Lapinblanc, 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 Lapinblanc 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 Lapinblanc 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 /Lapinblanc/ 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)

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.

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.

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 Install Demo on the Tools menu.
   

   

2. 2. The Demo Content 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
   

   

You just need to wait until the update is complete all photos.

You will have the perfect website.

Now you have a website just like our demo, with the pictures replaced by grey images.

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 WP Lapinblanc > inc > dummy > Lapinblanc > 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.

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

This widget will display any of the official Bloglovin' Buttons. You don't need to copy and paste any code, just select the button you'd like and you're good to go.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Bloglovin Button

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

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

This plugin converts all SoundCloud Shortcodes into embeddable SoundCloud players. It works for any SoundCloud track, playlist, user, or group.

Once you install this plugin, it works for any of your blog posts.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: SoundCloud Shortcode

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

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

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

WP User Avatar enables you to use any photo uploaded into your Media Library as an avatar.This means you use the same uploader and library as your posts. No extra folders or image editing functions are necessary.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: WP User Avatar

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 and Footer menu here.

Result:

The first, please create a new page by selecting Add new and enter page title and content for your page.

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

General

First take a look at the General tab. You can choose enable to show Social icons.



Result:

Header

Please choose enable custom and select a layout for your page.



Result:

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Blog

On this section, you please enter Limit characters you want to show on your blog page.



Result:

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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, you can visit the site to see results.





Result:

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

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, including changing Layout  (multiple layouts not available in Lapinblanc though) and config Sticky Header here.

Result:

Sticky Header

In the case you choose sticky header option, if you scroll up/down the page, header will always show.

Result Sticky:

Background Color : You can select background color for page title.

Result:

On this section, you can config for your slider as same as Page option.

Result :

You can turn On/Off Social share Post, Page Full Width, Sisebar Left to show on your page.

Result :

Enable Footer Top : Enable footer top to here.

Result:

Enable Footer button : Enable footer button to here.

Color : Set color for footer botton.

Result:

You can set Primary Color, Link color and Link Hover Color here.

Result:

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

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.

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

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.

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 to 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 )

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.

The team at CMSSuperheroes are always happy to help you with any questions or recommendations you have about the Lapinblanc 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