Cobalt

Responsive Multipurpose Wordpress Theme


Welcome to the Cobalt WordPress theme documentation, by phpface. Use the menu to left side to navigate quickly through the documentation.

If you're having an issue with the theme and can't find the answer here, then please send us an email through our profile page: http://themeforest.net/user/phpface and we will try to answer you as quick as possible.

Please read the documentation carefully before sending a support request. The chance you could find the answer here is big and would save you a lot of time!

Extract the zipped package downloaded from ThemeForest to your desktop, in the extracted package you will find cobalt.zip file which is the wordpress theme.

We suggest you active the child theme (cobalt-child.zip), which is included in zipped file.

You can install the theme in two different ways:

#1. Installing the theme through FTP:

#2. Install the theme through Wordpress backend interface:

​Go to Apperance->Theme, find "Cobalt Child" and press Activate button.

Cobalt comes bundled with 3 plugins.

Once you activate Cobalt you will get a notification, click the "Begin Installing Plugins" and install and activate all the required plugins.

Importing all demo widgets.

We set the Portfolio 1 as the homepage in our live demo.

Visual Composer is bundled in Cobalt, you can find all the helps in js_composer documentation folder.

Also you may need the Video Academy Tutorials here.

Cobalt use "Contact Form 7" plugin to create the contact form in Contact page.

<h4>Write us a Message</h4>
[text* your-name placeholder "Your name..."]
[email* your-email placeholder "Your name..."]
[textarea your-message placeholder "Your name..."]
[submit "Send"]

Once you create the form, go to Theme Options/Contact page, put the form id in Contact form 7 ID field.

Example, in our documentation demo, the form id is 4

We have used the following opensource projects or other files as listed.

You have two options for upgrading the theme.

  1. Re-download the theme on ThemeForest and override it on the old version, remember to check the Changelogs for the customization.
  2. Install "Envato WordPress Toolkit" plugin, after install this plugin, you will se the notice about "Update the theme", of course if We release the new version.

10/05/2014 V1.0.0

Initial Release