PowerMag

1. Where Can I find Visual Composer license key?

2. How do I remove the search bar in header?

3. I don't know how to add the Widgetized Home (Magazine) Can you help me step by step please?

4. What is the best way to update the theme without losing my settings on the Theme Options?

5. My website load time is very slow. Please fix it!

6. I can successfully attach different colors to categories, but the little colored corner on the menu doesn't appear, why is that?

7. Special characters are not appearing for my language, how could I fix this?

8. Why am I getting a "missing stylesheet" error when installing the theme?

9. How do I import the demo.xml file?

10. I use featured images so that when I make a new post it has a thumbnail pic next to it, but when my users click into the post I don't want them to see the image. Is it possible to use the featured image but not have it appear in the actual post?

11. How did you make that cool trick with the PowerMag logo changing color?

12. I can't see post excerpts for posts created with the Visual Composer, why is that?

You do not need a license key for the Visual Composer when bundled with a theme (unless you own a standalone license for the plugin).

Updates have to be rolled out along with theme updates.

Paste the desired code in the Custom CSS textarea (Advanced Tab):

To remove the search form only

#full-bar #searchform { display: none; }

To remove the whole gray bar

#full-bar { display: none; }

Basically you need to set the front page to display latest posts, then drag the widgets into the 3 sidebars (HomePage Big, Medium, Small), preferably the ones whose name starts with the HP prefix, and/or carousels.

Activate sliders and the vertical carousel in Theme Options > Sliders  Tab, and feature some posts in them as described in the documentation. 

Update via FTP

Please note:
make a backup of the Theme inside your WordPress installation folder /wp-content/themes/themename/

To update the Theme, login to ThemeForest, head over to your downloads section and re-download the theme like you did when you bought it.

Extract the zip contents, look for the extracted theme folder, and after you have all the new files upload them using FTP to the /wp-content/themes/themename/ folder overwriting the old ones (this is why it's important to backup any changes you've made to the theme files).

SNEWS Changelog

MightyMag Changelog

PowerMag Changelog

If you didn't make any changes to the theme files, you are free to overwrite them with the new ones without the risk of losing theme settings, pages, posts, etc, and backwards compatibility is guaranteed.

Alternative Solution:

If you prefer an automatic solution, you can use the Envato Wordpress Toolkit plugin as well. Since this is a third party plugin though its usage isn't covered by regular theme support.

Useful links:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-update-themeforest-themes-with-the-envato-wordpress-toolkit/

https://github.com/envato/envato-wordpress-toolkit

Unfortunately I cannot support speed related issues as the theme is already optimized at its best, slow loading times could depend on too many factors and different setup/hostings/plugins. 

From a theme prospective, make sure you enabled the built-in minifiers / unifiers in the Advanced Tab.

Perhaps you want to address this to your hosting provider as they surely can provide better insights than I.

Thank you for your understanding!

Those little colored corners are added separately as you may want to add other menu items that are not categories and attach them a color anyway. 
To make it appear you need to set the desired hex color code in the description field of the menu item as explained in the documentation.

Getting Started > Adding Menus

Note: If you can't see the description field you can enable it by activating it from the Screen Options at the top right of the Appearance > Menus admin page.

See attached image

Hi there,

I would try to do the following:

1. Go here

2. In the "Choose a Subset" dropdown, select your language subset

3. Hit the "Download @Font-face KIT" button

4. Extract the zip and replace files in the theme "fonts" folder with the ones just downloaded

Hope this helps

djwd

A common issue that can occur with users new to installing WordPress themes is a “Broken theme and/or stylesheets missing” error message being displayed when trying to upload or activate the theme. This error message does not mean that the theme you have purchased is broken, it simply means it has been uploaded incorrectly. Luckily, there is a very easy fix.

To import the demo.xml please follow this steps:

• Log into your site as an administrator.
• Make sure you activated your new theme before proceeding.
• Go to Tools → Import
• Choose “WordPress” from the list.
• Upload the demo content .xml using the form provided on that page.
• You will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
• You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the “Download and import file attachments” box.
• Please be patient while WordPress imports all the content. Posts, Pages, Projects, and Menus are imported.

Note: You will still need assign the menu a theme location & you’ll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress’ import system.

A possible solution could be to enable the "Small featured image" checkbox (in order to preserve date/cat/author info) and add a Custom CSS in the Advanced tab like so:

.entry-img-src { display: none; }

Well that’s kind of a trick for demo purposes, good news is that your theme is already set up to do the same if you want to! 
The PowerMag logo is basically a transparent png file where the word “Mag” is a ‘hole’ and the div background color changes according to the category color. To replicate it without editing theme files you should add the following in the Advanced tab and enter:

Custom JS

(adds .demologo class to the logo image, do not change the class name):

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
  $('#logo a').addClass('demologo');
});

Custom CSS:

.demologo {
display: block;
width: 202px;
height: 67px;
margin: 0 auto;
}

Finally edit the width and height of .demologo with your logo size.

Excerpts for posts made with the Visual Composer need to be set manually as WordPress will not execute shortcodes in post previews.

If you cannot see the Post Excerpts textarea you need to enable it from the Screen Options on the top right on the post editor page.