MightyMag

1. Where Can I find Visual Composer license key?

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

3. How do I create a blogging page like this: http://mightymag.djwd.me/blogging/ ?

4. How can I reduce header spacing?

5. I installed the theme and imported the demo file but it doesn't look like demo, why?

6. Why the Post Grid next to the slider isn't appearing?

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

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

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.

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

1. Create a new Page and name it something like Blog.
2. From the dropdown menu at the right Page Attributes > Page Template select MightyMag Blog
3. Save the page
4. Now move to Settings > Reading
   
5. In Front page displays > Posts Page select the page you just created and click Save changes
6. Done! Now you can link the page in your main menu like in the live demo in Appearance > Menus

Paste this in the Advanced > Custom CSS textarea

#mgm-branding {padding: 20px 0;}

Adjust the 20px value with the one of your choice.

After importing XML demo content, you are left to organize your widgets as unfortunately wordpress importer doesn't support them.

To build your homepage demo-like, please check the default documentation > Creating the homepage

If you wish to import widgets also, I attach a .wie file from the Widget Importer & Exporter plugin, which you can use to import some demo widgets from the live demo by installing the plugin and importing the file.

You can download it here

Note: if widgets aren't appearing on the front-end right after importing, please move to Appearance > Widgets and hit the "Save" button once for each widget.

Note 2: Please ignore any widget failing to import, as the live demo has many sidebars for all the homepages layouts, which are not needed to the end user.

The images grid auto pulls the latest three posts with a featured image set, minus the number of posts featured in slider (to avoid repetition). It's possible that you simply do not have enough posts yet!

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.

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!