Backnow is a WooCommerce based multi-page WordPress theme specially built for crowdfunding sites. It is perfect for anybody willing to build a fundraising site. Backnow is 100% responsive and mobile friendly. It has a simple yet elegant design. The theme is built with super flexible Elementor live page builder. It works in full swing while it is integrated with WP Crowdfunding plugin. Backnow is RTL and translation ready. Create a wonderful fundraising site with Backnow today!

To use Backnow, you need to have a WordPress 4.0 (or higher version) site with PHP 5.4 or more running on your hosting server. If you’ve already installed WordPress on your server and your site is up, that’s great. For help regarding WordPress installation, please see this WordPress Codex link WordPress Codex. To learn about some important stuff you should do after installing WordPress, see this post see this post.

Some more resources from WordPress Codex:

• First Steps With WordPress
• FAQ New To WordPress

Note: You must install WooCommerce along with WP Crowdfunding plugin to get the most out of backer theme.

This theme has been developed only for WordPress 4.0 or higher versions. So, you need to install WP before you can use this theme. Here you can find WOrdPress installation process: Wordpress Codex - Installing Wordpress.

WordPress theme is simply a group of files, called template, bundled together that, when activated in CMS, determine the look and basic functions of your site. By using professional Themeum Backnow theme, you can have your site up and running with a new design – pretty fast. Theme installation is a very easy process. Especially when you’ve chosen the theme you want to use, you’ll need to install it into your WordPress website. You’ll have the following two choices, as you did when adding new plugins:

• You can add the theme directly from within the WP Admin, using “Upload Theme” option. From Admin Panel go the following path Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme and select the appropriate zipped theme file, then click Install Now.
• If your server is not set up properly or you have any problem, you’ll have to extract and then upload the theme by hand. Using your favorite FTP client tool upload theme folder into the folder path /wp-content/themes/ on your server and activate it from admin panel.

Note: On your WordPress site, the wp-content/themes folder holds all your themes. Each theme you install gets its own subfolder. All of a theme’s stylesheets and template files reside inside the theme’s folder.

Step 2: click on the Themes under appearance.

Step 3: Then click on Add New button.

Step 4: Click the Upload Theme link on the next page.

Step 5: Then click on the Choose file button and select Backnow.zip file from your computer directory.

Step 6: Now click on the Install Now button and wait until the installation is complete. After successful installation of theme click on Activate button and enjoy the theme features. After activating, this theme will be used for the whole site instead of the default WordPress theme.

To use all features of Backnow you have to install and activate all required plugins. All essential plugins are included in the Backnow theme. Just after activating Backnow theme you would see a notification that asks you to install required plugins for this theme. Click on "Begin installing plugins" And wait until all required plugins are installed.

Our Essential Plugins

• Themeum Core
• Elementor
• WP Crowdfunding
• WooCommerce
• MailChimp for WordPress Lite
• Contact Form 7
• Widget Settings Importer/Exporter

Or, you can also install the above essential plugins in 2 easy steps.

Step 1: Go to Dasboard > Appearance > Install Plugins Menu

Step 2: Then click on Install link under each plugin title and enjoy these plugins after activating them.

Plugins

• Themeum Core: Themeum Core is an essential and required plugin. It has all the core features of the theme, like the post type, all custom shortcodes, widgets etc.
• Elementor: Elementor is used for making page layouts, shortcodes etc. To access our shortcodes go to Dashboard > Edit Page > Classic Mode > Add New Element
  
  
  
• WP Crowdfunding: We use WP Crowdfunding plugin for using campaign. More Information see this documetation Click Here
• WooCommerce: Build your store on the most popular eCommerce platform.
• MailChimp for WordPress Lite: You can use this plugin for collecting email addresses and this plugin is not mandatory.
• Contact Form 7: You can use this for Contact form and this plugin is not mandatory.
• Widget Settings Importer/Exporter: Import and Export widget settings. This plugin is not mandatory.

Import Sample Data: If you want to experiment with the demo data on your website then you need to import the sample data. From menu, choose Tools > Import > WordPress. Click WordPress, then you will see the "Import WordPress" option which allows you to upload .xml file from / Demo Content folder. If this tool is not installed on your site, you have to install "WordPress Importer" plugin manually.

One Click Demo Content:

If you want to get exactly the same page layout as you see on the Backnow demo site, you may import the demo contents on your site. Remember, demo contents are not authorized for live websites. Demo contents are only for experimental purpose. But you can just use the demo layout by editing the texts, images and others. To use the one-click demo importer, go to the Dashboard and Click on the One click Demo import button at the bottom. Import one of the available demo items shown there.

It's an important part of Backnow theme Installation process. Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Menu, then click on Manage Location and select Main Menu for the Main Menu Location, and Top Menu for Top Menu location (if you've already created the menus). If you haven't created any menu yet, you need to create now. See the screenshot below.

WordPress shows the latest blog posts by default on the front page. If you want to make it look like the demo Backnow site, then you need to set a static Home Page. Below see the way how to set the Static Home Page. Navigate Dashboard > Settings > Reading. From here, select a static page for the Front page select Home. You can follow below screenshot.

Make sure to configure permalinks. By default, WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them; however, WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives. This can improve the aesthetics, usability, and forward-compatibility of your links. From WP admin panel, go to the following path: Settings > Permalinks then select "Post name".

Import Widget Settings Data: If you want to use the demo site widget settings on your website, we recommend to install and activate the following plugin "Widget Importer & Exporter". Which gives you the ability to import the demo widget settings, saved as a .wie file type. Choose Tools > Widget Importer & Exporter then select demo-widgets.wie file from Demo Widget Settings folder directly from the demo content folder.

To read the doc Click Here

After clicking on the Customize link on the top bar, you will be redirected to a customizer page where you will find Backnow customization options. Click on that to make style changes and re-shape different elements.

Here is a screenshot of the Backnow Options page. The default settings are shown in the following image.

In the Header Settings section, you get several header customization options such as header background color,Header Box Shadow color, header border color, header padding, sticky header, sticky background color, Enable Header Search and so on.

You can either have text as logo or upload a logo and set the width and height.

Set sidebar in three different styles. Full Width Shop, Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar. Select the source of the products to be shown on the them. You can select the number of the column and decide on whether to enable or disable Author Name, Category, Short Description.

Customize sub-headers specifying their padding, margin and background. you can also enable header title and set font size.

Select the entire website’s font family from the vast collection of Google fonts, size and weight from this section.

Set Full Width or Box Width, set or change body background image. Style different text and other elements with different colors and sizes.

You can select full width or boxed layout whichever you like. A general background image/color can be defined for the whole site. Use the color options to tweak everything related to colors.

Put all social media links in their respective fields here, and you can display them on the frontend using the Backer social options.

Set a coming soon page with logo, title, and specifying the date it will come.

Create a 404 page with image, title, and description.

Set the blog background color; Enable author, hit counts, comments, category buttons to display them on your blog frontend. You can select 1 to 4 column blogs.

Set the bottom top padding and bottom bottom padding here.

Change the footer padding, enable copyright text with its text color and background, and write the copyright text here.

You can use google Maps on your site by placing Google Maps API key in the right place. Just get the API key and place it here then it’s done.

Bringing beautiful design and customizing them on frontend have been made easy with Backnow custom widgets. Just drag the widget you need and drop it where you want it on your site. Customize to give your desired look. Widgets List

Give the name of the title. Add any subtitle you want to have. You can set the alignment and link. Click on the “style” option at the top to change color, typography, padding, margin. You can do more by clicking on the “Advanced” option.

Themeum Slider lets you add sliders of your choice. After Dragging and dropping the Themeum Slider Widget you can select the slides you want to display. Customize the look by clicking on style and advanced option.

Drag and drop the Product category list widget where you want to put on your site. Select the categories you want to show and set the number of the column, Customize the look with padding, margin, border radius, typography and so on.

Drag and drop the Themeum GMap widget, Themeum GMap widget lets you add address, latitude, longitude. You can define the map height, type map zoom and add Flug icon if you want.

Themeum Posts Grid defines the look of your blog. Just drag and drop the widget and customize as you want to display them. You can select the number of the post and column, Product Category, and the order.

Themeum CrowdFunding Grid shows the fundraising campaign of your site. Drag and drop the widget. Select the number of the product and column, Product Category. You can turn off/on the Pagination and define the view by either latest or recommended product pick.

Display the campaign with their expiry dates and other details with CrowdFunding Time Expires custom widget. Drag and drop the widget and customize by selecting Number of Products, Number of Column, Product Category and define the view by either latest or recommended product pick.

Elementor is a very unique plugin, it will help you managing your content on a WordPress site and create stunning layouts in few minutes without coding. Now a days many websites have complex grid layouts with columns, tabs, sliders and etc. In the past, to create that type of layouts you should be HTML guru or Shortcodes operator ninja.

Here is the documentation with video tutorial Elementor Doc

We have 7 custom Widgets. All Widgets are integrated with Elementor

You need to follow two different ways to install the WP Crowdfunding free version and the paid version. The free version is available on the WordPress.org plugins repository. The paid version of the plugin can be downloaded from themeum site. Here is Wp Crowdfunding Documentation