1. About Chariton Theme

Chariton is a full-featured premium flexible WordPress Theme for your Non-Profit, Charity & Donations Website. We looked over the last trends in web-design when creating this theme. Chariton optimized for any kind of charity, NGO, a non-profit organization, donation, church, foundation firm, fundraising, free education, child care & child protection, and any kind of web design company.

2. Install Theme

Download packages:

Purchase Chariton theme from ThemeForest then you can download our template package from there. Extract package includes all the files and folders of the theme. When done, you should see chariton.zip (zip file name can be changed from version to version).

Once the download is complete, unzip the file and you will see the following packages:

• Docs - our detail documentation for the theme
• Sample - the sample data of the demos, you can import it Manually.
• Theme folder - for manual installation

System Requirements:

When selecting a hosting service, you should check to see that these server requirements are provided and installed on their web servers:

• PHP version 5.6 or greater
• MySQL version 5.6 or greater

Theme Installation :

There are 2 ways to install a WordPress theme. Both ways will allow you to easily upload and install the WordPress theme files for a quick and easy setup.

Installing Theme from the WordPress Dashboard

• Log into your WordPress Dashboard (admin area)
• Navigate to Appearance Themes
• Click Install Add New
• Click Upload Theme
• Now you just need to find the “chariton.zip” in the Upload folder and hit Install now.
• After Installed then click Active Now

If you are experiencing any issues during the installation I would recommend to check out this Screencast by Envato

Install theme via FTP

The second option how to install this theme would be the upload via FTP manager. It really doesn’t matter which of the two ways you choose, just choose the one you feel more comfortable with.

• Login to your FTP account and navigate to your WordPress installation directory
• Navigate to the folder /wp-content/themes
• Upload the “chariton” folder (not the .zip-file). This is the folder located inside the “Upload” folder in the zip-file you’ve downloaded from Themeforest.
• Now log into your WordPress admin area
• Navigate to Appearance Themes
• You found the theme and click Activate

Known problems when installing the theme

1. The “Broken theme and/or stylesheets missing” error is most common when you install or activate a new theme.

If you get an error saying that the stylesheet is missing, then you have uploaded the wrong folder. Please check that you are uploading the chariton.zip within the Theme Files folder. You have to unzip the package file that you download from Themeforest to find this.

3. Plugin Installation

Right after the theme is activated, a notification at the top of the screen will suggest continuing with the installation of the plugins recommended for getting the best of your theme. Installing process is very simple, you just need to click Begin installing plugins and you will be redirected to the plugin installation page where you can install Plugins. 

Plugins Using in Chariton theme

• Chariton Master
• Slider Revolution
• Elementor Page Builder
• Contact Form 7
• Give donations form
• MailChimp for WordPress
• Instagram Feed
• One click demo import

Step 1: Click ‘Begin installing plugins and select the plugins you need to install from the list.

Step 2: Select all plugins then choose Install, Click Apply to install all plugins

4. Install Demo Data

Navigate to Appearance->>Import Demo Data >> OneClick Demo

After you import this demo, you will have to setup the theme options separately. See the documentation next step for Chariton Options Setting

# Import Chariton Options Data

Navigate to Chariton Options->>Backup >> then paste your theme options data in the blog & click Import button.

Chariton Options data location >> go to download package >> sample >> data folder then open the (options.txt) file any editor. just copy all code and import theme options data.

Set Up Menu

1. Creating your menu

• Step 1- Login to the WordPress Dashboard.
• Step 2- From the 'Appearance' menu on the left-hand side of the Dashboard, select the 'Menus' option to bring up the Menu Editor.

• Step 3 - Select Create a new menu at the top of the page.
• Step 4 - Enter a name for your new menu in the Menu Name box.
• Step 5 - Click the Create Menu button. Your menu is now defined, and you can now add pages to it (steps below).

2. Adding pages to your menu

• Step 1 - Locate the tab entitled Pages on the left hand side.
• Step 2 - Within this tab, select the View All link to bring up a list of all the currently published Pages on your site.
• Step 3 - Select the Pages that you want to add by clicking the check box next to each Page's title.
• Step 4 - Click the Add to Menu button located at the bottom of this pane to add your selection(s) to the menu that you created in the previous step.
• Step 5 - Click the Save Menu button once you've added all the menu items you want.

Your custom menu has now been saved.

The Screen Options allow you to choose which items you can use to add to a menu. Certain items, like Posts or Portfolios are hidden by default. The Screen Options are located in the top right corner of your WordPress Dashboard.

5. Theme Configuration

Upload Favicon, Logo and Enable/Disable Preloader.

You can upload your logo image in the Chariton Options. If the logo is not uploaded, then your site name will be used. Please, follow the steps below to upload your logo:

• Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
• Step 2 - Go to Chariton Options > General Settings.
• Step 3 - Upload your favicon (should be a 80px x 80px PNG/GIF image).
• Step 4 - Upload your logo by clicking on Add Image.
• Step 5 - Manage theme breadcrumb settings.
• Step 6 - Enable/Disable Site preloader by click the switch.
• Step 7 - Enable/Disable Site scroll to top icon by click the switch.

# Set a page as Home Page

• Step 1 - Go to Settings > Reading in your WordPress Dashboard panel.
• Step 2 - Set "Front page displays" to a "Static Page".
• Step 3 - In the drop-down menu for "Front Page" choose a page which will be your home page.
• Step 4 - Leave the drop-down menu for "Posts page" empty, as this is not used by the theme.
• Step 5 - Save changes.

6. Set Up Home Page

You can quickly build a home page using Elementor for WordPress that is drag and drop frontend and backend page builder plugin that will save you tons of time working on the site content. You will be able to take full control over your WordPress site, build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required

From your Dashboard Admin Navigate to Pages

• - Select All Pages to see all page then click edit one page you want
• - Select Add New to create new page

# How to use Elementor Page Builder

Have you ever used Elementor Page Builder? Please follow that guide first: Elementor Page Builder Guide

• Official Plugin Documentation For More information about the Elementor Page Builder check the official documentation.
• Watch video about Elementor Page Builder

Watch video about Elementor

1. Add and modify Row Layout

Step 1 - Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Edit with Elementor

Step 2 - You will see all element in left sidebar, please choose element that you want to use or you will see button "Add New Section" ,"Add Template" , please click to button to add element.

Step 3 - To change the Row layout ( number of columns ) you need to click button content will display in leftsidebar.

2. Edit Element

Click on the Edit This Element (pencil icon) to Edit the Row element , when you click to button all content will display in left sidebar follow you can change .

3. Remove Element

Trash Box Icon - To Remove Row, Column or Module you need to click the Trash Box icon.

4. Add Element

Trash Box Icon - To Add Row, Column , please click to add icon.

# Set Up Blog Page

1. Create the blog post

• Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)
• Step 2 - Click the 'Posts' tab.
• Step 3 - Click the 'Add New' sub-tab.
• Step 4 - Start filling in the blanks: enter your post title in the upper field, and enter your post body content in the main post editing box below it.
• Step 5 - As needed, select a category, add tags, post format settings below the editor.
• Step 6 - Upload a featured image for your Post.
• Step 7 - Select Post Format. You can create blog post with a lot of Formats like link, gallery or image. Select format on Format box from in right sidebar.
• Step 8 - Scroll down until you see the Featured Image settings box to upload single page images or create gallery.
• Step 9 - When your post is ready, click Publish.

2. Manage current all blog posts

You can see all information of you blog post, add new, edit or delete them.

# Create New Page

Create New Page with Elementor Page Builder

• Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)..
• Step 2 - Click on Pages > Add New.
• Step 3 - Give your page a name then Change the Editor (edit with elementor Page Builder) to Backend Editor (you need to have the Elementor Page Builder plugin activated).
• Step 4 - Click on the Add New Section button
• Step 5 - Select which Elements you want to use.

Choose page header Layout

# Blog Global Configure

• Step 1 - From your admin Dashboard navigate to: Chariton Options > Blog Page Settings

# Create Donation Forms

Step 1: Go to Donation Forms to Dashboard then create content of Donation

# Create Service Item

Step 1: Go to Service from Dashboard then create content of Service

# Create Causes

Step 1: Go to Causes from Dashboard then create content of Causes

# Create Team Member

Step 1: Go to Team from Dashboard then create content of Team

# Create Testimonial

Step 1: Go to Testimonial from Dashboard then create content of Testimonial

# Create event

Step 1: Go to event from Dashboard then create content of event

# Create Contact Page

1. Create Contact Form.

Make sure you install and active Contact Form 7 plugin to continue reading.

• Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Dashboard, go to Contact > Add New
• Step 2 - Give a Name to your form and change Mail Info
• Step 3 - Edit the Form field to change the Form Layout

7. Chariton Options

Chariton Theme use Customizer provides an ultra-effective and intuitive way to customize theme layout & setting with real-time preview. Bring all of settings to customizer, you do not need to using another theme option anymore. To access Customizer, go to your admin Dashboard Navigate to Admin >> Chariton Options

• 1. General Settings: Manage general settings like your logo,favicon, Heading font, Body Font, logo size, breadcrumb, preloader, font family, Page Animation etc.
• 2. Typography Settings: Manage general settings like your webstie body font family, font size, line-height, Heading font, theme base color etc.
• 3. Header Settings: Manage your header settings like your header top section, language, menu quote, quote button search button & other information.
• 4. Menu Settings: Manage your menu settings like your menu color, font size, stcky menu, donation button, search button & other information.
• 5. Blog Page Settings: Manage your blog page setting like page layout, blog post style, post layout style, Blog post content excerpt length, blog single page layout & single page share icon, enable/disable post meta information etc.
• 6. Service Page Settings: Manage service page setting like post type slug, enable/disable gutenberg, Share button etc.
• 7. Cause Page Settings: Manage cause page settings.
• 8. Team Settings: Manage team page settings.
• 9. Testimonial Settings: Manage testimonial page settings.
• 10. Event Settings: Manage event page settings.
• 11. Search Page Settings: Manage your search page like text, button text, search text etc.
• 12. 404 Page Settings: Manage your 404 everything like text, button text, search text etc.
• 13. Footer Settings: Manage your footer settings like copyright text, footer color, footer background image, logo etc.
• 14. Backup: You can easily Export or Import your Chariton options demo data. If you want to import demo data. Please go to the >> download folder >> inc >> demo >> options.txt, This file open any text editor and copy to past below theme option backup import box.

Go to WordPress admin panel and navigate to Chariton Options → Typography Settings

Go to WordPress admin panel and navigate to Chariton Options → Footer Settings

8. FAQs

# How to update Theme

1.Update Theme via WordPress

Updating the theme via WordPress is very similar to the install process via WordPress. Make sure you had backup all of your customization in our theme. Follow the steps below to update your theme via WordPress:

• Step 1 - Download latest theme package on ThemeForest
• Step 2 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
• Step 3 - Go to Appearance > Themes.

• Step 4 - Deactivate the Chariton Theme by simply activating a different theme. Once you activate a different theme, you can delete the Chariton theme.
• Step 5 - Delete the Chariton Theme. Do not worry, your content will not be lost!
• Step 6 - Then simply upload the newest chariton.zip” file in the Appearance > Themes section. Click on the Install Themes tab at the top and choose to upload the zip file. You have this step explained in section: Theme Installation via WordPress.

2.Update theme via FTP

Updating the theme via FTP is very similar to the install process via FTP. Follow the steps below to update your theme via FTP:

• Step 1 - Go to .../wp-content > themes location on your server using a FTP client and backup your "chariton" theme folder by saving it to your computer, or you can choose to simply delete it. Your content will not be lost.
• Step 2 - Download the new version of chariton theme from your Themeforest and retrieve chariton folder by unpacking the zip that you download from Themeforest and chariton.zip.
• Step 3 - Then simply drag and drop the new "chariton" theme folder into .../wp-content > themes location. Choose to “Replace” the current one if you did not delete it.
• Step 4 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes and activate the new chariton theme.

# How to create Child Theme

What is a Child Theme?

A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme. Child themes allow you to modify, or add to the functionality of that parent theme. A child theme is the best, safest, and easiest way to modify an existing theme, whether you want to make a few tiny changes or extensive changes. Instead of modifying the theme files directly, you can create a child theme and override within.

Why use a Child Theme?

if you modify an existing theme and it is updated, your changes will be lost. With a child theme, you can update the parent theme (which might be important for security or functionality) and still keep your changes. It’s a great way to get started if you are just learning WordPress theme development.

• Follow that documentation to create Child Theme Child Themes - Codex
• Using that plugin to create Child Theme One Click Child Theme

You need to use a Child Theme only if you are making code customizations.

Thanks for reading!