Shounder, theme documentation
Below is the detailed documentation for the Shounder theme
Below is the detailed documentation for the Shounder 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 Shounder 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 Shounder 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 Shounder theme, it is highly recommended to use a server which supports the following requirements. We explain about WordPress, Shounder, 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. |
Shounder 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)
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 /Shounder/ 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.
You just click on Regenerate All Thumbnail button and wait until the update is complete all photos.
You will have the perfect website.
Now you have a website just like our demo.
To imprort demo content by yourself, please follow some steps below:
Install and Active Widget Importer & Exporter plugin.
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 Shounder > inc > demo-data > Shounder > 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 Shounder > inc > demo-data > Shounder > 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 Shounder > inc > demo-data > Shounder > content > attachment-data.xml
And Shounder > inc > demo-data > Shounder > 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 Slider Revolution.
2. Import slider.
3. You shoud be able to find it following the path Shounder > inc > demo-data > Shounder > revslider > home1.zip. You need upload all slider inside revslider file.
1. Go to Shounder > Import / Export on the left menu
2. You shoud be able to find it following the path Shounder > inc > demo-data > Shounder > 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 Widget Importer & Exporter on the Tools menu.
2. You shoud be able to find it following the path Shounder > inc > demo-data > Shounder > widgets.wie.
3. You can click button browse and upload file widget.wie
To be more perfect site you should install more photos.
1. Go to Regen Thumbnails on the Tools menu.
You just click on Regenerate All Thumbnail button and 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
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
Drag and drop page builder for WordPress. Take full control over your WordPress site, build any layout you can imagine – no programming knowledge required
If you need dedicated support for this component, please visit: WPBakery Page Builder
Slider Revolution is an innovative, responsive WordPress Slider Plugin that displays your content the beautiful way. Whether it's a Slider, Carousel, Hero Scene or even a whole Front Page, the visual, drag & drop editor will let you tell your own stories in no time!
For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Slider Revolution
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.
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, Content and Footer of every page.
You can make page boxed and set background for content and body areas.
Example for site fullwidth:
Boxed layout with body and content background color:
Example for site boxed:
Result:
Choose enable to show header top.
Result:
Here you can set background and color for main header and menu.
Result:
You can give a Title to the page here. You can also change the position of Title and Breadcrumb. In our layout selecting panels, the color Brown represents the Title, while the color Gray represents the Breadcrumb. See example below:
Result:
You can set padding top/bottom for content area.
Result:
You can Turn on/off Footer Social, Footer Top and Footer Bottom on page.
Result:
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:
Choose a slide to show if you want show slide on the top 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:
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 Shounder 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.
Theme Options is the main section of Shounder, which you can do your global settings for your website. You can access Theme Options from top left side of your dashboard. We are going to describe about General Settings options available under Shounder > General section of Theme Options in this article.
Example for boxed layout:
Example for fullwidth layout:
Example for Back to top button:
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:
Example for header layout 1:
You can turn on to make header is transparent.
Example for header transparent:
Sticky header: Sticky header will show when you scroll down.
Select logo and set logo height.
Result:
Here you can config layout, background and text color for your header top.
When Header top option is ON, you need to manage widget in Widget Manager.
Result:
Header Middle only show when you select header layout 4
You can manage widget on Header middle in Widget Manager.
Result:
Set padding for menu.
Example for padding and margin menu:
Set background, font and color.
Result:
The below are options config color for sub-menu.
Result:
All options relating to Page Title can be found here.
Select Style, layout and background for page title.
Result:
Page title typography.
Result:
Page title padding.
Result:
Breadcrumb Typography.
Result:
Here you can set padding top and bottom for all pages.
Result:
Here you can config for archive, search, index... pages.
Result:
Turn on Frontend editor mode to show it on page.
Result:
The options config for single blog page.
Result:
All options config for 404 page.
Result:
All options for styling color can be found here.
Example:
Result:
To add a new button, you can go to page and add CMS Button shortcode, then select button type are Primary, Default or Second button.
Choose colors for buttons:
Example for buttons:
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.
Result:
On this section, Shounder 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.
Result:
Show social links in post and product, page, portfolio, etc.
Example for show socials on single post:
Turn on to show Socials on Footer.
Result:
Here you Choose column and Set Background for Footer top.
Result:
Set background and text color.
Result:
Select layout, product column and product number to show on Shop catalog page.
Result for Shop page:
Result single product page:
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.
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 RedExp are always happy to help you with any questions or recommendations you have about the Charitywalk 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.