Guide Video
What these video before you start with this theme, they provide basic steps to make everything easier.
***Install theme:
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Author: | RoadThemes |
Contact: | roadthemez@gmail.com |
Item: | View Demos |
Current Version: | 1.0.0 |
Documentation Version | 1.0.0 |
Created: | 2017-01-10 |
What these video before you start with this theme, they provide basic steps to make everything easier.
***Install theme:
Once you've downloaded the installation file on ThemeForest, extract it and locate a file called benco.zip. You can install the theme by using one of two installation methods:
Once installation is complete, your Theme theme will be ready to use. You should now see "benco" appears in the WordPress themes manager panel.
We need to install some plugins from WordPress plugins repository
Install 3 premium plugins: WPBakery Page Builder, Mega Main Menu, Revolution Slider.
*** Note: If 3 these plugins are installed, you don't need to install them.
For premium plugins, please open the "plugins" folder in the theme package to see plugins file. Extract the zip file for each plugin to get the installable file. Go to Plugins=>Add New to upload & install plugins.
Watch the intro video above to see in details.
We can import content for pages, posts, menu, projects, contact form, testimonials...
=> Login to your WordPress dashboard, Click Import Roadthemes => Click on Click here to import demo => Wait some minutes => See The data have imported succesfully => Finish
You can now enable the Auto-Updating feature for Theme. To do this, please first make sure that you have the Envato WordPress Toolkit plugin installed.
After you have installed and activated the Envato WordPress Toolkit, please go to Envato Toolkit from your dashboard and enter your Marketplace Username and API Key. You can find your API Key by logging into your profile on Themeforest and navigating to Profile > Settings > API Keys.
When you have entered your Marketplace Username and API Key and clicked Save Settings, a new tab will appear at the top of the screen named "Themes". Click on this tab to see all the themes you have purchased. If there is an update available for a theme, you will be notified here. To update your theme, just click on the "Update Automatically" link.
Please note that each time you use the Auto-Update feature to update the theme, a backup file of the old version of the theme will be stored on your server in ".../wp-content/envato-backups".
You can update your theme manually by performing the following steps:
Once you've installed Theme, you can start building your site.
One of the first things you might want to do is to set up the header area. This section contains the header layout, welcome message, top bar, mobile menu, vertical menu, sticky header and other options.
=> To set it up, go to WPBakery Page Builder=>Templates => Header 1 (Header 2/Header 3..) -> Edit.
=> Go to Theme Options - Header to select a header layout.
***Logo: Now let's add a logo. In WPBakery Page Builder=>Templates=>Header 1 (Header 2/ Header 3..) you click to Single Image at logo to edit, then select image from library or upload new logo. You should now have a visible logo in your header area.
***Sticky Logo: In WPBakery Page Builder=>Templates=>Header 1 (Header 2/..) you click to Main Menu to edit, then select image from library or upload new logo. You should now have a sticky logo in your header area when scrolling page.
To create a menu, go to Appearance - Menus from the admin panel. Click on Create a new menu. Enter a name for your menu, and then click on Create Menu.
Every page that you've created up until now will be listed in the section on the left called Pages. Simply check the ones that you want added to the menu, and then click on the "Add to Menu" button. Once added, you can click and drag the menu items to rearrange them, or nest them one under the other.
Config locations of menus like demo:
Go to Appearance -> Menus -> Manage Locations:
=> To set it up, go to WPBakery Page Builder=>Templates=> Footer 1 (Footer 2/..) to edit.
=> Go to Theme Options - Footer to select a footer layout.
To create a new page, go to Pages - Add New from the admin panel. Enter a title for your page in the text field near the top of your screen. Then choose the "Full Width" template for your page in the section on the right called Page Attributes. This will allow you to have sections on your page that go across full width of the screen.
Now let's start adding elements to your page. Make sure that you're in the backend editor. If the blue button on the top left says BACKEND EDITOR, click it to enable the WPBakery Page Builder. Once you're in backend, the button will say CLASSIC MODE. You can now click on "Add Element" and start building your page.
Finally, click the "Publish" button in the upper right section of the page. (If you made some changes on already published page, "Update" button will appear.
To set a page as home page:
=> Go to Settings - Reading -> Select A static page : At Homepage : Select home page.
****Example: To set Home6 to become your homepage:
=> Login admin -> go to Settings - Reading :
=> Click Save Changes to save your changes
Please note that Theme comes with font icon pack: Font Awesome. You can see an overview of all the available icons in this icon packs at the following link:
You can access Theme Options from the WordPress admin panel. The settings found here are applied globally and will affect all pages of the site.
This section allows you to set up general settings for your site. We can change body background, content background and show/hide the back to top button.
This is where you can change colors for your website. We can change the primary color, sale label background color & text color, link color, text selected color and background. Some elements in special area has different color from this panel, we can use custom css to change colors.
This section allows you to set up the header area. The first choice to change the header layout. Change the header text and link color, background of dropdown menu.
We can turn on or off the sticky header. Change background for the sticky header, it supports transparent background color.
In this area, we can change text color and link color for top bar.
We can change menu label. The submenu background is applied for the main menu (horizontal menu) in desktop view.
We can change categories menu label. The sub categories menu background, number of items is applied for the categories menu (categories menu) in desktop view.
This area allow you to change the footer layout, footer text color, link color and copyright information.
Enter links for social icons on Footer.
In this area, we can change font for text, heading, menu, price. There are some options to select for each font like font-family,font weight and style, font size, line-height, color. We can use default options or change any font like you need.
If we want to use default options, click on "Reset Section" button. Watch the video below, we change some options then rpresiden default.
In this tab, we can select page banner, select page layout is full width or box, select theme preset and turn off the style switcher.
Preset: There are many presets to select, if we select a presets (example: Preset 2) the theme uses pre-defined fonts and colors in that preset. If we select "Use Options" then the theme uses fonts and colors from "Colors" and "Fonts" tab.
This section allows you to upload brands log and configure the options for the brands slider. Click on "Add Slide" to add more logos.
This section allows you to change position of sidebars to left or right side. We can creat unlimitted sidebars for pages and posts. Go to edit page/post to select custom sidebar.
This section allows you to change the layout for the shop page. We can change how the products appear in grid view or list view. We have products per page, product columns. We can upload banner image of shop page.
This area allows you to change options for the product page. We can change number of related products.
Note: If your website has a line in the top, you have to remove this.
For social sharing code, go to http://www.sharethis.com or http://www.addthis.com/ then follow guide on website to create sharing button and get code. Remember to select "website", not "WordPress".
This area allows you to change the text link on the quick view window.
This section allows you to change the text on header of blog page "Blog", select blog layout, change read more text and the excerpt length.
This area allows you to change options for the latest posts carousel on home page.
This area allows you to change options for the testimonials carousel on home page.
This section allows you to upload image, background for the error 404 page.
This section allows you to turn on/off the less compiler. In the theme, I used .less files in the "less" folder to generate .css files. Turn off the compiler after you finished changing colors, fonts to save server resources.
To create a new blog post, go to Posts - Add New from the admin panel.
Let's go over the possible options:
Now that you've set up your blog post, let's go over the custom fields.
Note that most of them are the same custom fields you'll find when creating standard pages.
When creating a new page, one of the first things you might want to do is to assign an appropriate template for it. To do this, go inside the page backend and locate the section on the right called Page Attributes. Theme comes with a variety of templates to choose from:
To set homepage -> go to Settings - Reading -> Select A static page : At Homepage : Select home page.
****Example: To set Home6 to become your homepage:
=> Login admin -> go to Settings - Reading :
=> Click Save Changes to save your changes
Go to Pages - Add New to create an empty page, enter page title is "Blog".
Go to Settings - Reading -> Select A static page : At Posts page : Select your blog
Go to Pages - Add New to create a new page, use the sample content from the "contact.txt" file. Select page template is "Full Width".
Go to Pages - Add New to create an empty page, enter page title is "Portfolio".
Create posts in Ess. Grid Posts. Create Essential Grid in Ess. Grid then copy shortcode, paste into page content.
To create pages for WooCommerce, click on "Run the Setup Wizard" button in the back-end. Follow all steps to setup WooCommerce.
Go to Pages - Add New to create a new page, use the sample content from the "about-us.txt" file. Select page template is "About page".
Go to Pages - Add New to create a new page, use WPBakery Page Builder to add elements for the pages, change page template to get full width or sidebar page.
Theme comes with WooCommerce integration, which allows you to build an online shop. For more information on installing and configuring WooCommerce, please visit this page:
http://docs.woothemes.com/documentation/plugins/woocommerce/getting-started/
In order to setup WooCommerce with our theme, please perform the following steps:
You should first set the product image sizes in order to achieve the same look that we did. Go to WooCommerce - Settings -> Products tab -> Click Go see them in action here. -> Select Product Images
*** You also set product catalog:
=> Set fields according to you. If want your theme like demo, set as:
To create a products carousel slider on home page => Go to Pages -> All Pages-> Select home page -> Add new row in WPBakery Page Builder, insert a Text Block then add a heading 3 for the title, example "Featured Products".
Add shortcode of WooCommerce under the Text Block, click on the pencil icon of the row then add extra class start with "products-carousel"
To create a products tabs slider on home page => Go to Pages -> All Pages-> Select home page -> Add new row in WPBakery Page Builder, insert a Text Block then add a heading 3 text for the tab title. Add shortcodes of WooCommerce to show products.
Click on the pencil icon of the row then add extra class start with "home-tabs"
When editing a product, we can upload a cover image and over images.
Go to YIT Plugins=>Zoom magnifier to select options for the zoom feature on the product page.
Go to YIT Plugins=>Wishlist to change settings for the wishlist, we don't require any settings there but we recommend to change text, select social networks.
Go to YITH Plugins=>Compare then select settings like this
Please read the documentation on Revolution Slider first http://www.themepunch.com/revslider-doc/slider-revolution-documentation/
You can import sample sliders, we have some sample slider in the "slider-sample" folder.
To change widgets, go to Appearance - Widgets. Read the Getting Started - Import Widgets in this documentation to know how to import widgets.
In this theme, we use MailChimp plugin to make the newsletter system. Navigate to Mailchimp for WP. First, you need to enter API key and select list.
After that, go to Forms to edit form
This is the sample code:
<input type="email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Enter your email address..." required>
<button type="submit">Subcribe!</button>
You can change other settings for message, appearance in other tabs
Go to Testimonials - Add New to create a new testimonial. Enter title, description and upload images.
We hope this manual was useful for you and helped you to install, to edit the template and to resolve your issues.
In this theme, it uses the less compiler function to generate css files from .less file. If your server has small PHP memory, it may show the error. Please try to increase the PHP memory like this:
1. Edit your wp-config.php file and enter something like:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');
http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP
2. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
If your line shows 32M try 256M:
memory_limit = 256M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (256MB)
3. If you don’t have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 256M
4. If none of the above works then talk to your host.
Cause of this problem is small value of the "max_input_vars" option in the configuration of your server (host). You must increase value of the "max_input_vars". You must to set a value that is twice as large of the current value.
php_value max_input_vars 3000
php_value suhosin.post.max_vars 3000
php_value suhosin.request.max_vars 3000
max_input_vars = 3000
In some cases, you uses large images on your page, server run slowly because it's a VPS. Try these methods:
- Reduce images size
- Install cache plugin like W3 Total Cache
- Turn off less compiler in Theme Options=>Less compiler after finished changing colors & fonts.
- Test website with GTMetrix and see its suggestions https://gtmetrix.com/
Read this guide to know how to translate theme http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/translating-your-theme--wp-25014
Read this guide to know how to translate WooCommerce https://docs.woothemes.com/document/woocommerce-localization/
In this theme, we use Shortcodes Ultimate plugin to make shortcodes. You can go to this page http://gndev.info/kb/ and read the documentation to create your own shortcodes.
I have included these sources with this theme:
jQuery: http://jquery.com/
FlexSlider: http://flexslider.woothemes.com/
Slick: http://plugins.jquery.com/slick/
jQuery Gmap: http://labs.mario.ec/jquery-gmap/
FancyBox: http://fancyapps.com/fancybox/
jQuery Parallax:http://www.ianlunn.co.uk/plugins/jquery-parallax/
jQuery Shuffle: http://vestride.github.io/Shuffle/
Font Awesome: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
lessphp: http://leafo.net/lessphp
Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this 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 on ThemeForest, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "Item Discussion" section.