Grenda Documentation

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The instruction is to help you with installation of the Grenda theme.

Download packages

Purchase Grenda template from ThemeForest then you can download our template package on there.

Once the download is complete, unzip the file and you would see the following packages:

• Guides - our detail documentation for the theme
• Theme folder - for manual installation
• Samples - the sample data of the demos, you can import it
• PSD - the PSD files of the theme
• Licensing - the theme license

System Requirements

When selecting a hosting service, you should check to see that these server requirements are provided and installed on their web servers:

• PHP version 5.6 or greater
• MySQL version 5.6 or greater

Theme Installation

There are 2 ways to install a Wordpress theme.

Installing Theme From the WordPress Dashboard

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

- Step 1: Navigate to Appearance → Themes in your WordPress admin dashboard.

- Step 2: Click the Add New button at the top of the page and go for the Upload option.

- Step 3: Choose grenda_theme.zip then click Install

- Step 4: Wait while the theme is uploaded and installed then activate the theme.

Install theme via FTP

Many users are on shared hosting with low upload limits, and in such situations the Grenda 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

Activate Grenda as default theme

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

Go to your Dashboard >> Appearance >> Themes >> Activate Grenda template

Follow the instruction from the image below:

Known problems when installing the theme

a. The “Broken theme and/or stylesheets missing” error is most common when you install or activate a new theme.

If you get an error saying that the stylesheet is missing, then you have uploaded the wrong folder. Please check that you are uploading the grenda_theme.zip within the Theme Files folder. You have to unzip the package file that you download from Themeforest to find this.

b. Problems with uploading via WP admin panel due Upload limit.

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

@ini_set( 'upload_max_size' , '64M' );

@ini_set( 'post_max_size', '64M');

@ini_set( 'max_execution_time', '300' );

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 :

upload_max_filesize = 64M

post_max_size = 64M

max_execution_time = 300

In case that tip does not work with 64MB, try it with 10MB.

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:

php_value upload_max_filesize 64M

php_value post_max_size 64M

php_value max_execution_time 300

php_value max_input_time 300

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

Plugins Installation

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 the installation steps below:

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 Grenda theme

1. Contact Form 7: Allow you create contact forms on Contact Page.
2. MailChimp : to use newsletter function
3. Revolution Slider: premium responsive slider.
4. Visual composer - Page Builder: powerful Visual composer to create page layout.
5. Opal Menu: Create and maintain modern online menus for almost any kind of service.
6. Opal Service: Create and maintain modern online menus for almost any kind of service.
7. WPopal themer for themes: Implement rick functions for themes base on wpo framework and load widgets for theme used.
8. Metabox : Create custom meta boxes and custom fields for any post type in WordPress.
9. The Events Calendar : The Events Calendar is a carefully crafted, extensible plugin that lets you easily share your events. Beautiful. Solid. Awesome.
10. Google Web Fonts Customizer: This plugin integrates WordPress Customizer with Google Web Fonts, to add and use google web fonts to any themes, no coding needed.

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

Follow our video guide to know more :

Install Data Demo

Step 1 :Install Data Demo

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.

- Go to Settings → Media then set up size for your images.

 Then  go to WPOPAL-> Posttypes and enter your settings.

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

Go to Dashboard -> WPOPAL -> Import Demos . You can see " Found demos from live server", please click in "Grenda 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 Grenda 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 Grenda demo site.
• Theme + Page options - import theme and page settings.
• Menu - import all menus.
• Revolutions Slider - import sliders built with with revolutions slider plugin.
• KC Template - import pages built with Visual 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.

Importing The Demo Data - XML File.

The Grenda 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.

But before import data you should go to "Settings->Permalinks and choose Default in common settings" , you import or export data will not be lost.

 Then  go to Settings-> WPopal Themer and enter your settings.

Then go to Visual composer-> Composer Settings and Enable Visual composer for pages, posts and custom post types. Click "Save Changes" to save your setting.

- Then go to Settings → Media then set up size for your images.

And  go to step by step bellow:

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

Choose the option to download all data sample file and click Submit. Do not interrupt/cancel the import process!.

The importer should be run only once. If something went wrong and you need to import the content again, you may need to reset your WordPress.
Use this plugin to reset the WordPress database : http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-database-reset/

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.

Step 5 - Done! But you still need to set the Menu, Widget, Slider. Follow more on bellow .

Follow our video guide to know more :

2. Import Revolution Slider

1.If you choose import data by tool of wordpress

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

2.If you choose import data by one click import

From the WordPress admin area go to Revolution Slider . Revolution slider will be displayed after import data by "One click import".

 you can see all slider displayed in here and you can

 + Embed slider.

+Export.

+Delete.

+Duplicate.

+Preview.

+Settings.

+Edit slider.

Widgets Installation

Install widget

1.If you choose import data by tool of wordpress

a. Install widget

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 :

b. Install widget by plugin import widget

Go to Admin Panel -> Plugins -> Add new.

You can see broad add new plugin, please fill in " import widget" to search plugin.

and go to Tool -> widget importer & exporter then you choose widget to import in your site.

When import finish you can see widget :

2.If you choose import data by one click import

Go to Admin Panel -> Appearance -> Widgets.

You can see all our widgets has been displayed in sidebar.

Set Up Logo

You can upload your logo image in the Customize. If the logo is not uploaded, then your site name will be used.
Please, follow the steps below to upload your logo:

Step 1 - Login to your WordPress Dashboard.

Step 2 - Go to Appearance > Customize > Themes and Layouts Setting Tab .

Step 3 - Upload your logo by clicking on Select Image ( our current Grenda logo for Header Absolute is 150px x 50px ).

Step 4- Upload your favicon - should be a 32px x 32px Png/Gif image.

With logo in Header Default, Please go to "wp-content/themes/grenda/images" and change image with name: logo.png to change logo for Header Default.

Set Up Menu

1. Creating your menu

Step 1- Login to the WordPress Dashboard.

Step 2- From the 'Appearance' menu on the left-hand side of the Dashboard, select the 'Menus' option to bring up the Menu Editor.

Step 3 - Select Create a new menu at the top of the page.

Step 4 - Enter a name for your new menu in the Menu Name box.

Step 5 - Click the Create Menu button. Your menu is now defined, and you can now add pages to it (steps below).

2. Adding pages to your menu

Step 1 - Locate the pane entitled Pages.

Step 2 - Within this pane, select the View All link to bring up a list of all the currently published Pages on your site. 

Step 3 - Select the Pages that you want to add by clicking the check box next to each Page's title.

Step 4 - Click the Add to Menu button located at the bottom of this pane to add your selection(s) to the menu that you created in the previous step.

Step 5 - Click the Save Menu button once you've added all the menu items you want. Your custom menu has now been saved.

The Screen Options allow you to choose which items you can use to add to a menu. Certain items, like Posts or Products are hidden by default. The Screen Options are located in the top right corner of your WordPress Dashdoard.

3. Assigning a Menu to a Location

Once you've created a menu and filled it with items, it's time to assign it to one of the theme pre-defined locations.

- Go to Appearance > Menus and click Manage Locations.

Menu is assigned after import data by "One click import".

Front-end look like.

Set Up Home Page

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.

A. How to use Visual composer

Have you ever used Visual composer ? Please follow that guide first : Visual composer guide.

Official Plugin Documentation For More information about the Visual composer check the official documentation.

Watch video about Visual composer.

1. Classic Mode.

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

2. Backend Editor Mode

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

How to use Back End Mode

a. Add and modify Row Layout

Step 1 - Go to your page / post, first activate the backend editor and click Add Element.

Step 2 - Select the Elements you want to use.

Step 3 - Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon) to Edit the Row element ( in our example we use row with 3 columns filled with text block ).

Step 4 - To change the Row layout ( number of columns ) you only select a layout or custom to make your own.

b. Edit Element

Pencil Icon - To Edit Row, Column or Element you need to click the Pencil icon.

c. Duplicate Element

Pages Icon - To Duplicate Row or Element you need to click the Pages icon.

d. Remove Element

Trash Box Icon - To Remove Row, Column or Element you need to click the Trash Box icon.

e. About Row / Column / Custom heading / Text Block Design options.

Design Options - When you edit row / column / custom heading / text block Element, you can edit the design options.

Row / Custom Heading / Text Block element have a default Bottom Margin of 30 pixel, you may want to set it to 0 if you don't want to have bottom space.

It is Good to add bottom Padding to your Column, so they will looks good on mobile 

Left and Right Margin should NEVER be modified, please left blank.

For Row Element the Left and Right Padding should also NEVER be modified, please left blank 

3. Page Options

a. Page Attributes

You can select page attributes on right sidebar of page admin layout. Each Page templates have each styles.

b. Page configure default template

For each page you can change the page layout style, header skin, footer skin and much more! Check the screenshot and read the documentation to see how it works.

• Enable Fullwidth Layout - Select if you want the page to have a Fullwidth layout.
• Header Layout - Select skin specific for Header on page or use Global.
• Footer Layout -  Select skin specific for Footer on page or use Globalsidebar.
• Disable Breadcrumbs - Select if you want to disable the subtitle and breadcrumbs.
• Breadcrumbs Text Color - Select color for text of breadcrumbs.
• Breadcrumbs Background Color - Select color background for breadcrumbs.
• Breadcrumbs Background - Select image to set background.
• Layout Style - Select style for page to have a Auto, Left-Main Sidebar or Main-Right Sidebar or Left-Main-Right Sidebar.

B. Grenda Home Page Layout

In Grenda theme have 2 headers use to homepage :

Header 1

Header 2

Grenda come with more than 2 homepage layouts. Please check out landing page to know more and build your home page you need.

1. Home default

2. Home 1

C. Set a page as Home Page

Step 1 - Go to Settings > Reading in your WordPress Dashdoard panel.

Step 2 - Set "Front page displays" to a "Static Page".

Step 3 - In the drop down menu for "Front Page" choose a page which will be your home page.

Step 4 - Leave the drop down menu for "Posts page" empty, as this is not used by the theme.

Step 5 - Save changes.

Set Up Blog Page

1. Create the blog post

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).

Step 2 - Click the 'Posts' tab.

Step 3 - Click the 'Add New' sub-tab.

Step 4 - Start filling in the blanks: enter your post title in the upper field, and enter your post body content in the main post editing box below it.

Step 5 - As needed, select a category, add tags, post format, fill in the meta setings below the editor.

Step 6 - Upload a featured image for your Post.

Step 7 - Select Post Format. You can create blog post with a lot of Formats like link, gallery, image ..... Select format on Format box from in right sidebar.

Step 8 - Scroll down until you see the Format Setting box, there you will be able to customize the post.

Step 9 -  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. Create Blog Page

Option 1. Create Blog Page with Visual Element

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)..

Step 2 - Click on Pages > Add New.

Step 3 - Give your page a name then Change the Editor to Backend Editor ( you need to have the Visual composer plugin activated ).

Step 4 - Click on the Add Element button.

Step 5 - Select the New Elements.

Front end look like :

Option 2. Create Blog page with Blog template

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).

Step 2 - Click on Pages > Add New.

Step 3 - From Page Attribubtes -> Select Template : Blog.

Step 4 - Set up Page configuration.

• Enable Fullwidth Layout - Select if you want the page to have a Fullwidth layout.
• Header Layout - Select skin specific for Header on page or use Global.
• Footer Layout -  Select skin specific for Footer on page or use Globalsidebar.
• Disable Breadcrumbs - Select if you want to disable the subtitle and breadcrumbs.
• Breadcrumbs Text Color - Select color for text of breadcrumbs.
• Breadcrumbs Background Color - Select color background for breadcrumbs.
• Breadcrumbs Background - Select image to set background.
• Layout Style - Select style for page to have a Auto, Left-Main Sidebar or Main-Right Sidebar or Left-Main-Right Sidebar.

4. Blog Global Configure

Step 1 - From your admin Dashboard navigate to : Apperance > Customize >  Blog.

Step 2 - Set up Archive & Category Setting..

You can set Global (default) layout for archive blog page and category blog post then select content sidebar to display.

Step 3 - Set up Single Post Setting.

• Show share post : enable or disable share post function.
• Show related post : enable or disable related post.
• Number of post to show : select number of related post to show.
• Single blog layout  : Select layout for single blog.

Set Up Footer

Set Up Footer

Step 1 - From admin Dashboard, navigate to Footer > Add Profile Footer.

Step 2 - Using Visual composer backend editor mode then add element to your Footer 

Step 3 - Build your footer style with unlimited layout.

Footer layouts for you.

Footer default.

Front end look like :

Visual Element Layout setting

Footer 2.

Front end look like :

Visual Element Layout setting

Step 4 - After create your footer profile. Navigate to : Apperance > Customize > Theme And Layout Setting.

Choose your footer for  page.

*********** If you want specific Footer for one of your pages. Please go to your page configuration. Select Footer version you want to display only on that page.

Set Up Menus

With Opal Menus allow you to create many the menus and control the menus.

1. Create the Menu

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).

Step 2 - Click the 'Opal Menus' tab.

Step 3 - Click the 'Add New Menu' sub-tab.

Step 4 - Start filling in the blanks: enter your menu title in the upper field, and enter your menu body content in the main menu editing box below it.

Step 5 - As needed, select a feature image.

Step 6 -  When your menu is ready, click Publish.

Set Up Opal Services

1. Create Categories

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)

Step 2 - Click the 'Opal Services' tab.

Step 3 - Click the 'Categories' sub-tab.

Step 4 - Start filling in the blanks: enter your name and slug, choose parent if you want and enter desciption for Services.

Step 5 - When this Service is ready, please click button "Add New Service Category" .

2. Create Service

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)

Step 2 - Click the 'Opal Services' tab.

Step 3 - Click the 'Add Service' sub-tab.

Step 4 - Start filling in the blanks: enter your Service title in the upper field, and enter your service body content in the main service by use Visual composer element to do that.

Step 5 - As needed, select a Category.

Step 6 - Upload a featured image for your Service.

Step 7 - Scroll down until you see the Management box, there you will be able to customize the service.

Upload icon

Select icon

Step 8 -  When your service is ready, click Publish.

3. Setting

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard)

Step 2 - Click the 'Opal Services' tab.

Step 3 - Click the 'Setting' sub-tab.

Step 4 - In General tab , Please enter config for service.

Create Testimonials

Step 1: Go to Testimonial from Dashboard then create content of Testimonials.

Step 2: Drag Testimonial elements by using Visual composer on page you want to display testimonials.

You can choose some setting like title, skin ....

Create Paralax

With Visual composer you can create Parallax Sections.

Step 1: From your admin dashboard. Go to Page

Step 2 : Click on the Edit This Row (pencil icon) beside row you want to make it become Parallax Sections.

Step 3: In General Tab, select option Parallax.

Step 4: In Design options tab, ADD padding and REMOVE margin for better result, add a Background Image change to Cover and then Saves changes.

Step 5: - Update or Publish your page and you should now have a section with parallax background.

Create Brands

Step 1: Go to Brands from Dashboard then create Brands.

Step 2: Drag Brands elements by using Visual composer on page you want to display testimonials.

You can choose some setting like title, number of brands ....

Create Newsletter

We are using MailChimp for WP plugin for Newsletter subscribe. You can read more about MailChimp from here.

Follow that step below to help you can collect email of subscribers.

Step 1 - Signup for Mailchimp account then create your lists to collect email.

Step 2 - Install and active plugin MailChimp for WP.

Step 3 - Navigate to MailChimp for WP > MailChimp then connect with your mailchimp account you created from step 1.

Step 4 -  Create mailchimp form to collect email. Navigate to Forms.

Import HTML Code below on section Form mark-up Source.

Source :

	<div class="form-inline">
	  <div class="form-group">
		<input id="mc4wp_email" class="form-control" name="EMAIL" required="required" type="email" placeholder="Your email address" />
	  </div>
	  <div class="form-group">
		<input class="btn-default btn" type="submit" value="Subcribe"/>
	  </div>
	  </div>
	

Step 5 - After creating from of your plugin. You must set position where you want to display.

Going Appearance -> Widgets then drag mailchimp widget to Newsletter Sidebar. You can bring that sidebar to every position you want. ( You can drag to left, right sidebar for each page. You can drag to Footer position.... )

Create Contact Page

Create Contact Form.

Make sure you install and active Contact Form 7 plugin to continue reading.

Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Dashboard, go to Contact > Add New .

Step 2 - Give a Name to your form and change Mail Info.

Step 3 - Edit the Form field to change the Form Layout.