1. Installing Joomla Template: Read If you're installing the template on your existing Joomla website.
2. Installing Joomla Quickstart Package: Read If you're creating new website with this template.

1. Installing WordPress Theme: Read If you're installing the theme on your existing WordPress website.
2. Installing WordPress Quickstart Package: Read If you're creating new website with this theme.

Atoms are Particles that do not appear visually on the front end, but do serve an important purpose. They can be assigned on a per-page basis, or as a default which automatically applies to all of the pages on the site.

Required Atoms:

1. JavaScript Frameworks
2. RcaTheme Elements

How to add and Configure Atoms

1. Go to Gantry Admin
2. Switch to Base Outline

   

3. Click on Page Settings
4. Scroll to bottom and you will see Atoms area.

Required Atoms Settings

1. JavaScript Frameworks

   

2. RcaTheme Elements

   From the RcaTheme Elements Atom, you could enable/disable theme features such as: ToTop, Fixed Header, Cookie Consent, Extra Typography etc.

1. Material Icons
   1. Go to https://material.io/icons
   2. Click on your desired icon and copy the code. For example - <i class="material-icons">sentiment_satisfied</i> for sentiment_satisfied and paste on your Particle, Joomla article and module editor by switching Code editor (HTML).
2. FontAwesome Icons
   1. Go to http://fontawesome.io/icons
   2. Click on your desired icon and copy the code. For example - <i class="fa fa-smile-o"></i> for and paste on your Particle, Joomla article and module editor by switching Code editor (HTML).
3. Flat Icons
   1. In this theme, we have used some Flaticon, you could see available icons here.
   2. However, you could create your own Font icons from Flaticon.

We recommend to add/edit Header, Footer and other global (contents will show on all pages) contents using Base Outline.

1. Go to Gantry Admin
2. Click on Layout tab
3. You could find all theme's default global contents here. Now edit existing particles and customize with your contents.
4. We recommend to follow this documentation before starting modifications, https://www.rcatheme.com/documentation/gantry5/outlines-in-gantry5

If you installed Quickstart package or Theme's Sample Data during installation, you could see Page - Home outline is created and assigned to your Home page by default.

However, you could create the Home page outline with Sample data used on the demo, so you could start with modifications.

1. Go to Gantry Admin
2. Create a new Outline using Preset and select Page - Home from the Preset dropdown options. Read how to create a new page using theme's preset and follow step #5 instead of step #4.
3. Edit the outline you just created, go to Assignments tab and assign this Outline to your Home page Menu item.
4. Now go to Layout tab
5. Now edit existing particles as you need. All existing particles are documentation inside, please follow them all.

You could create as much as custom pages as you need by follow same steps described on above Home Page section. All demo pages available as Preset on the Outline creating options, so you could load demo contents with one click and start editing with your contents and images.

1. Read Setup Blog in Joomla with RcaTheme Post Plugin
2. Search module:
   1. Go to Extensions -> Modules
   2. Click on New button to create new module
   3. Select a Module Type: Search
   4. Show Title: Show
   5. Position: aside
   6. Menu Assignment: [blog menu item]
3. Login form:
   1. Go to Extensions -> Modules
   2. Click on New button to create new module
   3. Select a Module Type: Login
   4. Show Title: Show
   5. Position: aside
   6. Menu Assignment: [blog menu item]
4. Latest posts:
   1. Go to Extensions -> Modules
   2. Click on New button to create new module
   3. Select a Module Type: Articles - Category
   4. Show Title: Show
   5. Position: aside
   6. Menu Assignment: [blog menu item]
   7. Articles - Category Settings:

      

      

5. Tags:
   1. Go to Extensions -> Modules
   2. Click on New button to create new module
   3. Select a Module Type: Tags - Popular
   4. Show Title: Show
   5. Position: aside
   6. Menu Assignment: [blog menu item]
6. Subscribe:
   1. Go to Extensions -> Modules
   2. Click on New button to create new module
   3. Select a Module Type: Gantry 5 Particle
   4. Pick a Particle: FeedBurner; then follow on screen instructions in the particle.
   5. Show Title: Show
   6. Position: aside
   7. Menu Assignment: [blog menu item]

There is no extra settings needed for your Posts/Blog page in WordPress. Your posts will show based on your layout setup on Base Outline.

1. Blog Content Options:
   1. Go to Gantry Admin
   2. Click on Content tab
   3. Now see available options and Enable/Disable as you need.
2. Sidebar widgets: Read how to add Widgets and Particles on sidebar or any other positon
3. Search:
   1. Position: aside
   2. Widget: Search
4. Login Form:
   1. Position: aside
   2. Widget: Gantry 5 Particle
   3. Pick a Particle: Login Form; then follow on screen instructions.
5. Latest Posts:
   1. Position: aside
   2. Widget: Gantry 5 Particle
   3. Pick a Particle: Mini Posts; then follow on screen instructions.
6. Tags:
   1. Position: aside
   2. Widget: Tag Cloud
7. Subscribe:
   1. Position: aside
   2. Widget: Gantry 5 Particle
   3. Pick a Particle: FeedBurner; then follow on screen instructions.

404 error page will get configurations from Base outline, however you could add more information or customize 404 page by following -

1. Go to Gantry Admin
2. Switch to Error

   

3. Click on Layout tab and customize as you need.

1. Go to Gantry Admin
2. Switch to Offline

   

3. Click on Layout tab and customize as you need.

All other particles are documented inside. If you need help, please post your questions on Support Forum

After done configuration and customization,

1. Read What is responsible for my Joomla! website performance?
2. activate Production mode, check above Development and Production Modes
3. Recompile CSS from Styles tab

If you have any questions, got a bug or need help configuring the template, please post your questions on our Support Forum. If you need more customization, check out Custom Services and get your job done by professionals who developed this Template and Particles.