Cygnus - Powerfull website designing tool

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Thank you

I would like to say thank you for choosing Cygnus theme. In this documentation you will find everything you need to use this theme. If you have any questions which are not covered in this documentation, please, create a ticket

About Cygnus theme

Cygnus is an ultimate and extra customizable wordpress theme, that helps to create excellent websites without spending significant amount of time and efforts. Its user-friendly interface, modern and nifty design, much more additional tools and features make Cygnus useful, customizable and straightforward. Easy installation, demo export and setup – all you need to build good website. A lot of useful plugins, interactivity, numerous modules for different purposes, fast and helpful support makes Cygnus very necessary thing for any kind of website.

Images included in theme

NB! All the images presented in the Cygnus Theme are for the familiarization only and are not allowed for personal or commercial usage. You may buy them on Shutterstock to use for your purposes.

Installing WordPress

WordPress is well-known for its ease of installation. Under most circumstances installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete. Many web hosts now offer tools (e.g. Bluehost, mediatemple) to automatically install WordPress for you. However, if you wish to install WordPress yourself, click below button to read about Famous 5 Minute Installation.

5 Minute Installation Guide

Alternatively you may be interested on below topics:

Disclaimer
Please note that we do not give support or any questions related on how to install and maintain wordpress. For any faulty installation that may cause your website or our theme malfunction you should refer to wordpress support forum. Alternatively you can get help from your web hosting.

Download Package from Theme Forest

Step 1 – Login to your ThemeForest account and navigate to your ‘Downloads’ tab and then locate your Cygnus theme purchase.

Step 2 – Click the ‘Download’ button and choose to either download the ‘Installable WordPress file only’, which is just the WordPress installable file, or choose to download ‘All Files & Documentation’ where you will find everything included in theme package.

Step 3 – For instructions on how to install the theme via WordPress, click Theme Installation.

Theme Installation

Once you download Cygnus Theme, unzip the main item. you will see the following folders:

Theme: Theme files that you will need to upload them into your wordpress themes directory
Documentation: Includes theme documentation for Cygnus theme.
Licensing: Lisence for theme and other items used on theme

Cygnus can be installed in two different ways:

Installing through wordpress
Uploading through FTP (File transfer protocol)

Installation through Wordpress:

Step 1 - Open Appearance → Themes
Step 2 - Click “Add New Theme” and hit upload link
Step 3 - Find the the file Cygnus.zip” on your hdd and hit install now button
Step 4 - After the theme is installed click on “Activate”
Step 5 – Once activated, You’ll see a prompt to install Cygnus’s required plugins, please follow instruction and install all necessary plugins

Warning!
While installing your theme through wordpress admin, you may encounter an error message saying “are sure you want to do this?”. This is mainly due to your hosting php settings. Cygnus theme zip file is roughly around 6mb and in some hostings the default value for max_upload_limit left default which is 2mb. To solve this problem you should either increase your maximum upload size (to 10mb) on your hosting admin panel or ask your host to do it for you if you do not have the privilege to alter your server php settings. This is a very common request and they should be able to help you out. Once the limit is increased you can re-try the install and you’ll be all good to go.

Installation Through FTP

Step 1 – Log into your server installation via FTP. You can use software such as Filezilla for this.

Step 2 – If you have downloaded the Full Theme Package from ThemeForest, please unzip the master Cygnus.zip file and then unzip the secondary Cygnus.zip file which will give an Cygnus folder.

Step 3 – Upload the extracted Cygnus folder to the wp-content > themes folder on the server. Make sure the folder name is -> ‘Avada’.

Step 4 – Log in to your WordPress Dashboard and navigate to Appearance > Themes and clicking the ‘Activate’ button, for the Cygnus theme.

Step 5 – Once activated, You’ll see a prompt to install Avada’s required plugins, please follow instruction and install all necessary plugins

Importing Demo Content

Below explanation is an step by step explanation on how to import our demo website content, please read carefully and if you face any problems that is not covered here, open a thread in our support forum.

Login into your WordPress Admin section (http://www.your-web-site.com/wp-admin)
Go to Appearance -> Import demo data
Click on the WordPress and follow the instructions if Import plugin isn’t installed yet (3.0+).
Click on "Import" button.
please note none of the images will be downloaded because of copyright restrictions. You will need to add your images manually.
WordPress will then import each of the posts, page, custom post types, comments, and categories contained in this file into your blog.
On the last step you have to import sliders, go ahead open slider revolution, import and choose slider one by one and import them all
Done! You should now have the dummy/demo content similar from the Live Preview of the theme.

Increasing the WordPress Memory Limit

Edit your wp-config.php file and enter something like:
```
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '96M');
```
Note
Please note that WordPress memory can be different to the server – you need to set this regardless of server memory settings
If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini If your line shows 32M try 64M:
```
memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)
```
If you don’t have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
```
php_value memory_limit 64M
```
If none of the above works then talk to your host.

Updating Wordpress Theme

There are 3 methods to update my wordpress themes to newer version. These new updates are essential if you want to have a bugfree 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 on losing your settings and pages. However if you had done modifictations on theme files, then they will be lost.

Method 1 - Manual update

Login into your Themeforest account and go to downloads (Dashboad > downloads)
Download the theme into your computer
Install an FTP program (Filezilla is free)
Retrieve your FTP login information from your hosting admin panel and login into your hosting via FTP
Unzip the item main file
Locate theme.zip (eg : Cygnus.zip) and unzip it. make sure your unzipping software do not create extra directory with the same name nested into each other.
drag and drop theme main folder into your FTP program with the destination : "YOUR_HOSTING_ROOT/YOUR_SUBDIRECTORY/wp-content/themes/"
FTP program will give a warning that there is an existing with the same directory name, choose replace all.
Then you are ready to Go !

Method 2 - Update Through Wordpress Admin Panel

For this method you should first install Theme Upgrades Tool
Unzip the file you just downloaded from ThemeForest and locate the WordPress Theme. (eg. Cygnus.zip)
Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
Click on “Appearance > Themes”.
Still within the Themes section, on header tab, click on “Install Themes”, then on header second tab click "Upload".
Click “Browse…” and locate the new theme file. (eg. Cygnus.zip)
In the “Upgrade existing theme?” option choose “Yes” from the dropdown list.
Click “Install Now”.
Click “Activate”.

Cygnus Option Settings

Theme Option settings is the core of your theme. A place you can customise from A-Z. Its in fact theme settings same like other themes, however we put alot of time and effort to build a solid framework. It exhibits options and settings in a way you can find them easily, and many other features. We are not going to explain every single option in option tree since we added description for each option and most of them are self descriptive.

In this documentation we will cover some major sections that has a workflow and needed to be explained in steps to avoid any confusion.

Pls note: in order to ensure the correct working of theme options (saving your style changes) all caching plugins you may be using on your website should be better deactivated. After you are done with your changes you can activate this caching plugins again.

Before we move on to other sections let us introduce some geneal stuff here :

Aways click on “Save changes” in order to make your settings take effect
You can always make a backup and/or restore your settings by using “Backup” option in admin panel. So you can freely experiment with all of TheGem options without having fear to loose some of them
Your Theme Version indicator at top left side with theme name. so you can always see what version you are using.
Save changes that will save ALL changes you have made in theme option, only the pane you are currently viewing.
Reset section will return all settings to default state on current pane only.
Reset all will return all settings to default state on all panes.

General Settings

Uploading Your Logo

In Cygnus theme inorder to update the logo, you need to navigate to Theme Option > Header, there you will find Custom Logo option which accpets logo.

Styling & Coloring

Here is where all the magic happens! Here you can customize your websites backgrounds, header, footer, typography and many more. In Option settings click on Customizer from left hand main navigation.

Customizer :The only advanced and easy to use background selector we have seen so far! We dont even see a need to explain how to work with that. you just play around with it and everything will come naturally. you will not cunfused or overwhelmed. This section introduces element's color for your theme such as loader color, page title background color, menu color, menu link color and so on, also this section introduces you to how to change the font typography, sizes, weight, line height and so on. It's pretty self explaintory.

Custom CSS & JS

If you need to apply some small CSS tweaks, then you are in right place. Please note that you should always have a copy of your custom codes as sometimes you may mistakenly reset theme options to defaults and lose all your custom css. Alternatively you may consider maCygnus a child theme if your customisation is beyund just few lines of css. below are some links to how to create your own child theme :

Export & Import Options

If you have decided to move your wordpress installation to other hosting, Export & Import feature will help you do this migration painlessly. Please note this feature will help you to only migrate Masterkey settings (skinning, typography, etc).

Go to Theme Option > Export/Import options
There's two option, either you can import theme option via file or url, please choose any one of that option.
Click on "Import" button
Done! you will see immediately see the changes in frontend.

Page Option Settings

In Cygnus theme there are numerious page metabox settings, some of them are listed below :

Layout Setting
Preheader
Header
Title Wrapper
Content
Footer