Hammer, theme documentation

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 Hammer 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 Hammer as much as we enjoyed developing it and continue to develop with new features!

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)

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 /Hammer/ into your WordPress themes directory /wp-content/themes/.

• 2. WordPress Upload
  

  This is definitely the easier route for most. Simply navigate to Appearance > Add New Themes > Upload. 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)




After you have installed the theme successfully, you can optionally import the supplied dummy data in order to get a feel for things. If you're interested in importing the data, please check the Demo Data section below.

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.

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 our tip here:

• How to install sample data using one click in CMS theme 

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.

To go with the former option, please follow the steps below:

1. 1. Go to Install Demo on the Tools menu.



2. 2. The Install Demo section will show for you.
3. 3. Just click Install the demo you want and wait for the process to complete.

To be perfect, you should make sure all of photos available.

Go to Regen Thumbnails on the Tools menu.

Click Regenerate All Thumbnails and wait until the process completed.

Now you have a website just like our demo.

Breadcrumb NavXT, the successor to the popular WordPress plugin Breadcrumb Navigation XT, was written from the ground up to be better than its ancestor

This plugin generates locational breadcrumb trails for your WordPress powered blog or website.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Breadcrumb NavXT

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

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

We have created styles ready for you to use within your Victoria theme.

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

Delete and REALLY force the regenerate thumbnail.

Force Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to delete all old images size and REALLY regenerate the thumbnails for your image attachments.

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

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

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.

The first, please go to Page > Add new in the sidebar left to create a new page.

Enter the Page title and content for page, example as image below:

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Then, scroll down to the bottom of page to see the Page Options section. With the Page Options specially built for our themes, you can easily customize for Header, Page Title & BC and One page of every page.

General

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Header

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Page title & BC

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One page

To set One Page for your page, you must be done some tasks. Please watch video setting one page on Haswell theme below for detail:

To create a new post, go to Posts > Add new.

1. Enter Posts name in Title field. And then enter post content into the text field.

2. Select Post Format .

3. Select a Category for posts on Categories section. Create more Category by clicking Add New Category.

4. Set posts's picture by choosing a Set featured image.

5. Finally, Click Publish.

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To create a new Counpon, go to Coupons & Promotions > Add new.

Finally, click Publish.

View Coupons & Promotions to see the result:

On our theme, Coupons & Promotion items show on Footer section. To show them, please go to Widgets and add CMS Coupons & Promotion.

Go to Footer top section to see the result:

To create a new Team, go to Team > Add new.

Finally, click Publish.

To see the result, please used cms grid to show Team items. If you don't know how to use it, please follow Shortcode section below.

To create a new Portfolio, go to Portfolio > Add new.

Finally, click Publish.

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On our theme, to Portfolio page more perfect, we used Visual Composer to built the page. If you can't use VC in Portfoio page, please go to Visual Composer > Role Manager to enalble it in this page.

Then, click Save changes

Now, reload portfolio page you have created or add new a portfolio, you will see Composer switch mode. And you can built your portfolio with the shortcodes.

To create a new Testimonial, go to Testimonial > Add new.

Finally, click Publish.

To see the result, please used cms carousel to show Testimonial items. If you don't know how to use it, please follow Shortcode section below.

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.

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, make sure to click “Save” in the widget editing box to save the widgets added to your sidebar.



Go to Blog page to see Sidebar result:

The options panel is home to all of the theme's extensive configuration options. To view the panel, click on WP Hammer 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.

On General tab, you can set layout, body and content background for your site.

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You can see example config result here:

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Here, you can find all option config for Top Bar section.

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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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Menu Sticky

Sticky header will show when you scroll down.

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All options relating to Page Title can be found here.

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Archive

Here you can config for archive, search, index... pages.



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Single

The options config for single page.



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You can set Primary Color and Links Color here.

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

Body

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Heading

Example for H1 heading tag.



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Extra Fonts

On this section, Hammer 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 typography and paste class on Selector section.



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Footer Top

Here you can choose column, set Background and Padding for Footer top.



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Footer Bottom

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All socials will show on Footer top section.

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The first, please go to Page > Add New to create a new page.

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.

Go to Page > Add New.

Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.

Select CMS Dropcaps.

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Select CMS Callout.

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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 )

You can update our theme using some ways bellow

1. Update theme using Envato WordPress Toolkit

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.

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