1. Start
  2. Installation
  3. How to Update Madura
  4. Import Demo Data
  5. Theme Admin Panel
  6. Header
  7. Homepage Settings
  8. Sliders
  9. Post Formats
  10. Page Templates
  11. Reviews
  12. Post Thumbnails
  13. Stylish Galleries
  14. Widgets
  15. Custom Sidebars
  16. Footer
  17. RTL
  18. Localization

Madura Mag Pro Theme

A Premium WP News Magazine Theme

Thanks for purchasing the World's Fastest Magazine Style WordPress theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to post your question in support forum. Thank you so much!

Support

We are always ready to give free and Unlimited support to all of our themes.

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Use our Support forum to Ask your question. Only Verified Customers can create support question. So, please use this to get support quickly.

Installation

The theme can be uploaded by using the following two ways:

Upload via WordPress Dashboard:(Recommended)

Please Extract the Theme Zip file from the Theme Package and upload that Zip file. Don't Upload the entire Downloaded Theme Package.

Upload the Theme Via FTP :

How To Update the Madura Mag Pro Theme

If you don't know, how to update the Madura WP Theme. Read the following guide,

How to Upgrade and Update a WordPress Theme After Customization

Import Demo Data

Demo data will create Madura Mag Demo like site. So Don't use this file, if you have existing blog content already.

Madura Mag Pro Theme theme comes with demo data xml file, it includes the sample posts and images to get start your theme.

Theme Admin Panel

After the successful activation, you will be automatically redirected to the Themes page.In WP dashboard go to Theme panel; Theme Admin Panel has so many useful options like logo,favicon and background uploader etc...

Admin panel

Manually you can access the Theme Admin panel in the bottom of the Left side WP Dashboard. Also you can access directly from the WP Toolbar 

Do you want to know how to implement settings in the Theme Admin Panel ? Read the whole documentaion and all settings in the Admin panel all covered here.

Content Layout

Theme Offers Two column layout. One column for content and another one for Sidebar.

In Madura theme, you can use the sidebar in three positions,

You can also use the above positions in every page, post.

Homepage Settings

Homepage content organizer has the drag and drop option to enable/disable the web elements in this theme.

The organizer will look like the following screenshot and follow the instructions provided in the screenshot.

Magazine Style + Blog Style

Magzine style cotent section has two Magazine style blocks  for convenient usage, such as Magazine style 1 and Magazine style 2. 

See the below screenshot to implement the Magazine section in your site.

You can create more layouts,it depends on your imaganiation,

Layout Blocks as widgets

You can fill the above layout combinations with the following blocks(widgets)

  1. Magazine 1 Column Block
  2. Magazine 2 Columns Blocks
  3. Magazine 3 Columns (Grid) Block
  4. Slider blocks
    • Gallery Slider block
    • Category Slider block
  5. Carousel block
  6. Ad Blocks (You can create more 10+ Ad blocks)

Many Layouts

You can style your blog using content organizer to get many different layouts in homepage. Look out  below for few layout combinations i have made.

Some Example Layout Combinations

Home Page 1
Home Page 2

Live Demo Links

You can put above blocks anywhere and You can put many Magazine widget options to build unique layouts.

Sliders

Theme comes with two types of Slider

  • 1. Flex Slider
  • 2. Camera Slider

    • Basically Theme includes following different formats of slider. It has,

    1. Homepage Page (Large and Small Sliders)
      • Featured Slider
      • Category Slider
      • Tag Slider
      • Custom Slider(Create Your Own Slides in theme Panel)
    2. Category Page

      3. In Category Page, theme allows you to show Big and small sliders of category posts. You can Turn off and On the slider from edit category page.

      Edit Category
    3. Single Post Slider

      4. In Single Post, you can create your own custom slider from post options. This Slider will be displayed in the features Image section.

    4. Gallery Format Slider

      5. Gallery Format Slider will display the big slider in the Gallery Post.

    Let us see the instructions for how to implement those sliders in yout site.

    Homepage category slider

          You can see the screenshot of  Home Page slider in Homepage organaizer section.

         Enabling the slider is very easy by using Theme Admin Panel.

    You can use Home Page slider as a Category Slider or individual posts or Pages slider. First let us see how to use as category slider.

    Post formats

    Theme Supports following post formats,

    Page templates

    Page Templates are used to achived different Page Layouts and functionalities

    You can assign a custom template for any individual Page by using the Template dropdown in the Edit Page screen (part of the Page Attributes module):

    Reviews

    You can easily create Reviews in the edit post page. Just move to the Post Rating options and create awesome reviews.

    DEMO

    Post Thumbnails

    Themes all thumbs are shown using WordPress Featured Image Property . It is easy to set Featured Image in Posts.

    When you creating the posts in the post editor, you can see the SET FEATURED IMAGE section. Just hit the SET FEATURED IMAGE link and upload the featured image.

    Themes all Thumbs and slider images are shown using this method only except post slider and Theme Slider

    Widgets

    All Widgets to use in the Sidebar

    We have include 20+ Custom style Stunning Widgets to improve the Blog desing and User experience.

    In Widgets Page,

  • 1.Drag and Drop our ThemePacific Widgets in Appropriate Sectioons like Sidebar Section, Magazine Style Widgets section and Footer Widget section. All Our Wigets will have "ThemePacific" prefix. You can easily identify them.

  • 3. Save the Widget

    • Like We said Before, We have added the Widgets in this update.

    Right-to-Left Language Support

    NOTE: RTL Support will be added in the next update.

    A written language is Right-to-left when its script flows from the right side of the page to the left.

    Now the Arabic, Hebrew Languages are supported in our Madura Mag pro WordPress Themes. If you have installed the RTL version of WordPress, this theme will automatically change the layout to support RTL.

    See the Screenshot below:

    You can change the english words to your language using the following Localization support.

    Localization

    This  theme has localization support by including .po and .mo files. So that You can utilize this and translate to your language by using the POEDIT Application.

    This theme has language files in Languages folder inside Madura Mag Pro Theme folder.

    Follow the instructions to translate this theme,

    Step 1: Download POEDIT Application and install the same.

    Step 2: Find the Default.po file in the Languages folder of Madura Mag Pro Theme Theme. open this file using POEDIT Application.

    Step 3: Just click the text you need to translate and enter your translation in the spcified window.

    Step 4: Save the .po file with your language and country code.

    For example, if your language is French and France is your country of residence, your code will be fr_FR. Get your country and language codes by using the links. Your .po file should be saved like fr_FR.po. Your .mo file will be automatically created.

    Step 5:  Replace the old .po files with new one in Madura Mag Pro Theme languages folder.

    Step 6. Next edit your wp-config.php file in WordPress directory.  

    Find the following code in wp-config.php

    define('WPLANG', '');

    and replace with your country and language name like above example i said.

    Example:

     

    define('WPLANG', 'fr_FR');