Fashion WordPress Theme Guide

• created: 08/15/2014
• latest update: 08/15/2014
• by: OpalTheme
• Support email: [email protected]
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Here are some basics on installing, configuring and customizing the Opal Template If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to contact us via email : [email protected]

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To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. Make sure your installed Wordpress version is 3.8 or higher. You also need to have PHP 5.2.4 or higher versions (recommended is php 5.3+) and MySQL 5.0 in order for OpalTheme to function correctly. If you need help installing WordPress, follow the instructions in WordPress Codex or you can watch the Instructional Video created by Woo Themes.

1. Download

Purchase Fashion template from Themeforst then you can download our template package on there.

Extract package that include all files and folders of theme.

2. Installing Theme From the WordPress Dashboard

Installing a WordPress theme is super easy, you’ll see our video guide:

-  Navigate to Appearance → Themes in your WordPress admin dashboard.

- Click the Add New button at the top of the page and go for the Upload option.

- For the file upload, pick Theme Files/Fashion.zip in the theme package downloaded from ThemeForest and click Install Now.

3. Installing By FTP

Many users are on shared hosting with low upload limits, and in such situations the Striking theme is often too large to install through Wordpress. We suggest you should upload it via FTP.

If you don't know how to use FTP visit this link for information: http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients . You will need to first uncompress the PACKAGE-theme.zip file you have found in the master zip downloaded from Themeforest. This zip uncompresses into a normal folder. This unzipped folder is all you need to transfer via ftp and if you open it, you will see all sorts of folders and css and php files which together contain all the theme coding.   

Using the FTP program transfer this folder which contains the above files to the Wordpress installation theme root directory: /wp-content/themes.

Do not upload any of the other files or folders such as licensing or resource or documentation. Uploading any of the other folders may cause problems resulting in the theme not working properly. Learn from Wordpress Official Documentation about installing theme with FTP client or with cPanel: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes

4. Activate TheTheme As Default Theme

After completing the upload, activate the theme as per activating any other theme.

Goto your Dashboard >> Appearance >> Themes >> Activate Fashion template

Follow that images:

5. Known problems when installing the theme

However that doesn’t necessarily mean that the theme was actually broken or the so important part is missing. It would rather mean that the theme was just uploaded to the server incorrectly and missing stylesheets are not missing but got to the wrong folder when downloading and unzipping.

Here are some tips how to fix that:

•  After downloading and unzipping open the final theme folder. Inside there will be the actual theme folder. The actual theme folder is where the “ style.css” file is.
•  You must upload only the actual theme folder to your WordPress host. Our advice is to double check.
• Enter your WordPress admin panel and activate your new theme.

Summing up, the destination /wp-content/themes/themename/themename/style.css is incorrect and is the reason of “ Broken theme and/or stylesheets missing” error message.

It must look like /wp-content/themes/themename/style.css

You may check your file upload limit on Your Media Uploader page in WordPress. Depending upon the web hosting company and the conditions of the service they provide it may vary. The most common is about 8 MB which is more or less enough. But uploading some media files like audio and video may become a problem with for example 2 MB upload limit.
We decided to share some tips about how to extend your maximum file upload size in WordPress:
1. Through functions.php file:

You may add the below mentioned code in the functions.php file of your theme

2. Through PHP.INI file:

If you cannot see the php.ini file in your directory create the new one with below mentioned code and upload it to your root folder on your web server.

If you can see the php.ini file then change parameters or add :

3. Through .htaccess method

You may try modifying the existing .htaccess file in the root directory or creating a new one.

Add the following code in the existing or new htacess file:

You can reset all of the setting for the each page on our custom panel by clicking “Reset” button on the bottom.

Right after the theme was activated, a notification at the top of the screen will suggest to continue with the installation of the plugins recommended for getting the best our of your theme.

Follow steps to install:

Step 1. Click ‘Begin installing plugins‘ and select the plugins you need to install from the list.

Step 2: Select all plugins then choose Install , Click Apply to install all plugins

• Plugins Using in Fashion theme

1. Contact Form 7: Allow you create contact forms.
2. Option Framework: more configures theme.
3. Revolution Slider: premium responsive slider.
4. WPBakery Visual Composer: powerful visual composer to create page layout.
5. WooCommerce: The Shop engine for your WordPress site.
6. YITH WooCommerce Wishlist: enable wishlist in your site.
7. YITD WooCommerce Zoom Magnifier: to zoom product
8. YITH WooCommerce Compare:  to use compare options.

Step 3:  After Installing all Plugins, select Activate then click Apply to active all plugins.

Step 4:  Installing Woocommerce

Follow our video guide to know more :

Before installing data demo, you need setting up image sizes.

1. How to setting up the Image Sizes

These settings affect the actual dimensions of your product images in the shop pages. You can skip this step in case you’re starting a new website and your WordPress installation is fresh, but if you’re switching from another theme and you already have products in your store, you need to make sure the WooCommerce image sizes are the correct ones for your newly installed theme.

a. Navigate to Customize → Woocommerce → Product images and find the “Product Image Sizes ” section at the bottom of the page.

Update those values with the following this image for Fashion theme.

b. If your site has image with another size. To see the changes after you update the image sizes, you need to re-generate the images by using Regen.Thumbnails Plugin

- Go to Plugins Tab then search and install Regen.Thumbnails plugin

- Navigating to Tools → Regen.Thumbnails then re-generate your images

2. Importing The Demo Data - XML File

Opal Team very happy to provide for customer a new function to import data more quickly. It is "One click import"

With "One click import", customer do not import step by step data as import usual. It import all data like : Content, Widget, Revolution slider, Menu, Customize...

One click import data

To use it make sure file of your theme have to "import" folder in "inc" folder like this:

Go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> WpOpal Import . You can see " Found demos from live server", please click in "Fashion sample" :

1. Demo Soure : Choose name of demo to import .

2.Import Type : Choose name of type to import ( choose All or chose one of types to import)

• All - suggested option: the option will import all demo content (products, menus, theme options, ect) to replicate Fashion demo on your server without any other step.

File to import all data is : content.xml



• Content - import site content: posts, products.
• Widgets - import widgets used in Fashion demo site.
• Theme + Page options - import theme and page settings.
• Menu - import all menus.
• Revolutions Slider - import sliders built with with revolutions slider plugin.
• VC Template - import pages built with king composer plugin.

Specially, You can go to Wpopal Import to import config of menu, widget, page and theme options.

Click "Import" and popup is displayed, click "OK" to continue import data

When import has been imported it will display popup : "Import is successful"

Follow our video guide to know more :

Or You can import data by tool of wordpress.

The Fashion theme comes with importable demo data, such as pages, products blog posts, portfolio items, etc, to help you get started in case you’re running on a fresh WordPress installation.

Step 1: From the WordPress admin area go to Tools >> Import and click on the WordPress link.

Step 2: You can import all of our demo by one step

Step 3: Assign Authors

Step 4 :Set a page as Home Page

After import Dummy Data you need to set default Home page for your site, from your WordPress dashboard, navigate to Settings → Reading.

Select “A static page” and choose “Dummy Homepage” as the Front Page.

Save change then Homepage data sample will be set.

Follow our video guide to know more :

3. Import Revolution Slider

From the WordPress admin area go to Revolution Slider >> Import Slider and select Slider file on our package.

Go to Admin Panel -> Appearance -> Widgets.

You can see all our widgets, easy to configure by drag and drop Widgets to sidebar.

Then you can use sidebars to position you want. Even you can use sidebar for MegaMenu.

Morever you can search and add more plugins for your purpose by searching on the internet.

Follow our video guide to know more :

The following steps will guide you in defining your menus using the WordPress menu editor and Opal Megamenu.

Opal MegaMenu is a user-friendly, highly customizable responsive MegaMenu WordPress plugin to create Menu.

In each menu, you can add as many items you need: links, pages, posts, custom links, shop categories, direct links to products, internal or external link even sidebars

1. Use WordPress menu editor

 - Navigate to Appearance → Menus and click the “create a new menu” link.

 - Enter a name for it the “Menu Name” box and click the Create Menu button.

You can add as many items you need. Drag and drop to set sub menu or position of them.

2. Using Opal Megamenu tools.

Front-end look like:

- Navigate to Appearance → Theme Options

- Go to Megamenu Tab →  select Menu you want to edit then click Megamenu Editor

Create powerful and unlimited menu with tool.

Follow our video guide to know more :

3. Setting Vertical MegaMenu

Front-end look like:

Backend setting

- Navigate to Appearance → Menus and click the “create a new menu” link.

- Enter a name for it the “Menu Name” box and drag each item into menu :

- After creating Vertical menu, you need set position to display

Option 1:  Using Visual Composer to set possiton on page

Option 2: Using Sidebar

Drag it to any sidebars you want.

Set Menu to Vertical Menu Sidebar position like image :

Setting like image :

Follow our video guide to know more :

A. Fashion Homepage Layout

That is one of Fashion home pages layout. You can check another layout from here

B. Setting

You can quickly build a home page using Visual Composer for WordPress that is drag and drop frontend and backend page builder plugin that will save you tons of time working on the site content. You will be able to take full control over your WordPress site, build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required

From your Dashboard admin Navigate to Pages

  - Select All Pages to see all page then click edit one page you want

  - Select Add New to create new page

1. Classic Mode

You can insert code on table then Home page will be created automatically.

Source Text:

2: Backend Editor Mode

Drag and drop elements you need to build your page layout.

Moreover Opal team provide to you more elements to create your shop page easier

Using Visual Composer -> Click Add element  -> Select WPO Elements -> Choose Elements you want

For example : using WPO Product Category

- Choose category to display

- Set number of products to show

- Set products count per pages ( set 3 mean 3 products per one carousel)

- Set icon you want by using code ( go to there  to find more icons)

- Extra class name: If you wish to style particular content element differently, then use this field to add a class name and then refer to it in your css file.

Watch video about Visual Composer

3 . Set a page as Home Page

To set one of the pages you already have created as the Home page for your site, from your WordPress dashboard, navigate to Settings → Reading.

Select “A static page” and choose “Your Homepage” as the Front Page.

1. Create the blog post

Navigate to Posts → Add New, then fill your information

- Start filling in the blanks: enter your post title, write your actual body content in the main post editing box below it.

- As needed, select a category, add tags, and make other selections from the sections below the post.

- You can create blog post with a lot of Formats like link, gallery, image ..... Select format you want to create on Format from in right sidebar.

- Moreover you can embed video, audio, link on title blog when you set it in "Embed Options" section

 + Embed Post format : you can fill the link of youtube and vimeo to embed video

 + Link Post format : fill the link to embed link in title of blog post.

- Use SEO  Fields to create SEO for you blog post

- When your post is ready, click Publish.

2. Manager current all blogs

Navigate to Posts → All Posts

You can see all informations of you blog post, add new, edit or delete them.

3. Edit Blog Page Layout

From Admin Panel -> Appearance -> Theme Option -> Blog Post Tab

1. Front-end Contact page look like :

2. Back-end setting :

From your Dashboard admin Navigate to Pages

  - Select All Pages to see all page then click edit one page you want

  - Select Add New to create new page.

Use Visual Composer to drag and drop element you want . For Contact Page, need Google Maps, Text Block and Contact Form 7

a. Google Maps

Enter your location then find it.

b. Text Block

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c. Contact Form

- From Dashboard -> Navigate to Contact and create new Contact like this. Then select that form to Contact Form 7 element

Source :

With Visual Composer you can create Parallax Sections

Follow that link to see demo parrallax on SuperStore theme

Front-end Parallax look like :

Back-end setting :

Step 1: Goto Home Page then click edit row you want to make it become Parallax Sections.

Step 2: In General Tab, select option Parallax and tick"is FullWidth" if you want it displayed full width

Step 3: In Design options tab, Import your media file to display.

Step 4: Drag elements you want to display on Parallax ( example : Text Block )

Import HTML Code below

Source

1. Footer style

Front-end look like:

Back-End Setting

From Admin panel -> Footers -> Add New Footer

Use Visual Composer to create any Footers you want:

You can drag image, text, and every sidebar you want.

Example Fashion footer

 - Follow us on Social -> drag text block and add html source below

 Setting Widgetised Sidebar to drag on your footer

From Admin Panel -> Appearance -> Widget

a. Create Information

Opening Time

- Navigate to Appearance >> Widgets

- Select Sidebar Footer 1

Import Text widgets to there as HTML Code below

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b. Create Custom Menu

- Navigate to Appearance >> Widgets

- Select Sidebar Footer 2. Do the same with Footer 3 , 4

Import Custom Menu to display menu link ( remember you need to create menu first)

c. Create Information

Contact

- Navigate to Appearance >> Widgets

- Select Sidebar Footer 5

Import Text widgets to there as HTML Code below

Source:

After Create your Footer style. Go to Appearance -> Theme Option -> General Tab

Select your Footer you want to display and Save it.

2. Sticky Footer

Front-end look like:

Back-End Setting

From Admin panel -> Appearance  -> Widgets

Drag your Widgets you want to display to Sticky Footer sidebar.

Example Text :

Source:

Please Make sure you enable footer sticky to display it.

From Admin panel -> Appearance  -> General Tab

Enable Footer Sticky

Opal Theme use powerful theme options that helps you easily take control over the appearance of your site, by allowing you to upload your logo, style the theme with your custom unlimited colors, turn features on and off, without having to write any code.

To access go to your admin Dashboard  Navigate to Appearance >> Theme Options

1. General Tab : Manage general setting like your logo, copyright, footer ....

2. Blog Post Tab : Manage setting of blog post

3. SEO Optione Tab : Manage Seo and custom word meta

4. Social Setting Tab :Manage Social Networks icons and links

5. Customization Tab : Customize the colors, backgrounds and fully theme appearance

 Live Theme Editor is great and powerly module to customize your theme by Opal themes . Opal themes developed the back-end control tools that allow to customize your theme. You can change unlimited colour item, colour text, colour background, and almost item in your theme... Powerful option panel which allows you to change not only elements colours, but also change theme's backgrounds, upload your own full size image background or your own pattern!

- Navigate to Appearance → Theme Options  in your WordPress admin dashboard.

- Click on Customization Tab, select Live Theme Editor

- After you create one customization theme, go back there and Select customization theme .

- Click Save Options to make front-end site look like customization theme.

Follow our video guide to know how to use Live Theme Editor:

Follow our video guide to know how to customize Live Theme Editor for developer:

6. Megamenu Tab: setting your megamenu.

You can enable sticky by check that box

7. Woocommerce Tab : manager some setting for products like image bellow.

You can setting layout of single products page and category page too.

Enable quick view, and a lot of setting.

The easiest way to translate theme to the language of your choice is to use WPML Plugin

- To begin, be sure you have the WPML Plugin installed and activated, along with the WPML String Translation plugin.

- To set up WPML the first time, follow their Getting Started Guide.To begin translating, select WPML (in the Dashboard menu) -> String Translation. You should see a list of the strings in the theme (there should be only four), with blue translation links to the right. Click these links to reveal the list of languages you use on your blog and the associated translations.

- How to set and translate main features of the theme

• Using translation management http://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-the-translation-editor/
• Translation Management & Features – http://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-the-translation-editor/translation-management-features/
• Translating URL slugs – http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/translating-page-slugs/

- How to scan strings coming from the theme

• http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/theme-localization/

- How to translate strings using String Translation

• http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/string-translation/

- If adjustment is needed for WPML language switcher please also add this

• http://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/custom-language-switcher/

- If you need more help with WPML plugin. Please go WPML Forum

1. How To Enable the Registration Form on the ‘Login/My Account’ page?

In case you cannot see the Registration Form on the My Account page or checkout page, it means you need to enable it.

You can find this setting by navigating to WooCommerce >> Settings.

Open Account Tab In the Registration section, make sure the" Enable registration on the "Checkout" page" and  “Enable registration on the “My Account” page” options is checked.

This is what you should be seeing on your screen:

2. How To Add Color/Size selection box on the product page?

In WooCommerce, you can define product attributes, such as size or color, to use be used as product options.

Start by navigating to Products → Attributes.

For example an attribute could be “Size“. Then you need to Configure its terms. Those would be “Small, Medium, Large“.

Once defined, these global attributes can be assigned to your variable products.

Thank you for reading!

We hope you can create the best website with our themes.

One again, thank you so much for using our theme. As i said at the beginning, i'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this theme. No guarantees, but i'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the themes.

Do not hesitant to contact us via email : [email protected] or if you want more information,please send to: [email protected] or submit ticket via Opal Forum

Please take a screenshot photo with descriptions about your problem. More details about your problems help us more easier to figure out and respond you sooner.

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