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Recond - Like Themes WordPress Theme Documentation 1.0

Before continue, please check online documentation, it can be updated.

1. Theme Support and Licence

Thank you for purchasing Recond WordPress Theme. If you need support you can contact us by email (like.themes.wp@gmail.com). You must provide purchase code, we'll answer you in 1-2 business days (if you wait for answer too long, please check spam folder). According to item support policy it doesn't include theme customization, third party plugins integration and hosting problems.

With ThemeForest Regular License you allowed:

You are not allowed:

For more information about license please read https://themeforest.net/licenses/faq.


2. 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. If you area new in WordPress we recommend you to read WordPress Codex, FAQ and Lessons.

Requirements

You need web hosting with at least PHP7.x, MySQL 5 or higher and WordPress 5.x installed. Please check WordPress official minimal requirements https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/
If you have troubles with theme installation or one click demo install, make sure your server configuration limits are:

You can check the server settings using the Custom PHP Settings plugin. Go to menu Tools > Custom PHP Settings > Settings



To change these values:

  1. Edit your .htaccess file (at root of your FTP) and adding these lines:
php_value upload_max_filesize 32M
php_value post_max_size 32M
php_value memory_limit 128M
php_value max_execution_time 600

    2. Try to use plugin Custom PHP Settings. Go to menu Tools > Custom PHP Settings > General and paste the following strings into the text field:        
            post_max_size=32M
            upload_max_filesize=32M
            max_execution_time=600
            memory_limit=128M

It should turn out like this:

 
   3. If it still not helps - contact your hosting provider, they must help you with server configuration.


Installation

Please watch full video tutorial. It was recorded for our Autema theme, but can be used for any theme of our development.



Notice: we recommend installing our theme on a clean WordPress to avoid problems.

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. You must upload folder /recond/ from archive recond.zip.
  2. WordPress
    Navigate to "Appearance" > "Add New Themes" -> "Upload Theme" -> "Choose file" (choose recond.zip) > Install




Activate it after install!



Notice: If you have error "Theme is missing the style.css stylesheet error" - make sure you uploading inner WordPress .zip file with theme, not the whole archive downloaded from ThemeForest. More information on https://help.market.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/202821510-Theme-is-missing-the-style-css-stylesheet-error.


Basic configuration

  1. Install all required plugins by clicking on Begin installing plugins
  2. Activate them after that
  3. Update permalinks for custom pages in Settings -> Permalink -> Save

Attention! Unyson, LT-Ext and WPbakery Page Builder plugins are responsible for the performance of the theme. They are required to install!
Notice: if you want to use a child-theme, you can also upload the file recond-child.zip in addition with the main Recond Theme. Child Theme allows you to add/modify CSS Stylesheet and functions without modifying main theme files. And you'll not lose your modifications after main theme update.

How to update WPBakery Page Builder

WPBakery goes with theme us bundle plugin and has license, check this article:
https://help.market.envato.com/hc/en-us/articles/213762463-Bundled-Plugins

In order to update plugin you need to reinstall it and the latest version will be downloaded from our CDN. Please check this video about updating the WPBakery Page Builder plugin.


Demo Content Install

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 Recond theme now must be identical to live preview. If you have troubles with installation, please check minimal PHP hosting requirements from Theme installation section.




Notice: If Tools -> Demo Content Install not Available - make sure Unyson Plugin is installed and activated. Also Backup & Demo Content Extension must be active:


If demo installation interrupts with warning "Curl SSL" , contact your hosting support and ask them to check, that Curl SSL support is enabled on your site.

If backup or import interrupts with "Abort" link and you have this notice in dashboard “Unyson: Your website is hosted using the LiteSpeed web server. Please consult this article if you have problems backing up.” please read this article http://manual.unyson.io/en/latest/extension/backups/index.html#litespeed-webserver.

Menu assignment

If after installation you have problems with menu and it displayed without drop down levels like on screenshot:




Make sure that Main Menu is assigned in Appearance -> Menu -> Menu Settings -> Display Location:


3. Theme Configuration

The basic settings of the theme can be done in the menu Appearance > Theme Settings.



Header Configuration

Menu Appearance > Theme Settings > General > General Settings
Page Loader - styled for particular theme page loader can be deactivated or replaced with a custom image.
Google API Key - you must enter your Google API Key if you need Google Maps services.

Menu Appearance > Theme Settings > General > Logo and Media



Logo - allows you to upload your logo.
Default Heading Icon and Headings Icon white - sets image visible under two-line headings in theme
Menu pattern - animated (by default) icon for hover and active menu elements. You can find in media archive several colors. It will be also used for Go Top link at the footer
Inner Header and 404 Page Background - upload background images for certain pages.

Menu Appearance > Theme Settings > Header > Navbar


Navbar Default - allows you to define the style of navbar by default. In the theme there are two options:



Navbar Default Override - overrides navbar on all pages.

Navbar Sticked - determines the position of the navbar on the page. Two options are available: sticky and static


Navbar Mobile Breakpoint, px - You can specify the point at which the navbar will switch to the mobile display. Important! The value must be specified in pixels.

Menu Appearance > Theme Settings > Header > Topbar



Important! In this menu you can change only the visibility of the navbar and define it. You can create or edit the topbar in the menu Sections.




Menu Appearance > Theme Settings > Header > Icons and Elements



In this menu you can assign different types of icons for display in the Navbar. For example: shopping cart, user profile, search, social network. You can also determine the display of icons on your mobile phone.




All icons created in this menu can be displayed in the topbar by adding a shortcode [ltx-navbar-icons] to the Raw HTML block. In the screenshot section topbar with this shortcode.
 




Menu Appearance > Theme Settings > Header > Page Header H1
In this menu you can customize the background and effect of parallax.




"Page Header H1" responsible for the section of the site between the Navbar and the rest of the site content. See the screenshot below.



Footer Configuration

Menu Appearance > Theme Settings > Footer
In this menu, you can customize the display of content in the footer.



In the "Footer Default Style" drop-down list, you can choose three options for displaying the footer:


Default - displays footer with settings made in this menu.
Copyright Only and Copyright Transparent - hide all footer content and display only block Copyrights.


Also in this menu you can change Footer Background and enable Footer Parallax effect.


Widgets visibility.
In this part of the settings, you can configure the space to display content in the footer. The space of the footer on the screen is divided into equal parts depending on the active sections. For example: If you have all 4 footers turned on to display, then each of them will occupy a quarter of the screen. You can also hide the content of the footer for display on different devices by activating or turning off the footer with the desired number.
You can change the content in the footer in the menu Appearance > Theme Settings > Widgets. You can read more about this here.


Menu Appearance > Theme Settings > Footer > Subscribe and Other
This menu determines the display of the subscription section above the footer. You can customize the subscription form in the menu Sections.




Menu Appearance > Theme Settings > Footer > Go Top

In this menu we define the appearance and behavior of the "Go Top" button.


The button on the site looks like in the screenshot:



Menu Appearance > Theme Settings > Footer > Copyrights

In this menu you can register your copyright.
Important! If you just leave the text input field empty, it will not remove our copyright from your site. You need to replace them with your own.


Posts Layout

In the menu Appearance > Theme Settings > Posts Layout you can customize the display of content on pages with blogs, services, in the gallery and on WooCommerce pages. For example: enable or disable the sidebar in blogs or on the WooCommerce pages, change the number of products in one row per page, change the number of columns in the gallery... Excerpt Blog and WooCommerce - automatically cuts text on these pages.





Favicon

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




Color Customization

Appearance  -> Customize -> Recond Settings allows you to change all main colors of the theme
(section can be named is theme you are using, for example Recond Settings)


CSS Customization

For minor changes you can use Appearance -> Customization -> Additional CSS. Basic information about of CSS:

Also you'll need in-browser tool for CSS Tweaks (watch firebug video tutorial):


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.

4. Menu and Widgets

Menu

Use Appearance  -> Menus 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).




Widgets

Widgets are blocks visible in blogs, shop pages and footer of site. 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.



You can add the required widget to the footer using the drag and drop method. Or you can click on the widget and select where to add it in the drop-down list.



After adding the widget its contents can be edited as you need.



Important! Sidebar Default can be displayed on different pages of the site except WooCommerce pages. On WooCommerce pages only Sidebar WooCommerce is displayed. Footer 1, Footer 2, Footer 3 and Footer 4 are displayed only in the footer.


5. Posts

Blogs posts

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





If you want to create additional Blog Page, create empty page, them set Template -> Blog


Also set Blog Layout you want (at footer of Pages)




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.



As blogs, you can change layout and create additional pages:





Testimonials

You can post clients feedback here, it will be available on /testimonials/ page. Also you can post preview of feedbacks on any page with shortcode.



Sections

Allows to edit common used on all pages blocks.


6. Pages

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


To enable WPbakery Page Builder 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 WPbakery Page Builder Shortcodes in official documentation.

Layout Configuraton

For every page you can configure:



7. Shortcodes

Here we describe our shortcodes:




Events Calendar shortcode

Displays all events created in the Event menu. Add a ticket purchase button to the event description.



Shortcode Settings Window:



Gallery Shortcode

The shortcode displays on the photo page from the specified gallery. In the settings it is possible to specify the time for autoscrolling.




Alert shortcode

You can create Warning Block:

In the shortcode settings, you can select 4 message types: Error, Success, Important and Warning. You can also change the shortcode icon and add your own warning text.





Parallax DJ Slider shortcode


Slider business card for the person. Creates the effect of presence at the concert.




In the shortcode settings you can change the person's photo, the name of the person and add the name of the event.


Zoom Slider shortcode

Shortcode displays previously created sliders from the specified category.



In the shortcode settings, you can specify the category in which the sliders are located and adjust the transition effects of the sliders.




Services shortcode

Shortcode displays previously created services.



In the shortcode settings you can specify the category of services to display, the total number of services to display, the text of the label on the button and specify the period for autoscrolling.



Social Icons shortcode

Shortcode that displays social icons on the page. In the settings you can customize the appearance of the block, upload your own icons, add a link to the social network.



Header shortcode

Designed to display two sections of text: Header and Subheader. Provides a wide range of settings for each section individually.






Use Google Fonts to set unique header:



Content Width shortcode

Shortcode to display an adaptive block.




A text editor is built into the shortcode settings. It is also possible to add animation for text from a wide selection of templates.


Block with Icons shortcode

Create different information block with icons:



In the shortcode settings, you can add the required number of icons, specify a title for them and a text description.



Set all params and create Icons list. You can choose from Font Awesome library or upload you own icon.


Parallax Mouse Image Shortcode

The shortcode adds a dynamic image to the page. It moves in a horizontal plane depending on the position of the mouse on the screen.



Audio Player Shortcode

Shortcode displays one audio track on the page.



Shortcode Settings:



Button Shortcode

Shortcode displays a button on the page. In the settings, you can add an icon for the button, change the text of the label, add a target link and make small appearance settings: select default color state, hover color state, different text color.
Position allows you to set several button in one row.






Clients Shortcode

Shortcode displays the photo and the name of the client. You can also add a link to a client (for example, on a page on a social network).




Partners Shortcode

Shortcode displays the photo and the name of the partner. You can also add a link to a partners website.





Progress Bar Shortcode

The shortcode displays a graph visualizing how many percent one or another task has been completed.




Google Map Styled Shortcode

The shortcode displays a Google map on the page and marks the coordinates specified in the settings.





Contact Form 7 Customized Shortcode

More detailed information about using Contact Form 7 you can find in section Forms. This shortcode allows you to create customizable
form with different button color or background:







Blog

Insert block with last Blog Posts from archive

You can inset certain Blog Posts by ID's, or latest posts from Category. Also you can set needed text size.



CountUp Shortcode

CountUp Block is simple, but effective way to show some important information to you client.



Add several blocks, insert you information and that's all - animated block is ready.

Empty Space Responsive

Empty space is main tool to control your sections. You can create block of certain height, that will be transformed in mobile and tablet.



 

Video Popup

Allows you to add image with video link:



Products

Show latest product from WooCommerce plugin with filter and slider:


8. 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.


9. Additional Plugins


Events Calendar

Plugin used to control your events

WooCommerce

E-commerce plugin with huge amount of add-ons

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. Site Translation

If you make the site not in English, then after setting up, filling with content, adding new sliders, you will need to translate some lines that are embedded in the theme. For example: the inscription "search" in the navigation bar, the inscriptions on the buttons, some headings, etc. 

To translate such strings we recommend using the Loco Translate plugin.

Install and activate the Loco Tranlate plugin

You can download the plugin directly on the page. Here is the link:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/

And then add it through the menu: Plugins > Add new > Upload Plugin.



Or in this same menu, use the search bar and enter Loco Translate:



Click the Install button. We are waiting for the installation to finish and activate the plugin.

Basic configuration of the plugin.
The plugin does not require basic configuration. It automatically determines the language used in the theme and the language used by default on the site.


String Translation.

IMPORTANT! When translating our themes, it is important to know that the lines that are displayed on the site are taken directly from the theme files, LT-Ext plugin and WooCommerce plugin (for those who have the functionality of an online store).
The translation of the theme and the plug-ins are absolutely identical, therefore we will consider the translation only on the example of the theme. In the menu Loco Translate > Themes click on the topic we need. As a result, we will see this window:



Clarification: all our themes were designed exclusively as English-language, so by default, only this language will be displayed in this window. But, for example, the WooCommerce plugin has many author translations. Therefore, it will automatically pull up all the translations for the languages installed on your system. You just need to choose the right and make changes.
Now we need to add the language we need to translate. Clicking on "New Language" will open the following dialog box:



First point: In the drop-down list of language choices, select the one we need.
Second point: choose the location of the file with the translation. You can choose any option.
After clicking on the "Start Translation" button, you will see the following menu:



To search for the string you need, use the Filtering Translations input field. As you enter characters in the field, the lines will be automatically filtered. Select the desired line and make a translation here:



After making changes, the Save button is activated. The lines that you have not yet translated will be displayed in bold, the translated and saved lines will be displayed in normal font and the translated and not saved lines will be marked with an asterisk. The example in the picture above.
After completing the work, click the Save button.

Important! If you have updated a theme or plugin, it is possible that during this time some lines have been changed or added, in order to update the list of lines, press the Sync button.

Change strings in English-language sites.

Very often there is a need to change the lines even on English-language sites. In such cases, Loco Translate will also help. About installation, configuration and use, see paragraphs 2.1, 2.2, 2.3.
Attention! You can directly edit the first language pattern. But we do not recommend doing this, because in the future, when updating a topic, the file with strings can be overwritten. In order not to lose your translation, copy the language template and make the translation directly in it.
To create a copy of the template, hover the mouse in the English language, and click on the “Copy” link. You will be redirected to this menu:



First point: In the drop-down list of language choices, select English Language.
Second point: choose the location of the file with the translation. You can choose any option.
The third point: put a dot in front of "just copy the English lines".


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