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The WooW Documentation

This documentation will cover almost everything to guide you step by step from the start to have your site on The WooW. We encourage you to read thoroughly all section before you go to use the theme.

We would like to thank  you for purchasing The WooW! We are very pleased you have chosen The WooW for your website, you will not be disappointed! Before you get started, please be sure to always check our these documentation files. We outline all kinds of good information, and provide you with all the details you need to use The WooW.  The WooW can only be used with Wordpress and we assume that you already have Wordpress installed and ready to go. If you do not,please see our section on Wordpress to help you get started.

If you are unable to find your answer here in our documentation, we encourage you to search our Knowledgebase, Watch our Video Tutorial. Chances are your question or issue have been brought up already and the answer is watting to be found. Thank you, we hope you enjoy using The WooW.

To install this theme you must have a working version of Wordpress already installed.  If you need help installing Wordpress, follow instructions in Wordpress Codex or you can watch Instructional Video created by Woo Themes. Below are all the useful links for Wordpress information.

When you purchase our theme for Themeforest, you need to download the The WooWs the files from your Themeforest account. Navigate to your downloads tabs on Themeforest and find The WooWs. Click the download button to see the two options. The MailFiles contain everything, the Installable Wordpress Theme is just the installable Wordpress theme file. Below a full list of everything that is included when you download the main files, along with a brief description of each item

  • The WooW.zip and The WooW-child.zip wordpress theme. The child theme is only for user who make code changes.

  • Documentation – Documentation files – this guide will help you to understand overall of The WooW theme.

  • Licensing – Lisence for theme and other items used on theme.

You can install the theme in two ways: through Wordpress, or via FTP. The The WooW.zip file is the Installable Wordpress Theme and what  you need to use to get the theme installed. Please see the following sections for each method and watch our video tutorial on how to install The WooW. But first, you need to download the The WooW file from Themeforest account. Navigate to your downloads tabs on Themeforest and find The WooW. Click download button to see two options. The Main Files and the Installable Wordpress Theme. See below:

DOWNLOADING THE MAIN FILES GIVES YOU ALL THE CONTENT LISTED BELOW

  • The WooW.zip and The WooW-child.zip wordpress theme. The child theme is only for user who make code changes.

  • Documentation – Documentation files – this guide will help you to understand overall of The WooW theme.

  • Licensing – Lisence for theme and other items used on theme.

DOWNLOADING THE INSTALLALABLE WORDPRESS THEME ONLY GIVES YOU THE The WooW.zip FILE

  • The WooW.zip – this is the parent wordpress theme, install this via Wordpress, If you install it via FTP then unzip it first and use the extracted folder.

WORDPRESS INSTALLATION

Before installing this theme, please make sure your have Wordpress already installed. For further guide to install Wordpress, please find Wordpress Codex. To use our theme, please ensure you are running Wordpress 3.6 or higher, PHP5 or higher, and mysql 5 or higher.

THEME INSTALLATION

There are to ways if you want  to insall package theme of Wordpress:  Wordpress Installation and FTP Installation

Follow the steps below to install via Wordpress

  • Step 1: Navigate to Appearance → Themes

  • Step 2: Click Add New then click Upload Theme button.

  • Step 3: Navigate to find the “The WooW.zip” file on your computer and click “Install Now”.

  • Step 4:  Once upload, activate the theme. Go to Appearance→ Theme and activate it.

  • Step 5: Then you will see a notification message to activate the required & recommended plugins: SiteSao Core and Visual Composer. The theme recommendeds the following plugins : Contact Form 7, Revolution Slider and Woocommerce.

NOTE: If you see this message “Are you Sure You Want To Do This” when installing The WooW.zip file via WordPress, it means that you have an upload file size limit. Try to install the theme via FTP intead, or contact your host to increase the limit.

Follow the steps below to install via FTP

  • Step 1: Login into your hosting space via an FTP software.

  • Step 2: Unzip the The WooW.zip file and ONLY use the extracted The WooW theme folder.

  • Step 3: Upload  the extracted The WooW theme folder in to wp-content→theme folder.

  • Step 4: Activate the newly installed theme, Go to Appearance→ Theme and activate it.

  • Step 5: Then you will see a notification message to activate the required & recommended plugins: SiteSao Core and Visual Composer. The theme recommendeds the following plugins : Contact Form 7, Revolution Slider and Woocommerce.

PLUGIN INSTALLATION

Here is the list of plugins will come together with you activated it. You are recommended to install and activate these plugins base on your own need:

  1. SiteSao Core:  A core which is required when you use themes of Sitesao.

  2. Visual Composer: The popular drag and drop page builder plugin with intuitive interface to build your content at ease. Save another $28 for this plugin wi The WooW.

  3. Contact Form 7:  A free form plugin recommended to create a nice form for your site.

  4. Revolution Slider: A popular slider plugin. Its intuitive interface and diversified options and effects will be good choice for your sliders. You saved $18 for this plugin with The WooW.

  5. Woocommerce: An e-commerce plugin. This is a very popular free plugin you will need if you plan to build an online shop.

IMPORT ALL DEMO CONTENT

When you finished installing our theme, your site will not contain all content like you might see in our live demo. If you want to have sample content on your site, you need to import our demo content by following these steps:

  • Step 1: Install and activate these plugins before you proceed: SiteSao Core, Visual Composer, Contact Form 7, Revolution Slider, Woocommerce is needed for an online shop.

  • Step 2: Navigate to Appearance→ Import Demo→ Click Import to Import Our Demo Data. Our database is automatic loaded on server.

  • Step 3: It can take a few minutes to import everything. Please be patient and wait for it to complete. Once it loads, you will see a “Success” message at the top of theme options.

NOTE: You can use Regenrate Thumbnails which allows you to regenerate the thumbnails for your image attachments.

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THEME OPTIONS

The WooW has an advanced Theme Options panel that is loaded with options. We have the options organized into logical tabbed sections, and each option has a description of what it will do on the front end. There are too many options to go over in these docs but please take some time and navigate through each tab to see what we offer. Go to Appearance > Theme Options in your WordPress admin to access the theme options panel. You can also backup your theme options by clicking on the backup tab. That is a great way to move your custom options from site to site. See below for screenshots of our theme options panel. Please note: we are always adding new options so these screenshots may not reflect the most up to date options.

In The WooW we have many Options with bellowing:

  • General

  • Design and Layout

  • Color and Typography

  • Header

  • Footer

  • Blog

  • Woocommerce

  • Social API

  • Social Profile

  • Import and Export

  • Custom Code

All Options is described by the list images below:

General

Design and Layout

Color and Typography

Header

Footer

Blog

Woocommerce

Social API

Social Profile

Impor and Export

Custom Code

PAGE OPTIONS

The WooW is supper powerful and a lot of that power comes from our individual page meta options. Each  page you create has a full set of options to choose from allowing you to customize each individual page. Each page you open in your Wordpress admin will have a “Page Options Box” that contains all the different settings. There are several different section included in the Page options box each with its own title and purpose. Some settings with only work if you use a specific template, for example the Portfolio Options are only to be used if you select one of our portfolio page template. Page options are powerful, and the best way to get familiar with theme is to check  them our while editing a page. Below are screenhots of each different section included in the Page Options box.

BLOG POST OPTIONS

These options allow you to set different settings for the each individual post. When you creating or editing post, please go to Appearance→ Theme Options→ Open Blog tab to set for blog page. Below is a screenshot of each section included in the Blog Options

Pages are backbone of your website, and most likely you will set up several of theme. Pages  are blank canvas that allow you to add content with our shortcode elements. There are different page templates to choose from, each serving a purpose to help you build finish the site.

CREATE A NEW PAGE

You can create any number of pages with content. All of this is done in the pages section of your wordpress admin.

  • Step 1:  In Admin Panel, choose Page, click “Add New” on the top then enter your page title. If you need to know more about Pages in Wordpress, use the Help tab in the upper right of your screen.

  • Step 2: In Page Attribute box on the right side, choose your Parent page. It is set be default as no parent. Pages are usually ordered alphabetically, but you can choose your order by entering a number(1 for first, etc) in Order field.

  • Step 3: Also Page Attribute box, choose your Page Template in dropdown list. See below Page Templates list for more detail.

  • Step 4: Start editing your page content in the editing field. You can choose to edit your content using Visual or Text editor. To build content for your page you will need our provided Shortcodes.

  • Step 5: Make other settings for the page in meta-boxes the editing field. Once you get your setting done. Click “Publish” your page.

Here is a screenshot that shows you the various areas and descriptions of the pages setting describes above.

PAGE SETTING

In The WooW, we supported some useful options of page, you can choose various settings for your page in this box.

  • Content Page no Padding:  This is a checkbox. If you checked; content of page with no padding top and padding bottom.

  • Main sidebar: allow you to select sidebar for page with 2 or 3 columns. And that doesn’t support for Full Width template.

  • Extra sidebar: this is options help you to select sidebar for pages with 3 columns.

  • Header Style: You can select your header style. In our theme we supported 2 styles: Center, Below.

  • Topbar: This is option help you Enable/Disable top bar.

  • Transparent Main Menu: This option allow you to enable/disable main menu background transparency.

  • Page Heading: You can enable/disable page heading or custom page heading. We supported 2 page heading; Heading,  Use Revolution Slider

  • Page Heading Background Image: this option allow to custom heading background image. Please  click “Select Image” button to upload image by your computer or Media Library.

  • Page Heading Title: This title is used to display on the Headline. If you leave it blank, “Title” will be used.

  • Page Heading Sub-title: This sub-title is used to display below Title on the Headline.

  • Footer Widget Area: this options help you want to use the mail footer that contains all the widgets areas. Click Global/Show/Hide to use Footer Widget Area.

  • Footer Menu: this options support you want to use menu in main footer. Click Global/Show/Hide to use Footer Menu.

SETTING UP HOME PAGE

Setting up your home page is the same as setting up any other regular pages except that you need to specify in the settings which page will be your main home page.

To set up your homepage, you just need to create your pages as usual. Then please follow these steps to set up homepage

  • Step 1: Navigate to Setting→ Reading.

  • Step 2:  On Front page displays options. Click choose A static page options.

  • Step 3: Choose the page you want as your home page from the dropdown list.

  • Step 4: This is also the same spot you select the Blog page as the post page.

  • Step 5: Click “Save Changes” to complete your setting.

SETTING UP ONE PAGE

The WooW has the ability for you to make a one page site with a parallax scrolling menu. Most sites are traditionally setup with individual pages, each page with its own content. A one page site allows you to put all the content on one page, and the menu items will link to each different section of the page

First Create a custom Menu for your onepage

  • Step 1: Navigate to Appearance > Menus section of your admin and click “Create A New Menu” link and assign it a name.

  • Step 2:  Each menu item you add needs a unique anchor name in the URL field. These names act as anchors, and will link to the corresponding anchor name in your page content. Use the “Links” box on the left hand side to add menu items. In the “URL” field type the anchor of your section, ex: #intro and then assign a name to the menu item. Click the “Add to Menu” button.

  • Step 3 : Repeat step 2 for each menu item, giving each a unique #name.

  • Step 4 : Once you have added your menu items, be sure to click the “Save” button.

 

Next Create a new page with your content and achor points

  • Step 1: Navigate to the “Pages” section of your admin and click “Add New”.

  • Step 2: Scroll down to find the page options box and find the “Main Navigation Menu” dropdown and choose your newly created menu from above.

  • Step 3 :Now its time to add your content and anchor points. Each menu item you created above is an “anchor” that will link to the different sections of the page. Add your content for each section, and insert the "dh_menu_anchor" shortcode at the start of each section.You can be setup via Visual Composer shortcode generator.

The WooW theme use to Visual Composer package, and include 50+ essential content elements: 40+ content elements with tons of options, 19 Woocommerce shortcode,11 Woocommerce Widget… that with help you create page very easy and convenient. In The WooW theme, we customed Visual Composer shortcode with many helpful features allow you to seamlessly switch between the builder interface and the regular Wordpress interface, and it will automatically convert your previously made.

The WooW is loaded with options for the blog. It offers many diffirent options for you to present your blog posts, along with several different blog layouts. In addition there are numerous theme options and short code options that allow you to customize how posts are displayed. The The WooW blog is extremely versatile and powerful.

CREATE A BLOG POST

No matter which method or methods you use to display your blog posts, the first thing you need to do is create the blog post. The WooW offers several blog post types, image, image slideshows, video and more on the way. Each blog post you make will be able to be display using any of the 3 methods described above. And with the ability to assign custom categories to each post, you can easily display a set of post based on category. See below for information on how to create blog post.

Follow the steps below to create a blog post:

  • Step 1: In your Admin Panel, go to Post, navigate to Add New.

  • Step 2: Enter your title and choose Post Format from Format box on the right side which shows different post format options: Standard, Image, Video, Audio, Quote, Link and Gallery.

  • Step 3: Add your post content in Editing field. You can use our Shortcode to build your content where needed.

  • Step 4: Add Cateogories for the post from the Categories box on the right side. You can add new category or choose from existing cateogories. Check the box to select Categories for your post. Add relevant Tags for your post in the Tags box, set Featured image on the right side and other setting from the sections below Editing field.

If you need detailed guide about post settings in Wordpress, please find in Wordpress Codex.

  • Step 5: All done, click Publish to publish your post.

Here is a screenhot that shows the various areas of the blog post page described above

BLOG PAGE SETTING

GLOBAL SETTING

  • Feature: this options is checkbox. If you checked, this post will show highlighted block shortcode in Visual Composer.

  • Masonry Item Sizing: This options will only be used if you choose to display your blog in the masonry/grid format. That includes two options : Normal & Double.

FORMAT SETTING

  • Video Settings: When selecting Video Format for your post, you will have Video Setting meta-box to choose main video of the post. You can add videos with different formats.

- Embedded Code : Used when you select Video format. Enter a Youtobe, Vimeo, Soundcloud, etc URL. See supported services at http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds

- MP4 File URL: this option allow you enter the URL by .m4v video file.

- OGV/OGG File URL: supported the URL as .ogv,ogg video file.

- WEBM File URL: supported the URL .webm video file.

  • Audio Settings: When selecting Audio Format, you will have Audio Settings meta-box where you can add the audio link and embedded audio code.

- MP3 File URL: this option allows enter the URL as .mp3 file.

- OGA File URL : this option allows enter the .ogg, .oga file.

  • Link Settings: When selecting Link Format, you will have Link Settings meta-box where you can add your link.

  • Quote Settings: When selecting Quote Format, you will have Quote Settings meta-box where you can add the quote content and citation of the quote.

  • Gallery Settings: When selecting Gallery Format, you will have Gallery Settings meta-box to add as many image as you want into your gallery.

Come together with The WooW, these plugin are recommended to install and active for flexible use.Below are the source for documentation and support of each plugin.

Slider Revolution

The WooW is completely compatible with Slider Revolution. Its intuitive interface with diversified options and effects will be good choice for you slider. If you plan to use Slider Revolution Plugin for you site, check out these source:

Slider Revolution Wordpress Plugin Documentation for user guide to use the plugin.

Slider Revolution Form Support  for support upon issues of the plugin.

Slider Revolution FAQs for questions about the plugin.

Woo Commerce

The WooW works compatibly with Woo Commerce, allows you to create your online shop. If you plan to use Woo Commerce Plugin for your site, check out the source:

Woo Commerce Plugin Documentaion for user guide to use the plugin.

Woo Commerce Plugin Community Forum for support upon issues of the plugin.

Woo Commerce Knowleadge Base for question about the plugin

Contac Form 7

The WooW is fully compatible with Contact Form 7, the free form plugin recommeneded to create a nice form for your site. If you plan to use Contact Form Plugin for your site, check out these source.

Contact Form 7 Plugin Page for basic information about the plugin.

Contact Form 7 Plugin Documentation for user guide to use the plugin.

Contact Form 7 Plugin Support Forum for support upon issues of the plugin.

Visual Composer

The WooW  works well with Visual Composer, the popular drag and drop page builder plugin with intuitive interface to build your content at ease. If you plan to use Visual Composer Plugin for your site, check out these source.

Visual Composer WordPress Plugin Documentation for user guide to use the plugin

Visual Composer WordPress Plugin Support System for support upon issues of the plugin