Child-Care, theme documentation

Server requirements is one of the key factors for WordPress and Child-Care theme, it is highly recommended to use a server which supports the following requirements. We explain about WordPress, Child-Care, WooCommerce server requirements.

WordPress requirements

WordPress recommends following server settings.

Child-Care requirements

We recommends following server settings for Our WordPress Theme:

WooCommerce requirements

Child-Care support WooCommerce officially so it is best to make sure your server also supports this plugin requirements if you are going to set up a shop.To learn about the plugin server requirements, read the official article.

WordPress is well-known for its ease of installation. Under most circumstances, installing WordPress is a very simple process and takes less that five minutes to complete.

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)

In order to install Child-Care, once you download the theme, unzip the main archive. You will see the wp-Child-Care.zip file

Child-Care Can Be Installed in 2 Different Ways:

1. 1 Installing through WordPress
2. 2 Uploading through FTP (File transfer protocol)

1. Install Child-Care – Installation through WordPress:

Installing a theme through WordPress is quite a simple process. After you have logged into your WordPress Simply navigate to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme . Click the button “choose file” and locate your Theme zip file (wp-Child-Care.zip), then click the “install now” button. After Child-Care is installed, find the Theme in Appearance > Themes and click Activate.

Please be informed that you should not upload the whole archive you downloaded from Themeforest, as you will get an error reporting “broken stylesheet file”. Instead locate the wp-Child-Care.zip file inside the main archive you downloaded.

2. Installation Through FTP:

Please be informed that you should not upload the whole item you have downloaded from Themeforest as you will get an error message. Instead:

1. Download the Theme archive and extract the main theme zip file with the title (wp-Child-Care.zip)
2. You may need to preserve the folder structure in the archive when extracting these files. Some softwares such as Winrar create a subdirectory within the same directory name they have unzipped. Uploading a theme to your server via FTP with this structure will lead to error messages.
3. Use an FTP client (for example Filezilla) to access your host web server
4. Transfer your unzipped theme to your server in the wp-content/themes
5. Once the theme is uploaded, you need to activate it. Go to Appearance > Themes and activate your uploaded theme.

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.

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.

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 ChildCare on the Appearance menu
   

   

2. 2. The Demo Content menu tab will show.
3. 3. Just click Import now 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.

Before Intall Demo Data with XML files, you should be Import Custom Post Type for your site. The Custom Post Type of theme can be installed by this way: Go to CPT UI-> Tools, copy and paste content of Fullpackage-ChildCare/Sample data/posttypes/post.json file into Post Types area and copy and paste content of Fullpackage-ChildCare/Sample data/posttypes/tax.json file into Taxonomies area. See screenshot for details:

All Custom Post Type will be imported for your site

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 Fullpackage-ChildCare/Sample data/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.

The Sliders of theme can be installed by this way: Go to Slider Revolution->Import Slider, choose slider in Fullpackage-ChildCare/Sample data/revslider/slider.zip file. See screenshot for details:

The Slider will be imported for your site

The theme options can be installed by this way: Go to AppearanceWP ChildCare->Import/Export, copy and paste content of Fullpackage-ChildCare/Sample data/options.json file into Import Options field. See screenshot for details:

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

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

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

Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular form builders for wordpress.

We have created styles ready for you to use within your Child-Care theme.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Contact Form 7

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

You can set any menu as Primary menu here.

With the Page Options specially built for our themes, you can easily customize General, Header, Page Title and Footer of every page.

General

Full Width: By turning On/Off the switch button, you can change the Page Layout to Full Width or not.

Show Page Appointment: By turning On/Off the switch button, you can change the page to show page appointment or not.



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Header

• Custom: Enable/Disable custom style mode.
• Primary Menu: Select Primary Menu for page.



Result for menu:



Result for menu sticky:

Page Title

Page Title: Enable/Disable custom style mode.

You can give a Title, Sub Title and select layout for your Page Title here.



Result:

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.

Gallery is created using Shortcodes. For more detailed instruction, please head to Shortcode > CMS Grid

Team is created using Shortcodes. For more detailed instruction, please head to Shortcode > CMS Carousel

Quote is created using Shortcodes. For more detailed instruction, please head to Shortcode > CMS Special Carousel

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.

The options panel is home to all of the theme's extensive configuration options. To view the panel, click on Appearance > Theme Option 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 Import now to start importing demo data.

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:

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Set Up Logo

You can select an image file in your library or upload a new file from your computer to set as logo. Follow the steps below to set up your logo:

1. 1. Go to Theme Option > Header > Logo.  
2. 2. To set logo, cick Upload.
3. 3. If you already had the logo image in your media library, simply click on it, then choose Select at the bottom right. If not, switch to Upload files tab, then browse for the file in your computer. After it is uploaded to your library, click on it then Select.

4. 4. You can scale the logo up and down by changing Logo Width/Height Note that Logo Height is limited by Header Height, if you want to enlarge the logo, you must increase Header Height as well.

Result for logo:

Your logo will appear on the Header as below:

Result for logo sticky:

This is section have all option for menu.

Result:

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Result for menu sticky:

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

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  Layouts: You can select some available layouts for page title here.

  Background:

  You can click Upload to upload an image file for your page title background.

  You can also change background color for page title here.

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You can change font style of Page Title here.

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

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Body

Here you can set up layout for all pages. Turning on Boxed Layout will change all page layouts from full width to boxed. You can change the layout of each page individually using Page Options. You can also customize the body's Background, Margin and Padding.

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Here you can customise the container of all pages. You can change the container's Background, Margin and Padding.

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You can enable/disable the sections below to result display the best.

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You can upload background image for header. Then select enable/disable the sections below to result display the best.

Result for Header background image:

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You can enable/disable the sections below to show button back to top.

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You can set Primary Color, Secondary Color and Link Color here.

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Not just color, all text elements are also within your control. You can define the style of Body text and H1 to H6 Headlines for yourself.

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Body font:

Now had not available local font for you choose.

If you want to use an other fonts, you can download your fonts and add them into:

After that, you just declare them in this file:

Result:

On this section, Child-Care 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:

Please create/paste custom css here. Make sure css is out of any errors/mistakes. Please always remember to click "Save Changes" button. Without that you will lose all your changes.

You can turn on/of Images Paralax in this section.

Here is where you can turn on/off Developer Mode and Count Views.

You can enter inforamtions for all fields Phone number, Email, Address and Social network icons.

Then you let upload image for website media.

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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.

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.

• Title: Add title of fancy icon box.
• Description: You can add description for your Single Fancy Box.
• Content Align: You can choose the type of display Default, Left, Right and Center.

• Icon Library: Select libraries available.
• Icon Item: Select an icon for your single fancy box.
• Image Item: Select image for item.
• Title Item: Enter title of item.
• Content Item: Enter content of item.

• Title Color: Set color for title.
• Text Color: Set color for text.
• Icon Color: Set color for icon.
• Icon Box Background Color: Set background-color for icon box.

• Button Type: Select button type to show.
• Link: Enter link of item.
• Text: Enter text on button.
• Button background color: Set background button.
• Button background image: Set background image in button.
• Button text color: Set text color button.

• Shortcode Template: Select your single fancy box template.

• Box effect: Select style effect for box.
• Box effect delay: Enter time delay.
• Box padding: Set value padding for box.
• Box height: Set height for box.
• Backgroud color: Set background color in box.
• Background size: Select size of background would you like to set for this box.
• Background position: Select repeat of background would you like to set for this box.
• Background repeat: Select repeat of background would you like to set for this box.

• Result:

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• Title: Enter title for subscribe.

• Shortcode Template: Select your subscribe template.
• Layout Style: Select style to show.

• Result:

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• Title: Add title for title list.
• Description: You can add description for your title list.
• Content Align: You can choose the type of display Default, Left, Right and Center.

• Select Number Items: Select number items on title list.
• Title 1,2,3,4: Enter title for items.
• Titlem Color: Set color for title.
• Title dot color: Set color title dot.

• Shortcode Template: Select your title list template.

• Result:

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• Title: Add title for Recent Posts.
• Description: You can add description for your Recent Posts.

• Number Posts: Select number items on Recent Posts.
• Meta Color: Set color for meta.
• Text Color: Set color for text.

• Shortcode Template: Select your Recent Posts template.

• Result:

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CMS Google Map allows embedding a google map in Haswell 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.

• Result:

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• 1. To display Quote in a page, first you need to create quote items. Go to Quote > Add new.
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• 2. Enter the quote's name in Title field. Enter description in the content section.
• 3. Set quote's picture by choosing a Set featured image.
• 4. Select a Category for your quote. Create more Category by clicking Add New.
• 5. Finally, Publish.
• Result:

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After creating quote items, it's time to display them in a page using CMS Special Carousel shortcode.

• 1. Go to Page > Add New.
• 2. Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.
  
  
• 3. Select CMS Special Carousel.
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• Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.
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• Post types: Set Post Types as quote.
• Post count: Limit the number of quote to display in special carousel by entering Post Count number.
• Order by: Select how to sort retrieved posts.
• Sort order: Designates the ascending or descending order.
• Taxonomies: Enter category names here.

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• Width Item: Enter value width for special carousel.
• Height Item: Enter value height for special carousel.
• Slides Move: Number Slides move a time.
• The fields rest, you can set option.

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• Shortcode Template: Choose a style to show for quote.
• Result:

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Gallery

• 1. To display gallery in a page, first you need to create gallery items. Go to Galleries > Add new.
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• 2. Enter gallery name in Title field. Enter gallery content in the content section.
• 3. Select a Category for gallery on Categories section. Create more Category by enter name categories, then clicking Add New Gallery Category .
• 4. Set gallery's picture by choosing a Set featured image.
• 5. Finally, Publish.
• Result:

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After creating Gallery 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.
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• Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.
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• Post types: Set Post Types as gallery.
• Post count: Limit the number gallery 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.

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• Layout Type: Select layout style to show.
• Columns Devices: Select the number of columns displayed.

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• Shortcode Template: Choose a layout to show for the gallery.

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• Image size: Select image size.
• Animation Duration: Enter animation duration.
• Animation Delay: Enter animation delay.
• Animation: Select animation type to show.
• Show/Hide Pagination: Select show or not show pagination.
• Result:

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Posts

• 1. To display Posts in a page, first you need to create post items. Go to Posts > Add new.
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• 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:

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After creating post items, it's time to display them in a page using CMS Carousel shortcode.

• 1. Go to Page > Add New.
• 2. Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.
  
  
• 3. Select CMS Carousel.
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• Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.
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• Post types: Set Post Types as post.
• Post count: Limit the number of post 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.
• Taxonomies: Enter category names here.

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• Devices: Select item quantity shown on screens.
• Margin Items: Set space between items.

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• Shortcode Template: Choose a style to show for post.
• Result:

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Team

• 1. To display a team profile, first you need to create member profile items. Go to Team > Add new.
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• 2. Enter the member name in Title field. Add some Description in the content section if you want.
• 3. Select a Category for member on Categories section. Create more Category by clicking Add New.
• 4. Set member's profile picture by choosing a Set featured image.
• 5. Finally, Publish.
• Result:

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After creating member items, it's time to display them in a page using CMS Carousel shortcode.

• 1. Go to Page > Add New.
• 2. Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.
  
  
• 3. Select CMS Carousel.
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• Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.
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• Post types: Set Post Types as team.
• Post count: Limit the number of member 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.
• Taxonomies: Enter category names here.

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• Devices: Select item quantity shown on screens.
• Margin Items: Set space between items.

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• Shortcode Template: Choose a style to show for team.
• Result:

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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.
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• 2. Select language in admin options.
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• 3. Find language prefix (save option and reload front-end view html).
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• 4. Copy two file .po & .mo and rename to eg( en_CA.mo & en_CA.po ... ) same for other languages .
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• 5. Open the file .po with POEdit and translate the texts into your preferred language.
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• 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.

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:

• Yoast SEO plugin
• Google Pagespeed Service
• Smush.it ( Optimizing Images )
• SEO Friendly Images ( SEO Images )

1. Uplodate theme

There are 2 methods to update our WordPress themes to a newer version. These new updates are essential if you want to have a bug free website, as we add new features and make improvements to the theme over time. Some of these updates might be needed in order to make the theme compatible with newer versions of WordPress. There is no risk of losing your settings and pages. However, if you had made modifications to theme files, they will be lost.

1.1 Update Child-Care Through WordPress Admin Panel:

1. For this method you should first install the Theme Upgrades Tool.
2. Unzip the file you just downloaded from ThemeForest and locate the WordPress Theme. (wp-Child-Care.zip).
3. Login to your WordPress Dashboard.
4. Click on “Appearance > Themes”.
5. Click on Add New button on this page
6. Click on Upload Theme Button
7. Click “Choose File” and locate the new theme file. (wp-Child-Care.zip).
8. In the “Upgrade existing theme?” option choose “Yes” from the dropdown list.
9. Click “Install Now”.
10. Click “Activate”.

1.2 Update Child-Care Through FTP

• Login to your Themeforest account and go to downloads (Dashboard > Downloads).
• Download the theme to your computer.
• Install an FTP program (for example, Filezilla is free).
• Retrieve your FTP login information from your hosting admin panel and login into your hosting via FTP.
• Unzip the item main file.
• Locate theme.zip (wp-Child-Care.zip) and unzip it. Make sure your unzipping software does not create an extra directory with the same name, nested into each other.
• Drag and drop theme main folder into your FTP program with the destination: “YOUR_HOSTING_ROOT/YOUR_SUBDIRECTORY/wp-content/themes/”.
• The FTP program will give a warning that there is an existing directory with the same name, choose to Replace All.
• It will take between 15 to 30 minutes to replace all files. Once you are done, login to your WordPress dashboard and go to Theme Options. On the header (beside Theme Options logo) the theme version will be changed to the latest version. This is the indication that your theme is updated. We recommend method one which takes less than one minute.

2. Uplodate necessary plugins

When the time comes that you want to update our themes to the latest versions you may need to update necessary plugins of theme. To update the plugin you will need to follow the steps below:

1. 1 Deactivate plugins
2. 2 Delete plugins
3. 3 On the Dashboard, go to Appearance->Install plugins to reinstall plugins.

The team at REDEXP are always happy to help you with any questions or recommendations you have about the Petvet theme. If you need any help or support please contact us through the TF Messaging system or
direct at Email: support@cmssuperheroes.com
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