• Log in to the WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to Appearance->Themes.
• Active Minimal Blog Pro themes.

• Unzip minimalblog.zip to your Desktop.
• Using an FTP client to access your host web server. Go to /wp-content/themes/
• Upload theme to /wp-content/themes/.
• Go to Appearance->Themes and activate theme from Dashboard.

Note: All the required plugins for this theme must be installed and activated before importing demo content.

• Go to Tools -> Import
• Install and run WordPress importer.
• Download demo content zip
• Right click on minimalblogdemo.zip extract and import xml file demo data
• Click on browse, select XML file and click on Upload file and import.
• You will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on your website. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on your website 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, Products, and Menus are imported. You will need assign the menu a theme location & you’ll need to configure widgets. This is a limitation of WordPress import system.

• Go to Appearance ->Theme Options -> Basic Settings Tab 

• Go to Appearance > in the WordPress menu
• If You Want Create new menu
• Click on Create a new menu link
• Give a name to your menu in Menu Name and click Create Menu button
• Now choose the pages, categories, custom links from the left side of your screen by selecting the checkbox and click on Add Menu
• Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu

• WordPress Admin -> Appearance -> Theme Options -> Homepage Slider Tab
• You can change Slider Duration and Timing.
• Animation speed should be multiple of 100.
• You can change Slide pause time.
• You can change Slide Controllers.
• You can change Slider Hide/Show Direction Naviagtion of slider.
• You can change Slider Hide/Show pager of slider.
• Can Use another Slider Plugin instead of Main Slider

• see screenshot below...

• WordPress Admin -> Settings -> Readings -> Your Latest Posts

• Kindly visit Appearance -> Theme Options -> Sections to Manage the homepage sections 1.

• Section Shortcode :
• [left_content] [sliderpost catname="" excerptlength="60" readmore="Read More"] [clear] [row_area][largfullpost2 catname="" excerptlength="23" readmore="Read More" showposts="4"][/row_area] [clear] [largfullpost3 catname="" excerptlength="30" readmore="Read More" showposts="2"] [clear] [ajax_load_more_post catname="" excerptlength="" readmore="" loadmore="Load More"] [/left_content] [sidebar_area][aboutauthor abouttitle="Search" titlecolor="#111111"][searchform][/aboutauthor] [aboutauthor abouttitle="About the author" aboutdesc="Pellentesque ultrices tincidunt ligula, non aliquam ante bibendum bibendum. Duis sed massa mauris. Sed in fringilla mauris. Morbi velit neque, mattis eget dignissim non, pellentesque sit amet tellus. Duis sit amet pulvinar nulla, non pellentesque erat." titlecolor="#373636"] [social_area] [social icon="facebook" link="#"] [social icon="twitter" link="#"] [social icon="linkedin" link="#"] [social icon="pinterest" link="#"] [social icon="google-plus" link="#"] [social icon="youtube" link="#"] [/social_area] [/aboutauthor] [aboutauthor abouttitle="Latest Posts" titlecolor="#111111"][sidebarpost catname="" showposts="3"][/aboutauthor] [aboutauthor abouttitle="Follow Me" titlecolor="#111111"][social_area] [social icon="facebook" link="#"] [social icon="twitter" link="#"] [social icon="linkedin" link="#"] [social icon="pinterest" link="#"] [social icon="google-plus" link="#"] [social icon="youtube" link="#"] [/social_area] [/aboutauthor] [aboutauthor abouttitle="Categories" titlecolor="#111111"][post_category_count show="10"][/aboutauthor] [aboutauthor abouttitle="Instagram" titlecolor="#111111"] <ul class="instagram-full"> <li><img src="http://localhost/sktthemes/sktthemes/wp-content/themes/minimal-blog/images/instagrame1.jpg" /></li> <li><img src="http://localhost/sktthemes/sktthemes/wp-content/themes/minimal-blog/images/instagrame2.jpg" /></li> <li><img src="http://localhost/sktthemes/sktthemes/wp-content/themes/minimal-blog/images/instagrame3.jpg" /></li> <li><img src="http://localhost/sktthemes/sktthemes/wp-content/themes/minimal-blog/images/instagrame4.jpg" /></li> <li><img src="http://localhost/sktthemes/sktthemes/wp-content/themes/minimal-blog/images/instagrame5.jpg" /></li> <li><img src="http://localhost/sktthemes/sktthemes/wp-content/themes/minimal-blog/images/instagrame6.jpg" /></li> </ul> <div class="clear"></div> [/aboutauthor] [popularcat catname="Markup" catid=""]<img src="http://localhost/sktthemes/sktthemes/wp-content/themes/minimal-blog/images/design.jpg" />[/popularcat] [popularcat catname="Post Formats" catid=""]<img src="http://localhost/sktthemes/sktthemes/wp-content/themes/minimal-blog/images/branding.jpg" />[/popularcat] <div class="newslettersign"> [aboutauthor abouttitle="Newsletter" titlecolor="#111111"] Enter your email address below to subscribe to my news and updates <form action="#" method="get"> <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Your Email Address" /> <input type="submit" name="button" value="SUBSCRIBE" /> </form> [/aboutauthor] </div> [aboutauthor abouttitle="Archives" titlecolor="#111111"][archives show="8"][/aboutauthor] [aboutauthor abouttitle="Tags" titlecolor="#111111"][alltags][/aboutauthor] [/sidebar_area]
• see screenshot below how to manage this section
• 
• This Section manage from -> Appearance -> Theme Options -> Section Tab of section 2

• Shortcode: [jr_instagram id="4"]
• see screenshot below how to manage this section

• How to create instagram shortcode
• Go to -> Appearance -> widgets -> Instagram Slider - Shortcode Generator
• see screenshot below how to manage this section

Masonry Layout:

• Can Manage Home Page layouts sidebar from Go To Appearance -> Theme Option -> Layout Settings -> display Home Templates Layout
• How To Set up the layout Templates
• Go To Appearance -> Customize -> Static Front Page
• Then Select The Masonry Layout Template and click on save button.
• Another Way To Select Home Layout Templates
• Go To Settings -> Reading -> Static Front Page
• Then Select The Masonry Layout Template and click on save button.

• Shortcode:[recent-posts-masonry showpost="6" date="show" author="show" comment="show" ]
• You can set up another plugin slider instead of master slider
• Can paste slider shortcode here Go To Appearance -> Themes Option -> Basic Setting Tab

Timeline Layout:

Classic Layout:

• Log in to the WordPress Dashboard.
• Click on Appearance>Theme Options
• Basic Settings
  
  • Upload and set up Logo
  • Change Font Family, font size, font colors, background color, Slider Option
  • Change navigation font family and font size
  • Change navigation hover and active color
  • Change Link and link hover color
• Sections
  • You can add content in the section for homepage.
• Layout Settings
  • Can Set Homepage Four Layouts exa. Masonry, classic, timeline and blocks
  • Can Set Inner page Layouts
  • Can Set Blog Single Layouts
  • Can Set General Layouts ( Category,archives,search,404)
  • Can Set Category/Archives Posts Layouts (list view and grid view)
• Footer
  
  • Can manage footer section from footer tab
  • Can manage footet title, description, social links and contact detail info.
  • Can Set Footer Layouts (one column, two column, three column and four column)
  • Can manage footer copyright text and theme by text.
• Shortcodes
  • All Shortcodes available Go to Appearance->Themes Option->Shortcode Tab see screenshot below...
  

• Default Template
  • Helps in setting up the content on any page with Left And Right Sidebar
• Left Sidebar
  • Helps in setting up the content on any page with Left Sidebar
• Right Sidebar
  • Helps in setting up the content on any page with Right Sidebar
• Full Width
  • Helps in setting up the content on any page without Sidebar
• No Sidebar
  • Helps in setting up the content on any page without Sidebar in Center
• Contact Us
  • Helps in setting up the content on any page with Left Sidebar and contact Info

• Set up by using Page Template Blog on any page to show blog posts
• Blog Full Width, Blog Left Sidebar, Blog Right Sidebar page templates

• All you need to do is go to that page after Log into WordPress dashboard. Scroll down and check the section: Discussion (if not able to see check above Screen Options to show Comments).
• Uncheck the box: Allow Comments and click on Update.
• If you want to remove comments sidewide on Pages use this plugin: “Disable Comments” https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments/

• Go to Plugins -> Add New in the WordPress Admin panel
• Type WooCommerce is search box and click on search button
• Install and then Activate the plugin.
• It will ask whether to set up default pages. Kindly click on setting up default pages of the WooCommerce
• That’s it now you can go to shop page and check the default product.

• Go to Appearance-> Background.
• You can set any image or color as background.
• You can see the background preview on the same setting page.
• Click on Save Changes.
• See screenshot below...

Footer Menu

• Create Footer menu like that main menu
• Footer menu manage from Go to Appearance->Menus
• Click on Create a new menu link
• Give a name to your menu in Menu Name exa. Footer Menu and click Create Menu button
• Now choose the pages, categories, custom links from the left side of your screen by selecting the checkbox and click on Add Menu
• Select the footer menu
• Click Save Menu after adding required pages, categories in the menu
• See screenshot below...

• Our Philosophy, Follow Us and Contact info area manage from footer tab
• for social icon type socil icon name and enter url
• shortcode: [social_area] [social icon="facebook" link="#"] [social icon="twitter" link="#"] [social icon="linkedin" link="#"] [social icon="pinterest" link="#"] [social icon="rss" link="#"] [social icon="youtube" link="#"] [social icon="google-plus" link="#"] [social icon="instagram" link="#"] [social icon="wordpress" link="#"] [social icon="skype" link="#"] [social icon="yahoo" link="#"] [social icon="flickr" link="#"] [/social_area]
• See screenshot below...

Footer Four Column

• if you want another data in the footer four column you can manage from Appearance -> Widget -> display footer widget 1, 2, 3, 4
• see screenshot below...

• How to set featured image click here

• Shortcode:
  [social_area]
  [social icon="facebook" link="#"]
  [social icon="twitter" link="#"]
  [social icon="linkedin" link="#"]
  [social icon="pinterest" link="#"]
  [social icon="google-plus" link="#"]
  [social icon="youtube" link="#"]
  [social icon="wordpress" link="#"]
  [social icon="flickr" link="#"]
  [social icon="skype" link="#"]
  [/social_area]
• Can manage social icons font size, color and hover color from Appearance -> Theme Options -> Basic Settings tab
• Note: Icon name should be in lowercase without space.(exa.facebook) More social icons can be found at: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/

• First Install Plugin qTranslate X from WordPress plugin.
• Used following code for making text translate ready : [:en]English Text[:de]Deutsch Text[:]
• Viewing in Dutch used website url : http://www.yourwebsiteurl.com/de/
• Viewing in English used website url : http://www.yourwebsiteurl.com/en/
• Check below screen shot for making slider translation ready.
How To Set Multilingual see below video