Would like to hire you to install demo content on my server

[quin]

Hi guys,

after seemingly a hundred years of fiddling around I’m humbled by the painful realization that I’m just not knowledgeable enough to install the demo content on my server. I installed and configured about 4 basic themes in the past, but I see now that with a more sophisticated theme come more sophisticated knowhow requirements. There are all these interdependent settings where finding the source of the problem becomes this nightmare. I feel like throwing the laptop out of the window and switching careers to one where I don’t need a website. But no, I do want to keep this theme, and I do want to keep my sanity, and I don’t want to go back to beginner’s camp. So this is me wondering now if I could hire you to set up the demo on my server for me? Let me know if that’s possible and what your rates and availability would be.

Thanks!
Quin

[eccesso]

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[Melanie – SUPPORT]

Hi,

in general there is nothing more to installing the content than importing the xml. Can you specify what error it is you are getting when uploading it?
You can contact your hosting company and ask them to increase your maximum upload file size limit, that helps in many cases!

All the best

[quin]

Hi Melanie,

thanks so much for getting back to me. You find me in a dark place (the engine room of this theme, where the sun seemingly never shines). Went to a place with better connection and managed to install the “full” thing by following all instructions in the documentation, without getting any error. And I did see the sun for a brief moment, but then…

I got a FontDesk account and copy-pasted all entries multiple times but I can’t get Din Text Pro to show up. All pages with masonry and mini show no content. Only the ones with standard work. Unfortunately masonry was the layout I was going to use. “Blog – Standard with no sidebars” posts show up, but pagination is broken. Nothing loads on any page after page 1. Strangely enough, making a tag search displays the results in masonry style. (Is this theme trying to mock me?) Those beautiful backgrounds patterns in slider and header don’t show up either. I was at least hoping for those. It seems everything is broken on this theme, and I don’t even know where to begin.

If I could only get the latest posts in masonry style to show up on my home page, that would be a start. I feel like an idiot. I wrote eccesso with a quote request for installing the demo a couple of days ago, but he hasn’t responded so far. Think I need to take a couple of days break from the site again, just so I don’t start hammering my wrench against the engine block out of rage and frustration. I never finished MYST, so that says something about the amount of fun I have with puzzle solving.

My site is here, btw: http://quinquilitz.com/ (well, the wreckage of my site as it crash landed on planet Neighborhood, that is) Don’t know what to do now. I guess I’ll pull myself together and fiddle with it some more, while waiting to see if I can get a hold of ecceesso.

Or is there a plan B for hopeless cases like me? Again, I’d pay anyone who can simply get that thing running on my server the way it looks in the demo.

Quin

[Melanie – SUPPORT]

Hi,

your site looks perfect, you are only a few steps away from the finished site, trust me. Don’t get frustrated please, it’s a huge theme indeed but you will find your way around it!

You can define your homepage in wp-admin > Settings > Reading and set up the blog masonry by creating a page and adding the blog swift page builder element to the page.

Cheers