WELCOME TO FURNIHOME THEME

 

Firstly, a huge thanks for purchasing this theme, your support is truly appreciated!

 

This document covers the installation and use of this theme, reveals some answers to common problems and issues. We encourage you to read throughout this document if you are experiencing any difficulties. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of document, please feel free to contact us via our Ticket Support System.

 

Furnihome is a responsive WooCommerce WordPress Theme designed specifically for furniture and interior website with 2 beautiful homepages. However, theme is so flexible with a lot of customization options, so it can be used for any kind of online store.

 

With the modern and clean design, this theme will make your site brighter, more attractive to help your sales volume up.

 

Theme comes with many premium plugins and brings you a lot of features like Ajax Search Pro, RTL Layout Support, Visual slideshow, Powerful Mega Menu, Color Swatches, Product Quickview, Featuring Product Page, Ajax add to Cart, wishlist and compare and others.

 

The One-click Demo Installation can import posts, pages, sliders, widget & data to get a complete eCommerce website look like the demo in a matter of moments.

GETTING STARTED

 

To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. If you need help installing WordPress, follow the instructions in WordPress Codex. Below are all the useful links for WordPress information.

 

  1. WordPress Codex – General info about WordPress and how to install on your server.
  2. First Steps With WordPress – General info about multiple topics about WordPress.
  3. FAQ New To WordPress – The most popular FAQ’s regarding WordPress.
 

To use the theme, please make sure you are running WordPress 4.7.x or higher, PHP 5.6 or higher, and MySQL 5.6 or higher.

 

  1. Check to ensure that your web host has the minimum requirements to run WordPress.
  2. You can download the latest release of WordPress from the official WordPress website.
  3. The latest version of WordPress is prefered.
  4. Always create secure passwords for FTP and Database.
  5. It is recommended to be on at least PHP 5.6 and preferably PHP 7.0.
 

The Recommended PHP Configuration Limits should be paid attention. In several cases, you may deal with problems related to low PHP configuration limits, such as: white screen, demo content fails when importing, empty page content and other similar issues.

 

The solution is to increase the PHP limits. You can do this on your own by editing the following lines in php.ini file in your root directory. This is not a file that comes with WordPress so if you are unfamiliar with it you should contact your web host about increasing those limits to a minimum as follows:

 

  1. max_execution_time 360
  2. memory_limit 128M
  3. post_max_size 32M
  4. upload_max_filesize 32M

 

Success Well done! If your site meets all these requirements, you can start enjoy Furnihome theme now!

FILE STRUCTURE

 

After downloading the theme package on ThemeForest, when extracting it, you will see the files included as below:

 

Furnihome theme package folder including:

  1. code folder contains: sw_furnihome_theme_vx.x.x.zip, sw_furnihome-child-theme.zip, sw_furnihome_quickstart_vx.x.x.zip and folder data.
  2. doc: This is offline documentation for Furnihome theme.

Data folder including:

  1. plugins including: lesphp.zip, one-click-demo-import.zip, sw_ajax_woocommerce_search.zip, sw-core.zip, sw-woocommerce.zip file.

INSTALLATION

 

There are 02 ways to install Furnihome theme: Quickstart Installation and Manual Installation.

 

  1. Quickstart Installation: With this one, you will replace your whole site with a new one like our site in demo. This one is suitable for you if you build a fresh site and want to get demo content. Please note that with this way, all your old data will be replaced.

    You may need to contact us to get the quickstart for this installation.

  2. Manual Installation (or Theme Installation): By this way, you can install the theme into your site and import demo data while remaining current data of your site. If you have a WordPress website with full of content and you want to keep it, this is a suitable choice for you.

 

Info Before install the theme, please make sure that your site meets all the system requirements and the theme package is available in your computer.

 

To install Quickstart, please follow steps as below:

 

  1. Have the sw_furnihome_quickstart_vx.x.x.zip available in your computer.
  2. Create the Database and a User for your site. You can skip this step if there is available one.
  3. Upload and Extract the quickstart files to the desired location on your web server using FTP or CPanel. It could be a folder in xampp > htdocs if you install on your localhost.
  4. Go to the URL where you uploaded the file to load the WordPress Installer.
  5. Now all is the same to WordPress Installation. You will go step by step with Language Settings, Database Settings and WordPress Info Settings.
  6. After the successful installation, you can go to your site and enjoy the result.

 

Info For more detail, you can see the tutorial for this Quickstart Installation here: How to Install Quickstart for WordPress Theme.

 

– Before installing Furnihome theme, you need to have a WordPress site that meets all the theme requirements.

– You need to have the latest Furnihome theme package available in your computer.

– There are 02 ways for you to upload the theme into your site: Upload theme via WordPress Admin and Upload theme via FTP.

 

Info If the theme file size is larger than 8M, it should be uploaded via FTP.

  1. Navigate to the Admin Panel of your site (i.e. http://wpthemego.com/wp-admin/).
  2. Login to your WordPress Dashboard and go to Appearance > Theme and click Add New to add new theme.
  3. Click the Upload Theme button then Choose File and select sw-furnihome_theme_vx.x.x.zip file and click Install Now.
  4. It will take a few minutes to install the theme.
  5. After seeing the message Theme installed successfully, you can Activate Furnihome in your site.
  1. Access your FTP client, such as FileZilla to start upload Furnihome theme.
  2. Navigate to the folder of your website (i.e. wpthemego.com/wp-content/themes) then upload and extract theme file sw_furnihome_theme_vx.x.x.zip to this directory. After that, you will have a theme folder named as Furnihome in your site’s directory.
  3. Login to the Admin Panel of your site (i.e. http://wpthemego.com/wp-admin/). Go to Appearance > Themes to find Furnihome theme.
  4. After seeing Furnihome theme’s thumnail, choose and click on Activate to install it in your site.


Info For more detail, you can see the tutorial for this Quickstart Installation here: How to Install Quickstart for WordPress Theme.

 

To have the theme works well with full features, after installing the theme, all the required plugins should be installed and activated. Below are the required plugins for Furnihome theme:

These are the plugins compatible with Furnihome theme.

 

  1. Dokan: Plugin for front end multi vendor marketplace on WordPress, powered by WooCommerce.
  2. WC Vendor: Plugin for multivendor with WooCommerce.
  3. Yoast SEO: This is plugin for SEO in your site.
  4. WP Fastest Cache: Plugin to speed up your site by creating static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog.
  5. Loco Translate: Loco Translate provides in-browser editing of WordPress translation files.


To install and activate required plugins, please follow steps as below:

 

  1. After installing and activating the theme, there is a message about installing required plugins at the top of the page.
  2. Click on Begin Installing plugins link to start installing required plugins for SW Furnihome theme.
  3. Now it will be redirected to Install Required Plugins page, here you will find all of the theme required plugins.
  4. Choose all of required plugins then select Install and click Apply.
  5. After successful installation, choose all of them then select Activate and click Apply.

 

Warning Some Notes For Plugin Installation:

 

– When installing, if there is notice that any plugin is unsuccessful installed, please choose each of them and install one by one again.

– If your server does not permit automatic installation, you need to install them manually with plugins in folder data/plugins.

 

We update our themes regularly for bug fix, WordPress and plugins compatibility and improvements. Therefore, it’s necessary to have Furnihome theme in your site up-to-date.

 

To update the theme in your site, please follow steps as below:

 

  1. Back up your site! Before changing anything in your site, don’t forget to backup it to save your data and custom code or CSS. It will save your life in the worst situation.
  2. Copy the custom code you made in your site and save it in your computer to add it later.
  3. Download the latest version of Furnihome theme.
  4. Deactive and remove all required plugins in the old version of this theme. We will install the new version of them later.
  5. Uninstall the theme and install new version sw_furnihome_theme_vx.x.x.zip of Furnihome.
  6. Click on Begin installing plugins link and install new version of plugins. This step is essential to update the required plugins for bug fix and feature improvement.
  7. Now the theme is updated successfully. You can paste your custom code in the new theme.
  8. After all, check your site again to ensure that the update works.

 

Info For more detail, you can see the tutorial for this Quickstart Installation here: How to Update WordPress Theme for Your Site?.

 

Ussually, when a required plugin is updated, we also update the theme package. Therefore, when updating Furnihome theme, you can also choose to update plugin automatically.

 

To update plugin in Furnihome theme, please follow steps as below:

 

  1. Back up your site! to save your customization.
  2. Copy the custom code you made in your site and save it in your computer to add it later.
  3. Download the latest version of Furnihome theme on Themeforest. There is latest version of plugin in the theme package/data folder. Or else you can get it from plugin provider.
  4. Deactive and remove old version of this plugin. You can directly delete this plugin’s files in folder /public_html/wp-content/plugins of your site using FTP.
  5. Now you can install new version in your site. If the max_size_upload > 8M, you can upload it via Admin Panel. Or else, you need to extract the plugin then add it to folder /public_html/wp-content/plugins of your site using FTP.
  6. Now the theme is updated successfully. You can paste your custom code in the new theme.
  7. After all, check your site again to ensure that the update works.

 

Warning Before updating any plugin in your site, you need to have a test first to make sure that it won’t damage your site! When a plugin is updated, we will check if it’s compatible with our current theme version. After that, we will update theme package then you can update in your site later. If you see there is bug after the update in the test process, you should wait for our update for latest version of plugin to update in you live site.

 

A child theme is a theme that inherits the functionality and styling of another theme, called the parent theme. Child themes are the recommended way of modifying an existing theme.

If you plan on doing any customization on your site, you will definitely need to set up this child theme on your site.

 

After installing and activating Furnihome theme, you can install Furnihome Child Theme following steps below:

 

  1. Navigate to the Admin Panel of your site (i.e. http://wpthemego.com/wp-admin/).
  2. Login to your WordPress Dashboard and go to Appearance > Theme and click Add New to add new theme.
  3. Click the Upload Theme button then Choose File and select sw_furnihome-child-theme.zip file and click Install Now.
  4. It will take a few minutes to install the theme.
  5. After seeing the message Theme installed successfully, you can Activate Furnihome Child Theme in your site.

 

Info For more detail, you can see a tutorial about Child Theme: How to Use Child Themes.
The screenshots used above are taken from Furnihome Theme as an example.

IMPORT DEMO CONTENTS

 

Importing demo data (post, pages, images, theme settings and more) is the easiest way to setup your theme. It will allow you to quickly edit everything instead of creating content from scratch.

 

After Theme Installation, to have demo data in your site, it’s neccessary for you to import demo content. ExpNews supports you to import only 01 Home Page layout only. The process includes 03 steps:

  1. Import Demo Data: This includes demo pages, posts, menu, widgets, post and other elements of the theme.
  2. Import Revolution Slider: This include revolution slider file used in the demo site of the theme.
  3. Last Import Step: After Importation, you need to reconfigure the Menu then your site will be the same as in the demo.

 

When you import the data, the following things might happen:

  • No existing posts, pages, categories, images, custom post types or any other data will be deleted or modified.
  • Posts, pages, images, widgets, menus and other theme settings will get imported.
  • Please click on the Import button only once and wait, it can take a couple of minutes.

 

After successfully importing all the steps above, your site will be the same as ExpNews demo.

 

Warning Before the importation, the theme and required plugins should be installed and activated successfully in your site.

 

To import demo data of Furnihome theme, please follow steps as below:

 

Info Before install the theme, please make sure that your site meets all the system requirements and the theme package is available in your computer.

 

 

  1. In the Administrator page, go to Appearance > Import Demo Data to open the One Click Demo Import window.
  2. Now, you can see different thumnails for each demo pages. Choose the Home Page style you want, then click on Import button to start the process. Please just click only 01 time. You can also click on Preview to see the demo of this home page style.
  3. It will appear a popup to confirm your decision. Click on Yes, Import! to continue.
  4. The process many take 5-10 minutes due to the data size and your Internet. Please wait until it’s done.
  5. After seeing the successful message, the importation is all done. Now you can have a check at your site.
  6. Finally, you can Deactivate plugin One Click Demo Import in your site because it is not neccessary anymore.

 

Important!

After the importation, there may be [ERROR] Failed to import “sw_demo.zip” (Media)

Don’t worry about this. This is the one we used for our demo purpose only and this one has no effect on the theme importation process.

 

Warning The data will be downloaded from our server, these images are copyrighted and are for demo use only. Please click import only once and wait, this process can take a couple of minutes.

 

To import Revolution Slider of ExpNews theme, please follow steps as below:

 

Info If there is no slider for the page for examplle in Home page 1 and Home page 2, you can skip this step.

 

  1. In the Administrator page, go to Revolution Slider and click on Import Slider button.
  2. Now click on button Choose File and navigate to the data/revslider and choose the one you want to import.
  3. Now click on Import Slider button and see the result.

 

Info You can see How to Import media.xml file in WordPress Themes? for more detail.

 

After the Data Importation, you can check your site again. Usually, you need to reconfigure the menu to have your site the same as in the demo.

 

  1. In the Administrator page, go to Appearance > Menu and choose the one you want to configure.
  2. After that click on Save button to save the menu.
  3. You can also change some information of the menu as you want.
  4. After all, you can check your site to see the result.

 

Info You can see the Menu Settings in the Basic Settings for more detail..

BASIC SETTINGS

 

Pages is one of the most important elements in a WordPress website. In this section, we will cover issues related to page including: Create a New Page, Set up Home Page, Page Metabox in Furnihome theme and Page with Visual Composer.

 

How to create a new page?

To create a new Page, please follow steps as below:

  1. Log in to site in the backend.
  2. Select the Pages > Add New option to begin writing a new page.
  3. Configure Options for new page including Page Title, Page Attributes, Public Status. Page Content.
  4. Scrolling down to the end of the window, you will see the Page Metabox area of Furnihome theme. Here you can configure the options including Logo, Color Schemes, Home Page template, Typography, Header, Footer and Sidebar for this page. Please note that if there is no change here, the settings in Theme Options will be applied to this page.
  5. After all, save the change and check the result in the front end of your site.

 

Info For more detail, you can see the WordPress Documentation for this problem: WordPress Pages.

 

How to set up Home Page?

To set up Home Page or Front Page for your website, please follow steps as below:

  1. Log in to your site in the backend.
  2. Navigate to Settings > Reading.
  3. In the Reading Settings, select A Static Page option.
  4. Select the page you want as home page in Front Page dropdown list.
  5. Now Save Changes and check your site again.

 

Info For more detail, you can see the WordPress Documentation for this problem: Creating a Static Front Page.

 

About Page Metabox in Furnihome theme

After installing and activating Furnihome theme, the Page Metabox will be availaible in your site. You can go to Pages > All Pages then choose the page you want then scrolling down to the end to see Page Metabox options.

 

Please note that the change in the Page Metabox will be apply to the page rather than the one in the Theme Options. If there is no change here, the settings in Theme Options will be applied to the page.

 

The Page Metabox often includes options: General, Typography, Header, Footer, and Sidebar.

  1. General: In this tab, you can configure options including Custom Logo, Home Template and Color Scheme for the page.
  2. Typography: In this tab, you can configure Font Style, Font Weight for elements in the page.
  3. Header: In this tab, you can choose to Hide Header or Header Style for the page.
  4. Footer: In this tab, you can choose to Hide Footer or Footer Style for the page.
  5. Sidebar: In this tab, you can enable Sidebar and choose type of Sidebar for the page.

 

Info For more detail, you can see documentation about Page Metabox: Theme Options, Page Metabox & Category Metabox.

 

Edit Page with Visual Composer

Furnihome theme supports Visual Composer – the most powerful plugins that allow you to easily drag and drop page builder in the standard WordPress page/post edit area or directly from the frontend.

 

With Visual Composer. you can edit a page both in the backend and front end of your site. To edit a page, please follow steps as below:

 

  1. Login your site then open the page you want to edit then choose Edit with Visual Composer.
  2. Now, you can edit Row, Column and elements in the page. To edit elements, please hover on the one you want then click on “pencil” icon to Edit this element.
  3. After that, you can configure different options of this element in tab General and Design Options due to different types.
  4. After all, you can preview the page and Update to save the change for this page.

 

Info For more detail, you can see documentation about Visual Composer: Visual Composer Tutorials and Video Tutorials.

 

How to make your page appear in Megamenu

To have your page appear in the Megamenu, please follow steps as below:

  1. After creating the page, go to Appearance > Menu and choose Primary Menu (Primary Menu). This is the one set as Primary Menu in your site.
  2. Now, please select the page you want, then click on button Add to Menu and Save Menu.
  3. After all, please check your site to see the result.
 

Blog Post is one of the most important elements to create a Blog Page in a WordPress website. In this section, we will cover issues related to page including: Create a New Blog Post, Set up Blog page and Blog Post in Furnihome theme.

 

How to create a new post?

To create a new Post please follow steps as below:

  1. Log in to site in the backend.
  2. Select the Posts > Add New option to begin writing a new post.
  3. Configure Options for new post including post Title, post link, Public Status, Content, Tags, Feature Image, Post Type.
  4. Scrolling down to the end of the window, you will see the Page Metabox area of Furnihome theme. Here you can configure the options including Header, Footer and Sidebar for this post. Please note that if there is no change here, the settings in the page including this post will be applied.
  5. After all, save the change and check the result in the front end of your site.

 

Info For more detail, you can see the WordPress Documentation for this problem: WordPress Posts.

 

About Page Metabox of post in Furnihome theme

After installing and activating Furnihome theme, the Page Metabox will be availaible in your site. You can go to Posts > All Posts then choose the post you want then scrolling down to the end to see Page Metabox options.

 

Please note that the change in the Page Metabox of the post will be apply to the post rather than the one in the Page Metabox of Page. If there is no change here, the settings in Page will be applied.

 

The post Metabox often includes options: Header, Footer, and Sidebar.

  1. Header: In this tab, you can choose to Hide Header or Header Style for the post.
  2. Footer: In this tab, you can choose to Hide Footer or Footer Style for the post.
  3. Sidebar: In this tab, you can enable Sidebar and choose type of Sidebar for the post.

 

Info For more detail, you can see documentation about Page Metabox: Theme Options, Page Metabox & Category Metabox.

 

Other Settings

1. Categories: To add new category, please go to Post > Categories then complete information for the new category in Add New Category window and Save it.

2. Tags: To add new tag, please go to Post > Tags then complete information for the new tag in Add New Tag window and Save it.

 

Post Image Size

In Furnihome theme, we recommend to configure image dimensions for post image size. You can go to Settings > Media and set up the Image Dimentions to use when adding an image to the Media Library.

 

Portfolio Post is one of the most important elements to create a Portfolio Page in a WordPress website. In this section, we will cover issues related to page including: Create a New Portfolio Post, Set up Portfolio page and Portfolio Post in Furnihome theme.

 

How to create a new portfolio?

To create a new Post please follow steps as below:

  1. Log in to site in the backend.
  2. Select the Portfolio > Add New option to begin writing a new portfolio.
  3. Configure Options for new portfolio including portfolio Title, Portfolio Link, Public Status, Content, Tags, Feature Image, Post Type.
  4. Scrolling down to the end of the window, you will see the Portfolio Meta area of Furnihome theme. Here you can configure the options including Skill Needed, URL, Copyright and Image Size Mansonry Layout for this portfolio.
  5. After all, save the change and check the result in the front end of your site.

 

How to set up Portfolio page in Furnihome Theme?

To set up portfolio page for your website, please follow steps as below:

  1. Log in to your site in the backend.
  2. Create a new page with Visual Composer and add element SW Portfolio.
  3. Now, configure the options in SW Portfolio including Title, Categories and other Design options as you want.
  4. Now Save Changes and check your site again.

 

Other Settings

1. Portfolio Categories: To add new category, please go to Portfolio > Categories Portfolio then complete information for the new category in Add New Category window and Save it.

2. Tags: To add new tag, please go to Portfolio > Tags then complete information for the new tag in Add New Tag window and Save it.

 

Product is one of the most important elements to create a Shop Page in a WordPress website. In this section, we will cover issues related to this one including: Create a New Product, Set up Product Page and other related things in Furnihome theme.

Please make sure that you install and activate WooCommerce plugin before this process.

 

How to create a new product?

To create a new product, please follow steps as below:

    1. Log in to site in the backend.
    2. Select the Products > Add Product option to begin writing a new product.
    3. Configure Options for new product including product Title, Product Link, Public Status, Content, Tags, Feature Image, Feature Video, Categories, Brand and others.
    4. Scrolling down to the end of the window, you will see the Page Metabox for Product of Furnihome theme. Here you can configure the options including Header, Footer and Sidebar for this product.
    5. After all, save the change and check the result in the front end of your site.

 

Info For more detail about this process, you can check the WooCommerce Documentation: Set Up Products.

 

How to set up Product page in Furnihome Theme?

To set up product page for your website, please follow steps as below:

    1. Log in to your site in the backend.
    2. Go to Pages then create a Shop page.
    3. Now, go to WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Display to Assign Product Page to the new created Shop item.
    4. Now Save Changes and check your site again.

 

Info Please note that the configuration in Page Metabox has no effect on Shop page. This Shop page will only be applied the settings in Appearance > Theme Options > Products.

 

Other Settings

1. Categories: To add new category, please go to Product > Categories then complete information for the new category in Add New Category window and Save it.

2. Tags: To add new tag, please go to Product > Tags then complete information for the new tag in Add New Tag window and Save it.

3. Categories Brand: To add new category, please go to Product > Categories Brand then complete information for the new category in Add New Category window and Save it.

4. Attributes: To add new category, please go to Product > Attributes then complete information for the New Attribute and Save it. In Furnihome theme, we use Color and Size.

 

Product Image Size

In Furnihome theme, to have the most beautiful shop page, we recommend to configure image dimensions for product image size as below:

  1. Homepage 1 600 x 600 pixels
  2. Homepage 2600 x 600 pixels

 

Featured Video Product

In Revo theme, you can use Featured Video for Product in stead of Image. To use this feature, while creating new product, you can enter the Youtube Video ID in the Featured Product Video option.

Currently, this feature only supports Youtube Video, we will update to support Vimeo video in the next version.

 

Extras

 


menu configuration

 

This is Megamenu of the page, please follow steps as below:

 

  1. After loggin the backend and go to Appearance > Menu, you can create this menu.
  2. You can see Backend Settings here: See Screenshot.

 

My Account

 


menu configuration

 

This is Megamenu of the page, please follow steps as below:

 

  1. After loggin the backend and go to Appearance > Menu, you can create this menu.
  2. You can see Backend Settings here: See Screenshot.

 

Our Services

 


menu configuration

 

This is Megamenu of the page, please follow steps as below:

 

  1. After loggin the backend and go to Appearance > Menu, you can create this menu.
  2. You can see Backend Settings here: See Screenshot.