Mercy Heart, theme documentation
Below is the detailed documentation for the Mercy Heart theme
Below is the detailed documentation for the Mercy Heart theme
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 Mercy Heart 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 Mercy Heart as much as we enjoyed developing it and continue to develop with new features!
Server requirements is one of the key factors for WordPress and Mercy Heart theme, it is highly recommended to use a server which supports the following requirements. We explain about WordPress, Mercy Heart, WooCommerce server requirements.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| PHP | Version 7 or greater. |
| MySQL | Version 5.6 or greater. |
| MariaDB | Version 10.0 or greater. Only required if you are not using MySQL. |
| HTTPS | Supported by the server. |
We recommends following server settings for Our WordPress Theme:
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| PHP | Version 5.6 or greater. |
| MySQL | Version 5.6 or greater |
| mod_rewrite | The Apache module needs to be activated for pretty permalinks. |
| GD Library | The library needs to be installed for Captcha and Image cropping. |
| cURL | Supported by the server. |
| OpenSSL | Supported by the server. |
| allow_url_fopen | Supported by the server. |
| post_max_size | 32 MB or greater |
| upload_max_filesize | 32 MB or greater |
| memory_limit | 128 MB or greater |
| max_execution_time | 120s or greater |
| max_input_vars | The minimum value is 4000 but the recommended is 6000. |
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:
Unzip the download and upload the theme directory /Mercy Heart/ into your WordPress themes directory /wp-content/themes/.
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.
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. Go to Install Demo on the Tools menu.
2. The Install Demo section will show for you.
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.
To imprort demo content by yourself, please follow some steps below:
1. Install and Active Widget Importer & Exporter plugin.
2. Import XML you need deactivate plugin EF3 Import And Export.
You need to extra theme package file. And then:
1. Go to Tools on the CPT UI menu
2. You shoud be able to find it following the path wp-mercyheart > inc > demo-data > mercyheart > taxonomies.json.
3. You can copy all content in file taxonomies.json and paste in here like image below:
1. Go to Post Types tab.
2. Copy all content in file post-type.json in the path wp-mercyheart > inc > demo-data > mercyheart > post-type.json and paste in here like image below.
1. Go to Tools > Import.
2. You need upload two file:
Select Wordpress system then browse for the .xml file. You shoud be able to find it following the path wp-mercyheart > inc > demo-data > mercyheart > content > attachment-data.xml
And wp-mercyheart > inc > demo-data > mercyheart > content > content-data.xml
3. Choose a WXR (.xml) file to upload, then click Upload file and import.
4. You will then have the choice to import attachments, so click on the "Download and import file attachments" box.
5. Click Submit.
Repeat the steps with content-data.xml file.
1. Go to Red Organicfood > Import / Export on the left menu
2. You shoud be able to find it following the path wp-mercyheart > inc > demo-data > mercyheart > options.json .
3. You go to the option import / export in theme options then click on the button: "import this file" and copy all content in file options.json and paste in here like image below.
1. Go to Slider Revolution.
2. Import slider.
3. You shoud be able to find it following the path wp-mercyheart > inc > demo-data > mercyheart > revslider > home.zip. You need upload all slider inside revslider file.
1. Go to Widget Importer & Exporter on the Tools menu.
2. You shoud be able to find it following the path wp-mercyheart > inc > demo-data > mercyheart > widgets.wie.
3. You can click button browse and upload file widget.wie
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To be more perfect site you should install more photos.
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.
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
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
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
Visual Composer for WordPress will save you tons of time working on the site content. Now you'll be able to create complex layouts within minutes! It's built on top of the modern technologies – get the best for your lovely website!
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.
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.
Congratulations! Your menu has now been added to your site.
You can set any menu as Primary menu here.
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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:
Click Publish and View page to see Result:
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.
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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 Partner, go to Partners > Add new.
Then, enter the content for your Partner follow images below:
Finally, click Publish.
Example the Parters show by carousel shortcode:
To create a new Testimonial, go to Testimonial > Add new.
Then, enter the content for your Testimonial follow images below:
Finally, click Publish.
Example the Testimonial show by carousel shortcode:
To create a new Pricing, go to Pricing > Add new.
Then, enter the content for your Pricing follow images below:
Finally, click Publish.
Example the Pricing show by grid shortcode:
To create a new Cause, go to Causes > Add new.
Then, enter the content for your Cause follow images below:
Finally, click Publish and view Cause single page:
Example the Cause show by grid shortcode:
To create a new Gallery, go to Gallery > Add new.
Then, enter the content for your Gallery follow images below:
Finally, click Publish and view Gallery single page:
To set a page as Home page, go to Settings > Reading in your WordPress Dashboard panel.
1. Set "Front page displays" as "A Static Page"
2. In the drop down menu for "Front Page" choose a page which will be your home page. And in the "Posts page", choose a page whick will be your blog page.
3. Save changes.
To Add Widget on Sidebar, please following these steps:
The options panel is home to all of the theme's extensive configuration options. To view the panel, click on Mercy Heart 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.
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:
Header
Header layout & Background
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Set Header height, margin and padding.
Header Top
All option config for Header Top section.
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Logo
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Menu
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All options relating to Page Title can be found here.
Page Title & BC
In our layout selecting panels, the color Brown represents the Title and the Sub-title, while the color Gray represents the Breadcrumb. See example below:
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Page Title
Set typography for Page title
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Breadcrumb
Set typography for Page title
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Here you can set background, margin and padding for body page.
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Example for boxed page:
Same as Body tab, you can set background, margin and padding for content section.
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The Back to top button will show on the right bottom of page when you scroll down. You can see example config result here:
Set font size for button.
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You can set Primary and Secondary Color here.
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Menu First Level
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Menu Sub Level
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Button default
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Button primary
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Menu First Level
Menu First Level
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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.
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On this section, Mercy Heart 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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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.
Select CMS Teaser shortcode.
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Select CMS Carousel shortcode.
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Select CMS Grid shortcode.
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Select CMS Fancy Box shortcode.
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Select CMS Counters shortcode.
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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:
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 SpyroPress are always happy to help you with any questions or recommendations you have about the Mercy Heart 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.