# Rodio – Creative Multipurpose WordPress Theme

Made with ♥ by GFXPARTNER

# A creative and multipurpose WordPress theme for creative businesses and professionals.

### Creative businesses should always have a creative presence in order to attract more customers. Building a creative website for your brand on the other hand could be quite challenging and expensive. At gfxpartner we help you eliminate all those barriers with the help of Rodio – Creative Multipurpose WordPress Theme. Rodio is a premium multipurpose WordPress theme designed to make modern websites for companies like, digital agencies, startups, saas, portfolios, software, IT services, studios and others.

Thank you for purchasing our theme. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email via our user page contact form here. Thanks so much!

# Theme Requirements

To run WordPress Theme we recommend using a host that supports:

- PHP version 7.0 or greater.
- MySQL version 5 or greater OR MariaDB version 10.0 or greater.

We recommend you make sure that your server PHP configuration limits are as follows:

- max_execution_time 600
- max_input_time 600
- memory_limit 256M ( in case Elementor's widget panel is stuck at loading, set this to 1024M)
- post_max_size 128M
- upload_max_filesize 128M
- max_input_vars 3000

# WordPress Knowledge

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. If you need help installing WordPress, follow the instructions in WordPress Codex or you can watch the. Below are the useful links for WordPress information.

1. WordPress Codex – general info about WordPress and how to install on your server
2. First Steps With WordPress – general information that covers a wide variety of topics
3. FAQ New To WordPress – the most popular FAQ’s regarding WordPress

# Theme Installation

Procedure for installing Rodio

- Login to WordPress admin panel
- Go to: Appearance -> Themes
- Click on the Add New button, then click on the Upload New
- Upload theme zip file
- Click on the Activate button

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# Plugins installation

When the 'Rodio' theme is activated. A prompt will appear at the top of the admin panel, prompting you to install required plugins.

Following is the list of plugins:

- Elementor page builder
- Contact form 7
- Advanced custom fields
- One Click Demo Import
- Rodio core ( If the plugin fails to be installed with the rest of the plugins, you can install it manually as it is bundled with the theme. )

# Child theme installation

Procedure for installing child is same as of the parent theme. One thing to keep in mind is to install after installing the parent theme.

# Demo content

The demo content can be imported by following these steps:

- Go to Appearance -> Import Demo Data.
- Hover over the demo that you wish to import and click 'Import Demo'
- Click the button 'Continue & Import' - wait for a while. If the import results in an error, try importing again. (Make sure that all the required plugins are installed and activated)
- Congralutions! Demo data has been imported.

Demo content is also bundled with the theme.

After importing demo content, go to Settings -> Permalinks, check the 'Post name' radio button and click 'Save Changes'. Also follow the next section to add the Elementor kit.

# Elementor Kit

After importing the demo content, you need to import the Elementor kit by going to 'Elementor' -> 'Tools' -> 'Import/Export Kit'

Click on 'Start Import'

Upload the 'grayscale-scale.zip' Elementor kit if you imported the 'Grayscale images' demo or Upload the 'colored-scale.zip' Elementor kit if you imported the 'Colored images' demo. (Both files are bundled with the theme)

After uploading the file, just follow through with the process.

# Elementor Post Types

Make sure the checkboxes mentioned in the following screenshot are checked. After checking them, click 'Save Changes'.

# Elementor CSS bug

At the time of publishing the theme, the Elementor has a bug where it does not generate CSS after saving. To solve this issue you have to generate the CSS manually.

Go to 'Elementor' -> 'Tools' -> 'Regenerate Files & Data'

# Theme panel

For further customization of the theme, you can go to 'Rodio Options'.

# Global color

To change the primary color, you need to make changes to the 'Rodio Options' and 'Elementor Site Settings'

# Page header

The theme allows you to insert a page header at the top of the page. To customize the 'Page Header', Click on 'Edit'.

Then at the bottom of the page, You can customize details about the 'Page Header' for the current page.

This step can be followed for 'Posts' and 'Projects' post types.

# Custom Post Types

The theme registers three custom post types Projects, Headers and Footers. They are available in the admin dashboard. as shown in the screenshot.

# Projects

The theme has custom-made Elementor widgets to display these Projects, however in order to change the content of this post type, you have to make changes in the admin dashboard instead of the Elementor editor.

You customize the content of the project custom post type, by selecting the project as shown in screenshot.

# Headers and Footers

The theme gives you complete control over the layout of headers and footers. You can assign each page with a header and footer of your own choosing. For this part of documentation, the procedure for working with 'Header' is explained however to deal with 'Footer', you can use the same procedure

To customize the header, go to 'Headers' on the dashboard, click 'Edit with Elementor' for the header that you wish to customize

To apply the header to a specific page, Click on 'Edit'.

This step can be followed for 'Posts' and 'Projects' post types.

# Third Party Libraries used

Following is the list of third party libraries and plugins used to make this theme

- Bootstrap
- OverlayScrollbars
- Swiper
- Isotope
- Masonry
- GSAP
- GLightBox

# Design Files

The design files worth $26 are bundled with the theme. Including .PSD and .XD formats.

Once again, thanks for purchasing this theme and if you have any questions relating to this theme. No guarantees, but we'll do our best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the themes on ThemeForest, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section.