To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For information in regard to installing the WordPress platform, please see the WordPress Codex – http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress When you are ready to install a theme, you must first upload the theme files and then activate the theme itself. The theme files can be uploaded in two ways:

1. FTP Upload: Using your FTP program, upload the non-zipped theme folder into the /wp-content/themes/folder on your server
2. WordPress Upload: Navigate to Appearance > Add New Themes > Upload. Go to browse, and select the zipped theme folder. Hit “Install Now” and the theme will be uploaded and installed.

Once the theme is uploaded, you need to activate it. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate your chosen theme.

This theme comes bundled with some plugins. They are :

• Contact Form 7 – Used for contact form and newsletter signup
• Master Slider WP – Create beautiful and creative slider
• Plugin Filmmaker – Core of theme –  it contains the functionality and posttypes of this theme
• WPBakery Visual Composer – This plugin will allow you to build your page easily.

When you active this theme, you can download these plugins in the notice about requirement plugins in the top page.

This theme comes with feature that allow you to import our sample data into your WordPress site.

This will help you get started, in case you are running on a fresh WordPress installation with no content at all.

To use it, please read the instruction below :

Go to Appearance > Theme option Go to tab Demo Importer Choose the demo and import Then wait for about 15 minutes . Done ! it’s all set.

Custom posttype is the kind of post that serve for some specific bussiness.
Create a custom posttype is similar to post .
Below I will show you how to create a Director post :

In left column in admin panel Click Add New in post type name Set data for post type and then Save

Below are the list of post types that comes with our theme,
each post type have its own attributes and purpose.

Let’s figure out !!

Page Template is the useful feature that bring to you the ability to set up the specific pages easier (Just choose the template then save). To understand Page Template, you can refer this article. To use Page Template, in edit page, you will see the Template option in the right column (like this image)

Below is a list of pages templates that are included in this theme :

This is default template, will show the content with default header & footer.

This page template don’t have any setting.

This template will show only content – without header & footer.

This page template don’t have any setting.

This template is for director list, where you can introduce your directors.
View Demo 

This page template don’t have any setting.

This template will create a beautiful time life, suitable for describing your team history.
View Demo

Discover Origin 1. Title Origin () 2. Name Origin 3. Content Origin Discover Info – Time line (can be dupplicated) 4. Name (will show name of timeline in the timeline chart) 5. Date (show date of current time line) 6. Image (image for time line) 7. Content (content for the time line)

This template will show all of your film in list style .
View Demo

This page template don’t have any setting.

This template will show all of your film in creative style.
View Demo.

This page template don’t have any setting.

You can use this template for show your services or your ability,…
View Demo.

Service Template – Service (can be dupplicated) 1. Title (title of service) 2. Icon (show the icon) 3. Description 4. Image (Background image for each service)

This template allow you to create a page to show out your gallery list.
View Demo.

This page template don’t have any setting.

You can use this template to show your history. Similar to Discover but in different style.
View Demo.

History Event > Event (can be dupplicated) This will show your evens in your history . 1. Event Year 2. Event Title 3. Event Image 4. Event Description History Event > Today History ( can be dupplicated ) 5. Year 6. Title 7. Description

Now for the blog template. The below list is template for bloger.
Remember that all blog template don’t require any setting.
Let’s check :

Visual Composer is the most feature rich drag and drop page builder on the market and one of the most popular WordPress plugins.
Our theme integrated our Short code as VC Element.
So that make the process is quite simple.
If you are not familiar with Visual Composer, please read this guide first.

Please take a look at the below part, we will introduce our elements :

1500 is a short code that allow you to show your creative description ot quote.
It just have few setting . Please check below :

Element Settings		Frontend View

This shortcode will allow you to show your recently posts with several options 🙂

Element Settings		Frontend View

This shortcode allow you to show your address, include subscribe form.
Remember that this form is linked to Contact form 7, so you have to create at least 1 form in Contact form 7.
If you don’t know how to use Contact Form 7, Click here.
Also, you can find your coordinate here : http://www.latlong.net/

Element Settings		Frontend View

This shortcode will allow you to show single film (you can set name , background , … )

Element Settings		Frontend View

This small element will allow you show your achievement, with countdown effect.

Element Settings		Frontend View

This shortcode will show crews that was already exist in your system.
To know how to create crew, please refer this.

Settings		Frontend-View

You can use this short code to show a small description of your team.
Its name is look like page template Discover but it’s not 🙂

Element Settings		Frontend View

This shortcode allow you show a gallery list.
It will take the featured image of each gallery to show.
Number of style : 02

Element Settings		Frontend View

Use this shortcode if you want to public your beautiful images from instagram.

Element Settings		Frontend View

This shortcode will allow you to show your partners that are existing in your system .
If you want to know how to create new post in partner post type , click here.

This post have 4 styles for 2,3,4,6 columns

Element Settings		Frontend View

Service is a small shortcode with image and text.

Element Settings		Frontend View

This is a shortcode that will show testimonials in your system with a slider.
So you have to create at least 1 testimonial.
You can refer here to know how to create a custom posttype post.

Element Settings		Frontend View

This shortcode will show your posts.
Just need to enter post ids.

Element Settings		Frontend View

This shortcode have a long name but it’s quite short.
It can be used for inviting people with custom link register.

Element Settings		Frontend View

This shortcode will show a list of your team post type as a slider.

Element Settings		Frontend View

This shortcode will show a small text block.

Element Settings		Frontend View

This shortcode allow you to introduce your films.
Number of style : 04

Element Settings		Frontend View

You can use this shortcode to show the awards that film get.

Element Settings		Frontend View

This shortcode will show a gallery as slider.

Element Settings		Frontend View

Here is a list of widget sidebars that included with our theme.

1. Footer sidebar 1-4 : 
   They will show as 4 columns in the footer, each sidebar for 1 columns (but just in case you are using footer column).
2. Right Sidebar : 
   The default sidebar of WordPress .
3. Single post sidebar :
   Side bar for blog post.

This theme provide a lot of options that you can easier to modify.
Please go to Appearance > Theme options  , then you will see.
I will describe these option for you as below :

You can custom your header and footer here.
There are 03 styles for header, 05 styles for footer.

Header style : 

Default menu :
With this option, logo will be the left side, and main menu will be in the right.

Header hamburger menu left side :
Menu will appear as small hamburger icon in the left, will show menu item when you click icon.

Header two nav :
Logo with be in center of “Menu Nav Right” and “Menu Nav Left” (Remember that you have to set Menu right and left in Appearance > Menus).

Footer styles : 

– Standard footer :
This is default footer, contain Subscribe form, your custom texts.
Demo footer
– No footer display :
Disable footer.
– Footer using image cover :
If you want to see footer like this page .
There is also an option below to choose background image for footer.
– Footer using color background :
Use color background for footer.
– Footer text center :
Text will be align in center. Like footer in this page

Header setting		Footer setting

This section is for Single gallery view.
There are 3 options in here :

type display gallery : We provide 2 types of single gallery view, they are slide style and grid lightbox, (please click type name to view demo) Your Title single gallery : Set the title for single gallery. Enable lightbox : In case you want the grid images but don’t want light box.

This section is for Taxonomy film.

Your type display film view list : Choose the layout. There are 2 layout : – Zigzag and List And the others is text in the top.

This is for the single post page.
There are 2 options for 2 types of post – normal post and video post.

Single post – Full page – Layout with sidebar Video post – Background black – None background

This option allow you to import our sample demo.
You can refer here to know how to use.

Along with the Theme Option, this theme provides another kind of option called Page Option.

When render the page, Page option will be prioritized over Theme option .  You can use page option in Edit page. Please check the image in the right

Visual Composer is one of top WordPress Page Builder Plugin.
If you are not familiar with Visual Composer, please watch this :

Or you can go to the official website of this plugin here :

Visual Composer Navigation Interface

Master Slider is a required plugin.
With this, you can create awesome sliders and then put them to your pages.
Below is the instruction to add slider to your page :

You have to create at least 1 slider first. Please watch this video to know how to make it . Then go to Edit page > Choose header type :Slider > Select your slider : Select slider that you created

Subscribe form in footer is integrated with MailChimp.
So you have to create a Mail Chimp account first.
And then go to Appearance > Theme option > Social Setting > MailChimp API > Set your Mailchimp API + Group ID.

You can refer the video below :

Developer can read this section to know which files that you have to modify.

Backend : 

• Post-type : You can modify posttype by editing post type register file in this folder :
  wp-content/plugins/plg-film-maker/includes/postypes
• Custom fields : Default custom fields of this theme are created in this file :
  wp-content/plugins/plg-film-maker/includes/postypes/customfield_theme.php
• Theme options :
  wp-content/plugins/plg-film-maker/includes/functions/theme-option.php
• Shortcode (Visual Composer Element) :
  This folder register shortcodes, manage the options, frontend-file of shortcodes.
  wp-content/plugins/plg-film-maker/includes/visualcomposer/filmmaker-contact.php
  
• Custom widget :
  Widget that created with this theme are declared here :
  wp-content/plugins/plg-film-maker/includes/widgets

Front-end : 

• Shortcode (Visual Composer Element) Output :
  wp-content/themes/filmmaker/vc_template

Updating is necessary as it avoid bugs, add new features, enhance the old feature.
So, in case you don’t know how to update, there are 3 ways to do that, please read as below :

#1. Automatic Updates via The Envato Market Plugin :

Envato released a plugin called Envato Market which can be used to manage all your themes and plugins purchased from ThemeForest and Codecanyon via your WordPress dashboard. This project is in beta and it is a little bit more complicated to setup but if you want to give it a try you can!

#2. Automatic Updates Via Envato Toolkit

The Envato Toolkit is a great plugin created by Envato so you can update any ThemeForest theme right via your WordPress dashboard. You can have a look at the full guide below to see how this plugin is used.

#3. Manual Updates Via FTP/SFTP Override

The last way is manual update by simply overriding all files via FTP or SFTP.

• Step 1: Download the “theme package” from ThemeForest
• Step 2: Access your server via FTP or SFTP (if you aren’t sure how usually your webhost will have instructions somewhere on their site)
• Step 3: Browse to wp-content/themes/
• Step 4: Delete and override the “filmmaker” folder files with the new ones downloaded in step 1.
• Step 5 : Go to Installed Plugins > update plugin Film Maker Postype if needed.

In case you need support from us.
Please go to our support site and create ticket about your problem.
We will response within 24 hours (except holidays).

Thank you very much for purchasing and using our theme!
Have a nice day !