Intro
Thank you for purchasing GodLike!
GodLike is creative theme for gaming, communities and news. It is clean, flexible, responsive, working with the awesome Visual Composer
and created with a powerfull admin options panel to fine tune the theme. It allows you to create bbPress
forum and WordPress blog
. Comes with unlimited color schemes for your website.
Write blog posts and share your news. Many elements (shortcodes)
are ready to use. Unlimited layout variations for everyone. And, of course, stunning and modern website design.
Hope you’ll enjoy using The GodLike as much as we enjoyed developing it.
Installation
Setting-up GodLike is easy. Just follow these steps, they won’t take much of your time.
Theme Installation
Step 1: Login to your WordPress admin panel and navigate to Appearance → Themes.
Step 2: Click Add New button at the top of the page, then the Upload Theme button on the next page.
Step 3: Select godlike.zip included in the files downloaded from Themeforest and click Install Now.
Final Step: Once the file is uploaded and installed, click Activate.
Plugin Installation
The GodLike requires some plugins to operate correctly. It’s easy to install and activate them in one click.
Step 1: After activating the theme, in the notification message on the top of the admin page, click the Begin Installing Plugins link.
Step 2: Select all the plugins in the list and choose Install from the Dropdown menu, then click Apply.
Demo Content
Note: Importing demo content is optional.
The GodLike comes with single-click importable demo content (pages, blog posts, forum, etc.) to help you get started if you have a fresh WordPress installation.
Before importing, make sure you have installed the Theme and recommended Plugins. Before performing the following steps, you must have installed the plugin nK Themes Helper
- Navigate to Godlike → Demo Import.
- Read Important Notes.
- Select Demo and Click Import (import time depends on the speed of the Internet connection on your server and their resources).
Theme Options
For detailed customization the look of your site, you can use built-in Customizer and Meta Boxes options to override these options on pages or posts.
Customizer
Warning: For use Customizer options you need to install the Kirki plugin if you have not done so in the previous install plugins step
After installing the theme, navigate to Appearance → Customize.
Here you have access to all the theme’s configuration settings. Each setting is commented and very straight-forward and should be easy to understand and configure.
The GodLike supports live preview of all customizations, so you may preview any changes before saving them.
Meta Boxes
Warning: For use Meta Boxes options you need to install the Advanced Custom Fields plugin if you have not done so in the previous step
After adding another post you can use this options
And if you want to override the global settings use meta boxes that are located after content (available for all pages and posts)
Here you have access to all the theme’s configuration settings. Each setting is commented and very straight-forward and should be easy to understand and configure.
Media
Image Sizes
The GodLike automatically resizes images to make them look nice despite their location in templates.
Minimum recommended image sizes:
Horizontal Images: 1280x720px
Square Images: 400x400px
The list of available resolutions:
- 48×48
- 90×90
- 150×150
- 200×200
- 300×300
- 400×400
- 500×375
- 600×600
- 800×450
- 800×600
- 1280×720
- 1400×600
- 1440×900
- 1920×1080
Please try to select images that match the minimal dimensions to avoid whitespace, bad alignment and other image related problems.
Resizing Thumbnails
If you install The GodLike on the existing blog with existing images we strictly recommend that you should regenerate your images.
Please install and run Regenerate Thumbnail plugin.
Miscellaneous
Forms
In order to make use of contact forms, make sure you’ve installed and activated Contact Form 7 plugin.
To create the contact form layout similar to the demo site paste the following code to the Form field, located in Contact → Contact Forms:
[email* your-email class:form-control class:required placeholder "Email*"] [text* your-name class:form-control class:required placeholder "Name*"] [textarea* your-message 20x5 class:form-control class:required placeholder "Message *"] [response] <button class="nk-btn nk-btn-lg link-effect-4">Send</button>
Shortcodes
For ease of editing your pages and posts we highly recommend use Visual Composer for building pages.
With examples of shortcodes you can look in the elements tab on main menu.
Theme Helper
To be able to import and update GodLike themes we recommend using our nK Themes Helper plugin included in the required list.
After install you have access to next options
In this panel, you can update GodLike and check the hosting for minimum requirements of GodLike theme.
This panel contains a list of all recommended to install plugins.
In this panel, you can select and import any available demo themes
Credits
Libraries
We have used the following open-source projects or other files as listed:
jQuery
– https://github.com/jquery/jqueryBootstrap
– https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/v4-devGSAP
– https://github.com/greensock/GreenSock-JSJarallax
– https://github.com/nk-o/jarallaxFont-Awesome
– https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-AwesomeIonIcons
– https://github.com/driftyco/ioniconsFlickity
– https://github.com/metafizzy/flickityPhotoswipe
– https://github.com/dimsemenov/PhotoSwipeTyped.js
– https://github.com/mattboldt/typed.jsSticky-kit
– https://github.com/leafo/sticky-kitjQuery Validation
– https://github.com/jzaefferer/jquery-validationjQuery Form
– https://github.com/malsup/formjQuery.countdown
– https://github.com/hilios/jQuery.countdownSoundManager2
– https://github.com/scottschiller/SoundManager2Hammer.js
– https://github.com/hammerjs/hammer.jsMoment
– https://github.com/moment/momentMoment Timezone
– https://github.com/moment/moment-timezonenanoScrollerJS
– https://github.com/jamesflorentino/nanoScrollerJSKeymaster
– https://github.com/madrobby/keymasterTether
– https://github.com/HubSpot/tetherPrism
– https://github.com/PrismJS/prism
Images
The sample images viewed in the theme preview are for demo purposes only and are not included with your purchase. These images are courtesy of:
Preloader Animation
Music
Plugins
The GodLike supports the following list of plugins:
Thank You!
Thanks for using GodLike. We take great pride in creating solid themes and strongly believe in robust customer service practices. Should you have a question that neither this documentation file nor Themeforest’s forums can resolve and we’ll do our very best to assist you.
If you like our theme, please take 1 minute to rate it on Themeforest:
- Go to Themeforest and login with your credentials.
- Hover on your account name in the top right corner of the screen. Click Downloads link and you will see your purchases list.
- Click stars next to our theme to leave your rating.
It will help us a lot to keep being motivated to release new theme updates and improvements for free.
We hope you will enjoy using it for your next project!