Barber Theme Documentation

First Steps
Demo Data
Plugins
Menu
Pages
Widgets
Theme Options
Shortcode
Translation
SEO
Update our theme
Support

First Steps
Get Started

First, thank you for purchasing our theme!

This guide provides instructions for installation, help on getting started and extensive documentation of features. It is recommended you read it thoroughly to fully leverage the Barber theme's capabilities. Please also make sure to check out our Video Tutorials as they explain everything covered in here in greater depth. We hope you enjoy building with Barber as much as we enjoyed developing it and continue to develop with new features!
Installing WordPress

Before beginning the installation and configuring of your new theme, you must first have WordPress already installed on a server.

If you are struggling, here is a very detailed guide at Wordpress Codex that will walk you through every step.

If you prefer something more visual, you can watch this video tutorial on how to install Wordpress by us

(Please note the video shown is from our NUVO Restaurant theme, but the same process applies)
Installing The Theme
Once you have setup a copy of WordPress, there are two ways you can go about installing the theme:
- 1. FTP Upload
  
  Unzip the download and upload the theme directory /Barber/ into your WordPress themes directory /wp-content/themes/.
- 2. WordPress Upload
  
  This is definitely the easier route for most. Simply navigate to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme. Click the 'browse' button and locate the still zipped theme folder. The theme will be uploaded and installed in a matter of seconds.
  
  Here is our video tutorial to help you through the process
  
  (Please note the video shown is from our NUVO Restaurant theme, but the same process applies)
Installing plugins required

Once you have installed and activated our theme you will be prompted to install required and recommended plugins. Just click the link to Begin installing plugins or you can go to Appearance->Install Plugins.

Next, check boxes to select all the plugins you want to install, select the bulk action of install from the dropdown box and then click the button to apply.

Next, just click the link to Return to Required Plugins Installer.

Select the plugins you had installed, and then apply the bulk action to activate them.

Finally, you will got a confirmation notice that your plugins were activeded.

Demo Data
One-click Importer
Noted: Before you install our themes please read some our tips here:
- How to install sample data using one click in CMS theme
- How to install sample data using import xml method
To help you set up website with the least efforts, we include in the theme package dummy content file. After installing it, all content seen on the live demo will be imported except for images/videos.

There are two methods you can use, one is using our One-click Importer, the other is Importing manually. To go with the former option, please follow the steps below:
1. 1. Go to WP Barber in the left menu.
2. 2. The Import/ Export menu tab will show.
3. 3. Just click Install and wait for the process to complete.
4. 4. After the importation is finished, Save Changes and you are done.
Now you have a website just like our demo, with the pictures replaced by grey images.

Methods two.
1. 1. Go to Install Demo on the Tools menu.
2. 2. The Import/Export menu tab will show.
3. 3. Just click install and wait for the process to complete.
4. 4. After the importation is finished, Save Changes and you are done.
To be more perfect site you should install more photos .
1. 1. Go to Regen Thumbnails on the Tools menu.
Now you have a website just like our demo.
Manual Importing
To imprort the demo content by yourself, please follow the steps below:
1. 1. Go to Tools > Import.
2. 2. Select Wordpress system then browse for the .xml file. You shoud be able to find it following the path Theme Option > inc > dummy > Barber > XML.
3. 3. You will be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
4. 4. You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the "Download and import file attachments" box.
5. 5. Click Submit.
Now you have a website just like our demo, with the pictures replaced by grey images.

Plugins
Custom Post Type UI

This is plugin required all our themes

This plugin provides an easy to use interface to create and administer custom post types and taxonomies in WordPress. This plugin is created for WordPress 4.x.

If you need dedicated support for this plugin, please visit: Custom Post Type UI
Visual Composer

After installation, you will be suggested to install additional plugins. To install them and activate, please navigate to Plugins, you will see a list of required and optional plugins. We recommend that you install the following to get the best of our theme:

Visual Composer is the most popular drag and drop editor for wordpress.

If you need dedicated support for this component, please visit: Visual Composer on Code Canyon
Revolution Slider

Create a responsive (mobile friendly) or fullwidth slider with must-see-effects and meanwhile keep or build your SEO optimization (all content always readable for search engines). See the heaps of custom transitions/animations for each object on the page!

Customize this slider with our convenient drag & drop backend to your very needs. This plugin features tons of unique transition effects, an image preloader, video embedding, autoplay that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your own effects.

For premium support with this plugin please visit: Revolution Slider on Code Canyon
WooCommerce

Woo Commerce is one of the most popular shopping cart plugins for wordpress.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: WooCommerce
YITH WooCommerce Wishlist

YITH WooCommerce Wishlist add all Wishlist features to your website. Needs WooCommerce to work. WooCommerce 2.6.x compatible.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: YITH WooCommerce Wishlist
Regenerate Thumbnails

Allows you to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the thumbnail sizes.

Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate the thumbnails for your image attachments.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Regenerate Thumbnails
Newsletter

Add a real newsletter system to your blog. For free. With unlimited newsletters and subscribers.

Newsletter is a real newsletter system for your WordPress blog: perfect for list building, you can easily create, send and track e-mails, headache-free. It just works out of box!

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Newsletter
FLEX MAP

Flex Map is a wordpress map plugin that provides many features with different map types such as creating area mapping, polygone, polyline, circle, rectangle, single markers, street view markers.

With a simple visual map editor, It is extremely easy to make and place your map anywhere on your frontend wordpress site.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Flex Map

Menu
Creating Menu
1. 1. From the 'Appearance' menu on the left-hand side of the Dashboard, select the 'Menus' option to bring up the Menu Editor.
2. 2. Select create a new menu at the top of the page
3. 3. Enter a name for your new menu in the Menu Name box.
4. 4. Click the Create Menu button.
5. 5. Click Select to select menu created.
Your new custom menu has been defined.
Adding Items to a Menu
You can add different link types into your menu, these are split between panes left of the menu you're currently editing.
1. 1. Locate the pane entitled Pages.
2. 2. Within this pane, select the View All link to bring up a list of all the currently published Pages on your site.
3. 3. Select the Pages that you want to add by clicking the checkbox next to each Page's title.
4. 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.
5. 5. Click the Save Menu button once you've added all the menu items you want.
Your custom menu has now been saved.
Creating Multi-level Menus
When planning the structure of your menu, it helps to think of each menu item as a heading in a formal report document. In a formal report, main section headings (Level 1 headings) are the nearest to the left of the page; sub-section headings (Level 2 headings) are indented slightly further to the right; any other subordinate headings (Level 3, 4, etc) within the same section are indented even further to the right.

The WordPress menu editor allows you to create multi-level menus using a simple 'drag and drop' interface. Drag menu items up or down to change their order of appearance in the menu. Drag menu items left or right in order to create sub-levels within your menu.

To make one menu item a subordinate of another, you need to position the 'child' underneath its 'parent' and then drag it slightly to the right.
1. 1. Position the mouse over the 'child' menu item.
2. 2. Whilst holding the left mouse button, drag it to the right.
3. 3. Release the mouse button.
4. 4. Repeat these steps for each sub-menu item.
5. 5. Click the Save Menu button in the Menu Editor to save your changes.
Adding Your Menu to Your Site
1. 1. Scroll to the bottom of the menu editor window.
2. 2. In the section titled Theme locations, click the check box for the location where you want your menu to appear.
3. 3. Click Save menu once you've made your selection.
Congratulations! Your menu has now been added to your site.
Manager Menu Locations

You can set any menu as Primary menu here.

Result:

Pages
Page options
With the Page Options specially built for our themes, you can easily customize General, Header, Page Title & BC, Content and Side navigation slider of every page.

General
Header
Page Title & BC
Content
Side navigation slider
Home Page
To set a page as Home page, go to Settings > Reading in your WordPress Dashboard panel.
1. 1. Set "Front page displays" as "A Static Page"
2. 2. In the drop down menu for "Front Page" choose a page which will be your home page.
3. 3. Save changes.
Posts, Galleries .

Posts, Galleries are created using Shortcodes. For more detailed instruction, please head to Shortcode > CMS Carousel

Widgets
Adding Widgets to Sidebar
To Add Widget on Sidebar, please following these steps:
1. 1. Navigate to Appearance>Widgets to access the list of widgets and widget section that they can be added. The left hand side show all widgets you can use. The right hand side shows all different section you can add widgets to.
2. 2. Simply drag and drop the widget you want into the widgets section you want to the right hand side.
3. 3. When you finished, you can visit the site to see results.

Theme Options
Theme Option Overview

The options panel is home to all of the theme's extensive configuration options. To view the panel, click on WP Barber in the left-hand menu. Here you have the ability to alter many core aspects that make up how your theme looks and behaves. Any of the options that have some ambiguity to them conviently have descriptions to explain their purpose.

With our built-in importer, you will be able to get your site ready in a flash. Simply select a layout and click Install to start importing demo data.
General

Layout : You can select layout Full width or Boxed.

Back To Top : Enable back to top button.

Page Loading : Enable page loading button.

After select turn on, reload page to see result.

Result:

Result Back to top:

Result Page Loading:
Header

This is one of most important sections for theme because this is what users see first. With our Theme Options, you will find various options to configure Header bellow:

Layouts : Select a layout for header.

Logo : You can select type Image or Text for header.

Logo Text : Add custom logo text.

Sologan Text : Add custom sologan Text.

Links Color : Select links color in header.

Text Color : Select text color in header.

Mega Menu : Enable mega menu .

Result :

Result Mega Menu :
Menu Sticky

Sticky Header : Enable sticky mode for menu.

Select Logo : Select an image file for your logo.

Result:
Page Title and Breadcrumb
All options relating to Page Title and Breadcrumb can be found here.

Page Title & BC
- Typography: You can set font-family / font-size/ font-weight.
  
  Result:
Breadcrumb

Here, you can change the text before the Breadcrumb home and config Typography with title text.

Link Color : Set link color in breadcrumb.

Result:
Archive

Layout : You can select a layout for archive, search..

You can on/off button Author , Comment, Categories, Tags and Date the here.

Result:
Single Post

Result:
Coming soon

Background : Select background color for page coming soon.

Result:
Woocommerces

You can choose number of columns in product list and number product to show on each page.

Result:

Result product page:
Styling

You can set Primary Color , Secondary color, Links Color, Border control color and button background hover color here.

Result:
Typography

Not just color, all text elements are also within your control. You can define the style of Body text for your self.

Result:

Body font:

H1 font:
Extra Font

On this section, Barber theme had some available fonts for you. If you want to set a special font for a special class, you only need to insert your class into Selector section, and choose the font that you want on the Font dropdown box. Finally, you click Save changes and see your result, all completed.

Example:

1. Copy class that you want to change.

2. Select Font Family, Font Weight & Style and paste class on Selector section.

Result:
Footer

background : Select background color for footer.

Result:
Footer Top

Column: Here you can select footer columns .

Background: Choose background style for footer top.

Result:
Footer Bottom

Column: Here you can select footer buttom columns .

Background: Choose background style for footer bottom.

Result:
Optimal Core

Here is where you can turn on/off Developer Mode.
Import/Export

This section is especially for all those who want to move settings from theme options panel between themes or when you move your website from test server to live. Please always remember to click "Save Changes" button. Without that you will lose all your changes.

Shortcode
Adding Shortcode in Visual Composer

Visual Composer is a powerful Wordpress page builder that allows you to create complex page layouts without touching a single line of code. To switch to Visual Composer's Backend Editor, click on this button:

When Visual Composer's editing pane comes up, click on either of these buttons to Add Element.

A shortcode selecting panel will show up, you can see all the shortcode available in the theme. Select the one you would like to use.

You will then encounter a setting panel for the shortcode (each shortcode has it own setting options), after a bit of configuration, it will show up nicely on your page.
CMS Single Fancy Box
- Fancy Style : Select fancybox style.
- Shortcode Template: Select your single fancy box template.
- Image Item: Select image for item.
- Title Item: Enter title for single fancy box.
- Content Item : Enter content for single fancy box.
- Result:
Team
- Layout : Select a layout for team.
- Column : Select number colum for team.
- Post types: Set Post Types as team.
- Post count: Limit the number of team to display in carousel by entering Post Count number.
- Order by: Select how to sort retrieved posts.
- Sort order: Designates the ascending or descending order.
- Result:
Testimonial Carousel
- Title: Enter title for testimonial.
- Author name : Add author name for testimonial.
- Author Position : Add author position for testimonial.
- Testimonial text : You can add testimonial text.
- Result:
Pricing Table
- Shortcode Template: Choose a layout to show for the pricing table.
- Title : Enter title for pricing tab.
- Sub Title : Enter subtitle for pricing.
- Description: You can add description for your pricing table.
- Result:
CMS Counter Single
- Title Counter: Enter title of your counter.
- Counter Type: You can choose the starting number of the counter between Zero and Random.
- Icon library: You can select icon libraries.
- Icon Item: Select icon from library.
- Digit: Enter the number value of your counter.
- Suffix: Enter the suffix, for instance %.
- Prefix: Enter the prefix, for instance $.
- Shortcode Template: Choose a layout to show for the counter.
- Result:
CMS Testimonial
- Shortcode Template: Choose a layout to show for the testimonial.
- Result:
CMS Faqs
- Shortcode Template: Choose a layout to show for the faqs.
- Title : Enter title for faqs.
- Description : You can add description for your faqs.
- Result:
Products
- Layout: Select columns for product .
- Post types: Set Post Types as product.
- Post count: Limit the number product to display in grid by entering Post Count number.
- Order by: Select how to sort retrieved posts.
- Sort order: Designates the ascending or descending order.
- Result:
Products Best Seller
- Product per page: Enter number product best seller.
- Result:
User Press Forms
- Layout : Select layout type for form.
- Form : Select form type (login form, register from, forgot password form, tabs forms).
- Logged : Select logged type Null, Text, Profile.
- Result:
Google Map
Google Map allows embedding a google map in Barber style.
- Address: Enter address of Map.
- Coordinate: Enter coordinate of Map .
- Click Show Info window: Click a marker and show info window .
- Marker Coordinate: To pin the marker on your location, enter Latitude, Longtitude in Marker Coordinate field.
- Marker Title: Enter title of Marker .
- Marker Description: Enter the description for Marker .
- Marker Icon: Select icon for Marker.
- Info Window Max Width: Set width for info window.
- Map Type: Select the map type.
- Style Template: Select your heading size for title.
- Zoom: Enter zoom level of map.
- Width: Enter width for Map.
- Height: Enter height for Map.
- You can select properties display for the values.
- Result:
CMS Grid
Galleries
- 1. To display Galleries in a page, first you need to create Galleries items. Go to Galleries > Add new.
- 2. Enter Galleries name in Title field. Enter Galleries content in the content section.
- 3. Select a Category for Galleries on Categories section. Create more Category by enter name categories, then clicking Add new Gallery category .
- 4. Set Galleries's picture by choosing a Set featured image.
- 5. Finally, Publish.
- Result:
After creating galleries items, it's time to display them in a page using CMS Grid shortcode.
- 1. Go to Page > Add New.
- 2. Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.
- 3. Select CMS Grid.
- Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.
- Post types: Set Post Types as galleries.
- Post count: Limit the number galleries to display in grid by entering Post Count number.
- Order by: Select how to sort retrieved posts.
- Sort order: Designates the ascending or descending order.
- Layout Type: Select layout style to show.
- Columns Devices: Select the number of columns displayed.
- Shortcode Template: Choose a layout to show for the galleries.
- Result:
Posts
- 1. To display posts in a page, first you need to create post items. Go to Post > Add new.
- 2. Enter Posts name in Title field. Enter post content in the content section.
- 3. Select a Category for post on Categories section. Create more Category by clicking Add New Category.
- 4. Set post's picture by choosing a Set featured image.
- 5. Finally, Publish.
- Result:
After creating post items, it's time to display them in a page using CMS Grid shortcode.
- 1. Go to Page > Add New.
- 2. Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.
- 3. Select CMS Grid.
- Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.
- Post types: Set Post types as Post.
- Post count: Limit the number of post to display in grid by entering Post Count number.
- Order by: Select how to sort retrieved posts.
- Sort order: Designates the ascending or descending order .
- Layout Type: Select layout style to show.
- Columns Devices: Enter time delay between items.
- Shortcode Template: Choose a layout for the posts.
- Result:

Translation
Translating the theme
The theme is compatible with WPML plugin, thus can be translated into multiple languages. Follow this link for guide. You can also use POEdit plugin for translation.
- 1. Located the .po and .mo files in folder /languages.
- 2. Select language in admin options.
- 3. Find language prefix (save option and reload front-end view html).
- 4. Copy two file .po & .mo and rename to eg( en_CA.mo & en_CA.po ... ) same for other languages .
- 5. Open the file .po with POEdit and translate the texts into your preferred language.
- 6. When complete, you’ll want to save the file twice, as two separate files – a .po file and a .mo file. When you save the files, you must name them according to your language code. Find a list of language codes at WordPress in your Language. As an example, the language code for English is en_EN, so you would save the translated files as en_EN.po first, then en_EN.mo.
- 7. When that’s done, simply upload the files to your theme folder.

SEO
SEO
Our themes are optimized by with H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 tags, clean code, HTML5 but if you want to get higher ranking on search engines, you must need some help from SEO plugins and Google Pagespeed Service:

UPDATE OUR THEMES
UPDATE OUR THEMES

You can update our theme using some ways bellow
1. Update theme using Envato WordPress Toolkit
or

2. You can update manual theme

If you have any troubles while using auto update ( It is likely to be a permissions issue ) then you may want to manually update the theme via FTP or Cpanel.

Download the latest version of the theme on ThemeForest download page and simply replace with the old one via FTP or Cpanel.

Support
Support

The team at CMSSuperheroes are always happy to help you with any questions or recommendations you have about the Barber theme. If you need any help or support please contact us through the TF Messaging system or
direct at Email: support@cmssuperheroes.com OR zooka.sp@gmail.com
direct at Forum: here

Barber, theme documentation

First Steps

Demo Data

Plugins

Menu

Pages

General

One Page

Header

Page Title & BC

Content

Side navigation slider

Widgets

Theme Options

Page Title & BC

Shortcode

Galleries

Posts

Translation

SEO

UPDATE OUR THEMES

Support