll find all extra options to have your theme the way you want.

• Within the WordPress administrative panel, on your left side menu, just click the last item Appearance -> Theme Options.

Menu Setup

The Agency v2 require WordPress menus to work. You can be found the custom menus management under Appearence -> Menus.

• You'll need to create at least one new menu for the header. Timewarp also supports more custom menus, which you could use in the widget area. Click the + to add a new menu.

• Now, on the left hand side, select the pages you would like to have added to the menu. You can then click "Add to Menu" and they will show up on the right side of the page. You can drag the pages around to arrange them the way you'd like.

• Create a drop menu by dragging menu items under and to the right of another menu item.

• Save the menu when finished.

• Now that you have the menu created, you need to assign it in the Theme Locations window located on the left. From the drop down menu, select the appropriate menu for the header and save.

Projects

The Agency v2 use custom post type for managing and displaying your work.

• Head over the projects menu item in the left navigation area, click on Add New.

  • Enter the project title.
  • Set your featured image.
  • Assign categories & tags for this project.
  • Enter a small description of your project in the Excerpt field.
  • Use the content editor to create any content you want about your project. You can build a gallery by clicking on Add Media button. Refer to the Create a gallery section to learn more about galleries in this theme.
  • Use the available Built-in shortcodes to create a beautiful showcase layout for your projects.

Project Options

• Layout & Style

  • Header: Use this setting to set your header style to Light or Dark. That will affect the way your Branding and Navigation items will show up.
  • Layout
    • Fullwidth: Be free to build anything you want with this layout. Use the available Built-in shortcodes to create a beautiful showcase layout for your projects.
    • Width sidebar: Useful if you want to create a gallery only. The sidebar will display the project title, excerpt and categories. You still can use the content editor to create anything you want.
  • Cover Text Color: Used to set the text color displayed on the project cover image. This setting is related directly with the project accent color below.
  • Accent Color: This setting will set the background hover color when you mouse over a project cover image.

• Project Hero

  • Image: The hero image is set as a page background with Backstrech.js plugins. Suggested image size: 1920x1080 pixels.
  • Video (WEBM, MP4): Upload your high definition video here if you want to use a video for the project hero.

• Project Metadata

  • Sidebar text: If you set the project layout to With sidebar, this text will be displayed under the project title along with the project's categories. By the way, project's categories are displayed as Deliverables.

Contact Page

The Contact Page uses the WordPress Contact Form 7 plugin. Which can be installed while activating the theme.

• Create a new page called Contact.

• Within the body of the post, just insert the short code for your contact form you created within Contact Form 7. Update the post. You should now see the form on the contact page.

Widgets

Add widgets to each Sidebar Widget Area panes to see them in the different sidebars of the theme. You can add text widgets, calendar widget, the Twitter Feed widget, Custom menus, etc. here just like we did on the demo.

Short codes

The Agency v2 includes a host of shortcodes that you can use to style your website's content.

View all the documentation of these shortcodes by clicking here.

Online Documentation & Changelog

There is an extended documentation for The Agency v2 available online.