The first thing you need to do when you want to install a new WordPress theme is to login to your site admin page. Once there, go to Appearance -> Themes. Here, you will see all the themes you have currently installed in your application. To add another one, simply click on the Install Themes tab. Upload the zip package which you have downloaded from Themeforest from your local hard drive.

If you want to use the theme with all bundled features, you should upload and activate all required plugins. After the installation of the theme, you will see a message about them. Click "Begin Installing Plugins", install the plugins and activate them.

Go to Appearance->Import Demo Data and click on the Import button only once and wait, it can take a couple of minutes.

First of all, you should create a new page for your frontpage display.

Go to Settings->Reading and select in the drop-down box this page for the front page display.

To create a blog page, create a blank page.

Go to Settings->Reading and select in the drop-down box the name of the Page that will now contain your latest posts. You can also use one of the blog page templates to create a page which displays all your posts. For more information please look at Page Templates section.

You can upload your logo from Appearance->Customize->Site Identity.

You can create menus from Appearance->Menus page. After creating your menus, you must manage your menu location.

Maori main menu doesn't support multilevel dropdown menus.

Custom Menu

Another way to use a WordPress menu is using custom menu widget. You can use this widget to add your menus to any widget area.

To add social media icons to the menu, just fill the required fields and click "Add Another Icon" to add a new icon or click "Save".

You can also use SiteOrigin Social Media Buttons widget to add social icons to any widget area. To use this widget, you should upload/activate SiteOrigin Widget Bundle plugin.

Standard Templates

"Default template" is a standard fullwidth page template.

The only difference between default template and woocommerce template is sidebar. Woocommerce page template displays Woocommerce sidebar and search box.

Blog Templates

The following templates display your latest posts in different layouts.

• Blog - 2 Column
• Blog - 3 Column
• Blog - Full Width

Artists Templates

The following templates display artists in different layouts.

• Artists - 2 Column
• Artists - 3 Column
• Artists - Full Width

FAQ Templates

The following templates display faqs in different layouts.

• FAQ
• FAQ - Full Width

Phone Number

You can add your phone number to the header.

Sliding Panel Width

Maximum width of the sliding panel.

Use featured images for only post thumbnails

If you don't want to display featured images on single post page, switch on.

Disable Image MouseOver Animations

To disable image MouseOver animations, switch on.

Masonry Thumbnail Size

Default Thumbnail Size for Masonry Layout

Archive Page Layout

Category, archive and search pages

Social media sharing buttons

You can add social media sharing buttons to the bottom of the posts.

Blog 2 Column Page Template

Maximum number of the posts on Blog 2 Column Page Template

Blog 3 Column Page Template

Maximum number of the posts on Blog 3 Column Page Template

You can find all available color settings in this section.

Default Browser Font Size

You can use this option to change the all font sizes easily.

Body

The default stylings of all standard texts.

Headings

The default stylings of all headings (h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6).

Menus, Buttons, Subtitles etc.

The font family of some other elements.

Masonry Thumbnail Size

Default Thumbnail Size for Masonry Layout

Category Page Layout

Artist category page layout

Social media sharing buttons

You can add social media sharing buttons to the bottom of the posts.

Button Text

Default text is "Learn More".

Maori is fully compatible with Woocommerce.

Product layout

Default page layout of Woocommerce pages. If you want to select hree or four columns, we suggest you to remove sidebar.

Product Thumbnail Size

Default size of the product thumbnail images.

Single Product Image Size

Default size of the single product images (slider images).

Single Product Image Column Size

The width of the image container in percents.

Placeholder Image

If a product has no image, this placeholder image will displayed.

Related Products

To enable related products from single product pages, switch on.

Number of related products

Maximum number of related products.

Social Sharing Buttons

You can add social media sharing buttons to the bottom of the products.

Shop page show at most

Maximum number of the products on Woocommerce pages (Shop,archive etc.).

You can add a copyright message to the footer from this section. You can use some basic html tags like a, strong etc.

If you are an unexperienced WordPress user, we suggest you to read the following article;

An excerpt in WordPress is a term used for article summary with a link to the whole entry. An excerpt can be auto generated by a WordPress theme.

Another way to create excerpts for a WordPress post is by entering the summary of an article in Excerpt field on Post Edit screen. This field is not displayed in the post edit screen by default. To enable it a user needs to click on Screen Options button on the top right corner of post edit screen and then enable it.

You can add a subtitle to your posts or pages. It is recommended for SEO.

You can hide the title or remove black page container.

The Featured Image (also known as post thumbnail) is a WordPress theme feature which allows you to add a representative image to the posts.

You should install/activate following plugins to use the page builder and all available widgets to build your pages;

Maori Features

Siteorigin Page Builder

Siteorigin Widgets Bundle

Siteorigin Page Builder

Page Builder by SiteOrigin is the most popular page creation plugin for WordPress. It makes it easy to create responsive column based content, using the widgets you know and love. Your content will accurately adapt to all mobile devices, ensuring your site is mobile-ready.

Please read the Page Builder Documentation

This widget displays posts, pages, products or any custom post type in a grid layout.

This widget displays posts, pages, products or any custom post type in a carousel.

This widget displays an image slider.

This widget displays posts, pages, products or any custom post type as a list.

Displays an accordion.

Displays a tabs.

Displays testimonials in a carousel.

Displays a horizontal line. It may be useful for adding space between rows or widgets.

Displays a title, a subtitle and a button.

There are a lot of widget in Siteorigin Widgets Bundle plugin. For more information, please visit the plugin documentation page;

Go to the documentation page

Google Maps Widget Documentation

To use this widget, you should upload/activate Mailchimp for WordPress plugin.

Click here to download the plugin

Knowledge Base

You can add widgets to the widget fields from Appearance->Widgets page.

There are 3 widget field in Maori.

Main Sidebar

This field is displayed in the sliding sidebar.

Footer

This field is displayed on the footer. You can use Layout Builder widget to create multiple columns.

You can create individual pages for your artists. You can edit artist pages like other standard pages. You can use categories to organize them.

You can create as many question&answer as you wish. You can organize them with categories. All questions will be displayed on FAQ page templates.

You can use Envira Gallery plugin to create image galleries. You can add these galleries to any post, artist page or any other page easily.

For more information about Envira Gallery, please visit the plugin's documentation page;

Envira Gallery Docs

Maori is compatible with the following plugins;

Linear page layouts are limiting when you’re trying to express a detailed idea. With SiteOrigin’s Page Builder, you can create columized page layouts populated with the widgets and themes you know and love. Its drag and drop interface is so easy to learn, that you'll be up and running in no time.

Download SiteOrigin Page Builder

Please read the Documentation

The SiteOrigin widget bundle gives you a collection of widgets that you can use and customize. All the widgets are built on our powerful framework, giving you advanced forms, unlimited colours and 1500+ icons.

Download SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle

Please read the Documentation

WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything, beautifully. Built to integrate seamlessly with WordPress, WooCommerce is the world’s favorite eCommerce solution that gives both store owners and developers complete control.

Download Woocommerce

Please read the Documentation

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

Download Contact Form 7

Please read the Documentation

MailChimp for WordPress, the absolute best. Subscribe your WordPress site visitors to your MailChimp lists, with ease.

Download Mailchimp for WordPress

Knowledge Base

Autoptimize speeds up your website and helps you save bandwidth by aggregating and minimizing JS, CSS and HTML.

Download Autoptimize

Effective image compression and optimization during the upload process. Automatic and without loss of quality.

Download Optimus

As it’s name, it will fix Leverage Browser Caching issues in your WordPress website. Also it improves page speed score in website testing tools like: Pingdom, GTmetrix, PageSpeed, Google PageSpeed Insights and YSlow.

Download the plugin

This plugin will remove query strings from static resources like CSS & JS files inside the HTML element to improve your speed scores in services like Pingdom, GTmetrix, PageSpeed and YSlow.

Download the plugin