Spectrum, 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 Spectrum 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 Spectrum as much as we enjoyed developing it and continue to develop with new features!

We hope you will enjoy working with Spectrum theme.
Yours sincerely, Cmssuperheroes.

Server requirements is one of the key factors for WordPress and Spectrum theme, it is highly recommended to use a server which supports the following requirements. We explain about WordPress, Spectrum , WooCommerce server requirements.

WordPress requirements

WordPress recommends following server settings.

Spectrum requirements

We recommends following server settings for Our WordPress Theme:

WooCommerce requirements

Spectrum 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.

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 /Spectrum/ 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 actived.

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.

HERE IS OUR VIDEO TUTORIAL TO HELP YOU THROUGH THE PROCESS

Or you need make follow the step:

1. 1. On Tool menu, click Install Demo.
   

   

2. 2. The Install Demo section will show for you.
3. 3. Just click Install and wait for the process to complete.

   

4. 4. After the importation is finished, Click Save Changes, it's time you are done.

After you import demo by one click, you need perform import Essential Grid to perfect your site:

1. Go to Ess. Grid, click Import/Export menu

2. Click Browse.. button and upload file ess_grid.json on the path wp-spectrum > inc > demo-data > construction > ess_grid.json .

To be perfect, you should make sure all of photos available.

1. 1. Go to Force Regenerate Thumbnails on the Tools menu.
   

   

Click Regenerate All Thumbnails and wait until the process completed.

Now you have a website just like our demo.

• Step-1 : Import XML

  To imprort demo content by yourself, please follow some steps below:

  Step 1 : Install Widget Importer & Exporter plugin.

  Step 2 : To import XML you need deactivate plugin EF3 Import And Export.

  You need to extra theme package file. And then:

  • 1. Go to Tools > Import.

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  2. You need upload two files on the path below:

  • - wp-spectrum > inc > demo-data > construction > content > attachment-data.xml
  • - wp-spectrum > inc > demo-data > construction > content > content-data.xml
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Step-2 : Import Slider

• 1. Go to Slider Revolution.
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• 2. Click Import slider.
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• 3. You upload slider on the path wp-spectrum > inc > demo-data > construction > revslider > home-slider.zip.
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• Step-3 : Import Options

  1. On Theme Options tab, click Import/Export
  

  

  2. Click Import from File

  

  3. Open file options.json on the the path: wp-spectrum > inc > demo-data > construction > options.json .

4. Copy all content of options.json file and then paste it into text area.



• Step-4 : Import Setting

  1. On Theme Options tab, click Import/Export
  

  

  2. Click Import from File

  

  3. Open file setting.json on the the path: wp-spectrum > inc > demo-data > construction > setting.json .

4. Copy all content of setting.json file and then paste it into text area.



• Step-5 : Import widgets

  1. Go to Widget Importer & Exporter on the Tools menu

  
  

  

  2. Click Browse.. button and upload file widgets.wie on the path wp-spectrum > inc > demo-data > construction > widgets.wie .






• Step-6 : Import Ess. Grid

  1. Go to Ess. Grid, click Import/Export menu

  
  

  

  2. Click Browse.. button and upload file ess_grid.json on the path wp-spectrum > inc > demo-data > construction > ess_grid.json .






To have a perfect site, you need to make sure all of photos shown.

1. Go to Force Regenerate Thumbnails on the Tools menu.
   

   



You need to wait until the updating completed.

You will have the perfect website like our demo.

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

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

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

You will see notice about update plugin like

We can't give you 1 license key to active auto plugin Visual Composer and Revolution Slider.

Because you can read about the differences between the extended and regular licence. We are permitted to give you the purchase code of the plugins because of policy and terms of Theme Forest. We always update the plugins via theme updates and you will receive the latest version of this plugins via email.

If you want plugin auto update please buy regular license in here

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.

With the Page Options specially built for our themes, you can easily customize for some sections on Page.

Note: If you perform custom in Page option, your page will run with this set up and all set up in Theme option will be invalid. If you don't perform custom any things, your site will run with all option in Theme option.

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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.

To create a new post, we need to follow some steps below:

1. 1. Add Post name and Post content.
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3. 2. Setting some options for post.
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5. 3. Choose Format, Categories, Tag, Feature image for post.
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8. 4. Click Publish.
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To create a new Team, we need to follow some steps below:

1. 1. Add Team name and content.
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3. 2. Setting some options for team.
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5. 3. Click Publish.
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To create a new Testimonial, we need to follow some steps below:

1. 1. Add Testimonial name and content.
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3. 2. Setting some options for Testimonial.
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5. 3. Click Publish.
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To create a new Client, we need to follow some steps below:

1. 1. Add Client name.
2. 2. Setting some options for Client.
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4. 3. Click Publish.
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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 Spectrum 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.

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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:

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After config on theme option, you must be go to Widget section to add widget for Bottom widget.

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Here you can enable/disable Footer Top and customize for it.

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You can set Primary Color, Secondary Color here.

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Not just color, all text elements are also within your control. You can define the style of H1 to H6 Headlines for yourself.

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On this section, Spectrum 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.

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Sometimes, you want use one special font, but it not availbale on the web, you must be download this font, and add them to folder Wp-spectrum > fonts , then using it as a private font for you.

This section will help you do that easy.

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Here is where you can turn on/off Library you want .

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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.

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To translation the theme, i suggest you using Loco plugin. This plugin can help you do all things easy.

Please read guide document for detail here: Loco Translate

If you want change content and style of Footer:

1. Change content

Go to Appearace -> Widgets and perform change content in

2. Select layout

Go to Theme option -> Footer and perform custom layout display footer

For more detailed instruction, please head to Footer

3. Result

You can see the results in Footer of all page in site

To create new Header for your page, you must be done some tasks. You can watch this video tutorial below

(Please note the video shown is from our Pure Equestian theme, but the same process applies)

If you want change content and style of Header top:

1. Change content

Go to Appearace -> Widgets and perform change content in

2. Select layout

Go to Theme option -> Header -> Header Top and perform custom layout display footer

For more detailed instruction, please head to Header

3. Result

You can see the results in Footer of all page in site

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 )

NOTICE: YOU MUST BE BACKUP YOUR DATA BEFORE UPDATE THE THEME.

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 ( such as permissions issue ) , and you want to update manually the theme via FTP or Cpanel.

- You download latest version of the theme on ThemeForest download page, and you rename the folder contain the old theme, then create a new folder and insert the latest theme into it.

The team at Cmssuperheroes are always happy to help you with any questions or recommendations you have about the Spectrum theme. If you need any help or support please contact us through the ThemeForest Messaging system or
Support Email: info@cmssuperheroes.com
Support Ticket: https://cmssuperheroes.ticksy.com/

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