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We would like to thank you for choosing Bizix. We are happy that you are one of our customers and we assure you won't be disappointed. We do our best to produce top notch themes with great functionality, premium designs and human readable code. Before you get started we highly encourage you to get familiar with this documentation file. Spending a few minutes reading the manual may save a lot of your time and avoid questions with obvious answers.

We also recommend to check our video tutorials.

Getting Support

If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this documentation, please feel free to contact us via our profile page form or theme support forum. Before submitting a query please be sure you checked this online documentation, theme support forum and video tutorials. Most of the issues that may arise have already been resolved and answered.

WordPress Information

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. Below are some useful links regarding WordPress information.

WordPress FAQ - General information about WordPress.
WordPress Lessons - Great source of knowledge for WordPress beginners
PHP Function References - Detailed information on WordPress PHP functions and usage examples

Theme Requirements

To use this theme you must be running WordPress 5.0 or higher, PHP 5.6 or higher. If you use hosting with limited resources (for example GoDaddy and other lowcost shared hosting providers), you may experience issues with one-click demo data installation feature.

We recommend you to contact your web hosting service provider to make sure that your server PHP configuration limits are as follows:

max_execution_time 900

max_input_time 900

memory_limit (up to) 256M or 512M

post_max_size 256M

upload_max_filesize 256M

If you are running unmanaged dedicated server or VPS, you should check your php.ini file. Alternatively, you can edit .htaccess file in the root of your website and add the following values:

php_value max_execution_time 900

php_value max_input_time 900

php_value memory_limit 256M

php_value post_max_size 256M

php_value upload_max_filesize 256M

Setting these values will ensure you will not get error messages during the installation. To safeguard your website, please use secure passwords and the latest version of WordPress and plugins.

First, you need to download the theme files from your ThemeForest account. Navigate to your Downloads tab on ThemeForest and find Bizix. Click the Download button and then click All Files & documentation.

Once you have installed WordPress and logged in to admin panel, you can install the theme.

To install the theme correctly, you MUST UNZIP the main file .zip archive downloaded from ThemeForest. This archive includes documentation, demo content, theme files and other resources.

Make sure to use bzix.zip found under main folder.

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Install the theme from WordPress admin

Step 1: Go to the Dashboard Appearance Themes and click on Add New button.

Step 2: Click on Upload Theme button.

Step 3: Click on Choose File button and navigate to the unzipped theme package on your computer.

Step 4: Look for a file called bizix.zip Click on it to select, then click OK.

Step 5: Click on Install Now button and wait until the installation is complete.

Step 6: Click on Activate link to activate the theme on your WordPress site.

Installation via FTP

1. Log into your hosting server via an FTP software
2. Navigate to the unzipped theme package on your computer and find bizix folder.
3. Upload the bizix theme folder into wp-content → themes folder
4. Activate the newly installed theme. Go to Dashboard Appearance Themes and activate it.

What if I get one of the following error messages?

This message means that the zip file is larger than the maximum upload size allowed on your server. Please ask your hosting provider to increase the following PHP directive:

 upload_max_filesize = 64M; 

You will need to edit the .htaccess file by using an FTP client or the File Manager app in cPanel. Simply connect to your website using FTP and edit the .htaccess file. Now, you need to add the following code at the bottom of your .htaccess file. Don’t forget to save your changes and upload the file back to your website.

php_value memory_limit 256

php_value upload_max_filesize 64M

php_value post_max_size 64M

php_value max_execution_time 300

php_value max_input_time 1000

In order to get Bizix properly work you need to install some useful plugins. All this plugins are included in Bizix, you don’t need to purchase them extra!

After the theme is installed successfully you will get following message about installation of required and recommended plugins:

Click on Begin installing plugins or go to Dashboard Appearance Install Plugins

Required Plugins

In order to use Bizix in its full, please note, that following plugins SHOULD BE installed:

Gyan Addons - Native essential set of all Bizix's features, functions and elements
Elementor - Leading visual drag and drop page builder for WordPress
Meta Box - Page and post options with meta boxes

Recommended Plugins

The suggested recommended plugins are essential to provide the core functionality the theme relies on and/or to ease out the process of editing your website pages. You can still use the theme without these plugins, however, its functionality and your user experience would be limited.

One Click Demo Import - Import your content, widgets and theme settings with one click
Slider Revolution - Leading slider plugin for WordPress
Contact Form 7 - Manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup.

Check all plugins, select Install and click on Apply.

Installation and activation can take a couple minutes depending on your host. You should see a success confirmation message.

Plugins are installed successfully, now it’s time to activate all installed plugins. Select all the plugins and Activate them.

All the plguins will be in place now and you are now all set to Import the demo content

Bizix theme comes with a one-click demo import feature. It will allow you to install the demo site data in a single click and save your time as you won’t have to build your website from scratch. You'll be able to delete everything at any time and only keep what you need.

Before importing the demo content ensure that you have Installed and Activated all the mandatory plugins. It is recommended to install the theme demo content into an empty, fresh WordPress site only. Otherwise it might mess up your existing content!

1. Navigate to the Dashboard > Theme Panel > Import Demo Data
2. Click on Import Demo Data button.
3. Click on Continue & Import button.

Please wait while demo data is being copied from our server to your site. It may take a while and depends significantly upon Internet connection speed between your website and our server. Please wait patiently and do not refresh/leave the page.

Demo Images and Other media

Please note that demo data sets which come with our themes use both free and paid stock images from a variety of sources. These images and videos are not included with your purchase, and you are required to buy a license for any "PAID" image or video if you wish to use them. Also, please note that even free images can't often be used for commercial purposes. Always make sure you read the details of each resource to fully understand the license it comes with.

Demo content import issues

Please note that there might occur some connection issues when downloading demo attachments (media files) from demo content servers during the demo content import process.

These, however, are just demo attachments (images, videos, audio files) and you are perfectly fine (actually, you should) replacing them with your own assets.

Other demo content (posts, pages and custom posts content) will be imported without any issues.

In 99.9% it works fine, but if something went wrong and data was not imported, please repeat the procedure described above. The system will find the last item imported successfully and you will be able to continue the import.

See the plugin documentation for more details:
https://ocdi.com/import-issues/

If you want to make changes to the theme's files and functions, we strongly recommend installing a child theme. This ensures that your theme customizations stay in place after the theme update. A child theme lets you modify a parent theme as much (or as little) as you want.

Here’s how you install a child theme:

Step 1: From WordPress left menu, go to Dashboard Appearance Themes

Step 2: Click on Add New Theme.

Step 3: Click on Upload Theme button.

Step 4: Click on Choose File button and select bizix-child-theme.zip file, then click on Install Now button and wait for the install to complete.

Step 5: After the child theme installed successfully, click on the Activate button.

For further reference about the child themes, please read the WordPress documentation located at http://codex.wordpress.org.

If you have made any changes to theme files (e.g. header.php, footer.php, style.css ), updating the theme will overwrite your modified files and you will loose any customizations. For safe updates please enable the Child theme and do any customizations there.

All our themes sold on Themeforest can be updated using the Envato Market plugin that. It is advised to use the plugin to help you get a nice updating experience for all your Envato purchased items.

Plugin Installation

1. Download Envato Market Plugin from this page https://envato.com/market-plugin/
2. Go to Dashboard Plugins Add New
3. On the Add Plugins page, instead of searching for the plugin you want to install, click on the Upload Plugin button at the top of the page.
4. Click on Choose File and select the zipped Envato Market plugin's zip file from your computer.
5. Next, select Install Now.
6. At this point, the plugin is installed. You can click on Activate Plugin link to work with it.

Plugin Settings

Once the plugin is activated, you need to configure it so it can have access to your purchased items. You should see something like this:

The next step is to generate a Personal API token. You can follow this link to generate it https://build.envato.com/create-token

To generate the token you need to login using your Envato username and password.

Make sure you only enable the required permissions including;

• View and search Envato sites
• Download the user's purchased items
• List purchases the user has made

Give your token a name, read and agree to the terms and then create your token using the button at the end of the page

Now your token should be created. Make sure to copy your token code (you won’t get a second chance since it is not being stored on Envato’s servers).

Enter the Envato API Secret token key and click on Save Changes.

You should now see all of your purchased WordPress themes from your ThemeForest account.

Single Item Tokens

If you purchased the theme for your client then you can use Envato Market plugin to keep your clients’ sites up to date as well. It is advised not to give your clients access to all of your purchases and use a Single Item Tokens.

Create a token by clicking on the generate a personal token link, like in the earlier step and copy the token.

Enter Bizix theme Id in the field of Item Id. (Bizix theme ID is 25806086 )

If you have made any changes to theme files (e.g. header.php, footer.php, style.css ), updating the theme will overwrite your modified files and you will loose any customizations. For safe updates please enable the Child theme and do any customizations there.

Updating via FTP

Step 1: Obtain the latest theme version from the ThemeForest website
First, you should log into your ThemeForest account and navigate to your Downloads page. Find our theme and click on the Download button next to it. Choose the Installable WordPress file only.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded zip file
After you’ve downloaded the theme installation file, which is in zip format, you should unpack (unzip) the file by using a program like 7-Zip, WinZip, WinRar or similar.

Step 3: Get an FTP client
In order to access the files on your server, you need to have an FTP Client. There are plenty of choices when it comes to this, however, we recommend using the FileZile as it has proven itself simple and reliable, even when used by beginners.

Step 4: Access the server files
Log into your server via FTP. You’ll see the list of wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes folders and files.
Access the wp-content/themes/ folder and rename the existing "bizix" folder to e.g. "bizix-old" and save changes.
You can firstly unzip the new "bizix.zip" archive on your computer and then simply drag-n-drop the "bizix" folder to wp-content/themes/ folder.

Updating via WordPress Admin

1. Navigate to Dashboard Appearance Themes
2. Activate one of the Default Themes that WordPress brings.
3. Hover on bizix theme thumbnail and click on Theme Details.
4. Click the Delete link in the bottom right.
5. Now click the Add New button and upload the new theme version.
6. Click on Activate link.

To update plugins originally received with the theme ( Gyan Elements and Revolution Slider ), please, first of all, make sure you’re using the latest theme version. We include the current version of the plugins archives to the theme updates.

Go to Dashboard Appearance Install Plugins

If an update is available, you will see the Update button below the plugin name. Click on it.

After a few seconds, you should be presented with the message of successful update. Click on the Back button and see the plugin is updated.

Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Layout for site layout customization.

You can set site layout width and space between width and content, content area top and bottom padding for different resolutions for all pages.

You can change content area top and bottom padding, content layout, from individual page/post from Dashboard → Edit Page/Post → "Page Options" metabox → Page Content → Page Content Top and Bottom Padding

Boxed Layout

The Bizix is designed in a way that the whole site can be switched between Full Width or Boxed layout. And this layout will be applied throughout the entire site.

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Layout Site Layout
2. Click on Boxed tab.
3. Wait until the page will refresh, you’ll see an instant preview on the right.
4. If you like the changes, click on Publish.

You can set boxed layout for individual page/post from Dashboard → Edit Page/Post → "Page Options" metabox → Site Layout

You can change the Color of any elements in Bizix theme. To change the default colors of Bizix theme:

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Styling
2. You can change your websites overall text color by modifying the "Site content Text Color" option.
3. The default Red color that is set by default and displayed throughout your site in various elements.
4. Each elements color options are incorporated in each section. For example: You can change the Topbar background and text color from Dashboard Topbar Background Color / Text Color
5. To change the header Color go to Customize Header Header Header Background Color
6. To change the Sidebar Color go to Customize Sidebar
7. To change the Footer Color go to Customize Footer Widget Footer Styling

Bizix lets you select fonts for your whole site, menus, site title and headings. To change the fonts of your site

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Fonts
2. Now to change the font type and font weight for body, main navigation, sub header title and headings. You can change headings font size and line height Fonts bottom section.
3. You can add medium, semi bold and bold font weight for body weight.

Default subset Latin is included with all fonts. You can enable other subs from "Fonts Subsets" option.

Create a "Home" page

1. Go to Dashboard Pages
2. Click on Add New Page.
3. Add content.
4. Publish Page

If you don’t have any published pages you will not have the “Homepage Settings” option outlined in the next step.

Set a Static Front Page

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize
2. Locate the Homepage Settings option. (To see this option the site needs to have at least one published page).

   

3. Select the A static page option, then choose your new page from the Homepage drop down.
4. The preview window will display your newly selected page as the front page of your site.
5. Click on the Publish button to save your homepage settings.

A favicon is a tiny square icon representing your website. It usually appears next to the website’s title in the browser tab. A favicon also shows up in your browser’s history, bookmarks, and any location where your website needs a visual identity.

Adding a WordPress Favicon via WordPress Customizer

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize
2. Inside the Customizer, click on the Site Identity section at the top.

   

3. In the Site Identity section, you’ll see an option at the bottom called, "Site Icon."
4. Upload your favicon that has been prepared.
5. Click Publish button to save the change.



Create your favicon image

WordPress recommends a square image that is 512px x 512px. If you know how to use a graphics editor like GIMP, Photoshop, or Sketch, you can create this image yourself.

If you’re not sure how to create the image on your own, then check out favicon.io. It’s a free site that will allow you to quickly create a custom favicon image.

• Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Social Media Icons
• Edit icon name and social icon link.
• Click Here for Social Icons reference link.

Essentially, preloaders (also known as loaders) are what you see on the screen while the rest of the page’s content is still loading. By default page preloader is disabled. If you wish to enable page preloading for all pages and posts etc. of your website,
go to Dashboard Appearance Customize General Enable Page Preloader

1. Launch the WordPress Customizer interface by going to Dashboard Appearance Customize in your WordPress dashboard.
2. Click on the option for Additional CSS in the WordPress Customizer sidebar (it should be at the bottom).
3. Now, simply add your custom CSS to the box. If you mess up any syntax, the editor will alert you to your errors.
4. When you’re finished adding custom CSS, click Publish to make your changes live.

Topbar Styling

Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Topbar

In the Topbar section you can change background color, text color, icon color, font size, enable/disable social icons, hide Topbar at tablet or mobile resolution.

Edit Topbar Content

Follow the below steps to edit topbar content.

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Menus Edit Menus
2. Select "Topbar Left" (or Topbar Right) from "Select a menu to edit:" dropdown, and then click on the "Select" button.
3. Click on Phone and Email id tab, edit text and then click on the "Save Menu" button.

• Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Topbar Social Icons
• You can set "On" or "Off" to show/hide social icons.
• You can change icons colors.
• Click on Publish button.

Edit Social Icon and Link:

• Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Social Media Icons
• Edit icon name and social icon link.
• Click Here for Social Icons reference link.

Header Logo:

It’s probably one of the first things you may want to do when you start customizing the theme to align its looks to your brand. To upload your logo, navigate to Dashboard Appearance Header Logo

• Standard Logo: The Standard logo upload is the section where you add a logo for regular devices like desktop, laptops.
• Retina Logo: The Retina logo upload is the section where you add a logo for retina ready devices. like iPad, iPhone, Tablets, Smart Phones.
• Logo Width: Enter Standard Logo width in pixels

Sticky Menu Logo:

You can upload sticky menu logo from Dashboard Appearance Header Sticky Menu

• Standard Logo: The Standard logo upload is the section where you add a logo for regular devices like desktop, laptops.
• Retina Logo: The Retina logo upload is the section where you add a logo for retina ready devices. like iPad, iPhone, Tablets, Smart Phones.
• Logo Width: Enter Standard Logo width in pixels

How To Display Search Icon on Header

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Header Search
2. Turn on the Search Button
3. Click on Publish Button.

How To Edit Search Box Text

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Header Search
2. Go to "Default Search Placeholder Text" field and edit "Search.." text
3. Click on Publish Button.

How To Display Header Button

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Header Header Button
2. Turn on the Header Button.
3. Click on Publish Button.

How To Edit Header Button Text and Link

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Header Header Button
2. Go to "Button Text" field and edit "Get A Quote" text.
3. Go to "Button Link" field and edit default link.
4. Click on Publish Button.

How To Display Side Panel

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Header Side Panel
2. Turn on the Side Panel.
3. Click on Publish Button.

How To Add Content in Side Panel

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Widgets
2. Drag-and-Drop the Widgets on the left side to the Side Panel Widget Area on the right side of the page.
3. Click on Publish Button.

Enable Contact Info Section

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Header
2. Go to "Header Style" dropdown and select "Style 2"
3. Click on Publish Button.

Edit Contact Info Content

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Header Contact Info
2. Turn on the Contact Info Button.
3. Click on Publish Button.

• Navigate to Dashboard Appearance Menus section of your admin sidebar.
• Click the Create A New Menu link to make a new menu.
• Enter the name then click the Create Menu button.

• To add a menu item, select one of your created pages on the left-hand side and click the Add to Menu button. You can also add all kinds of different posts from the left side.
• Manage your menus by using the drag and drop functionality. To create a drop-down menu, simply drag a menu item below and slightly to the right of another menu item, and it will lock into place and create a drop-down section.
• After setting up your menu, scroll down to the bottom of the page (Menu Settings) to assign the menu to one of the 4 locations in the Theme Locations box (Main Navigation, Topbar Left, Topbar Right, Footer Menu). You can also choose to add automatically new top-level pages to this menu.
• Once it's all done, make sure you click the Save Menu button.

Add Custom Link

To add a custom link, do the following:

1. Click on the Custom Links panel.
2. In the URL box, type in or paste the URL of the page you want the link to take your visitor.
3. In the Link Text box, type the words you want to appear on the menu for the link.
4. Click "Add to Menu" and then click "Save Menu"

Enable CSS Class and Link Relationship

• From your Menu editor, scroll to the top of your page to click the “Screen Options”.
• A drop down of options will appear. Find the CSS Classes box and Link Relationship checkbox, click them to enable it.

Once you’ve created your menu, you need to assign it to the menu location which you would like to use it for. You can do so by setting it under the Manage Locations tab, once you’ve navigated to Appearance → Menus from the WordPress admin sidebar menu.

You can also set the main navigation, topbar left, topbar right and footer menus here, so if you would like to use them, make sure you create a menu for each area.

1. Click the Manage Locations tab in the Menus section of the admin dashboard.
2. Select the menu you’d like to assign as the Main Navigation for main header menu.
3. Select the menu you’d like to assign as the Topbar Left and the Topbar Right for topbar menus.
4. Select the menu you’d like to assign as the Footer menu for small footer ( next to copyright text ).
5. Click the Save Changes button.

Main Menu Customizer Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Header Main Menu
2. Change main and active link colors, main links font size and space between two links, show/hide active link border, main links background (for header style 2), add main links divider line, show/hide dropdown indicator arrow.
3. Click on Publish Button.

The theme provides the option to keep the header sticky or not. For this follow these steps:

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Header Sticky Menu
2. Set the Sticky Menu option to Enable if you wish to have a sticky header else set the option to Disable.
3. Once done, click on Publish button.

You can customize sticky menu with options like sticky menu logo, main links default, hover and active color, main links font size, main links background color (for header style 2), divider line color etc.

Dropdown Menu Customizer Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Header Dropdown Menu
   

   

2. Change dropdown menu background color, links color, text size, dropdown menu width, show/hide box shadow, space between links.
3. Click on Publish Button.

Go to Dashboard Appearance Menus Create your menus as described in section Menus → Create New Menu

In order to make mega menus, your menu structure must contain min. three levels, where your:

1. First level represents your main menu item
2. Second level would be a title of the grouped submenu items
3. Third level would contain the actual submenu items

Now open your first level menu item. Here you can make general settings for your mega menu. You will see following options:

• Enable Mega Menu : With this option you enable the mega menu for this menu item.
• Number of columns: Here you can define the number of columns to be displayed in your mega menu
• Background image: If you wish to use a background image in your mega menu, here you can define this image.
• Background Image Position: Here you set the position of the background image you have chosen previously.

Now open your second level menu item. You will see following options:

• Column width: Define the width of your first column in mega menu layout
• Do not add link on this Mega menu columns title: If you don’t want to make your submenu title clickable, here you can deactivate it.
• Do not show this Mega menu column title: In case you don’t want to display the submenu title, here you can hide it.

Mega Menu Customizer Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Header Mega Menu
2. Edit mega menu title font size and color, sub menu items line height, space between two sub menu items, show/hide bullet arrow before items.
3. Click on Publish Button.

Mobile Menu Customizer Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Header Mobile Menu
2. Set the size of width where the regular menu changes into the drop down mobile menu.
3. Click on Publish Button.

Sub Header Customizer Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Sub Header
   

   

2. Enable/Disable sub header, set sub header height, add sub header background image or background color, customize sub header title and breadcrumbs.
3. Click on Publish Button.

Sub Header Individual Page Options

1. Click Pages (left sidebar).
2. Click the name of the page to be edited.
3. Go to "Page Options" metabox → Sub Header (Hero Banner)
4. Enable "Display Sub Header".
5. Set sub header display style (background image or slider), sub header height, sub header background image and color, customize sub header title and breadcrumbs.
6. Click on "Update" Button.

Sub Header Title and Breadcrumbs Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Sub Header
2. You can enable/disable sub header title and breadcrumbs. Customize sub header title and breadcrumbs with options like title position, font size, color, text transform etc.
3. Click on Publish Button.

Sub Header Individual Page Title and Breadcrumbs Options

1. Click Pages (left sidebar). (or Pages → Click Add New)
2. Click the name of the page to be edited.
3. Go to "Page Options" metabox → Sub Header (Hero Banner)
4. Enable "Display Sub Header".
5. You can enable/disable sub header title and breadcrumbs. Customize sub header title and breadcrumbs with options like title position, font size, color, text transform etc.
6. Click on "Update" Button.

Sidebar Customizer Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Sidebar
2. Edit sidebar text size, color, hover color, enable/disable sticky sidebar.
3. Edit widget title size, color, border color, text transform.
4. Click on Publish Button.

Add Widgets in Sidebar:

• Go to the Dashboard Appearance Widgets tab to access the list of widgets and widget areas. The left hand side shows all the widgets you can use. The right hand side shows all the different widget areas you can add widgets to.
• Drag-and-Drop the Widgets on the left side to the desired Widget Area on the right side of the page.
• To rearrange widgets in a widget area, just drag and drop the widgets into the order you’d like.
• Once done, click on the ‘Save’ button.

Add/Edit Sidebar

To add a sidebar to page simply go to Pages → Edit page you want to modify, at the bottom of the page find "Page Options" metabox → Page Content → Sidebar and select a sidebar you want to associate with this page. Click on Update button in top right corner, this will save changes to the page.

You can set archive pages sidebar like category, tags, author, archive by following steps.

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Blog Blog
2. Go to "Archives Pages Options" section and select sidebar from dropdown menu.
3. Click on Publish Button.

Theme has pre-defined sidebar but you can also create your own custom sidebar for your pages.

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Widgets
2. On the right part of the screen, next to the existing sidebars you will see "Add New Sidebar" box.
3. Enter the sidebar name you want to create and click on the "Add" button.
4. It will create a new widget are above "Add New Sidebar" box.

   

5. Drag and drop widgets you want from the left side boxes into the sidebar box.

   

6. Click Pages (left sidebar). (or Pages → Click Add New)
7. Click the name of the page to be edited.
8. Go to "Page Options" metabox → Page Content
9. Select custom sidebar from "SIdebar" dropdown in "Page Content" section.
10. Click on "Update" Button.

Widget Footer Customizer Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Footer Widget Footer
   

   

2. Edit text size, color, hover color, styling, select footer column.
3. Edit widget title size, letter spacing, line height, text transform.
4. Click on Publish Button.

Add Widgets in Footer:

1. Go to the Dashboard Appearance Widgets tab to access the list of widgets and widget areas. The left hand side shows all the widgets you can use. The right hand side shows all the different widget areas you can add widgets to.
2. Drag-and-Drop the Widgets on the left side to footer Widget Areas on the right side of the page. ( Footer Column 1, Footer Column 2, Footer Column 3, Footer Column 4)
3. To rearrange widgets in a widget area, just drag and drop the widgets into the order you’d like.
4. Once done, click on the ‘Save’ button.

Contact Footer Customizer Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Footer Contact Footer
2. You can enable/disable contact footer, edit contact info, set contact footer, contact footer background and text color.
3. Click on Publish Button.

Contact Footer Customizer Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Footer Small Footer
2. You can enable/disable small footer, edit footer copyright text, text size and color.
3. Click on Publish Button.

If home page is to the static page, we’ll need another page to display our blog posts. This page will serve as a placeholder to display our blog posts.

Create a "Blog" page

1. Go to Dashboard Pages
2. Click on Add New Page.
3. Set the page title. For now, let’s set it to 'Blog'. Don’t worry about the content.
4. Click on the Publish button to publish your page.

If you don’t have any published pages you will not have the “Homepage Settings” option outlined in the next step.

Set a Blog Page

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize
2. Locate the Homepage Settings option. (To see this option the site needs to have at least one published page).

   

3. Select the A static page option, then choose your new page from the Posts Page drop down.
4. Click on the Publish button to save your homepage settings.

Blog Page Customizer Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Blog Blog
2. You can set blog page layout, featured image height, enable/disable sub header, post title, Enable/disable meta items, excerpt length.
3. Click on Publish Button.

Blog Single Page Customizer Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Blog Blog Single
2. You can edit blog single page header title text and breadcrumbs URL , enable/disable meta items, enable/disable sections, edit blog and section title settings.
3. Click on Publish Button.

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. More information on how to use this plugin can be found here.

Contact Form 7 Documentation : https://contactform7.com/docs/

Contact Form 7 FAQs: https://contactform7.com/faq/

Contact Form Mail Settings

1. Go to Dashboard Contact Contact Forms
2. Click on the Contact Form title which you want to edit.
3. Go to "Mail" section.
4. Use mail tags as per described in mail section.
   [your-name] [your-email] [your-phone] [your-subject] [your-message]

Sample Form Fields:

To: This is the email address that will receive the email from the contact form.

name@sitedomain.com

From: Do not mistake that "From" is the name and email of the person who filled up and submitted the form. Generally "From" is your WordPress site's admin email address, but it's not strictly that.

Company Name <name@sitedomain.com>

Subject: This is the title that will appear when you receive an email.

Company Name "[your-subject]"

Additional Headers: Want to add CC and BCC on your emails? Add them on this field.

Reply-To: [your-email]

Message body: This is the actual email body. But it's not limited to it. You can include the email address of the sender here. Actually, that's what the default setting of Contact Form 7 is.

From [your-name] <[your-email]>
Subject: [your-subject]
Phone: [your-phone]

Message Body:
[your-message]

--
This e-mail was sent from a contact form on Company Name
(http://www.sitedomain.com)

Contact Form 7 Issues

We cannot help to much if you have errors with Contact Form 7 or any other contact form plugins. Possible issues are not theme related but something deal with the server. We invite you to search on Google for similar issues and you can find that all the issue resolutions point to the server errors or configuration error of the plugin itself.

If your website hosting company tell you that the problem is in the theme then you can test contact form with default WordPress theme. If default WordPress theme has the same issue then they can not tell that popular Contact Form plugin doesn't work with default WordPress theme. Please note that in Bizix we only apply a few CSS rules to beautify the visual aspect of the form fields, nothing that can interfere with the functionalities.

You can refer Contact Form 7 official site troubleshooting tutorials or contact your host:

After submitting the form, I get an error message stating “There was an error trying to send your message.” What is wrong?

Error Message: Sender email address does not belong to the site domain

This type of error is seen in the From field within the Mail tab when the field value is a valid mailbox, but the email address doesn’t belong to the same domain as the web site.

For example, if a mail had “your-name@yahoo.com” in the From field, but was actually sent from your web server (it’s not yahoo.com), it would be highly possible that relaying mail servers consider it as a spoofed address. If you use an email address in the same domain as the site, you can reduce the risk of being treated like that.

Contact form going to SPAM

There is nothing on our side that can control which email gets flagged as spam. That is up to your mail service and your domain reputation to that spam filter, but you can give SMTP plugin a try.

Emails arrive late

There is not much we can help you with, as it is the mail server that handles outgoing emails. Please contact your host to resolve third party issues.

My contact form is not sending emails

You can try below troubleshooting tips before asking in the support forum.

1. Double check that the e-mail address you’re using does not have any typos.
2. Check your spam folder in your e-mail client. If possible, try with another email address which is not linked to a private domain. For example Gmail or Yahoo.
3. Deactivate all plugins which are not included and recommended by theme and try again.
4. Ask your hosting company to enable PHP mail()
5. If your hosting provider requires you to use SMTP then you can setup the WP SMTP plugin to have WordPress use SMTP instead of PHP mail. You will need to grab the SMTP server information from your hosting provider.
6. Prepare a real “WordPress” email address:
   It is recommended you prepare a real wordpress@{your-site-domain} address on your host. Because the default mail template of Contact Form 7 uses this address in its From field, someone might try to send mail to this address. Some hosts also block outgoing mail from this address if it doesn’t exist. ... Read more

Suggested Video Tutorials

• Contact Form 7 email Settings
• Error Fix! There was an error trying to send your message ( SMTP plugin )
• Contact Form 7 Detail Tutorial

1. Go to Contact Edit Elementor page.
2. Drag "Google Map" element and drop in to content area.
3. Enter Latitude and Longitude of your location. You can use latlong.net website to get Latitude and Longitude.
4. Go to Dashboard Theme Panel Add-Ons Settings
5. Go to "API Settings" section.
6. Create Google Map API key from Google.
7. Enter Google Map API Key and Save Changes.

Add MailChimp API Key

1. Log In MailChimp and click on Profile Photo or Your Username. and then Click on "Profile" from dropdown.
2. Click on "Extra" to open dropdown and then click on "API Keys" link.
3. Create New API Key or Copy existing API key from "API Key" textbox.

   

4. Go to Dashboard Theme Panel Add-Ons Settings
5. Paste API key in "MailChimp API Key" textbox.

Add MailChimp "List ID"

1. Log In MailChimp and Click on Profile Photo or Username and then click on "Account" from dropdown.
2. Click on "View Audiences".
3. Click on "Manage Audience" and then click on "Manage Contacts" from dropdown.

   

4. Click on "Settings" and then "Audience name and defaults" from dropdown.
5. Copy Id from "Audience ID".

   

6. Go to Dashboard Theme Panel Add-Ons Settings
7. Paste Audience ID in "MailChimp List Id" textbox.

The Bizix theme has a special kind of post type called Portfolio. The Portfolio custom post type is to present information which is more based on the photos and shows a portfolio of work that you have. You can have separate portfolio categories and portfolio items which you can add by going to
WordPress Dashboard Portfolio menu.

Create Portfolio Posts

1. On your admin dashboard go to Portfolio and click the Add New Item that’s below the Portfolio.
2. Enter the title for the portfolio post.
3. Enter the contents for the portfolio post. You can use elementor page builder to add the contents.
4. On the right sidebar under the Portfolio Categories, assign your item to any of the categories.
5. Set the Featured Image for the portfolio post.
6. You can add project short description in Excerpt section.
7. Click on the Publish/Update button.

Once you have created the Portfolio posts, you can display them anywhere on the site by just inserting Portfolio element.

Portfolio Single Customizer Options

1. Go to Dashboard Appearance Customize Portfolio
2. Edit Portfolio Single Page Title and URL for Breadcrumbs, Enable/Disable Comments.
3. Click on Publish Button.

If you plan on uploading many portfolios to your website, it is a good idea to first create portfolio categories. This will help you segregate the portfolios based on their category, and display portfolios of just a particular category, if required.

To set up portfolio categories:

1. Go to Dashboard Portfolio Portfolio Categories
2. Enter the Name for the Portfolio Category.
3. Click on the "Add New" button.

Bizix theme includes for free the most famous and most powerful slider the Slider Revolution (Revolution Slider). Using Bizix combined with Slider Revolution you can create limitless unique slider animations in for your site.

For instructions on how to use Slider Revolution plugin and other useful links, we have collected them in a list below:

• Slider Revolution Documentation — The documentation is online and accessible to everyone.
• Youtube Tutorials — Video Tutorials and Guides
• Purchase Slider Revolution — to get support, auto-updates and premium sliders (read the note above).
• Create/Import Your First Slider — Let’s get started by creating your first slide.
• Slider Revolution Changelog — Read all the changes made through updates.

The purchase code you got while purchasing theme is valid only for this theme! Not the included plugins.

We have purchased extended licenses for Slider Revolution. This means it can be used by any one purchasing our theme as long as they use the version included in theme folder. To use it, just install plugin from Plugins menu and activate again from the Plugins menu. This is enough to use the sliders normally. There is no need to activate it in the slider’s options.

The only restriction of this type of license is that you can not update it on your own terms. You have to wait until there is a release of theme with plugins updated as well.

This limitation is added by Revolution Slider plugin author so we can’t change it but from our experience almost 99% of its features are available only some features which is optional like auto update, sample slider template.

If you want to buy a license by yourself this is allowed, but we thought that this isn’t needed because the version included works perfectly.

You are free to make the choice that best fits your needs.

When you purchase a theme from ThemeForest that bundles Revolution Slider, you are free to use this Premium plugin with the theme.

However, your Bizix purchase does not give you an individual Revolution Slider license that allows you to activate or download this plugin as you wish. Activation doesn’t mean the plugin will not work but only that you cannot receive direct updates. Please don’t worry if you see warning messages about the plugin license activation.
You can use this plugin with the Bizix theme, and you are fully compliant with the Envato’s policy, but you cannot activate them as the owner (so don’t try to use the Bizix purchase code to activate Slider Revolution plugin).

According to Envato’s licensing rules, new plugin updates can only be issued when we issue new theme updates. Anytime Bizix is updated, the latest plugin version for Revolution Slider will be included for free, so you don’t need to buy your own license to properly work with the plugin.

These rules ensure we will fully test plugins to make certain there are no bugs that will conflict with our own update. We also fully test new theme versions before releasing them to our customers.

Other Resources

• Bundled Plugins
• Why isn’t support included with my bundled version?
• How to Replace Theme Bundled Version with Premium Version

1. On your admin dashboard go to Pages/Posts.
2. Mouse over on page/post title. Click on Edit with Elementor link. Or you can go to Edit page/post and click on Edit with Elementor button.

   

3. Click on Folder icon.

   

4. Pages: Enter theme keyword in the search box
5. Blocks: Select Theme Blocks from the category drop down.
6. Click on Thumbnail.

   

   

7. Click on Insert button.

   

Import Elementor templaes with JSON files.

Translating Bizix with Loco Translate

1. Install and activate the plugin Loco Translate
2. Go to Dashboard Loco Translate Themes to access the main translation page of the plugin.
3. Click on “Bizix” in translation theme page.
4. Next click on the New language link.
5. Select language you want to translate to ex. Spanish from the dropdown menu then click on Start translating button.
6. Use the Filter box at the top of the page to search for your desired term.
7. After you find the term click on it to select and it will be shown inside the Source Text box.
8. Add the translation for that term on the Spanish Translation box under the Source Text once you finished translating click on Save button.
9. Go to Dashboard Settings General change the Site Language to Spanish and Save Changes.

Translating Gyan Elements with Loco Translate

1. Go to Dashboard Loco Translate Plugins to access the main translation page of the plugin.
2. Select “Gyan Elements” in translation plugin page.
3. Next click on the New language link.
4. Select language you want to translate to ex. Spanish from the dropdown menu then click on Start translating button.
5. Use the Filter box at the top of the page to search for your desired term.
6. After you find the term click on it to select and it will be shown inside the Source Text box.
7. Add the translation for that term on the Spanish Translation box under the Source Text once you finished translating click on Save button.

Language File Location

• Theme Language File:
  ../wp-content/themes/bizix/languages/
• Plugin Language File:
  ../wp-content/plugins/gyan-elements/languages/

function swm_blog_text_translate($translated) {
    $translated = str_ireplace('Blog', 'News', $translated);
        return $translated;
    }
add_filter('gettext', 'swm_blog_text_translate' );