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The instruction is to help you with installation of the OpalHome theme.
Purchase OpalHome template from ThemeForest then you can download our template package on there.
Extract package that include all files and folders of theme. When done, you should see opalhome_theme.zip (zip file name can be changed from version to version).
Once the download is complete, unzip the file and you would see the following packages:
When selecting a hosting service, you should check to see that these server requirements are provided and installed on their web servers:
There are 2 ways to install a WordPress theme.
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 opalhome_theme.zip then click Install.
- Step 4: Wait while the theme is uploaded and installed then activate the theme.
Many users are on shared hosting with low upload limits, and in such situations the OpalHome 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
After completing the upload, activate the theme as per activating any other theme.
Goto your Dashboard >> Appearance >> Themes >> Activate OpalHome template.
Follow the instruction from the image below:
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 opalhome_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.
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.
Step 3: After Installing all Plugins, select Activate then click Apply to active all plugins.
Follow our video guide to know more :
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.
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 "OpalHome 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).
File to import all data is : content.xml.
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 OpalHome 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-> Opal Posttypes and enter your settings.
Then go to King Composer-> Composer Settings and Enable King Composer for pages, posts and custom post types. Click "Save Changes" to save your setting.
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 :
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.
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.
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 > Site Identity Tab
Step 3 - Upload your logo by clicking on Select Image ( our current OpalHome logo is 150px x 50px ).
Step 4- Upload your favicon - should be a 32px x 32px Png/Gif image.
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).
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.
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".
Menu Home will be displayed.
You can quickly build a home page using King 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.
Have you ever used King Composer ? Please follow that guide first : King Composer guide.
Official Plugin Documentation For More information about the King Composer check the official documentation.
Watch video about King 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. Copy Element
Copy Icon - To Copy Row, Element you need to click the Copy icon.
f. Add Element to top of this column
Add Icon - To add element to top of this column you need to click the Add icon.
g. 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 .
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.
in OpalHome has 3 headers for theme.
1. Header 1
2. Header 2
3. Header 3
OpalHome come with more than 9 homepage layouts. Please check out landing page to know more and build your home page you need.
1. Home default
2. Home 2
3. Home 3
4. Home 4
5. Home 5
6. Home 6
7. Home 7
8. Home 8
9. Home 9
In OpalHome has used background color for element to set up theme.
To change color, please click button Edit Page and choose element that you want to change , then click Edit Row and change color in there.
Step 1 - Go to Settings > Reading in your WordPress Dashboard 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.
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 Post Configuration box, there you will be able to customize the post.
Step 9 - When your post is ready, click Publish.
Navigate to Posts → All Posts
You can see all informations of you blog post, add new, edit or delete them.
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 WPO New Elements.
Front end look like :
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 .
Step 1 - From admin Dashboard, navigate to Opal Footer > Add Profile Footer.
Step 2 - Using King 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 :
King Element Layout setting
Footer 2.
Front end look like :
King 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.
Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
Step 2 - Click the 'Mapping Views' tab.
Step 3 - Click the 'Add New' sub-tab.
Step 4 - Start filling in name of mapping view that the name is how it appears on your site.
Step 5 - Filling Slug :The “slug” is the URL-friendly version of the name. It is usually all lowercase and contains only letters, numbers, and hyphens.
Step 5 - Upload a featured image for your mapping view.
Step 6 - Scroll down until you see the Format Setting Option box, there you will be able to customize the mapping view.
+ Landing Image: Upload image for mapping view
+ Point Data Setting: Set up position, title, description for point data.
Finally: Click button " Publish " to create Mapping View.
Step 1 - Log in to your WordPress Administration Panel (Dashboard).
Step 2 - Click the 'iPanorama 360' tab.
Step 3 - Click the 'Add New' sub-tab.
Step 4 - Start filling in name of iPanorama 360 that the name is how it appears on your site.
Step 5 - Scroll down until you see the General Setting box, there you will be able to customize.
+ Panorama size: Choose type of size .
+ Theme : Choose parameter works.
+ Image Preview : Set up image for preview .
Then choose all function for iPanorama 360.
Step 6 - In Scenes tab.
Click add new scene to set up iPanorama.
Finally: Click button " Publish " to create iPanorama 360.
Step 1: Go to Testimonial from Dashboard then create content of Testimonials.
Step 2: Drag Testimonial elements by using King Composer on page you want to display testimonials.
You can choose some setting like title, skin ....
With King 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.
Step 1: Go to Brands from Dashboard then create Brands.
Step 2: Drag Brands elements by using King Composer on page you want to display testimonials.
You can choose some setting like title, number of brands ....
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-style-1"> <p class="desc-form">Sign up for our mailing list to get latest updates and offers</p> <div class="input-group"> <input id="mc4wp_email" class="form-control" name="EMAIL" required="required" type="email" placeholder="Enter email address" /> <span class="input-group-btn"> <input class="btn btn-light" type="submit" value="SUBSCRIBE" /> </span> </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.... ).
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.
OpalHome Theme use Customizer provides an ultra effective and intuitive way to customize theme layout & setting with real-time preview. Bring all of settings to customizer, you do not need to using another theme option anymore.
To access Customizer go to your admin Dashboard Navigate to Appearance >> Customize.
1. Fonts Customizer : Add and use google web fonts to any themes.
2. General Setting : Manage general setting like your Site title,breadcrumb background, copyright, ....
3. Theme And Layout Setting: select your header style, footer style for global.
4. Site indentity : Set up logo and favicon.
5. Color : Set up color for site.
6. Social Sharing Setting: select social channel apperance to sharing.
7. Header image : create customize image for breadcrumb and title section.
8. Blog & post : manage global setting for Blog.
9. Menu:manage setting of Menu.
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
- How to scan strings coming from the theme.
- How to translate strings using String Translation.
- If adjustment is needed for WPML language switcher please also add this.
- If you need more help with WPML plugin. Please go WPML Forum.
a. Update Theme via WordPress
Updating the theme via WordPress is very similar to the install process via WordPress. Make sure you had backup all of your customization in our theme.
Follow the steps below to update your theme via WordPress:
Step 1 - Download latest theme package on ThemeForest.
Step 2 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
Step 3 - Go to Appearance > Themes.
Step 4 - Deactivate the OpalHome Theme by simply activating a different theme. Once you activate a different theme, you can delete the OpalHome theme.
Step 5 - Delete the OpalHome Theme. Do not worry, your content will not be lost!
Step 6 - Then simply upload the newest “opalhome_theme.zip” file in the Appearance > Themes section. Click on the Install Themes tab at the top and choose to upload the zip file. You have this step explained in section: Theme Installation via WordPress.
b. Update theme via FTP
Updating the theme via FTP is very similar to the install process via FTP.
Follow the steps below to update your theme via FTP:
Step 1 - Go to .../wp-content > themes location on your server using a FTP client and backup your "OpalHome" theme folder by saving it to your computer, or you can choose to simply delete it. Your content will not be lost.
Step 2 - Download the new version of OpalHome theme from your Themeforest and retrieve OpalHome folder by unpacking the zip that you download from Themeforest and opalhome_theme.zip.
Step 3 - Then simply drag and drop the new "OpalHome" theme folder into .../wp-content > themes location. Choose to “Replace” the current one if you did not delete it.
Step 4 - Log into your WordPress Dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes and activate the new OpalHome theme.
What is a Child Theme?
A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality of another theme, called the parent theme. Child themes allow you to modify, or add to the functionality of that parent theme. A child theme is the best, safest, and easiest way to modify an existing theme, whether you want to make a few tiny changes or extensive changes. Instead of modifying the theme files directly, you can create a child theme and override within.
Why use a Child Theme?
if you modify an existing theme and it is updated, your changes will be lost. With a child theme, you can update the parent theme (which might be important for security or functionality) and still keep your changes. It’s a great way to get started if you are just learning WordPress theme development.
Follow that documentation to create Child Theme Child Themes - Codex.
Using that plugin to create Child Theme : One Click Child Theme.
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