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A short guide and general information to help
you get to know your new theme.
Above all, I would like to thank you for purchasing this theme, your contribution is very much
appreciated.
This document covers the installation and use of this theme and reveals answers to common
problems and issues - I encourage you to read this document thoroughly if you are experiencing any
difficulties. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this document, feel free to pose
them in the dedicated support forum.
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1. Getting Started
1.1. Installation of the theme
1.2. Setting up the Homepage
2. Theme Features
2.1. Theme Customization
2.2. Footer area setup
2.3. How to set up the sidebar
2.4. Adding the Images to Revolution slider
2.5. Menus
3. Content
3.1. Setting up Content pages and posts
3.2. Blog page
3.3. Inventory
3.4. Demo content import
3.5. WooCommerce shop
4. Listing layout features
4.1. New VC custom modules
4.2. Listing Inventory page
4.3. Pricing
4.4. Listing Users
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1. Getting Started
To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. For information
regarding the installing of the WordPress platform, please see the WordPress Codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
1.1. Installation
When you are ready to install a theme, you must first upload the theme files and then activate the
theme itself. The theme files can be uploaded in two ways:
FTP Upload: Using your FTP client, upload the non-zipped theme folder into the /wp-content/themes/
folder on your server.
WordPress Upload: Navigate to Appearance -> Add New Themes -> Upload. Go to browse, and select
the zipped theme folder. Hit Install Now and the theme will be uploaded and installed.
Once the theme is uploaded, you need to activate it. Go to Appearance -> Themes and activate your
chosen theme.
After that you need to install and activate the pre-installed plugins:
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WPBakery Visual Composer
Woocommerce
STM Post Type
Breadcrumb NavXT
Revolution Slider
Contact Form 7
STM Vehicles Listing
MailChimp for WordPress Lite
Instagram Feed
1.2. Setting up the Homepage
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To set up the homepage you must create a new page, you can do so by navigating to Pages > Add New.
The title for this page can be up to your liking. Under Settings -> Reading or Appearance -> Customize ->
Site Settings -> Static Front Page please setup the new Homepage.
Actually you can set any page to be your homepage. Once its created you can compose your homepage
layout. The design layout is created under Bootstrap framework which is split into 12 columns grid. Each
widget has its own maximum and minimum widths, so depending on that you can work out the layout
for each page.
As you can see the homepage just like any the page is now 100% constructible out of the modules we
have in Visual Composer. The homepage can be created by any element in Visual Composer.
To view the short manual on how to use the Visual Composer, please follow this link:
http://codecanyon.net/item/visual-composer-page-builder-for-wordpress/full_screen_preview/242431
The detailed documentation of Visual Composer can be found here also http://vc.wpbakery.com/video-tutorials/ .
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2. Theme Features
2.1. Theme Customization
Customize options depends on which Layout are you using, so please note some of Customize options
might be NOT work for your current Layout.
WordPress Customize allows you to setup the general styling of the website visually. In WordPress menu
go to Appearance > Customize. Here you can setup most important options of your theme.
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Site Settings:
Logo & Title: You can setup basic site options like: Site title, Lagline, Logo & its dimensions and
Favicon.
Static Front Page: You can select default Front and Blog pages here.
Style & Settings: There are Color Skins and default Layout options. Here you can select one of 7
basic color schemas or set your custom colors, enable/disable Boxed version and show/hide
Frontend Customizer.
Header:
Top Bar: Here you can enable/disable Top Bar & WPML Switcher and add your company office
addresses, contact information and working hours.
Header Appearance: You can enable/disable Header Search form & Sticky menu and select one
of the basic header styles.
Archive Pages: Choose archive pages layout, sidebar and its position.
Footer:
Layout: Here you can change the footer logo & its dimensions, the copyright text and split the
footer into widgets. Also specify the number of widget areas.
Footer Socials: Here you can select displayable social icons.
Post Types: You can setup/change Title, Plural Title, Rewrite URL and Icon for custom post types
Typography: Set up the fonts out of free google fonts. Besides this you can setup font weight, font size
and line height also.
Socials: You can add your company social URLs here.
Custom CSS: Here you can add your custom styles.
Menus: You can add/edit menus here.
Widgets: You can set up the widgets into the precreated areas.
2.2. Footer area setup
The footer is the same on all pages. You can see whole options via Appearance -> Customize -> Footer > Main settings.
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Here you can set up:
Footer logo and its dimensions;
Count of additional Widget Areas;
Footer Text;
Copyright;
Besides this you can add your custom scripts through Appearance -> Customize -> Footer -> Additional
Scripts.
Also you can set other areas up on the Widgets page (Appearance > Widgets) and choose from the
suggested widgets. Please see the attached screenshot.
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PS: Please note the Demo Content doesnt contain these widgets. So they need to be added manually.
2.3. How to set up the sidebar
In this theme we paid special attention to Sidebars for your biggest convenience and on multiple
previous requests.
We have two types of sidebar: right sidebar and left sidebar, which can be selected for both of archive
and single posts/pages.
In addition to that, you can add/create a new sidebar with VC Widgets/Elements, in this case you will
need to go here:
Edit or create a new sidebar, and add any sections you need by means of Visual Composer
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For single pages/posts you can add sidebar via Widgetised Sidebar or STM Sidebar VC element
2.4. Adding Images to Revolution slider
You will need to upload various images to the Layer slider. You can add items from Revolution Slider
plugin in the WordPress backend. When you go there first you need to create the new Slider, and add
new slides.
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More detailed manual you can find here - http://www.themepunch.com/revslider-doc/sliderrevolution-documentation/ .
2.5. Menus
There are two navigations on the site Header menu and Footer menu, so you can adjust them under
Appearance - > Menus
This is a standard Wordpress functionality, you can choose from the pages, post categories, or custom
links.
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3. Content
3.1. Setting up Content Pages and Posts
All pages can be created as simple content pages or built by means of Visual Composer page builder.
You will need to first set up the page and then add and set up content blocks. Just add a row and add
the modules to row from the Visual Composer dashboard.
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Now you can choose how to compose your template. Add Content modules, Testimonials, etc. You have
everything to realize your imagination.
We have also included extension packages for Visual Composer. You can use them free.
Just pick the module you like and add it to the row. Then you can edit it.
You can also edit the row background, add video or parallax images to the background. Just click on Row
edit icon and you will see the options & features, which are available for this row.
Custom added shortcodes in our theme are on a separate tab:
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Besides this, each page contains these options which include header color or background image, title
fonts and colors, breadcrumbs and button settings:
3.2. Blog page
The Blog page is a usual blog, formed from the posts which belong to categories created by you, which
have tags and featured images that show in the post listings on the blog page. You can set a page as a
Blog posts archive page via Appearance -> Customize -> Site Settings -> Static Front Page:
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The blog page can have the sidebar on the left, right or no sidebar, and the contents of the sidebar, as
described above, are set under the Appearance > Widgets. Other settings of this archive page you can
setup via Appearance -> Customize -> Blog:
Blogs can be posted by someone who has the access to the backend of the site with admin or author
role. Anyway that person will be able to log into the WordPress panel and have a user profile.
Default blog layout is grid layout and once you set up an empty page in the theme setting where it is
said blog, it will show posts in grid layout.
If you want to have List layout, you will need to create a page and set a template for it named Blog-list.
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3.3. Inventory
There is a custom post type to describe listings your company offer via any element visual composer
offers you:
For each listing you can specify description, standard Singe Car Page Options and customizable Car
Options.
For the Description we use standard Content area with Visual Composer, where you can insert any
shortcode you would like to display.
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Defaut Car Page Options are enable for each listings and here you can setup main options.
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Besides this you can add your own custopmizable Car Options and use them for main filter.
You can add your own options via Listings -> Listing Categories
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And manage their default conditions/values:
Main Inventory page options you can setup via Appearance -> Customize -> Listing. There are three
main section like Inventory settings, Single Car Settings and Compare.
Also you can add Listings as a tabs or with Filters for any page using custom STM VC elements:
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3.4. Content import in one click
Dont know where to start on building up your site? We have created an option for you to recreate our
theme demo site in just one click. You should just go to Appearance - > Demo Import in order to select
one of the Layout versions and click the import button.
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3.5. WooCommerce shop
WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress. Now you can have a shop with
all e-commerce features on WordPress.
Before you start adding products, please go through the WooCommerce plugin settings and specify
everything you need for your shop:
Adding the products: You can easily add new products via Products > Add Product
Just specify all details with the description and shipping details. For a single product you can upload
several photos in Product Gallery. More information about the WooCommerce features you can find
here: http://docs.woothemes.com/documentation/plugins/woocommerce/getting-started/
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4. Listing layout features
4.1. New VC custom modules
You can find new added modules under STM Listing Layout and STM Listing Single Car modules.
Please note that these modules work only with Listing Layout version of the demo content.
STM Listing layout tab contains modules like STM Listing Search (tabs), STM Blog grid, STM Listing tabs
style 2 and etc. which are most important in this layout.
There are several modules for single Listing post page under STM Listing Single Car tab.
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Listing layout Home page was built use above VC shortcodes. You can also customize this page easily
through VC Editor:
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4.2. Listing Inventory page
You can easily add STM Classic/Modern filter VC module in your inventory page in order to get such
result in your Inventory pages.
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Besides this there are several additional settings under Listing car options
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Respectively there are different layout for a Single Car page and additional fields like Reviews, Seller
info, Car details and Features.
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4.3. Pricing
Pricing tables is one of the new features of the Listing Layout. You can built Pricing page using VC
Editor and additional VC shortcodes.
You can and setup STM Pricing Tables module in your pages in order to display Pricing tables. Its
possible to select Tables count (1, 2 or three ) and set Price Label under General tab of STM Pricing
Tables module settings.
Under Table tabs its possible to set Pricing section Title, Periods, Features, Label, extra Link and its
options. You need to set these fields for each Tables under respectively tabs.
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4.4. Listing Users
There are 3 types of users in Listing version of the theme. They are:
Administrator
STM Dealer
Simple user
You need to add STM User/Dealer login/register module in the content in order to create Listing
authorization page
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After logging in users will be redirected to their profile page. Here they can see all existing Adds and
other profile settings
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Users can easily add/modify their Adds using comfortable and understandable panel:
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Simple users can send a request to Admin in order to Become a Dealer.
After completing the submission User will be redirected to the Paypal system, you have setup your
Paypal settings under Appearance -> Customize -> Listing -> Paypal options.
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When User sends the request for becoming a Dealer, User and Admin will receive a notification and
users Payment status will be a pending in the user page under Users menu.
After completing the payment, Admin will be notified automatically about it and users Payment status
will be completed. Then Admin can easily set/change the user role to Dealer.
Also you can setup main settings for users under Appearance -> Customize -> Listing -> User/Dealer
options:
Again, thank you for purchasing this theme!
If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this document, feel free to pose them in the
dedicated support forum at www.stylemixthemes.com
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