Playgard | Gaming WordPress Theme

Introduction

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Playgard Game Hosting Server WordPress Theme is a powerful Easy to use, Mobile friendly, highly customizable SEO friendly

Theme features

Responsive Design
Retina Ready
Sticky Header
Blog Page Layout Option
Truly One Click Demo Importer.
Powerful Drag and Drop Page Builder (Elementor)
13+ Inner page
Clean & Minimal Design
Flexible and easy to use
Powerfull Codestar Framework Admin Panel(save 49$)

Note: All images are just used for Preview Purpose Only. They are not part of the theme and NOT included in the final purchase files.

Need Support?

If you have any questions regarding to theme issues, please email at support@themetags.com

Theme Installation

Once you purchase the theme from themeforest, you'll be able to load 2 file type.

All Files and documentation
Installable Wordpress Theme File

If you select to download all files and documentation ( the zip name will be themeforest-xxx-xxxxx.zip ), you have to extract it out ( to get themename-vxx_xx.zip file ) before installing it to wordpress system.

Install theme via Wordpress Dashboard

Go to 'Appearance > Theme' section
Click 'Add New' and select the 'Upload' option
Upload the zip file
All Done :)

Install theme via FTP

Access to the file on your server using ftp editor program
Go to 'wp-content/themes' folder
Extract the zip file and put the themename-vxx_xx folder there
Go to 'Wordpress Dashboard > Appearance > Theme' section to activate the theme
All Done :)

Install Plugins

After you install the theme, there'll be a list of suggested and recommended plugins at the top of the wordpress dashboard.

If you already hide it out, you can go to 'Appearance > Install Plugins' section instead too.

Server Requirements

If you are unsure of how to configure these settings, please contact your hosting provider.

PHP configuration limits

Setting	Value
max_execution_time	180
max_input_time	180
memory_limit	256M
post_max_size	128M
upload_max_filesize	128M
max_input_vars	2000+

WordPress memory limit

define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M' );

WordPress memory can be different from the server – you need to set this regardless of server memory settings

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

Related official WordPress

https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/

After full fill all of these requirements then go to the demo import

Importing Demo Content

After activating the theme, there'll be suggested plugin listed at the top (if there aren't, you can go to 'Appearance > Install Plugins' section as well ). Try installing and activating these following plugins ( as it effects the importing process ). You can also install all suggested plugins at this step as well.

Follow the steps mentioned on the screen, then, you'll get the site like the demo :)

Theme Options

All of the theme options work globally but when you use the page option from the page meta then the Theme option will not work for this field.

General Layout

- Preloader

- Display Back To Top

- You can use Custom CSS style if you want overwrite style of theme and your customize code keep in database so you can update theme in future without change

Header Settings

- Enable Header Sticky

- Transparent Menu

- Responsive Menu

- Logo Upload

- Menu Style

Footer Settings

- Copyright Text

- You can change footer background Color

- You can change footer background Overlay

Page Header Settings

- You can setup page title, sub-title, background for page title

1. Default Page Setting.

- Default Page Title

- Default Page Description

- Default Page Background

Blog Settings

You can setup blog page display as grid or masonry layout with left sidebar,right sidebar or no sidebar

You can edit blog sidebar by navigate to Appearance > Widgets > Primary

Sidebar Settings

- You can setup Sidebar Info

Typography Settings

You can change font family use default fonts, Google fonts, change font size, font color, heading font size

Color Scheme

You can change color for overall site, header, footer.

404 Settings

You can setting up 404 Page.

Homepage

- You can assign another page to homepage by go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading > Change Frontpage to any page you want

Page Meta

- Page meta option is more powerful then Theme Options. Theme Option field will overwride by page meta option.

-When you use a different logo from page meta option then the theme option will not able to change it. This is example

Footer Link Widget

1. Go "Appearance > Menu" create invidiual menu: "Company", Resource", "Support"

Custom Footer

1. Create your custom footer from Dashboard > Footer > Add new footer

You can create a custom footer by using Elementor. Select template "Elementor Canvas" after creating a footer you will get it in the theme option and page meta option

If you select footer from theme option then it will work globally

If you select footer from Page meta option then the theme option footer will not applied on this page.

__Playgard Pricing's Layout 01

1/ Everything that needs to be changed in pricing you can change as you wish from here. and you can add style as you want from the style option for your pricing.

__Playgard Accordion layout 01

1/ Everything that needs to be changed in accordion you can change as you wish from here. and you can add style as you want from the style option for your accordion.

__Playgard Accordion Tab layout 02

1/ Everything that needs to be changed in accordion you can change as you wish from here. and you can add style as you want from the style option for your accordion.

__Playgard Testimonial Layout 01

1/ Everything that needs to be changed in testimonial you can change as you wish from here. and you can add style as you want from the style option for your testimonial.

__Playgard Blog

1/ Everything that needs to be changed in blog you can change as you wish from here. and you can add style as you want from the style option for your blog.

__Playgard Game Card Testimonial

1/ Everything that needs to be changed in game card you can change as you wish from here. and you can add style as you want from the style option for your game card.

MailChimp Integration

To the Playgard theme we Integrate MailChimp for Newsletter subscription. You just need to collect MailChimp API key and List ID from MailChimp website.

Get API Key

To navigate API key settings follow the direction MailChimp Profile > Extras > API Keys

Get List ID

To get List ID follow the direction Audience > Settings > Audience name and defaults

Fillout Integration fields

Dashboard > Theme Option > General > MailChimp Settings > MailChimp API

1. Auto Update using Envato Market #

- Install the Envato Envato Market #.

- Go to themeforest.net > Settings > API Keys.

- Generate an API key and store it in a text file as you will need it shortly.

- Now login into your WordPress admin dashboard

- From left sidebar click on Envato Market.

- As shown in below screenshot fill the API key that you just retrieved from themeforest.net

- Save Settings.

- Once the page refreshed you will see the list of themes you have purchased.

- If there is a new version available you will get the “update Automatically link.

- The theme will be updated to the most recent version.

2. Manual Update Through WordPress Admin Panel

- Navigate to Appearance > Themes Activate another theme to deactivate the Playgard theme

- Delete the existing installed theme (old version).

- Unzip the file you just downloaded from ThemeForest and locate the WordPress Theme "Playgard_V1.0.0.zip"

- Still within the Themes section, on the header tab, click on “Install Themes”, then on the header second tab click “Upload”.

- Click “Browse…” and locate the new theme file playgard.zip

- In the “Upgrade existing theme?” option choose “Yes” from the dropdown list.

- Click “Install Now”.

- Click “Activate”.

1. Theme Update

You can update your theme by going to updates from the dashboard (if you update your theme). Otherwise, you can check the theme from Appearance to see if you have any latest updates, if so, you can update your theme from there. you can also follow same roll in plugging and file.

2. Manually Theme Update

You can manually update your theme if you want. for that first time you need to zip the theme from your theme file. Then you can upload that zip file by going to theme from dashboard appearance and clicking on add new theme. You can manually same role follow the file for plugin updates. for your convenience I am adding the screenshot below so you will not have any more problems. If you will face any problem then you can take support on our support theme (https://themetags.ticksy.com/).

Playgard Gaming WordPress Theme