© Cresta 2024

Cresta WordPress Theme

IT Solutions & Technology WordPress Theme

Install WordPress

To get this theme you must have WordPress already installed. If you need help installing WordPress, follow the instructions in WordPress Codex. Below are some useful links on WordPress information:

Install theme

When purchasing Cresta theme from Themeforest, you will be able to download Cresta files from your Themeforest account. The main_files contains all files, you have to find cresta.zip and upload it on your directory.

Install Cresta theme via WordPress.

  1. Unzip the downloaded package from Themeforest and inside it find the file cresta.zip
  2. Login to your WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme and click Choose File Button.
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  3. After slelct"cresta.zip" from your computer Click on "Install Now" button.
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  4. Wait the theme being uploaded and installed.
  5. To activate the theme: Go to Appearance > Themes hover over the theme and and click Activate.

Install theme via FTP.

Follow the steps below to install theme via FTP.

  1. Log into your hosting space via an FTP software
  2. Unzip the cresta.zip file and ONLY use the extracted cresta theme folder
  3. Upload the extracted cresta theme folder into wp-content > themes folder
  4. To activate the theme: Go to Appearance > Themes hover over the theme and and click Activate.

Common Install Error: Are You Sure You Want To Do This?

The “Are You Sure You Want To Do This” message may occur, means that you are limited in upload file size. Consider install the theme via FTP if this happens, or contact your hosting provider and ask them to increase the limited size.

Install required plugins

Once you activated Cresta theme than You will get a notice for installing required plugins.

  1. Click on " Appearance -> Install Plugins" to install required plugins.
  2. Select all required plugin, From the top dropdown menu select Install and click Apply.
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  3. After Install all plugins sucessfully click Return to Required Plugins Installer.
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  4. Select all required plugin, From the top dropdown menu select Activete and click Apply.
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Note : You can deactive one click demo import plugin after import demo data.

Import demo data

Import Demo Data – Now users can quickly and easily import our demo content with only one click to the button. This is the preferred method because it's the fastest and easiest way to get our demo content. It will import all our pages, posts, sliders etc.. If you wish to use our One Click Demo Content Importer, please see the guide below.

Note : Demo data is only for theme testing purpose. Do not install demo data on a production website.
  1. For import demo data go on Appearance > Import demo Data.
    You will see import demo data import screen.Click on import Demo DataButton.
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  2. Click on Continue & import Button.
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Note : No metter which Import Button You click. It will import all data as demo site. Specific Import button just set that page as Front/Home page.

Theme options

Using theme options, you can control every setting on the theme. Let’s start learning theme options. Go to Cresta > Theme Options

Important: Theme Option works globally. But Page / Post Settings can overwrite the theme option. So if you change something from the theme option and its not appear on an individual page then please go to that individual page settings and check if it overwrites the Theme option or not. If yes, just set that option default ( Default will correspond with the theme option ) Or select an option you want to use.

General Options

  1. Primary Color : — Select theme primary color
  2. Secondary Color : — Select theme secondary color
  3. Scroll Up Button : — Enable or disable Scroll Up Button
  4. Enable Preloader : — Enable or disable preloader
  5. Enable Stikcy Header : — Enable or disable Stikcy Header
  6. Enable Left Right Border : — Enable or disable Left Right Border
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Typography

You can change theme typography from here

  1. Body Font: — Change body Font, Font weight, Font style, Font-size from here.
  2. h1,h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 Font: — Change h1,h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 Font, Font weight, Font style, Font size from thes options.
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Note : You will find all others theme options like (Banner options, Blog page, Single post, Archive page, search page, 404 page Footer options etc) in this options list. See them all for customize theme easily. ( You can override theme options from individual page / post. )

Page / Post / Custom post Settings

When you create or edit a page or post you will see few options for page or post settings on page/post bottom. You can change page/post layout, Header, Footer , hide /show banner, change banner title, images from these metabox options

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Custom Widget / Sidebar Widgets

This theme provide three custom widget. To add this widget navigate to "Appearance > Widgets."

Cresta : Recent Posts Widget

  1. Title: — Type widget title here
  2. Title Word Count : — Type number of words you want to show from title. (useful for small width column )
  3. Post Count: — How many post you want to show.
  4. Category: — Select post category you want to show.
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Theme Updates

There are 2 methods to update WordPress themes to the newer version. These new updates are essential if you want to have a bug free website as we give new features and improvements to the theme over time. Some of these updates might be needed in order to make the theme compatible with WordPress newer versions. There is no risk of losing your settings and pages (If you don't edited theme core files). However if you had done modifications in parent theme files, then they will be lost.

Please note that before updating a theme, we recommend you to make a backup of your modified files. Also, we recommend to deactivate its current version and then upload the zip file with new theme version then activate and update the theme.

Using FTP

  1. Login in to your Themeforest account and go to downloads (Dashboard > downloads)
  2. Download the theme into your computer
  3. Install an FTP program (Filezilla is free)
  4. Retrieve your FTP login information from your hosting admin panel and login into your hosting via FTP
  5. Unzip the item main file
  6. Locate the cresta.zip file and unzip it. Make sure your unzipping software does not create an extra directory with the same name nested into each other.
  7. Drag and drop theme main folder into your FTP program with the destination: “YOUR_HOSTING_ROOT/YOUR_SUBDIRECTORY/wp-content/themes/”
  8. FTP program will give a warning that there is an existing with the same directory name, choose replace all.And wait until all files are replaced

Update Through WordPress Admin Panel

  1. Navigate to Appearance > Themes Activate another theme to deactivate the Cresta theme
  2. Delete the installed Cresta theme.
  3. Unzip the file you just downloaded from ThemeForest and locate the WordPress Theme cresta.zip
  4. Still within the Themes section, on the header tab, click on “Install Themes” , then on the header second tab click “Upload” .
  5. Click “Browse…”and locate the new theme file cresta.zip
  6. The “Upgrade existing theme?” option choose “Yes” from the dropdown list.
  7. Click “Install Now”.
  8. Click “Activate”.

Support / Contact With Us

  1. Please go to https://support.rbinfosoft.com/

Update History

                    ----- 1.0.0 ( 24 March 2024) -----
                    Initial released