VideoFlix Quick Start

1. Install for the first time

2. Import demo data

After you activate theme, you will be navigated to Import Sample Data screen. There you have two ways to import sample data.
1. This just is a backup method. Install the required and recommended plugins include Sample Data plugin first, then go to Tools > Install Demo Data.
2. Recommended method In Import Sample Data, just click on "click here", accept your data can be erased. You can install demo data instantly. Your site will look like exactly what you see on our demo


Import Sample Data one-click

2.1 Create Welcome page

On Videoflix, You can set up that when a guest user visit your website, "Welcome page" is the first page they'll see. They can not to view the main home page once they loggin. To create your own Welcome page, please follow these steps:

• Step 1: Create a new page in Pages > Add new, choose page template is Welcome Page, then build page content as you want (it's better to use Visual Composer or Elementor to visually add content), and Publish it.
• Step 2: Go to Settings > Reading > Front page displays, choose A static page, then in Front page option, select the "Welcome page" you have just created. Save the changes.
• Step 3: Navigate to Appearance > Theme Options > Home Page > Welcome Page, Turn it on.

3. Learn full layout map

Below is the layout map of a Homepage when it is fully configured. This is really important for further steps, so click on each box to learn about it. Come back here if you have trouble understanding the layout ;)

4. Configure Home Page

Once logged in, users will be redirected to the Homepage which has the layout as you see in the Layout Map section. To configure this page, please follow there steps:

4.1 Set Featured Videos

Featured video is shown up at the Header of Homepage. When you create or edit a video post, in Featured Video section, select Yes. If there a many Featured Video posts, it will take the latest Featured Video to display.

4.2 Configure Main Body

In Homepage, the Main Body displays the Thumbnail images of Video post by Categories.

• Set Number of Categories, Number of Videos On Categories Slider

Go to Appearance > Theme Options > Home Page and enter your numbers.

• Change Category Order

Go to Posts > Taxonomy Order to rearrange the Categories which are showing in Main Body area of Homepage. It's so easy, just drag & drop as you want. Please notice that just support showing Categories on Main Body



Featured Image of latest featured video will be displayed at the home page as a header image

5. Configure Sidebar & Widgets

Netflix provides less sidebar positions than its Parent theme - VideoPro as follow: Top Channel Sidebar, Footer Sidebar, Footer Welcome Page Sidebar and some other sidebars. Below are the instructions to configure the sidebars look like our demo.

5.1 Configure Top Channel Sidebar (appears above Footer)

To show top channels, drag Videopro Netfilx – Top Channel Widget into Top Channel Sidebar and set parameters as needed

5.2 Configure Footer Sidebar (appears in Footer)

Just drag & drop any widgets into your footer sidebar to show information as you want. We used Text, Custom HTML, Custom Menu & Videopro Social Account widgets for our demo.

5.3 Configure Footer Welcome Page Sidebar (Appears in Footer of Welcome page)

Similar to footer sidebar, but it is shown only in welcome page when users are not logged in. We used Text, Custom Menu & Videopro Social Account widgets for our demo.