Documentation for StyleShop WooCommerce Theme

1GETTING STARTED

1.1 Introduction

First of all, I would like to thank you for purchasing this theme, your support is truly appreciated.

SW StyleShop is a modern and beautiful WordPress Theme. Both developers and non-trained users can use it easily. 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 Support Page.

1.2 System Requirements

At the basic level, this theme will require the following conditions:

PHP version 5.6 or later
MySQL version 5 or later
WordPress 4.7.x or later (Please note that the latest WordPress version is prefered.)

Note:
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:

max_execution_time 360

memory_limit 128M

post_max_size 32M

upload_max_filesize 32M

2FILE STRUCTURE

At first, you need to download the package to your computer and then unzip it. The package includes files listed as follows:

Data files, including:

plugins: js_composer.zip , lessphp.zip, one-click-install.zip, revslider.zip , sw-core.zip , sw-woocommerce.zip
revslider: slideshow1.zip , slideshow2.zip, videoslider.zip, slideshow4.zip
media.xml

Theme Installation files, including:

sw_styleshop_quickstart_vx.x.x.zip for quickstart installation
sw_styleshop-child-theme.zip
sw_styleshop_theme_vx.x.x.zip for manual installation

Note:

Please note that this file sw_styleshop_quickstart_vx.x.x.zip is not included in the Themeforest package. You can contact Support Page if you need any help.

The child theme allows you to modify or add to the functionality of the parent theme instead of modifying the core theme files directly, which makes it easy to update the parent theme without erasing your changes. If you plan on making any updates or additions to this theme, you will definitely need to set up this child theme on your site)To have more information about this topic, please see Here for more detail.

3INSTALLATION

There are two ways to install this SW StyleShop Theme:

Quickstart Installation: This one is suitable for the first installation and want to get a whole fresh site as in the Demo. Please note that the quickstart file is not included in the Themeforest package. You could contact us via our Support Page to be supported.
Manual Installation (including Theme Installation): If you want to build your site based on available content with SW StyleShop, this one will be suitable. It won’t overwrite your old data.

3.1 Quickstart Installation

Please follow the steps in the Quickstart Installation Instruction for WordPress Theme .

3.2 Theme Installation

Before starting the Theme Installation process, please make sure that your host meets all following requirements:

Your web host meets the minimum requirements to run WordPress

This theme is built up and tested with WordPress Version 4.7.3. Therefore, this WordPress version should be used to have best performance. Besides, this theme is also compatible with WordPress 3.x.x and 4.x.x.

3.2.1 Theme Upload

When you are ready to install a theme, the Theme Files should be uploaded and activated first. There is 2 ways for this process:

FTP Upload
WordPress Upload

Note: If the Theme Files Size is larger than 8M, FTP Upload (File Transfer Protocol) should be used.

3.2.1.1 Theme Installation via FTP	3.2.1.2 Theme Installation via WordPress Admin Panel
To add the new theme to your WordPress Installation, follow these basic steps: Step 1 – Download the zip package of SW StyleShop theme in ThemeForest, and you will find a zip file named as sw_styleshop_theme_vx.x.x.zip Step 2 – Load your FTP client, such as FileZilla. Step 3 – Use your FTP program to access your host web server, upload and exact the zip file “sw_styleshop_theme_vx.x.x.zip” to your_wordpress_site/wp-content/themes directory. After exacting, you will have a theme folder named as styleshop in your your_wordpress_site/wp-content/themes directory. To select the theme for your site: Step 1 – Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels Step 2 – Go to Appearance >> Themes to find the new theme uploaded, roll over its thumbnail image and activate it by clicking on the Activate button.	Step 1 – Open the wp-admin panel (Navigate through web browser to the folder where you have installed the WordPress, for example: www.your_wordpress_site.com/wp-admin/). Step 2 – Login to your WordPress Dashboard and go to Appearance >> Themes. Then, click Add New button or Add New Theme button Step 3 – Click on the Upload Theme button >> Choose File to import the theme from your computer. Select your sw-styleshop_theme_vx.x.x.zip file and click Install Now. Step 4 – You have a few minutes to wait till you see the message announcing that Theme installed successfully. Step 5 – After that, you will be able to Activate the theme.

3.2.1.1 Theme Installation via FTP

3.2.1.2 Theme Installation via WordPress Admin Panel

To add the new theme to your WordPress Installation, follow these basic steps:

Step 1 – Download the zip package of SW StyleShop theme in ThemeForest, and you will find a zip file named as sw_styleshop_theme_vx.x.x.zip
Step 2 – Load your FTP client, such as FileZilla.
Step 3 – Use your FTP program to access your host web server, upload and exact the zip file “sw_styleshop_theme_vx.x.x.zip” to your_wordpress_site/wp-content/themes directory. After exacting, you will have a theme folder named as styleshop in your your_wordpress_site/wp-content/themes directory.

To select the theme for your site:

Step 1 – Log in to the WordPress Administration Panels
Step 2 – Go to Appearance >> Themes to find the new theme uploaded, roll over its thumbnail image and activate it by clicking on the Activate button.

Step 1 – Open the wp-admin panel (Navigate through web browser to the folder where you have installed the WordPress, for example: www.your_wordpress_site.com/wp-admin/).
Step 2 – Login to your WordPress Dashboard and go to Appearance >> Themes.
Then, click Add New button or Add New Theme button
Step 3 – Click on the Upload Theme button >> Choose File to import the theme from your computer. Select your sw-styleshop_theme_vx.x.x.zip file and click Install Now.
Step 4 – You have a few minutes to wait till you see the message announcing that Theme installed successfully.
Step 5 – After that, you will be able to Activate the theme.

3.2.2 Theme Installation Types

In this theme, we offer a useful feature to choose the way to install this theme: Import Demo Data or not. Two methods are provided for two different case. When you want to start a new website, or use our demo contents for easily customization, save your time and your energy. In this situation, we recommend using the Import Demo Data method. If you do not use this way, you must be adept in WordPress customization and theme development

After installing theme, there are two ways for you to choose to custom this theme: create everything by yourself or import our demo data

Do NOT import demo data	Import demo data
Strong points It means that you could create everything by yourself from its beginning You could configure each part of this theme singly according to our suggested theme position	Strong points This process certainly helps you save your time and energy It is ideal for beginners to advanced developers Our Import Demo Data provides you a good way to import the demo content, widgets and theme settings with one click.
Weak points If you are a newbie, it could be an extremely time-consuming process and a tough challenge You are certainly adept in WordPress customization and theme development	Weak points Category ID is different between “your database in your server” and “our database in our server”. It’s all different from servers. That is the reason why you need to change the category ID on your site by checking it out in our theme configuration part of this documentation.
Work Process When choosing this method, your process with this theme could be: 1.Theme Installation (including: Theme Upload – checking if you have any post, page, product, or revolution slider; if not, you have create all by yourself before continue customizing this theme) >> 2. Setting your homepage >> 3. Mailchimp for WordPress >> 4. Menu Configuration >> 5. Theme Configuration	Work Process When choosing this method, your process with this theme could be: 1.Theme Installation (including: Theme Upload – Import Demo Data – Import Media File- Import Revolution Slider) >> 2. Setting your homepage >> 3. Mailchimp for WordPress >> 4. Menu Configuration >> 5. Theme Configuration

3.2.3 Required Plugins Installation

Please remember that when theme is installed, you need to install and activate Required Plugins to get full features working. In case your server does not permit automatic installation of a WordPress plugin in this theme, you could manually install it by using its zip file in our package folder named as data/plugins.

Step 1 – After installing and activating the theme you will see the message about installing required plugins at the top of the page.
Step 2 – You need click Begin Installing plugins link in order to install needed plugins for styleshop theme
Step 3 – You will be redirected to Install Required Plugins page, here you will find all of the theme required plugins. In order to install these plugins, you just need to check all of them and select “Install” then “Apply”.

Note: When installing plugins, if you see a notice that some plugins have unsuccessful installation, they should be install manually one by one. This case usually occurs as you select all plugins to install at once.
Step 4 – After installing these plugins, you need to Activate them by checking all of them and select “Activate” then click “Apply”

Below are list of required plugins along with SW StyleShop theme:

4IMPORT DEMO CONTENTS

4.1 Import Demo Data

Please follow the steps in the instruction to import demo data in our WordPress theme

4.2 Import Media Files

Please follow the steps in the instruction to import media file in our WordPress theme .

Note: Please remember to set your Product Image Dimensions in WooCommerce plugin page before importing the Media Files.

4.3 Import Revolution Slider

Please follow the steps in the instruction to import Revolution Slider in SW WordPress theme .

5POST

Please go here to have more detail about customing a post in our WordPress themes.

6PAGES

Please go here to have more detail about customing a page in our WordPress themes.

After setting up this theme, you should set up your homepage to view your achivement. Please go to Settings >> Reading area and look for the Front Page display area. Change the radio button “A static page” and select the front page and blog page from the dropdown menus, then save changes.

7MAILCHIMP FOR WORDPRESS

In this section, we will bring you some steps to configure MailChimp for your site.

Frontend Appearance:

Backend Settings:
1.Go to MailChimp for WP >> MailChimp to access general setting page of MailChimp. You should connect to your mailchimp account by entering API Key.

2.Also, in order to make MailChimp Form work effectively, you should navigate to MailChimp for WP >> Forms in admin sidebar, fill in the forms. After making the changes, remember to click Save Changes button.

Form Fields: Please click to see the Backend Settings.

Copy the code here to the form mark-up field in the page.

<div class="newsletter-content">
	<input type="email" class="newsletter-email" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your email" required />

  	<button class="newsletter-submit" type="submit"><span>Subscribe</span></button>
</div>

<button class="newsletter-submit" type="submit"><span>Subscribe</span></button>

</div>

Form Messages: Please click to see the Backend Settings.
Form Settings: Please click to see the Backend Settings.
Form Appearance: Please click to see the Backend Settings.

You can click Here for more information about this plugin.

8THEME OPTIONS

After the Import demo data and Not import demo data process, the Theme Options will be available in your site.

Our stunning Styleshop theme provides an advanced Theme Options panel that is loaded with many options to customize your page effectively. These options are organized into logical tabbed sections which will be very easy for you to navigate. Each option also has a short description of what it will do on the front end. Because of the sizable amount of options, we cannot go over them in full detail in this documentation. We encourage you to please take some time and navigate through each tab to see what we offer.

To access the theme options panel, please go to Appearance >> Theme Options in your WordPress admin. After that, you will see a logical tabbed sections including a lot of tabs for you to discover.

First of all, please refer to the Theme Options & Page Metabox in SW Themes to have basic knowledge about these ones.

If there is no configuration in Page Metabox of specifix page, the style in the Theme Options will be applied to the pages on your website.

8.1 General

In this tab, you will see options for Logo Image, Favicon, Option for Taxonomy and Title Length of Item Listing Page. .

8.2 Schemes

In this tab, you will see options for Develop Mode and Color option for selecting main custom color for the theme. To configure option Custom Color, the Develop Mode should be active. However, this will turn on the Less Compile CSS and may increase the risk of loss CSS custom file.

Color Scheme: We plan to update more color schemes for this theme in next versions.
Developer Mode: This one let you turn on/off compile less to css and custom color. Due to the risk of lost configuration in the CSS file, this option is not recommended.
Color: You also can select main custom color here. The Develop Mode should be active then this one will have effect on your site.

8.3 Layout

SW Destino gives you multiple selections for this theme layouts. You can change sidebar positions (left, right) with wide or boxed version for many kind of devices. SW Destino supports boxed and wide layout, with boxed version you can easily customize the background image to meet your expectation. Let’s look at the screenshot for more detail about these ones.

8.4 Mobile layout

Specially, SW Destino allows you to enable mobile layout for your site. When you choose to display the mobile layout, you also can select its Content, Header and Footer style.

Header Mobile Style: Currently, this theme supports 01 Style ( Style 1) .
Footer Mobile Style: Currently, this theme supports 01 Style (Style 1).
Mobile Layout Content: You can choose content from a page you create for mobile layout in your site.

Note:

1. To use the mobile layout, it should be chosen the option Enable Mobile Layout. After that, you can continue to configure option Sticky Mobile, Mobile Layout Content and select the Header Mobile Style and Footer Mobile Style as you want.

If you disable the option Enable Mobile Layout, your site will be automatically applied the Responsive Mode on mobile device.
2. For the Mobile Footer menu, firstly, you need to create Mobile Menu and assign it as in the Mobile Menu Documentation first.
3. For Mobile Filter, you need to create elements for widget Filter Mobile in Appearance > Widgets > Filter Mobile. You can click Here for more detail.

8.5 Header & Footer

These options enable you to change page appearance with Header and Footer Style. In addition, SW Destino allows you to customize your Phone Number, Email and Copyright text in your footer. Moreover, you can check to disable the Search and Cart on the header of your site.

Header Style: Currently, this theme supports 03 Header Styles ( Header Style 1, Header Style 3 and Header Style 4) and it will be updated in the next version.
Footer Style: Currently, this theme supports 03 Footer Styles (Footer Style1, Footer Style2, Footer Style3). This feature will be updated in the next version.

Note:

Header: To configure Header, you can go to Appearance > Widget then choose Header elements and configure as your expectation.

Footer: To configure Footer, you can go to Page > All pages, choose a Footer Style to then configure as your expectation.

SW StyleShop supports mega menu and dropdown menu. There is options for you to choose with Menu Type, Theme Location. In addition, you can active sticky menu by choose option Active sticky menu for your site here.

8.7 Blog Options

SW StyleShop gives you multiple selections for Blog page with many features for Sidebar Blog Layout (Full Layout / Left Sidebar / Right Sidebar), Layout Blog and Blog Column .

8.8 Product Options

SW StyleShop allows you to change number of Products Column to display on different devices, select Sidebar Style for product and display Quickview and Product Zoom Option. You can also change the number of product in Listing Product pages.

8.9 Typography

SW StyleShop provides various options to custom the font style for your blog with Google Font.

9MENU CONFIGURATION

This theme uses 08 menus:

Primary Menu (Primary Menu)
Mobile Menu (Mobile Menu)
Information
My Account
Our Shops
Menu Wishlist Checkout
Orders
Vertical Menu (Vertical Menu)

If you have imported demo content, go to Existing Menu or else go to Creating a New Menu to create a new menu.

Step 1: Go to Appearance > Menus

Step 2: In the Manage Locations area, choose an Assigned Menu, which appropriates to Theme Locations then click Save Changes to save the settings.

Step 1: Go to to Appearance > Menus

Step 2: Click Create a new menu. Enter Menu Name and click Create Menu.

Step 3: Check the menu item in the boxes in the left column, click Add to Menu to add items to the menu and drag/drop to arrange them.

Step 4: Click Save Menu

Step 5: Now assign the created menu to the appropriate location

Step 1: Go to to Appearance > Menus

Step 2: Click Edit Menus. Select a Menu Name in the dropdown menu and click Select to choose a menu to edit.

Step 3: Edit the menu and its items in Menu Structure

Step 4: Click Save Menu to save your changes

Note: When editing items in these menus, the items (in a menu) having same level could have same configuration. Therefore, we encourage you read throughtly and find out the item’s level to configure it without any errors.

In your Administrator Page, please go to Appearance > Menus and choose the menu to configure its structure.

Parameters in Advanced Menu Configuration:

Active mega menu: Allow to activate/inactivate Mega Menu

Icon: Using icon-* class to display Icon for any menu item with intergrated Font Awesome.

Dropdown Size: Set the width of dropdown menu. (ex: min = 1 (= 150px); max = 6 (= 900px)).

Dropdown Align

1. We call Parent Level Menu Level 0. Then, next levels are Level 1, Level 2,etc.

2. Click on the first Menu Level 0 (Parent Level Menu ) item and select Dropdown Size = “3″ in the selection box.

3. Click “Save” button

- Only for menu items level 0 – If you need a dropdown align by right direction, configure it to “Right” instead of “Left” or “Default” – “Default” means that no class can be added to dropdown, everything follows the default css. – “Left” / “Right”: add to dropdown an utility class and float it left/ right, make it align as your desire .

Show Description as Subtitle

- Show a short description – It is an essential attribute of a menu item. You may need to select to show it in the metabox screen.

Hide Title

- When you would like to hide the title of menu, please select “Yes” value. In this case, you need to configure Icon, Subtitle or Advanced Content.

Disable Link: Allow to disable link.

Advanced: Several advanced functions are placed here.

1.”Default”: NOOP, do nothing. Sure, it is not advanced.
2.”Use as Divider”: Show any icon, title, subtitle, content. Divider style only.
3.”Append Advanced Content”: Append content after menu title block (icon+title+subtitle).
4.”Append Advanced Content with Shortcode”: as above, but “do_shortcode” with this before append.

The Frontend Appearance: