Getting Started

SETUP - Economist Theme Install Guide
Before you Start: Your have your own hosting platform running up to date stable versions of Apache/nginx, PHP, MySQL. If you need hosting we recommen...
Thu, 24 Jan, 2019 at 10:58 PM
After you download Economist
Inside the zip file you download from ThemeForest you'll find a number of different directories, including: DemoData - this directory contains ...
Fri, 28 Oct, 2016 at 12:27 PM
LayerSlider and/or Visual Composer is asking for a Purchase Key
Despite the notice, you do not need to enter a key for these plugins. We purchase an extended license for them on your behalf. You can safely ignore t...
Fri, 28 Oct, 2016 at 12:28 PM
I'm missing a Show/Hide Page Title Option
To display the extra custom fields such as Show/Hide Page title. Go to Custom Fields -> Tools Then import the file attached at the bottom of thi...
Thu, 24 Jan, 2019 at 10:56 PM
How do I update the theme?
  NOTE: Before updating the theme we strongly recommend you backup your live theme instance first! We also highly recommend you first conduct upda...
Fri, 28 Oct, 2016 at 12:52 PM
Setting up WooCommerce (Shop)
 If you'd like to add a shop to Economist it's very simple, you'll be setup in a matter of minutes. 1) First go to Plugins - search f...
Fri, 28 Oct, 2016 at 1:03 PM
Creating or Updating the Sidebar Features
Economist comes with two different sidebar features - one with simple text - and the other with an image and a title link. Let's see how both ar...
Fri, 28 Oct, 2016 at 1:28 PM
Changing the Below Content Features
These are the features we're going to change: So, these are widgets - to modify them we'll go to Appearance > Widgets - Be...
Fri, 28 Oct, 2016 at 2:07 PM
For users of WPML
WPML is a commercial plugin for adding multi-lingual support to your WordPress site. So, if you'd like to have content in say, English, French an...
Fri, 28 Oct, 2016 at 2:13 PM
Removing the automatic gradient on the slider
Go to Appearance > Customizer - 'Additional CSS' and add the following line: body .ls-layers:before, body .ls-inner:before { display: none;}
Mon, 10 Apr, 2017 at 4:11 PM