Introduction:
Dictate, the 6-in-one premium Wordpress theme, brings you modern design and neat & clean outlook. Touching the heights of artistic perfection, this multi-purpose web building tool can be used for six different niches, Medical, Fashion, Spa, Saloon, Business and Blog. Nevertheless, it is suitable for every single website, as you can utilize 72 built-in elements and advanced Visual Composer (save $ 25) page builder to modify it to any required shape and functionality. The greatest appeal lies in its versatility of features and ease of customization, so that you may launch a fully featured website with little or no basic knowledge, effort and time.
Some of the grandiose features of this premium Wordprss template include: 11 Homepage layouts; 4 built-in Sliders, including LayerSlider (save $ 15); 6 Header styles; 13 Custom Post types; 5 Gallery designs; 20 built-in pages; 4 Portfolio styles; advanced Timetable Management System; and so on. In addition, you can further beautify this fully responsive and Retina Ready theme with the multiple color options. The advanced SEO coding techniques, applied in its building, will fetch your website greater traffic on all the famous search engines and promote its popularity.
Theme Options:
General Settings:
- Change Color Scheme using Color Bar or Predefined Color Schemes Dropdown.
- Set Twitter API Key, Twitter Secret Key, Twitter Token and Twitter Security Token.
Font Options:
- Set Font Size, Font Family, Font Style, Line Height, Font Color of Heading Fonts Like H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6
- Set Font Styles for Body, Grey Area and Footer
Donation Settings:
- Set Header Donation Status on/off
- Select Which Version Of PayPal You are using through drop down.
- Set the title, currency symbol, how much you raised, how much the target is
- Put your PayPal Username, PayPal API Username, PayPal API Password, PayPal API Signature
- Also You can put a note on the donation bar.
Slider Settings:
- Set Options for Camera, Parallax and Slice box Slider
Sidebar Creator:
- Create as much sidebars as you want
Page Settings:
- Set 404 Page Heading, Sub Heading, Page Content, Grey Main Title, Colored Main Title, Page sub title.
- Set page sidebar position and set page comments On/Off
Blog Settings
- Set blog or archive page setting
Layout Settings:
- Switch On/Off Responsive Design
- Switch on/Off Boxed layout for home and other pages.
- Select width for boxed layout
- Set and Upload Pattern Background Image
Coming Soon:
- Switch on/off coming soon setting
Social Network Settings:
- Put Social Network Urls of Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Skype, Flickr, Xing and Pinterest
Portfolio Settings:
- Set Portfolio Columns via drop down
Data Setting
Adding Team Member
Go To Teams > New Member
Add Title (Name) for the Team Member
Add Description (Bio data) for the team member
Select a Department from the right side in Departments Section
Put Settings Like Designation, Experience, Social Media Links
Adding Timetables
Go To Timetable
Click On Add New Record
Add Start Time, End Time
Choose Memeber from Drop Down
Add Duty Place and click on save changes button.
You Can Add as much team members as you want.
Similarly Add Timetables for other days by clicking on The required day option like Monday, Tuesday etc.
First Section i.e. Timetable is for Sunday.
Adding Events
Go To Events
Click On New Event and Add Title for the event, Description of the event
Add Start Date, End Date and other Info regarding Event in Event Settings
Choose Featured image for the event by Clicking on Set Featured Image on the right side.
After Completing Click on The Publish Button on the right side.
Add Services
To add services, go to Services > New Service
Add a Title for the Service
Add Some Description for the Service
Select Department from the right side
You can add Departments by clicking on Add New Department on right hand side.
You can also add department in the departments section by going to Services > Departments
Add Featured image by clicking Set Featured Image on right hand side
You can add One or more services in Service Settings at the bottom
Choose Font Awesome Icon for the Service through drop down
You can also choose the color of icon through Font Awesome Color
Note: The Icons through Font Awesome will be used for shortcodes of Services 4, 5 and 6
Adding Gallery
To add galleries, go to Galleries > New Gallery
Add Title for your gallery
In Gallery Settings Add Subtitle for the gallery, select sidebar position
Choose which sidebar you want to use for this gallery through the sidebar drop down selection menu
Select how columns you want to display for your gallery
Add gallery images in Gallery through Add Media button and choose or upload images for your gallery
You can also make a video gallery by clicking on Add More in front of Videos
Adding FAQs
To add Faqs, simply click go to FAQs and click on New FAQ
Add Title and description for the FAQ
You can choose icon in Faqs Settings via Font Awesome drop down selection menu or you may use no icon
Adding Partners
To add the partners, go to Partners in admin panel and click on New Partner
Add title (Company Name) of your partner
choose display logo for the partner by clicking on Set Featured Image on right hand side
Put the Partner Link in the Partner Settings
Adding Testimonials
To add Testimonials go to Testimonials in wp admin panel
Click on New Testimonial
Enter Title, some description for the testimonial
Set a Featured Image and Add Testimonial Settings in the bottom
Adding Portfolios
To add portfolio, go to Portfolios in wp admin panel,
Click on New Portfolio
Add Title, Little Description and Featured Image
Add name and portfolio link in Portfolio Settings at bottom
Select or add Category for the Portfolio from Category section on the right sidebar
Visual Composer Usage
Go to pages > add new and click on Visual Composer to start visual composer. see image below.

Now you can see visual composer interface like the image below,

From here click on Add Row, You can add much rows as you want. Here you will see an icon with single column layout. Bring the cursor over it and other layouts will also appear with different column options. (see in image below)

From click on “+” and start adding elements. (see image below) For each element there are settings there. Do settings of your liking and save the elements options.

Visual Composer Row Settings
You can pass extra style class to row and set container on/off.
- To set an extra class for a row, press the pencil icon on row (see image below), there you can give that row extra class and you can also set container on/off.

Creating a Homepage:
To create a homepage go to Pages > Add New
Click on Visual Composer to Start Visual Composer
Select Page Type from drop down as Home in Page Settings. (See Image Below)

Now You Can Build a Homepage using different style elements of Visual Composer, or simply choose a predefined homepage templates from page builder (See Images below).


After adding your required short codes, Update the page.
Now go to Settings > Reading check A Static Page and select your homepage as your front page.

Home Page
Home-Medical-Homepage-1 |
Home-Medical-Homepage-1 |
Home-Medical-Homepage-1 |
Page Templates
There are different page templates for creating pages like Contact Page, Events, FAQs, Frontpage, Descriptive and Modern Portfolio, Services and Team.

Creating a page, say we are going to create a Contact Page
- To create a contact page, go to Pages > New Page and select Contact Page as a Template from Attributes section in right sidebar of wp admin panel.
- You may select other settings like No Sidebar or any sidebar you create or default sidebar, page with title, or page with a header image in the Page Settings at bottom.
- After all these settings simply Update or Publish the page.
- This page will extract values from Contact Page settings in Theme Options.
- Other page templates like Events from Events panel, similarly all other templates from their respective panels in wp admin left sidebar.
Important Points while using our theme
There are some css classes that you have to pass for our elements to display correctly.
- A “cols” class is used for top spacing of row, also “H2″ tags pick styling from this class
- A “pricing” class is used to apply styling of price tables
- A “boxes” class applies spacing from both top and bottom
