Volter, 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 Volter 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 Volter 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 /Volter/ 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 Volter

   

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.

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 Volter Option > inc > dummy > Volter > 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

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

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 Volter theme.

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

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

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

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

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 General, Header, Page Title and Footer of every page.

General

Page Background: You can set background for the whole page.

Main menu: You can select custom menu Default , Menu Example , Primary Menu .



Result:

Header

• Custom: on/off custom style mode.
• Layouts: Select a layout for header .
• Header Paddings: Settings padding for header.

• You can set color for fields : Header Background Color, Menu background, Menu Seperator, Menu link colors , Sub menu link colorsand Sub menu Background.




Result for header:

Page Title

Page title settings: You can select Default ,Custom, Hidden .

Title: Add custom title for current page.

Subtitle: Add custom subtitle for current page.

Enable/Disable Custom background for page title.

You can select background image for page title.





Result:

Footer

Enable/Disable custom footer For This Page.

You can set color for fields Footer Background, Footer Borders, Footer Widget Link, Footer Widget Text , Footer Widget Title.



Result:

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.

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

Portfolio 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 Appearance > Volter Option 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 Import now to start importing demo data.

logo for Background: Select an image file dark / light for your logo.

Loading: Enable/Disable loading here .

Result Logo for dark background:

Result Logo for light background:

Result Built-in loading animation:

Result back to top:

Select colors for all the properties.

Result Logo for dark background:

Result Default Button Backgrounds:

Result Default Button Borders:

Select colors for Widget text, Widget link, Widget title, Widget background, Widget border.

Result Logo for dark background:

Select colors for all the properties.

Result :

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:

Result for header:

Result for header sticky:

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

Color orverlay: Enable/Disable orverlay color .

Page title text color: Select color for page title.

Link left/right Text: Enter title for link on the left/right.

Result:

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

Result:

Result hover:

Not just color, all text elements are also within your control.

Result:

Base Font Family:

Not just color, all text elements are also within your control. You can define the style of Body font and Heading 1 to Heading 6 Headlines for yourself.

Result:

On this section, Volter 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:

Select colors for all the properties.

Result:

Enable/Disable the heart icon for liking will shows up.

Result:

Result:

Result Single Post Sidebar:

Result Show single post author info:

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

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.

• Title: Enter title for heading.
• Subtitle: Enter subtitle for heading.

• Result:
• 

• Title: Add title of fancy icon box.
• Description: You can add description for your Fancy Box.

• Add Icon: Select an icon for your fancy box.
• Image : Select image for fancy box.
• Image size: Enter image size (Example: "thumbnail", "medium", "large", "full" or other sizes defined by theme).

• Add Button: You can choose the type of display None, Button , Fancy Link, Regular Link .

• Shortcode Template: Select your fancy box template.

• Result:

• 

• Title: Enter title for service.
• Title Prefix: Enter title prefix for service.
• Subtitle: Enter subtitle for service.
• Description: You can add description for your Service.

• Select color for : Title, Sub Title, Alternate Title, Prefix, Description.

• Primary Image: Select image from media library.

• Shortcode Template: Select your fancy box template.

• Result:

• Link Text: Enter link text for Fancy button link.

• Result:

• Link Text: Enter link text for Fancy button link.

Title: Enter title for shop promo box.
• Sub title: Enter sub title for shop promo box.
• Description: You can add description for your shop promo box.





• Shortcode Template: Choose a layout to show for the shop promo box.



• Result:

• Link Text: Enter link text for Fancy button link.

• Result:

CMS Google Map allows embedding a google map in Volter 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 .

• 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.

• Result:

• 

• Icon 1 Class: Add class for icon.
• Icon 1 Type: Enter name for icon .
• Icon 1 link: Enter link for icon.

• Icon 5 Class: Add class for icon.
• Icon 5 Type: Enter name for icon .
• Icon 5 link: Enter link for icon.

• Result:

• 

• Button Text: Enter text on the button.
• Link button: Set link for button.
• Button Type: Select style button type Outline , Filled.
• Button Color: Select color for button.
• Button Align: Select position Left/Right/center to show icon.

• Result:

• 

Posts

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

• 

After creating posts items, it to display them in a page using CMS XGrid shortcode.

• 1. Go to Page > Add New.
• 2. Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.
  
  
• 3. Select CMS XGrid.
• 

• 
• Shortcode Template: Choose a layout to show for the posts.
• 
• Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.

• 

• Post types: Set Post Types as posts.
• Post count: Limit the number posts to display in xgrid by entering Post Count number.
• Order by: Select how to sort retrieved posts.
• Sort order: Designates the ascending or descending order.

• 

• Result:

• 

Team

• 1. To display a team profile, first you need to create member profile items. Go to Team > Add new.
• 
• 
• 2. Enter the member name in Title field. Add some Description in the content section if you want.
• 4. Set member's profile picture by choosing a Set featured image.
• 5. Finally, Publish.
• Result:

• 

After creating member items, it's time to display them in a page using CMS XGrid shortcode.

• 1. Go to Page > Add New.
• 2. Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.
  
  
• 3. Select CMS XGrid.
• 

• 
• Shortcode Template: Choose a style to show for team.
• 
• Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.

• 

• Post types: Set Post Types as team.
• Post count: Limit the number of member to display in xgrid by entering Post Count number.
• Order by: Select how to sort retrieved posts.
• Sort order: Designates the ascending or descending order.
• Taxonomies: Enter category names here.

• 

• Result:

• 

Portfolio

• 1. To display Portfolio in a page, first you need to create portfolio items. Go to Portfolios > Add new.
• 
• 
• 2. Enter the portfolio name in Title field. Enter portfolio content in the content section.
• 3. Set portfolio picture by choosing a Featured Image.
• 4. Finally, Publish.
• Result:

• 

After creating portfolio items, it's time to display them in a page using CMS XCarousel shortcode.

• 1. Go to Page > Add New.
• 2. Using Visual Composer, choose Add Element.
  
  
• 3. Select CMS XCarousel.
• 

• 
• Source: Click on Build Query more options will show up.
• 
• Post types: Set Post Types as portfolio.
• Post count: Limit the number portfolio to display in xcarousel by entering Post Count number.
• Order by: Select how to sort retrieved posts.
• Sort order: Designates the ascending or descending order.

• 

• Color scheme: You can select color Dark/Light.
• Initial Items: Set initial number of items to show.

• 

• Shortcode Template: Choose a layout to show for the portfolio.

• 

• Result:

• 

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 .
• 
• 5. Open the file .po with POEdit and translate the texts into your preferred language.
• 
• 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 Spyropress are always happy to help you with any questions or recommendations you have about the Volter theme. If you need any help or support please contact us through the TF Messaging system or
Direct at Email: info.spyropress@gmail.com
direct at Forum: here