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Craggy - Like Themes WordPress Theme Documentation 1.1

1. Theme installation


To install this theme you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. Make sure you have clean WordPress setup. This installation guide will help you to install the WordPress.

The theme files can be uploaded in two ways: Through FTP or through WordPress dashboard.

  1. FTP
    Upload the non-zipped theme folder into the /wp-content/themes/ folder on your server.
  2. WordPress
    Navigate to "Appearance" > "Add New Themes" -> "Upload Theme" -> "Choose file" (choose craggy.zip) > Install


Basic configuration

  1. Install all required plugins (Especialy Unyson, Like-Thmes-plugins and Visual Composer) and activate them
  2. Update permalinks for custom pages in Settings -> Permalink -> Save


Notice: if you want to use a child-theme, you can also upload the file craggy-child.zip in addition with the main Craggy Theme.

Demo content 

We recommend you to install demo content. Go to the Tools -> Demo Content Install. Be aware - installing of demo content will delete all your current content.
Click Install, wait till it'll be downloaded. Your WordPress Craggy theme now must be identical to live preview.



Notice: if you want to use a child-theme, you can also upload the file craggy-child.zip in addition with the main Craggy Theme.

If Tools -> Demo Content Install not Available - make sure Unyson Plugin is installed and activated. Also:


Backup & Demo Content Extenstion must be active too.

2. Theme Configuration

Fill all fields in Appearance  -> Theme Settings

General

Upload logo here.
If you need google maps, you must enter google maps api key.
Excerpt size configures automatic cutting of blogs text and products for preview

Color Schemes

Craggy is MultiPurpose Theme, it uses many different pages with different style settings. Here you can edit or add new color settings.

You can set them later to any page you need, using page configuration:



For example, you wish to use "Theme Cleaning" for your site. Two options:
1) (Recommended) You can go to Appearance -> Theme Settings -> Color Schemes Settings:


And use these or needed colors for global customization settings, i.e. copy colors to Appearance -> Customization -> Craggy.
This will assures that you'll use these color for all site pages.
Next, for Homepage (or pages) what you need, go to bottom section "Layout" and set Color Scheme "Default":


After that you can upload logo into Appearance -> Customization -> Site Identity and use it for whole site:


2) (Quickest way) You can upload logo into Appearance -> Theme Settings -> Color Schemes Settings -> Theme Cleaning (or any other theme) and don't change Color Scheme for Homepage. It'll use uploaded theme.
Can be useful, if you want to use different color settings or different logos for certain pages.


Footer block

You can control footer widgets area layout by enabling and disabling every widget column.

Favicon

Next, in Appearance  -> Customize you can set Site Title, add favicon

WordPress settings You can find more information in WordPress documentation, but we'll describe main options.
  1. Settings -> General. You can set here your email, timezone, date format
  2. Settings -> Reading. Frontpage must be set to "Homepage", but you can use any page of site as welcome page. Also you can change number of posts per page. 6, 8 or 10 will be optimal
  3. Settings -> Discussion. You can enable/disabled premoderation of comments here.

3. Menu and Widgets

Menu

Use Appearance  -> Menu to set you header menu and footer menu.
If you downloaded demo content, we set optimal pages, you can change order and level. Add new pages or remove them here. You can use different menus for header block (with multilevel menus) and footer block (one level short menu, will be hidden on mobile version of site)


Widgets

Widgets are blocks visible in blogs and shop pages. You can configure blog sidebar position in pages control (or disable it at all).
You can change them in Appearance -> Widgets.
You can use any of standard WordPress widgets. Also you can install and any new widget in Plugins menu, but we can't guarantee full
support for them.



4. Posts

Blogs posts

It's standart WordPress posts module. You can write articles here, create categories, set tags.


You can configure blog layout on blog pages (one, two or full three columns without sidebar)

Testimonials

You can post clients feedback here. Also you can post preview of feedbacks on any page with shortcode.


Gallery

Among standard gallery, you can use our posts type. Main Photo with header and description will be shown in list and other photos with full-page zoom inside of gallery.


Sections

Allows to edit common used on all pages blocks. Topbar at header of site and Subscribe block.


You can also disable or enable these blocks on any page of site.

5. Pages

Among posts, pages are main module where you'll create your site content. You can use Visual Composer for visually change blocks and using shortcodes. You'll find information about all Craggy shortcodes in next section, here we'll describe main editor functions.


To enable Visual Composer select Backend or Frontend editor. In most cases you need only Backend.



Layout

You can add new elements be clicking on plus button.


You can read all about Visual Composer Shortcuts in official documentation.


Layout Configuraton

For every page you can configure:



6. Craggy Shortcodes

Here we describe out Craggy shortcodes:


Zoom Slider


To change the Zoom Slider Images you need to edit this element in Page Builder:


Custom Headers


Default Custom Header:


Google Maps Styled


Used to set theme-styles map anywhere on page

Social Icons


Use whole FontAwesome icons pack for you purposes


Buttons:

Can link to any href


Testimonials Slider:




7. Forms

To add forms on your pages, first create them in required plugin. Then go to Contact -> Contact Forms



To insert form into page use CF7 Shortcode or CF7 Customized for more options.



8. Customization


Customization tab used to change any of colors used on site, if you need it:


But it will change only default colors. If you using different theme settings from Apperatnce - Settings -> Color Schemes - you need to edit them from there.

9. Additional Plugins


Breadcrumb NavXT

Used for showing breadcrumbs in header of site

Post Views Counter

Show number of views in gallery and blog posts. If you disable it icon will be hidden.

WP Instagram Widget

You can add this widget to sidebar to show last photos of selected instagram

MailChimp

Plugin for emails subscribe lists


10. Backup

You can backup your site in Tools -> Archives menu. Also you can enable Backup Schedule for automatic backup.



We strongly recommend you to do manual backups regularly, especially when you making updates or major changes on your pages.




11. Support

You can contact us by email (support@like-themes.com). You must provide purchase code in order to get support.

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