Taxadvisor, 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 Taxadvisor 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 Taxadvisor 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 /Taxadvisor/ 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.

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 Taxadvisor in the left menu.





2. 2. The Import/ Export 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.

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

Methods two.

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

   

2. 2. The Install Demo 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.

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 Theme Option > inc > dummy > Taxadvisor > 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

Cleans up your WordPress installation by removing and regenerating thumbnails.

If you need dedicated support for this plugin, please visit: Thumbnail Cleaner

Use any image from your WordPress Media Library as a custom user avatar. Add your own Default Avatar.

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

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

Allows you to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the thumbnail sizes.

Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate the thumbnails for your image attachments.

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

Cleans up your WordPress installation by removing and regenerating thumbnails.

Thumbnails Cleaner helps you keeping your WordPress installation tidy by removing and regenerating thumbnails.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Thumbnail Cleaner

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

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

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

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

Displays your number of followers from Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Twitch, Twitter and several other social media websites.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Social Count Plus

Flex Map is a wordpress map plugin that provides many features with different map types such as creating area mapping, polygone, polyline, circle, rectangle, single markers, street view markers.

With a simple visual map editor, It is extremely easy to make and place your map anywhere on your frontend wordpress site.

For detailed inforamtion and support on this plugin, please go to: Flex Map

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.

Result:

With the Page Options specially built for our themes, you can easily customize Header, Page , Page Title & BC , One Page, Page Dark Style of every page.

Header

Layout : Select a layout for header.

Select Menu : Custom menu for current page.



Result:

Page

At moment, main content got padding top and bottom is 100px

Page Title & BC

Layout : Select a layout for page title .

Custom Title : Enter custom current page title.

Background : Select an image file for background page title. .

Padding : Add Page title padding (top/bottom)..



Result:

One Page

1.Click the arrow on the right of the item to reveal additional configuration options.

Set of attributes such as images below.



2. Enter row id



3. Enable button one page

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.

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

Testimonial are created using Shortcodes. For more detailed instruction, please head to Shortcode > CMS 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 WP Taxadvisor 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.

Layout : You can select layout Full Weight or Boxed .

Body Background : Select body background for site.

Back To Top : Enable back to top button.

Page loading Enable page loading.

After select turn on, reload page to see result.

Result:

Result Page Loading:

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 Taxadvisor though),  and config Sticky Header here.

Layouts : Select a layout for header.

Logo Type : Select type Image / Text.

Select Logo : Select an image file for your logo.

Enable Mega Menu and Show Search Icon.

Result :

Background : Select color or image background for header top section.

Color : select text color and link color for header top.

Result:

Background : Select color or image background for header bottom section.

Color : select text color and link color for header bottom.

Result:

You can enable/disable sticky header here. It will show when scroll down.

Select Logo : You can select an image file for your logo.

Background Image : Choose Background image style.

Result:

If you want, You can move some socials from Disable column to Enable column.

Result:

You can add URL for social.

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

Page Title & BC

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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.

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

  Result:

  

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

Link Color : Select link color in breadcrumb.

Result:

Layout: select a layout for archive, search, index....

Enable Author, Categories, Tags, Comment, Date.

Result:

Single Layout : Choose a layout Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar, No Sidebar for single page.

Enable Author, Categories, Tags, Comment, Date.

Result:

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

Result:

Not just color, all text elements are also within your control. You can define the style of Body text for your self.

Result:

Body font:

Result h1

On this section, Taxadvisor 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:

Column : Here you can select footer columns .

Background : Choose background style for footer .

Color : Select color Title , Text , List style , Links .

Result:

Color : Select text color and link color for footer bottom.

Result:

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.

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.

• Content Align : Select content Default, Left, Right, Center for single fancy box.

• Icon Library : You can select icon library.
• Icon Item : Select icon from library.
• Image Item : Select image item in library.
• Title Item : Enter Title of item.
• Content Item : Enter content of item.

• Button Type : Select button type Button or Text.
• Button Link : Add title and URL for button.

• Shortcode Template : Choose a layout to show for the single fancy box.
• Color : Select background, border , title, icon and content color for your single fancy box.

• Result:

• 

• Title: Enter title for heading.
• Color: Set color for Title and Description.
• Title - Letter Spacing Enter title letter-spacing for heading.
• Title line height: Enter font-weight for heading.
• Description: Enter description for heading if you want.
• Text Align : Select text-align Left , Center , Right for heading.

• Shortcode Template: Select your heading template.

• Result:

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• Sub Title : Enter sub title for call to action .
• Title : Enter title for call to action .
• Color : Set Title color and Sub Title color for call to action.
• Enter Text on the button.
• Button Align : Select text-align Left, Right for call to action.

• Shortcode Template : Select your call to action template.

• Result:

• 

• Text on the button : Enter text on the button.
• Link button : Select url for the button.
• Icon library : Select icon library.
• Icon item : Select icon from library.
• Icon Align : You can select icon align left or right.
• Button style : Select button style.
• Button size : Select button size.
• Button Duplicated : Select yes/no to show button duplicated.

• Result :

• 

• Result:

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CMS Google Map allows embedding a google map in Taxadvisor 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.

• You can select properties display for the values.

• Result:

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Pricing

• 1. To display Pricing in a page, first you need to create Pricing items. Go to Pricing > Add new.
• 
• 
• 2. Enter Pricing name in Title field. Enter Pricing content in the content section.
• 3. Finally, Publish.
• Result:

• 

After creating Pricing items, it 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.
• 

• 
• Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.

• 

• Post types: Set Post Types as Pricing .
• Post count: Limit the number posts 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.

• 

• 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 Pricing .
• Result:
• 

Testimonial

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

• 

After creating testimonial 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.
• 

• 

• Source : Click on Build Query more options will show up.

• 

• Post types : Set Post types as testimonial.
• 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 .

• 

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

• 

• 

• Shortcode Template : Choose a layout for the testimonial.
• 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.
• 
• 2. Select language in admin options.
• 
• 3. Find language prefix (save option and reload front-end view html).
• 
• 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 Pricing at CMSSuperheroes are always happy to help you with any questions or recommendations you have about the Taxadvisor theme. If you need any help or support please contact us through the TF Messaging system or
Support Email: info@cmssuperheroes.com
Support Ticket: https://cmssuperheroes.ticksy.com/

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