Theme Portal Documentation

Before you install Theme Portal or any other Estatik WordPress real estate theme, make sure that you have installed required plugins, i.e. Estatik Simple or Estatik PRO or Estatik Premium. Without Estatik plugins, Portal Theme will not have complete functionality you can see at Portal Theme demo website.

You will be also required to install SiteOrigin Page Builder and Widgets Bundle plugin which is free and also required plugin to use Theme Portal. This plugins are free and can be downloaded at wordpress.org plugins directory.

Please open your admin area and go to Appearance - Themes. Click on Upload button:

Select zip file that you downloaded after purchase and press Install button.

Activate it. You will Estatik Portal Theme Icon in your admin panel.

Once you activated Theme Portal, you will see a message to install and activate required and recommended plugins. See it below:

We recommend to click on Begin installing plugins to do everything correct. Plugin One Click Demo import is required to make quick demo setup. If you do not need demo content, you can omit it.

Then make sure you activate every of them.

Now when all plugins are successfully installed and activated, you can move forward with demo content setup. Please open Plugins -> Import Demo Data plugin.

Press the button Import Demo Data and wait. Demo content and theme configuration import takes some time - up to several minutes. Be patient please.

If you can see the message below, it means you have done everything absolutely correct and now you have ready-to-use website looking like Theme Portal Demo.

If you still have some issues, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will help as soon as possible.

Portal Theme includes listings display settings as well. You can select default layout for listings (grid/list), the type of grid (2 or 3 per row) and disable sidebar. Please note that Sidebar disable option works only with pages created with template Listings Page.

When you enable the options below, you get additional filters on top of your listings:

admin side:

frontend side:

In Footer Settings you can change the color of footer background, text, links and footer layout.
Also here you can change Copyright text as well.

Below let us describe every option in Header Settings.

1. Blog Name Color - adjust or brand your blog using this feature. You can change default black titles to another color.

2. Blog name font size - change the default value if you want to make it smaller or bigger.

3. Sticky header - great popular feature that allows you to fix the menu to the top of your web page.

4. Transparent Homepage Header - is a nice tricky feature from our designer. Just try it out and leave it enabled if you like.

5. Spaces under/ above / between links - additional settings for your menu items, you can adjust spaces between them as you need.

To change a default color of theme, just click on Select Color button and see the entire color palette. Choose the color you like.

Again, do not forget to Save your changes.

If you changed your mind and want to restore it back, click on Default button and theme will be in green color again:

Once you have installed and activated Theme Portal you will see Estatik icon in your admin panel. Click on it to open General Settings of the theme.
There you will see Logo and favicon upload buttons.

You can setup height and width for logo image. Click Save to save your changes.

Theme Portal provides you with 5 additional page templates: Page Builder, Listings Page, Contact us, Page with Left Sidebar, Page without Sidebar. Let us help you review each of them.
If you are going to create a page with SiteOrigin Page Builder, you need to select Page Builder Template >>

This template allows you to build your page with individual layouts.

This is the best template to choose for displaying listings pages. It has appropriate page title and inherits sidebar settings from general Theme Settings.

Thanks to this template you can create full-width pages without sidebars.

It is helpful when you want to combine both types of pages - with or without sidebars.

If you prefer Left sidebar to the Right one, select Page with Left Sidebar Template.

To create the same as on our demo website Contact us template, you should select Contact Us Template as displayed below:

Create a list of featured agents using this tool.

To select the agents, please enter agents IDs via comma:

Show off your achievements using this attractive Estatik Portal Widget:

Just upload an achievement image and its figure with title:

This Portal Theme widget will present your services or other pieces of important information in a visual and dynamic form. Presentation this widget creates will definitely grab your visitors attention. It's easy to setup in admin area and very convenient to navigate in frontend:

No need to use 3rd-party WordPress slideshow plugins, just try this one! Big-sized exciting Estatik Portal slideshow with preview images will definitely attract your website visitors attention!

To select what listings the slideshow will display, select any of the options below (category, type, status, etc.):

Use this widget to show all partners or customers you have and you are proud of. The widget has simple settings: upload logo/image, add link or save.

Logo images will be displayed as a slider with nice hover effect. You can upload unlimited number of them.

If you want to emphasize special services or experience your real estate agency can offer, this widget will be most suitable for that! Configure this part of page according to your needs:

Upload service image, description, title and link.

Post loop widget will display selected/featured posts on your page. You can show specific posts entering their IDs in the widget settings, narrow the display by selecting date range or choosing specific order.

It's great tool to show featured or most popular posts:

Estatik Testimonials widget can be easily configured. Just enter reviewer name, upload photo, add necessary links and click Done button. You can add as many testimonials as you want. Testomonials will be scrolled in a slider mode.

Grid Properties Types Widget will show selected categories of listings in a fancy layout. Select category, upload background image and select what facts you would like to show on the background image:

1. Nothing - will show just the name of the category.
2. Num of properties - will show the number of listings in this category
3. Price range - will show min and max prices that this category listings have
4. Custom Description - will show the text you enter the text box below

You can also select pre-defined layout: Auto, 2 or 3 columns:

You can check our demo page for this widget with Auto layout here.

Theme Portal is fully integrated with SiteOrigin Builder and its Widget Bundle. If you want to use our demo website layouts or reproduce some demo pages, it is required to install and activate SiteOrigin widgets. Documentation about SiteOrigin Widgets can be found at the the website of the builder - siteorigin.com.

Here we will describe how to configure and use Estatik Portal Theme Widgets. There are 19 of them.