SEOLand Documentation
Thank you for purchasing SEOLand theme. If you don't find the answers for your questions in this help file, please feel free to email via my site's contact form. Thanks so much!
License
When you purchase a theme from our website, the standard license allows you to use the theme in a single end product. One theme license for one domain ( one theme installation in a single domain )
FAQ:
Can I use the theme on a test site, then move it to a live site when finished?
Yes, you can use the theme on a test site to build it, then move it to the live site once you're finished. You'll have to remove the theme files from the test site.
Getting Started
If you are new to WordPress here's what you have to do:
Installing WordPress
In order to install the current version of WordPress Theme, please go to http://wordpress.org and download the current version of WordPress. For information on how to install WordPress, please see the WordPress codex page http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress .
Installing Theme
You can do it in 2 ways:
- a. Via WordPress Admin: Go to Appearance > Install Themes > Upload and choose seoland.zip file ((make sure you are not uploading the whole zip file that you've downloaded (including dummy content, documentation) but only the seoland.zip file). Click Install Now.
- b. Via FTP: Upload seoland folder into wp-content/themes folder.
- After you've installed the theme make sure to activate it.
Import Demo
If you want your website to look like the live demo, then customize it as you want, follow these steps:
After the theme is activated make sure to install and activate the required and recommended plugins: MT SEOLand, Elementor and Contact Form 7 . The plugins are necessary for having the features presented in the demo.

Install and activate One Click Demo Import plugin.
Go to Appearance > Import Demo Data and click the Import Demo Data button for one of the website demos.

- A new page will open. Click "Continue & Import" button. Wait until the demo content is imported to your website.
IMPORTANT: After you import the demo content to your website, change the URL from the imported demo to your website. These are the steps you need to take:
Go to Elementor > Tools > Replace URL Tab
In old-url field enter https://matchthemes.com/demowp/seoland and new-url enter your site address. Click Replace URL
- If the menu in the header doesn't appear, go to Appearance > Menus, select "Primary Menu" at the bottom of the page and click Save.

In case the blog posts appear in the main page, instead of the home page, go to Settings > Reading > Your homepage displays, select > A static page and for the Homepage option select the Home page.

To configure the homepage slider go to Appearance > Customize > General Options > Home - Slider Items.

The default slider text is this:
<h2>Best SEO Agency Solution</h2><p>We excel at driving REAL sales leads to your website.<br> <a href="#" class="view-more">Learn More</a></p>
The slider images size from the demo is 1920x700 px. You can experiment with other sizes too.
To use the Colors and Typography options from Appearance > Customize , go to Elementor > Settings and check Disable Default Colors and Disable Default Fonts options.

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Go to Elementor > Tools > Replace URL Tab

- In old-url field enter https://matchthemes.com/demowp/seoland/ and new-url enter your site address. Click Replace URL
- Go the General Tab > Regenerate CSS, click Regenerate Files
- Click Save Changes button
After you've installed the theme, you can customize it in Appearance > Customize.
If you didn't install XML file like in preview, then you would have to go STEP BY STEP....Setup Menu
- Go to Appearance - > Menus tab
- Add new menu, enter Menu Name
- Add Menu Items. Select the pages you've just created and add them to the menu
- Drag & drop the menu items as you like. Check the image below. Than save the menu
- !IMPORTANT: make sure the Theme Locations option is set to Primary Menu.

Pages General
First go to Settings > Permalinks. Select from Common Settings > Post name option. This is for better SEO permalinks.

The theme comes with the following custom Page Templates:
- Default Template - The default page
- Home Template
- Full Width Template
- Full Screen Template
- Portfolio 2 Cols
- Portfolio 3 Cols
- Portfolio 4 Cols
How to use a template:
- Click Pages > Add New.
- Look for Page Attributes on the right side and click on the "Template" drop-down menu.
- Choose a page template.
- Click the Publish button above.
- Now you can add your new page to your Menu.
Setup Pages
Elementor
The theme uses the Elementor page builder plugin. The majority of pages are created with it. To learn more about Elementor and how to use it please check this page: Elementor Docs
1. After the Elementor plugin is installed, go to Elementor > Settings and check Disable Default Colors and Disable Default Fonts option. By doing so you can use the Colors and Typography options from Appearance > Customize

2. If you haven't import the theme demo data and you want to use just the seoland Elementor page templates, go to Elementor > My Templates and import the seoland-elementor-page-templates.zip file from the main archive.
Create a Page with Elementor
- Click Pages > Add New
- Add the Featured Image and modify the Page Customization options ( right under the text editor) . Click the Publish button.
- Click the Edit with Elementor button

- Click Add Template and select from My Templates one of the seoland page templates.

- OR click Add New Section and start building your page as you want.
Homepage
- Click Pages > Add New.
- Look for Page Attributes on the right side and click on the Template drop-down menu. Select the "Home" template.
- Click Publish.
- Click the Edit with Elementor button
- Click Add Template and select from My Templates one of the Home page templates.
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Click Settings > Reading and select Front page displays a static page. Select the page you just created as your Front page and click Save Changes.
Homepage Slider
To configure the homepage slider go to Appearance > Customize > General Options > Home - Slider Items.
Note: The recommended size for the slider images is 1920x700 px. You can experiment with other sizes too.

Portfolio Page
- Click Portfolio > Add New.
- Edit the new portfolio item as a blog post.
- Include it in a Category
- Click Publish button
Contact Page
- Click Pages > Add New
- Click the Edit with Elementor button
- Click Add Template and select from My Templates one of the Contact page templates.
- Click Publish
- Install and activate the contact 7 plugin ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)
Go to Contact > Add New and create a new contact form

Add the following code in the Form option to look like in my demo
<p>[text* your-name placeholder "Name"] </p> <p>[email* your-email placeholder "Email"] </p> <p>[text your-subject placeholder "Subject"] </p> <p>[textarea* your-message x4 placeholder "Message"] </p> [submit "Send Message"]
- Click the Save button. Copy the shortcode and paste it in the contact page.
Blog Page
- Click Pages > Add New.
- Click Publish.
- Now you can add the new page to your menu
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Now click Settings > Reading and select Front page displays a static page. Select the page you just created as your Posts page and click Save Changes.
- To select a blog layout go to Appearance > Customize > General Options > Blog - Articles Layout option
- Click Posts > Add New to create a news post. Make sure when you add a Featured Image for a post to have at least 1000x600px to look like my demo.
Customization
Widget Areas
There are 5 widget areas for this theme. Go to Appearance > Widgets to use them.
Theme Customizer
SEOLand is using the WordPress Live Customizer feature. Go to Appearance > Customize and change site title, colors, upload your logo and more. You'll see real time preview of changes you made to your site.

Shortcodes
Here's the list of available shortcodes:
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Portfolio shortcode: [portfolio_4cols count=""]
The count attribute is optional.
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Portfolio shortcode: [portfolio_v2 cols="" count="" filter="on"]
The cols attribute can be 2,3 or 4.
The count attribute is optional.
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Blog shortcode: [blog_3cols count=""]
The count attribute is optional.
Child Theme
Seoland theme comes with a child theme in the main download package.
A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality and styling of another theme, called the parent theme.
Child themes are recommended if you modify the theme files code and don't want to lose your customization when updating the theme to a new version.